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Six specimens, $tf and 9 9 , and some larval forms, from 

 Crescent City, Florida (collection Heidemann). These insects 

 were found by Mr. H. G. Hubbard on bark of dead orange trees. 

 Also one from Bayou Sara, La. (Schwarz). The specimens 

 agree perfectly with Dr. Bergroth's brief, description in that they 

 are distinct from the South American P. cinctipes Stal by hav 

 ing the third joint of antennas longer than the second one. 

 Bergroth's specimen came from Georgia. 



Proxius schwarzii, n. sp. 



Body elongate-oval, parts of head, thorax and scutellum excavated and 

 raised. Color reddish brown and covered in some places with a \ellow- 

 ish white incrustation. Head about as long as broad and formed neck- 

 like at base ; postocular part of head tumidly margined, exteriorly, bluntly 

 toothed, making the head broader there than in 

 front; in the middle of the head is a longitudinal 

 ridge, with a large hole at its broader end ; on 

 both sides of this ridge opens a long, deep exca 

 vation, extending even to the thorax, probably 

 serving for the reception of the antennae; next 

 to the eyes another but more shallow excava 

 tion; tylus rounded, a little depressed, much 

 shorter than the apical lobes of the head, which 

 are sinuated at the sides and in front, the rounded 

 tips converging inwardly ; antenniferous process 

 strongly spined and curved interiorly, reaching to 

 the middle of the first antennal joint; eyes con 

 siderably small; basal joint of antennae stout, 

 twisted outwardly and reaching a trifle over the 

 tip of the apical lobes of the head ; second joint 

 Oval, shorter than the first; third very thin, a 



little knobbed at the apex and about twice as long as the second; the 

 terminal joint nearly as stout and long as the first, pilose at the tip. 

 Thorax subquadrate ; lateral margins anteriorly strongly sinuated and 

 excavated in front, posteriorly more straight, rounded off in short 

 flaps at the humeri, which carry transversely a narrow ridge. At the 

 angles of the anterior margin of thorax is an obtuse, somewhat exca 

 vated strong spine, bending down behind the base of head ; the poster 

 ior margin of thorax in the middle convexly rounded; at the disk of the 

 thorax the incrustate part is moulded into a bilobed prominence, much 

 elevated anteriorly, while down the middle of it runs an excavation which 

 changes abruptly into an upright, blunt thorn, cut off at tip; the anterior 

 and posterior lobes of the thorax are separated, a little behind the middle, 

 by a transverse, deep furrow, bounded by a bisinuate ridge; behind this 

 two incrustate spots. Scutellum formed somewhat shield-like; the sides 

 thickly rimmed, more obsoletely at base; the apex triangularly incised ; 



FIG. 5. Proxius sc/twarzn , 



