1864.] 
395 
Hah. —Conn., Penn., Del., Ya., Ill. Collection Ent. Soc. Phila., 
and Mr. Edward Norton. 
The yellowish markings of this, as well as of the other species, are 
composed of appressed scale-like pubescence, and the color sometimes 
varies to a very pale yellowish-white or cinereous. 
I cannot agree with Mr. Smith (Brit. Mus. Cat. ii, p. 256), that this 
species is identical with E. remigatus Eabr., for I have examined nu¬ 
merous specimens of both species and find that the characters which 
separate them are constant and with no intermediate grades of varia¬ 
tion. In limatus the face about the insertion of the antennae is al¬ 
ways yellowish, in remigatus it is black in all the specimens I have 
examined; in the 9 lunatus the labrum, the three basal joints of the 
antennae, the tegulae and the legs are always rufous, in remigatus they 
are always black; the yellowish band on the second abdominal seg¬ 
ment of limatus is narrow and not dilated laterally as is always the case 
in remigatus., and the dorsum of the mesothorax in limatus has only 
two short longitudinal lines, whereas remigatus has the mesothorax 
above yellowish-cinereous, with a large cordate black spot on the disk, 
or as Fabricius describes it, “ macula magna^ dor sail antice triloha 
nigra 
.3. E. mercatus, Fabr. 
Epeolus mercatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez., p. 389 (1804). 
“ Small. Head black, clypeus shining, with silvery pubescence. 
Thorax black, with a yellowish line on the anterior and posterior 
margins, kbdomen black, with five cinereous bands. Feet rufous. 
“ Hah. —Carolina.” 
I have not seen this species. It seems intermediate between E. 
limatus Say, and E. donatus Smith. Say thought it distinct from his 
lunatus, and Mr. Smith indicates it as being in the Collection of the 
British Museum. 
4. E. 4-fasciatiis, Say. 
Epeolus 4c-fasciatus, Say, Western Quarterly Reporter, p. 81 (1823). 
Body deep opaque black; three basal joints of the antennae, cly¬ 
peus and labrum, rufous; front around the base of the antennae, yel¬ 
low ; thorax with an anterior and posterior yellow line, the latter so 
arquated as nearly to attain the former ; a broader line beneath the 
wings; beneath the scutel a whitish band and two oblique lanceolate 
spots; tergum, 4-banded with yellow, first band very broad, interrupted 
