272 E. T. CRESSON. 



Epeolns fnmipennis. 



Epeolus fumipennis, Say, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist, i., p. 40S. 

 One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Ceelioxys texana, n. sp. 



5>. — Black, head and thorax opaque, covered with large coarse punctures; 

 face and clypeus clothed with a short appressed whitish pubescence, more 

 dense on anterior orbits and anterior margin of clypeus; anterior ocellus 

 placed in the middle of a prominence, on each side of which is a tuft of fuscous 

 pubescence; cheeks clothed with a white scale-like pubescence, the punctures 

 of vertex more or less filled in with whitish scales; two basal joints of antennae 

 more or less red ; thorax with large, close, not confluent punctures, scutellum 

 rounded posteriorly with a rather long robust tooth on each side at base; a line 

 of yellow or whitish scale-like pubescence on anterior margin of mesothorax 

 more or less interrupted into spots on the middle, generally continued nar- 

 rowly over the tegulse to posterior margin and sometimes connected with the 

 band in suture at base of scutellum, sometimes there is a longitudinal line of 

 similar pubescence on anterior middle of mesothorax; sides of mesothorax, 

 pleura aud under side of scutellum clothed more or less densely with pale cin- 

 ereous pubescence, a tuft on each side above behind, tegulee and two transverse 

 lines on pleura, the anterior one margining the sides of prothorax and in front 

 of tubercles, of dense white pubescence; tubercles tinged with ferruginous; 

 tegulae fulvous; wings hyaline, apical margins narrowly fuliginous ; legs fer- 

 ruginous, covered with white scales, tarsi black, clothed within with yellowish 

 pubescence; abdomen long, polished, sparsely punctured, those on four basal 

 segments large, close laterally, those on the two apical segments much smaller 

 and closer, narrow basal margin of first segment, narrow apical margins of 

 segments 1 — 5 and a short subbasal line on each side of segments 2 — 4, of dense 

 white or pale ochraceous scales, apical segment short, obtusely pointed at tip, 

 the apical margin depressed and rough and fringed with erect black hairs, in- 

 ferior plate a third longer, broad, of equal width, the apex broadly rounded 

 and fringed with black hairs; ventral segments more or less tinged with ferru- 

 ginous, the apical margins with white pubescence. Length .40— .60 inch. 



^ . — Face and clypeus more densely pubescent; abdominal segments 2 — 5 

 each with a subbasal lateral band of dense white scales; apical segment deep- 

 ly concave above, with a short acute tooth on each side at base, the apex with 

 six short more or less irregular teeth, the upper tooth of lateral pair sometimes 

 obsolete. Length .48 inch. 



Ten specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) Resembles alternata, Say, 

 from which it is distinguished by the ferruginous legs, black tarsi, 

 aud broadly rounded inferior plate of abdomen. 



Ccelioxys edita, n. sp. 



%. — Black, densely, coarsely and confluently punctured; face, as high up 

 as ocelli, and clypeus clothed with a short dense white or pale ochraceous pu- 

 bescence ; anterior ocellus surrounded by a radiating fringe of pubescence ; an- 

 terior, lateral and middle of posterior margin of mesothorax covered with 

 white or pale ochraceous. scales, that on anterior margin dilated into two spots 

 on middle; scutellum beneath, metathorax and pleura clothed with white or 



