152 Naturai. History Buli.etin. 



The gills open laterally. Color in alcohol, uniform light 

 brown, with no markings of any description. 



"At Key West, as with most of the other land stations, the 

 entomological work was confined chiefly to Coleoptera, and 

 only passing notice given the other orders. Attention was at 

 first naturally attracted to the beach, which here proved much 

 less productive than usual, the only species of note thus found 

 being two species of Cicindcla [niaroinata, Fabr. and tortu- 

 osa Dej.), and a few examples of Trichofteryx (sp. incog.), 

 Dryotribiis and Macraiicyliis, P/ialcn'a being almost entirely 

 wanting. Later on, when opportunity offered to go into the 

 thickets w^iich cover that portion of the key lying behind the 

 city, the insect life w^as found to be much more abundant and 

 varied than at first supposed. The two species of Ciclndela 

 already mentioned were not uncommon in the roads and paths 

 which run through the brush in all directions, and under loose 

 pieces of bark hing near pools were taken a few specimens 

 of Bcmhidiiim contractiDu Say and of a Tachys near the Cali- 

 fornian T. vittigxr Lee. Beating yielded Chilocoriis cacti Linn., 

 Psyllohora nana Muls. (a smaller form than that taken in the 

 Tortugas). and an undescribed Scyuinns as representatives of 

 the CocciNELi.iD.^, while the Cryptophagid.^ were repre- 

 sented by Loheriis imprcssiis Lee, and the Dascyli.id^ by 

 Scirtcs tibialis Guer. Wherever the herbafje was more than 

 ordinarily thick, or a clump of fresh sprouts had sprung from 

 an old trunk, we were pretty sure to find one or two JSTono- 

 rrcpidiiis lividiis De G.; in the inner recesses of the thickets, 

 where vines and bushes, matted together, overhung the nar- 

 row pathways, a few of the little Ptinids, HcniiptycJius sinii- 

 lis Lee. and Eiipactiis viticola Sz. were shaken from their 

 leafy shelters. Scarab^id.^ w^ere by no means common, and 

 seemed confined to two species, — Tric/iiiis delta Forst.. which 

 was seen flying about flowers, and is rendered conspicuous 

 and easily recognizable by the triangular yellow mark on its 

 black thorax; and CantJioii Iicvis Drury, \\hich was found 

 but once, in cow-droppings. This last species ranges from 

 Canada and New Enfjland to Florida and the south of Call- 



