Ib8 A New Rhipidandrus (Coleoptera) From Florida 



A NEW RHIPIDANDRUS (COLEOPTERA) FROM FLORIDA 



By Charles Dury, Cincinnati, Ohio 



Rhipidandrus fulvomaculatus, n. sp. 



Piceous black in color, with a large fulvous blotch on each 

 elytron at about the middle. In form, size, and sculpture it re- 

 sembles the common Rhipidandrus paradoxus. The antennae are 

 quite different from that species, as is also the color of mature 

 specimens. The cut shows the structural difference in antennae bet- 

 ter than it can be described. No. 1 being fulvomaculatus, and No. 



2 paradoxus. The antennae of paradoxus are pale in color, those 

 of fulvomaculatus are black with only the terminal joint pale, and 

 legs dark brown with the tarsi pale. Length : 2.6 mm. Fruit- 

 land, Fla., July, 1911. Described from specimens received from 

 Mr. Loding, Mobile, Ala., also taken by Prof. Blatchley at Dune- 

 din, Fla., and by myself at West Palm Beach, May, 1913. 



Immature specimens are brown in color, and the reddish 

 blotches of elytra faintly indicated. The genus, Rhipidandrus Lee 

 {Eutomus Lac), has been removed from the Cioidcc to the Tene- 

 brionidce, to which family it seems to be more closely related. 



Note — Since the above was written Mr. H. S. Barber, of 

 Washington, D. C, has published a paper, ''Notes on Rhipidan- 

 dri," Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Vol. XV, No. 4, 1913, P. 188, in 

 which he gives a chronological list of the literature and describes 

 a n. sp. from Panama. Referring to the above species as "En- 

 tomus n. sp." 



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