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Epicauta diversipubescens Mayd. 
Epicauta diversipubescens Maydell, 1934, Trans. Am. Ent. 
Soc. 60: 333. Werner, 1945, Bull. M. C. Z. 95: 487. 
Mr. H. B. Leech of the California Academy of Sciences 
has pointed out to me that the Leng Collection of Meloidae 
contains three specimens bearing the locality labels of May- 
dell’s first three specimens and that each bears a red 
“TYPE” label, probably put on by Maydell. I find from my 
notes that the specimen in the U. S. N. M. which I had 
thought to be the holotype in 1945 was without locality 
label. This evidence supports Mr. Leech’s contention that 
I saw one of the paratypes and that the holotype is now in 
the California Academy. This specimen seems to be a male, 
from Mr. Leech’s description, and is further distinguished 
by the lack of all but the two basal segments of the left 
antenna and in having a hole eaten out of one side of the 
abdomen. 
Epicauta jimenezi Duges 
Epicauta jimenezi Duges, 1889, Anales del Museo Michoa- 
cano 2: 73. Champion, 1892, Biol. Cent.-Am., Coleop. U 
(2) : 417. Vaurie, 1950, American Museum Novitates 
No. 1477:23. 
Epicauta nigropilosa Maydell, 1934, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 
60: 332. (New Synonymy) 
Maydell seems to have been misled by Duges’ description 
of this insect, which was black, with the “Elitros grandes, 
de forma normal, granulosos y pubescentes, ferruginoso- 
oscuro con bonitos refiejos color de purpura.” A specimen 
in the Institute de Biologia, Mexico, D. F., is labeled jimen- 
ezi E. Duges and bears a pin label “Guadalajara”. This is 
almost certainly one of Duges’ type specimens. Maydell’s 
type specimen, one of a series well distributed in collections, 
is certainly a specimen of jimenezi, one of the most distinct 
of the genus in Mexico. The “purple” refiections on the 
elytra are equally well seen in the jimenezi type or in nigro- 
pilosa eutopotypes, the color being produced by sparse black 
pubescence over rufo-testaceous background, much as the 
rufous pubescence over a black background produces the 
“purple” of purpurea. 
