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politan species; introduced as British by Professor Hudson Beare (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xl. (2 Ser. xv.) 1D(U, 4). Mr. Waterhouse considers the 

 original home of the species lo be Tasmania. 



The female somewhat closely resembles that of P. fur, but 

 has the elytra shorter and more rounded and without white patches, the 

 antennfB shorter and stouter, and the sculpture stronger ; the males are 

 entirely different. 



It has occurred in the following localities : Edmonton (Pool) ; Strood 

 (Beare) ; Liverpool (Richardson) ; Hoylake (Sopp) ; Kensington Mansions 

 and in a granary, Holborn, in numbers (Donisthorpe) ; Liverpool 

 (Bedwell) ; Dunfermline (W. Evans) ; Stromness, Orkneys (Ellison) ; 

 Salkeld Dykes, Cumberland (Britten) ; Reading (Joy) ; Queenborough 

 and Faversham (Walker). 



TRIGONOGENIUS, Solier. 



T. globulum, Sol. (Gay. Hist. Chil. iv,p. 464). Short, thick-set, 

 very convex, with strong, light brown pubescence and large and strong 

 outstanding black setaj ; head long, deflexed, with small and not 

 prominent eyes, antenna? short and thick, with the first joint com- 

 paratively long and stout, and the last elongate and acuminate ; thorax 

 about as long as broad, bluntly angulate about the middle, with a deep 

 central furrow, and less marked and shorter side furrows with large 

 and not close coarse punctures ; elytra globular, with the small dark 

 patches on each side of the scutellum reaching base, and the apical portion 

 more or less rubbed and dark ; strias fine and not very evident ; legs 

 very stout, reddish and brownish, pubescent. L. 2|-3| mm. 



Oldham, Manchester, &c., in corn mills and granaries ; Tottenham 

 (Girningham) ; Birmingham (Ellis). The beetle is a native of Chili. 

 It must not be confused with Trigonogenium angulosum, Sol. (also 

 a Chilian insect), which belongs to the Buprestidse. 



ANOBIID^. 



ERNOBIUS, Thomson. 

 The specimen standing as E. ahietis, F., in Dr. Power's collection 

 appears to be E. mollis, L., which is a somewhat variable species, and it 

 has been somewhat doubtful whether E. ahietis can be regarded as a 

 British insect. There is, however, a specimen in the late Mr. F. Bates' 

 collection, which was sent to him alive by C. Guliver from the New 

 Forest in June, 1899, which is undoubtedly this species. (Ent. 

 Record, 1899, p. 340.) 



BOSTRICHID^. 



DINODERUS, Stephens. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, xii. 1900, p. 16) points out the 

 confusion that has hitherto existed with regard to the Dinoderus 



