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from the base to beyond the middle, then strongly oblique to the ob- 

 tusely angulate apex. In all specimens of lucifera at hand, from 

 Indiana and Florida, the thorax is fully or quite as wide as long, with 

 sides more or less curved or oblique from base to apex. The elytra of 

 the Dunedin and Eustis specimens are more distinctly granulate- 

 punctate, and the seventh ventral segments are narrower than in 

 the true lucifera. With the belief that these specimens represent 

 at least a distinct variety and that they are probably the same as 

 LeConte's angustata, I have restored his name as above given. 



Telephorus albolineatus, sp. nov. There has long been con- 

 fused with the Telephorus rectus of Melsheimer, a form which I 

 here separate and name as above. The body is distinctly narrow^er 

 and has the thorax narrower with sides more curved and apex more 

 rounded than in rectus. The black median stripe of the thorax is 

 narrower, with its sides less irregular than there. The elytra are 

 more coarsely, rugosely punctate, are clothed with coarser pubes- 

 cence and have the suture and side margins narrowly but wholly 

 pale. Legs black, the femora sometimes with basal third yellowish. 

 Length 5-5.5 mm. 



Common at Dunedin in March and April, where it occurs on 

 oak, bay and other foliage in wet hammocks. Sanford, March 27. 

 A very closely related, if not the same species, occurs in the tamarack 

 marshes of northern Indiana. LeConte had this species before him 

 when hewrote his second paperonLampyridse,*and placed itas" var- 

 iety " B of rectus. I have not as yet taken the true rectus in Florida. 



Disonycha abbreviata leptolineata, var. nov. During the 

 winter months there occurs in small numbers beneath boards and 

 chunks along the borders of lakes and ponds near Dunedin a form 

 of Diso7iycha, which is evidently an undescribed variety of D. 

 abbreviata Muls., if not a distinct species. It differs from northern 

 specimens of abbreviata in having the body a brighter red, ttie 

 antennae deep black, not piceous, and especially in having the black 

 lines of elytra very narrow, not over one-half the width of those of 

 abbreviata and more finely punctate than there. In size, form and 

 structure there appears no difference, hence it may for the present 

 be regarded as a southern colour variety of that species, though 

 Horn in his "Halticini" says of abbreviata: "This is one of the least 



variable of our vitiate species." 



*Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. IX, 1881, 52. 



