BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 231 



a mixture of reddish-yellow hairs ; the tongue is proportionally 

 shorter, and the insect altogether larger, Mr. Wollaston found 

 it abundantly in Madeira. 



17. Bombus Latreillellus. 



B, hirsutus, ater ; thorace antice, scutello, abdominisque basi 

 flavo-fulvescentibus ; ano albo. Mas, supra flavescens ; tho- 

 race inter alas abdominisque cingulis duobus subnigris. 



Apis Latreillella, Kirhy, Mon, Ap. AngL ii. 330. 84 $ , and type in 

 Cab. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



Apis Tunstaliana, Kirbj/, Mon. Jp, AngL ii. 346. 94 $ , and type 



in Cab. Ent. Soc. Lond, 

 Bombus Latreillellus, Illig, Mag. v. 165. 11 J. 



Dahlb. Bomb. Scand. p. 39. 14 <J . 



Drews. ^ SchiUdte, Kroy. Tidsskr. ii, 120. 16 (J , 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 234. \% $ . 



Smith, Cat. Brit. Ilym. p. 103. 10 c? ? . 



Nyland. Revis. Ap. Boreal, p. 261. 4. 



Bombus Tunstallanus, Drews. &r Schiodte, Krov. Tidsskr. ii. 119. 

 14?. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 231. 10. 



Female. Length 10 lines.— The pubescence black, that on the 

 collar and scutellum of a fulvous-yellow ; the basal segment of 

 the abdomen has on each side a little fulvous-yellow pubes- 

 cence; the apical margin of the third segment, and the fourth 

 and fifth have a little white pubescence, the apical one naked 

 above ; the apical margin of the second segment has usually an 

 obscure mixture of pale hairs ; beneath, the third, fourth and 

 fifth segments are fringed with pale pubescence. B.M. 



Var. /3. The base of the abdomen with an entire fascia of ful- 

 vous-yellow pubescence. 



Var. y. The base of the abdomen black. 



Worker. Length 5-7 lines.— The pubescence black, the collar 

 has a fulvous-yellow band, the scutellum only an obscure yellow 



, fringe; the abdomen white at the apex, the second and third 

 segments have a more or less conspicuous white fringe* B.M. 



Male. Length 6-8 lines. — The pubescence on the head black ; 

 the face has sometimes an obscure mixture of pale hairs. Tho- 

 rax : above yellow, having a broad black fascia between the 

 wings ; the sides usually obscurely cinereous. Abdomen : the 

 pubescence yellow, the second and third segments with a band 

 of black pubescence at their base, the second usually narrowest ; 



