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palpi are only two-jointed, its labial palpi being four-jointed ; it 

 might probably form a subgenus of Ammobates. 



5. Phileremus niveatus. 



Phileremus niveatus, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. (1838) 535. 75. 

 Hab. Egypt. 



6. Phileremus oraniensis. 



Phileremus oraniensis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 512. 1. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 209. 142. pi. 9. f. 8. 



Hab. Algeria (Oran). 



Genus 27. EPEOLUS. 



Apis, pt., Linn. Faun. Suec. and Syst. Nat. i. 953 (1766). 

 Nomada, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 345 (1793). 

 Epeolus, Latr. Gen. Or. Lis. iv. 171 (1809). 



I. El'EOLUS variegatus. B.M. 



Apis variegata, Lmre. Syst. Nat. i. 957.24 J , and Cab. Mus. Linn. 

 Soc. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 222. 36. t. 16. f . 6 $ . 



Doriov. Brit. his. xii. 10. t. 399. f. 2. 

 Nomada variegata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. ii.3S9. 2 ; Ent. Syst.ii. 347 .5. 

 Apis muscaria, Christ. Hym. 195. t. 17. f . 5 c? . 

 Nomada crucigera, Panz. Faun. Germ. 61. 20 ij . 

 Epeolus variegatus, Latr. Ins. iii. 375. 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 388. 1. 



Jurine, Hym. t. 14. Supp. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. ii. t. 516. 



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

 - St. Farg. Hym. ii. 462. 2. t. 17- f. 5 ? . 6 <? . 



Cruer. Icon. R. Anim. Ins. 454. t. 74. f. I. 



Smith, Zool. iii. 1150. 1. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 174. 1. 



Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 102. 3. 



Hab. Britain ; France ; Germany ; Denmark ; Sweden ; Finland ; 

 Lapland ; Cape of Good Hope. 



Specimens of this species from the Cape of Good Hope differ 

 merely in having the legs and tegulac darker, the red on the scu- 

 telhun reduced to two rounded sjjots, in every other particular 

 they correspond with the Euroiiean examples : amongst specimens 

 frona Sicily some have the abdomen red, variegated as usual ; 

 British specimens are sometimes partly red. 



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