THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 4:] 



Can. Ent., p. 120, an instance of this sort is recorded by Mr. R. Jiunker, 

 of Rochester, where the larva became a chrysalis on the first of August 

 and produced the moth on the loth of September. Should these larvie 

 at any time prove troublesome, the)' can be readily subdued by hand- 

 pickiny,. 



LIST OF N. AMKRICAxN ANTHOMYIDAE, EXAMINED BY 

 R. H. MEADE, ESQ., BRADFORD, ENGLAND. 



1!V OR. II. A. EIAUEN, CANfORIDGE, MASS. 



Mr. R. H. Meade has kindly examined the N. American Anthomyidre 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology m Cambridge, forwarded to him 

 by the Baron von Osten Sacken. The collection was returned last year 

 by the Baron to the Mu.seum. The species are separated carefully and 

 accompanied by a list giving the genera and species, the latter not named 

 except when identical with European species. The notes and determin- 

 ations of the list differ sometimes from the notes previously published by 

 Mr. R. H. Meade in the Entom. Monthly Mag., 1878, xiv., p. 230-250. 

 Those differences and the more complete statements in the list induced 

 me to publish it, thinking it to be ungrateful to Mr. Meade that his exten- 

 sive and thorough examination should rest in the archives of the Museum 

 and be lost to science. Baron von Osten Sacken stated in his letter that 

 he has not the intention to work out the Anthomyidae. I have 

 carefully compared the labeled types in the Loew collection, and have 

 added always the locality for the species examined by Mr. Meade. Where 

 I was able to make out identities, they are given. The collection of the 

 Museum, out of which the Baron himself selected the lot sent to Mr. 

 Meade, will probably contain only duplicates of the lot, except in later 

 additions. Loew's collection contains a number not yet assorted and 

 .some new species. Types of European species sent by Loew, Schiner, 

 Gerstaecker and Jmhoff, have been compared with the American ones. 

 O. Sacken's Catalogue has 139 N. Amer. species, including a large 

 number uf Fr. Walker's not yet scientifically conipared. Mr. Meade has 

 counted (with a few varieties) 121 species, and Loew's collection contains 

 12 species not seen by Mr. Meade; therefore the whole number of N. 



