Epicaerus (Epicaerus) godmani Sharp 1891

Hab.MEXICO, in the pine-forest of Popocatepetl (Godman).

Angustus, niger, nudus, subnitidus; rostro medio obsolete impresso, utrinque fovea ovali profunda munito; prothorace subcylindrico, grosse rugoso; elytris seriebus punctorum majorum profundorum impressis.
 
Long. 9½ millim.

Rostrum with the pterygia but little prominent; with a broad, shallow, median impression, a very deep front fovea, and on each side of the front a deep oval impression; eyes rather large, subconvex; antennæ slender and elongate, the second joint of the scape a little longer than the first. Thorax elongate, covered with vague, coarse, rugose depressions, which form a very indistinct groove along the middle; it is slightly narrower in front than at the base, and the basal margin projects a little laterally, the upper surface at the base being rather abruptly distinguished from the sides. Elytra long and narrow, subparallel, with series of large, rather closely placed, deep punctures. Depressions of the under surface of the rostrum very deep, the supports of the mandibular pieces unusually elongate. Two specimens.
 
This is a remarkably distinct species, in some respects allied to the E. vilis group, in others to E. mexicanus.

The types of this species (two examples from Popocatepetl) are certainly males, and we have also another agreeing with them from Flohr's duplicates, with a dealer's label “Sierra de Durango

” attached. The scattered denticles on the anterior tibiæ are almost obsolete in E. godmani and the allied E. scutellaris.