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they are very small and few in number. Of upwards of fifty specimens before me 
thirteen belong to E. maculata, two (including the single example from Guatemala) to 
. media, and the remainder to E. conspersa. . conspersa (punctuata, Dugés) appears 
to have longer antenne (in both sexes) than E. maculata, as stated by Leconte‘. 
Allied forms, £. nigropunctata (Blanch.), E. atomaria (Germ.), &c., occur in South 
America. 
18. Epicauta ocellata. (Tab. XIX. figg. 9, ¢; 9a, maxillary palpus, 3.) 
Cantharis ocellata, Dugés, La Naturaleza, i. p. 160 (1869) *. 
Epicauta ocellata, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 80 (1889) *. 
Hab. Mexico, Hacienda de la Noria in Michoacan (Dugés!), Michoacan (Flohr 2), 
Puebla (Sallé), Matamoros Izucar (Hége). 
This species is exceedingly close to the typical form of EF. maculata, which also 
occurs in Mexico, and only separable therefrom by the elongate apical joint of the 
maxillary palpi in the male sex: this joint is more than twice as long as broad in the 
single male example before me (in E. maculata, 3, it is shorter and wider, nearly as 
broad as long). Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii. p. 107) states that E. ocellata is 
a variety of L. maculata. 
19. Epicauta pardalis. (Tab. XIX. fig. 10, 3.) 
Epicauta pardalis, Lec. New Sp. Col. p. 157 (1866) '; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. pp. 96, 99°. 
Hab. North America, New Mexico!, Arizona!?.—Mexico, Northern Sonora 
(Morrison). 
We have received numerous. examples of this peculiar species as from Sonora. 
20. Epicauta vitticollis. (Tab. XIX. fig. 11.) 
Lytta vitticollis (Gory), Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 52°. 
Epicauta canoi, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 86 (1889) ”. 
Lytta ruficrus, Chevr. in litt. 
Lytta confluens, Deyr. in litt. 
Hab. Mexico}, Vera Cruz (Flohr?), Cosamaloapan in Vera Cruz (Sad/é), Teapa in 
Tabasco (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Frontera in Tabasco (Hége); British Honpuras, Belize, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneaux); GuateMaLA!, Yzabal (Sallé), Panzos (Conradt), Chiacam, 
Cubilguitz (Champion) ; Nicaracua, San Juan del Norte (Haag '). 
Not uncommon on the Atlantic slope, extending from the Mexican State of Vera 
Cruz to Nicaragua. It was found in plenty by Mr. Smith at Teapa in Tabasco. 
Closely allied to E. lemniscata, but broader; the ground-colour of the head and thorax 
entirely or in great part black, the underside and the legs, the trochanters and the 
basal two-thirds of the femora excepted, also black. In most of the southern specimens 
