HYMENOPTERA. 25" 



6. EpEOLUS SCUTELLARIS. B.M. 



Epeolus scutellaris. Say, Append. Long's Voy. St. Peter's River 

 (Keating), ii. 85. 



Hab. North America ; Carolina ; Mexico. 



7. Epeolus zonatus. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head and thorax black, the an- 

 tennae, labrum and mandibles ferruginous, the face has a Uttle 

 silvery pubescence. Thorax encircled with ferruginous; the 

 collar, sides of prothorax, tegulae and scutcllum being red, the 

 scutellura armed on each side with a short stout acute tooth ; 

 the legs ferruginous, the wings fusco-ferruginous, the nervures 

 ferruginous. Abdomen, the two basal segments ferruginous, the 

 apical ones black ; the apical margins of the segrueuts have 

 fascial of short white pubescence, usually much inteiTupted ; the 

 extreme base of the abdomen black. 



Male. This sex differs in having the apex of the clypeus 

 ferruginous, and only the basal segment of the abdomen of that 

 colour. 



Hab. United States ; St. John s Bluff, East Florida. 



8. Epeolus fumipennis. 



Epeolus fumipennis. Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 403. 

 Hab. North America. 



9. Epeolus Brasiliensis. 



Male. Length 4i lines. — Black, the face covered with short 

 silvery-white pubescence, the flagellum beneath and the mandi- 

 bles towards their apex ferruginous. Thorax, the disk covered 

 with confluent punctures, a line of golden pubescence on the 

 collar and two short ones in the middle of the prothorax uniting 

 with the collar ; the scutellum rounded behind and having on 

 each side a stout tooth ; the legs nigro-ferruginous and having a 

 short white glittering pile, the tarsi ferruginous ; the wings fus- 

 cous, and having several hyaline spots towards their apical 

 margins. Abdomen entirely covered with a short reddish-brown 

 pile ; the basal segment has on each side near its apical margin a 

 line of golden-coloured pubescence which curves upward along 

 the extreme lateral margins, the curved portion white ; the follow- 

 ing segments have each a narrow golden fascia towards their 

 apical margins, each fascia becoming broader towards the apex, 

 covered beneath with white pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



