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puncture scale-bearing like those of thorax. Femora armed with 

 a small obtuse tooth; claws with a long acute one. Length 3.5- 

 3.8 mm. 



A compact and prettily marked little species, describecj from 

 nine specimens taken singly or in pairs, February 17-22, beneath 

 chunks of dead stems of saw palmetto along the borders of a thinly 

 wooded tract one mile north of Dunedin, on the margin of Clear- 

 water Bay. None of them were more than 50 feet from the edge 

 of the water at high tide. The species belongs to Group III of 

 the genus Conotrachelus as treated in the Rhynchophora of N. E. 

 America. In some of the specimens the elytra are in part faintly 

 mottled with minute patches of isolated white scales. 



Anchonus duryi Blatch. 

 This peculiarly sculptured Cossonid was described* from 

 specimens taken at Sarasota and West Palm Beach. It is also in 

 the National Museum from St. Petersburg, 21 miles south of 

 Dunedin. Single specimens were taken during the winter, January 

 24 and February 17, both under the same conditions and in the 

 same locality as the Conotrachelus above described. 



Since the second paper of this series appeared in the July 

 Canadian Entomologist, Mr. E. A. Schwarz has called my at- 

 tention to the fact that the name Ischyrus tripnnctatiis has been 

 preoccupied by Crotch (1873) for a Santo Domingo species. The 

 species I described under that name may, therefore, be known as 

 Ischyrus dunedinensis. 



Mr. Schw^arz also cited me to a paper by H. G. Hubbard 

 (Psyche, Vol. IV p. 215) on Hypotrichia spissipes Lee, in which 

 the female is first described and the habits of both sexes given 

 from specimens observed at Crescent City, Fla. 



In addition to the localities given for Chlorophorus annularis 

 Fab., Schwarz adds China, Japan and the Philippines, where it 

 ' breeds in bamboo, a plant which Iras been introduced extensively 

 in and about Dunedin. He states that;' 'Unless the beetle be- 

 comes established in the bamboo debris wherever the plant is 

 grown in this country, it should not be included in our lists." 



*Rh5'nchophora, p. 521. 



