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certainly quite rare in American collections, and I know of no authentic 

 record of its occurrence in flour or meal, or of its breeding- indoors. 



Jn Europe it is recorded from France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. 

 Eedtenbaclier, who described this species as Mar(jus obscurus, says that 

 it is "very rare in beehives and under poplar bark." The larva is 

 probably subcortical, but nothing of the breeding habits of the species 

 appears to be known. 



Mr. Schwarz has specimens taken June 26 and July 4 at Marquette 

 and Eagle Harbor, Mich., all found on the shores of Lake Superior. It 

 was also taken June 17, at Park City, Utah, at an elevation of about 

 8,500 feet, by beating in the woods. Snow was still on the ground at 

 this time. A single specimen was picked up in the neighborhood of 

 Washington, D. C. 



Very recently Mr. 0. P. Gillette sent us for identification specimens 

 of this insect. In response to our inquiry relative to the source from 

 which they were obtained, he writes that of the four individuals found 

 all were taken separately in general collecting at Fort Collins, Colo. 

 One was found under a board October 30, one while sweeping alfalfa, 

 May 19, and the other two in June and July. It has also been recorded 

 from New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton and Ottawa, Canada. 

 It is not known in Mexico and Central America. 



A glance at the above localities will show that the species has most 

 often been met with in the North, and it is not impossible that it Is 

 indigenous in boreal Europe and America. It is certainly not tropical. 



Ecliocerus {Gnathocerus) cornuius Fab. is cosmopolitan in the broader 

 sense of the term, but in North America appears to be somewhat 

 restricted in its distribution. In the Californian region it is firmly 

 established both indoors and, in the San Diego district, also under 

 bark. The species is said to owux in New York, New Jersey, Louis- 

 iana, and Alaska, but it is doubtful if it has obtained a permanent 

 footing' as far north as Alaska. The species is also known from Mexico, 

 Guatemala, Brazil, and Chile on this continent, from New Caledonia 

 and Hawaii, and is rather common in Europe, particularly in the south- 

 ern portion of the continent. 



JEchocerus maxillosus Fab., represented in the list at 55, from Brazilian 

 exhibit, is recorded also from Mexico, Lower California, Guatemala, 

 Nicaragua, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, West Indies, New Caledonia, 

 Madeira, and the Canary Islands. Unfortunately for our records of its 

 distribution in this country another species has been very generally 

 confused with it. It is abundant in the South, where it occurs both 

 indoors and in the field. I have living specimens from the District of 

 Columbia and have seen a series from Kentucky and Ohio. It prob- 

 ably occurs with us still farther north. 



European writers, including Fauvel, have considered these two spe- 

 cies as of oriental origin, and if this supposition be correct they were 

 evidently introduced in South and Central America at a very early 



