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red hair; third antennal joint a little longer than fifth, fifth 
longer than fourth ; clypeus convex, smooth and shining in mid- 
dle, punctured at sides; sides of clypeus depressed, separated 
from disk by a low ridge; clypeus overlapped by long fulvous 
to dark reddish hairs; hair of head otherwise, and of thorax 
entirely, rusty black, very dark; tegulse black, obscure reddish 
posteriorly; wings pale reddish, orange-tinted, the broad outer 
margin more dusky; femora with black or dark hair, tibise and 
tarsi with light fulvous hair, ferruginous on inner side of tarsi ; 
abdomen with rusty-black hair on first four segments, becoming 
red on apical part of fourth, and beyond this clear reddish 
fulvous. 
Negros, Cuernos Mountains {Baker 11839), 2 specimens. In 
coloration this resembles B. eximius Smith var. tonJdnensis 
Friese, but the malar space is much longer than in eximius. 
Structurally, the species is related to B. irisanensis. 
Apis florea var. rufiventris Friese. 
Apis florea var. rufiventris Friese, Buttel-Reepen, Mitt. Zool. Mus. 
Berlin (1906) 170, 197; Enderlein, Stett. Ent. Zeit. (1906) 338, 
344. 
Palawan. This has segments 1 to 6 of the abdomen almost 
uniformly red brown. The reddest form received from San- 
dakan, Borneo {Baker), has only the first two abdominal seg- 
ments reddened, as described for typical florea. The form 
andreniformis (Smith), with black abdomen, also occurs at San- 
dakan. 
Apis binghami Cockerell. 
Apparently common at Manila, where Mr. R. C. McGregor 
collected a number of specimens November 7 and 9, 1918. They 
visit the fiowers of Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn., accord- 
ing to a note supplied by Mr. McGregor. 
Apis dorsata Fabricius. 
Singapore {Baker 9220). Borneo, Sandakan {Baker). I 
have no specimens from the Philippines. 
