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The gills open laterally. Color in alcohol, uniform light 

 brown, with no markings of an}- description. 



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

 entomological work was confined chiefly to Coleoptera, and 

 onl}' 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 Cicindela [ma?'oinata, Fabr. and tortii- 

 osa Dej.), and a few examples of Tricho^teryx (sp. incog.), 

 Drvotn'bus and Macrancylus. Phahria being almost entirely 

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

 thickets which cover that portion of the key lying behind the 

 city, the insect life was found to be much more abundant and 

 varied than at first supposed. The two species of Cicindela 

 alreadv 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 Bembidiiim contractuni Sa}' and of a Tachys near the Cali- 

 fornian T. vittiger Lee. Beating yielded Chilocorits cacti Linn.. 

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

 Tortugas). and an undescribed Scyninus as representatives of 

 the CocciNELLiD.^, while the Cryptophagid.^ were repre- 

 sented bv Lobcnis imprcssiis Lee. and the Dascyliid^ by 

 Scirtcs tibialis Guer. Wherever the herbage 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 Mono- 

 crepidiiis 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, Hemiptychiis sitni- 

 lis Lee. and Eupactus, z-iticola Sz. were shaken from their 

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

 seemed confined to two species, — Trichius delta Forst., which 

 was seen flying about flowers, and is rendered conspicuous 

 and easily recognizable bv the triangular yellow mark on its 

 black thorax: and Canthon hvvis Drury, which was found 

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

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



