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Xylophilu.s versus JIi/lophi/us. — M.. Pic, in his rccenl, " Conlribution a re'tude 

 generalc des Hjlophilidse" [Ann. Soe. Kiit. Fr., l.xxii, pp. G5-107 (1903)], has 

 recently adopted the name Hylophihtx, Bertliold (1825), for the well-known genus 

 Xylophilus, Latroille (1825), on account of the latter having been used two years 

 earlier by Manncrhcini for a subgcMiUS of Eucnemis. But this change only makes 

 confusion worse confounded, IlylophUus being a rocuguised genus of birds (Teni- 

 niinck, 1823), and antedating that by Berthold by two years. If Xj/lophilus* is to 

 be rejected, the name Aderus, Westwood (1829), is available. Reitter uses 

 Euglenes, Westw. — Gr. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : March bth, 1901. 



A further note on Ptinus tectu.i, Boield., cfc. — Apropos of Prof. Beare's recent 

 record of tlie capture of Ptinus tectus in granaries in London and Strood, Kent 

 {anteCi, pp. 4, 5), it may be worth noting that Mr. A. M. Lea, Government Ento- 

 mologist of Tasmania, has recently sent me for determination specimens of it from 

 Hobart, from wlience the species was originally described by Boieldieu. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker, too, has recently obtained it at Christchurch, New Zealand, and there are 

 others from the same country received from Mr. Wakefield in the National Col- 

 lection. Mr. Lea forwarded the Ptinus with various other species that he supposed 

 had been introduced into Australia or Tasmania. These include Trigonogenius 

 globulum, Sol., from Hobart (a species originally recorded from South America, and 

 also found at Hobart in 1891 by Mr. J. J. Walker : this insect, it may be remembered, 

 has established itself in a flour mill at Oldham, Lanc.f) ; a Mezium from Swan River 

 (probably M. sulcatum, Fabr. ; also found by Mr. Walker at Fremantle in 1890, 

 and more recently at Sydney); Typhseafumata, \An\\.,iiO\\i New South Wales; 

 Monotonia quadricolUs, Anhe, horn Hobart; Cercyonjlavipes, Vahr., irom Hobart 

 (found abundantly in dung throughout New Zealand by Mr. Walker), &c. — Id. 



Ptinus tectus, Boield., in Liverpool. — I have just examined specimens of this 

 species, sent to me by Mr. Burgess ^opp for confirmation as to their identity. He 

 informs me in a covering letter that they were sent to him by Mr. J. J. Richardson 

 of Liverpool, who stated that the insect had infested his bird seed for over two 

 years, and had done considerable damage. — T. Hudson Beaee, 10, Regent Terrace, 

 Edinburgh : March 9th, 1904. 



Occurrence of Tetropium caxtaneum, L., in Norfolk. — Last summer I was 

 fortunate enough to capture two fine specimens of this recent addition to our fauna. 

 They were both taken in a thickly wooded district three or four miles from the town 

 of King's Lynn. The first specimen (a ? ) was met with on June 18th, when it 

 was sunning itself on the trunk of a recently felled Scotch fir tree ; my second 

 example (a fine $) occurred three weeks later at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and 

 under similar circumstances, but about half a mile from the spot where the first spe- 

 cimen was taken. I am indebted to Mr. E. A. Newbery for kindly identifying these 

 and other insects sent to him. — E. A. Atmoee, King's Lynn, Norfolk : January 

 l%th, 1904. 



* cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxvi, pp. 204—269. 

 t cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxtiii, p. 9 (1902). 



