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Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Lapland; at Loch Rannoch it is not 

 uncommon. It does not appear to vary much in colouring. It is 

 rare in the vicinity of the metropolis ; I once captured a female on 

 the high ground beyond Coombe Wood, Suney. 



12. B. soroensis, Illig. Mag. v. 167, 22. Fahr. Sijst. Plez. 345, 10, 

 $. Dalilh. Bomb. Scand. 43, 22. Drews. 8^ Schibdte, Kroy. 

 Tidsskr. ii. 112, 8, t. 2, f. e ^, f. $. Nijl. Ap. Bor. 239, 28. 



Apis soroensis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 318, 12. Panz. Faun. Germ. 7, 



11,?. 

 Apis neutra, Panz. Faun. Germ. 83, 18 ; Krit. Revis. ii. 259, ^ . 

 Bombus neutra, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 347, 24. St. Farg. Hym. i. 469, 



15. 

 Breraus Sylvarum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 85, 19 (nee Linn., Kirby). 

 Bombus coUinus, Smith, Zool. ii. 548, 17, ^ ; Mon. Bees Great Brit. 



223, 11. 

 I believe the above synonymy to be the most correct which has 

 been given. I have proved to my perfect satisfaction that neither 

 B. Cullumanus or B. Burrellanus are varieties of the male of this 

 species ; a comparison of the generative organs decides that point. I 

 gave B. Cullumanus as a variety in my ' Monograph ' on the authority 

 of Schiodte and Nylander. Since the publication of my work I have had 

 an opportunity of examining nearly a hundred examples of the male, 

 from the collection of the late Mr. Heyshara. These vary considerably 

 in colouring ; in some the apex of the abdomen is rosy red, in others 

 it is white, separated from the black band by a narrow line of fulvous ; 

 in rare instances the abdomen is nearly entirely black, having at the 

 tip only a few cinereous hairs. M. Drewsen informs me that he has 

 them with that part quite black. It is strange that although Mr. Hey- 

 sham captured the males in such abundance his collection did not 

 contain a single female. I possess numerous examples of all the sexes, 

 from Denmark, which agree exactly with British examples. This 

 bee constructs its nest underground. I possess a single example of 

 the female, which I believe was taken in Yorkshire ; Mr. Walcott has 

 the same sex from the Brighton and Bristol Downs. In the collection 

 of M. Drewsen is a beautiful series of the varieties of all the sexes; 

 the female is sometimes black, with the apex of the abdomen rosy red ; 

 the males and workers run also into this extreme variety. This variety 

 of the female would of course resemble B. Derhamellus, but there is 

 less red at the tip of the abdomen and it is of a paler tint, and the 

 corbicula on the posterior tibiae is black. 



