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Loxandrus brunneus, sp. nov. — Elongate-oval. Above 

 nearly uniform dark reddish brown, strongly shining; head and 

 last ventral segment often piceous brown. Under surface pale 

 chestnut brown; legs, mouth-parts and three basal joints of an- 

 tennae brownish yellow, outer pubescent joints of antennae darker. 

 Head longer than broad, eyes prominent. Thorax slightly wider 

 than long, sides broadly and evenly curved from base to apex; 

 front and hind angles slightly obtusely angulate; disk smooth, its 

 sides in front of middle declivent; median and apical impressed 

 lines fine, entire; basal impressions linear, deep. Elytra iridescent, 

 two and one-fourth times as long as thorax.. one-fifth wider at base; 

 sides subparallel from behind humeri to apical third, then rounded 

 and converging to apex; striai rather deep, their inner margin very 

 finely crenate-punctate ; intervals smooth, feebly convex, the third 

 with the usual dorsal puncture of the genus. Length 6.3 — 6.8 mm. 



This species differs from all others of its approximate size 

 except crenatus in its usually uniform shining brown colour. This 

 is not due to immaturity, as numerous specimens, all of the same 

 hue, have been taken. It was frequent beneath the wash-up on 

 the shore of Lake Okeechobee, four miles southeast of Moore 

 Haven, March 1-3, and when uncovered ran very swiftly to the 

 nearest shelter. It was also taken at LaBelle and has been in the 

 writer's collection undetermined since 1911, when specimens were 

 secured about the margins of ponds and bay-heads at Sarasota. 

 Specimens sent to the late Frederick Blanchard were returned as 

 unknown to him, and H. P. Loding, of Mobile, Alabama, who has 

 a large collection of southern forms of the genus, says he has 

 nothing like it. 



Loxandrus saphyrinus Chaud. — Leng, in his "Carabidse of 

 Florida,"* seems to doubt both the validity of this species and its 

 occurrence in Florida. A specimen taken at Sanford, March 28, 

 runs only to saphyrinus by Le Conte's tables, and is very distinct 

 from reflexus Lee. of which Leng considers it a synonym, being 

 slightly larger, with thorax less transverse, its sides more rounded, 

 elytral striae more coarsely punctate and surface with iridescence 

 much stronger, being more brilliant than in any species of the 

 genus known to me. Chaudoir's type of saphyrinus was from 



*Bull. Am. Mus., Nat. Hist., XXXIV, 1915, 579. 



