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Trogossiia rhizophagoides, the type being also from Ceylon. In 1871 

 Gerstaecker described what there can be no doubt was the same species 

 from East Africa as LcBmotmetus ferrugineus, referring it to its proper 

 position in the Cucujidce. In 1885 a new generic name was proposed 

 for it by Olliff, who, after an examination of Walker's type in the 

 British Museum, called the species Asana rhizophagoides. This insect 

 also has been added to the European list, under yet another name 

 (^Ori/zoecus catJiartoides) by Keitter, who, however, subsequently treated 

 it as synonymous with Gerstaecker's species. The oldest name being 

 Walker's, the insect must be called L(emot?netus?'hizophagoides,Wsilker. 

 In the British Museum collection there are specimens of it from 

 Ceylon, Formosa, Celebes, Timor, New Guinea, and East Africa. The 

 rather larger, but very closely related form, L. insignis, Grouvelle, 

 seems to represent the commoner species in India and Burmah. 



The synonymy of these two much-described little beetles is ac- 

 cordingly as follows: — 



MiNTHEA EUGICOLLIS. 

 Difoma rugicollis, Walker, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), ii, p. 206. 

 Minthea similata, Pascoe, Journ. of Entom., ii, p. 141. 

 Ilinthea rugicollis, Waterh., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xiv, p. 68. 

 Eulachus hisjndus, Blackburn, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. (2), iii, p. 141. 

 Lyctopholis foveicollis, Reitter, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesells. Wien, 1878, p. 199. 



L^MOTMETUS KHIZOPHAGOIDES. 



Trogossita rhizophag aides, Walker, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), iii, p. 53. 

 Lsemotmetus ferrugineus, Gerstaecker, Arcb. Naturg., xxxvii, 1, p. 45. 

 Oryzoecus cathartoides, Reitter, Coleopt. Hefte, xv, p. 37. 

 Asana rhizophag oides, Olliff, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, x, p. 71. 



British Museum (Natural History) : 

 January \2,th, 1904. 



[It is perhaps worth while calling attention to another introduced species in- 

 cluded in the European list which has been described at least twice. This is 

 Fharaxonotha /cirschi, Reitt. The synonymy is as follows : — 



Phaeaxonotha eieschi, Reitt. 



Fharaxonotha kirschi, Reitt., Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 1875, Heft iii, p. 86. 



ThnUisella conradti, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col. vii, p. 249 (1898). 



Reitter's specimens were found in Silesia amongst imported Mexican drugs ; 

 those described by Gorham were obtained in Guatemala. Mr. Chittenden, of the 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, has sent me several examples of it from Mexico. This 

 insect belongs to the Erotylidx. — G. C. C] 



