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Bombus ternarius Cockerell and Porter, Ann. andMagaz. of Nat. Hist., 



Ser. 7, Vol. IV, Nov., 1899, p. 390. 

 bifarius Titus, Can. Ent., XXXIV, 1902, pp. 39 and 43, 9 ^ <S' . 

 nearcticus Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., IV, 1902, p. 127. 

 ternarius Viereck, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXIX, 1903, p. 



44. 

 ternarius var. bifarius Viereck, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 



XXIX, 1903, p. 44. 

 cooleyi Morrill, Can. Ent., XXXV, 1903, p. 222. 

 bifarius Viereck, Can. Ent., XXXVI, April, 1904, pp. 98 and 



99. 

 nearcticus Ashmead, Hym. of Alaska, 1904, p. 133. 

 edwardsii Viereck, Can. Ent., XXXVI, April, 1904, pp. 98 and 



100. 

 vancouverensis Viereck, Can. Ent., XXXVI, April, 1904, pp. 



98 and 99. 

 bifarius Howard, Insect Book, 1904, Plate II, fig. 9, 9 . 

 bifarius Cockerell, Can. Ent., XXXVIII, 1906, p. 160. 

 edwardsii Cockerell, The Entomologist, XL, 1907, p. 97. 

 edwardsii Fletcher and Gibson, Can. Ent. Rec. (Ann. Rep't 



Ent. Soc. Ont.), 1908, p. 111. 

 bifarius Cockerell, Univ. Color. Studies, IV, 1907, p. 257. 

 edwardsii Cockerell, Univ. Color. Studies, IV, 1907, p. 258. 

 bifarius Cockerell, Can. Ent., XLII, 1910, p. 25. 

 edwardsii cooleyi Cockerell, Can. Ent., XLII, 1910, p. 25. 

 edwardsii Davidson, Bull. So. Cal. Acad, Sci., X, 1911, p. 66 



(possibly ferfialdi) . 



Types. — Worker and male in collection of American Ento- 

 mological Society. Queen (described by Cresson as bifarius) 

 in the same collection. 



Pile of medium length, rather coarse. Face and occiput yellow ; 

 thorax mostly yellow or whitish with a broad black interalar band; first 

 and fourth dorsal abdominal segments entirely covered with yellow pile ; 

 two apical segments black ; corbicular fringes strongly ferruginous ; 

 malar space short. 



Queen. Head. — Somewhat rounded trapeziform. Face with a large 

 patch of pure whitish-yellow pile extending above and below the bases 

 of the antennae, this patch not reaching the inner margins of the eyes 

 on either side ; occiput with median triangular whitish-yellow patch 

 of pile usually without black intermixed, but sometimes with a few 

 black hairs present among the yellow ; sides behind eyes black. 

 Tubercle-like areas of labrum rather sharply and deeply concaved at 

 summit the concave area nearly smooth ; median shelf-like projection 

 moderately broad ; translucent areas large enough to be faintly visible 



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