()8 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



NOTES ON THE WINTER COLEOPTERA OF WESTERN AND 

 SOUTHERN FLORIDA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



(Continued from p. 4(1). 



Ptinus tuberculatus, sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval. Head and thorax dark chestnut -brown; elytra dark reddish - 

 brown; antennae and legs paler brown, densely clothed with prostrate yellowish 

 hairs; under surface reddish-brown, sparsely pubescent with yellowish hairs. 

 Antennae reaching middle of elytra, second joint one-half the length of fourth; 

 fifth to eleventh subequal, each slightly longer than fourth. Head finely granu- 

 late-punctate. Thorax subcylindrical, but slightly wider than head, densely 

 and rather coarsely granulate -punctate and bearing four large conical tubercles 

 arranged in a median cross-row, two above and one each side, each of these 

 bearing a tuft of short, erect yellowish hairs. Elytra oblong, rather strongly 

 convex or ventricose, their striae feebly impressed, each composed of a row of 

 coarse, close-set punctures, which are much wider than the intervals, each 

 puncture bearing a long inclined yellowish hair. First joint of hind tarsi slightly 

 longer than the next two united. Abdomen very finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Length 3.2 mm. 



A single specimen, probably a female, was taken while beating aloi% a 

 blazed roadway in a dense hammock at Cape Sable, Feb. 23. It is different 

 from any species described by Fall, and is unknown to him. The head and 

 thorax are distinctly darker than elytra, and the tuberculate thorax reminds 

 one of the spiked collars often worn by an aristocratic Boston bull terrier. 



Heteracthes sablensis, sp. nov. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Head, thorax, under surface and all 

 the femora and tibiae dark chestnut-brown; antenna^, elytra and tarsi reddish- 

 brown, the elytra each with a large, elongate -oval, yellow spot at basal third 

 and the apical fifth wholly yellow\ Antenna?, as usual with males of the genus, 

 with joints 1—6 much thicker than the others, fourth, two-thirds the length of 

 either third or fifth, the minute second joint obconical. Thorax cylindrical, 

 twice as long as broad, feebly constricted near base, its disk with a low median 

 tubercle, surface minutely granulate-rugose and pubescent with \ery fine, 

 appressed hairs. Fdytra three times as long as thorax, one-third wider at base, 

 their lips subtruncate, the outer apical angle protlucied as a short spine; surface 

 with scattered small tubercles, thickly aiul \ery finely ptuulate, minutely 

 pubescent. Under surface very finely i)iiiictale and juibescent. Lenglh 8.5 

 mm. 



Described from one male swept from low herbs just back of the beach at 

 Cape Sable, Feb. 21. Very distinct from our other species in colour and in 

 the truncate, feebly spined tips of elytra. 



Euderces reichei Lee. A half dozen specimens of this small Cerambycid 

 were beaten March 21 from the flowers of a dogwood in Skinner's hammock 

 near Dunedin. The first record for Florida, it being known heretofore only 

 from Indiana, Illinois and Texas. 



March, 1920 



