422 HETEROMERA. 
Meloe fimbriatus, Thunb. Dissert. Nov. Ins. Sp. vi. p. 228 (1791) ’*. 
Meloe clematidis, Woodh. Med. Repos. iii. p. 213 ™°. 
Typical form. The elytral pubescence black, the sutural, lateral, and apical margins cinereous ; the prothorax 
usually with the sides and a median line, sometimes in great part, cinereo-pubescent. 
Hab. Norra America, Atlantic States, Middle States 4.—Mexico, State of Vera Cruz 
(Sallé*8), San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé); GuatemaLta, Senahu (Champion), Coban and 
Tactic (Conradt); Nicaraeva (Sallé), Chontales (Belt, Janson). 
Var. The pubescence of the head, prothorax, and elytra cinereous ; the elytra with the sutural, lateral, and 
apical margins often whitish, the base sometimes black. 
Hab. Norra America.—Mexico, Puebla, Chinautla, Playa Vicente, Cordova, Teapa 
(Sallé), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Misantla, Jalapa, Oaxaca (Hége). 
This appears to be an extremely variable insect as regards the colour of the pubes- 
cence, the two forms apparently belonging to one and the same species. We have 
received about an equal number of each from within our limits, mostly from the 
Atlantic slope; the cinereous variety does not extend south of Mexico. The two forms 
have not been received from any one locality in Central America, and they may prove 
to be distinct. Central-American specimens of the typical form agree with others 
before me from the United States. The insect also varies enormously in size, from 
10-24 millim. The cinereous variety of it may chiefly be known from the similarly- 
coloured allied forms by the slender, moderately long, and gradually tapering antenne, 
the third joint of which is unusually elongate; the apical three joints in the female are 
much shorter than the intermediate ones; the basal joint is comparatively short. ‘Lhe 
anterior tibie have two spurs in the male. 
38. Epicauta stigmata. 
Cantharis stigmata, Dugés, La Naturaleza, i. p. 159, t. 2. figg. 8, a 1-7 (1869) °. 
Epicauta stigmata, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 69°. ; 
Epicauta nigritarsis (Chevr.), Dugés, La Naturaleza, iii. p. 48 (nec Lec.) ’. 
? Epicauta intermedia, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 68 (1889) (nec Haag, 1880 +) *. 
Hab. Mexico, Saltillo in Coahuila, Queretaro (Dr. Palmer), Guanajuato (Dugés }?, 
Sallé), Irapuato in Guanajuato, Aguas Calientes city, Guadalajara in Jalisco, Tacam- 
baro in Michoacan (Hoge), Matamoros Izucar, Michoacan (Sallé), Volcan Ixtaccihuatl 
11,500 feet (Richardson), Vera Cruz (Boucard *). 
According to Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii. p. 107), #. stigmata, Dugés, is 
the entirely cinereous variety of E. cinerea, Forst. But, if I have identified these 
species correctly, this is not the case, as #. stigmata differs in all its varieties from 
* Thunberg ° gives the “ Cape of Good Hope” as locality. 
T Lytta intermedia, Haag, from Colombia, is apparently a Macrobasis. 
