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FA M ILY I. BRENTHIDJE. 



Key Largo and Elliott's Key, Fin. Occurs also in Cuba with 

 other species of the genus. 



ITT. BRENTHUS Fab., ITS". (Or., name of a bird.) 

 This uenus, also sufficiently characterized in the key, is one 



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of the most characteristic neotropical genera, containing about 

 25 species and represented in this country by two species in 

 Lower California and by the following: 



3 (8970). BitK.vnirs A.XCIIOIIAGO Linn., 17G6, p. 1739. 



Elongate, slender. Black or dark chestnut-brown, shining; elytra each 

 with two narrow, reddish-yellow stripes, the inner abruptly abbreviated be- 

 hind, the outer in front. Thorax of male longer and broadly constricted at 

 middle, of female shorter, conical, deeply grooved near base in both sexes. 

 Strife on sides of elytra more shallow and more distinctly punctate than 

 those near suture; tips of elytra elongate-attenuate in male, obtuse in fe- 

 male; second elytral interval flat in its entire length. Front femora only 

 dentate. Length 10 52 mm. 



A Tropical American species which has been taken in south- 

 ern Florida at Biscayne Bay, Miami and on the Florida Keys. 

 Occurs on flowers and under bark of various trees. (Slosson.) 



IV. CYLAS Latr., 1806. ( Gr., "a tumbler.") 



Elongate, ant-like beetles having the maxillae exposed, the 

 mentum oblong and raised on a short peduncle; mandibles pin- 

 cer-shaped; head not constricted behind; front coxa? conical, 

 prominent, contiguous; tibire slender, straight, not mucronate 

 at tip; tarsal claws small, connate at base. One species occurs 

 in the Southern States. 

 4 (8966). CYI.AS FOHMIC Aim's Fab., 1798, 174. 



Very elongate, smooth, shining. Pale reddish-brown, elytra bluish- 

 black, head and beak dusky. Beak twice as long as 

 head, stout, cylindrical, nearly straight, finely punc- 

 tured near the base. Thorax nearly twice as long 

 as wide, deeply constricted or subdivided at basal 

 third, disc smooth, shining. Elytra elongate-oval, 

 strongly convex, sliglitly wider than thorax, hu- 

 meri very oblique; strife fine, feebly punctate; in- 

 tervals flat, smooth. Last joint of antennae cylin- 

 drical, longer than the others united, male, oval 

 and shorter, female. Length 5 6 mm. (Fig. 25.) 



LaGrange, Fla., Sept. 11. Kecorded 

 from Florida, Louisiana and Texas. An in- 

 troduced Asiatic species, which occurs also 

 in the West Indies and Madagascar. < 1 om- 

 stock < 1870. 24!)) states that the larva is 



Fig. 25. X 5- 

 Duggar.) 



(After 



