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depressed'; elytral strial punctures large and irregular; scales 



rusty mcxican us Sharp 



aa. Frontal fovea large or moderate; beak sometimes medianly shallowly 

 depressed; pronotal punctuation fine with many large foveate de- 

 pressions, median line depressed; strial punctures regularly ar- 

 ranged; scales variable in color; scales of beak densest in lateral 



depressions, sparse along median line imhricatus Say 



B. Frontal fovea more or less elongate; beak more or less sharply sulcate on 

 median line, densely clothed viith scales, 

 b. Sixth funicular joint longer than wide, seventh longer than sixth; ves- 

 titure of scape not scaly at apex; elytra almost twice as long as wide; 



prothorax medianly sulcate texaniis Casey 



bb. Sixth funicular joint hardly longer than wide; elytra short; vestiture 

 of scape scaly at apex, 

 c. Elytra from one-half to two-thirds longer than wide. 



d. 'Seventh funicular evidently longer than sixth; median line of pro- 

 thorax sulcate; length 8-10 mm siilcatus Casey 



dd. Seventh funicular hardly if any longer than sixth; median line 

 hardly indicated; elytra about % longer than wide; length 4.5- 



6.5 mm Icpiclotiis n. sp. 



cc. Elytra but slightly longer than wide formidolosus Boheman 



(Epiccerus lucanus Horn belongs in b.) 



Epicce'rus mexicanus Sharp is a Mexican species extending into 

 Texas at Brownsville. 



Epiccerus imbricatus Say is a Northern species occurring as far 

 south as Arkansas, Oklahoma and North Texas to Dallas and Gurley. 

 It is charged in the literature with serious depredations on apple, 

 bean, beet, blackberry, cabbage, cherry, clover, com, cotton, cucumber, 

 gooseberry, muskmelon, onion, peach, pear, plum, potato, radish, rasp- 

 berry, strawberry, squash, tomato and watermelon. Very possiblj^ 

 some of the other species of the genus were responsible for part of 

 these records. 



Epiccerus texanus Casey is a Southwestern species occurring in the 

 chaparral country of Texas. It has no serious charges against it as 

 yet. 



Epiccerus lucanus Horn is a very large weevil recorded only from 

 Lower California. 



Epiccerus sulcatus Casey is also Southwestern, probably coinciding 

 in range with E. texanus. 



Epiccerus lepidotus n. sp. 



Length 4.5-6.0 mm. Form oval, not very robust, sometimes quite slender, 

 densely clothed with small round, lineolate, iridescent white to pale brown 

 scales arranged in definite patterns. Beak very little longer than head, about 

 as wide as long, broadly convex separated from flatter front by very slight 

 transverse depression; tip of beak angularly emarginate, with a median 



