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I have also shown, in the article above alluded to, that our Bean 

 Weevil should be known in the future as Bruchus obtectiis Say, and not 

 as B. obsoletus (Say) Horn, Mr. E. A. Schwarz having obtained what 

 agrees entirely with the description of obsoletus upon Tephrosia virgiti- 

 iana in connection with Apion segnipes, which was also found upon the 

 same plant (Say having found the two species associated on the same 

 Astragalus), while the description of obtectus Say, so far as it goes, agrees 

 very well with our Bean Weevil, that of obsoletus not agreeing, as was 

 shown in my Third Report on the Insects of Missouri (1870;. The 

 synonymy of the species, chronologically, would stand thus : 



1 83 1 — Bruchus obtectus Say. 



1833 — Bruchus leguminarius (Chevrolat) Gyll. 



1839 — Bruchus irresectus (Schonherr) Fahrseus. 



1839 — Bruchus pallidipes (Chevrolat) Fahraeus. 



1854 — Bruchus subellipticus Wollaston. 



1 86 1 — Bruchus fabse Fitch. 



1867 — Bruchus breweri Crotch. 



187 1 — Bruchus fabse Riley. 



1873 — Bruchus obsoletus (Say) Horn. 



1889 — Bruchus subarmatus Janson (.^^subarmatus Gyll.). 



FENISECA TARQUINIUS. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder, in his " Butterflies of Eastern U. S." states that 

 '^ Feniseca Targuifiius" has never been captured east of the Connecticut 

 Valley in Massachusetts. Other writers mention it as rare in New Eng- 

 land. It may interest some of your readers to know that I found it very 

 common on the Glen Road near Jackson, N. H., in the second week in 

 June. I also found a specimen on a window of the Boston Athletic Club, 

 which seems a strange place for it. The building is on new made land, 

 nowhere near any alder growth, in fact, in the city. I have collected a 

 number of years in the suburbs of Boston, but have never seen a 

 specimen. 



Chestnut Hill, Mass. A. G. Weeks, Jr. 



Mailecl November 5th. 



