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THE AMEEICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



S^^Iu order tht(t the proper authorship b'ef 

 given to such new species or genera as have | 

 been described in the Entomologist, it becomes^ 

 necessary, now that our associate is no more', ' 

 to explain in some part, the manner in whicli 

 tlie editorial department was conducted.'- It 

 was so agreed, between Mr. Walsh aiirt our- 

 selves, that in •o,pnsideration of the time we 

 devoted to the illustrations and to other general 

 editorial work, he should furnish on an average 

 two-thirds and w*e but one-third of the reading 

 matter. In point of fact, the articles written 

 under the editorfiil " we," were made as con- 

 Joint as possible,*by a constant interchange of 

 individual facts- and experience; and it was 

 decided that, whenever either one of us wished 

 to publish any difecovery peculiarly his own, or 

 to describe a new species in which the other 

 had no Interest-S-he should write under the 

 individual signature of "Senior Editor"' or 

 "Junior Editor," Thus, all descriptions ot 

 new species that have" heretofore appeared in 

 these columns under the editorial " wc," should 

 be credited to ""V^alsli and Kiley," and such as 

 appear ijiidei^ the signature of either one or the 

 other separately, "should be credited accord- 

 ingly- 1 



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ayWe regret exceedingly that our book no- 

 tices, and notices of exchanges, have been una- 

 voidably ci-owde|S out of this number. 



Missouri ENTOaoi.OGiCAL Keport. — In an- 

 swer to several inquiries lately received, we 

 will state that the First Annual Report of the 

 State Entomologist of Missouri can be had, 

 without plates, bly sending fifty cents- to C. "W. 

 Murtfeldt, Secretary of the State Board of Ag- 

 reculture, G12 North Fifth street, St. Louis; or 

 with uncolored plates and on superior paper by 

 sending $1.00 to the editor of this Journal. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



NOTICK. — Such of our correspondents as have .already 

 seut, or may hereafter send, small collections of insects 

 to be named, will please to inform us if any of the 

 species seut, are from other States than their own. 

 Lists of insects found in any particular locality are of 

 especial interest, as throwing light upon the geograph- 

 ical distrihution of species. But to make them of real 

 value, it is recpiisitc that we know for certain, 

 whether or not all the insects in any particular list come 

 from that particul.ar locality, and if not, from what 

 locality they do come. 



Scorpion in Kansas — iT. Kthey, Ottawa, Kann. — 

 The animal you sejid is a Scorpion— the Ikitlms earo- 

 Z»nM»«,'i of Beauvois — mentioned by Dr. (i. Lincecnm, 

 on page 203 of the first volume of the Ainmicnn yatur- 

 allst, as a Texan species. You will find, by referring 

 to page !)9 of our fiifet volmne [Co\. 1, •;. I), th.at it often 

 occurs in Missouri, but we wei'e not aware before that 

 it oc<^urred in Kan^s, 



Tbe Grain Brucbus ot Europe Just Imported 



— A. S. Fuller, Jiidgewood, N'. J. — The weevils which 

 wi^re found in some podspresented to the Farmers' Club, 



[Fipr. S.1*] 



■ Colors— Black, jini.v ainl white. 



are evidently the common Ruropean Grain Hruchus 

 (Bmc/ius gmnarius). You say that the gentleman who 

 presented tlie pods, gathered them from a tree in Swit- 

 zerland. It were \ery much to be wished that he knew 

 the kind of tree, and that he had had the good sense to 

 examine the pods before he brought them to this coun- 

 try. Theseed-i)od which you sent along with the beetles, 

 looked to us very much like that of an Everlasting pea, 

 but as it grew on a tree, it belongs in all probability to 

 some species of Laburnum. The weevil was entirely 

 new to us, and does not agree with any of the described 

 N. A. species, and Dr. Geo. H. Horn, of Pliiladelphia 

 (who now has charge of Dr. LeConte's large collection 

 of beetles), to vvliom we sent a specimen, pronounced 

 it new to the collections there. Concluding, therefore, 

 that it was introduced from Eurojie, wc had no diffi- 

 culty, on comparing it with European descriptions, in 

 recognizing it as their I'ommon Grain Bruchus. 



Now this weevil is a most unmitigated nuisance in 

 Europe, whore it is a very general feeder; and accord- 

 ing to the facts set forth in the article in oiu- present 

 number, entitled "Imported Insects and Native Amer- 

 ican Inserts," it will prove even more injurious in this 

 country, it it once gets foot-hold. You will therefore 

 see the need of immediate action in the matter, in order 

 that by a little \igilance we may stamp it out of oxu' 

 midst. You nniy rest assureil that we so effectually put 

 an end to those which were received here, that they 

 will never more see the li.ght of day. We a<lvise you 

 to call the attention o( the Farmers' Club to the article 

 on Native and Imported Insects already referred to, 

 and to the "Report of the Connnittee on Entomology," 

 which elsewhere appears in this number. The Club 

 should insist on the tot.al destruction ot every seed of 

 this Idnd that has been distributed, for unless such 

 action is taken, th.at body may do more harm in the 

 introduction of one such insert, than it can do good in 

 the next twenty years. AVhen the Swedish traveller, 



*E.\i'LAN.\TIONOI'FlGURK — a. pi-rfcct beetle, back view; h. saiiii. side 

 viewj e, larvau(2, pupa— iili liijEhly iiia>niified, theftccompaiiyiiiKOiitline.-^ 

 Rhowui-j; the naftiiaf size; « anfl/, infested beans; ,f/, an iofesled pea. 



