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408 HETEROMERA. 
long and setaceous, black, the intermediate joints much narrower in the female than 
in the male. 
In two examples (2 )—one from Tapachula, the other from Chontales—the elytra 
are fuscous, with the median vitta unusually well defined, the reverse being the case in 
all those from Guatemala and Yucatan. 
Specimens of Lytta subvittata, determined by Haag himself, are before me; they 
differ in nothing from &. rufipedes, Dugés. 
4, Epicauta cupreola. 
Cantharis cupreola, Dugés, La Naturaleza, i. p. 112, t. 2. figg. 6, c1, 2 (1869) ’. 
Epicauta cupreola, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 627; Horn, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. xii. p. 107°. 
Hab. Nortn America, Texas ?,—Mexico, Guanajuato (Dugés 12, Sallé). 
In the Sallé collection there are ten specimens labelled as belonging to this species. 
If these are correctly named, EH. cupreola is extremely close to #. rufipedes, and only 
differs from it in its darker body and legs, and in the elytra not having a median line 
of lighter pubescence on the disc. The pubescence is cinereous, with the sutural, 
apical, and lateral margins paler. The male has a single spur to the front tibie, and 
the antenne formed as in EL. rufipedes; but the apical joint of the maxillary palpi 
appears to be more dilated. Dr. Horn® states that E. cupreola is closely related to the 
uniformly cinereous variety of H. cinerea: the dilated, strongly compressed intermediate 
joints of the antenne, and the single spur to the anterior tibie, in the male, 
sufficiently distinguish E. cupreola from E. cinerea in all its varieties. There are 
discrepancies between Dugés’s descriptions 1, and the specific name is alogether mis- 
leading. 
5. Epicauta rufipennis. (Tab. XIX. fig. 4, ¢.) 
Cantharis (Lytta) rufipennis, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. i. fasc. iv. no. 58 (1834)’; Dugés, La Natura- 
leza, i. p. 127°. 
Epicauta rufipennis, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 60°. 
Cantharis ochreaceipennis, Dugés, La Naturaleza, i. p. 164, t. 2. fig. 2 (1869) *. 
Cantharis (Epicauta) ochreipennis (Sturm), Dugés, La Naturaleza, iv. p. 57, t. 2. figg. 1, la-g’. 
Epicauta ochreipennis, Sturm, Cat. p. 174°. 
Epicauta frontalis, Sturm, loc. cit.". . 
Epicauta luridipennis, De}. Cat. 38rd edit. p. 247°. 
Hab. Mexico ¢ 7 8 (Sailé, ex coll. Sturm), Yolotepec, Tehuantepec (Sal/é), Guanajuato 
(Dugeés * 45, Sallé), Oaxaca (Hoge, Sallé), Jalapa, Mexico city (Hége), environs of Mexico 
(Chevrolat 12), Omilteme, Chilpancingo, and Mescala, all in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 
State of Vera Cruz (Dugés*, Sallé*), Mineral de la Luz (Dugés®); Guatemata, Purula 
(Champion). 
