THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 61 



NOTES ON THE WINTER AND EARLY SPRING 

 COLEOPTERA OF FLORIDA, WITH DES- 

 CRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 



In 1911, and again in 1913, I spent the time from January 10 

 to April 15 in Central and Southern Florida, collecting especially 

 Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Hemiptera, but also taking what came 

 readily to hand in other orders. In the Canadian Entomologist 

 for November, 1912, and January, 1913, I made mention of the 

 places where I collected the first trip and described with notes a 

 number of apparently new species. 



In 1913 I made my headquarters at Dunedin, a small town 

 on the Gulf Coast about twenty miles northwest of Tampa, and 

 the bulk of my collecting was done in the immediate vicinity of 

 that place. However, on February 18, a companion and I placed 

 a small boat in Lake Tohopekaliga at Kissimmee, and with tent, 

 cooking outfit and supplies, made our way down through three 

 or four lakes, the largest of which was Lake Kissimmee, then down 

 the river of that name to Lake Okeechobee, around the northern 

 and eastern sides of that large body of water, then across it and 

 down the Caloosahatchee River to the Gulf Coast below Fort 

 Myers. Our trip occupied twenty-six days and was somewhat 

 hurried, as my companion was a fisherman and hunter, little 

 interested in entomology. As a consequence, most of my col- 

 lecting was done in early morning, at the noon stops, and in the 

 evenings after the camp duties had been completed. However, I 

 had one full day at Kissimmee, three on the west shore of Lake 

 Istokpoga, and a like number on the southwestern end of Pelican 

 Bay, Lake Okeechobee, just east of Kreamer Island. 



From the town of Kissimmee to the upper end of Lake Okee- 

 chobee the distance, as the crow flies, is about eighty miles; but, 

 as the river runs, it is 240, the channel winding its way back and 

 forth across a swamp, twenty to twenty-five miles in width, for 

 the whole way. In only a few places are the banks of this river 

 and Lake Okeechobee five to eight feet above the water, in most 

 places not averaging that many inches. Cypress and bay trees, 

 with branches thickly loaded with the long pendent "Spanish 

 moss," scrub live oak, elbow brush and swamp elder, covered with 



February, 1914 



