234 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Epeolus peregrhius, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 7 mm.; expanse about 14. 



Black, including legs and antennse, except that the scape 

 has a red spot at extreme base ; pubescent markings white ; 

 apical half of mandibles dark reddish ; labrum coarsely 

 rugoso-punctate, with a pair of little tubercles on the lower 

 part ; eyes pale grey, orbits strongly converging below ; face, 

 except lower margin of clypeus, densely covered with white 

 liair ; third autennal joint much longer than fourth, but not 

 as long as fourth and tiftli together ; sides of vertex shining, 

 with very large punctures ; occipital margin sharp ; cheeks 

 covered with white hair; white hair on upper border of 

 prothorax interrupted in middle, the interval finely punc- 

 tured ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with large irre- 

 gular punctures ; mesothorax with a pair of short, broad, 

 greyish-white hair-bands anteriorly, one half as long on each 

 margin in front of tegulse, and a spot at each posterior 

 corner; scutellum projecting but obtuse, with a strong 

 median depression ; axillar teeth thick, well-developed ; 

 mesopleura and mesosternum densely covered with white 

 hair, but a dusky band extends obliquely upwards and 

 forwards from middle coxse halfway across pleura, and 

 ventrally there is a small black spot on each side ; tegulse 

 black, punctured, the margin slightly reddish. Wings 

 strongly smoky, stigma and nervures very dark rufo-piceous ; 

 marginal cell very obtuse at end, not appendiculate ; second 

 s.m. narrowed almost to a point above, very broad below, 

 receiving first r. n. far beyond the middle. Tibiae and tarsi 

 with white hair on outer side, tarsi with ferruginous on 

 inner ; spurs dark. First abdominal segment broadly 

 covered with white hair at sides, the inner excavation broad 

 and rounded, ending posteriorly in a point, where the apical 

 band ends obliquely, being as widely interrupted on the 

 margin as the breadth of the median black area; second 

 segment with a very broad band on each side, having a large 

 anterior lobe laterally, the band squarely interrupted, the 

 interval about equal to either lateral section ; remaining 

 segments with large subdorsal spots, the third also with 

 lateral spots ; first ventral segment with sharp ridges forming 

 a sort of very broad Y ; fourth with a fringe of black curled 

 hairs ('' Wimperhaare" of Friese). 



Hab. Nasik, N.W. India, Sept. 28, 1908 [N. B. K.). 

 British Museum. 



Nurse records E. pidus (Nyl.) from Quetta; otherwise 

 the genus is new to India. 



