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as orange lines across the disc between the black and red areas; axillae yellow; 

 scutellum bright red, prominent; metathorax black; tegulse red, very finely 

 punctured; wings fuliginous; legs red, hind femora suffused with blackish; 

 abdomen black, with an interrupted yellow band on first segment, and four 

 yellow spots each on second to fifth; the broad apical segment wholly black; 

 first three segments shining and rather sparsely punctured, the others with 

 large dense punctures. 



San Bernardino, Paraguay, (K. Fiebrig). U. S. Nat. Museum. This is 

 the first recognized South American Stelis, and from its resemblance to the 

 species of Dianthidiuni of the same general region, it seems possible that it 

 represents an independent development, not derived from the Stelis of the 

 Northern Hemisphere. Dianthidium nudum Schrottky appears to be congeneric, 

 and may be called Stelis nuda. 



Dianthidium bicoloratum (Smith). 



Male. — Clypeus yellow, greater part of mesopleura and hind margins of 

 first four abdominal segments red. Carcarana, Argentina {Bruner 18). 



Dianthidium multifasciatum (Strand). 



San Bernardino, Paraguay {K. Fiebrig). 



Erratum. Can. Ent., p. 349. For Nescorynura read Neocorynura. 



SOME NEW OR SCARCE COLEOPTERA FROM 

 WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA— H. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 



(Continued from Vol. L., p. 424.) 



Mycetophagus pini Zieg. — Three examples of what I take to be this 

 uniform fuscous-brown species were taken at Dunedin in December. They 

 were found on different occasions, two in fleshy fungi, the other by beating 

 dead branches. Col. Casey, who has examined one of them, is inclined to doubt 

 its being pini, stating that 'they are not so elongate as that species and the 

 antennal structure appears to be different." They accord, however, with all the 

 brief descriptions of pini, the type of which was from North Carolina. No 

 species of Mycetophagus has before been recorded from Florida. 



Hister coenosus Ehr. — This large well-marked Hister is recorded by 

 Schwarz as "common in Northern Florida," but no- records for the southern 

 half of the State are known. Two specimens were taken at Dunedin, on Dec. 

 19 and March 29, respectively, both being sifted from carrion traps. 



Hister lecontei Mars. — This widely distributed species does not seem 

 to be previously known from Florida, at least no published record can be found. 

 A single specimen was taken from beneath the lake beach debris near Moore 

 Haven on March 3. 



Hister coarctatus Lee. — Horn in his "Synopsis of LT. S. Histeridae"* 



says that this species occurs with H. parallelus Say, the latter having been 



previously mentioned by him as IVoccurring in Georgia, South Carolina and 



Florida." This indirect record is the only one I can find for Florida. A single 



*Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIII, 187:3, 298. 

 February. 1919 



