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20.0-22.0 mm.; width 8.4-8.8 mm. Florida (Palm Beach), 



Kinzel. Six mutually similar individuals floridanus n. sp. 



Entire surface nearly smooth or with feeble obtuse ridges, the two outer 

 ridges always much stronger than any of the others; color deep black 



above and beneath 7 



7 Elytra shining, very short, but just visibly longer than wide and only 

 a little more than half as long as the body. Form rather broadly 

 suboval, subdepressed, the lateral margins violaceous; head, man- 

 dibles and labrum nearly as in the preceding, except that the two 

 excavations separating the lobes of the labrum are smaller; prothorax 

 slightly shorter and more transverse, otherwise nearly similar, except 

 that the marginal bead is more thickened basally, the angles more 

 obtuseand blunt and the basal groove nearly interrupted submedially; 

 elytra with broad and feebly convex, more or less faint costae, 

 separated by lines which are fine suturally but broader externally, 

 with faint indications of double series of fine punctures, the two 

 external ridges more abrupt and stronger; tarsi a little thicker than 

 in floridanus, not quite as long as the tibiae. Length 21.0 mm.; 

 width 8.3-8.9 mm. Florida (locality not indicated and also in 



Marion Co.) subsulcatus Say 



A Similar to subsulcatus but still smoother and more polished, rather 

 more narrowly suboval: margins black; head throughout nearly 

 similar; prothorax less rounded at the sides and not at all sinuate 

 before the subsimilar basal angles, nearly three-fourths wider than 

 long, the marginal groove far from attaining the base, the surface 

 broadly flattened toward the angles, the impressions moderate; 

 basal groove entire but coming far from attaining the angles; 

 lateral bead thick, much thickened posteriorly to the flattening 

 near the angles; elytra similar in form, the ridges barely traceable, 

 the external costae evident but not strong except the inner basally; 

 tarsi fully as long as the tibiae. Length 19.5 mm.; width 8.5 mm. 

 Florida (a single example from an unrecorded locality). 



subnitens n. subsp. 



Elytra opaque, a little longer, nearly a fourth longer than wide, much more 

 than half as long as the body; margins, impressions of the head and 

 prothorax and ba'se of the latter faintly violaceous. Head nearly as 

 in the preceding species, except that the median lobe of the labrum 

 is relatively a little wider and the two median of the setigerous foveae 

 are rather behind than before the middle of the length; prothorax 

 differing somewhat in form, less transverse and more rounded at 

 the sides, the latter basally becoming much more sinuate, parallel 

 and straight for a considerable distance before the angles, which are 

 a little more than right but sharp, scarcely one-half wider than long; 

 marginal bead much thickened basally, the groove almost attaining 

 the base, the basal groove much interrupted, very fine medially; 

 elytra almost perfectly smooth, the lines of very fine, well separated 

 punctures widely separated, barely traceable and apparently single, 

 the two outer ridges very evident but obtuse, the inner becoming 

 gradually acutely elevated basally as usual; hind tarsi about as long 



