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10,000 in number) I have been surprised at the paucity of that 
knowledge. This is due principally to two reasons; First, few of 
our systematic coleopterists, both past and present, have been 
active collectors, but have relied largely upon others to furnish 
their specimens, and neither they nor the collectors kept or re- 
corded ecological data; second, the collecting of beetles in recent 
years has largely been done by the sweep-net, and this method of 
capture prevents the food plant being definitely known, unless, 
as is seldom the case, the vegetation is of a single species. It is 
only, therefore, of the more common and destructive species that 
the food plant can be stated with accuracy. The notes, as given 
after each species, furnish, therefore, information as to the kind 
of a habitat in which the species may usually be found, rather 
than accurate knowledge as to its host plant. 
The sources of information on which the present paper is based 
are as follows: (a). My private collection, taken personally, main- 
ly during the months from November to April inclusive, during 
the past eleven years, and principally in the southern half of the 
State. In this collection are those species whose serial numbers 
are preceded by an asterisk (*) numbering 184 of those recorded 
from the State; (b). The Florida Chrysomelidae in the collection 
of W. T. Davis, Staten Island, N. Y., which were sent on to me 
for examination; (c). The collection of the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Gainesville, which I have examined in part there, 
and which in part has been sent to me for identification; (d). 
The printed records of Florida species as given in the works men- 
tioned in the “‘List of Works Cited’ which follows. A few of 
these records are open to question as to their proper identification 
at the time the record was made; (e). Manuscript records, espe- 
cially those of Schwarz and Hamilton mentioned in the “List of 
Works Cited,” also others kindly sent me by Prof. J. R. Watson, 
Chas. Schaeffer, H. C. Fall, J. N. Knull, Chas. W. Leng and 
others. 
List of Works Cited in the Present Paper 
Arranged Alphabetically by Authors and Years of Publication. 
BARBER, H. S.—1916—A Review of North American Tortoise Beetles. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 113-127. 
BLATCHLEY, W. S.—1902—A List of the Coleoptera taken in the vicinity 
of Ormond, Florida in March and April, 1899. A Nature Wooing 
at Ormond by the Sea. pp. 2383-238. 
1910—An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera known to 
Occur in Indiana, pp. 1-1386. Chrysomelidae pp. 1095-1233. 
