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ancein 1897 (Fla. Agr. Sta., Bui. 42, p. 592). No original observations 

 were made, which is true of a note published by Prof. C. P. Gillette in 

 Bulletin 47 of the State Agricultural College Experiment Station of 

 Colorado (p. 5). 



In Dr. Otto Lugger's fifth annual report as Entomologist to the 

 State Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, published 

 in 1899, some attention is given this insect under the title of "The 

 lesser grapevine flea-beetle." The insects were noticed by Mr. J. W. 

 Taylor, White Bear Lake, Minn., early in the spring of 1899, eating 

 into the buds of wild grape, afterwards attacking cultivated varieties, 

 and later the foliage of Virginia creeper. After destroying the buds 

 they continued upon the fully expanded leaves, which were riddled in 

 every conceivable manner to such an extent as to destroy them 

 entirely. Two generations were observed doing damage; the hiber- 

 nating beetles commencing the work, and the larvae and beetles of a 

 subsequent generation finishing it. Eggs were found among the 

 woolly substance of the partly destroyed grape buds. It is said of the 

 species that it promises to become decidedly injurious, and therefore 

 wherever it is found should be fought with arsenites as soon as noticed. 



UNPUBLISHED DIVISIONAL RECORDS. 



The unrecorded notes on injuries by this species are, like the pub- 

 lished accounts previously noted, inconsiderable; but, such as they are, 

 they tend to show the periodicity of attack, 1890 being a year of 

 excessive abundance. 



During 1890, specimens of the beetles were received from several 

 localities with reports of damage to strawberry and other garden 

 plants. April 1, from Mr. W. E. Hudson, Orlando, Fla., previously 

 mentioned, as recorded; April 29, from Mr. John Scott, Waco, Tex., 

 with the statement that the species was doing much damage to garden 

 plants; September 1, from Mr. F. M. Webster, with the report that 

 the beetles were injuring the strawberries at Columbus, Ind.. also 

 recorded. 



Mr. T. L. Mead, an entomologist and a competent observer, wrote, 

 May 4, 1897, that two or three years before that date a species of 

 Haltica, which, from his description, is without doubt this species, 

 "did a good deal of damage to strawberry leaves, being almost numer- 

 ous enough to cover them." Locality, Oviedo, Fla. A spray of 

 Paris green was used with apparently good results, as the next 3 r ear 

 the beetles were scarce and had not appeared at the time of writing. 

 Mr. J. S. Lapham, Goldsboro, Md., writing of the occurrence of this 

 flea-beetle on strawberry the same } T ear, stated that "this insect feeds 

 on the leaves, making thousands of small holes in them, and while it 

 does not altogether destroy the crop of fruit, the berries are much 

 smaller when it works." 



