GARDEN FLEA-HOPPER IN ALFALFA. 6 
P. R. Uhler (o) 2 recorded the garden flea-hopper as having been 
found at the experiment station at Logan, Utah, which point has 
an approximate altitude of 4,700 feet abo^e sea level. 
SYNONYMY. 
The garden flea-hopper was first named and described by Ash- 
mead (1) as Rhinocloa citri. E. A. Popenoe {2) in 1890 called it 
"Halticus minutus Uhler MS." During the same year Giard (3) re- 
named the species uhleri, since there was already a Halticus minutus 
Reutef. Distant (4, p. 430) in 1893 redescribed the species as Calo- 
coris canus, not recognizing its true affinities. 
Reuter {12) in 1909 first pointed out that Rhinocloa citri Ashmead 
and Halticus uhleri Giard were the same, but he left the species un- 
der the latter name until 1914, when H. G. Barber {15) used the 
combination " Halticus citri (Ashm.)" in print. 
The synonymy, therefore, is as follows: 
Halticus citri (Ashmead) Barber. 
Rhinocloa citri Ashmead (/). 
Halticus minutus (Uhler MS) Popenoe (2). 
Halticus uhleri Giard (3). 
Calocoris canus Distant (4). 
Halticus citri Barber (15). 
HISTORY OF THE SPECIES AND ITS INJURIES. 
Halticus citri seems first to have received economic mention in 1887, 
by W. H. Ashmead (1) , who found it on orange trees in Florida. 
In 1892 A. Giard (3) recorded it as being destructive to peanut and 
rice crops of French Cochin China and Singapore, Straits Settlements. 
This species, with Agalliastes bractatus Say, was reported from 
Kansas in 1890 {2) as follows: 
We have the past season observed two species of Capsidae, or plant-bugs, living in 
great numbers on the underside of the leaves of the garden bean, puncturing the 
tissues and sucking the sap, and by these punctures causing the death of the tissues 
in small, irregular patches, that appear upon the upper surface of the leaf as white 
spots. 
It was found by J. B. Smith {6, p. 133) in New Jersey during 1900 
injuring truck crops at the following places: New Brunswick, James- 
burg, Swedesboro, Madison, Camden County, and Vineland. 
In 1900 F. M. Webster (7) reported it from Wooster, Ohio. F. H. 
Chittenden (8) states: 
In May and June, 1900, this insect was observed in some numbers on beans in dif- 
ferent localities, and some leaves were found to have been killed by its attacks. 
Beets and cabbage were also affected, but injury was less noticeable to these crops. 
In 1901 the writer noticed severe injury to ornamental morning-glory in the city of 
Washington. 
2 Reference is made by number (italic) to "Literature cited," p. 27. 
