12 Prodromus Descriptionis SubfamilicB Gobinarum 



the female, are Mack hairs, those of the sides being yellow, 

 as in the female. It also lacks the tuft of yellow hair on the 

 face. 



3. Bombiis occidentaliis, Greene. 



Face between the eyes yellowish, white anteriorly and laterally ; first 

 four abdominal segments black ; the rest, including anus, white ; length 

 about nine lines, female. 



Habitat. — ^ISTorth West Coast of America, Fort Yancoiirer, 

 Dr. Cooper ; Puget's Sound, Dr. Suckley. 



RemarTcs. — ^Two specimens from the same locality present 

 certain differences, but until I shall have had more opportunity 

 of comparing them, they had better remain under the present 

 head. These variations consist in their being slightly more 

 robust in form, hairs on limbs longer, and an encroachment of 

 the pale hairs upon the fourth segment. Male about two-thirds 

 the size of female. The yellow hairs upon the thorax of most 

 of my specimens are dingy, those of the muzzle much paler. 



m. — Prodromus descriptionis suhfamUice Gohinaruni squamis 

 cycloideis piscium, cl. W. Stimpsono in mare Padfico acqui- 

 sitorum. 



Theodore Gill auctore. 

 Read December 20, 1858. 



Cn^NOGOBros, Gill. 



Corpus elongatum, gracile, antice subcylindricum, ad caudse 

 pinnam attenuatum. 



SquamcB cycloidse, plerusque parvse. 



