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apex, and tarsi black ; pubescence fine, short, cinereous, very sparse on the 

 elytra, denser anteriorly. Head triangular, distinctly dilated behind tbe 

 eyes, rather coarsely, very densely punctate, a little more sparsely so behind ; 

 eyes moderate, the emargination small but distinct ; antennae filiform, nearly 

 one-half as long as the body, third joint three times as long as wide. Prothorax 

 very nearly as long as wide, the sides straight, feebly convergent from base to 

 apex, the latter broadly, distinctly arcuate, base subtruncate ; disk narrowly 

 impressed in the middle, the canaliculation short, densely, not very coarsely 

 punctate throughout. Scutellum densely punctate. Elytra subparallel, twice 

 as long as wide, about one-half wider than the prothorax, obtusely ogival in 

 apical fourth ; disk coarsely, deeply, rather closely punctured, the punctures 

 a little sparser behind the humeri. Abdomen finely, strongly and somewhat 

 densely punctate. Legs slender, the tarsi long. Length 11.0 mm. ; width 

 3.8 mm. 



Texas (Austin). 



The only specimen which I could obtain is a male, the genital 

 armature — in this genus very prominent and segmentiform — being 

 deeply cleft. This species should be placed near vittigera, but dif- 

 fers in its much sparser and coarser elytral punctures and shorter 

 maxillary processes. The maxillary processes are black and bent 

 beneath the head, but are very short, not longer than the mandibles. 



EPICAUTA Redt. 



E. levettei n. sp. — Slender, feebly shining, the elytra dull, black 

 throughout, the pubescence very short, sparse, recumbent, black. Head 

 large, subquadrate, broadly truncate at base, the occiput very prominent, 

 above the level of the pronotum and concealing a considerable portion of the 

 latter when thrown backward ; surface shining, finely, rather sparsely punc- 

 tured ; eyes normal, feebly emarginate ; antennas extremely long and slender, 

 in the male nearly three-fourths as long as the body, just visibly attenuate 

 toward apex, the joints long and cylindrical, the second joint one-third as 

 long as the third. Prothorax as long as wide, much shorter and narrower than 

 the head ; sides parallel in basal two-thirds, then convergent to the apex, the 

 latter about two-thirds as wide as the base ; disk feebly convex, very broadly 

 and feebly impressed along the middle in basal half, rather shining, finely 

 feebly and densely punctate, the punctures well separated. Elytra sub- 

 parallel, three times as long as wide or slightly more, rather more than twice 

 as wide as the prothorax, the surface dull, extremely minutely, strongly 

 granulato-reticulate, very finely, evenly, somewhat closely punctate. Abdomen 

 shining, finely, sparsely punctured, the pubescence long, black and semi-erect. 

 Legs long and rather stout, finely, densely punctate and pubescent ; spurs of 

 the anterior tibiae two in number in both sexes, rather short but slender, black, 

 those of the hind tibiae very unequal in length, the inner long and rather 



