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in bunches of Spanish moss, but has been taken also from oak and 

 plum trees. 



Psyllobora parvinotata Casey. — Several specimens taken by 

 beating on Hog Island. A submaritime species known from 

 Haulover, Palm Beach and Key West. Distinguished by its lack 

 of antescutellar spot of pronotum and small, isolated, drab spots 

 of elytra, the general colour also paler than in 20-mactdata. Leng 

 regards it as only a variety. 



Psyllobora pallidicola Blatch. — This small Coccinellid was 

 described* as a variety of P. 20-niaculala, hut further study of its 

 habits and characters led me to believe it a valid species. It is 

 always smaller, non-alutaceous and wholly without spots on thorax. 

 As. P. N. Timberlake, Entomologist of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant- 

 ers' Experiment Station at Honolulu, was studying the male 

 genitalia of Coccinellidse, I sent him specimens of pallidicola for 

 examination. Under date of Dec. 7, 1917, he wrote: "At your 

 request I have compared the male genitalia of .your Psyllobora 

 pallidicola with 20-maculata and have found considerable dif- 

 ferences, the principal one of which resides in the length of the 

 aedeagus. In pallidicola the aedeagus is very short compared with 

 SO-mactdata, in which species it is drawn out like a whiplash. 

 P. tcedata Lee. and borealis Casey, are similar if not identical with 

 20-maculata in this respect, and I doubt whether they are anything 

 more than geographical variants. P. pallidicola, however, is un- 

 doubtedly distinct." 



About Dunedin P. pallidicola occurs frequently throughout 

 the winter on oak and wax myrtle, but is never taken with 20- 

 maculata which is there a scarce species. The former has also 

 been taken at Lakeland, Ft. Myers and La Belle, and is probably 

 widely distributed throughout central and southern Florida, and 

 north at least as far as Ormond. 



Hyperaspis nigrosuturalis, sp. nov. — Broadly oval or 

 subhemispherical, convex. Black, shining; front of head, apical 

 angles and side margins of thorax to behind middle, yellow. Elytra 

 red, their basal sixth, a very narrow margin and wider sutural 

 stripe, black; the sides of the red disk connected just behind the 

 . scutellum , the sutural stripe being incomplete. Sides of ventral 



*C^. Ent., 1914, 66. 



