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420 HETEROMERA. 
32. Epicauta leoni. 
Epicauta leoni, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 74°. 
Hab. Mexico, Morelia in Michoacan (Dugés 1), Tenango del Valle (Richardson). 
We have received an abraded example (3) of an Epicauta possibly belonging to 
this species. E. leoni (3) is described as having the first joint of the antenne 
sinuous on the inner side towards the apex, appearing subangular in the middle, joint 
2 half the length of 3, 3 longer than 4, 4-10 subequal. The specimen (¢) from 
Tenango del Valle is black, with sparse, fine, black pubescence, and, at first sight, 
would appear to be only an abraded dark example of £. stigmata; it has two spurs to 
the anterior tibie. 
33. Epicauta cinctipennis. (Tab. XIX. fig. 18.) 
Lytta cinctipennis, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. i. fase. iii. no. 55’. 
Cantharis cinctipennis, Duges, La Naturaleza, i. p. 126, t. 2. figg. 3, 61°. 
Epicauta cinctipennis, Duges, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 85 *. 
Epicauta circumscripta, Sturm, Cat. p. 175°. 
Hab. Mexico4 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Minas de Zimapan (Chevrolat '), Quiroga 
in Michoacan (Dugés?), Guanajuato (Dugés?%, Sallé), San Miguelito, Mexico city 
(Dr. Palmer), Zacualtipan in Hidalgo (Hége), Durasnal (Sad/é). 
Not uncommon in the highlands of Mexico. . cinctipennis may easily be known 
from E. cinerea (margined form) by its short, subtransverse, less densely-punctured 
thorax, more filiform antenne, and more slender hind tibial spurs. The antenne, as 
in E. cinerea, have the third joint unusually elongate, longer than the first, the latter 
short. The anterior tibiz have two spurs in the male. 
34, Epicauta croceicincta. (‘lab. XIX. fig. 19, 3.) 
Cantharis croceicincta, Dugés, La Naturaleza, v. p. 148, t. 4. figg. 5, 5a—c ‘, 
Epicauta croceicincta, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 79°. 
Hab. Muxico, Guanajuato (Dugés 1), Tupataro (Dugés*, Hoge). 
Found in plenty by Herr Hége at Tupataro. This species, as Dr. Horn remarks 
(Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii. p. 107), is related to E. cinerea, but is more slender; the 
thorax is much more elongate and more rugosely punctured, and the first joint of the 
~ antenne is longer (not shorter) than the third, the latter relatively less elongate. The 
elytra are stated by Dugés? to have the sutural, apical, and lateral margins fringed 
with yellow pubescence; in all the examples before me the pubescence along the 
apical margin is black. The apical margin of each ventral segment Is yellowish- 
pubescent. The anterior tibie have two spurs in the male. Dugés’s figure (5) is 
incorrect and misleading, the elytra being re presented much too short. 
