igoi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II 



plant of Cylas formicarius, the sweet potato weevil. I found 

 this fact out several ) r ears ago and wrote to the late Dr. Ham- 

 ilton about it, sending him sections of the Ipomcca stem with 

 this species within it, in all its different stages. The good 

 Doctor was much interested and urged me to record the dis- 

 covery, but I have never done so till now. Under boards and 

 sticks upon the beach I found often an odd and showy Anthicid, 

 new tome. It was . \nthicus currax Champ, as Mr. Sch\v;ir/ 

 tells me, and is described and figured in the Biologia Cent. 

 Am. Mr. Schwarz says it is a maritime species and that he 

 has found it at Jupiter and Capron, in Florida, and has it also 

 from Texas. 



In similar situations the Staphylinid Cafius bistriatits is 

 found in great abundance, also many specimens of Philonthus 

 alumnus, common all along the coast. Under all kinds of 

 debris the different species of Phaleria were very numerous, P. 

 picipcs being least common. As usual, there are upon the 

 white sand many whitish insects, difficult to distinguish 011 

 their pale background. A horse-fly, Tabanus psammophilus 

 of palest gray, a large cream-white spider, two or three of the 

 cricket family, pallid and silvery, several species of Dolichopo- 

 didae of greenish white ; a tiny fly, just the color of the sand, 

 Rhicna'ssa albula ; these and many more pale, ghostly, shadowy 

 creatures frequent the dazzlingly white sea sand, eluding, de- 

 cieving and aggravating the collector. 



T\vo of the silvery crickets which I found on the sand were, 

 respectively, Cycloptilus sqnamosns, known only, hitherto, from 

 Texas, I think ; and Mogosoplidus slossoni. This last genus I 

 was so fortunate as to add to our fauna two or three years ago, 

 its only American habitat heretofore being Chili. I found the 

 species first under bark of fallen trees at Miami, Biscay ne Bay, 

 silvery, iridescent pearly little creatures, very agile and slipperx 



One morning in March, just after an easterly storm, when 

 for two or three days there had been a strong wind from the 

 sea, I found on the beach some very odd, long-legged little 

 beasts, not very unlike immature "water-boatmen." These 

 were found to be, as Dr. Uhler wrote me, Halobafcs wuellerstorfii, 

 a marine hemipter of the Ilydrobatidae, generally found far out 



