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mitted to Mr. Fall and Col. Casey, and both say it is unlike any 

 species known to them. 



Arrhenoplita ferruginiea Lee. 

 A colony of 20 or more adults of this interesting Tenebrionid 

 were taken on Jan. 25 from a woody fungus on the side of an oak 

 log. Larvae and pupae were also present. Described from 

 Louisiana, Schwarz lists it as rare at Enterprise, Fla., in company 

 with Boletotherus bifurcus Fab. 



Helops cisteloides Germ. 

 I can find no mention of this species in any of the published 

 lists of Florida beetles. Horn in his "Tenebrionidse""* gives the 

 "Gulf States" as its habitat. About Dunedin it is quite frequent 

 during the winter months, a score or more being taken from be- 

 tween the bundles of a stack of shingles, and others at porch light. 



Mycetochares puncticollis, sp. nov. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Black, very sparsely clothed 

 with a fine, prostrate, brownish-yellow pubescence; elytra each 

 with a large oval reddish-yellow humeral spot; antennae, labrum, 

 tibiae and tarsi pale brownish-yellow, femora and under surface 

 piceous. Eyes rather large, separated by twice their width. 

 Thorax nearly twice as wide as long, basal fovese two, small; sides 

 broadly curved, hind angles obtuse; surface, as well as that of 

 head, finely, very densely and evenly punctate. Elytra as wide 

 at base as thorax, disc without trace of striae, very finely and 

 closely rugosely punctate. Under surface minutely and sparseh^ 

 punctate. Front coxae separated by a prosternal process. Length 

 -3.8 mm. 



Described from a single specimen sifted from dead leaves, 

 March 8. Allied to fraterna Say but differs from it and all other 

 described species by the fine, dense punctuation of thorax. The 

 pale spot of elytra is oblong-oval and confined to the hiimerus, 

 whereas in fraterna it is much larger and placed obliquely between 

 humerus and suture. 



Anthicus convexulus Casey. 

 Single specimens were swept from huckleberry on March 20 

 and April 8. Described from South Carolina. 

 *Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, 936. 



