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_ IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS 
M. W. Blackman has made identification of Xyleborus affinis Eich., . 
in black walnut log from East Africa (in cargo), intercepted at Balti- 
more, Bs.P.Q, Balto, #1870. Doctor Blackman has made an additional iden. 
tification of Scolytus scolytus Fab., in curly elm log from France (in 
cargo), intercepted at New Orleans, B.P,Q. N.O. #6980. 
A larval specimen of Dynastes tityus L., reported as found about . 
15 feet below the surface of the ground, has been identified by A. G, 
Boving, This was sent in from Brandywine, Maine, and is an unusual 
record, because 5 feet is considered to.be more than the average. depth, 
Doctor Boving also reports the identification of the larvae of Selato—. 
somus (“Corymbites) aeneus L. in potatoes in ship stores, from Germany, 
intercepted at New York, B.P.Q. N.Y. #21200, Doctor Boving states that 
this insect is injurious to field crops in Hurope. It is not known to ‘ 
occur in the United States, hee | 
Doctor Boving reports that W. Anderson, a student at the Maryland 
Agricultural College, has been working regularly under his supervision, . 
starting in October,.’on the determination of coleopterous larvae... Mr. ~ 
Anderson is working ‘on personally collected material and is*using.stand~ | 
ard reference works, principally Boving and Craighead's Synopsis of ‘ 
Coleopterous Larvae, for his studies, 
Specimens of the scarabaeid found abundantly within the limits of 
Charleston, S. C., and which apparently has been introduced from South 
America, recently have been sent by E. A. Chapin, for determination, 
both to G. J, Arrow, of the British Museum, and to H, Kuntzen, of the 
Zoological Museum of. the University of Berlin. The species is not LOCO Bw 
nized at either institubien and.is probably undescribed, It had been 
tentatively considered as Plectris pexa Germ. Doctor Kuntzen has com | 
pared specimens with the type of that species and reports that the two... _ 
are closely related but distinct. Mr. Arrow considers the South Carolina 
specimens distinct but, closcly related to Philochlaehia maculicollis 
Arrow, by ; eee ROG f 

Among miscellancous specimoris of Coleoptera and Lepidoptéra sent 
in for identification by George F, Knowlton, W. S. Fisher fas found 
specimens of Prionus sp. not at present in the Museum collections, of 
Oberea montana Casey and of Néoclytus provoamis Casey, which previously 
were repesented in the collections ‘only by the Casey types. Mr. Fisher — 
has also found‘among specimens from Puerto Rico, obtained fron Bureau 
of Plant Quarantine inspectors, thé species Plectromerus distinctus 
Cameron, which was not previously present in the Museum collections, and 
& new species of Micrasta, a genus not previously reported from the Islmd - 
of Puerto Rico. He has also récognized Tomarus discoideus Sharp, from 
Guatemals, intercepted at Baltimore, B.P.Q. Balto. #1833, another species 
not previously represented in the collections, 
