224 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



apex of the abdomen white, separated from the black band by 

 a narrow band of fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Yar. /3. The face having a mixture of obscure yellow pubes- 

 cence. 



Only a single example of this species was known for some 

 years, it was taken at Westow in Yorkshire; it was thought it 

 might prove a rare variety of B. terrestris, until Mr. Walcott 

 captured several on the Downs near Bristol, and received others 

 from the Brighton Downs ; an examination of numerous indi- 

 viduals shows it to be a distinct species : the formation of the 

 generative organs separates it from all our known British species. 

 Mr. Hey sham captured a fine series in Cumberland, and also 

 examples of a worker bee which probably belongs to this spe- 

 cies ; it has the tip of the abdomen white* bordered with a faint 

 band of fulvous hairs. Mr. Walcott once possessed a female, 

 which he has by some accident lost : his recollection of it is, 

 that it was the size of B. Scrimshiranus ; the fourth segment 

 of the abdomen had deeper-coloured fulvous hairs than in the 



12. Bombus terrestris. 



jB. hirsutus, ater ; thorace antice, abdominis fascia media, anoque,, 

 flavis. 



Apis terrestris, Linn. Favn. Suec. p. 424. no. 1709 $ , and type sp. 

 in Cab. Lmn. Soc. ; Syst. Nat. i. 960. 41. 

 Don. Brit. Ins. iii. 41. t. 88. f. 1. 

 Kirby, Mon. Ap. Anal, (var. y & e ^ ) ; Specim. in Cab. Ent* 



Soc. 

 Bombus terrestris, Wesiw. Nat. JM)r. xxxviii. 243. 1. 14. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 547. 10, and Cat. Brit. Acul. Hym .103. 



lie? ? $* 



Nyland. Revis. Ap. Boreal, p. 262. 7 (nee var.). 

 Reaum. Ins* vi. Mem. 1st. 2. t. 3. f. 1. 



Female. Length 9-11 lines. The pubescence black, the collar 

 orange-yellow ; the second segment of the abdomen has a 

 band of the same colour, the fifth segment and apical margin 

 of the fourth clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, the sixth 

 naked. B.M. 



Worker. Length 6-7 lines. Closely resembles the female, but 

 the yellow bauds are frequently of a paler tint; the apical 

 segments have white instead of tawny pubescence, but the 



