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Apis coronata, Fourc. Ent. Par. ii. 449. 23 $ . 



Apis arbustorura, Fair, Ent. Syst. ii. 320. 24 $ ; Syst. Piez. p. 347. 



23. 



Bremus truncornm, Panz. Faun. Germ. 85. 21 ^ . 

 Bremus regelationis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 86. 1 7 <J ? 

 Bombus lapidarius, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiv. 64. 2 ? . 

 Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 347. 25. 

 pm. /ras. Lzy. fasc. i. 130. 4. 



. Scand. 30. 1. 

 #. Hym. i. 460. 3. 



/, Exped. Sc. de More'e, p. 528. 729. 

 Drews. Sf Schiodte, Kroij. Tidsskr. ii, 116. 11. 

 Westw. Nat. Libr. xxxviii. 252. t. 16. f. 1 <J , 2 ? . 

 Smith, Zool. ii. 549. 14. 

 Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 238. 25. 



Bombus Lefebvrei, St. Farg. Hym. i. 461. 4, type sp. in Colt. 

 Westw. (var.) 



Female. Length 10 lines. Densely clothed with black pubes- 

 cence, the three apical segments clothed with rufo-fulvous pu- 

 bescence; the legs rufo-testaceous beneath, the tarsi clothed 

 beneath with ferruginous pubescence, the apical joints rufo- 

 testaceous ; the wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apex. 



B.M. 



Var. /3. The collar having an indistinct yellow band. 



Worker. Length 5-6J lines. There is no other difference ex- 

 cept size between the worker and the female. B.M. 



Male. The pubescence black, that on the face, margin of the 

 vertex and collar yellow ; the scutellum and basal segment of 

 the abdomen have a mixture of yellow hairs ; the four apical 

 segments bright rufo-fulvous; the femora fringed with long 

 pale yellow hairs, the posterior tibiae and the tarsi fringed with 

 ferruginous hairs. B.M. 



Var. j3. The scutellum and basal segment of the abdomen en- 

 tirely black. 



Var. y. The abdomen having merely a few red hairs on the 

 apical margins of the three apical segments. 



Var. 6\ The apex in certain lights has only a faint tinge of red. 



The variety of the female is extremely rare ; only a single spe- 

 cimen has been captured, at Sandwich, Kent ; it is the B. Le- 

 febvrei of St. Fargeau ; I have had an opportunity of examining 

 the typical specimen through the kindness of Mr. Westwood, in 

 whose possession are many of the type specimens of St. Fargeau' s 

 and Latreille's bees. The varieties y. and 6\ $ are also very 

 rarely met with ; three specimens occurred in August 1854 



