196 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TUBAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol X. 



2.-AIv;TH0PH0RA AMYMONB, n. sp., PI. I, Fig. 2, ? . 



Habitat : Deli, Sumatra. 



Female : Length 17 m. m., expanse 30 m.m. 



Male : Unknown. 



Description. — 9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen bhick with fuscous 

 black pubescence, behind the ©yes and on the sides of the clypeus it 

 is hoary, on the outside of the tibiae and tarsi of the legs, and on the 

 two last segments of the abdomen bright ferruginous. The mandibles 

 testaceous, darker at the tips, the clypeus is higher than broad, punc- 

 tured with a pale testaceous mark down the centre ; the pubescence on 

 it black and thinly scattered, on the sides of the face and below it is 

 dense and hoary-gray, and on the front between the antennae fuscous- 

 black ; the antennaa are piceous, the scape in front black and shining ; 

 the vertex is bare, finely punctured and marked with three short longi- 

 tudinally impressed lines leading from the ocelli forward to as far as 

 the base of the antennse ; the ocelli are of a deep ruby-red placed in a 

 curve on the vertex. Thorax black with fuscous-black pubescence ; the 

 centre of the metathorax above and the scutellum bare and finely 

 punctared ; wings brownish-hyaline, the tegulie testaceous, the ner- 

 vures dark brown ; legs testaceous-brown, the tibiae and tarsi with 

 bright ferruginous pubescence on the outside ; claws dark castaneous- 

 brown. Abdomen black, finely and closely punctured ; the posterior 

 margins of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments thickly fringed with 

 fuscous-black pubescence, that on the terminal segments bright ferru- 

 ginous ; below the abdomen is piceous-black, with the margins of the 

 segments testaceous. 



The above two species Were collected at Deli in Sumatra by 

 Hofrath Dr, L. Martin, by whom they were kindly sent to me. 



3.— BOMBUS RUFO-FASCIATUS, Smith, PI. I, Fig. 3,$. 



BoMBUS rufo-fasgiatus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lend. New Ser. , 

 11,(1852-53), p. 48,9. 



Habitat : Sikkim Himalayas, above 12,000 ft. 



Female : Length 25 m.m,, expanse 46 m.m. 



Description. — 9 . Black with long black and hoavy-gray pubescence ; 

 the 2nd segment of the abdomen with a bright vermillion-red band 

 above. Head black, narrow and long ; the mandibles, clypeus, face 



