﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  byihe 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol. 
  103 
  Washington: 
  1953 
  No. 
  3319 
  

  

  THE 
  CHRYSOMELID 
  BEETLES 
  OF 
  THE 
  GENUS 
  

   STRABALA 
  CHEVROLAT 
  

  

  By 
  Doris 
  Holmes 
  Blake 
  

  

  Introduction 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  chrysomehd 
  genus 
  was 
  described 
  by 
  IlHger 
  * 
  

   in 
  1807 
  as 
  Haltica 
  ruja 
  from 
  Pennsylvania, 
  Melsheimer 
  collector. 
  

   A 
  year 
  later, 
  Olivier 
  ^ 
  described 
  Altica 
  ferruginea 
  from 
  Santo 
  Do- 
  

   mingo, 
  Palisot 
  de 
  Beauvois 
  collector, 
  and 
  Altica 
  scutellaris 
  from 
  

   southern 
  France. 
  Of 
  this 
  latter 
  locality 
  von 
  Harold 
  ^ 
  said 
  that 
  there 
  

   was 
  no 
  Altica 
  colored 
  anything 
  like 
  this 
  in 
  southern 
  France 
  and 
  that 
  

   the 
  locality 
  was 
  evidently 
  an 
  error. 
  In 
  1837, 
  in 
  the 
  Dejean 
  catalogue, 
  

   Chevrolat 
  * 
  listed 
  under 
  the 
  new 
  generic 
  name 
  Strabala 
  {crpa^aKa, 
  

   having 
  a 
  form 
  thick 
  and 
  contracted) 
  six 
  specific 
  names 
  of 
  Dejean 
  

   without 
  descriptions 
  or 
  references. 
  Four 
  of 
  them 
  are 
  pure 
  nomina 
  

   nuda; 
  for 
  the 
  two 
  others, 
  S. 
  scutellata 
  Dejean 
  and 
  S. 
  dominicensis 
  

   Dejean, 
  the 
  names 
  {Altica) 
  scutellaris? 
  Olivier 
  and 
  (A.) 
  ferruginea! 
  

   Olivier, 
  respectively, 
  are 
  given 
  as 
  doubtful 
  synonyms. 
  The 
  generic 
  

   name 
  is 
  consequently 
  not 
  published 
  here. 
  Chevrolat 
  changed 
  the 
  

   locality 
  for 
  scutellata 
  to 
  America 
  Borealis. 
  Of 
  these 
  six 
  names 
  only 
  

   one 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  used; 
  S. 
  intermedia, 
  whose 
  locality 
  in 
  this 
  catalogue 
  

   was 
  given 
  as 
  Cuba, 
  was 
  adopted 
  by 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val 
  ' 
  in 
  1857 
  for 
  a 
  

  

  ' 
  Illiger, 
  Mag. 
  Insekt., 
  vol. 
  6, 
  p. 
  152, 
  1807. 
  

  

  « 
  Olivier, 
  Entomologie, 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  vol. 
  6, 
  pp. 
  697, 
  699, 
  1808. 
  

  

  • 
  von 
  Harold, 
  Ooleopterologische 
  Hefte, 
  vol. 
  14, 
  p. 
  20, 
  1875. 
  

  

  • 
  Chevrolat, 
  in 
  Dejean, 
  Catalogue 
  de 
  la 
  collection 
  de 
  ColSopteres 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  ed. 
  3, 
  p. 
  413, 
  1837. 
  

  

  • 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val, 
  in 
  Ramon 
  de 
  la 
  Sagra, 
  Historia 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  de 
  la 
  Isla 
  de 
  Cuba 
  (Spanish 
  ed.), 
  vol. 
  7, 
  p. 
  IM, 
  

   1857. 
  

  

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