SPRING NUMBER 67 
Larvae bright yellow with considerable bright red hypodermal pigmenta- 
tion. Tube and antennae brown. Eyes red. 
Described from five females and two larvae found by Mr. Geo. B. Merrill 
under scale caps of cocoanuts from Cuba, intercepted at Key West quaran- 
tine station by inspectors of the State Plant Board. Occurred in company 
with a single specimen of Franklinothrips vesperformis (Crawford). 
Type in the author’s collection. 
SOME BEETLES NEW TO FLORIDA 
J. R. WATSON 
Among a collection of beetles recently determined for the Ex- 
periment Station by Dr. W. S. Blatchley are the following which 
are not recorded for Florida in Leng’s “‘Catalogue of the Coleop- 
tera of America, North of Mexico.” Unless otherwise indicated 
they were collected by the writer in the vicinity of Gainesville. 
Cicindela rectilatera Chd. Along Prairie Creek. Abundant on mud banks 
in the stream. June 23, 1918. Campus of the University, July 7, 1918. 
Baeocera deflexa Csy. Beaten from Aesculus pavia. March 4, 1917. 
Tritoma affinis. On Coprinus, Aug. 19, 1919. 
Pachybrachys viduatus (Fab.). Shrubs in “flatwoods” July 4, 1918. With 
P. litigiosus. 
Microtomus sericans Lec. 
Eros aurora Hbst. At blooms of Bee Balm (Monarda), Oct. 10, 1920. 
Litargus balteatus Lec. Sweeping grass and herbs at Lake Wales, June 
LOS 1920. 
Scymnus americana. On cottony cushion scale (Jcerya purchasi) at Key 
West, March 5. 
Cryptorhopalum picricorne Lec. Gainesville, abundant in Crataegus 
bloom. March 10, 1917; Sanford, 4n bloom of Cassia sp. Aug. 3, 1918. 
Anthrenus scrophularia Lis. On blossoms of wild plum. Feb. 28, 1919. 
Pocadius helvolus Er. In puffball, June 30, 1918. 
Scirtes orbiculatus (Fab.). On French mulberry, June 16, 1918; from 
rotting sweet potatoes May 22, 1920. 
Cyphon obscurus. Sumatra, Fla. On Citrus. 
Attalus humerales. At bloom of cherry laurel, Feb. 12, 1919. 
Enoclerus nigripes Say. On Basswood May 18, 1920. 
Haltica amoena Horn. Leng records this from Georgia but it is given 
in Blatchley’s list from Sanford, 1915. Among the pine needles on the 
floor of a pure stand of long leaf pine Jan. 27, 1918; Viking, Fla., June 
i, LOS: 
Anoplitis inaequalis (Web.). On Polymnia and Rhus July 21, 1918. 
Ganascus ventricosus Lec. Recorded by Leng as “N. C. (Fla.?)” Gaines- 
ville on Hickoria, Oct:; Tavares on closely grazed carpet grass. 
Gnathium francilloni Kirby. On various flowers, Sep. 
Hydnocera, suturalis Klug. Recorded by Leng as occurring in South 
Florida; Gainesville, May 22, 1920, on Erigeron ramosus. 
Ceratona caminea (Fab.) Bean Leaf Beetle: Common about Quincy but 
