150 PROC. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. 22, NO. 6, JUNE, 1920 1920. Banks, N., and Snyder, T. E. Revision of Nearctic Termites with notes on biology and geographic distribution. U. S. Nat'l. Mus., Bull. 108, April 13. 1920. Caudell, A. N. Zoraptera, not an apterous order of insects. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 22, No. 5. 1920. Thompson, C. B., and Snyder, T. E. The "Third Form," the wing-less, reproductive type of termites. Reticulitermes and Pro-rhinotermes. Jour, of Morphology, in press,. A NEW TROPICAL WEEVIL FROM FLORIDA AND CUBA. BY H. S. BARBER. A three week's vacation (in February and March, 1919) was spent by Mr. E. A. Schwarz and the writer, collecting in the southern part of Florida, most of the time at Paradise Key, which the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs is seeking to preserve as the "Royal Palm State Park."* One day's collecting on Big Pine Key (about 30 miles from Key West), and another day at Marathon on Vacas Key (18 miles further east) added several forms not found by us at Paradise Key, and brought the number of species of beetles we had brought together in this short expe-dition to well above 500. Among them are several forms pre-viously known only for Cuba, and the probability that a consider-able percentage of the species inhabiting the Southern Everglades have been described from the West Indies, greatly complicates the task of identifying the unfamiliar forms. In fact the most interesting part of the beetle fauna of the Everglade Keys and the Outer Keys is identical with that of the West Indies. The species here described is an example of this difficulty. Belonging to a genus quite numerous in species throughout the American tropics, though not previously known to occur naturally within our boundaries, and supposedly breeding in certain epiphytal plants of the treetops in the jungle-like "hammocks," the probable wide range of the species immediately confronts us and in spite * Since the construction of the automobile road towards Cape Sable has made the region easily accessible, Paradise Key has very justly attracted much attention and we were greatly assisted in our field work by having pre-viously read the several botanical papers by Dr. J. K. Small (Journ. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 1916, 1917, and 1918), narrating his experiences here and throughout the region; and partly familiarizing us in advance with the flora we were to encounter. See also the preface to Small's "Ferns of Royal Palm Hammock;" -Snyder's description of the locality in these Proceedings (Vol. 19, p. 143, pi. 15 and 16); and Safford's "Natural History of Paradise Key " (Smithsonian Report, 1917, PP-377-434, 64 plates).
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