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(12) Cryptophagid (?).—An unknown species, dark, shining brown in cclor and 
about tive-sixteenths of an inch in length, living in corn meal, edible tubers, etc., 
in Mexican and Guatemalan exhibits. Would certainly prove dangerous if it could 
become naturalized here. 
(13) Litargus sp.—A Mycetophagid beetle, not easily separable from balteatus Lec., 
breeding in numbers in various edible tubers, including potatoes, in exhibits of 
Mexico and Guatemala. None of this genus appears to be recorded as injurious. 
(14) Typhea fumata L.—Noticed only in Siamese exhibit. Common in this coun- 
try and said to feed on stored grain, but not known to be injurious. 
(15) Carpophilus hemipterus L.—A Nitidulid breeding in abundance in dried fruits 
in Tunis Building; also in Algerian and Guatemalan exhibits. Cosmopolitan. 
(16) Carpophilus dimidiatus Fab.—Breeding in corn meal from Brazil. Widely 
known in the United States, but not known to be particularly injurious. 
(17) Ips 4-guttatus Ol. (fasciatus Ol.).—Living in dates in Tunis Building. Abun- 
dant in the United States, but not known to injure dried fruits. 
(18) Lathridius minutus L.—In Mexican and Spanish exhibits. Common in the 
United States. 
(19) Coninomus sp.—Also from Mexico. 
(20) Corticaria ferruginea Gyll.—From Spain and Mexico. 
(21) Corticaria serrata Payk.—Also from Spain. Common to Europe and North 
America. 
(22) Corticaria sp.—From Algeria. 
Of the five minute Lathridiid above mentioned none are known as noxious. 
(23) Tenebrioides mauritanicus L.—Occurred in corn, wheat, flour, and meal exhibited 
by several South and Central American countries. All the known species of this 
genus are predaceous, and its noxiousness largely consists in its presence, which, as it 
is a large species, is unwelcome in edible products. 
(24) Ostoma (Lophocateres) pusillum Klug.—In cereal exhibits of Siam, Liberia, and 
Ceylon. Not included in our faunal lists, but believed by M. Fauvel to occur in 
North America. Uncertain whether predaceous or injurious. 
Ptinide. 
(25) Dinoderus sp.—Living in grain and edible tubers from Mexico and Guatemala, 
Liable to prove dangerous if it can become acclimated. 
(26) Dinoderus pusillus Fab.—From Mexico; in exhibits of Mexico and Italy. Known 
to injure stored grain and other products in North America, and said to be cosmo- 
politan, but somewhat limited in distribution. 
(27) Drug-store Beetle (Sitodrepa panicea L.).—In a variety of exhibits, including 
grain, and from various countries. Cosmopolitan and a well-known pest in drug- 
stores every where. 
(28) Cigarette Beetle (Lasioderma serricorne Fab.).—No special search was made 
for this species, as it is widely known, occurring wherever tobacco is grown or 
stored. It was found, however, in all tobacco exhibits examined. It has received 
frequent mention in the past in this periodical. 
(29) Catorama tabaci Guer. (?)—In commercial annatto from Brazil. 
(30) Hemiptychus gravis Lec. (?)—Occurred with the above, which it closely resem- 
bles. 
(31) Lyctus sp.—One of the ‘“‘ powder-post” beetles; in herbs in Paraguay exhibit. 
Cerambycide. 
(32) Leptostylus (?) sp.—A Cerambycid or long-horned beetle; in pods of Enterolo- 
_ bium from Paraguay. 
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