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SO long as broad, with a 3-tootlied margin, smoothly convex with a 

 depression along the basal margin, deeply, coarsely, rugosely, and 

 confliiently punctate. 



Head with a thick covering of scales down to the antennal sockets 

 and a more or less distinct median line, ending in a little ridge over 

 the polished lower front, piinctation coarse and tending to be in con- 

 fluent lines; lower front not very densely or coarsely punctate with 

 a fine scale arising from each puncture ; an indistinct ridge on either 

 side of occiput. Antennae reddish brown and not extending much 

 below the humeri, with the distal joints thickened, of the usual 

 proportions. Prothorax not quite so long as wide, smoothly convex 

 with a 3-toothed margin and a tooth at each corner ; depressed along 

 the basal margin ; punctation coarse, deep, and confluent. Elytra with 

 no sign of basal callosities, depressed along the basal margin ; the rows 

 of elytral punctures closely placed; punctures coarse and deep, be- 

 coming finer toward apex ; scales closely appressed, rather coarse and 

 yellowish mixed with brown so as to give the elytra a speckled appear- 

 ance. Body beneath shining, breast and abdomen dark brown, tip 

 of abdomen reddish, scales on this white and more slender; first ab- 

 dominal segment coarsely and densely punctate; a small rounded 

 depression at tip of abdomen of female, a more triangular depression 

 in male. Hind femora bluntly toothed, anterior tibiae with a sharp 

 tooth on inner side. Length 4.7 to 6.5 mm; width 2.2 to 3.2 mm. 



Type and paratypes. — In the United States National Museum, 

 collected by G. P. Engelhardt. 



Type locality. — St. Augustine, Fla. 



Other localities. — Florida: Capron, Childs, Enterprise, Ponce de 

 Leon, Eock Bluff, Weirsdale, Winter Park; Georgia; South Caro- 

 lina: Meredith, Myrtle Beach, Ridgeland; North Carolina: 

 Boardman (W. F. Fish, on Toxodium distichum) ; Virginia: Fred- 

 ericksburg; Alabama: Mobile; Mississippi: Hancock; Louisiana: 

 Pearl River. 



Remarhs. — Its reddish-brown coloring and yellowish scales dif- 

 ferentiate this species from denticollis and ranella. The prothorax is 

 more coarsely punctate than in denticollis and is also more convex. It 

 looks like a small specimen of M. magnus but has a much more coarsely 

 punctate prothorax and is a deeper reddish brown. 



MYOCHROUS FLORIDANUS TEXANUS, new subspecies 



Platk 2, Figure 7 



Two specimens in the Hubbard and Schwarz collection from Co- 

 lumbia, Tex., do not agree entirely with the other specimens of M. 

 ■floridanus. They are a little smaller and have a more finely punc- 

 tate prothorax, the punctures being more confluent and denser and 



