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geranium?, fruit-trees, etc. The larva gnaws the roots of the plant?, and the 

 imago eats the leaves, flowers, and shoots. Crotch's types were beaten from 

 brambles at Ilorta, Fayal. Dr. Duges sent examples of it to the British 

 Museum in 1901, from Guanajuato, Mexico. The insect is not included as an 

 introduced species in Reitter's last Catalogue, and it has probably found its 

 wav into Europe since 1906. The principal synonymy is as follows : — 



Asynonychus (n. gen.) godmani Crotch, P.Z..S. 1867, pp. 3S8,. 389, pi. 23, fig. 9; 



and in Godman's " Azores," p. 81 (1870). 

 Pantoynorus godmani Tbxii&ch.Q, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1922, p. 100. 

 Aramigiis fuUeri Horn, Proc. Am. PhU. Soc. xv, p. 94 (1876).* 

 Pantomortis fidleri Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv. 3, p. 333^ pi. 15, 



fig. 19 (1911). 

 Pantomoi-us olindae Perk. Fauna Hawaiiensis, Coleopt. i, p. 130 (1900). 



Papers on its habits and life-history have been written by various American 

 authors — Chittenden, Pierce, Koebele, and .Schwarz. Commander Walker 

 gent me specimens of P. godmani Crotch and Lapavocerus azoricus Drouet from 

 Horta, Fayal, in the " seventies,"— G. C. Chajipion, Horsell : May 2,Qth, 1922. 



An American Scarabaeid in dried fruit. — A few days ajro I found in some 

 dried apricots a bright-looking minute Lamellicorn beetle, which made an 

 excellent specimen, despite the fact that it had been subjected to the culinary 

 process, Mr, G. C, Champion has kindly determined it for me as Psammobitt^ 

 fca^m Arrow ( =^;a/TK7MS Bates, nee Chevr.) described, or rather recor Jed, in 

 the " Biologia Centrali-Americana" from Mexico and Guatemala, and renamed 

 by AiTOw in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. Ici03, p. 514, The insect i§ very much 

 smaller and narrower than either of our two British species of the genus, of a 

 clear yellowish-testaceous colour, rather shining, and with very strong diffuse 

 puncturation on the prothorax. Its presence in dried apricots is no doubt 

 accidental, but may not be devoid of interest,- especially as P. hatesi has not 

 been recorded from California, from whence the fruit probably came. P. par- 

 vulus Chevr., a somewhat larger and more robust insect, is recorded from the 

 West Indies. — James J. Walkib, Oxford : June 1922. 



Terrifying and Protective Coloration of Inseets at the Time of Emergence. 

 — During the last ten days I have had the pleasure of witnessing the emergence 

 of two insects, Saturnia paivnia and Odontosia carmelita, in both cases from 

 the actual moment of dehiscence. In the case of S. pavonia the central area 

 of the primaries, on which the large orbicular " eye " appears, was already well 

 developed when the insect emerged in comparison with the rest of the wing, 

 which was relatively very small and baggy. Consequently the ocelli stood out 

 with the most startling effect, and as the scales were closely packed, the 

 general coloration of that particular area was much more vivid than when the 

 wing was completely distended, I was much interested therefore, to see t^vo 

 large eyes, ringed vividly with white, staring fixedly at me from the moment 

 that the insect had freed itself from the cccoon, and I could well imagine that 

 any small bird, encountering such an object, would hesitate to investigate it 



* The date is misprinted " 1&46 " in Hustache's paper. 



