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serious than told by Mr. Ashmead. It is a polyphagous species (at least 
in the imago state) and evidently spreading northward. As early as 1875 
I found it commonlj' at Haulover Canal, feeding on leaves of oak and ju- 
niper, and in 1876 at New Smyrna. Both places being already north of 
the semi-tropical boundary line, the occurrence of the species at St. Au- 
gustine is not surprising. The fourth species, Pac/uiceus opaltis, originally 
described from Cuba, is also very abundant in semi-tropical Florida, and 
Mr. Ashmead mentions it as being injurious to lime trees on the Florida 
Keys. I found it under the same conditions, though not nearly as de- 
structive as the foregoing species. It occurs more commonly on the va- 
rious fig trees, so characteristic of semi-tropical Florida, and most abun- 
dantly on all sorts of succulent weeds. In view of this diversity in 
food-habit it is not astonishing to see this species extend its range north- 
ward, but still, since I never found this weevil outside of semi-tropical 
Florida, I was quite surprised at seeing it on the St Augustine list. The 
occurrence at St. Augustine of the fifth species, Rhodobcenus ptistulosus, 
is of great interest and quite new to me, since it was previously known 
only from southern Arizona and Mexico. It adds another instance to that 
curious geographical distribution to which I referred in my paper on the 
insect fauna of semi-tropical Florida, viz., the simultaneous occurrence of 
certain species in the extreme southwestern and southeastern parts of 
North America. Of the food-habits of this Rhodobanus I know nothing, 
but suspect from its general appearance that it belongs to the Yucca or 
Opuntia insects. At any rate it will be found also at other points of the 
Florida coast further south, and also in parts of Central America south of 
Mexico. 
Of the five semi-tropical species on the St. Augustine list, the occurrence 
of three is in accordance with the previously known distribution, that of 
the fourth is not surprising, and only that of the fifth is a novel and in- 
teresting fact. Of the maritime semi-tropical fauna not a single species 
appears in the St. Augustine list. Thus, taking in account that the semi- 
tropical Coleopterous fauna of Florida amounts to several hundred species, 
it may safely be said that St. Augustine is well outside of the limits of 
this fauna. 
Turning now to the bulk of the species in the list we find that they 
consist of the usual admixture of more or less widely-distributed species 
and true Floridian forms, the proportion being but little different from 
that of other localities, e. g:, Crescent City, Enterprise, Tampa. Among 
the true Floridian species on the St. Augustine list I am glad to see but 
few additions to the list published by me in 1878, including the manuscript 
additions since that time. I say I am glad thereof because it proves that 
our knowledge of the Florida fauna is already tolerably complete. But 
the St. Augustine list contains another element, viz., species belong- 
ing to the faunal region lying directly north of eastern Florida and 
comprising lower Georgia, the lower Carolinas, and eastern Virginia. 
This is an ill-defined region with very few, or no, peculiar species, and 
