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qtieen, H. H. Smith coU.) ; Quezaltenango, Guatemala, 7,000 

 ft. (2 workers, G. C. Champion coll.). 



The malar space of the females of this species is only a little more 

 than one- fourth as long as the eye, and that of the male is fully a 

 fourth as long as the eye. The third antennal segment of the male is 

 only a Ihtle longer than the fourth. The male before me has the 

 fourth dorsal abdominal segment entirely dark except for a faint 

 fringe of very short pale hairs along its apical margin, the tifth seg- 

 ment dark except for a strong fringe of ferruginous hairs along its 

 apical margin, and the sixth and seventh segments with mostly ferru- 



POHHIUB U IIIWIIIMMia LI. I . 



There are three queens of this species from the collection 

 of the British Musetun before me, all from Omiheme, Guer- 

 rero, Mexico, 8,000 ft. alt. (H. H. Smith). 



These specimens are from 17 mm. to 18 mm. in length. They have 

 the apical margin of the fifth dorsal abdominal segment fringed with 

 ferr u g in o u a pile and the ckMhing of the sixth dorsal acgment is mostly 

 of the same ook>r. This fringe of the tifth i c gmcm and clothing of 

 the sixth arc. without doubt, normally ferruginous, instead of yellow 

 as they have previously been described. The apical margins of the 

 four middle ventral Mgmcnts arc fringed for the nsost part with 

 pale hairs. 



Bombna brachyccpbahu Handl. 



There are four qtwcns of this species from the collection of 

 the British Museum before me. Two of these spedmens ( from 

 Omiheme. Guerrero, Mexico, 8,000 ft. alt), are typical in their 

 characters, and, as the description of the females of this spe- 

 cies given in my monograph. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxix, 

 1913. p. 143) is meagre. I will describe the queen more in de- 

 tail here: 



Quttm. Heod.—FMtx mostly bUck. but the frons with a general, 

 though inconspicuous, admixture of short stramineous pubescence. 

 Ocdput and cheeks entirely dark. Malar space distinctly shorter than 

 iu width at apex, slightly more than one-sixth as long as the eye. 

 Gypeus moderately and coarsely puncute. Ocelli large and placed 

 considerably below the supra-orhiul line, almost exactly in the nar- 

 rowest part of the vertex, the lateral ones being much nearer to the 

 margins of the eyes than to each other. Flagellum of antenna about 

 one and two-thirds times as long as the scape. 



rA«»f»jr.— Entirely black. A Urge area around the center of the 

 4fff Hi BH naked, smooth and shining. 



