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EPICAUTA, Fab. 

 E. Batesii, n. sp. — Moderately robust. Color of body and legs ferruginous, 

 moderately densely covered above with concolorous pubescence which is on the 

 under surface cinereous. Antennae piceous, paler at base, filiform, joints closely 

 approximated. Eyes moderately large and convex, rather coarsely granulated, 

 scarcely emarginate. Head moderately densely punctured. Thorax subquad- 

 rate, as wide as long, median line distinct, surface moderately densely punc- 

 tured. Elytra punctured similar to the thorax moderately densely covered 

 with pubescence of a color similar to that of the surface, slightly paler along 

 the suture. Body beneath darker ferruginous, the abdominal segments piceous 

 along their hinder margins, surface somewhat more coarsely punctured than 

 above and densely clothed with cinereous pubescence longer than that of the 

 upper surface. Legs paler ferruginous. Length .36 inch; 9 mm. 



This species by the form of the anteunae and eyes takes a place in 

 group A in the revision of the genus published by me, Proc. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, 1873, p. 95. It is rather more robust than any of the 

 allied forms although resembling ferruginea and strigosa. It diffei's 

 from all the species at present known in the group by its pale ferrugi- 

 nous legs. In the Florida specimens the body beneath is nearly 

 piceous and the head darker than the thorax. No special sexual 

 differences occur. 



I take great pleasure in dedicating this species to my friend Fred. 

 Bates, of Leicester, England, whose contributions to our knowledge 

 of the Heteromera are so well and favorably known. 



Savannah, Ga. and Florida. Two specimens given me by Mr. Bates, 

 from the Dejean collection, bore the name lurida. 



Meloe trichrus Pallas, Icones Ins. 100, tab. E, fig. 32. This is that 

 variety of Epicauta convolvuli Mels. (Proc. Acad. 3, 53.) in which the 

 pubescence is gray and the head red. The former specific name has 

 many years priority and should be restored. 



E. oregona, n. sp.— Black, subopaque, cinereo-pubescent. elytra with 

 numerous denuded small spots. Head sparsely punctured, subopaque, with a 

 smoother spot within and above the insertion of each antenna. Antennse as 

 long as half the body, moderately strongly flattened, gradually more slender 

 to the tip. Thorax quadrate, narrower than the head, sides at anterior fourth 

 arcuate and narrowing to tip, posterior three-fourths parallel, surface subopaque, 

 sparsely and finely punctured. Elytra slightly wider behind, sparsely punc- 

 tured, sparsely cinereo-pubescent with numerous small, denuded, rounded spots. 

 Body beneath and legs more shining than above, sparsely punctured and pu- 

 bescent. Length .36 — .40 inch ; 9 — 10 mm. 



Male. — Antennae more distinctly flattened; anterior tibiae with two spurs; 

 fifth abdominal segment feebly emarginate. 



This species should be placed next to cinerea in the table given by 



me (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1873, p. 96,) of the species of this genus. 



It differs from that in the maculate surface and the spurs of the hind 



TRAXS. AMER. ENT. SOC. (20) SEPTEMBER, 1875. 



