DISTRIBUTION OF COLEOFTERA. 399 



503. Crepidodera ruflpes Liim., enjthropus Mels., T. xvi, 239.— From the At- 



lantic to eastern C'olonido. Kiirope. Depredates on Rosaceae and Ro- 

 binia. 



504. C. helixines Linn., 7io«a Say, violacea Mels., areola, opulentn Lee. — Abun- 



dant on Rosacese and Salic from the Atlantic to the Pacific|; Europe, 

 Siberia. Heyden, 211 and 1885. 

 .505. C. modeeri Linn., var. mancula Lee. — Hudson Bay, Crotch ; Detroit and 

 Marquette, Mich., Schwarz; C. mancula California, LeConte; Oregon, 

 Crotch; Kansas, Popenoe- E;uroi>e, western and arctic Siberia. Hey- 

 den, 211, Depredates on aquatic plants. 



.^06. Phyllotreta sinuata Stephens, Zhnmermanni Crotch. — Missouri, Riley, 

 (-rotch; Detroit, Schwarz; western Pennsylvania, my collection; the 

 New England States to Missouri, Horn. Europe, Mediterranean coun- 

 tries, eastern Siberia, Japan. Heyden, 211 ; T. xvi, 295. 



.507. Cassida nebulosa Linn., affinis Fab., Ent. News, v, 146.— California (Santa 

 Anna River). Europe, western and eastern Siberia, Amur countries, 

 Turkestan, Persia; var. tigrina DeG., Siberia. Heyden, 213; Pochrofka, 

 Heyden, 1885. Depredates on beets. 



BRUCHID^. 

 Obs. — Bruchus ruflmanus ri(;lim. has been bred twice in America, once 

 from pea-pods imported from Switzerland (Riley), and once from Wind- 

 sor beans imported from Europe (Fletcher), but tlieie is no evidence of 

 its acclimatization. B. lentis Bohm. was taken by Mr. O. Reinecke, at 

 Buffalo, N. Y., in a p'ovision store, where lentils were kept on sale, and 

 most probably was imported. It is the rufimanus of Reinecke and Zesch's 

 catalogue. The American history of these two species is given in Mr. 

 J. A. Lintner's 7th Report on the injurious and other inse(;ts of the 

 State of New York. 1891. 

 .508. Bruchus pisorum Linn., pisi Linn.— Ahinidant over nearly the entire 

 globe wheresoever peas are cultivated. Apparently cosmopolite, T. iv, 

 315. 



509. B. chinensis Linn., sc»(<e//aris Fab. — "Tliis species appears to have been 



widely distributed over the entire globe (Horn, 1. c. 318)." Probably 

 of Asiatic origin. Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, 

 Texas, South America, etc. 



510. B. obtectus Say, 1831; legumenarius (Chevr.) Gyll., 1833; irresectus Schon. 



Fabr., 18.39 ; pallidipes Chev. Fabr. : subellipticus Woll., 1854; fabx Fitch, 

 1865; Breweri (/rotch, 1867; fabse Riley, 1871; obsolettis X How, 1873; 

 snbarmatus Janson (? siiba^-matus GyU.), 1889. — The long disputed point 

 whether obsoletus Say, or obtectus Say, should be the name of this species 

 \s possibly settled. It depredates especially on beans, but has been bred 

 from peas, lentils, chick peas, and the seeds of Lathyrus sativus (Psyche 

 vi, 447). It is said by Mr. Fauvel to have originated in Central and 

 South America, whence it has been transported in beans to North 

 America, the Antilles, Madeira, the Canaries, Azores. Europe, circa- 

 Mediterrauean, Persia, etc. For its North'American history see Lintner 

 1. c. ; Can. Ent. xxiv, 162; Insect Life v, 31. 



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