38 Psyche [Sept. -Dec. 
thoscelides s. 1. (probably including all or most of Bridwelhs 
recent segregates of that genus) has been given by Her ford, 
1935. 
Bruchinus Schilsky 1905, cited by Bridwell as a synonym or 
possible subgenus of Bruchidius, is not recorded either in 
Neave’s Nomenclator or that of the Prussian Academy of Sci- 
ences in Berlin. 
In erecting the Palearctic genus Sparteus (1946, p. 55) Brid- 
well has not compared it with Bruchidius, which is the nearest 
relative of the group to which he intended the name to apply. 
It does not seem that it can be accorded higher status than that 
of a subgenus of Bruchidius, at least until adequate reason for 
so doing is pointed out. 
Bridwell designated villosus Fabr. type of Sparteus. But 
Hoffman, 1945, p. 83, indicated that the species which Bridwell 
really meant, and which has passed as villosus Fabr., is jasciatus 
01., 1795, Ent., v. 4, p. 20. He pointed out that villosus Fabr. is 
a Spermophagus. Schilsky saw the Fabrician types in Kiel, and 
found this to be the case. Sparteus Bridwell therefore is a 
synonym of Spermophagus, unless action is taken by the Inter- 
national Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to change the 
genotype to the species that Bridwell unquestionably meant. 
Dr. W. T. M. Forbes has bred B. jasciatus 01. in numbers 
from the seeds of Scotch broom ( Cytisus scoparius) at Woods 
Hole, Mass. The specimens were determined by Mr. L. J. Bot- 
timer in 1931. This is a common species of southern Europe, 
not previously recorded from North America, unless record has 
escaped my attention. Cytisus and Spartium are both cited as 
hosts, and although these are separate genera, I am unable to 
state whether or not the terms have been used synonymously in 
this connection. Four specimens of the same beetle are in the 
Fall collection, taken on Nantucket Island in 1920, 1926, and 
1927, so that the beetle is evidently well established. These 
specimens are labelled u cisti Fabr.” but this should be cisti 
Payk., which is a synonym of jasciatus. 
It is interesting to note that Mr. Bridwell in allocating Spar- 
teus to his tribe Bruchidiini (see above), apparently because it 
is Palearctic, was obliged to make an exception of it, including 
it in his key with “Acanthoscelidini.” 
