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A NATURE WOOING. 



walking rapidly over the fallen leaves in the palmetto 

 groves. I said "Hello/ 7 and consigned him to my 

 cyanide bottle, to remind me in future years that he 



is found mature on 

 April Fool's Day in 

 Florida. This large, 

 bright colored beetle 

 is not recorded in any 

 of the published lists 

 of Florida Coleoptera. 

 It reaches a length of 

 one and a fifth inches 

 and is bright green, ex- 

 cept the margins of the 

 elytra, which are tinged 

 with coppery red. It 



ranges over almost the entire United States, and is 

 carnivorous in habit; being usually found running 

 about in search of some caterpillar or other insect or 

 worm which will furnish it a meal. 



From the yellow flowers of a senecio I take a half- 

 dozen specimens of a tri-colored hemipteron, Me- 

 lanocoryphus ~bicrucis Say. It is a common southern 

 "bug," seven-twentieths of an inch in length; the 

 ground color red; the head, feet, front margin of, 

 thorax and tips of elytra, black. The inner edges of 

 the elytra form a yellow cruciate line, whence the 

 specific name licrucis. 



Fig. 43. 



Calosoma tcrutator Fab. 



