HYMENOPTERA. 9 



21. BOMBTJS AI/TAICTJS. 



Bomlus eeltaicus, Eversm. Bull, Mose., xix, 436, tab. 4, fig. 1. 

 Sab. Tankse, Pangkong valley, Ladak ; also in Asiatic Russia. 



22. BOMBTJS BIZONATTJS. 



Femina. J5. hirsutus, ater ; thorace atitice, scutello, abdomineque basi flavin, media 

 nigro-fasciato, apice pallido, 



The head clothed with black pubescence, the lahrum fringed with fulvous ; the 

 clypeus naked, smooth and shining. Thorax clothed with pale fulvous pubescence and 

 having a black pubescent band" between the wings; the pubescence on the legs and 

 on the body beneath, black ; the apical joints of the tarsi with short pale pubescence, 

 that on the basal joint beneath rich fulvous; wings sub-hyaline, the nervures black. 

 The first and second segments of the abdomen with pale fulvous pubescence, the third 

 with black, and the three apical ones with very pale fulvous. Female, length 7J lines. 

 . No locality indicated. 



23. BOMBTJS OPPOSITUS, Fig. 11. 

 Femina. B. hirsutus, ater; thorace abdomineque supra fulvis. 



Black ; the head clothed with black pubescence ; the clypeus naked, smooth and shin- 

 ing. Thorax, clothed above with rather short, rich fulvous pubescence, that on the sides, 

 beneath, and on the legs is black ; the pubescence on the apical joints of the tarsi is pale 

 fulvous, on their basal joint within it is bright fulvous, outside it is black ; wings subhyaline, 

 their nervures black. Abdomen, clothed above with rich fulvous, beneath with black 

 pubescence. Female, length 9 lines. 



Hub. No precise locality indicated. 



The genus Bombus is widely distributed ; its number of species amounting to little 

 short of one hundred. Bombi are found both in the Old and New World, a few species 

 occurring in the Tropics ; the genus has not been observed to penetrate Africa beyond Algeria, 

 and it has not been found either in Madagascar, Australia or New Zealand. In the Old World 

 it has been found in Lapland, Siberia, Kamtschatka, China, Japan, India and Java. In great 

 Britain twenty species occur. In the New World, it has been found in Greenland, Boothia 

 Felix, and at the Great Bear Lake, within the Arctic Circle. Mexico has produced some 

 of the most beautiful species of the genus ; North America is rich in species ; in South 

 America several fine ones occur. 



Tribe HETEROGYNA. 

 Family FORMICID^H. 

 24. CAMPONOTTJS BASALIS, Fig. 1. 



Femina. C. niger, thorace subtus, pedibus abdominisque basi castaneo-rufis. 



Shining black ; the anterior margin of the clypeus and the mandibles rufo-piceous ; the 

 flagellum of the antennae ferruginous. Thorax ovate ; the mesothorax and scutellum dark 



