THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 93 



Say describes it by the \\^\\\ki Ano/>ni/ii fciu/csfriaf///n.'>ii\''> Km. I-ec. 

 Ed. ii. p. :;cSi. He says il is common, tVc(|uently occurs in museums, is 

 destructive to his root of the shops, and to various farinaceous substances. 

 Melsheimer descril)es one of its forms by the name A/i. obseuni [obesum], 

 without remarks. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. w ii.. ]). 309. LeConte says, "It 

 has been introduced from l'airo])e in llour. bread ;uid other articles of 

 commerce, to all parts of the globe," ib. 1S65, ]j. 229. Packard mentions 

 it as parasitic on Huinble Bees. Cluide to the Stud. Ins. p. 131 : and at p. 

 471 figures the ptipa and describes the larva. Mr. Townend Glover, 

 (Agricultural Rep. 1854, p. 72), represents it as occurring in all its stages 

 andn'n great abundance in soft wheat from Algeria, '" several larvae some- 

 times found inhabiting the same grain." And on plate (5) figures the 

 larva, pupa and perfect insect. 1 know of no other notices, except that 

 of Dr. Geo. H. Horn, referred to above. 



NOTES ON THE TINElD.4i OF NORTH AMERICA, 

 BY LORD WALSINGHAM. 



{From tlie Trans, .l/ii. Eiit. Soc, Philadelphia.) 



liV MARY E. MURTFELDT, kIRKWO()l). .\1(). 



Through his Lordship's kindness, I have received, with much pleasure, 

 a copy of the above named brochure. From such examination as I have 

 been able to give it, it seems to me by far the most valuable of recent 

 contributions to the literature of American Tineidce., and places all students 

 of this beautiful group of the " Micros " under special obligations to its 

 distinguished author. 



The material examined in the ju'eparation of these '' Notes " consisted 

 mainly of the loaned collections of Profs. Fernald and ^iiley, that of the 

 Peabody Academy of Sciences of Salem, Mass., of Mr. Goodell, of Am- 

 herst, Mass., and a small contribution by tlie present writer. Each of 

 these lots contained some of Mr. Chambers' types. The only American 

 collections of any note which were not represented were those of the 

 Harvard Museum at Cambridge, Mass., and the Clemens' types at Phila- 

 delphia. Of tlie latter, however, Lord Walsingham had full notes made 

 during his visit to this country in 1872. 



