22 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^'o'- xxi>^- 



Glyptina brunnea Horn. 



A single specimen was taken July 20 in Marion County, while 

 sweeping in dense upland woods. This is the first Indiana record. 

 Horn states that it is known from Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and 

 Wisconsin. 



The species of the genus Haltica are also much more numerous 

 in this country than was supposed by Horn. Since his synopsis 

 appeared, a number of species have been described as new by Fall, 

 Schaeffer. Woods and myself, and two others which are apparently 

 different from any known are herewith added to the list. One of 

 them, as well as several of the others recently described, was mas- 

 querading under the name H. igniia Illig, which name was for years 

 a general dumping ground for species similar in size and general 

 facies which could not be readily determined. Just what Illiger's 

 species was or is no one in this country apparently really knows. 

 By Melsheimer, Leconte, Horn and others the name ignita was 

 assigned to a group of species of subdepressed, oblong form, 3-4 mm. 

 in length, blue, greenish or coppery-golden in color, having joints 

 2, 3 and 4 of antennae usually gradually longer ; thorax one-half 

 wider than long, finely and sparsely punctured, the sub-basal trans- 

 verse impression loosely defined but wide and entire and consisting of 

 a narrow, deep median line from which the front of the impression 

 rises abruptly, the hind portion being flattened, and gradually sloping 

 upward. Males with last ventral segment sinuate each side, forming 

 a short median semicircular lobe which is flattened but not emarginate, 

 impressed or excised, the hind edge usually slightly reflexed. 



Fall first recognized* that a number of species were included by 

 these older writers under the name ignito and described three of them, 

 probata and suspccta from California and lifigata from Florida, as 

 new, limiting the name ignita to a " brilliant coppery-golden form of 

 the Middle Atlantic states." My Haltica schwarai^ and H. vaccinia,^ 

 described from Florida, were next taken from the ignita complex of 

 Horn. Woods'' has since separated and described three additional 



4 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXXVI, 1910, 153. 



5 Can. Ent., XLVI, 1914, 141; XLVIII, 1916, 95. 



6 Bull. 2JT,, Maine Agr. Exp. Stat., 1918, 154. 



