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North American Species of Epicauta 
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SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF 
EPICAUTA (COLEOP., MELOID^E) 1 
By Floyd G. Werner 
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University 
The completion of my revision of the genus Epicauta having 
been delayed by my entrance into the U.S. Army, I have de- 
cided to publish separately the new species in it so that they 
will be available to workers in this group. They will be de- 
scribed more fully in my revision. 
Epicauta maculata (Say) 
Black, clothed with olive-cinereous to cinereous pubescence, 
with numerous denuded spots. Maxillary palpi of male en- 
larged, flattened, labial palpi small. Male anterior tarsi not 
modified. East of the Rocky Mountains, from North Dakota 
to Wickenburg, Arizona and eastward to western Iowa and 
Missouri. 
Epicauta no gales sp. n. 
Male labial palpi not nearly as greatly expanded as in macu- 
lata. Male anterior tarsi not modified. Elytra shorter and 
broader, leaving the tip of the abdomen broadly exposed. De- 
nuded spots small. 
Holotype: S , Nogales, Arizona, Aug. 10-13 Wickham (MCZ 
No. 26085). 
Allotype: $, eutopotypical (MCZ). 
Paratypes: 4 eutopotypical (MCZ), IjmJ^otypic^ 
1 topot vpical : — Se pt. 9, 190 6 — N unenmacher ( U SNM ) , 
2 Tucs on., A rizona (USNM). 
Epicauta normalis sp. n. 
Replaces maculata from the Rockies to the Pacific, except in 
Arizona. Maxillary palpi as small in the male as in the female. 
1 Published with the aid of a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
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