TIIIBE II. ANCHOXIXI. H21 



817 (10,844). AXCHONUS FLOKIDANUS Schwarz, 1893, 42. 



Oblong-oval, convex. Black or piceous, opaque; antennae, tarsi and 

 often the last three ventral segments reddish; the whole body more or less 

 dirt incrusted. Beak cylindrical, arising a.bruptly from a globular head, 

 nearly as long as head and thorax, moderately curved; antenna! grooves 

 lateral, straight, reaching the lower part of eye; funicle very little longer 

 than scape, club oval, pointed at tip. Head deeply retracted, alutaceous; 

 eyes flat, transverse, rather coarsely granulated. Thorax wider than long, 

 sides broadly rounded, feebly constricted near apex; surface cribrate with 

 a few clavate bristles. Elytra at base not as wide as thorax at middle, 

 ovate, convex, with nine or ten rows of punctures; intervals 3, 5 and 7 

 subcarinate and with rows of tubercles, intervals 2, 4 and 6 almost flat and 

 with much smaller tubercles; all tubercles and punctures bearing short, 

 clavate yellowish bristles. Ventral segments 1, 2 and 5 coarsely, sparsely 

 punctate, 3 and 4 very short, smooth; legs slender, beset with bristles. 

 Male with first two ventrals broadly concave, beak shorter, punctate 

 throughout, last ventral slightly sinuate at middle of apex. Length 4.1 

 5.3 mm. 



Found in great abundance under deep layers of seaweed on 

 inner shore of Biscayne Bay at Cocoanut Grove, Fla. ; May 27- 

 July 17. 



818 (- ). Axenoxrs DUKYI sp. nov. 



Form of floridanus. Piceous-brown, opaque, usually covered with a 



dirty brown crust; antennae, tibiae and tarsi 

 reddish-brown. Beak stout, cylindrical, strongly 

 curved, as long as thorax, separated from the 

 head by a very wide and deep groove, its sur- 

 face very coarsely punctate or foveate. Antennae 

 short, stout, the club smaller more globular. 



Fig. 114. X S- 



(Original by Dury.) Head smooth; eyes placed very low on its sides, 

 small, flat, finely granulate. Tliorax slightly wider at middle than long, 

 sides feebly curved and diverging from base to middle, then rounded to 

 the very deep and broad postapical constriction; disc cribrate with very 

 coarse, close-set punctures or fovese. Elytra elongate-oval, convex, widest 

 at middle, sides broadly curved from base to apex; striae with rows of 

 coarse foveae; intervals each with a row of close-set prominent tubercles, 

 each of which bears a very small yellowish, suberect seta. Abdomen punc- 

 tate as in floridanus. Length 5 6 mm. (W. S. B.) (Fig. 114.) 



Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 20; two specimens beneath seaweed on 

 the Gulf beacli. \Vest Palm Beach, Fla., June 9; numerous speci- 

 mens taken by Dury in company with Gonoitotns and Dri/otriJtus, 

 clinging to under side of logs and boards on the ocean beach. St. 

 Petersburg, Fla,, June 26 ; U. S. Nat. Museum collection. Notable 

 for its coarse sculpture and the very dee]) constrictions at base of 

 beak and behind apex of thorax. Named in honor of our long- 

 time mutual friend and noted naturalist, Chas. Dury, of Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 



