CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 



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Family II BOMBIDiE. 



The "Bumblebees"' These are social and make their nests in cavities in 

 the ground, the female wintering and producing workers only in the early 

 summer. These bees have very long tongues and red clover is almost exclu- 

 sively fertilized by them. They are highly beneficial. 



BOMBUS Latr. 



B. americanorum Fabr. Jamesburg, VIII, 1, Staten Island (Ds), Burlington 

 Co , Lahaway (Sm). 



B. affinis Cress. Greenwood Lake (Cr), Westville (Fox). 



B. bimaculatus Cress. Philadelphia, VII, 23 (Fox). 



B. borealis Kirby. New Jersey (Ash). 



B. consimilis Cress. New Brunswick IV, 20, Jamesburg, V, Newark, V, 30 

 (Sm), Caldwell (Cr), Camden Co., V, 18 (Jn). 



B. fervidus Fabr. Jamesburg, Burlington Co., Anglesea, V-VIII (Sm 

 Gloucester Co., VIII, 24 (Fox), Staten Island (Ds). 



B. pennsylvanicus De G. Caldwell (Cr), Westville (Fox). 



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Fig 240. — Types of compound hairs taund in bees. 



