HENRY J. FRANKLIN. 323 



I cannot tell with absolute certainty from Greene's descrip- 

 tion whether he was describing this species or the extreme 

 red form of B. edwardsii, but, as the description seems to 

 apply to the form above described, I am adopting the name 

 huntii for this species. If Greene's description should be 

 considered too uncertain to allow the retention of the name 

 huntii, then the name rufosuffusus, given by Cockerell, would 

 have to be recognized as the proper name for the species. 



Bombus (Bombiis) fernaldi Franklin. 

 Bombus edwardsii Fowler, Rep't Cal. Agr'l Exp. Sta., 1902, Part 

 II, p. 317 (misidentification). 

 " fernaldi Franklin, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXXVII, 1911, p. 

 157, 9 y cf. 



The specimens from which, Fowler made his description 

 of this species (Rep't Cal. Agr'l Exp. Sta., 1902, Part II, p. 

 317), having mistaken it for edwardsii, may be looked upon 

 as the type specimens. Can those specimens be identified 

 with certainty ? 



Pile of medium length and rather fine. Face and occiput with tnuch 

 yellow pile ; thorax, except for a usually broad black interalar band, 

 clothed with yellow pile ; dorsum, of abdomen with basal segment yellow, 

 segments two and three usually entirely black, four and five largely yel- 

 low and the apex usually black. Corbicular fringes of females dark. 



Queen. Head. — Wide for its length. Face mostly covered for some 

 distance above and below the bases of the antennae with a patch of 

 pure yellow pile ; occiput with a median triangular patch of yellow 

 pile with a slight admixture of black hairs ; cheeks dark. Labrum 

 with tubercle-like areas having their posterior (proximal) margins 

 rounded and their summits fiat or concaved, the region between them 

 and above the shelf-like projection rather deeply excavated ; the shelf- 

 like projection not prominent. Malar space fully as long as its width 

 at apex ; between one-fifth and one-fourth as long as the eye. Clypeus 

 sparsely and coarsely punctate over the disc ; the corners densely and 

 coarsely punctate. Flagellum of antenna about twice as long as the 

 scape; the third antennal segment much longer than the fifth, the 

 fourth and fifth subequal in length. 



Thorax. — Anterior part of the dorsum covered with yellow pile, often 

 with a very slight sprinkling of black hairs admixed; a very broad and 

 well defined black band present between the bases of the wings, its 

 hind border straight or curved backward slightly in the middle ; center 

 of the disc naked ; scutellum covered with yellow pile ; mesopleura 



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