al 
16 Rev. H. S$. Gorham’s descriptions of 
marked, arcuate, converging; the disc between these 
sparingly but deeply punctured, the marginal portion 
much more obsoletely and more closely so. Sides in the 
male converging from the base ; hind angles acute, in the 
female nearly parallel at the base, and rendering the hind 
angles nearly right, in both sexes rounded in to the apical 
angles; disc with two indistinct darker spots, occupying 
a depressed point at the end of the basal sulci. Scutellum 
thickly and distinctly punctured. Elytra closely and finely 
punctured, the suture and margin are a little paler than 
the rest of the surface, clothed with a fine depressed 
pubescence. They are very little wider in the middle than 
at the shoulder, and their apex is entire in both sexes. 
Underside finely ‘punctured; meso- and meta-sterna darker, 
the parapleure of the latter being pitchy-red. Legs pale; 
base of the tibize black. 
Hab.—Truqui, Mexico. Two specimens. Coll. Fry. 
Genus Eporrrerus, Erichson. 
Epopterus dilectus, n. sp. 
Oblongo-ovalis, rufo-piceus, pubescens, crebrius leviter 
punctatus ; thorace maculis quatuor paulo distinctis et 
antennarum clava nigris; elytris fasciis duabus, a sutura 
interruptis angustioribus albido-flavis. Long. lin. 2. 
Head Fine smooth, thorax fully twice as wide as long, 
thickly and finely but distinctly punctured; hind angles 
right, a little deflexed, sides rounded in the apical third, 
finely margined by an impressed line, which disappears in 
the hind angles. Dise with two black spots near the 
middle, and with very slight traces of two others near the 
margin. Elytra a little wider than the thorax, sides pa- 
rallel below the humerus, covered with a fine silky pubes- 
cence, obsoletely punctured. A narrow, pale-yellow fascia 
commencing just below the humeral callus and directed in 
a slightly oblique direction towards the apex, not reaching 
the suture ; a second, rather more irregular in shape, near 
the apex, and a little inclined towards the first at the 
suture. Antenne and legs pale clear testaceous, club of 
the former alone darker; two apical joints black. 
This species is evidently related to FE. cucullinus, 
Gorh. (End. Ree., p.49), but is smaller and more oblong; 
the pale markings are narrower and less irregular in out- 
line, the apex of the elytra concolorous, &e. 
Hab.—Kcuador, East Andes (Buckley). Coll. Fry. 
