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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



apex of the abdomen white, separated from the black band by 

 a narrow band of fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Var. /3. The face having a mixture of obscure yellow pubes- 

 cence. 



m 



Only a single example of this species was known for some 

 years, it w^as taken at Westow in Yorkshire; it was thought it 

 might prove a rare variety of B. terrestris, until Mr. Walcott 

 captured several on the Downs near Bristol, and received others 

 from the Brighton Downs ; an examination of numerous indi- 

 viduals show^s it to be a distinct species : the formation of the 

 generative organs separates it from all our known British species. 

 Mr. Heysham captured a fine series in Cumberland, and also 

 examples of a w^orker bee which probably belongs to this spe- 

 cies; it has the tip of the abdomen white", bordered with a faint 

 band of fulvous hairs. Mr. Walcott once possessed a female, 

 which he has by some accident lost : his recollection of it is, 

 that it was the size of B. Scrimshiranus'; the fourth segment 

 of the abdomen had deeper-coloured fulvous hairs than in the 

 male. 



12. Bombus terrestris. ' 



B. hirsutus, ater ; thorace antice, abdominis fascia media, anoque, 

 flavis. 



Apis terrestris, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 424. no. 1709 $ , and type sp. 

 in Cab. Linn. Soe. ; Si/st. Nat. i. 960. 41. 

 Bon. Brit. Ins. iii. 41. t. 88. f. 1. 



Kirdijy Mon. Ap. AngL (var. y & e ? ) ; Specim. in Cab. Ent. 

 So c. 



Bombus terrestris, Westiv. Nat. Libr. xxxviii. 243. t. 14. 



Smith, ZooL ii. 547. 10, aytd Cat. Brit. Acut. Hym ,103. 



Nyland. Revis. Ap. Boreal p. 262. 7 (nee var.). 

 Reaum. Lis. vi. Mem. 1st. 2. t. 3. f. 1. 



Female. Length 9-11 lines.— The pubescence black, the collar 

 orange-yellow ; the second segment of the abdomen has a 

 band of the same colour, the fifth segment and apical margin 

 of the fourth clothed with i)ale fulvous pubescence, the sixth 



naked. 



B.M. 



Worker. Length Q-l lines.— Closely resembles the female, but 

 the yellow bands are frequently of a paler tint ; the apical 

 segments have w^hite instead of taw^ny pubescence, but the 



