18 INSECTS AFFECTING STORED PRODUCTS. 
naturalized. He expressed the belief that the larva obtained its 
nourishment from animal substances or products after the supposed 
habits of other species of Trogositid, basing this opinion on its 
resemblance to them in structure and to the attendant circumstances 
that the larve were not actually found in the seeds of these two plants. 
Experiments conducted by the writer, on receipt of living material 
in 1903, show conclusively that this species will breed in stored grain. 
A small number of beetles were confined in a jar of uninfested wheat, 
corn, and meal in February, and in March of the following year, when 
examined, larvee from these as well as living beetles and many dead 
ones were found. There is no evidence as yet of predaceous habits 
of this insect, as is the vase with the related cadelle. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. Kxiue, J. C. F.—Abhandlungen der K@6nigl. preussische Akademie der Wissen- 
schaften zu Berlin fiir 1832, p. 159, 1834. 
Original description as Peltis pusilla n. sp. from Madagascar. 
2. ALLIBERT, ALPH.—Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne, p. 12, Paris, 
1847. 
Description as Peltis yvanii n. sp., with description of var. testacea; mentioned as having been 
found in leguminous flour from China and beans from Brazil. 
3. Rerrrer, Epm.—Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europaischen Coleopteren, vol. 1, 
pt. 6, pp. 36, 37, 1881. 
Synoptic description as ‘‘Ostoma (Gaurambe) Yvany Allib.”’ 
4, Ouurrr, A. SipNey.—Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 
1883, pp. 180-181. 
Description of Lophocateres, n. gen. Type, L. nanus n. sp. from Borneo. 
5. Oxtuirr, A. SipbNEY.—Cistula Entomologica, vol. 3, pt. 27, p. 58, 1883. 
Synoptic table of genus with mention of LZ. yvani as being referred to this genus. 
6. Rey, Cuauprtus.—Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 1888, pp. 
XXXVill, XXXix. 
Description of the larva, mentioned as Ostoma Yvani Allibert. 
7. Ritey, C. V.—Insect Life, Div. Ent., U. 8. Dept. Agr., vol. 6, pp. 219, 223, Feb- 
ruary, 1894. 
Found at Chicago World’s Fair in cereal exhibits of Siam, Liberia, and Ceylon. Economic 
status doubtful. 
8. CuiITrENDEN, F. H.—Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture for 
1905, p. 630 (separate). 
Mention of destructive occurrence in stored rice at Charleston, 8. C., where it has evidently 
become established. 
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