60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., ' OJ 



Entomological Literature. 



THE ALEOCHARIN^; BY CASEY. The Academy of Sciences, of St. 

 Louis, has lately published a paper from the pen of Major Thomas L. 

 Casey with the title "Observations on the Staphylinid Groups Aleocharinae, 

 etc." A few criticisms of this paper are offered here. 



Page 144. Aleochara fuscipes Gravh. is synonymous with cnrtula 

 Goeze. Specimens so identified are in my collection from Colorado, 

 Illinois, and West Virginia. 



Aleochara Insirica Say is a variety of curtula Goeze. 



Aleochara latcralis Heer is synonymous with crassicornis Boisd., Lac. 



Page 147. Aleochara (Xenochara} puberula King is a cosmopolitan 

 species. I have a specimen from Pasadena. 



Aleochai-a inilleri Kr. is a true Baryodma. 



Page 152. Aleochara castaneipennis Esch. should read Mannh. 



Poge 158. Aleochara (Baryodma?} densiventris Casey. The specific 

 name is pre-occupied. Dr. M. Bernhauer described a Californian species 

 under this name (Deutsche Ent. Ztschr., 1906, Heft ii, p. 146). Major 

 Casey writes me that he himself has discovered this synonomy. 



Page 1 60. Aleochara (Baryodma} nitidicollis Casey is also pre-occu- 

 pied by Solier (Gay, Hist. Chil. iv, 352). Fauvel believes that the spe- 

 cies so named by Solier belongs in the genus Homalota(? }. 



Page 162. Aleochara cuniculorum Kr, belongs in the subgenus Rheo- 

 chara (teste Bernhauer). 



Page 163. Aleochara bipunctata Ol. is synonymous with bipnsiulata L. 



Page 164. Aleochara nitida Gravh. is synonymous with bipustiilata L. 



Page 165. Aleochara languida Gravh. should read Sachse. It is either 

 identical with verna Say or a variety of the same. 



The five species created by Major Casey at the cost of Aleochara sulci- 

 collis M mnh. are local forms of a very variable species hardly worth 

 naming. 



Page 182. Aleochara (Polychara] graciliformis Fauv. in litt., is gra- 

 cilicornis Brnh. (Stett. Ent. Ztg., 1901, 372), and is described from Mas- 

 sachusetts. It occurs also in Canada (teste Harrington), Sparman Lake, 

 Out. (teste Hamilton), and Mount Washington (teste Slosson). 



Page 191. The width of the abdomen of Trachyota lativentris Casey is 

 given as 7.2 mm., a typographical error. 



Page 244. Falagria (Lorinota} gracilis Casey is said to visit pines, an 

 accidental habitat, as Falagroid species occur mostly near water. Lori- 

 nola will probably prove to be identical with Falagria, and the species 

 gracilis Casey will have to receive another name (vide gracilis Motsrh. 

 from India). 



The above remark applies also to Falagria (Lorinota} parra Casey, 

 vide parva Kr. from Ceylon. 



Page 259. Falagria vaga Lee. is a Myrmecopora. 



Page 267. Stictalia arcuata Casey. Stictalia will probably prove to be 



