58 ROEBUCK : ON YORKSHIRE BEES. 



Cook's collection, taken in plenty at Clifton, York, at the corner 

 of Burton Crescent, more than 30 years ago ! Now extinct in 

 that spot, which is built upon. 



Anthophora acervorum, (Fab.)=A. refnsa, (Kby.) 

 Woolley (F. Smith MS.) Near Wakefield, July 1852 (F. Smith, 

 Zool. X. 3626). 



Bombus muscorum, (L.) Woolley (Smith MS.) Near 

 Wakefield in July 1852 (F. Smith, Zool. x. 3626). 



B. venustus, Si/i.=se}iiiis, Sm. Woolley (Smith MS.) 

 Near Wakefield in July 1852 (F. Smith, Zool. x. 3626). 



B. elegans, Seidl.=^fragra?is, IlHg. Not uncommon near 

 Wakefield (F. Smith, Zool. x. 3626). Woolley (Smith MS.) 

 Mr. Smith records that he has taken the nest in Yorkshire, and 

 that on disturbing it the bees emitted a powerful aromatic odour 

 (B.B., 2nd ed., 1876, p. 202; also B.M.Cat. of B.Acul.Hym., 

 1851^ p. 100). In another place (Entom. May 1867, iii. 269) 

 Mr. Smith states it to be more abundant in the northern counties 

 than in the southern : " it is a common insect about Halifax and 

 the neighbourhood of Wakefield, where I have found its nest in 

 grass fields and on hedge-banks." 



B. sy I varum, (L.) Woolley (Smith MS.) 



B. Lapponicus, (Fab.) E.ecorded for Sheffield under the 

 name of B. flavicottis (Samouelle, Ent. Useful Comp., 18 19, 

 p. 428). Halifax Moor, &c. (Smith, B.M. List of British Hym. 

 Acul., 1851, p. 104; Ent. Ann. 1855, p. 95; B.B., 1855, p. 219; 

 do. 2nd ed., 1876, p. 205). A few neuters taken by R. Tyrer on 

 the Moors, about three miles north of Keighley, on ling flowers, 

 and named by Mr. F. Smith (Tyrer, E.M.M., Oct. 1864, i. 123). 

 Greetland Moor, 1877 ! James Varley ! 



B. Derhamellus, (Kby.) Woolley (Smith MS.) Mr. 

 Smith (Entom. March 1867, iii. 242) says that this species is 

 much more numerous in Yorkshire than in the South, and that it 

 differs in its economy : a moss-builder in the South, in Yorkshire its 

 nest is of frequent occurrence in hay -fields, and in such situations 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1877. Series P 



