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he had informed him that it was a new species. Mr. Ashmead 

 stated that it was smaller than a true bedbug, paler in color, 

 nearly round, and broader in form. He also spoke of the habits 

 of the described species of Cimex. Mr. Schwarz expressed the 

 opinion that C. inodora is migrating northward since Duges 

 described it from Mexico, and had it been abundant in New Mexico 

 previously we should have heard of it. He considered the north 

 ward spread of Conorhinus as similar. Mr. C. W. Johnson spoke 

 of the habits of the species of Conorhinus which occurs commonly 

 in the pine woods of Florida. 



Mr. Schwarz read the following descriptions of Coleoptera : 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO RHYNCHOPHOROUS COLEOPTERA 

 FROM SEMITROPICAL FLORIDA. 



By E. A. SCHWARZ. 



Quite a number of the insects, and more especially Coleoptera, 

 forming the colony of the Antillean fauna in Florida have of late 

 years been described or noticed. Others still remain undescribed, 

 and of these the following two are herewith described because 

 they represent well-marked genera hitherto not known to occur 

 in North America, and because both were found in large number 

 of specimens. 



Anchonus floridanus, n. sp. Oblong-oval, convex, opaque, black; 

 antennae, tarsi, and often also the last ventral segment reddish; the whole 

 body more or less coated with a dirt-colored incrustation. 



Beak nearly as long as head and thorax combined, moderately curved, 

 very little widening at base, basal constriction obsolete, sculpture varying 

 according to sex, upper side with a few inconspicuous bristles; scrobe 

 lateral, well-defined, straight, not widening behind and reaching the lower 

 part of the eye ; antennal scape not quite reaching the anterior margin 

 of the eye, funicle very little longer than the scape, eight-jointed, shining, 

 with a few grayish hairs; first joint short, about twice as long as wide; 

 second joint elongate, as long as the three following joints combined and 

 slightly clavate at tip ; joints 3 to 6 subequal, each as long as wide ; joint 7 

 slightly wider and distinctly transverse; joint 8 still wider, well separated 

 from the club; club oval, pointed at tip, entirely sensitive and pubescent, 

 solid, with no visible sutures. Head usually deeply retracted within the 

 thorax, somewhat shining, alutaceous, with a few obsolete punctures; 

 eyes flat transverse, coarsely granulated. 



Thorax wider than long, anterior margin feebly tri-sinuate, base trun 

 cate, sides slightly arcuate or almost straight from the base to apical third; 

 apical constriction deep and suddenly formed at the sides but obsolete 

 dorsally ; surface coarsely and densely cribrate, some of the narrow inter- 



