898 
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“ Male. —This sex differs in having the apex of the clypeus ferrugi¬ 
nous, and only the basal segment of the abdomen of that color. 
Hah. —United States 5 St. John’s Bluff, East Florida.” 
Unknown to me. 
8. E. fumipennis, Say. 
Epeolus fumipennis, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i, p. 403. (1837.) 
Body densely punctured, black: head carinate between the ^n- 
tennae : antennae honey-yellow at base, beneath : labrum with an obso¬ 
lete, minute, ferruginous dot each side: mandibles honey-yellow at 
base : thorax with two slender whitish abbreviated lines and whitish 
lateral edge : collar with a ferruginous disk, contracted in the middle; 
a ferruginous dot before the wings : wing-scale and scutel ferruginous: 
wings fuliginous: tergum, first and second segments with a yellow 
band, the first broader and widely interrupted; remaining segments 
with a whitish band, the last segment with the addition of an obscure 
rufous terminal margin : tibiae and tarsi honey-yellow. Length three- 
tenths of an inch. 
“ Hah. —Mexico. 
“ The lunatus nob. also has a bilineated thorax, but it is a larger 
species, has a whitish spot around the base of the antennae; lunated 
spot at base each side of the tergum, &c. Smaller than mercafus F. 
and scMtellaris nob.” 
Unknown to me. 
9. E. pusillus, n. sp. 
Female. —Head black, finely and densely punctured, the face about 
the base of the antennae silvery-white; labrum tinged with rufous on 
each side; mandibles rufous; antennae black, as long as the thorax, 
the three basal joints rufous in front. Thorax finely and densely punc¬ 
tured, black, opaque; a line over the collar passing down on each side 
behind the tubercles, another line in front of the scutellum extending 
forward, rather obsoletely, over the base of the wings, two short longi¬ 
tudinal lines on the disk in front, the posterior margin of the scutellum, 
the post-scutellum, and a patch on each side of the metathorax, all pale 
cinereous; the tubercles, tegulas and legs rufous, the latter somewhat 
clothed with short glittering pile. Wings hyaline, with their apical 
margins fuscous. Abdomen rather short, opaque velvety black, finely 
and densely punctured; base of the first segment and the apical mar- 
