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A NEW TROPICAL WEEVIL FROM FLORIDA AND CUBA. 



BY H. S. BARBER. 



A three week's vacation (in February and March, 1919) was 

 spent by Mr. E. A. Schwarz and the writer, collecting in the 

 southern part of Florida, most of the time at Paradise Key, which 

 the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs is seeking to preserve 

 as the "Royal Palm State Park."* One day's collecting on Big 

 Pine Key (about 30 miles from Key West), and another day at 

 Marathon on Vacas Key (18 miles further east) added several 

 forms not found by us at Paradise Key, and brought the number 

 of species of beetles we had brought together in this short expe- 

 dition to well above 500. Among them are several forms pre- 

 viously known only for Cuba, and the probability that a consider- 

 able percentage of the species inhabiting the Southern Everglades 

 have been described from the West Indies, greatly complicates 

 the task of identifying the unfamiliar forms. In fact the most 

 interesting part of the beetle fauna of the Everglade Keys and 

 the Outer Keys is identical with that of the West Indies. The 

 species here described is an example of this difficulty. Belonging 

 to a genus quite numerous in species throughout the American 

 tropics, though not previously known to occur naturally within 

 our boundaries, and supposedly breeding in certain epiphytal 

 plants of the treetops in the jungle-like "hammocks," the probable 

 wide range of the species immediately confronts us and in spite 



* Since the construction of the automobile road towards Cape Sable has 

 made the region easily accessible, Paradise Key has very justly attracted 

 much attention and we were greatly assisted in our field work by having pre- 

 viously read the several botanical papers by Dr. J. K. Small (Journ. N. Y. 

 Bot. Garden, 1916, 1917, and 1918), narrating his experiences here and 

 throughout the region; and partly familiarizing us in advance with the flora 

 we were to encounter. See also the preface to Small's "Ferns of Royal 

 Palm Hammock;" -Snyder's description of the locality in these Proceedings 

 (Vol. 19, p. 143, pi. 15 and 16); and Safford's "Natural History of Paradise 

 Key " (Smithsonian Report, 1917, PP- 377-434, 64 plates). 



