EPICAUTA. AIT 
San Juan del Rio, Cuernavaca, Matamoros Izucar (Hége), Mochitlan in Guerrero 
(Baron), Oaxaca (coll. F. Bates); BrrttsH Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaua) ; 
GuatemaLa (Sallé), Purula (Champion); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). 
Found in plenty at Chilpancingo and Iguala by Herr Hoge. ‘The female only 
appears to have been known to Dugés. In the male joints 3-6 of the antenne are 
flattened and almost smooth, 3 being very stout and about twice as long as 5; the 
anterior tibiz are strongly compressed before the middle, widened towards the apex, 
their lower surface concave, smooth, and glabrous, and furnished with a dense brush 
of hairs.at the base, the apex bicalcarate ; the lower surface of the anterior femora is 
hollowed out towards the apex and glabrous; and the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is 
somewhat abruptly widened from the middle, and glabrous at the base beneath. In 
some specimens the inner discoidal stripe of the elytra is obsolete; the short, fine, 
submarginal line is rarely visible. The outer spur of the hind tibie is broad and 
compressed, rounded at the tip, the inner one slender and acute. E. duplicata, Casey, 
is, no doubt, based upon a small female example of this species. 
26. Epicauta carmelita. (Tab. XIX. fig. 17.) 
Epicauta carmelita (Chevr.), Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 247+; Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, il. p. 61 *. 
Lytta carmelita, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 46°. 
Hab. Mextco®, Paso del Macho in Vera Cruz (Flohr ?, Hoge), Palo Verde, Playa 
Vicente, Tehuantepec (Sallé); Nicaracua (Sallé), Chontales (Belt, Janson), San 
Lorenzo (Janson); Panama, near the city (Conradt).—Conomsia 1 (coll. &. Bates). 
Found in plenty by Herr Hége at Paso del Macho. A large, opaque species, the 
head, thorax, and underside black, cinereo-pubescent ; the elytra luteous or brown, 
with the pubescence yellowish ; the thorax is longer than broad, and narrowed in 
front ; the anterior tibiz have two spurs in the male. 
27. Epicauta jimenezi. 
Epicauta jimenezi, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 73°. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Forrer), Canelas in Durango (Becker), Guada- 
lajara (Flohr '). 
We have received seven specimens of this species—six from Canelas and one from 
Ventanas. E. jimenezi is perhaps nearest allied to E. pennsylvanica, but is very much 
larger than that insect (equalling E. corvina in this respect), and also differs from it in 
the purplish elytra and in having the spurs of the hind tibiz subequal ; the male, as 
in E. pennsylvanica, has two spurs to the anterior tibiz. The antenne are filiform, 
becoming a little thinner outwardly, the third joint very elongate ; the labrum is rather 
deeply emarginate. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 2, September 1892. 3 HH 
