140 [April. 



= 3f. fulminans Lee. (1859*). There is a long series of it from 

 Queen Charlotte Island in the Museum. 



Anisoxya Muls. 

 There are two specimens of a species of this i,feuus in Lewis's 

 Japanese Collection at the Museum. It is related to the Mexican 

 A. vagans Chamj). 



Melandrya Fabr. 

 M. ruficoliis Lewis, from Japan, is a Phrycjaiiophilns , as stated by 

 Seidlitz and Hubenthal. The last named author (Deutsche ent. 

 Zeitschr., 1905, p. 57) treats it as a form of the N. European P. rufi- 

 collis Fabr. and names it var. rosfi. 



Stbnoteachelus Latr. 

 I am unable to detect any difference between the N. American 

 8. (Helops) arctatus Say (= ohscurus Mann.) and the N. European 

 S. aeneus Fabr. There are specimens of the latter from N. W. Russia, 

 Kamschatka, Lapland, and Hudson's Bay, in the Museum. 8. arctatus, 

 therefore, must sink as a synonym of 8. aeneus. 



Dapsiloderus Fairm. 

 The type of this genus is D. costipeririis Fairm. (1887) from 

 Sumatra. Hylotastes terminatus Pasc. (1882), from Sarawak, figured 

 in Waterhouse's " Aid ident. Ins., ii, pi. ciii, belongs here, and, to 

 judge from Fairmaire's description of the former, the two insects are 

 synonymous. Pascoe placed his species in the Tenebrionidae, but he 

 used the name of a Eucnemid genus, Hylotastes de Bonv., for it ; this 

 latter has several similarly coloured forms in the same regions. There 

 are two unnamed eastern Dapsiloderus in the Museum (one from 

 Tenasserim and the other from Penang, &c.), and two or three 

 Tropical American forms in the Fry Collection apparently belong to 

 it. Fairmaire correctly referred the genus to the Melaridryidae. 



Horsell, Woking : 



March, 1915. 



BRUCHU8 0BTECTU8 Sat, IN BRITAIN. 

 BY JAMES EDWARDS, F.E.S. 



I have lately received, under the name Bruchus lentis Boh., speci- 

 mens of a Bruchus found feeding in dwarf bean seeds which had been 

 obtained from various seedsmen in the United Kingdom ; l)ut although 



* <•/. Canad. Entoni., 1892, p. 299. 



