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LIST OF INSECTS AFFECTING STORED CEREALS, 5 
Tribolium navale Fab...........-...- Farmers’ Bul. 45, U. 8. Dept. Agr., pp. 
Tribolium ferrugineum Fab. 12-138, 1897. 
Rust-red flour beetle. ‘ Habits like preceding. 
Tribolium madens Charp............Johnson: Amer. Miller, Jan. 1, 1896, p. 32. 
Black flour beetle. Habits similar to two preceding. 
Gnathocerus cornutus Fab......... Farmers’ Bul. 45, U. 8. Dept. Agr., p. 13, 
Echocerus cornutus Fab. 1897. 
Broad-horned flour beetle. Infests ground cereals. 
. Gnathocerus (Echocerus) maxil- 
losis alse: Suoiscuuei ola pager h. Farmers’ Bul. 45, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 13, 
Slender-horned flour beetle. 1897. 
Infests corn and corn meal. 
Ceenocorse ratzeburgi Wissm....... Farmers’ Bul. 45, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 13, 
Palorus ratzeburgi Wissm. 1897. 
Small-eyed flour beetle. Infests cereals, whole and ground. 
Czenocorse subdepressa Woll........ Chittenden: Ent. News, vol. 7, p. 138, 
Palorus subdepressus Woll. 1896. 
Depressed flour beetle. Lives in granaries in Europe and South 
America and in cereals in the United 
States. 
Latheticus oryzee Waterh........-... Waterhouse: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 
Lyphia striolatus Fairm. vol. 5, pp. 147-148, Feb., 1880. 
Short-horned flour beetle. Breeds in rice, wheat, and barley. 
Sitophagus solieri Muls. 
Sitophagus hololeptoides Lap. 
Alphitobius diaperinus Panz........ Food habits similar to those of Tenebrio; 
Lesser mealworm. prefers spoiled material. 
Alphitobius piceus Oliv............. There are brief notes on occurrence in 
grain. 
Alphitophagus bifasciatus Say. .... Commonly occurs in spoiled cereals, but 
Phylethus bifasciatus Say. does not injure sound material. 
Alphitophagus 4-pustulatus Steph. 
RHYNCHOPHORA. 
Calandra geranaria) Li... 2)! . 05: a0:)-- Farmers’ Bul. 45, U. 8. Dept. Agr., pp. 4-5, 
Sitophilus granarius L. 1897. 
Calandra remotepunctata Gyll. Breeds in all cereals in the kernel, except, 
Granary weevil. perhaps, oats and unhulled rice, and in 
0 some prepared cereals, etc. 
Calandra, oryzay li: 2. + )...s2ie ss Farmers’ Bul. 45, U.S. Dept. Agr., pp. 5-6, 
Sitophilus oryze L. 1897. 
Rice weevil. Infests all cereals in kernel. 
Caulophilus latinasus Say.......... Chittenden: Tech. Ser. 4, Div. Ent., U.S. 
Broad-nosed grain weevil. Dept. Agr., pp. 29-30, 1896. 
In corn, chick-peas, ginger, etc. 
Brachytarsus alternatus Say....... Quaintance: Bul. 36, Fla. Agr. Exp. Sta., 
pp. 380-381, 1896. 
Larva and adult injurious to stored corn, 
cowpeas, and ‘‘ English peas.”’ 
Brachytarsus variegatus Say....... Lintner: 2d Rep. Ins. N. Y., pp. 139-141, 
1885. 
Adult exceptionally eats kernels of wheat 
in bin. 
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