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and Canada, as an economic entomologist ot wide knowledge and experience. 

 His kindly and genial personality and his unfailing courtesy and fair-mindedness 

 have made him justly popular among his colleagues. 



Mr. Gibson is a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, (Eng.); 

 Fellow^ of the Entomological Society of America; Fellow of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement ot Science; President of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario; Associate Member of the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists; Editor of the Canadian Field-Naturalist; Member of the Cana- 

 dian Society of Technical Agriculturists, etc. 



We extend to Mr. Gibson our hearty congratulations on his well-deserved 

 promotion, and wish him every success in the new responsibilities that he has 

 undertaken. 



NOTES ON SOME COLEOPTERA TAKEN IN THE MCINITY OF 

 DUNEDIN, FLORIDA, IN THE SPRING OF 1920, WITH • 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, 

 Indianapolis, Indiana. 



The work on my "Orthopttera of Northeastern America" delayed my trip 

 to Florida in the autumn of 1919, and I did not reach Dunedim until Christmas 

 day. After my arriv^al a severe illness prevented any collecting for six weeks 

 or more, and led also to the abandonment of a contempiatfed trip to Marco and 

 other points along the extreme southwestern coast of -the St.ate. The lirst 

 collecting was done on February 14, and from then on until April 28, I was in 

 the field almost every day. I had hoped that by staying two or three weeks 

 later than usual I would find the full spring fauna emerging, and tlius make 

 amends in part for the time lost during the winter, but the season, as gauged 

 by the blossoming of plants, w^as a fortnight or more late, so that in the main 

 the species taken or observed were those of previous years prior to April 10. 

 However, from time to time I ran across a species new or rare to the State, and 

 these, with three or four believed to be hitherto unknown, are treated on the 

 following pages. 



BeiTLbidium picipes Kirby. A single specimen was captured Feb. 23 

 on a strip of bare muck along the margin of a pond near Dunedin. The first 

 record for Florida. It was described from British America, is frequent in 

 Indiana and ranges, according to Hayward.a from New England and Lake 

 Superior, to Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 



Lebia rhodopus Schwarz. A half dozen specimens have been taken 

 about Dunedin, where it occurs from January to April on low ground vege- 

 tation; one is also at hand from Ft. Myers, Fla. The only other Florida record 

 is that of the type from Tampa. Horn:t made it an absolute synonym of L. 

 viridis Say and not a variety as stated by Leng.4 A careful study of the Florida 

 specimens, as well as of a score or more taken in Indiana, substantiates my 



T See Can. Ent., April, 1917, 137. 



2. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXIV, 18Q7, 83. 



3. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, X, 1882, 130. 



4. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIV, 1915, 585. 

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