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Epicerus decoratus (p. 121). 
The types (¢ 2) of this species are worn, one only of them showing the oblique 
whitish post-median fascia on the elytra. ‘There isa specimen in much better condition 
in the British Museum. ‘This insect, a large female, is more rugose than the type ( ¢ ), 
the seriate punctures on the elytra are each placed in a shallow, subquadrate fovea, 
the depressed portions of the surface are clothed with intermixed white and greenish 
scales, and the oblique sinuous fascia is not widened towards the suture. It is labelled 
‘“* Mexico.” 
Epicerus squamosus (p. 122). 
It may be noted that the apical declivity of the elytra in this species is rounded in 
the male and abruptly perpendicular in the female. 
Epicerus marginatus (p. 122). 
There can be little doubt that 4, insolitus (antea, p. 125) is the female of E. maryi- 
natus, the type of which is a male. ‘They each have the anterior tibiz armed with 
three or four conspicuous teeth along their inner edge. ‘The localities Pachuca (¢ ) 
and Zacualtipan ( 2 ) are not very far distant, and both in Hidalgo. 
40 (a). Epiczerus truquianus, sp. n. 
Oblong, narrow and convex ( ¢ ), much broader (Q ), black; above sparsely clothed with blackish scales, which 
become cinereous towards the sides and apex, and are here intermixed with short, scattered, decumbent, 
whitish sete, the legs and ventral surface aiso albo-setose. Rostrum short, broad, widened outwards, 
closely punctate, with an elongate-triangular depression extending upwards to near the small inter- 
ocular fovea, the depression limited on each side by an oblique ridge and subcarinate down the middle, 
the eyes not prominent. Prothorax broader than long, margined at the base, gradually narrowing from 
near the hind angles in 2, somewhat rounded at the sides and constricted behind in ¢ ; with irregularly 
distributed, large, scattered, foveiform punctures intermixed with a close fine interstitial punctuation, 
and shallowly, interruptedly sulcate down the middle. Scutellum not visible. Elytra oblong-oval, 
moderately convex and narrow in ¢, broad in @, the humeri distinct in this sex; with rows of coarse 
punctures, the punctures somewhat widely separated in 2, the interstices almost flat, the alternate ones 
slightly raised towards the sides and apex in one @. 
Length 8-11, breadth 24-4! millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico (Truqui, in coll. Fry). 
One male and two females. Near £. marginatus (=insolitus), Sharp, the elytra more 
rounded at the sides anteriorly in the male and with distinct humeri in the female ; 
the prothorax with more numerous foveiform depressions on the disc and the median 
sulcus shallow or almost wanting; the upper surface (?abraded) more sparsely 
squamose. 
40 (s). Epiceerus foveifrons, sp.n. (Tab. XV. fig. 12, ¢.) 
Oblong, convex, narrow (¢), broader (2), shining, black; above very sparsely, the under surface more 
densely, cinereo-squamose. Rostrum short, widening outwards, with an elongate-triangular excavation 
