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tion of rny friend Mr. James Murray to the insect, and upon 

 careful enquiry he found that it was well established, but in what 

 substance it was breeding he has not yet discovered. Probably, how- 

 ever, it is one or other of the numerous imported articles used in the 

 factory, such as cocoa, coco-nut, almonds, &c. Mr. Murray kindly 

 gave me some living examples, but being unable to work out ihe 

 species any more precisely than that it probably belonged to the An- 

 thribidce, I passed it on to Mr. E. A. Newbery, from whom I learn it 

 is Arceocerus fasciciilafus, De Geer, its place being just before 

 Choragus. 



This is a cosmopolitan insect, variously stated to be of Eastern 

 and Australian origin. It has occurred at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 in India, China, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, 

 and Australia. Wollaston met with it in St. Helena, and stated that 

 it usually occurred in imported produce, " particularly seeds and 

 berries" (Col. Sanctse Helense, p. 171). 



Although now omitted from the British list, it has been frequently 

 captured in our Islands. Stephens (111. Maud., vol. iv, p. 211) re- 

 cords it " from London, Suffolk and Devon," under the name of 

 Phlceobins qriseus, Eab., remarking that it was probably not indige- 

 nous, and giving a fairly good figure (plate xxi, fig. 2). In the 

 " Manual," p. 267, he repeats his notes on the species. Bold records 

 it from Sunderland (cf. Ent. Ann., 1872, p. 40), and it is noted and 

 illustrated as an imported species in " British Goleoptera delineated," 

 by Shuckard (p. 75 and plate 6, fig. 5, Supplement). It appears in 

 the same character in Crotch's Catalogue, 2nd edition (I860), after 

 which it dropped out of our lists. Fowler (Col. Brit. Isles, vol. v, 

 p. 114), however, mentions the species again, but as " evidently an 

 importation." In the " Entomologist's Record," 1902, p. 338, Mr. 

 Newbery records the capture of a single Tropidercs (Enedreutes) 

 hilaris, F;1hr., in a London warehouse. After seeing my examples 

 of A. fasciculatus, however, he finds that his insect is really the latter 

 species, and requests me to point out the error, which arose partly 

 through comparison with a bad type and partly by the circumstances 

 in which the specimen was obtained — near some recently purchased 

 broom-tops, with which Bedel (Col. Bassin du Seine, vi, p. 1G) states 

 T. hilaris is associated. 



There seems no reason now why this beetle should not be re- 

 instated in the list of reputed British species. In the Carlisle locality 

 it is breeding and established, and will doubtless be found in other 

 districts. 



