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habits of many Bruchi, the present species can only be regarded as an 

 addition to the long list of beetles which have been introduced to our 

 country by commerce. 



On the Continent it has been recorded as occurring on the flowers 

 of Viburnum lanfana and Luiusfrnm vidqare. In the second edition 

 of the European Catalogue (1P06), B. seminariuft is given as a var. of 

 B. (Bruchidius) pusUlus G-erm., and Bruchus is called Laria. The 

 name seminarius has already appeared in our lists, but as a synonym 

 of atomarins L., with which, however, the present species has nothing 

 to do, belonging, in fact, to another sub-genus. 



I have to thank Mr. Newbery for kindly giving me these details. 



26, CvuTOck Terrace, Carlisle : 

 January 26th, 1915. 



A Catalofiue of West Indian Coleoptera. — " A preliminary list of the 

 Coleoptera of the West Indies as recorded to January 1st, 1914," has been pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin of the American Miiseuni of Natiiral History, vol. xxxiii, 

 pp. 391-493. This list, commenced by Mr. M. L. Linell and continued after 

 his death by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, and finished by Messrs. C. W. Leng and 

 A. J. Mixtchler, is stated to be substantially complete as far as the older records 

 are concerned. Compared with the number of species recorded from Mexico 

 and Central America in the " Biologia," upwards of 18,000, the preliminary West 

 Indian list is a very meagre one, barely 2,900 species being enumerated. To 

 judge, however, from the unnamed Coleoptera from these islands to be found in 

 museums, the actual number existing there cannot be less than 5,000 — 6,000. 

 An analysis of the list shows that the groups most numerous in species are : — 

 Rhynchophora (533), Phytophaga (362), and Longicornia (242) ; and the genera 

 best represented, Cryptocephalus (62), Exophthalmus (45), Lachnopus (43), 

 Anthono7nus (29), Anchonus (28), Lenia and Photinus (26), and Elaphidion, 

 Lachnosterna and Cryptorrhynchus (24). As no species of SilpMdae (in the 

 wide sense) appears to have been recorded, it may be stated that there are one or 

 two Aglypto)iotus (a genus related to Liodes) amongst the iinnamed St. Vincent 

 and Grenada insects in the British Museum. Monoedus guttatus Horn, recorded 

 from Cuba in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1913, p. 73, is an addition to the list. — Eds. 



The larva of Phyllotreta sinuata Steph. — Mr. E. M. Duporte (Canad. Entoni., 

 Dec, 1914, pp. 433-435) has described and figured the larva of this well known 

 British insect, an introduced species in the United States and Canada. It was 

 found in June, 1913, at Macdonald College, Quebec, mining the leaves of cress 

 (which was practically destroyed by the beetle and its larvae) and feeding on 

 the foliage of radish ; and again in the following year, on radish, turnips and 

 cabbage. " The larvae is a small eruciforra grub, about 4 mm. long : the head 



