Records of Bees. 393 



malar space long, smooth and shining; a round red tubercle 

 at extreme base of mandibles ; labrum bituberculate, with a 

 median depression, its lower part with reddish and black 

 hair ; hair of face and cheeks long and black, that of upper 

 part of head mixed black and Avhite, the white hairs being 

 long and mainly on occiput; antcnuffi entirely black, scape 

 long, strongly curved ; first joint of flagelhim as long as 

 third or slightly longer, the second much shorter than either ; 

 hair of thorax long, dense, yellowish white, Avith no sign of 

 any median band or patch. Legs very dark reddish, the hiud 

 tibiae and tarsi quite bright ferruginous; hair of legs black 

 and orange, the latter mainly on the distal parts ; hind 

 metatarsi very broad. Wings strongly suffused with orange- 

 brown, nervures ferruginous. Hair of abdomen long, black 

 on first two segments, with yellowish white toward the sides, 

 especially on the second ; black on third segment, yellowish 

 white on fourth and fifth, the colours largely mixed owing to 

 the overlapping of the long hairs and the presence of more 

 or less pale hair even amongst the black ; hair of venter 

 black, except at apex (principally fringe of penultimate 

 segment), where it is yellowish. 



Hub. Sumatra; marked "at flower, 2381. X-, 2. 5. 81/' 

 In collection of British Museum, received in 1892. 



This is the first Bombus known from Sumatra, the B. belli- 

 cosus, Sm., supposed to be from " Sumatra or India,'' being 

 really American according to Bingham. It is closely allied 

 to B. Mearnsi, Ashmead, from the Philippine Islands. Un- 

 fortunately B. Mearnsi is known only from a worker which 

 has been in alcohol ; but it seems to be diflerent from the 

 Sumatra species, and Dr. Ashmead, to Avhom I showed the 

 insect now described, expressed the opinion that it was not 

 the same as his. B. rojipes, Lep., from Java, is also allied, 

 but is readily distinguished by the black pubescence. Among 

 the Indian species B. sumatre?isis appears to be nearest to 

 B. funerarius, Sm. 



Cladocercqns bipectinatus (Smith). 



Lamprocolletes hipectinatus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. ISoG, Proc. 

 p. 31. 



Smith described this remarkable bee as above, and then in 

 1862, forgetting all about the first description, redescribed 

 it as L. cladocerus. The species, under the latter name, 

 became in 1904 the type of my genus Cladocerapis. 



