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*198 (15993). M. floridana Crotch, 1873, 73.—Types from “Florida, 
Louisiana and Pennsylvania.” At hand from Sanford and Dunedin, Mch.- 
Apr. Occurs in March by hundreds on a species of dock, Rumex, growing 
along the bay beach at Dunedin; also on other herbage in low moist grounds. 
LII. Chaetocnema Stephens. 
Very small, oval, convex black or brownish glabrous species 
(1.8-3 mm.), having the thorax without basal impression, hind 
tibiae sinuate and toothed above near apex; elytral punctures in 
rows; first two ventral segments connate. 
*199 (16000). CC. brunnescens Horn, 1889, 259.—Types from Key West, 
Punta Gorda and Miami (Sz. Ms.). A submaritime species, at hand from 
Key West, Cape Sable and Dunedin. Frequent near Dunedin, Nov.-Feb., 
on the foliage of button-wood and other low shrubs growing near tidewater 
lagoons. 
200 (16001). C. denticulata (Til.)—‘‘Enterprise and Cedar Keys, 
rare” (Sz.). St. Augustine (Ham.). 
SPANIL: (( ). C. fleridana Blatch., 1928, 33—Types from Dunedin and 
Lakeland, Dec.-Mch.; taken by sweeping huckleberry and other low vege- 
tation in open pine woods. This is the: species I erroneously recorded 
(1919, 66) as C. cribrifrons Lec. 
*202 (16008). -C. pinguis Lec., 1878, 417.—Types from Enterprise and 
New Smyrna. At hand from Lakeland, Istokpoga and Dunedin, Dec.-Mch. 
Occurs on low vegetation along the margins of lakes and beneath cover on 
the bay beach. 
— *203 (16006). C. minuta Melsh.—‘Florida” (Horn, 1889). Gainesville 
(Wat.), Scarce at Dunedin, Mch. 2-30, on herbage growing in low moist 
ground. 
*204 (16008). C. alutacea Cr., 1878, 74.—Types from “Florida.” “Com- 
mon on swampy meadows” (Sz.). St. Augustine (Ham.). Biscayne Bay 
and Haw Creek (Sz. Ms.). Dunedin, rare, Apr. 8, by sweeping along the 
margin of a dense hammock (BI. 1923). : 
20m ( ). C. robusta Blatch., 1923, 33.—Types from Hog Island, 
opposite Dunedin, where it occurs in some numbers on Batis maritima and 
other herbage growing in areas flooded at high tide. The largest (2.7-3 mm.) 
of the Florida species of the genus. 
*206 (16011). C. obesula Lec., 1878, 418.—Types from L. Ashley and 
Baldwin. Enterprise (Sz. Ms.). At hand from Pahoka, Moore Haven and 
Dunedin, Oct. 26-Mch. 27. In the truck lands about L. Okeechobee this 
is one of the three species of flea beetles which are said to do much damage 
to the crops, the others being Epitrix cucumeris and Chaetocnema quadri- 
collis. 
207 (16013). C. parcepunctata Cr.—‘Common” (Sz.). The only State 
record. 
*208 (16014). C. pulicaria Melsh.—St. Augustine (Ham.). Gainesville, 
on corn (Doz.). Dunedin, scarce, Dec.-Mch., on low herbage along the mar- 
gins of ponds. 
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