Insects. 708 1 



13. B. terrestris, Smith, ZooL ii. 547, 10; Mon. Bees Great Brit. 



224, 12. Nyl. Revis. Ap. Bor. 262, 7 (nee var. B. Lucorum). 



Westw. Nat. Libr. xxxviii. 243, t. 14, ^, $, ^. 

 Ajjis terrestris, Linn. Faun. Suec. 424, No. 1709, $ ? Cab. Mus. Lin. 



Soc. Don. Brit. Ins. iii. 41, t. 8S, f. 1. Kirbij, Mon. Ap. Angl. 



(var. y and e, $ ) ; Specimen in the Museum of the Entomological 



Society. 

 I have very great doubt of this being the Linnean A. terrestris ; in 

 the first place, both Schiodte and Dahlbom, to whom I showed speci- 

 mens of the insect, told me it was new to them, and not found, to their 

 knowledge, in Sweden or Denmark. The specimen in the Linnean 

 Cabinet I think must have had the label attached to it in mistake ; 

 there is a female of B. Lucorum in the same drawer, and that, I believe, 

 is the specimen to which it rightly belongs ; I have no doubt that the 

 female of B, Lucorum is the true A. terrestris of Linneus. .Dr. Nylander 

 thinks B. Lucorum a variety of B. terrestris : this I feel assured is not 

 the case ; I have taken many nests of both insects, and never found 

 them intermingled ; and I have taken B. Lucorum in coitu several 

 times, but never with the male of " terrestris." That the species do 

 sometimes mix in community appears certain, as Mr. Trimmer com- 

 municated the fact to Mr. Kirby, who united the females of Lucorum 

 and terrestris, describing his A. Lucorum as a male of which he did 

 not know the female : this has been the practice of most naturalists 

 since the time of Linueus. 



14. B. Lucorum, Illig. Mag. v. 166, 5. Fabr. Syst. Piez. 350, 37, $. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 546, 6, $, $, ^ ; Mon. Bees Great Brit. 225, 



13. Nyl. Revis. Ap. Bor. 262 (var. terrestris). 

 Apis Lucorum, Linn. Faun. Suec. 427, No. 1716, $ . Cab. Mus. Linn. 



Soc. Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 322, 35. Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 



336, 89. 

 Apis terrestris, Linn. Faun. Suec. 424, No. 1709, 9. Christ. Hym. 



127,t. 7, f 2, ?. 

 Apis Cajspitum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 31, 19, ^. 

 Bombus terrestris, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiv. 64, 1, $. Fabr. Syst. 



Piez. 343, 4. Dahlb. Bomb. Scand. 34, 5, f. 5. Zetl. Ins. 



Lapp. 473, 4. St. Farg. Hym. i. 467, 13. Drews, d Schiodte, 



Kroy. Tidsskr. ii. 118, 12. Nyl. Ap. Bor. 233, 13. 

 Bombus sporadicus, Nyl. Ap. Bor. 232, 15. 



This species is widely distributed, being found in Denmark, Sweden, 

 Finland, Lapland and Siberia ; I have also seen a form of it from 

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