BEES OF GREAT BRTTAIN. 231 



a mixture of reddish-yellow hairs ; the tongue is proportionally 

 shorter, and the insect altogether larger. Mr. Wollaston found 

 it abundantly in Madeira. 



17. Bombus Latreillellus. 



B. hirsutus, ater; thorace antice, scutello, abdominisque basi 

 flavo-fulvescentibus ; ano albo. Mas, supra flavescens ; tho- 

 race inter alas abdominisque cingulis duobus subnigris. 



Apis Latreillella, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 330. 84 $ , and type in 



Cab. Ent. Soc* Lond. 

 Apis Tunstallana, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 346. 94 , and type 



in Cab. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



Bombus Latreillellus, Illig. Mag. v. 165. 11 $ . 

 Dahlb. Bomb. Scmtd. p. 39. 14 $ . 

 Drews, fy Schwdte, Kroy. Tidsskr. ii. 120. 16 <? . 

 Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 234. 18 <J . 

 Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym. p. 103. 10 (? $ . 

 Nyland. Revis. Ap. Boreal, p. 261. 4. 



Bombus Tunstallanus, Drews. Sc Schiodte, Kroy. Tidsskr. ii. 119. 

 14?. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 231. 10. 



Female. Length 10 lines. The pubescence black, that on the 

 collar and scutellum of a fulvous-yellow ; the basal segment of 

 the abdomen has on each side a little fulvous-yellow pubes- 

 cence ; the apical margin of the third segment, and the fourth 

 and fifth have a little white pubescence, the apical one naked 

 above ; the apical margin of the second segment has usually an 

 obscure mixture of pale hairs ; beneath, the third, fourth and 

 fifth segments are fringed with pale pubescence. B.M. 



Var. /3. The base of the abdomen with an entire fascia of ful- 

 vous-yellow pubescence. 



Var. y. The base of the abdomen black. 



Worker. Length 5-7 lines. The pubescence black, the collar 

 has a fulvous-yellow band, the scutellum only an obscure yellow 



t fringe; the abdomen white at the apex, the second and third 

 segments have a more or less conspicuous white fringe. B.M. 



Male. Length 6-8 lines. The pubescence on the head black ; 

 the face has sometimes an obscure mixture of pale hairs. Tho- 

 rax : above yellow, having a broad black fascia between the 

 wings ; the sides usually obscurely cinereous. Abdomen : the 

 pubescence yellow, the second and third segments with a band 

 of black pubescence at their base, the second usually narrowest ; 



