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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



albo. Mas, supra flavus, thoracis fascia nigra; abdominis 

 fasciis obsoletis nigris; ano albo. 



Apis lucorum, Linn. Faun, Suec. p. 427. do. 1716 cJ , and type in 

 Cab, Linn. Soc. ; Sj/st. Nat. i. 961. 48. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 322. 35 ; Syst. Piez. p. 350. 37. 



SchranJc, Ins.Aust. p. 401. 808. 



Kirby, Mon. Jp. AngL ii. 336. 89. 

 Apis terrestris, Christ, Llym. p. 127. t. 7. f. 2 ? . 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 350 (nee var. y & e ? ). 

 Apis ca^spitum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 31. 19 $ . 



Apis virginalis, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Anyl.ii. 349. 95, and type in Cab. 

 Ent. Soc. (worker). 



Bombus terrestris, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiv. 64. 1 ? . 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 343. 4. 



Dahlb. Bomb. Scand. 34. 5. f. 5. 



Zett. Ins. Lajyp. p. 473. 4. 



St. Farg. Ilym. i. 467. 13. 



Brews. ^ Schiodte, Krby. Tidsskr. ii. 1 18. 12. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal p. 232. 13. 

 Bombus lucorum, Smith, ZooL ii. 546. 6 (? $ J . 



Female. Length 8-9 lines.— The pubescence black, the thorax 

 anteriorly and the second segment of the abdomen clothed with 

 yellow pubescence; the three apical segments snow-white. 



B.M. 



Worker. 

 as in the female. 



Male. 



Length 4-6 lines.— The colouring of the pubescence 



B.M. 



Length 5^-8 hues.- The face, thorax in front, the scu- 

 tellum, and two basal segments of the abdomen clothed with 

 yellow pubescence, the three apical segments white ; beneath, 

 the pubescence is yellowish-white ; the tibije are fringed with 

 pale yellow hairs, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous. 



B.M. 



Var. ^. The black band between the wings nearly obsolete; the 

 black band on the abdomen intermixed with yellow hairs, sub- 

 obsolete. 



The var. (3. agrees with the typical specimen in the Linnsean 

 Cabinet; the yellow in this species is lemon-coloured,' which 

 alone distinguishes it from JB. terrestris. Specimens of the 

 male from the north of Scotland are sometimes almost entirely 

 yellow. All the sexes have been obtained from the nest by 

 Mr. Walcott, who bred them and kindly furnished me with ex- 

 amples. The female makes her appearance earlier in the spring 

 than B. terrestris^ and is found in all parts of the United 

 Kinadom. . 



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