136 ASHMEAD [130] 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5722, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Fox Point, 

 July 28; Wrangell (H. F. Wickham). 



The female described above may really be the worker major, for 

 many of our bumble bees have two forms of workers — a worker major 

 and a worker minor. 



Family PSITHYRID-^E. 



Genus Psithyrus Lepeletier. 



PSITHYRUS INSULARIS (Smith). 



? Bontbus interruptus Greene, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, p. 11, ?, 



1858. — Greene, op. cit., vii, p. 193, i860. 

 ? Bombus suckleyi Greene, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, p. 173, (^, 



i860. 

 Apathus insularis Smith, Journ. Ent., i, p. 155, $, 1861. — Cresson, Proc. 



Ent. See. Phila., 11, p. 113, $(^, 1863. — Provancher, Add. Fn. du 



Can. Hym., p. 343, $(^, 1888. 

 Psithyrus insularis Handlirsch, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, iii, p. 248, 1888. 

 Psithyrus interruptus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, p. 569, 1896. 



Type in British Museum. From Berg Bay, June 10 ; Sitka, July 

 16 ; Juneau, July 25 ; Seldovia, July 7 I a^^d Nushagak River, July 

 27, 1 88 1 (Chas. W. McKay). 



PSITHYRUS KODIAKENSIS sp. nov. 



(PI. IX, fig. I.) 



Male. — Length 14 mm. The tegument of this species, except the 

 disk of the mesonotum and the base of the scutellum where the pubes- 

 cence is thin, and the first and second segments of the abdomen, which 

 are brown, is entirely black. The head, except a tuft of ochraceous 

 pubescence on the face below the insertion of the antennae and on the 

 vertex posteriorly, is clothed with a black pubescence ; thorax above 

 and at sides, dorsal abdominal segments i and 2, the venter and the 

 legs clothed with a rather long ochraceous pubescence ; dorsal abdom- 

 inal segments 2 to 7 with a black pubescence and in striking contrast 

 with the ochraceous pubescence of the basal segments. 



The head seen from in front is much longer than wide, the malar 

 space long, smooth and shining and fully as long as the pedicel and 

 first two joints of the flagellum united ; the clypeus, except anteriorly, 

 is punctate ; the labrum is feebly transversely impressed, sparsely punc- 

 tate, except the lateral hind angles, which are polished and impunctate ; 

 the first joint of the flagellum is shorter than the third but longer than 



