lO'J A Pin a:. 



llio tibiio and tarsi with white pubo-scenco outside; wings t'usco- 

 liyalini", witli liyalino spots beyond the snbmarginal cells. Tho 

 apical margins of the first, second, and third segments of tho ab- 

 domen witli broad ]»ubosccnt. lateral fascia^ Avhich are continued up 

 the outer margins ; the fourth and sixth segments with uniiiter- 

 nipted fascioD ; the fifth segment covered with brown pubescence ; 

 the abdomen shining and finely punctured. 



Hah. Port Natal. 



2. Epeolus fervidus. 



Female. Length 3 j* lines. — Black, variegated with white pubes- 

 cent markings. The front, below the ocelli, with silvery white 

 pubescence ; the anterior margin of the clypeus subtruncatc ; the 

 tips of the mandibles ferruginous. The racsothorax and scutellum 

 very closely punctured : a line on each side of the collar, the 

 tubercles, two lines on the mesothorax anteriorly, and another 

 passing over the tegida), of white pubescence ; a large patch on the 

 sides, before the wings, and the coxse outside with white pubes- 

 cence ; a little white pubescence at the sides of the metathorax ; 

 ■wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous border at their apex. The first 

 segment of the abdomen with white pubescence at its extreme 

 base, cui'ving round at the sides and continued a short distance on 

 the apical margin of the segment ; the following segments with 

 white pubescence on their apical margins laterallj' ; the second, 

 third, and fourth segments beneath have white mai'ginal fasciae. 



Ilab. Bombay district. 



3. Epeolus intrepidus. 



Male. Length 5j lines. — Black, with white pubescent markings ; 

 wings with brown stains ; tibiie and tarsi ferruginous. The front, 

 before the antennae, with white pubescence : on each side it has a 

 golden lustre ; the labrum, mandibles, scape of the antennte, and 

 basal joint of the flagellum ferruginous. The thorax with a line 

 on the margin of the prothorax, the margins of the tubercles, the 

 sides of the metathorax, the intermediate and posterior coxas and 

 trochanters beneath, with white pubescence ; the tegular and ner- 

 vures of the wings ferruginous ; the marginal, submarginal, and 

 first and second discoidal cells of a brown colour, mottled with two 

 or three hyaline spots ; the tibiae, tarsi, and apical half of tho 

 femora ferruginous. Abdomen with a band of white pubescence on 

 the apical margin of the first segment, interrupted in the middle, 

 the white band recurves laterally towards the middle of the seg-j 

 ment ; the second, third, and fourth segments with white pubes-| 

 cent marginal fascice, the first slightly interrupted ; beneath, the 

 apical segments are fringed with bright rufo-fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. Mexico. 



