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adult from sweet-potato in Missouri. Popenoe's 1878 (Trans. 

 Kans. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 84) allusion to Cassida sexpunctata as 

 frequent on Ipomoea leptophylla in western Kansas may refer to 

 this species or to the form mentioned here as possibly distinct 

 from Metriona bicolor. Baker 1895 (Ent. News., vol. 6, p. 28) men- 

 tions larvae bred on Convolvulus saepium at Ft. Collins, Colo, and 

 Cockerell 1903 (Ent. News, vol. 14, p. 207) records adults from 

 Convolvulus incanus at Las Vegas, N. M., alluding to the species 

 as a sweet-potato pest and citing his former reference (Bull. 35, 

 N. M. Exp. Sta.). The Calif ornian material is regarded as the 

 following species. 



16. Jonthonota novemmaculata (Mann.) is represented in 

 the National Collection by a series from Los Angeles and San 

 Francisco, Cal., taken by Koebele, but the species is omitted in 

 the local list by Fall, 1901 (Occ. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., vol. 8). 

 A specimen from Dunsmuir, Cal. (H. C. Fall) loaned me by Mr. 

 Schaeffer, seems to be intermediate between nigripes and this 

 species. 



17. Gratiana pallidula (Boh.) (more familiar as Cassida 

 texana) has been recorded by Riley 1882 and 1883 (Amer. Nat., 

 vol. 16, p. 679, and vol. 17, p. 1070) on the leaves of Solanum 

 elaeagnifolium in Texas and as injuring egg-plant on Wilmington 

 Island near Savannah, Ga., citing also its capture on Solanum 

 carolinense at Washington, D. C. Coquillet 1892 (Ins. Life, vol. 

 4, p. 262) records its occurrence on Solanum xanti near Los Angeles, 

 Cal., this record being copied by Fall 1901 (Occ. Papers Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 8, p. 160). The National Collection contains also a. 

 set found breeding on S. carolinense at Washington, D. C. about 

 1909, donated by Knab, and representatives from Kirkwood, 

 Mo. (also on S. carolinense) 1 Wellington, Kans., Tulsa, Okla., 

 Mansfield, La., fourteen localities in Texas, Las Cruces and 

 Albuquerque, N. M., and Santa Rita Mts., Ariz. 



18. Orectis callosa (Boh.) from Texas (Dallas, Sharpsburg, 

 San Diego, Corpus Christi and Brownsville) is labelled as found 

 on Solanum and Physalis, and there are two slightly different 

 specimens in the National Collection from Crescent City, Fla., 

 collected by H. G. Hubbard. Mr. Knab has just donated a 

 specimen from Swansea, S. C., taken Aug. 12, 1911, which is larger 

 than any of the others. 



19. Coptocycla repudiata Suffr. 1868 (Archiv fur Naturg., 

 vol. 34, pp. 249-251 translated by Gundlach 1891 (?), Contrib. 



1 Somes' notes (Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 9, 1916, p. 42) on his transfer- 

 ence, in Missouri, of larvae of this beetle from colonies on S. carolinense 

 to caged plants of tomato and potato, and their successful development 

 and reproduction on these plants, has since come to the writer's attention. 



