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Described from 14 specimens taken at Dunedin, two beneath 

 dead turtle on January 20, the others at porch light in June and 

 July. In the Fall and Dury collections and in that of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, t|his stands as C. moechus Lee, a 

 Texas species 19 mm. in length, with clypeus obtusely notched at 

 middle, thorax sparsely and irregularly punctured and horns more 

 strongh- developed than in anaglypticus. Dury writes that his 

 single specimen from Port Orange, Florida, was so named for him 

 by Horn and Ulke, but that "it varies widely from LeConte's brief 

 description of mcechus, and it cannot be anaglypticus.'' Fall 

 states that "I have had this with the label 'moechus' for many 

 years, but don't know on whose authority the identification rests. 

 On looking at it now with the table in hand it does not seem possi- 

 ble that it can be mcechus. It certainly is not anaglypticus." 

 Mutchler writes that the three specimens labeled "Fla." in the 

 American Museum collection, agree with the description of mcechus 

 only in having the thorax not opaque. Specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum from Enterprise, Fla., are labeled anaglypticus 

 and H. S. Barber writes that both he and Mr. Schwarz believe 

 that the species is "merely a depauperate form, due to biological 

 conditions of which we are now ignorant, but which is not speci- 

 fically distinct horn C. anaglypticus. It is certainly not C. mcechus 

 Lee." 



As these most eminent living American Coleopterists cannot 

 agree upon the name for this species, I have decided to give it 

 ttiat of inemarginatus. The "biological conditions" mentioned by 

 Barljer are doubtless prevalent throughout the peninsula of Florida, 

 as the beetle seems to be widely distributed over that State. If 

 they are sufficient to put the shine on its surface, take the notch 

 out of its clypeus and put the punctures in its elytral intervals, 

 it is certainly worthy of a distinctive name. If it be a mere form 

 of anaglypticus, as Schwarz and Barber bel'eve, then our concep- 

 tions of that species are wholly wrong, and all our taules of the 

 genus Copris will have to be greatly modified. 



Trox erinaceus Lee. — Numerous specimens at carrion traps, 

 February 5-24. The first published Florida record. Horn gives 

 its range as New Jersey to Georgia and Indian Territory. 



