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Silvanus advena WaltL, also a grain beetle^ Cath a rtus advena. 
Anthrenus varius Fab., one of the cabinet beetles, is referred to A. verbasci Linn. 
Ips fasciatus Oliv. — I. 4-guttatus Fab. 
The cadelle (Trogosita [Tenebrioides] mauritanka Linn.) = Tenebroides mauritanieus. 
Gibbium scotias Scop. = G. psylloides Czempinsk. 
Xestobium tessellatum Fab.=A\ rufovillosum DeG. 
The cigarette beetle ( Lasioderma serricorne Fab.) = Z. testaceum Duft. 
The "bark stripper" (Phymatodes variabilis Linn.) = P. testaceus Linn. 
Rhagium lineatum Oliv.. a short-horned pine-borer ; is identical with the European 
II. inquisitor Linn. 
Gaztroidea formosa Say and G. raphani Herbst. = G. viridula DeG. 
The two cottonwood leaf-beetles, Lina (Plagiodera ) scripta Linn, and tremula Fab., 
belong to the genus Melasoma. 
The strawberry root-borer, mentioned in economic literature as I'aria aterrima and 
P. C-notata. together with several other forms, have all been united under the one 
specific name Typophorus can ell u 8 Fab. 
Colaspis tristis 01., (of collections ) an enemy of the rose, strawberry, blackberry, and 
other Rosacea?; is identified as Xodonota puncticollis Say. 
The elm leaf-beetle (Galeruca xanfh omelcena Schx.) = GalerucelJa hiteola Mull. 
Systena blanda Mels. and 8. mitis Lee, with their varieties are considered merely 
varieties of S. taniata Say. 
The pea weevil (Bruchus pisi Linn.) = 7>. pisorum Linn. 
Bruchus scutellaris Fab., one of the cow-pea weevils, is referred to B. chinensis Linn. 
The bean weevil (Bruchus obsohtus Say [Horn] and B. fades Riley ) = B. obteetus 
Say. 
The rice weevil (C. oryza* Linn.) = C. oryza Linn. (See Amcen. Acad., vol. VI, p 
395). 
Calandra remotepunciala Gyll. is a synonym of C. granaria Linn. 
Xyloterus bivittatus Kby.=A\ lintatus Oliv. 
Tbe pear-blight beetle (Xyleborus pyri Peck.) = A\ dispar Fab. 
[F.H.C.] 
A NEW FURNITURE PEST. 
During the past winter Mrs. J. M. Hunter, of Xew York City, wrote 
us that the bottom of one of the drawers in her bureau was infested 
by some insect. From her description of the nature of the damage 
we inferred that the culprit was one of our species of Lyctus and 
advised her to soak the infested wood with kerosene or to apply corro- 
sive sublimate. Subsequently Mrs. Hunter discovered that the bottom 
of a washstand in the same room was infested in the same way, and 
forwarded a minute fragment of the insect which she found protruding 
from one of the holes in the surface of the wood. This fragment was 
evidently a piece of the prothorax of an anobiid beetle, quite different 
from any Lyctus, and we concluded at first that it indicated the pres- 
ence of one of the common European furniture infesting anobiids, viz, 
Anobium pertinax (the well-known "death watch") or .4. striatum, 
neither of which, strangely enough, has ever been recorded from North 
America. Mrs. Hunter found the bottom of her washstand entirely 
destroyed, and finally sent us one of the boards. Upon investigation 
we found within the board perfect, though dead (evidently killed by 
the kerosene), specimens of the beetle, which, to our surprise, proved 
to be our native Xyletinus peltatus. This species is common enough m 
our woods, boring in dead and dry twigs and branches of all sorts of 
