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35. Epicauta subatra. 
Epicauta subatra, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 72°. 
Hab. Mexico (fohr *). 
Unknown to me, and apparently described from a single example ( ¢ ). 
E. subatra is described as “deep black, sparsely pubescent, the apical margins of 
the ventral segments and the margins of elytra with a fringe of white hairs, the antenne 
filiform, the head coarsely punctate, the thorax and elytra granulate-punctate, the spurs 
of the posterior tibiz spiniform.” 
36. Epicauta tripartita. (lab. XIX. fig. 20, ¢.) 
Elongate, stout, deep black, opaque, densely and coarsely pubescent; the head, a patch on either side of the 
disc of the prothorax, and the base and apex of the elytra, rather broadly, black, the rest of the pubescence 
of the upper surface cinereous ; beneath cinereo-pubescent, the metasternal side-pieces and the sides and 
tip of the venter sometimes marked with black; legs black-pubescent, the base of the femora only with 
cinereous hairs. Head densely, finely punctate, more sparsely so in front, with a smooth median line, 
which is of a fulvous colour between the eyes, the latter deeply emarginate and not prominent, the labrum 
large and very feebly emarginate ; maxillary palpi black, the apical joint ( ¢) elongate-triangular; antenne 
black, elongate, setaceous—joint 1 long and stout, 2 short, half the length of 3, 3 almost as long as 1 and 
very much longer than 4, 4-10 subequal, diminishing in thickness, 11 slightly longer than 10 ; prothorax 
longer than broad, the sides parallel behind, gradually rounded and converging in front, densely, finely 
punctate, and with a median groove; elytra elongate, subparallel, finely scabrous-punctate ; legs long 
and stout, the spurs of the hind tibie long, stout, and subequal; last ventral segment rather deeply 
emarginate, and the anterior tibie with two spurs, in the male, 
Length 18-19 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Muxico, Ventanas in Durango (Forrer). 
One female and two males. Allied to Z. cinerea, but differing from that species in 
all its varieties by the more elongate basal joint of the antenne (this joint is shorter 
than the third in E. cinerea) and the longer thorax, as well as in the arrangement of 
the pubescence on the elytra. The punctuation of the head and thorax is dense and 
fine, finer than in E. funesta, E. atripilis, E. atra, &c. The antenne in the female are 
a little shorter than in the male. The pubescence on the terminal dorsal segment is 
black. 
37. Epicauta cinerea. 
Meloe cinereus, Forst. Nov. Sp. Ins., Cent. i. p. 62 (1771) 
Meloe cinerea, Pallas, Icon. Ins. p. 98, t. E. fig. 830 (1781) *. 
Lytta cinerea, Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 389 (nec Fabr.) °. 
Epicauta cinerea, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. p. 101°. 
Lytta marginata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 260 (17 75)”. 
Cantharis marginata, Oliv. Ent. iii. 46, p. 15, t. 1. fig. 2 (1795) °; Dugés, La Naturaleza, iv. p. 59, 
t. 2. figg. 2, 2a-g’. 
Epicauta marginata, Duges, An. Mus. Michoacano, il. p. 78°. 
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