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cius), though I have thought it desirable to give a careful diagnosis 

 of them, in the event, perhaps, of their being identified hereafter 

 with some cognate form. The insect, hovi^ever, is evidently a vari- 

 able one ; and there are individuals in the British Museum, bearing 

 the label ^* cofe^e", which seem in no way to differ from the pair 

 now before me ; whilst the fact that the species (the larva of which 

 appears to subsist within various seeds and berries Avhich are used 

 as articles of food) has become naturahzed, through the medium of 

 commerce, in most of the warmer countries of the civilized world 

 would go far to render it probable that the St. Helena oi^e is the 

 true fasciculatuSy and has been established in the island (as else- 

 where) by indirect human agency. 



The synonyms of the species as given in Dr, Gemminger et B 

 de Harold, Catalogus Coleopterorum, are as follows : — 



Arseocerus fasciculatus, Degeer. Ins. V, 1775. p. 276, t. 16, f , 2 

 J J „ Wollast Ann. nat. Hist., V., 1870, 



p. 18.— Lucas. Ann. Fr., 1861, 

 P- 399. 

 „ cacao Fabr. Syst. Enf., p, 64.— Oliv £";«/. IV, 80, p. 15 



t. 2. f. 21. a-b. 

 „ capillicorniSy Say. Journ. Ac. Phil.y V, 2, 1827, p. 



249. 

 „ moestus, Lee. Ann. Lye. I, p, 172. 



„ cassia, Winthem., Dej, Cat. 3 ed,, p. 259, 



J, cofe3s^ Fabr. Syst., El. U, p. 411. — Gyll. Schh. 



Gen. Cure. I, p. 175. — Labr. et Imh. 

 Gen. Cure. I., nr. 55. 

 „ crassicornis,¥ahr. Ent. 6)'^^. suppl., p. 159; Syst 



El. II, p. 399. 

 „ griseus, Steph. ///. Brit., IV, p. 21 1, t. 21, f. 2. (forte) 



„ japonicus^ Thunb. Nov, Act. Ups. VII, p. 122. 



„ peregrinuSy Herbst. Kaf.Mll, p. 168, t. 106. f. g. 



saltatorius. Falderm. in litt. 

 „ var, sambucinus, Boisd. Voy. Asfrol. II, p. 299 (forte) 



— MacLeay. Dej. cat, 3 ed., p. 259, 



5. Acridium peregrinum, Oliv. 

 " Locust." 

 The following reports regarding the appearance of locusts, have 

 been received in the Indian Museum during the year 1896 : — 



{a) Through the Survey Commissioner and Director of Land 



