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iiunibor were rare and int<.'res(iii.u;. I was gUi^' when Thursday morn rolled 

 round apain and a start eould be made for Key West. A new automol)ile road 

 is being constructed from Homestead to Cape Sable, so thai in a year or two the 

 Cape can be more easily reached. 



The ishmd of Key West, where I spent five days, lias been visited by many 

 collectors and its insect fauna is well known. The conditions for collecting are, 

 howe\'er, poor and growing worse. This is due to the lack of vegetation and 

 fresh water — only a few stunted shrubs and trees remaining on the island. 

 Here, as at Cape Sable, some of my most interesting captures were among the 

 Rhynchophora. However, a Dytiscid, Copelatus dehiUs Sharp, new to this 

 country,^ was taken, and also a number of the species mentioned on the pages 

 which follow. From Key West I returned to Tampa by steamer, and from 

 there to Dunedin is a distance of only 27 miles. 



Pasimachus strenuus Lee. On March 1 1 I found one of these large 

 Carabids crawling backwards across a sandy roadway in Dunedin and dragging 

 with him a specimen of the bulky Scarabaeid, Deltochilum gibbosum Fab. The 

 victim was still alive and had evidently put up a strong fight for existence, as 

 both his fore legs and one of the middle ones were wanting. D. gibbosum ap- 

 pears to be a scarce species in Florida, having been taken by me but once before, 

 when a half dozen were found in a putrid, extremely fetid mass of fungi in 

 Skinner's Hammock near Dunedin. 



Dicaelus elongatus Dej. This species, frequent throughout Indiana, is 

 seldom found in Florida. Two specimens were taken February 13 from be- 

 neath logs in low woods on the border of Lake Parker, northeast of Lakeland. 

 Heretofore known from the State only by specimens taken by Schwarz at Enter- 

 prise, St. Augustine and Crescent City. 



Lebia fuscata Dej. Two specimens w^ere beaten from dead leaves of 

 cabbage palmetto near Dunedin, one Jan. 29, the other March 19. It has 

 been recorded from Jacksonville and Belleair, and is said to occur from Canada 

 to Florida and Missouri. 



Selenophorus fatuus Lee. Quite common beneath dead leaves near 

 the crematory on Key West. With it were taken Copelatus debilis Sharp and 

 Casnonia pennsylvanica L., the latter with the black spots of elytra very large 

 and confluent. 



Neoharmonia venusta fattigi, var. nov. 



Differs from typical venusta in having the black markings of each elytron 

 reduced to the two median spots, one round and submarginal, the other sub- 

 sutural with a narrow prong directed forward. It is thus intermediate be- 

 tw'een the typical form and var. dissimila,^ the latter ha\ ing these median 

 spots wholly wanting. Examples of all three forms were sent to me by Prof. 

 P. W. Fattig, of Gainesville, who took them at Pahokee on April 25. 



Psyllobora nana Muls. A single specimen was taken March 2 while 

 sweeping near the Old Fort on Key West. It is a Cuban and Jamaican species, 



2. See Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XLI, 1919, 312. 



3. Can. Ent., XLVI, 1914, 66. 



