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yellow. The second segment of the abdomen with a large pale yellow 

 macula on each side, the width of the segment laterally, and nar- 

 rowing inwardly to a point at the middle of its base ; the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments have at their base laterally a short 

 narrow yellow stripe. 



Hab. Trinidad. 



BOMBUS, Latr. 



1. Bombus bellicosus. 



Female. Length 10| lines. — Black. The head oblong, its pubes- 

 cence black ; the labrum friuged with ferruginous pubescence. The 

 thorax clothed with dull fulvo-ferruginous pubescence above ; on 

 the sides, beneath, and on the legs it is black ; on the tarsi beneath 

 it is ferruginous ; wings dark brown, darkest towards their apical 

 margins. The first, second, and third segments of the abdomen 

 with short black pubescence, that on the following segments bright 

 ferruginous. 



Hab. Sumatra or India. 



From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



2. Bombus montivagus. 



Female. Length 9| lines. — Black. Head elongate ; the clypeus 

 shining and finely punctured ; the pubescence black. The thorax 

 with rufo-fulvous pubescence, on the disk of the mesothorax it is 

 black ; the posterior tibiae and tarsi obscurely ferruginous, palest 

 beneath; the tarsi with ferruginous pubescence within; wings 

 dark brown, with a purple and violet iridescence in certain lights, 

 the tegula3 obscurely ruf o-piceous. The basal segment of the abdo- 

 men with bright yellow pubescence, on the second and third it is 

 black, and on the following segments it is bright ferruginous ; 

 beneath, obscurely ferruginous, the segments fringed with rufo- 

 fulvous pubescence. 



Hob. Moolai (alt. 3000-6000 feet). 



3. Bombus senilis. 



Female. Length 7 j lines. — Black. Head elongate ; the pubescence 

 on the front and on the posterior margin of the vertex pale ochra- 

 ceous, the latter mixed with a few black hairs. The thorax above 

 with a mixture of black and ochraceous pubescence, palest on the 

 scutellum, on the sides and beneath it is nearly white ; the legs 

 with pale pubescence, on the anterior and intermediate tibiae out- 



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