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Labrum, mandibles except tips and clypeus ferruginous, the latter with 

 large lateral fovese, punctures fine interspersed with very coarse ones. 

 Antennae with first three joints and base of fourth ferruginous. Vertex 

 closely, coarsely punctured. Mesothorax coarsely and somewhat irregu- 

 larly punctured. Tubercles, tegulae, coxae and legs ferruginous. Spurs 

 of four posterior tibiae deep black. Legs somewhat silvery pubescent. 

 Scutellum lobed behind, lateral teeth small, blunt, almost obsolete. A 

 bunch of white hairs at base of hind wings. Apical dorsal segment of 

 abdomen dark fuscous with very coarse punctures medially, from which 

 arise a dense brush of stiff fuscous hairs which is truncate, causing the 

 segment to appear obliquely truncate at an angle of 45, tips of hairs 

 silvery. Venter more qr less ferruginous posteriorly, cinereous bands on 

 second to fourth segments. Ventral plate longitudinally concave and re- 

 curved at tip. Wings light fuscous, nervures piceous. 



Male. Length 13-16 mm. Much more slender than female. Face 

 densely silvery. Underside, especially of thorax silvery. Spots on coxae 

 larger. Legs more silvery and pleura completely covered with buff pub- 

 escence. Scutellar teeth obsolete. Abdomen with bands on fifth and 

 sixth segments, all the bands narrower than in the female. Pygidium 

 piceous. Venter with a fringe of recurved white to brownish hairs on 

 fourth and fifth segments, also a slight silvery one on the third. Wings 

 nearly hyaline, not darker apically. 



Numerous specimens $ ? Austin (Brues) and Fedor ( Birk- 

 mann). 



This is a very distinct species. The female resembles con- 

 cavus Cress, in the sexual characters and is evidently related to 

 that species. The ventral plates are nearly identical, the dorsal 

 brush is obliquely instead of squarely truncate. The ornamen- 

 tation, wings and legs are however entirely different and the 

 males are totally unlike. 



Epeolus bardus Cress. 



We have not seen any specimens of this species from Texas, 

 although the type was from that State. Some specimens which 

 we collected at Meredosia, 111., agree perfectly with Cresson's 

 description. 



Epeolus scelestus, var. tubercularis, nov. 



One specimen from Austin differs from the typical scelestus 

 in having ferruginous tubercles and tibial spurs, and in having 

 the second, third and fourth ventral segments cinereous on the 

 posterior margin. The pygidium is silvery at tip and the short 

 lines on the mesonotum are almost confluent. As we have only 



