EPICAUTA. 409 
A common species in Mexico, extending southwards into Alta Vera Paz. £. rufi- 
pennis was described by Chevrolat from an abraded example, and the specific name is 
misleading, the elytra being testaceous or luteous, with yellowish pubescence. The 
pubescence on the head is in great part ochreous, that on the thorax and under surface 
cinereous. The last joint of the maxillary palpi is short and dilated, and the anterior 
tibiz have a single spur, in the male. 
6. Epicauta terminata. (Tab. XIX. fig. 5,¢.) 
Cantharis terminata (Sturm), Dugés, La Naturaleza, i. p. 157, t. 2. figg. 11, 61-6’. 
Epicauta terminata, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 78°. 
Pyrota terminata, Sturm, Cat. p. 174 (nec Lec.)*. 
Hab. Mexico? (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Mochitlan in Guerrero (Baron), Acaguizotla 
in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Matamoros Izucar (Sallé, Hoge), Puebla (coll. F. Bates), 
Guadalajara in Jalisco (Hége), Vera Cruz (Boucard 1 ?). 
In this species the head, thorax, scutellum, and under surface are deep black; the 
elytra with a large apical patch, and usually the base very narrowly, black, and for the 
rest luteous or fulvous, with dense yellowish-cinereous or fulvous pubescence. The 
male has a single spur to the front tibie. The eyes are deeply emarginate. The 
following species, E. apicalis, Dugés, appears to be a closely-allied form. 
7. Epicauta apicalis. 
Epicauta apicalis, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 90 (1889) (nec Haag) ’. 
Hab. Mexico, Tepic (flohr'). 
Unknown to me. “Black, the ground-colour of the elytra yellow, with the sutural 
portion near the base somewhat ferruginous, and the apical sixth black ; the pubescence 
in great part yellow. Antenne black, filiform, joints 1 and 3 subequal, 3 very short, 
4-10 each a little shorter than 3, 11 subcylindrical. Thorax campanuliform.” Lytta 
apicalis, Haag (1880), is not an Epicauta, so Dugés’s name will stand. 
L— 8, Epicauta dohrni, 
Lytta dohrni, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 45°. 
Hab. Panama (colls. Dohrn, Haag"). 
“« Blongata, rufo-brunnea, capite rufo, antennis, genubus tarsisque nigris; tota dense pube grisea brevissima 
tecta, maculis duabus thoracis, duabusque in elytro singulo ad basin unaque ante apicem nigro-brunneis ; 
femoribus anticis intus tibiisque aureo-pilosis—Long. 18-20, lat. 6 millim.” 
The elytral markings and colour are suggestive of Pyrota, but the species evidently | 
belongs to Epicauta. We have not received an example of it. 
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