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thorax bluish green, legs piceous, abdomen black, the hind margins 

 of the segments faintly reddish; hair of head and thorax scanty, 

 white; labrum with yellowish hair; mandibles obscurely reddish 

 in middle; apical half of flagellum ferruginous beneath; clypeus 

 short, black, with sparse coarse punctures; supraclypeal area shin- 

 ing green, with a few punctures; front densely punctured; meso- 

 thorax shining, the disc with sparse, large punctures; scutellum 

 shining; area of metathorax rugose; posterior truncation distinct; 

 tegulae dark reddish brown; wings hyaline, very faintly dusky, 

 stigma and nervures reddish brown; hind spur with three teeth; 

 abdomen shining, with only minute, indistinct punctures; no hair- 

 bands, but the usual thin, pale hair. 



Carcarana, Argentina. (Bruner 39), U. S. National Museum. 

 Related to H. spinolce Reed (paramario Friese) and H. danicorum 

 Ckll., but considerably larger. In the North American fauna it 

 resembles H. subconnexus Ellis, but differs by the narrower face, 

 more copiously punctured mesothorax, more dusky stigma, and 

 rugose base of metathorax. 



Augochlora argentina Priese. 



Carcarana (Bruner 80). Agrees with a specimen received 

 from Friese. 



Augochlora (Odontochlora) phoenomoe (Schrottky). 



Carcarana {Bruner 86). 

 Augochlora (Pseudaugochloropsis) callisto Smith. 



Carcarana and Bahia Blanca {Bruner 8, 75). 



A NEW HOPLIA FROM FLORIDA.* 



BY W. S. FISHER, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



, Among a collection of Coleoptera submitted by Mr. H. L. 

 Dozier for determination, the following interesting new species of 

 Hoplia was found. 



Hoplia floridana, n. sp. 

 Male. — Elongate, black, shining. Upper surface sparsely 

 clothed with short, semi-erect lanceolate, hair-like cinereous 

 scales. Head strongly rugose, sparsely clothed with short, erect 

 hairs. Clypeus one-half wider than long, feebly reflexed in frsnt, 

 when viewed laterally, not in the same plane as rest of head, but 

 *Contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects, Bureau of Entomology. 

 April, 1918 



