wets 
©. ligustici L. This insect ig one of several species in the cenus 
Otiorhynchus that have come to light in recent yeers in this cow intry 
as apparently introductions from Europe. 
EH. A. Chapin reports the presence, in a collection of miscellan- 
eous Scarabaeidae submitted for identification by S. 17. Danforth, of 
two specimens of Podischnus agenor Oliv. from Colonbia which bear 
labels indicating that the species becomes at times a pest of sugar- 
cane, This species is not included in such lists of sugarcane pests 
as are available to hin. 
W. S. Fisher has recognized the European ptinid beetle Ptinus 
sexpunctatus Pang. from material collected in e bag with poplar seed, 
in Germany (B.P.Q. No. A 24140), This species is not known to be es- 
tablished in the United States. 
F, H. Benjamin has identified two male moths, reared from larvae 
feeding on pitch-pine needles, at South Carver, Mass., and sent in to 
H. ©. Craighead by H. J. MacAloney, Amherst, Mass., as Ellopia atha- 
erie Walk., variety close to pellucidaria G. & R. 
R. A. Cushman has received from G. S. Walley, of the Canada De- 
partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, and has placed in the National Museum 
collection specimens of Hyposoter pilosulus (Prov.) and paratypes of 
Hypothereutes clarus Vier., Syzeuctus eximius Walley, and Glypta in- 
fumata Walley. 
In 1929 a consignment of SERRE oe reared by Miss M. N. Nikol- 
skaia at Poltava Agricultural Experiment Station, Poltava, Russia, 
from alfalfa seeds was received by A. B. anise The lot contained a 
mumber of different specics, several of which had alrcady been tenta— 
tively identified by Miss tetera 6. Comparison of this Russian mater- 
ial with material reared from alfalfa secds in Ancrica was requested, 
In the material were several specimens which Miss Nikolskaia hed identi- 
fied as Bruchophagus gibbus(Boh.) and which she suspected might be iden- 
tical with B. funebris (How.), the well-known clover seed chalcid of 
America, Comparison of her specimens with Howard's types, together 
with other specimens reared from alfalfa and clover in this country, 
failed to snow any differences Indirect but convincing rroof that the 
Russian and American Bruchophagus were the same species was found in the 
fact that several of the parasites were also identical. Liodontomerus 
perplexus Gahan, Tetrastichus bruchophagi Gahan, T. venustus “Gahan, and 
Habrocytus nedicaginis Gahan, all described as parasites of the clover 
seed chalcid in America, were found to be represented in the Russian 
material. dupelmella vesicularis (Retzius), a European species already 
recorded in this country as a parasite of the hessian fly, as well as 
of the clover-ssed chalcid,were also found in the Russian material. 
