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Dunedin, Miaka, Arch Creek and R. P. Park, Fla., Feb. 3 — 

 April 10. Taken by sifting- dead leaves and beneath cover along 

 the margins of hammocks. Known also from Gainesville, Fla., 

 Alabama and North Carolina. This species forms a sort of con- 

 necting link between the genera Pangceus and Geotomus. In size 

 and general facies it more closely resembles the former, but 

 the preapical impressed line of pronotum, which is the primary 

 distinguishing character of Paut/ccus, is represented only by a 

 row of coarse punctures. 



V. Macroporus Uhler, 1876, 278. 



Broadly oval, sub-convex species, having the margins of 

 head and pronotum sparsely ciliate ; head broad, its apex blunt- 

 ly rounded ; cheeks with margins broadly reflexed and with a 

 distinct submarginal groove beset with short erect spines ; an- 

 tennae with second joint half as long as third, 3 — 5 subequal, 

 stouter, submoniliform ; beak reaching middle coxae, joint two 

 shorter than three and four united, these subequal ; pronotum 

 subquadrate, front angles rounded, prolonged to beyond middle 

 of eyes, side margins oblique, feebly curved near apex, disk 

 narrowed in front and with a vague impressed line behind the 

 front margin ; corium broad, its hind margin feebly sinuate. 

 One species is known. 



43 (45). Macroporus repetitus Uhler, 1876, 279. 



Broadly oval, slightly wider behind the middle. Above dark reddish- 

 brown; membrane pale translucent; under surface dark chestnut-brown, 

 legs, antennae and prosternum paler. Submarginal groove of head with 

 several long hairs in addition to the numerous short spines. Pronotum 

 with a vague transverse postmedian impression, this and side margins 

 of apical half thickly punctate, middle of apical half almost smooth. 

 Scutellum finely sparsely punctate and with a vague median carina. 

 Corium short, much broadened behind, evenly, rather coarsely and sparse- 

 ly punctate. Other characters as in key and under generic heading. 

 Length, 3.5 — 4 mm. 



San Gabriel, Cal., June (U. S. Xat. Mus.) . Described from 

 California. Uhler, (loc. cit.), mentions the finding of a single 

 specimen beneath a stone on the side of a hill near Baltimore, 

 Md. Not elsewhere recorded from the East. 



VI. Cydnus Fabricius, 1803, 184. 



Small or medium sized, broadly oval subconvex species hav- 

 ing the body thickly fringed with long hairs; head declivent, 



