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stria almost marginal except for a short distance at middle. Body heiieat h 
rufo-testaceous or rufo-hrunueous, the metasteriium sometimes a lit t le darker 
in tint. 
.1 / (ilr getnliiUii . — Color laifo-testaceons, middle lobe becoming rather abrupt ly 
linear in about apical two-fifths, the linear portion about one-fifth as wid(‘ 
as the lateral lobes. 
Lctiglh, 4.6 to .a. La mm.; width, 2. .a to 2.7 mm. 
Type locality. — “New York”; from the Harris Collection. 
Inasmuch as all other speciimms seen by me are from Florida, 
it is not impossibU' that tluu'i' may lie an ('rror in the tyjie lo- 
ctility. Elevalax, according; to Schwacz is common in Florida, 
and judging from the numerous localities cited liy Leng ami 
Mutchler^ must be generally diffused in the state. St. Augus- 
tine, Lake City, Culf Flammock, Lake Okechobee, Orange 
(’ounty, ami Dunedin are among the specific localities men- 
tioned. At the last named place it has been taken by Blatch- 
ley, who says he has never seen large colonies, but only from 
one to half a ilozen specimens at a time, (^uite possibly tliis 
may be due to the season (winter and spring) at which collect- 
ing was done. 
There are very few species with which elevatas is likely to be 
confused, icoodrujfi alone of the species of somewhat similar 
size and rufous vimtral surface a-iiproaching it in convexity of 
form. In ivoodraffi, which is really a smaller species, the elev- 
enth elytral stria is distinctly moi'c distant from the margin. 
There is a distinct possibility that the present species may 
be the true Undxdus of Say, which was described from Ceorgia 
and East Florida; Say, however, indicates by his measurements 
a species slightly larger than analis, which is not true of elevatu.s 
except when its largest individuals are conpiared with the 
smallest of anali.s. 
1.5. Gyrinus consobrinus LeC’onte 
Of the same medium size, moderate eonvexity, higidy polished sui'face 
luster, and color, as in aquiris, from which 1 know of no means of separating 
it excej^t by genitalic characters, and even these are strikingly similar, (he 
median lobe of the oedeagus being in consohri ii a little less than hall as 
wide apically as the lateral lolies, while in aquin.'i tlie width is as nearh' as 
may be one-half of the lateral lobes. If on the study ol a larger numlxM' ol 
s[)ecimens it shmdd be fouiul that tins difference is not constant, tlu' two 
dbill. Amer. Mus. Xat. Hist., xxxvm, p. 97, 191S. 
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