92 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



in continental sibirica. General colour uniformly dark otter- 

 brown (near " vandyke-brown "), darker than in guelpartis 

 above, and still more so on the sides, which are quite without 

 the strong russet tinge so marked in that animal. Under 

 surface slightly paler, without russet suffusion. Head darker 

 brown; chin irregularly mottled with white on interramia 

 and edges of mouth, but no conspicuous backwardly extended 

 patcli is formed, as is the case in quel partis', a small white 

 patch on lower throat. Limbs uniformly brown. Tail 

 longer than in quelpartis, brown, its underside with a slight 

 cinnamon suffusion. 



Skull about as in M. quelpartis ; inner lobes of to 1 larger 

 than in that animal. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the skin) : — 



Head and body 315 mm. ; tail 200 ; hind foot 57. 



Skull: condylo-basal length 58*7 ; zygomatic breadth 30; 

 interorbital breadth 11*7 ; breadth of brain-case 25'3 ; 

 palatal length 256 ; p A , length on outer edge 6'5 ; m 1 , 

 breadth 4"6 ; antero-posterior diameter of inner lobe 3'3. 



Hah. Formosa. Type from Mt. Arizan ; 8000'. 



Type. Young adult male. B.M. no. 12. 11. 23. 4. Original 

 number 26. Collected March 1912, and presented by Walter 

 Goodfellow, Esq. 



This Formosan representative of the Eastern Mink has got 

 the long tail of the continental M. (Z>.) sibirica, with an even 

 more uniformly brown colour than the comparatively short- 

 tailed Quelpart mink, with which it agrees in size. 



Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 624) mentions Mustela sibirica 

 from Formosa, but did not send home any specimens, so that 

 Mr. Goodfellow's example is the first that the Museum has 

 received from the island. 



XIV. — Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the Collection 

 of the British Museum, with Descriptions of new Species. 

 By Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, M.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



II. Subfamily Nomadinje. 



The present paper is a continuation of that published under 

 the same title in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x. p. 461 

 (1912). 



