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June 26th. Det. Wick. Distr. South Atlantic coast of "United States 
to Texas and Mexico. 
241. Cregya mixta Lee.-— Two specimens bred from dead branches 
of fig, issuing March 30th and April 21st. Distr. Florida to Louisiana, 
Texas, and Mexico. 
242. Cregya bilineicollis , Chev. — One specimen beaten in palmetto 
thicket at Santo Tomas, June 27th. This species has been referred to 
the genus Pelonium. Distr. Tropical Mexico to Panama. 
243. Orthopleura texana, Bland. — One beaten from foliage in pal- 
metto thicket at Santo Tomas, June 9th. Distr. Known only from 
Texas. 
244. Necrobia rufipes , Fabr, — One attracted to light, March 14th. 
Also taken at Fort Ringgold, May 13th, and on bags of bones at Refu- 
gio, May 14th. Distr. Cosmopolitan. 
PTINIDAE. 
245. Mezium americanum , Lap. — One specimen of this interesting 
species was taken on a window in doors. May 19th. The species looks 
exactly like a small spider at first sight, being a little over 2 mm. long. 
The bases of the elytra are armed with spinose hairs, a very remarkable 
character. Distr. West Indies and Southern States to Texas and Mex- 
ico. 
246. Ptinus bimaculatus, Melsh. — Beaten in palmetto thicket at 
Santo Tomas, June 16th. Distr. Throughout the Southern States, 
reaching north to New York, Ohio, etc. 
247. Ptinus , n. sp. — Two new species of the genus were taken by 
Schwarz in June. Distr. Known only from this region. 
248. Trichodesma, n. sp. — One specimen taken in cotton field three 
miles south of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, June 1st. It was on the out- 
side of a cotton square, and was taken in the act of eating into a division 
of the square on the edge. Length, 5J mm. Color soft, velvety 
cream-gray; nearly the hinder one-third of elytra warted brick-tawny 
and dark velvet-browm, mostly the former, the velvet-brown in spots on 
anterior border of this area. Thorax remarkably produced back of mid- 
dle into a sub-angular prominence; color brown, tawny and gray inter- 
spersed. Legs, underside, and head brownish, clothed wfith short tawny 
pubescence. Upper side thickly short pubescent, giving the various 
colors, and with a sparse longer grayish pubescence rising out of the 
whole and showing above it. The prothorax is bent downward, the dor- 
sal prominence pointing straight upward. Distr. Known only from the 
Lower Rio Grande region. 
