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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  loe 
  

  

  Cuban 
  species. 
  In 
  d'Orbigny's 
  Dictionnaire, 
  Chevrolat' 
  in 
  1848 
  

   listed 
  scutellaris 
  and 
  jerruginea 
  under 
  Strabala 
  without 
  the 
  question 
  

   marks, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  four 
  nomina 
  nuda 
  he 
  had 
  given 
  in 
  1837, 
  thus 
  

   establishing 
  the 
  genus. 
  

  

  In 
  1868 
  Suffrian 
  ' 
  described 
  Haltica 
  amhulans 
  from 
  Cuba 
  which 
  he 
  

   said 
  belonged 
  to 
  Chevrolat's 
  genus 
  Strabala, 
  a 
  genus 
  that 
  Erichson 
  ' 
  

   had 
  earlier 
  merged 
  with 
  Lactica. 
  Suffrian 
  was 
  not 
  convinced, 
  however, 
  

   that 
  these 
  specimens 
  having 
  so 
  poorly 
  developed 
  a 
  basal 
  sulcus 
  on 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  really 
  belonged 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Lactica. 
  He 
  stated 
  that 
  

   although 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  ill-defined 
  basal 
  sulcus, 
  the 
  beetles 
  were 
  smaller 
  

   than 
  most 
  species 
  of 
  Altica 
  and 
  proportionately 
  broader, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  

   color 
  was 
  not 
  blue 
  but 
  a 
  deep 
  reddish 
  brown. 
  This 
  Cuban 
  species 
  that 
  

   he 
  had 
  did 
  not 
  entirely 
  correspond 
  in 
  coloring 
  to 
  Olivier's 
  description 
  

   of 
  scutellaris 
  or 
  to 
  Jacquelin 
  Du 
  Val's 
  intermedia, 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  

   paler 
  beneath 
  than 
  the 
  dark 
  colored 
  undersm-face 
  of 
  his 
  beetles. 
  

  

  Boheman 
  ° 
  described 
  under 
  the 
  genus 
  Strabala, 
  two 
  species, 
  nigriceps 
  

   from 
  Buenos 
  Aires 
  and 
  languida 
  from 
  Java, 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  

   referred 
  to 
  Lactica. 
  Although 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  examined 
  the 
  types, 
  the 
  

   description 
  of 
  nigriceps 
  as 
  having 
  the 
  anterior 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   truncate 
  seems 
  to 
  exclude 
  it 
  from 
  Strabala, 
  and 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  

   languida 
  is 
  quite 
  different 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  group. 
  Fall,^" 
  in 
  

   describing 
  Altica 
  testacea 
  from 
  Texas, 
  compared 
  it 
  with 
  rufa, 
  noting 
  

   that 
  "rufa 
  is 
  much 
  broader 
  and 
  less 
  convex 
  and 
  has 
  black 
  legs 
  and 
  

   antennae." 
  Fall's 
  species, 
  also, 
  does 
  not 
  belong 
  in 
  Strabala. 
  It 
  differs 
  

   in 
  general 
  shape, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  quite 
  different 
  anterior 
  angles, 
  

   and 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  small 
  and 
  inconspicuous. 
  

  

  Jacoby,^^ 
  who 
  had 
  put 
  scutellaris 
  under 
  Lactica, 
  in 
  the 
  Supplement 
  

   says 
  of 
  Horn, 
  "Dr. 
  Horn 
  remarks 
  that 
  Lactica 
  scutellaris 
  would 
  be 
  

   better 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  Haltica 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  congeneric 
  (and 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  also 
  specifically 
  identical) 
  with 
  Haltica 
  rufa 
  Uliger." 
  But 
  

   Jacoby 
  "could 
  not 
  agree 
  with 
  this 
  opinion" 
  and 
  kept 
  scutellaris 
  under 
  

   Lactica. 
  

  

  The 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History) 
  specimens, 
  therefore, 
  are 
  

   under 
  Lactica, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  following 
  Horn, 
  

   they 
  are 
  under 
  Altica. 
  Henshaw 
  ^^ 
  lists 
  rufa 
  under 
  Disonycha. 
  

   Gemminger 
  and 
  Harold 
  ^^ 
  list 
  rufa 
  under 
  Disonycha 
  and 
  scutellaris 
  

   under 
  Lactica. 
  Heikertinger,'* 
  in 
  the 
  Junk 
  catalogue, 
  nicely 
  balances 
  

  

  « 
  OhevTolat, 
  in 
  d'Orbigny, 
  Dictionnaire 
  universe! 
  d'histoire 
  naturelle, 
  vol. 
  12, 
  p. 
  52, 
  1848. 
  

   ' 
  Sufirian, 
  Arch. 
  Naturg., 
  vol. 
  34, 
  p. 
  182, 
  1868. 
  

   » 
  Erichson, 
  Arch. 
  Naturg., 
  vol. 
  13, 
  p. 
  173, 
  1847. 
  

  

  • 
  Boheman, 
  Kongliga 
  Svenska 
  Fregatten 
  Eugenies 
  Resa 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  , 
  vol. 
  2, 
  Zoologi, 
  pt. 
  1, 
  Insects, 
  pp. 
  189, 
  190, 
  

   1850. 
  

   M 
  Fall, 
  Trans. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  36, 
  p. 
  157, 
  1910. 
  

  

  " 
  Jacoby, 
  Biologia 
  Oentrali-Americana, 
  Coleoptera, 
  vol. 
  6, 
  pt. 
  1, 
  p. 
  273, 
  1884; 
  Supplement, 
  p. 
  259, 
  1891. 
  

   w 
  Henshaw, 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  America, 
  north 
  of 
  Mexico, 
  p. 
  112, 
  1885. 
  

   >' 
  Gemminger 
  and 
  von 
  Harold, 
  Oatalogus 
  coleopterorum 
  . 
  . 
  ., 
  vol. 
  12, 
  p. 
  3497, 
  1876. 
  

   M 
  Heikertinger, 
  Coleopterorum 
  catalogus, 
  pars 
  166, 
  pp. 
  241, 
  259, 
  1939. 
  

  

  