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ON SOME NEW OR NOTEWORTHY COLEOPTERA 

 FROM THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 



Among the Coleoptera taken in the vicinity of Dunedin, 

 Florida, during the past two years are several species which are 

 evidently undescribed, and sortie others worthy of note on account 

 of their rarity or known distribution. I therefore present the fol- 

 lowing notes and descriptions relative to them. It may be added 

 that Dunedin is located on Clearwater Bay, three miles north of 

 Clearwater, the county seat of Pinellas County, and 27 miles north- 

 west of Tampa. The bay is formed by a number of keys or islands 

 which parallel the coast of Pinellas Peninsula, about two miles 

 from the mainland. One of these. Hog Island, about five miles 

 long and one-half mile wide, has its southern end opposite the town 

 of Dunedin. Its surface is of sand, somewhat thickly clothed with 

 the characteristic sand-loving vegetation of the west coast keys. 

 On the mainland east of the town, which is situated in a noted 

 citrus-growing district, are numerous small lakes or ponds, some of 

 which become almost extinct during the dry or winter season. 

 Along the margins of these ponds and in and about the wet ham- 

 mocks, which are densely grown up with deciduous trees and under- 

 brush, most of the species noted have been taken. My collecting 

 has been done between Oct. 20 and April 15, though a few species 

 are included which were taken in summer and sent to me. 



Scarites californicus Lee. — I regard this as a valid species. 

 It can be separated at a glance from suhterraneus Fab., of which it 

 has been placed as a variety by Leng and other recent writers. It 

 is strictly maritime, occurring only beneatli seaweed or half-buried 



April, 1917 



