136 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Should the insect become very abundant, it may be destroyed by the 

 methods used for the control of the Colorado potato-beetle, viz.: The 

 application of Paris green or London purple. 



As most of the many enemies which have acquired the habit of prey- 

 ing upon the Colorado beetle during the several years of its excessive 

 prevalence will, in all probability, as readily feed upon the three-lined 

 leaf-beetle, we need not apprehend, for some time to come, serious 

 ravages from it in our potato fields. 



Triboliuin ferrngineum (Fabr.). 



(Ord. Coleoptera: Fam. Tenebrionid^.) 



Fabr.: Spec. Ins., 1781, i, p. 324— Sturm: Faun. Dents., 1807, ii, p. 228, pi. 47, f. 

 d D.— Westwood: Introduc. Class. Ins., 1839, i, p. 319, f. 39, 2.— Horn: 

 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1871, xiv, p. 365. — Mux,ler: in Trans. Eut. 

 Soc. Lond., 1873, p. x, Proc. (same in Canad. Ent., 1873, v, p. 156).— 

 Bandi: Deuts. E. Z., 1876, p. 230.— Hagen: in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., 1878, XX, p. 59.— Schiodte: Nat. Tidss.,1879, ii, pp. 487, 563, 587, pi. 

 10, figs, 18-22.— Olliff: Ent., 1881, xiv, p. 216.— Lucas: Ann. Ent. 

 Soc. Fr., 1883, ser. iii, vi, p. Ixxi, Bull. 

 Synonyms.* 



navalis Fabr.: Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 56. 



cinnamoneum Herbst: Kaf., 1792, iv, p. 170, pi. 42, f. 8 li H. 



testaeeumYx^v..: Eut. Syst. SuppL, 1794, p. 179. 



castaneum Herbst: Kafer, 1797, vii, p. 282, pi. 11, f. 3 E. — Sch. Syn. 



Ins., 1806, i, p. 153. — McLeay: Ann. Jav., 1825, p. 47. — Lucas: in Anu. 



Ent. Soc. Fr. , 1854, ser. iii, vol. ii, p. 51; ibid., 1855, ser. iii, vol. iii, p. 



249, pi. 13, f. 3. 

 ferrnginea Say: Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., 1835, i, p. 188; Compl. Works, 



Ed. Lee, 1869, ii, p. 659.— Dejean: Cat., 1836, ed. 8, p. 321. 

 ocJiracea Knoch: Dejean Cat., 1836, p. 221, 

 ruhens Lap.: Hist. Nat., ii, p. 220.— Dejean 's Cat., 1836, ed. 3, p. 221. 



Messrs. Durant & Co., grain dealers, of 4^5 Broadway, Albany, sent 

 for examination, October 25, a package of "middlings" (coarse wheat 

 flour), which had been returned to them as being infested with insects. 

 The material had been received by them about three weeks previous, 

 from a firm in Chicago. 



The Insect Swarming in Flour. 



Examination of the flour showed it to be literally swarming with 

 Tribolium ferrugineum (Fabr.), shown at a in Fig. 34. So abundant 



* The references and synonymy have been kindly furnished by Mr, Samuel Henshaw, of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History. 



