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QYiQYY.jpicitarsis, 'Bo\\.,=:qnadratieollis, Boh. j B. gimmerthalii, Hoch,,=:semt- 
striatus, Boh. ; B. vestitus, VGYx\8,=pallidicormSj scolopaceusy Germ., 
vaf. : H. Brisoiit, 1. c. 
Baridius /a^/coZ/e‘s(Msh.) is bred plentifully from roots of Sisymbrium officinale 
by MoncreafF (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 81) j B. scolopaceus. Germ., is recorded by 
Champion (ibid. p. 107) from Kentish coast; and B. sellatus, Boh., Sch., 
from Carthagena, by Crotch (Pet. Nouv. 13, p. 49). 
Seidel (SB. Ges. Isis, 1870, pp. 155 & 156) records the destruction of 
different varieties of Brassica oleracea caused by Baridius cuprirostris, near 
Dresden. 
De Marseul (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 4« s6r. x. Bull. p. Ixix) refers to Baridius 
picinus attaching the roots, and B. cTilorizans and cuprirostris the stems, of 
Brassica oleracea. 
Baridius trinotatus, Say, the potato-stalk weevil,” is figured in its chief 
stages, and particulars of its economy are given in Amer. Ent. i. p. 22, f. 12. 
A gall upon the grape-vine, caused by Madams vitis — Baridius 
sesostris, Lee.), is figured and named vitis vulnus in Amer. Ent. ii. p. 104 et 
seq., f. 70. A new sp. of Madams is indicated at p. 105 by Riley, under the 
name atnpelopsidos, as feeding upon leaf-stems of the Virginian creeper. 
This article is conspicuous as the only instance of double entendre ” (in its 
worst signification) among entomological publications. 
Baridius. II. Brisout, 1. c., describes the following new spp. : — B. crinipeSy 
p. 45, Sarepta, Caucasus (? loricatus, Sch.) ; sidcipennis, p. 49, Frankfort-on- 
the-Maine ; dahnatinus^ p. 53, Dalmatia, Poland, S. France ; limbatuSy p. 66, 
Sarepta, Andalusia ; tenuirostris, p. 291, Algeria, Syria ; vicinus, p. 294, 
Jerusalem, Beyrouth; alboguttaiuSy ibid,, Biskra; setifemSy p. 296, Sicily, 
Algeria. 
Baridius dispilotus, sp. n., Solsk^, Ilorap Ent, Ross, vi. p, 312^, Lake 
Khanka. 
Calandrides, 
Allard (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 207 et seq.) tabulates and describes the 
European species of Sphenophoms ; characterizing, under the name nitens, a 
French var. of S. piceusy and, under the name incequalisy a var,, from France, 
of S. ahbreviatus. 
For an account of injuries to grain by Sitophilus oryzccy cf. Pr. E, Soc, 1870, 
p. XV. 
Westwood (ibid, p. xvi) briefly describes the larva of S. granarius, 
Sphenophoms obliquevittatusy sp. n., Taschenb., Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i, 
p. 190, Ecuador ; S. pumiluSy sp. n., Allard, 1. c. p. 210, Algeria (De Marseul, 
Nouv. et faits div, p. Ivii, proposes the name grandini for this sp., puniilus 
being preoccupied). 
Cossonides, 
F. Smith (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 108) records Mesites tardii from N. Devon. 
Perris (L’Ab. vii. p. 34) briefly notes the larva of Cossonus linearisy found 
in a Canada poplar, and which (like that of C. fermgineus') has upon the 
stigmata of the first 6 abd. segments certain brown spots, which he considers, 
with the pseudopodal bristles, to be characteristic of Cossonus, since they are 
not found in Mesites, or in any other of the Rhynchophora, so far as he knows. 
