Feb., '09] i:\TOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8l 



the beetle was very numerous in clover fields in the vicinity of 

 Urbana, Illinois. There is one specimen in the old Lugger 

 collection at the University of Minnesota labeled from Wis- 

 consin. Dr. Fletcher reported it from Ontario, in the vicinity 

 of Lake Ontario. To the south the species extends into North 

 Carolina. 



A single isolated occurrence of this species is at Victoria, 

 B. C., where a few specimens were collected by a correspondent 

 of Dr. Fletcher's. According to Hamilton the beetle is found 

 from the southeastern part of western Siberia, westward over 

 all Europe, even into Barbary. While the occurrence in Brit- 

 ish Columbia is probably an isolated outbreak, due to an arti- 

 ficial importation, there remains a possibility that the insect 

 may be found in eastern Siberia and Alaska, and in this way 

 connect up the distribution with Asia. 



Phytonomus nigrirostris is also a species imported from 

 Europe, but its range in North America is not so wide as that 

 of the preceding species. It is apparently still close along the 

 eastern coast, from Nantucket Island, Mass. (Bolter collection) 

 to New Brunswick (Fletcher), although Schwarz reports it 

 from Michigan. Dr. Fletcher reported this species more 

 abundant and more destructive to clover than Phytonomus 

 punctatus. 



The species P. comptus seems to be indigenous. I have 

 found only records from North America, and most of these 

 from the Mississippi valley. In the Bolter collection are speci- 

 mens from Illinois, Missouri, Lake Superior and New York. 

 Other records are: Indiana (F. M. Webster), Iowa (Wick- 

 ham), Colorado Springs and Dixon Canons (Wickham), Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, and District of Columbia. LeConte also records 

 Canada. 



LeConte and also Bargagli cite P. elongatus Gyll. (Payk) 

 as occurring in Greenland. In the Bolter collection there is a 

 single specimen under this name from Northern Illinois. It 

 is doubtful, however, that this is the correct determination of 

 the specimen. With LeConte's original description of Phyto- 

 nomus castor, Canada is given as a locality for its occurrence. 



