1920] Fall—On Certain Species of Haltica, Old and New 101 



palpi narrow, yellow in the male and brown in the female. Thorax 

 slender, pectus yellowish, pleurse nearly glabrous. Abdomen 

 narrow, male genitalia with two small spoon-shaped end-valves 

 and central short penis, female abdomen tapering. Legs including 

 coxse pale yellow, the tarsi a little brownish, apex of hind femora 

 and middle of hind tibiie usually dusky. Hal teres pale yellow, 

 calypteres yellow, with long fringe. Wings narrow, three times 

 as long as wide, hyaline, veins brown, first vein ending at basal 

 third of the wing, second and third sections of the costa propor- 

 tioned 2 : 1, sections of fourth vein nearly 1 : 2: 3, the last section 

 arching forward but apically becoming parallel with the third vein, 

 anal vein extending two-thirds the distance to the margin, anal 

 cross vein recurved at tip. 



Twelve specimens. Type from Potlatch, on Hood's Canal, 

 Wash., July 28, 1917; others from Blaine, Lynden and Auburn, 

 Wash., and Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, July to September. 

 Several of the specimens were found on windows. 



ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF HALTICA, OLD AND NEW. 



By H. C. Fall, 

 Tyngsboro, Mass. 



About a year ago, after reajding the then recently published 

 paper^ by William Colcord Woods on the life histories of certain 

 Maine Halticas previously regarded as varieties of H. ignita Illig., 

 and having examined typical examples of all forms, kindly sent by 

 Mr. Woods, some observations seemed pertinent to the writer, 

 but the matter was allowed to go by default, and nothing was done 

 beyond communicating one or two points to Mr. Woods by letter, 

 chief of which, perhaps, was the fact that his Haltica torquata was 

 not the torquata of Le Conte. 



More recently comes Mr. Malloch's article,- in which he, too, 

 alludes to the probable error in identifying the eastern blueberry 

 flea beetle as Le Conte's torquata. Although Mr. Leng frankly 

 admits his responsibility for the mistaken identification, he is by no 

 means the first offender, as the torquata mix-up really dates back to 

 Horn's Synopsis of the Halticini in 1889, in which he erroneously 



1 Maine Agric. Exp. Station Bull., 273; October, 1918. 



2 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. XIV, p. 123. 



