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same ; the patch is quadrate on the basal segment; the apical segment broadly lanceo- 
late, the lower plate of the same shape, and only a little longer than the upper one; 
beneath, the segments are margined with white, and usually:more or less interrupted 
in the middle; the basal segment has a white patch in the middle. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
This species is parasitic upon Megachile fasciculata, from the cells of which bee 
Mr. Horne bred it. In my catalogue of Andrenide and Apidz I have described the 
female of MW. fasciculata as a distinct species under the name M. anthracina; Mr. Horne 
bred both sexes from nests. 
3. Bompus atrocinetus. (Plate XXI. fig. 13,¢.) 
Male. Length 7 lines. 
Head—the cheeks with griseous pubescence, the clypeus with white, on each side of 
it the pubescence is thin, long, and black, as it is also at the insertion of the antenne, 
leaving the vertex naked, smooth and shining; there are also a few long black hairs on 
the posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax clothed above with fulvous pubescence, 
as are also the two basal segments of the abdomen; the wings fulvo-hyaline, with their 
apical margins fuscous; the third and fourth segments of the abdomen clothed with 
black pubescence, the three apical ones with white; the four apical joints of the tarsi 
ferruginous; the tarsi, beneath, have short bright ferruginous pubescence; the thorax 
and abdomen, beneath, with a long thin griseous pubescence. 
Hab. Binsur, Kumaon, North-west Provinces of India. 
This species resembles one of the varieties of the Bombus lucorum of Europe. 
4. BoMBUS TERMINALIS. 
Male. Length 7 lines. 
The head clothed with black pubescence, that on the clypeus white and intermixed 
with some long bristly black hairs; the mandibles with a thick fringe of pale fulvous. 
Thorax clothed above with bright fulvous pubescence ; that on the sides black ; beneath 
it is white; the four apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; the pubescence on the tibie 
black, intermixed with a few ferruginous hairs on the posterior pair; that on the tarsi 
beneath is bright ferruginous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures dark ferruginous. 
Abdomen clothed with black pubescence; a few ferruginous hairs at its base, and the 
two apical segments clothed with white; beneath, the segments are fringed with pale 
hairs. 
Worker. Length 54 lines. Clothed exactly the same as the male, and only differs in 
having the wings darker, and in not having white pubescence on the clypeus; above it, at 
the insertion of the antenne, it is short, dense, and fusco-ferruginous. 
Hab. The male from Simla. 
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