PSYCHE 
VOL. 53 
Sept.-Dec., 1946 
Nos. 3-4 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
MYLABRIDAE, SEU BRUCHIDAE (COLEOPTERA) 
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FAUNA OF 
NORTHEASTERN AMERICA 
By J. Chester Bradley 
Cornell University 
The family name. — I concur with the wish expressed by 
B rid well, 1946, that the International Commission may, by 
suspension of the rules, validate the use of Bruchus and Bru- 
chidae. I am not however aware that they have been requested 
to do this, and even if they have been — I have quite recently 
urged Mr. Bridwell to submit the case to them — we can not 
anticipate a decision prior to its being reached. 
Mylabris Geoff roy 
Mylabris signaticornis Gyll. in America. — There is a single 
(previously misdetermined) specimen of this species from the 
collection of Mr. Charles Liebeck and now contained in the 
Fall collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology which 
bears labels indicating that it was found in lentils in Philadel- 
phia, Pa. This is the fifth species of the genus to be recorded 
from the United States. It is a species of southern Europe, 
where it infests lentils and Vicia monanthos. One of these five 
species which has escaped record in the supplements to Leng’s 
Catalogue is M. lentis Froelich, recorded in the New York State 
list of insects as infesting lentils in groceries in Buffalo and 
Ithaca; this species comes from the Crimea and Caucasus and 
attacks only lentils. As has been pointed out to me, both of the 
species are accidental importations of adults that would be un- 
able to establish their progeny in dried lentils, and therefore are 
under no likelihood of becoming established. 
Gibbobmchus Pic 
Gibbobruchus mimus (Say) Bridwell , 1946. — Leng’s refer- 
ence of Horn’s group II of Bruchus to Pseudopachymerus Pic 
