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vSanta Clara Province, Cuba, May 8, 1904, by E. A. Schwarz, 

 and four females collected on Paradise Key, Florida (Type lo- 

 cality) November 10, 1917 (C. A. Mosier) February 19, 1919 (H. 

 S. Barber) December 10, 1919 (C. Ikey Mosier) and January 8, 

 1920 (Graham Fairchild). 



One of the specimens was beaten from a fern growth near the 

 crown of a cabbage palmetto, and another was found high in an 

 oak tree. The multitude of Orchids, Bromeliads, and other 

 epiphytic plants on the branches of the hammock trees offers a 

 difficult problem in the determination of the breeding habits of 

 this beautiful little species, and all our attempts were futile with 

 the possible exception that the old dead basal core of one of the 

 large Bromliads (probably Tillandsia utriculata) was found dis- 

 playing such exit hole and larval gallery as should be expected for 

 this species, but no fragments of larval skin could be found. The 

 quarantine against the related pests of sugar cane, banana, pine- 

 apple, and palms, certain of which (Metamasins sericeus, Cosmo- 

 polites sordidus) have been intercepted (although C. sordidus had 

 already become established at Miami, Fla.), makes this appar- 

 ently indigenous species of special interest and it remains to be 

 seen whether or not it will, with the utilization of the Everglades, 

 adopt an economic host plant. 



(Actual date of publication J^^ne 16, 1920} 



