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side it is short and fuscous, on the tarsi above it is fulvous, and 

 beneath ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, with a slight fuscous cloud 

 at their apex, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. The basal segment 

 of the abdomen with pale ochraceous pubescence ; the second with 

 fulvous at the base and pale beyond ; the rest of the segments with 

 pale pubescence, and each with a little black at their basal margins ; 

 the extreme apex with short fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the seg- 

 ments are fringed with pale pubescence. 



Hab. Japan. 



This species closely resembles the European B. sylvarum. 



4. Bombus buccinatoris. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Black. The head oblong, and, as well as 

 the thorax and legs, clothed with black pubescence ; the meta- 

 thorax and two basal segments of the abdomen with bright yellow 

 pubescence, on the two following it is black, on the two apical 

 segments it is bright ferruginous ; wings dark brown, with violet 

 iridescence. 



Hab. Northern India, Kanawar district. 



5. Bombus personatus. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black ; head elongate, as in B. hortorum. 

 The pubescence on the cheeks and vertex black, the latter mixed 

 with pale hairs. The thorax above with a band of black pubescence 

 between the wings, before and behind which it is pale fulvo- ochra- 

 ceous, as well as on the two basal segments of the abdomen ; the 

 following segments have black pubescence at their base, and have a 

 fringe of pale pubescence on their apical margins. The legs with 

 black pubescence, except that on the basal joint of the tarsi beneath, 

 which is ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferru- 

 ginous. 



Hab. India, Kan a war. 



6. Bombus bicoloratus. 



Female. Length 12 lines. — Black ; the head, thorax, and legs with 

 black pubescence; the first joint of the tarsi with ferruginous 

 pubescence beneath. Wings fulvo-hyaline, their apical margins 

 clouded beyond the third submarginal cell ; the nervures ferrugi- 

 nous, the costal nervure black. The abdomen densely clothed with 

 ferruginous pubescence ; beneath, the segments are fringed with 

 the same. 



Hab. Island of Formosa. 



