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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN, 229 



Apis coronata, Fourc. EnL Par. ii. 449. 23 (J . 



Apis arbustonim, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 320. 24 $ ; Syst. Piez, p. 347. 



' 23. 

 Bremus truncorum, Panz. Faun. Germ, 85. 21 ^ . 



Brennis regelationis, Panz, Faun. Germ. 86, 1 7 (? ? 



Bombus lapidarius, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiv. 64. 2 ^ • 



Fabr. Syst. Pirz. p. 347. 25. 



^Jwm. I7is, Liy. fasc. i. 130. 4. 



Dahlb. Bomb. Scand, 30. 1. 



67. i^«!r^. Hym. \. 460. 3. 



Brulle, Exped. Sc. de Moree, p. 528. 729. 



Drews, Sf Schiodte, Kroy, Tidsskr. ii, 116. II, 



Westw. Nat. Libr. xxxviii. 252. t. 16. f, 1 cJ , 2 ? . 



Smitkj ZooL ii. 549. 14. 



Nyland. Jp. Boreal, p. 238. 25. 

 , Bombus Lefebvrei, St. Farg. Hym. i. 461. 4, tyjie sj), in ColL 



Westw. (var.) 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Densely clothed with black pubes- 

 cence, the three apical segments clothed -with rufo-fuivous pu- 

 bescence; the legs rufo-testaceous beneath, the tarsi clothed 

 beneath with ferruginous pubescence, the apical joints rufo- 

 testaceous ; tlie wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apex. 



I5.M. 



Var. /3. The collar having an indistinct yellow band. 



Worker, Length 5-6^ lines. — There is no other difference ex- 

 cept size between the worker and the female. B.M. 



Male. — The pubescence black, that on the face, margin of the 

 vertex and collar yellow; the scutellum and basal segment of 

 the abdomen have a mixture of yellow hairs ; the four apical 

 segments bright rufo-fulvous ; the femora fringed with long 

 pale yellow hairs, the posterior tibisc and the tarsi fringed with 

 ferruginous hairs. B.M. 



Var. /3. The scutellum and basal segment of the abdomen en- 

 tirely black. 



Var. y. The abdomen having merely a few red hairs on the 

 apical margins of the three apical segments. 

 Var. S. The apex in certain lights has only a faint tinge of red. 



The variety of the female is extremely rare ; only a single spe- 

 cimen has been captured, at Sandwich, Kent; it is the B. Le- 

 febvrei of St. Fargeau; I have had an opportunity of examining 

 the typical specimen through the kindness of Mr. Westwood, in 

 whose possession are many of the type specimens of St. Fargeau's 

 and Latreille's bees. The varieties y. and 8. c? are also very 

 rarely met with ; three specimens occurred in August 1854 



