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ing along this path, for which in places the sand has 

 been excavated for three or four feet, one notes that 

 the surface of the peninsula is composed of alternate 

 high sandy ridges and low swales. Its western half 

 is evidently of much the older origin, since on it are 

 large pines, oaks, hickories, etc. ; while the eastern 

 portion bears only a thick chaparral of saw palmetto, 

 with here and there a clump of scrub oaks. 



April 1, 1899. All the morning clouds hid the 

 sun, and nature wept copious tears. In other words, 

 it rained torrents at times gently at intervals. A 

 little after ten the heavens cleared and I went forth 

 along the woodland lane in search of beetles. 



On the leaves of an oak, I found a pair of small 

 scarabs, Diplotaxis languida Lee., described from 

 Tampa in 1878, and known only from Florida. It is 

 light brown in color, and but one-quarter of an inch 

 in length ; the male, as commonly, more slender than 

 the other sex. A leaf of another oak yielded a speci- 

 men of a handsome Chrysomelid, Cryptocephalus bi- 

 vius E~ewm., one-fifth of an inch in length. Its tho- 

 rax bears four lengthwise stripes each of black and 

 yellow, while the elytra, or outer wings, are brick red, 

 with three transverse rows of black spots. It is a rare 

 species of our southern insect fauna. A closely allied 

 species, C. guttulata Oliv., was also taken from a 

 nearby shrub. 



On my way to the shell mound, where I am now 

 writing, I met an old friend, Calosoma scrutator Fab., 



