150 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



to the acquisition of the Hemiptera. I give our itinerary as a 

 help in studying the faunal relations of the various genera and 

 species. 



Our first stop was at Crescent City situated between Cres- 

 cent Lake and Lake Stella in one of the most fertile portions of 

 the state. Here we worked from April 19th to the 25th, mostly 

 on the borders of weeds and bushes or the grassy and weedy 

 flats along the margins of these two lakes. Mr. F. G. Lasier 

 very kindly gave us free access to the estate of the late H. G. 

 Hubbard and later took us to the Hubbard farms on the prai- 

 ries along Haw Creek about nine miles by water from Crescent 

 City. There we found an interesting insect fauna quite differ- 

 ent from that at Crescent City. On the 25th we left for San- 

 ford, stopping for an hour's collecting about the station at Cres- 

 cent City Junction. We reached Sanford in the afternoon and 

 worked until dark along the marshy shores of Lake Monroe to 

 the south of the railroad station. On the 26th we worked on 

 and about one of the "palmetto hummocks" on what is there 

 called the "Celery grounds". This hummock adjoined the lake 

 shore just north of the railroad station and proved to be one of 

 the best collecting grounds we found in the state. The follow- 

 ing morning we worked in the open fields to the southwest of 

 the village until driven in by the rain, proceeding in the after- 

 noon to Tampa where we arrived early in the evening. On the 

 28th we collected, with excellent success, at St. Petersburg 

 along the marshy shores of Tampa Bay south of the boat land- 

 ing. That same evening we went on to Clearwater where we 

 took some good insects under the electric lights. The next day 

 we collected near the village in the forenoon and in the after- 

 noon drove over to Sevenoaks to the home of Mr. R. D. Hoyt, 

 who entertained us very pleasantly for two or three days. Here 

 we worked on his farms and south through the open pine woods 

 to Bay View and north to Green Springs and Phillippi's Mound. 

 About this mound we found a decidedly different vegetation 

 and many peculiar insects. On May 2d we took an early boat 

 to Tampa and spent the afternoon collecting on the barren 

 fields east of the city. Here there was a moderate growth of a 

 broad leaved oak, the first we had found in Florida, and on this 

 I expected to take some good Membracids but was only partial- 

 ly successful. From Tampa my brother started homeward 

 while I went on to Ft. Myer where I collected on the 4th and 



