326 SUPPLEMENT. 
Epicerus durangoensis (p. 119). 
This insect was described from four good specimens from Durango city. Mr. Wickham 
has sent us two somewhat worn females from Tepehuanes, Durango, that seem to 
belong to the same species :— 
Var.? Prothorax densely clothed above with brown scales, a cruciform patch on the disc and a stripe on each 
flank white, the elytra obsoletely, interruptediy fasciate with brown, the scales on the rest of the surface 
whitish ; the rostrum somewhat deeply furrowed; the prothorax (as seen with the vestiture intact) 
comparatively smooth, the intermixed coarser punctures inconspicuous; the elytral interstices flat, the 
seriate punctures appearing fine till the scales are removed. 
32 (a). Epicerus elegantulus, sp.n. (Tab. XV. figg. 11, lla, ¢.) 
Epicerus elegantulus, Dupont, in litt. 
Pyriform, convex, black; variegated with a dense clothing of whitish, pale brown, and fuscous scales, the 
brown scales on the prothorax more or less condensed into a broad space on each side of the disc (leaving 
a cruciform median vitta and a stripe along each flank white); the elytra with some irregular spots at 
the base, two angulate common fasciz (the anterior one extending forward along the outer margin to the 
shoulder, and both sometimes broken up into spots), and a patch at the apex, white, these markings 
usually edged with fuscous (thus appearing very sharply defined); the femora in some examples fusco- 
maculate beneath. Rostrum subquadrate, not longer than broad, grooved down the middle, the 
inter-ocular portion of the head flattened, the eyes convex and prominent, especially in ¢. Prothorax 
slightly broader than long, somewhat rounded at the sides in g, gradually narrowing from the base 
in 9, the anterior margin sinuate; finely punctate and feebly canaliculate. Llytra at the base a little 
wider than the prothorax, acuminate at the tip; the seriate punctures showing conspicuously through 
the dense vestiture, the interstices almost flat. Legs short. 
Length 6-84, breadth 24-3} millim. (¢ 2.) . 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Brit.; coll. Pascoe; coll. Solari, ex Jekel), Tampico in 
Tamaulipas (Schwarz, in U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
Six females (four of which are from Tampico) and two males, one of these latter 
wanting the fuscous markings on the elytra. Labelled “ Kpagrius nubilosus, var.?” in 
the Solari collection, but more convex than that insect, the tarsi broader, the antennal 
club longer, &c. LE. elegantulus approaches EL. durangoensis and monclove, Sharp. 
32 (Bp). Epicerus imbricatus. 
Liparus imbricatus, Say, Journ, Acad. Phil. ii. p. 8177. 
Hypsonotus imbricatus, Germ. in Schoénh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 267°. 
Eypicerus imbricatus, Boh. op. cit. vi. 2, p. 280°; Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xv. p. 20‘; Casey, 
Ann. N. York Acad. Sci. iv. p. 234°; Pierce, Journ. Econ. Ent. ili. p. 360°. 
Hab. Nortn America !~*.—Mexico, Durango (Wickham). 
Mr. Wickham has sent us a specimen (? ) of this destructive common N.-American 
insect from Durango nearly agreeing with others of the same sex before me determined 
by Dr. Horn. ‘The males have the prothorax narrower at the base and are very like 
Ei. texanus. Myr. Pierce ® recognises six N.-American species of Epicwrus, the one 
described by him, E. lepidotus (an example of which has been presented to us by the 
U.S, National Museum), occurring as far south as Brownsville in Texas, and must 
enter our region. 
