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pale variety of the preceding. Horn's unique type was from 

 Biscayne Bay. 



Paragraphus setosus Blatch. 

 This genus and species were founded* on a single specimen 

 taken in the axils of a thistle on Hog Island. Especial attention 

 was given to the search for additional examples during the past 

 winter. On December 27, the first visit to that portion of the 

 island where the type was found, more than 40 thistles were chopped 

 up, and 71 examples of A graph us beUicus Say taken from their 

 axils, as well as a number of Tanymecus laccena Hbst., but no 

 Paragraphus, On January 29 another trip was made. The two 

 species mentioned were still found but in diminished numbers, 

 and after a long search a single example of the Paragraphus re- 

 warded my efTorts, so that now two are in my collection. Both 

 the type and its mate were taken within 50 yards of one another, 

 and within that distance of the Gulf beach on the western side of 

 the island and about the middle of its length. 



Conotrachelus maritimus, sp. nov. 

 Oval, robust. Dark reddish-brown, vertex and elytra thinly 

 clothed with short, scale-like prostrate reddish hairs; elytra each 

 W'ith a small spot of similar white hairs at the bases of the third 

 and fifth intervals, and a minute tuft of mixed white and reddish 

 scales near apex of third interval. Beak as long as thorax, male, 

 as head and thorax, female, finely carinate above, striate on sides, 

 coarsely and densely punctate. Thorax almost naked, bell- 

 shaped, about as wide as long, sides broadly rounded, much nar- 

 rowed in front, base bisinuate; disc with a trace of a very fine 

 median carina, coarsely, very densely and deeply reticulate- 

 punctate, each puncture enclosing a prostrate, oblong reddish 

 scale. Elytra oval, nearly twice as wide at base as thorax, sides 

 straight from base to middle, then strongly converging to the 

 obtuse apex; striae feebly impressed, each marked with a row of 

 small, rounded punctures, each puncture partly closed b>' a pros- 

 trate, oblong scale; third, fifth and se\"enth intervals slighth' 

 elevated, all the intervals with a row of very short, erect black 

 bristles, those on the declivity more evident and in part paler. 

 I'nder surface and femora coarsely and densely punctate, each 

 *Rhynchophora of N. E. Amer., 1916, 110. 



