256 HYMENOPTERA. 



2. EPEOLUS PICTUS. 



Epeolus pictus, Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 174. 2. 

 Hob. Siberia. 



3. EPEOLUS DONATUS. B.M. 

 Epeolus donatus, Harris, Cat. 



Female. Length 4-5J lines. Black, head and thorax covered 

 with confluent punctures, the clypeus more finely punctured and 

 interspersed with large punctures ; above the clypeus the face is 

 covered with cinereous pubescence. Thorax, aline on the collar, 

 another over the tegulae and passing along the base of the scu- 

 tellum, two abbreviated lines on the prothorax, and one passing 

 from the base of the wings round the metathorax over the post- 

 scutellum, of cinereous pubescence ; the legs are variegated with 

 pubescence of the same colour; wings fusco-hyaline, clearest 

 towards their base. Abdomen very finely punctured, at its apex 

 is a semicircular space which is rugose ; the basal segment has its 

 margins traversed by a band of cinereous pubescence, slightly 

 interrupted in the centre of both the basal and apical margins, 

 the three following segments have a similar band on their apical 

 margins : the apical segment has a triangular patch on each side. 



The male exactly resembles the female, differing only in the 

 usual characteristics of the sex. 



Hob. United States; Ohio (Mount Pleasant). (E. Doubleday 

 and R. Foster.) 



4. EPEOLUS MERCATUS. B.M. 

 Epeolus rnercatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 389. 3. 



Hob. Carolina. 



5. EPEOLUS REMIGATUS. B.M. 



Melecta remigata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 387. 5. 



Epeolus remigatus, St. Farg. fy Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 104. 2. 



St. Farg. Hym.ii. 461. 1. 



Epeolus lunatus, Say, App. Long's Voy. St. Peter's River (Keat- 

 ing), p. 85. 



Hab. North America ; Carolina; Mexico. 



This species varies in having the legs entirely red, the antennae 

 also are occasionally red beneath ; these differences occur in the 

 specimens from Mexico, but they cannot be considered sufficient 

 to constitute a distinct species. 



