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same ; the patch is quadrate on the basal segment ; the apical segment broadly lanceo- 

 late, the lower plate of the same shape, and only a little longer than the upper one ; 

 beneath, the segments are margined with white, and usually more or less interrupted 

 in the middle ; the basal segment has a white patch in the middle. 



Hah, Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



This species is parasitic upon MegacUle fasciculata, from the cells of which bee 

 Mr, Home bred it. In my catalogue of Andrenidse and Apidse I have described the 

 female of M. fasciculata as a distinct species under the name M. unthracina ; Mr. Home 

 bred both sexes from nests. 



3. BoMBUS ATROciNCTus. (Plate XXL fig. 13, d.) 



Male. Length 7 lines. 



Head — the cheeks with griseous pubescence, the clypeus with white, on each side of 

 it the pubescence is thin, long, and black, as it is also at the insertion of the antennae, 

 leaving the vertex naked, smooth and shining ; there are also a few long black hairs on 

 the posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax clothed above with fulvous pubescence, 

 as are also the two basal segments of the abdomen ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, with their 

 apical margins fuscous ; the third and fourth segments of the abdomen clothed with 

 black pubescence, the three apical ones with white; the four apical joints of the tarsi 

 ferruginous ; the tarsi, beneath, have short bright ferruginous pubescence ; the thorax 

 and abdomen, beneath, with a long thin griseous pubescence, 



Hab, Binsur, Kumaon, North-west Provinces of India. 



This species resembles one of the varieties of the Bombus lucorum of Europe. 



4. Bombus terminalis. 



Male. Length 7 lines. 



The head clothed with black pubescence, that on the clypeus white and intermixed 

 with some long bristly black hairs ; the mandibles with a thick fringe of pale fulvous. 

 Thorax clothed above with bright fulvous pubescence ; that on the sides black ; beneath 

 it is white; the four apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; the pubescence on the tibiae 

 black, intermixed with a few ferruginous hairs on the posterior pair ; that on the tarsi 

 beneath is bright ferruginous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures dark ferruginous. 

 Abdomen clothed with black pubescence ; a few ferruginous hairs at its base, and the 

 two apical segments clothed with white ; beneath, the segments are fringed with pale 



hairs. 



Worker. Length 5| lines. Clothed exactly the same as the male, and only differs in 

 having the wings darker, and in not having white pubescence on the clypeus ; above it, at 

 the insertion of the antennae, it is short, dense, and fusco-ferruginous, 



Hab. The male from Simla. 

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