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breviated elytra, having their apices individually broadly rounded, 

 and in the more evidently micro-reticulate ground sculpture, but, 

 because of the general similarity, especially in ornamentation, it 

 may possibly not rank higher than a subspecies of vittata. 



Epipocus Germ. 



The numerous species of this genus often resemble each other to a 

 very confusing degree in outward form and coloration, but are 

 nevertheless distinguished by structural characters of value. I 

 have at hand a male of mutilatus Gerst., taken by Wickham at 

 Brownsville, Texas, and can state positively that it is not by any 

 means specifically identical with cinctus Lee., as surmised by Gor- 

 ham. It is not so large as cinctus, has a much more abbreviated 

 outline of the body, far more numerous thoracic punctures, less 

 oblique apical truncatures of the elytra in the male, with the external 

 angle much less produced, and the inner side of the anterior tibiae 

 are not rapidly dilated beyond the middle as they are in cinctus. 

 The two following species have not been described hitherto : 



*Epipocus punctipennis n. sp. Outline very elongate-oval, moderately 

 convex, uniformly brown in color throughout the body, legs and antennae, 

 moderately shining; pubescence not dense but long and rather bristling 

 throughout; head not quite half as wide as the prothorax, rather deeply 

 sunken; antennae thick, about half as long as the body, joints three to 

 five decreasing uniformly and rapidly in length, six to eight slightly 

 elongate-oval, tenth and eleventh more obliquely pointed apically on the 

 inner side, wider than long, the last broadly and very obtusely oval, not 

 much shorter than the two preceding together; prothorax not quite 

 twice as wide as the median length, of the usual form, deeply sinuate at 

 apex, the sides strongly reflexed basally, deplanate apically and closely 

 punctate, the oblique sulci extending beyond the middle, foveiform at 

 base, the internal surface at their ends feebly impressed and impunctate; 

 punctures outside the sulci, to the sides, moderate and rather sparse, 

 over the central region coarse and sparse basally, finer and less sparse 

 apically; scutellum finely, closely punctate; elytra elongate, two-thirds 

 longer than wide, the sides subparallel and broadly, evenly arcuate, 

 rounding rapidly at base to the prothorax, gradually arcuato-convergent 

 posteriorly, the apices being straight and obliquely truncate; surface 

 strongly and densely punctate and less coarsely so apically, the mar- 

 ginal gutter broad and deep. Male with the additional segment of the 

 abdomen small, transversely rounded, the surface of the abdomen 

 rather finely but deeply, somewhat closely punctate and with long hairs; 

 anterior tibiae gradually thickened distally and with a small denticle on 

 the inner edge just beyond two-thirds from the base. Length (c?) 6.5 



T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. .VII, Nov. 1916. 



