1901] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II 



plant of Cylas formicarius, the sweet potato weevil. I found 

 this fact out several years ago and wrote to the late Dr. Ham- 

 ilton about it, sending him sections of the Ipomcra stem with 

 this species within it, in all its different stages. The good 

 Doctor was much interested and urged me to record the dis- 

 cover\', but I have never done so till now. Under boards and 

 sticks upon the beach I found often an odd and showy Anthicid. 

 new to me. It was Anthicus currax Champ, as Mr. Schwarz 

 tells me, and is described and figured in the Biologia Cent. 

 Am. Mr. Schwarz says it is a maritime species and that he 

 has found it at Jupiter and Capron, in Florida, and has it also 

 from Texas. 



In similar situations the Staphylinid Cafius bistriatus is 

 found in great abundance, also many specimens of Philonthus 

 ahatuuis, common all along the coast. Under all kinds of 

 debris the different species of Plialeria were very numerous, P. 

 picipes being least common. As usual, there are upon the 

 white sand many whitish insects, difiicult to distinguish on 

 their pale background. A horse-fly, Tabanus psajnmophilus 

 of palest gray, a large cream-white spider, two or three of the 

 cricket family, pallid and silver\% several species of Dolichopo- 

 didae of greenish white ; a tiny flj, just the color of the sand, 

 Rhicncessa albida ; these and many more pale, ghostly, shadowy 

 creatures frequent the dazzlingly white sea sand, eluding, de- 

 cieving and aggravating the collector. 



Two of the sih'ery crickets which I found on the sand were, 

 respectively, Cydoptilus squamosus, known only, hitherto, from 

 Texas, I think ; and Mogosoplidiis slossoni. This last genus I 

 was so fortunate as to add to our fauna two or three years ago, 

 its only American habitat heretofore being Chili. I found the 

 species first under bark of fallen trees at Miami, Biscaj-ne Baj^ 

 silvery, iridescent pearly little creatures, ver3- agile and slippery. 



One morning in March, just after an easterly storm, when 

 for two or three days there had been a strong wind from the 

 sea, I found on the beach some very odd, long-legged little 

 beasts, not very unlike immature "water-boatmen." These 

 were found to be, as Dr. Uhler wrote me, Halobates wicellerstorfii , 

 a marine hemipter of the Hydrobatidse, generally found far out 



