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prominent umbones, entire surface finely and irregularly 

 punctuate; abdomen with first segment equal in length to 

 the three succeeding segments, the fifth longer than the 

 fourth segment, and the narrow sixth longer than the 

 fifth segment. 



Length, 4 mm. Diameter, 2.6 mm. 



Type in collection of W. S. Blatchley. Taken at Dune- 

 din, Florida. 



I take much pleasure in dedicating this species to Mr. 

 Blatchley who has done so much efficient work in promot- 

 ing the cause of systematic entomology. It is closely 

 related to S. lafipes Arrow (1920) erroneously identified 

 by Gorham in the Biologia Centrali- Americana (1899) 

 as S. angustitltis Gerstaecker, as pointed out by Arrow. It 

 is to be distinguished however from that species in pos- 

 sessing four basal segments of the antennae which are pale 

 yellow, in its smaller size, and in having the antennae 

 decidedly less than half the length of the body, a char- 

 acteristic however which differs in the sexes of many 

 species of Steuotarsns. In S. latipes the two basal seg- 

 ments of the antennae are pale yellow, the third and 

 fourth are pale brown, and the seven distal segments black, 

 while the length of the individual is noted as 5.5 mm. in- 

 stead of 4 mm. as in S. blatchleyi. A careful comparison 

 of the two species would undoubtedly show other distinct 

 differences. 



Continued careful collecting in Florida will undoubt- 

 edly yield many more subtropical species of insects par- 

 ticularly among the minute forms so often overlooked by 

 the average individual interested in entomological pur- 

 suits. We should thus be quite appreciative of the results 

 obtained by Mr. Blatchley in helping to demonstrate the 

 value of keen observation in connection with the fauna 

 and flora of Florida. 



