416 HETEROMERA. 
curving round towards the scutellum, but not extending to the humerus—flavo-luteous, the pubescence 
partaking of the ground-colour ; beneath black, cinereo-pubescent ; legs black, the coxe, the basal third 
or more of the femora, and the claws reddish-testaceous. Head broad, with a well-marked median groove, 
the eyes moderately large and deeply emarginate, the labrum also deeply emarginate ; antenne setaceous, 
rather slender, black, the two basal joints sometimes paler, joint 3 a little longer than 1 ; prothorax 
longer than broad, very much narrower than the head, transversely depressed anteriorly, and with a 
median groove, the sides converging in front, subparallel behind ; elytra wider than the head, moderately 
elongate; posterior tibial spurs subequal, slender ; anterior tibia with two spurs in the male. 
Length 9-12 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, near the city 5000 feet (Salvin), San Gerdnimo (Champion). 
Closely allied to E. grammica, but with the discoidal luteous vitta of the elytra not 
extending to the shoulder and the apex rather broadly margined with yellow: in 
E. grammica the lateral and discoidal luteous stripes are rather broadly confluent at 
the base. Numerous examples. 
24, Epicauta niveolineata. (Tab. XIX. figg. 14; 15, var.) 
Lytta niveolineata, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 46°. 
Epicauta tristis, Sturm, Cat. p. 175°. 
Hab. Mexico !? (Saillé, ex coll. Sturm), Acapulco (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Acaguizotla, 
Tierra Colorada, and Hacienda de la Imagen, all in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Jalapa 
(Hoge). 
This fine species appears to have been unknown to Dugés. ‘The pubescence of the 
head and thorax is variable in colour: in one example, from Jalapa, the thorax is 
cinereo-pubescent, with a black stripe on either side of the disc, and the head is in 
part cinereous, this example nearly agreeing with the description’; in the eight others 
before me the head and thorax are black-pubescent. The light pubescence is very 
coarse, and may be white, cinereous, or golden; in some specimens the median vitta 
of the elytra is dilated posteriorly and nearly joins the sutural stripe. ‘The ventral 
segments 1-3 or (rarely) 1-4 have each a broad belt of light pubescence at the apex. 
The anterior tibie have two spurs in the male. The antenne are long and subfiliform, 
tapering towards the apex, the third joint very elongate. Haag has described (op. cit.) 
two different species under the name Lytta niveolineata—one from Mexico, the other 
from the Himalaya; the latter has been renamed atkinsoni by Beauregard. 
25. Epicauta albolineata. (Tab. XIX. fig. 16, .) 
Epicauta albolineata, Sturm, Cat. p. 175 (1843) (sine descr.) '; Dugés, An. Mus. Michocano, ii. 
p. 84 (nec Péring.) *. 
Cantharis albolineata, Dugés, La Naturaleza, iv. p. 64, t. 2. figg. 9, 9 a-g (2) (1877)°. 
Epicauta duplicata, Casey, Ann. N. York Acad. vi. p. 172 (Nov. 1891) *. 
Hab. Nortn America, Arizona*—Mexico! (Sallé, ex Sturm), Tupataro?, Guana- 
juato?? (Dugés), Chilpancingo in Guerrero (Hoge, H. H. Smith), Iguala in Guerrero, 
