A List of the Van Duzee Collection 

 of Florida Beetles. 



By H. F. Wickham. 



Through the kindness of Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, I have re- 

 ceived a considerable series of Coleoptera collected by him on a 

 recent trip to Florida. While that state has been worked by 

 coleopterists of great skill and their reports are of the highest 

 value, future studies of the derivation and relationships of the 

 faunae of the various portions of the state will require the colla- 

 tion of a vast number of records before definite results can be 

 reached. The material in my hands represents a goodly fraction 

 of the spring fauna of the localities visited, and contains so many 

 interesting species that the publication of a list seems desirable. 

 A catalogue of the Hemiptera secured has already been printed 

 by Mr. Van Duzee in a recent number of this Bulletin, so 

 that it seems unnecessary to repeat here the remarks upon local 

 conditions of the places visited, as they are set out in sufficient 

 detail in that article. It will be noted that a very considerable 

 proportion of the beetles enumerated below are phytophagous in 

 habit or belong to groups preying upon plant-feeding insects, and 

 they were undoubtedly taken principally by beating or sweeping 

 herbage. 



In recording the localities, the following system of abbrevia- 

 tion has been adopted: 

 C. Crescent City, April 19th T. Tampa, May 2d to May 3d. 



to 25th. M. Fort Myers, May 5th. 



Sf. Sandford, April 25th to 27th. E. Estero, May 6th to May 13th. 

 P. St. Petersburg, April 28th. 

 S. Sevenoaks, April 29th to 

 May 2d. 



CINCINDEIvID^B. 



Cincindela dorsalis Cincindela tortuosa Dej. M. E. 



var. media L,ec. S. scabrosa Schaupp. E. 



marginata Fabr. E.S.P. 



