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O., and in 1910** the writer in a key gave a brief diagnosis of the 

 genus, based on that of Le Conte and Horn, and added: "Ana- 

 morphus pusillus Zimm, pale reddish brown, length 1.5 mm., has 

 been taken by Dury near Cincinnati." 



The above constitute all references which can be found in 

 the literature available to either the genus Anamorphiis or the 

 species pusillus. Whether pusillus was sufficiently characterized, 

 when it was assigned to a genus not then defined, and therefore 

 invalid, and the species itself described only as a '"small, rounded 

 testaceous hairy insect, etc.," as set forth above, I leave for better 

 nomenciatorial cranks than myself to settle. 



A careful comparison shows that the specimen in the Dury 

 collection differs sufficiently from two at hand from Florida to 

 justify a new name, and as pusillus is known only from the 

 description quoted, I give the principal characters of each as fol- 

 lows: 



Anamorphus pusillus Lee. — Rounded-oval or semi-hemi- 

 spherical, strongly convex. Dark reddish or chestnut brown, 

 shining, rather thickly clothed with long, semi-erect, yellow hairs; 

 legs and antennje dull yellow. Eyes small, coarsely facetted, 

 widely separated. Thorax twice as wide as long at middle, sides 

 feebly curved, hind angles rectangular, disk minutely and sparsely 

 punctate, each puncture bearing a very slender, yellow hair; basal 

 lobe prominent, triangular, its apex rounded, the curved basal 

 lines very fine. Elytra one-fifth wider than thorax, their common 

 base widely and rather deeply emarginate to receive the basal 

 thoracic lobe; umbones prominent; sides strongly declivent; disk 

 with numerous scattered punctures, much coarser and more 

 distinct than those of thorax, each bearing a longer, coarser, more 

 erect yellow hair. Under surface smooth, polished. Length 

 1.2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 27, 1916; March 23, 1918. Both were 

 taken while beating in Skinner's Hammock, one mile northeast of 

 Dunedin. One of the two has the head and apical third of elytra 

 darker than the general hue. It is probably frequent in wet 

 hammocks throughout the greater portion of Florida, but over- 



**Coleoptera of Ind., 535. 



