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Dunedin, Florida, Dec. 13. One specimen taken from beneath a board 

 near the inargin of a pond. A member of Horn's Americanus Group, allied to 

 sedecimstriatus but larger, more oblong, with two nearly entire thoracic marginal 

 stria^, but one sub-humeral and with dorsal stria^ less impressed, less distinctly 

 ^lunctate. Not in the Leconte or Horn collections and not known to Col. 

 Casey. 



Saprinus obsidianus Casey. Three specimens of this highly-polished 

 Hislerid have been taken at Dunedin, Dec. 21-March 21, one in a bucket of 

 water, the others at carrion traps. It was described from Mobile, Ala., and 

 has not before been recorded from Florida. 



Carpophilus rickseckeri Fall. Two specimens were taken by sweeping 

 along the margins of an orange grove near Dunedin, March 17. It was originally 

 described^ from specimens taken in decaying cactus at San Diego, Cal., and Mr. 

 Fall informs me that he has since seen specimens from Florida.^" 



Ouadrifrons castanea Blatch. A second specimen of this very distinct 

 Nitiduiid was taken March 7. It was swept from low huckleberry bushes 

 growing within 100 yards of the bay front one mile north of Dunedin. Both 

 genus and species were founded (Can. Ent., 1916, 92) on a unique taken at 

 Dunedin. 



Ora texana Champ. Two specimens of this Dascyllid were taken at 

 Dunedin Feb. 6 by beating a bunch of Spanish moss in which they were hibernat- 

 ing. It is the Scirtes troberti of Horn,^^ nee. Guer. and has been recorded before 

 only from Louisiana and Texas, though known to Schwarz from Crescent City 

 and Cape Malabar, Florida. 



Melanotus parallelus, sp. nov. 



Elongate and slender for the genus. Dark chestnut brown; antennae, legs 

 and last two ventral segments, pale reddish -brown; basal margin of elytra 

 brighter reddish -brown. Antennae slender, slightly longer than head and 

 thorax, second joint subglobose, less than half the length of third, the latter 

 nearly as long as, but much more slender than fourth. Clypeus flat, its disk 

 coarsely and densely punctured, front margin very broadly rounded. Thorax 

 one -half longer than wide, its sides straight and parallel from the tips of the 

 long, acute hind angles almost to apex; disk rather finely and sparseiy punctate, 

 the punctures at middle separated by twice or more their own diameters, on 

 sides distinctly closer, each puncture bearing a long, grayish -white prostrate 

 hair. Elytra at base not wider than thorax, thence faintly but evidently and 

 evenly tapering to apex: disc with rows of close-set rather coarse punctures; 

 intervals slightly wider than the rows of punctures, each with two rows of very 

 fine altcrnoting punctures, each of which bears a long, prostrate whitish hair. 

 Abdomen finely and sparsely punctate, the last segment with more numerous 

 Tnd coarser aciculate punctures. Length 8.7—9.5 mm. 



9. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XXXVI, 1910, 124. 



10. This is probably the Carpophilus liu meralis Murry, mentioned by Leng (Journ, N.Y. 

 Entom. Soc., XX\ I, 1918, 205) as having been introduced at Oneca, Fla, If 90 Fall'^ name is 

 a synonym. 



11. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VIII, 102, pi. 1, fig. 15, 



