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lated to dcci/piens, but Haag makes no mention of the 

 ventral spots, and the tibice are in that entirely black. 

 In our species the thorax is closely and regularly punc- 

 tate ; in decipiens it is irregular and in groups. 

 One specimen. El Chinche, San Julio. 



Epicurus lucanus n. sp. 



Pyriform, moderately robust, elytra densely clothed 

 with cinereous and ochreous scales forming an illy de- 

 fined pattern of three oblique fasciae on each side, the 

 infiexed portion of sides much whiter. Rostrum quad- 

 rangular, parallel, flat above, a fine median groove end- 

 ing in a fovaj between the eyes, lateral sulci wanting or 

 indicated by a vague fovea, surface above coarsely sparsely 

 punctate and sparsely scaly, beneath densely scaly. Tho- 

 rax conical with slightly arcuate sides, the base a fourth 

 wider than long, disc convex, the median line with a fine 

 groove interrupted at middle, surface with coarse scat- 

 tered punctures, the interspaces finely punctate, scaly 

 vestiture not dense; under side of prothorax very densely 

 scaly. Elytra regularly oval, not compressed at apex, 

 with stri^ of coarse deep punctures, intervals (when 

 abraded) very finely punctulate, scaly vestiture dense 

 with very short erect hairs irregularly placed. Body be- 

 neath very densely scaly. Middle and posterior femora 

 conspicuously more densely scaly at apex. Length 

 (apex of thorax to tip of elytra), .32-.58 inch; 8-14.5 

 mm. 



This species is given a name not without some misgiv- 

 ings that it may be one of the forms described from Mex- 

 ico, but the descriptions of some of the more recently 

 described species from that region are annoyingly short 

 and unsatisfactory. As compared with our Boreal Amer- 

 ican species it is far more robust than iinbn'catKS, approach- 



