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our country, Morio monihicornis and, perhaps, Psydrus piceus, which, with 
their larvee, live under pine bark. A small number of other species 
(Aetophorus, Demetrias, Odacantha) live in Europe preferable within the 
stems of Phragmites, and our Dromuus atriceps Lec. appears to have simi- 
lar habits as it was found to occur in Jarge numbers within the dried 
stems of a stout grass growing in thick bunches near the beach at Fortress 
Monroe, Va. A fourth species in our fauna, Oxofa floridana Horn, is, 
in my experience, confined to the Cabbage Palmetto (Sadal palmetio) as 
all specimens observed thus far by Mr. Hubbard and myself were in- 
variably found upon the leaves of that tree concealed between the ribs 
and not easily dislodged from their hiding places. A larva found at the 
same place seems.to belong to this Onota which no doubt feeds upon 
the numerous larve of other species that live between the leaf-ribs. As 
Onota floridana is one of the most conspicuous species of our Lebiinee it 
could not have been easily overlooked should it occur also under other 
conditions and I believe that it must be added to the fauna peculiar. to 
the Palmetto tree. This fauna is very rich in species and contributes 
much to distinguish the Coleopterous fauna of Florida at once from that 
of the other Southern States. E. A. Scuwarz, Washington, D. C. 
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Description of the genus ENDEODES (Malachide) 
by Joun L. Leconte, M. D. 
Reprint from James Thomson's Arcana Naturce. Paris 1850, vol. ITI, p. 122. 
ENDEODES, /«. 
This genus while agreeing with AZe/estus in the absence of wings and 
the shortness of elytra differs essentially in the anterior tarsi of the male, 
the second joint of which is obliquely prolonged above as far. as the end 
of the third joint, precisely asin many species of Anthovomus:, the epi— 
stoma is membranous and quite distinct, while in AZe/estus it is described 
as indistinct. ‘These two characters are sufficient to warrant the Cali— 
fornian species [of Azelestus basalis Lec., Proc. Ac. Phila., VI, 168, San 
' Diego Cal.] being considered-as a distinct genus. To this genus also be- 
long Aéelestus abdominals and collaris Lec. 1. c., also from the coast of 
California; in the first the head and thorax are red, in the latter, the 
thorax alone. 
Thomson’s Arcana Naturz being extremely scarce and containing. but the’ aboye 
description of a new genus, we have reprinted it, Besides this it contains the description 
of 21 species, formerly published in North American periodicals and the figures of 
20 of these species. SS i 
