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but may be three. Approximately the first 20 days of larval life were 
spent feeding on the soil surface or in shallow burrows at the edge 
of the yeast. Approximately the last ten days (6 to n recorded) of 
larval life were spent in deepened vertical burrows which were made 
into pupation chambers. The larvae in these cells became more plump 
and swollen. Pupation lasted from 16 to 22 days (mean of 20 in a 
sample of 7). After ecdysis the adults remained in their cells for 
about a week before emerging. When the adults became reproduc- 
tively active is not known. 
Some of the larvae and pupae were preserved for a study of im- 
mature characteristics. They are in the MCZ beetle larva collections 
and will be described in a later paper. 
Catopocerus jonesi New Species 
Figs. 8, 9 ; Map 1 
Holotype male (MCZ no. 32229) from Eudy Cave, 1 mi. S. 
Oleander, Marshall County, Alabama, 23.vi.1942, W. B. Jones leg. 
Paratypes, in SBP collection: Alabama. Morgan County, Shine 
Cave (in Newsome Sinks) 7.vii. 1957, L. Varnedoe, 1 female; Van- 
dever Cave, 3 mi. S.S.W. Laceys Spring, 22.V.1972, S. & J. Peck, 
1 male and 1 female in rotten sticks at back of cave. Jackson 
County; House of Happiness Cave, 4 mi. S.W. Scottsboro, 23.V. 
1972, S. & J. Peck, 2 males and 1 female at carrion bait near en- 
trance. 
Diagnosis. The species can be distinguished by the third antennal 
segment being longer than the second, and the fifth being longer 
than the fourth and sixth, and by the conspicuous toothed ventral 
projection of the aedeagus. 
Description. Holotype measurements, HW, 0.62. PW, 1.12. 
PL, 0.80, EL, 1.56. EW, 1. 1 7. 
Length 2.54-2.65 mm. Width 1. 15- 1.23 mm. Color uniform 
dark reddish-brown, shining. Shape oblong, sides parallel. 
Head with no indications of eyes; clypeus slightly truncate; frons 
punctate; vertex punctate and finely striolate. Antennae well sup- 
plied with long hairs; segments IX, X, XI, possessing dense mat of 
long and short hairs; segment I robust; II cylindrical, shorter than 
III by 1/4; III conical, as broad as II; IV, VI longer than broad, 
shorter than V; VII distinctly longer than broad, slightly wider than 
VIII and longer than VIII by a third; IX slightly narrower than X, 
a third wider than VIII ; XI conical at tip. 
Pronotum widest at middle; sides evenly arcuate; narrower at 
front than back; hind angles slightly obtuse; front angles rounded; 
