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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Arenetra pallipes, n. sp. 



. Male — Length, 10-12 mm. Black, with rufous legs. Head coarsely 

 punctate ; face and cheeks with very dense greyish pubescence ; antennas 

 long and stout. Thorax more coarsely punctured, less pubescent, the 

 pleurae somewhat shining ; all the coxje and trochanters black, remainder 

 of legs rufous, except posterior tibiae, which are brownish ; wings 

 iridescent, sub-hyaline ; stigma and nervures black. Abdomen finely 

 sculptured, except the first segment, which is coarsely punctate at base 

 and longitudinally aciculate at summit ; lateral margins of segments 1-4 

 yellowish, apical margin of 2-6 narrowly white. 



' Described from five ^ specimens from Victoria, V. I. (Taylor), dated 

 February, March and April, 1886, and marked as "Very common, flying 

 over garden at Cedar Hill." 



 COLEOPTERA TAKEN AT LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA. 



BY JOHN HAMILTON, M. D., ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Lake Worth is an elongated bay connected with the ocean, two and 

 one-half miles from its northern end, and separated from it by a narrow 

 elevated strip of land, varying in width from two hundred to nine hundred 

 yards. Its length is about 20 miles, while in width it averages about 

 thirteen hundred yards. The country adjacent to the west shore is 

 largely in its primitive state — white sand overgrown with Saw Palmetto, 

 sqrub live oak and many other shrubs and vines, with occasionally some, 

 pines. The flora of the strip between the lake and the ocean is designated 

 the semi-tropical forest by Mr. Schwarz, wiio has largely developed the 

 coleopterous fauna of South-eastern Florida. 



The part of the lake and the ocean beach where this collection was 

 made is that north from the inlet in about lat. 25° 40', long. 80°, this part 

 of the coast being the most eastern point of Florida, and almost touched 

 by the Gulf stream. The collecting was done from February i8th to April, 

 1 8th, a season of tlie year when most insects have disappeared in these 

 warm regions, as is well known, just as they do at the north during the 

 same months. Insects were, perhaps, scarcer than usual on account of 

 the dryness of the season, there having been no rain from December till 

 my departure, and the temperature by night mostly 70°, and that of 

 midday 84^. 



