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furnished me with a Hst of food plants of the European and American 

 species which is as follows: 



Sc. amygdali = Amygdalus. 



Sc. Ratzeburgi = Betula. 



Sc. carpini = Carpinus. 



Sc. pruni and rugii/osus =■ P)rus, Prunus, Crataegus, 



Sc. intricatus: Quercus, 



Sc. Geoffrovi, pyg?naeus, Kirschi. multisirialus = Ulmus. 



The American species of which the food habits are known, are the 

 following: 



Sc. quadrisl>inosns: Carya, 



Sc, fagi: Celtis, Fagus (?). 



Sc. mu/tcus: Celtis. 



Sc. rugulosus: Prunus, Pyrus. (Imported from Europe.) 



Sc. tmispinosus: Abies Douglassi. 



Of the remaining five species Sc califormcus is tolerably common 

 in collections, but the others appear to be exceedingly rare: in fact it is 

 questionable whether any but the typical specimens are known. The 

 second food plant oi Sc. fagi (Fagus) is somewhat in doubt. Dr. Le- 

 conte (Rhynch. p. 372) says: "depredates on beech trees according to 

 Mr. Walsh"; but on referring to Mr. Walsh's original article (Pract. Ent. 

 II, p. 58) we find the following statement: "I obtained many specimens 

 in South Illinois, from what I believe was a beech." Thus it still re- 

 mains somewhat doubtful whether the species really infests the beech. 



Dr. Hamilton states (Can. Ent. XVII, 1885, p. 48) that Scolylus 

 rugulosus breeds in Hickory tv/igs, but Mr. Schwarz (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Washington, I, No. i. p- 30) maintains that this Hickory species is 

 difi"erent from rugulosus and apparently undescribed. 



In the Entom. Mo. Mag. Sept. 1886 p. 85, Mr. George Lewis de- 

 scribes a Brathinus oculatus from Japan. Hitherto this genus has been 

 supposed to be exclusively American, two species being known in our 

 fauna. The occurence of the species is therefore of great interest to stu- 

 dents of Geographical distribution. 



* 

 In the Stettiner Ent. Zeitschrift Vol. 47, p. 215, Martin Jacoby de- 

 scribes Oedionychus cretica from the Island of Creta. This is also a new 

 locality for this genus which is very rich in America, rare in Madagascar 

 and Siam and has not been heretofore known in the European fauna. 



