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genus, unnecessarily proposing several new names for the Asiatic 

 species. Mr. H. S. Barber has furnished these facts. 



Mr. J. A. Hyslop has by letter called attention to the following 

 preoccupied names in Elateridse: 



Monocrcpidms finitimus Csy. is preoccupied by M. finitimus (Say) 

 Lee, and may be called M. caseyi n.m. 



Elatcr discoideus Fab., 1801, is a primary homonym of Elater 

 (Adelocera) discoidca Weber, 180 1, and may be called sella tiis Dej. 

 Cat. 3, ed. p. 104. 



Ectomenogonus {Elater) hepaticus Melsh. is preoccupied by Crig- 

 mus {Elater) hepaticus Germ, and may be called melsheimeri n.m. 



Anchastus horni O. Schwz., n.m. for A. sericeiis Horn is unneces- 

 sary, the name having been already changed to sericans by Candeze 

 (Cat. Meth., 1891, p. 106). 



In Buprestidse certain changes are based upon studies made at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, where several large col- 

 lections were assembled for the purpose, and upon conversation with 

 Colonel Casey, though he is not in any way responsible for them. 



Attains subtnarginatus Lee, which was not recognized when Dr. 

 Horn's revision was written, has been found by Dr. Schwarz at Cata- 

 lina Springs, Arizona. It is, however, not an Attains, but represents 

 a new genus, nearer to Chcctococlns than to Attains, which may be 

 called Attalnsimis. 



Catorama tahaci has been introduced in tobacco; also Thanero- 

 clerns girodi, its Clerid enemy; see Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., XV, 1913, 

 p. 89. 



Sitodrcpa apparently has to be replaced by Stegobinm Mots., i860, 

 a prior name. Priobiuni Mots., 1845, must also replace Trypopitys 

 Redt., 1858. 



Bostrichiis fasciculatns Fall is a synonym of Lichenophanes peni- 

 cillatus Lesne, described in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1895, p. 171, and figured 

 in the same publication, 1898, p. 495. The type locality for Lesne's 

 species is Durango, Mexico, and it is probable that many of the spe- 

 cies described therefrom will ultimately be found in the United States. 

 L. verriicosusX Gorh. Biol. C. Am., 1886, p. 353, is the same species. 



Berg inns seems best placed in Lyctidse, as proposed by Colonel 

 Casey in 1900 and approved by Champion (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1913)- 



