254 HYMENOPTERA. 



Genus 26. PHILEREMUS. 



Epeolus, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 388. 

 Phileremus, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. 169. 



1. Phileremus punctatus. B.M. 

 Epeolus punctatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 389. 2. 



Epeolus Kirbyanus, Latr. Gen. Cr, Ins. i. t. 14. f. 10. 

 Phileremus Kirbyanus, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. p. 169. 

 Phileremus punctatus, St. Farg. Ency. Meth. x. 104. 1 ; Hym. ii. 

 513. 2. 

 Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. 412. 



Hab. France. 



2. Phileremus abdominalis. 



Phileremus abdominalis, Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 88. 1. 

 Hub. Russia. 



3. Phileremus hirsutulus. 



Phileremus hirsutulus, Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 89. 2. 

 Hab. Russia. 



4. Phileremus melectoides. B.M. 

 Female. Length 5 lines. — Jet-black, the head and thorax 



strongly punctured, the face below the insertion of the antennae 

 thinly covered with a mixture of fuscous and griseous pubescence, 

 the punctures large and distant on the vertex. Thorax, a central 

 longitudinal depression on the disk, and also a shght one on 

 each side opposite the tegulse ; a little white pubescence on each 

 side of the metathorax at its base, also on the posterior margin 

 of the tubercles ; the tibiae and tarsi have a short white pubes- 

 cence above, that on the tibiae intermixed with short black bristles 

 or spines, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, the pubes- 

 cence on the tarsi beneath fuscous ; the wings fuscous, the ner- 

 vures black. Abdomen short, convex, and highly polished at the 

 base, all the segments except the apical one have on each side a 

 spot of snow-white pubescence, those on the basal segment round, 

 from which each in succession is more elongate ; the basal half 

 of each segment is distantly and rather strongly punctured, the 

 apical half finely and closely so. 



Male. Exactly corresponds with the female, only being rather 

 more pubescent. 

 Hab. Albania. 



This insect has the wings of an Ammohates, but its maxillary 



