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ings are little different from those of typical lemniscata; 
the outer two dark stripes on the elytra are perhaps a 
bit closer and more diffuse than would be normal for that 
species. The antennae are essentially as in lemniscata . 
These comparisons are based on 4 $ $ , 1 $ , Tepic, 
Nayarit, July 20, 1955; 1 $, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, July 
21, 1955, and 2 S S , 2 2 $ , Los Mochis, Sinaloa, July 
22, 1955, all collected at light by R. B. & J. M. Selander. The 
following synonymy for dugesi now applies : 
Epicauta dugesi Beauregard 
Epicauta vittata Duges, 1886, Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 
582 ( nomen nudum) ; 1889, An. Mus. Michoacano 2: 87. 
Not Epicauta vittata (Fab.), 1775. 
Epicauta dugesi Beauregard, 1889, Bull. Soc. Ent. France 
14: ccxiii. (Substitute name for vittata Duges nec 
Fabricius) . 
JEpicauta lemniscata , Champion, 1892, Biol. Cent.-Am., 
Coleop. 4 (2) : 415, as applied to Mexican specimens. 
Not Epicauta lemniscata (Fab.), 1801. 
Another male specimen collected at light by the Selanders, 
at Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, June 24, 1955, is quite similar to 
dugesi in form of protibial spurs and sculpture of head but 
has protarsal segment I dorso-ventrally flattened and broad- 
ened, with a broad pad on this segment confined to the ven- 
tral surface. It probably represents still another in this com- 
plex of species. 
