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Cryptophagus quadricollis, Guerin-Meneville, Icono- 

 graphie du Regne Animal, &c., vii, 

 p. 198 (?1840> 

 ., muscBorum, D. Ziegler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, ii, p. 270 (1844). 

 „ Guerini, Allibert, Revue Zool., x, p. 12 



(1847). 

 Silvanus adveiia, Erichson, Natiirg. d. Ins. Deutschl., 

 iii, p. 339 (1846). Sturm, Deutschl. 

 Fauna, Ins., xxi, p. 100, pi. 390, fig. 

 B (1851). Bach, Kiif. Preuss., i, 

 p. 243 (1851). Wollaston, Insecta 

 Maderensia, p. 168 (1854) ; Cat. 

 Mader. Col., p. 54 (1857) ; Col. 

 Atlantidum, p. 136 (1865). 

 Sylvanus advena, Redtenbacher, Fauna Austr., edn. 2, 



p. 357 (1858). 

 Cathartus {?) advena, Kraatz, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., vi, 



p. 131 (1862). 

 Cathartus advena, Stein, Cat. Col. Eur., p. 50 (1868). 

 Some observations upon this practically cosmopolitan 

 species may not be uninteresting. From the above quoted 

 authorities, and the Catalogues of Schaum, Grenier, De 

 Marseul, and others (none of which appear to doubt the 

 propriety of including it in the" European lists), it appears 

 to have been recorded from North America, Carolina, 

 China, Madeira, Teneriffe, Spain, Germany, and France 

 (Hyeres ; Pascoe't; and a single specimen of it has occurred 

 to Mr. George Lewis in Japan. Erichson, /. c, says it 

 occurs in rice and other vegetable produce, and is dis- 

 tributed through commerce over the greater part of the 

 earth ; Kraatz, /. c, also considers that it was probably 

 first disseminated with rice over the north of Europe, and 



