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84 [Api-il, 



is cup-shaped, broadest at the apex and rather broader than the scape, very 

 little longer than broad; the three following joints very minute, 2 rather 

 transverse, 3 and 4 increasing in width and decreasing in length, the 4th being 

 a flat plate adpressed to the club. The ckib is large, flattened, and 4-jointed, 

 with the sutures curved on the upper-side, but nearly straight lieneath. 



It lias been suggested that tliis insect is identical with Stephano- 

 deres (Cryplialus) aspericoUis, Woll. (Cat. Canarian Coleopt., p. 256, 

 1864). This is erroneous. I have two of Wollaston's specimens, from 

 Gromera. now lying before me ; they have funiculus of the antennse 

 distinctly 5-jointed, besides other minor differences. 



Professor Westwood says (lac. cit.J : " Mr. Liunley does not know 

 from what quarter he received the book. . . . Entomologists nnist 

 therefore use their own discretion as to its introduction into the 

 British hsts." 



Mr. 0. E. Janson has found the insect in the so-called "Brazil 

 nut" of commerce, and also in some numbers in the cover of a book 

 from Java. I have examined several of this last brood. More 

 recently Dr. Sharp has bred it from the cover of a book from 

 Singapore. Although it has been retained in the British list, it 

 seems to be exclusively an exotic insect, which never appears to have 

 dispersed from the usually abnormal pabulum in which it was 

 originally imported. 



In the last (1906) European Catalogue Hypoihenemtis — of which 

 Stephanoderes, Eichh., is considered a synonym — is given as a sub- 

 genus of Cryphahis, and includes seven somewhat heterogeneous 

 species, five of which are marked as introduced by ships, in grain, &e. 



13, Oppidan's Eoad, N.W. : 



Fehruanj lUh, 1910. 



[Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, who has recorded H. ervditus from 

 Mexico, Panama, the Antilles, &c. [Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 6, 

 pp. 226, 229, 230 (1904)], states that he has found four joints in the 

 funiculus (by mounting the antenna in balsam) in a specimen from 

 Nevis.— G. C. C.]. 



NOTES ON ACBOBASIS TUMIDANA, S. Y. 



{=VERRUCELLA, Ub., = RUBROTIBIELLA, F. E.) 



BY EUSTACE E. BANKES, M.A., P.E.S. 



In Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 164-166 (1903), the late Mr. 

 C. G. Barrett stated that he had been forced to the conclusion that 

 two closely-allied species of Acrohasii< had, for many years, been 



