EPICAUTA. 493 
E. cinerea by its filiform (not setaceous) antenne, joints 3-6 of which (3 especially) 
are much less elongate ; and by its narrower and less robust shape. . stigmata is, in 
fact, exceedingly closely allied to E. horni (vicina, Dugés); but differs from it by the 
more finely punctured head and thorax, the latter more campanulate in shape, and by 
the anterior tibiz having two spurs inthe male. The pubescence varies in colour from 
cinereous to black, with intermixed cinereous hairs. 
Dugés states? that the insect received by him from Boucard under the name 
. nigritarsis (Chevr.)=E. stegmata, though he subsequently * described it as new. 
39. Epicauta neglecta. (Tab. XIX. fig. 21, ¢, var.) 
Lytta neglecta, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 547. 
Epicauta mixta, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 83 (1889) ”. 
Epicauta anilis, Sturm, Cat. p. 175°. 
Hab. Mexico ! 3 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Parada (Sallé), Chilpancingo, Xucumanatlan, 
and Omilteme, all in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Mexico city, Soltepec, Jalapa (Hége), 
Oaxaca (Mohr, Hoge). 
Found in plenty by Herr Hoge at Oaxaca and Mexico city. Variable in the colour 
of the pubescence, from black with intermixed cinereous hairs (as described by both 
Haag and Dugés) to entirely cinereous or fulvo-cinereous. The thorax is subquadrate, 
rounded at the sides anteriorly, shorter in the female than in the male, deeply canali- 
culate, and somewhat densely, finely punctate. In about half the specimens before me 
(including a typical EL. neglecta determined by Haag himself) there is a smooth bare 
spot on either side of the disc about the middle (as in £. callosa, Lec.), a character 
not mentioned by either Haag or Dugés; this is most distinct in the specimens with 
light pubescence, in many of the dark examples there is no trace of it. The antenne 
are long and subfiliform, becoming slightly thinner towards the tip, the third joint 
elongate. The anterior tibize have two spurs in the male; those of the hind pair are 
subequal. In one male example from Mexico city (fig. 21) the head is enormously 
enlarged. The typical specimen (3) of HE. neglecta (Haag), in Mr. F. Bates’s collec- 
tion, is more elongate than usual, but with the long series before me I am unable to 
separate it as distinct. The much longer antenne and subequal hind tibial spurs 
separate L. neglecta from E. candidata, the last-mentioned character also distinguishing 
the dark varieties of it from EH. pennsylvanica. In most of the specimens with 
light pubescence the smooth spots on the thorax are as distinct as they are in 
E. callosa. 
40. Epicauta modesta. 
Lytta modesta, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 53°. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Haag 1). 
