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narrower than elytra, minutely and sparsely punctate, its surface 

 as well as that of h-ead and elytra sparsely clothed with very tine, 

 prostrate hairs; under surface finely and sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures bearing coarse, semi-erect hairs. Male with sixth or 

 last ventral deeply and acutely notched, the third more or less pro- 

 longed backward in a lobe. Female with sixth ventral unmodi- 

 fied, the third with an obtuse perforated tubercle near its front 

 margin. Length 7-7.5 mm. 



Described from six males and one female taken Februar\- 7 

 beneath the loose bark of a large magnolia log on the grounds of 

 the State University at Gainesville, Fla. Three of the males have 

 the lobe of third ventral but feebly developed, while in the others 

 it is prolonged backward beyond the middle of fifth segment. 

 The genus Biocrypta, founded by Casey* upon LeConte's Crypto- 

 hiiim prospiciens, differs from its nearest allies in the absence of a 

 pleural fold near the side margin of elytra, in the head being dis- 

 tinctly narrowed in front and by the males having the sixth ventral 

 notched at apex, the third at the same time being lobed as de- 

 scribed above. B. prospiciens Lee, which occurs in Texas and 

 Arizona, is the only other known North American species of the 

 genus. From it B. magnolia differs in colour and in its wider 

 head and smaller eyes, as well as in the different form and coarser 

 sculpture of its thorax. 



Medonella minuta Casey. 

 Three specimens of this pretty little Paederid were taken 

 December 22 from beneath logs and chunks partly buried in the 

 sand, just above the reach of high tide along the beach of the bay 

 at Dunedin. It was described from Biscayne Bay, and is not 

 recorded elsewhere. 



Zagloba bicolor Casey 



A dozen specimens of this bristly little Coccinellid w^ere swept 

 January 29, from the low sea-blite, Batis maritima L., which grows 

 in partially overflowed tracts on Hog Island, opposite Dunedin. 

 The beetle was described from Palm Beach, Fla., in 1899,** and has 

 not since been recorded. 



♦Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, XV, 1935, 23. 

 **Joum. N. Y. Entom. Soc, VII, 114. 



