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as in that species, but differing from it in the denser, coarser, and more golden pubes- 
cence. In one apparently abnormal male example from Oaxaca, which we figure, 
obtained with others of the same sex at the same locality, the hind tibie are strongly 
and abruptly bowed inwards at about one third from the base. 
43. Epicauta leucocoma, (Tab. XIX. fig. 23, 3.) 
Elongate, narrow, subparallel, black, somewhat thickly clothed with fine, whitish-cinereous pubescence, the 
under surface with whiter hairs. Head minutely and closely punctured, somewhat flattened between the 
eyes, and with a smooth median line, the labrum feebly emarginate, the eyes large; maxillary palpi 
reddish-testaceous, the apical joint infuscate, the latter elongate and rather narrow in the male ; antenne 
black or piceous, with joints 1-3 or 1-4 reddish-testaceous towards the base, long, slender, and filiform, 
joint 1 elongate, about as long as 3, 2 short, only half the length of 4, 4-10 slightly decreasing in length, 
4 shorter than 3, 11 longer than 10; prothorax slightly longer than broad, narrow, subcampanulate, 
parallel at the sides behind, punctured like the head, and with a fine median line; elytra much wider than 
the prothorax, very elongate and subparallel in both sexes, minutely punctured ; legs (including the Coxe) 
flavo- or reddish-testaceous, with the apical joints of the tarsi more or less infuscate, long and slender, 
very sparsely pubescent, the spurs of the hind tibis acute, subequal; anterior tibie with two spurs in 
the male. 
Length 10-13, breadth 23-3 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Tepanistlahuaca (Sallé), Acapulco (Hége). 
Five specimens. A very elongate, narrow, subparallel species, with uniform whitish 
pubescence; the legs (the tips of the tarsi excepted) reddish-testaceous, long and 
slender, very sparsely pubescent; the antenne slender and filiform, with the basal 
joints partly reddish. ‘The head and thorax are very finely punctate. 
44, Epicauta subrubra. 
Epicauta subrubra, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 83’. 
Hab. Mexico (Flohr +). 
Apparently described from a single (g%) example. ‘Black, covered with reddish- 
pubescence; the head and thorax densely punctate; the head flattened in such a 
manner that the vertex appears to be much thinner than usual; the antenne filiform, 
the joints somewhat flattened ; the elytra granulose ; the spurs of the hind tibiz stout, 
subequal.” ; 
45. Epicauta ferruginea. 
Lytta ferruginea, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. iii. p. 298 (1824) * ; Complete Writings, ii. p. 167°; Lec. 
Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 841°. 
Epicauta ferruginea, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soe. xiii. pp. 95, 98 *. 
? Lytta sartorit, Haag, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 56°. 
Hab. Norra America! 2, Southern and South-western States %, Dacota to New 
Mexico 4.—Mexico, Monclova in Coahuila, Alvarez Mountains (Dr. Palmer), Saltillo 
in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer, Hoge), Aguas Calientes city (Hége), Mirador (coll. Haag”). 
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