the AplJie in the British Museum. 407 



yellow liairon the thorax and i)a.sai tergitos, the apical tergitcs 

 being clothed with black hair : — 



1. (2) Malar space short, about aa lonff as broad 



at the apex ; third joint of antennte 



1 i as long as joint 4 nasutus, Smith (hrevi- 



2. (1) Malar space lon-r, abont twice as long as [<"«/", Sm.)- 



broad at a])ex ; third joint about 

 twice as hin^jr as joint 4. 



3. (4) Tergitcs 1-3 clothed with polden-yellow 



hair ; wing-s fusco-hyaline diversus, Smith. 



4. (3) Tergites 1 and 2 (except laterally) 



clothed with polden-yellow hair ; 



wings dark fuscous opulentus, Smith. 



Friese considers B. diversus to be a variety o£ B. hortorum, 

 subsp. ussureiisis, Kad. 



Bomhus lapidariu.o, Tj., var. tutiicatus, Smith. 



Bombus tunicafus, Smith, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond. 1852 (2), ii. pt. 2, 



p. 43, pi. viii. fio. 7. 

 Bombus incertus, JMorawitz, Bull. Acad. Sc. St. P(5tersbourg, xxvii. 



p. 229 (1881). 



Authentic example.=i of B. incertus, Mor., from the Eadosz- 

 kow.«^ki Collection differ in no way from typical B. tunicatus, 

 ►Smith. Schmiedektiecht (Apid. Europ. p. 371, 1883) records 

 this svnnnymy with a query. There seems little doubt that 

 this is oidy a form of B. lapidarivs, L., as recorded by Dulla 

 Torre in his C/atalo^UP, by Friese (Ann. Mus. Zool. St. 

 P^tersbourg, p. 518, 1905), and by Friese and Wagner (1910). 



Bomhus lapidarius, L.j var. giJgitensis, Ckll. 

 Bombus gilyitmsis, Ckll. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi. p. 223 (1905). 



This species was described from Gilgit, Kashmir. Cockeiell 

 notes the resemblatice to B. tunicatus at the time, and later 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v. p. 417, 1910) is inclined to 

 think it is a variety of it. I am of his opinion, and consider 

 them both (i. e., B. tunicatus and B. (/i///iteusis) varieties of 

 B lopidarius. There are recently acquired specimens from 

 llunza, North Kashmir, 8000 ft., 3. ix. 1913 {Ii. W. G. 

 Ilingston) in the National Collection. 



Bombus alienus, Smith. 

 Bombus alienu9, Smith, Catal. Hym. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 402 (1854), $ . 

 There is a spccimeu of this insect, wliich was described 



