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and has been taken by Berger on the Dry Tortugas and the Florida Keys. 

 P. parvinota ("asey was taken in numbers both at Cape Sable and Key West. 



Hyperaspis nigrosuturalis Blatch. Several additional specimens of this 

 handsome Coccinellid, which was described* from a unique taken at Lakeland, 

 were collected near Dunedin in February by beating large bunches of Spanish 

 mess in which they were hibernating. 



Scymnillus eleutherae Casey. Three specimens of this minute Coc- 

 cinellid were beaten from the foliage of the Saffron Plum, Bumelia angustifolia 

 Nutt., alorig the edges of a hammock at Cape Sable. It was identified for me 

 by Col. Casey, who described^ it from the Bahama Islands, this being its first 

 record for the United States. 



Scymnus dichrous Muls. A single specimen taken March 3 by beating 

 at Key West. This species has not before been recorded from Florida, nor 

 definitely from the United States. Mulsant's brief characterization and notes 

 were as follows: "I have seen in the Chevrelat collection, under the name 

 Scymnus dichrous, a specimen having the posterior fifth of the Elytra reddish 

 white or reddish yellow, except that the suture throughout is widely bordered 

 with black. Perhaps this specimen which seems to constitute a distinct species, 

 may however be attached to Scymnus ochroderus." He gives no locality for 

 dichrous ochroderus was from St. Bartholomew, West Indies. 



Scymnus bivulnerus Horn. This species was taken both at Cape Sable 

 and Key West. It was described in part from the latter place. 



Mychocerus depressus Lee. Two specimens of this, the smallest of our 

 Colydiidce, were taken Dec. LI from beneath bark of dead water oak near Dune- 

 din. Horn gives^ its range as "District of Columbia to South Carolina and 

 very rare." It has not before been recorded from Florida, though mentioned 

 in the Schwarz Mss. list from Tallahassee. 



Apsectus hispidus Melsh. I can find no Florida record of this little 

 bristly Dermestid. A single specimen was taken at Dunedin, March 19, from 

 bottled, dead -leaf debris which was kept on account of its containing Hormops 

 abduceiis'' Lee. The Dermestid is said by Leconte^ to occur in the middle and 

 southern states on leaves. 



Hister adonis, sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval, moderately convex. Black, shining. Thorax with two 

 marginal stria^, the inner one almost entire, the outer but little shorter; disk 

 smooth. Elytra with one sub-humeral stria reaching the apex and a very 

 fine, oblique humeral. Dorsal strise five, entire, the fifth arching and joining 

 the sutural, the stria? well impressed, evidently but feebly punctate; epipleura 

 unistriate. Propygidium and pygidium both finely and rather sparsely punctate. 

 Mesosternum truncate. Front tibiae with four rather coarse teeth, the apical 

 one entire. Length 5.8 mm. 



4. Can. Ent., L, 1918, 420. 



5. Tour. N.Y. Ent. Sec, VII. 1899. 115. 



6. "Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XVII, 1878, 592. 



7. See Journ, N.Y. Ent. Soc, XXVI, 1918, 158. 



8. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., VIII, 1854, 113. 



