20 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
“176 (15914). A. scyrtoides Lec., 1878, 416—Types from “Florida.” 
Jupiter, on oak; Miami (Sz. Ms.). At hand from Biscayne Bay, Mch. 18, 
taken by Mrs. Slosson. Mines the leaves of the Florida privet, Forestiera 
porulosa (Michx.) (Sz. Ms.). 
XLV. Haltica Geoffroy. 
Small oblong-oval, convex species (2-5 mm.), blue, dull yellow 
or bronzed in hue, having the front coxal cavities open behind; 
thorax with a transverse basal impression, this not limited at 
each end. The species are numerous and some of them are in- 
jurious to grape foliage and garden truck. The genus is a difficult 
one and there is much confusion of synonymy. 
*177 (15917). H. chalybea Il].—Throughout the State, recorded from 
numerous stations. At hand from seven, including Cape Sable. Common 
about Dunedin, Nov.-Apr., on foliage of wax myrtle, wild grape, etc., hiber- 
nating in bunches of Spanish moss and beneath loose bark. Gainesville, on 
plum blossoms, Feb. 18, wild grape, Feb. 27 (Doz.); velvet beans (Wat.). 
Known in economic literature as the “grape-vine flea-beetle.” 
*178 (15918). H. nana Cr.—“South Carolina to Florida” (Horn, 1889). 
Biscayne Bay (Sz. Ms.). Mt. Dora, Aug.; Gainesville, on Eupatorium 
(Wat.). At hand from Gainesville (Fattig) and Dunedin. Rare at Dunedin, 
Nov.-Apr., on foliage in sandy open woods. One of the smallest (2 mm.) 
members of the genus. 
“179 (15926). H. litigata Fall, 1910, 154—Type from Enterprise. 
Throughout the State; recorded as H. ignita (Ill.) from numerous stations. 
At hand from nine localities, Nov.-Apr. Common on the water purslane, 
Ludwigia palustris Ell.; also beneath debris and decaying vegetation about 
the margins of ditches, ponds and lakes, and occasionally at porch light 
(B1., 1923). Fall (loc. cit.) assumes that typical H. ignita is a “brilliant 
coppery-golden form of the Middle Atlantic States,” whereas litigata is 
blue with protruding eyes and dull brown tibiae and tarsi. 
*180 (15927). H. schwarzi Blatch., 1914, 141.—Types from Utopia on L. 
Okeechobee. Taken also at Pahokee and Ft. Myers. Occurs on low vege- 
tation along the edges of lakes and streams. Piceous, strongly bronzed. 
(4.2-4.5 mm.). 
*181 (15928). H. vaccinia Blatch., 1916, 95—Types from Dunedin. At 
hand also from Caxambus and Ft. Myers. Common about Dunedin, Dec-Apr., 
on the flowers and foliage of dwarf nuckleberry. Uniform dark coppery 
red. (3-3.2 mm.). 
182 (15932). H. vicaria Horn, 1889, 222.—‘‘Massachusetts to Florida 
westward to Colorado and Arizona” (Horn). No other record. 
*183 (15942). H. marevagans Horn, 1889, 226—‘Along the seacoast 
region from Florida to New Jersey” (Horn). Pablo Beach and New Smyr- 
na. (Sz. Ms.). Gainesville on Oenothera, riddling the plant; also on 
Jussieua Apr.-Sept. (Doz.); maple, June, Helenium July, Solidago Oct. 
(Wat.). Scarce on Hog Island, opposite Dunedin, Feb. 5-Mch. 25, on the sea 
purslane, Sesuvium maritimum Walt. (Bl. 1917) ; also at porch light, July 5. 
