84 E. T. CRESSON. 



Phileremns? pulchellus. — 9- — Black, opaque, densely punctured; 

 head broader than thorax; face, sides of occiput, margin of thorax above, sides 

 of metathorax and large patch beneath wings clothed with short appressed 

 white scale-like pubescence; mandibles, tegulse and tubercles, ferruginous; 

 flagellum brown; win^s hyaline, faintly dusky at tips, marginal cell as long 

 as the two submarginal cells, rounded at tip, second submarginal cell less 

 than half the length of the first, narrowed nearly to a point toward marginal, 

 receiving the second recurrent nervure a little beyond the middle, the first 

 recurrent is received by the first submarginal cell near its apex or junction 

 with the second; legs with short pale glittering hairs, the femora at tips and 

 the tibiae more or less varied with ferruginous; tibise spinulose on outer edge; 

 abdomen ovate, very densely and confluently punctured, opaque, fulvo-ferrugi- 

 nous, the segments above stained with black on the middle, a circular line on 

 each side of first segment, and four equidistant spots at base of segments 2 — 5 

 composed of appressed white scales; fifth segment loni^itudinally carinate on 

 the disk; ventei* fulvo-ferruginous, spotted laterally with fuscous, apical seg- 

 ment emarginate at tip. Length .20 inch. 



? %. — Like the 9 except that the ferruginous color entirely disappears and 

 the head, thorax and abdomen above are yellowish-brown; apical margin of 

 abdominal segments obscurely pale testaceous. Length .23 inch. 



Huh. — Colorado, (Ridings). Three specimens. This differs from 



the preceding species in the neuration of anterior wings, the first and 



second submarginal cells receiving each a recurrent nervure. 



Epeolus (listiuctus. — 9 . — Black; head, thorax, legs and venter with a 

 short sericeo-cinereous pubescence, more obvious in certain lights on sides of 

 face, sides of pleura and of metathorax; upper margin of prothorax, narrow 

 lateral and apical margins of mesothorax, two short lines on anterior middle, 

 entire first segment of abdomen above except base and small slightly trans- 

 verse spot on disk, and apical margins of segments 2 — 4, buff, the latter shading 

 into cinereous; fifth segment entirely cinereous in certain lights, the dorsal 

 space very finely punctured; mesothorax and pleura very coarsely punctured; 

 scutellum subbisinuate behind, with very long acute slightly incurved lateral 

 teeth; anterior legs varied with pale ferruginous; wings subhyaline, broadly 

 margined at tip with black; last ventral segment convex, acuminate at tip. 

 Length .50 inch. 



%. — Face, metathorax and pleura densely sericeo-cinereous; labrum, tegulse, 

 anterior legs and all the tarsi, ferruginous; wings darker; scutellum bilobate, 

 lateral teeth more strongly incurved; apical margin of abdominal segments 

 five and six whitish. Length .45 inch. 



Hah — Georgia, (Ridings). Two specimens. A very distinct species. 



Epeoliis bai'diis. — 9- — Black; head short, with brown pubescence, not 

 pale around base of antennae; labrum, tips of mandibles, base of antennce, 

 tubercles, tegulse, scutellar teeth and legs, ferruginous; tibial spurs black; 

 upper margin of prothorax, narrow lateral and posterior margins of meso- 

 thorax, two short lines on anterior middle, sides of metathorax, margins of 

 tubercles, first abdominal segment above (except extreme base and small 

 transverse spot on middle connected with base by a narrow line), and apical 

 margins of segments 2 — 4, not dilated laterally, all buff; wings fuscous, darker 



