188 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



Epeolus, Latr. 

 Hist. Nat., iii., p. 375. 



Wings with three submarginal cells; labial palpi 4-jointed 

 maxillary palpi 1-jointed ; ^ with six ventral segments exposed ; 7th 

 truncate ; 8th narrow and tongue-like. 



A small genus of short stout bees, the abdomen banded 

 or spotted with white pubescence. 



(2) 1. Femora black in both sexes ; labrum 3-dentate ; the 



discal tubercles placed near its centre . . . . prodtictus. 



(1) 2. Femora red in 5 ; labrum simple ; discal tubercles 



nearer the anterior margin . . . . . . . . nifipes. 



1. Epeolus productiis, Thoms. (PL VII., fig. 10 — 10 b). 



Thoms., Opusc. Ent., p. 91 ; Hym. Scand., vol. ii., 

 p. 211. 



Black ; labrum bidentate at the apex, and with two small 

 tubercular teeth situated near the middle. Thorax with the 

 tubercles and tegulse in the (? and also the scutellum in the 5 

 mfous ; collar in the $ ferrviginous. Abdomen with white pube- 

 scent spots or bands ; beneath somewhat shining ; 2nd segment 

 largely and clearly punctured. Legs ferruginous ; femora more or 

 less black. 



(? . Head and thorax black, largely and rugosely punctured ; face 

 clothed with silvery hairs ; labrum tridentate at the apex, and with 

 two small teeth near the middle; mandibles pitchy red in the 

 centre. Antennae short, its joints transverse ; 2nd joint of the 

 flagellum considerably longer than the 3rd. Thorax with the pro- 

 thorax, the mesothorax in front and under the wings, and the meta- 

 thorax at the sides, clothed with brownish white hairs ; tubercles 

 black ; tegulEe rufous ; wings slightly dusky, with a darker apical 

 margin ; nervures testaceous at the base ; scutellum very rugose, 

 subdentate at the sides, much produced over the metathorax, its 

 central lobe slightly depressed in the centre ; metathorax shining. 

 Abdomen black, closely punctured ; 1st segment with a lateral 

 band of white pubescence at the apex, and at the base united at the 

 sides, but not meeting on the disk, the following segments each 

 with four spots along the posterior margin, the discal ones of the 

 2nd segment connected with the lateral ; apical dorsal valve narrow, 

 its sides parallel, rounded at the extremity ; beneath black ; 2nd 

 and 3rd segments paler at the apex, and clothed with silvery hairs ; 

 4th and 5th widely emarginate at the apex, and densely fringed 

 with curved- brown hairs; 6th rounded ; 7th sharply truncate, the 



