64 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [ Vou. XI, 
VI. FOUR NEW SPECIES OF BOMBUS FROM THE 
MALAY PENINSULA. 
By H. M. Penpiesury, F.E.S. 
Systematic Entomologist, F.M.S. Museums. 
There appears to be no specific record of Bombus 
from the Malay Peninsula: I herewith give descriptions 
of four species which occur within our faunal area. 
These species seem to be local in habitat; and only 
occur, so far as is at present known, on the tops of some 
of the higher hills in the Peninsula: they have not yet 
been taken below 3,000 feet. Their habits are probably 
very similar to their British representatives though it 
has not been established, in all cases, which species 
make their nests near the surface and which burrow 
under ground. 
Hymenoptera. 
Fam. Apidae 
Genus, Bombus, Latr. 
1. Bombus discrepans sp. n. 
2 Black, with black pubescence ; the three apical 
abdominal segment clothed with fulvous ; intermediate 
and hind tibiae and tarsi testaceous with ferrugineous 
pubescence ; wings flavo-hyaline, veins brown. 
Head and face with long pubescence on the front, 
between the antennae and above the clypeus; the 
clypeus with a few scattered punctures, shining. 
Mandibles shagreened, with short golden pile in the 
grooves ; labrum incised, ciliated with rufous hairs. 
Fore legs: tibiae piceous, covered with short ferrugineous 
and a longer black pubescence which does not reach 
to the apex. Tarsi ferrugineous, basal joint above with 
some black hair. 
%’Smaller. Hear and thorax with a shorter black 
pubescence mixed with lighter coloured hairs. The two 
basal abdominal segments above covered with light 
chestnut pubescence which on the basal segment is 
longest laterally, that on the second segment being mixed 
with black hair (in some specimens this segment is 
entirely black). 
Wings lighter flavo-hyaline, with a distinct smoky 
suffusion at margin not reaching the cells. 
Second joint of flagellum about one and a quarter 
times as long as the third. Labella not longer than the 
labial palpi, second joint of maxillary palpi long and 
thin. 
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