EPICAUTA. . A411 
the tip; antenne (¢) long and setaceous, a little shorter in the female, joints 1 and 3 about equal in 
length, 2 very short, 3 nearly twice as long as 4, 4-10 equal in length, but diminishing in thickness, 
11 longer than 10, pointed; prothorax longer than broad, subparallel behind, somewhat obliquely 
narrowed anteriorly, densely, moderately finely punctate, the punctuation becoming coarser towards 
the apex, the disc feebly transversely depressed before the middle, depressed in the centre before the 
base, and with a faint median line; elytra moderately elongate, widened a little posteriorly, densely, 
very finely punctate; beneath densely punctured ; the spurs of the hind tibia stout; the anterior tibie 
with a single spur in the male. 
Length 13-18 millim. (¢ 92.) 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova and Oaxaca (Hodge). 
Found in numbers by Herr Hoge. Very close to &. nigra, with which I at first 
confounded it; but differing from that species in the coarser punctuation of the head 
and thorax, the latter more obliquely narrowed anteriorly, less depressed in the middle 
behind, and more obsoletely canaliculate, the antenne stouter, the anterior tibie with a 
single spur in the male. The only North-American species nearly allied to £. atripilis 
are LE. funebris, Horn, and &. levettei, Casey, but both these have two spurs to the 
anterior tibiz in the male. . corvina has a much less elongate thorax. 
13. Epicauta cinereiventris. (Tab. XIX. fig. 8,4, var.) 
Elongate, deep black, sparsely pubescent, the head and prothorax shining, the elytra opaque; the pubescence 
of the upper surface, the scutellum (and: sometimes the basal margin of the prothorax) excepted, black, 
that of the under surface and of the femora to a greater or less extent (the apex of the latter excepted) 
cinereous or yellowish-cinereous. Head coarsely but not very densely punctate, with a smooth, narrow 
rufous space in the middle between the eyes; antenne and palpi as in &. atripilis; prothorax as in 
E. atripilis, but more coarsely and less densely punctured, the punctures becoming still coarser anteriorly, 
those on the middle of the disc usually separated by irregular smooth spaces ; the elytra asin £, atripils ; 
the anterior tibize with a single spur in the male. 
Length 9-184 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Acaguizotla in Guerrero (ZH. H. Smith); Guatemata (Sadlé), San Gerd- 
nimo (Champion), Chimaltenango (Conradt). 
Var. The apices of the elytra towards the suture rather broadly, and the basal margin of the prothorax, very 
narrowly, cinereo-pubescent. 
Hab. Mexico, Tehuantepec (Sal/é). 
Nine examples of the type, one only (a male) of the variety. At first sight, 
E. cinereiventris would appear to be only a variety of HL. atripilis with the pubescence 
of the lower surface cinereous; the punctuation of the head and thorax, however, 
is much coarser and not so dense, the latter having smooth, irregular, small spaces on 
the disc, and the pubescence sparser. In the single (?) example from Acaguizotla 
the under surface and the femora (except at the tip) are entirely cinereo-pubescent ; in 
the other specimens the apical one or two segments are black, the sides of the meta- 
sternum and of the abdomen also marked with black. . melanota (Makl.), from 
Colombia, is an allied form, but differs in its very densely and finely punctured thorax 
and slender antenne. 
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