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Hudson River Valley and on Long Island in New York. It 

 seems to be confined pretty strictly to the Upper and Lower 

 Austral Zones, being apparently much more abundant in the 

 latter where, next to B. pennsylv aniens, it appears to be the 

 most common species. 



This species seems to have no very close allies in the 

 Western Hemisphere, ^. se^araf us Cress, and B. mormonorum 

 apparently being most nearly related to it. It is one of our 

 most constant species in its color characters. 



I have not seen the type specimen on which Smith based 

 his original description of this species, and I have no further 

 information concerning it than has already been published, 

 but the description given by Smith applies so well to the 

 male above described that I have no doubt of their being the 

 same, especially as no other form, belonging to the Bombidae 

 and known to me, could have been the one described by 

 Smith. I have not seen the male which Cresson considered 

 to be Smith's B. fraternus, but, as it came from Texas, it to, 

 without doubt, belonged to the species above described. 



Bombus (Boinbias) separatus Cress. 

 Bombus virginicus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., II, 1863, p. 87, n. 

 1, c? (not the 9 and S ). 

 " separatus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., II, 1863, p. 165, 

 9 S d^. 

 Putnam, Proc. Essex Instit., IV, 1864, p. 101. 

 Packard, Proc. Essex Instit., IV, 1864, p. 114, 9 S c?. 

 " " Cresson, Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1876, p. 



210, also Putnam on p. 195. 

 " " Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VII, 1879. 



" " Bowles, Ann. Rep't Ent. Soc. Ont., 1880, p. 33. 



«« " McCook, Tenants of an Old Farm, 1885, p. 173, 



Cresson, Syn. Hym. No. Amer., 1887, p. 308. 

 '• " Ant. Handlirsch, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus Wien., Ill, 



1888, p. 229. 

 " virginicus Provancher, Addit. Faun. Canada. Hymen., 1888, 

 p. 339, c?. 

 separatus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X, 1896, p. 546. 



Titus, Can. Ent., XXXIII, 1902, pp. 37 and 39, 9 S c?. 

 " " Robertson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXIX, 1903, pp. 



176 and 177, 8 9 cf . 



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