274 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(381) 5. * Bombus Praticola. Meadow Bombiis. 



B. ( Praticola ) hirsuto-flavicans ; thorace inter alas nigro ,• anoferruyineo. 



Meadow Bombus, hirsute-yellowish ; thorax black between the wings ; anus ferruginous. 



Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken with the preceding. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Body black, cloathed above with yellowish hairs. Head with a tuft of yellowish hairs below the 

 antennas, and on the vertex : thorax black between the wings, which are embrowned : legs with 

 yellow hairs at the base : anterior half of the abdomen yellow, posterior ferruginous. 



(382) 6. Bombus virginicus. Virginian Bombus. 



Bombus virginicus. Fab. Syst. Piez. 346, 14. 



Apis virginica. Linn. Mant. i, 540; Syst. Nat. Gmel. v, 2784, 113. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 318, 5. Drury 7ns. t. xliii,/. 1. 



Length of the body 8i lines. 



Locality uncertain. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Hairs of the body in general black, except a tuft on the vertex behind the antenna;, the anterior 

 and posterior extremities, and sides of the thorax, and the first segment of the abdomen, which 

 are cloathed with yellowish hairs: between the wings the thorax is black: the tarsi are rufous: 

 the wings are rather embrowned, most so at the apex : nervures black. 



