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'Chevr.,picitarsis, ~Qoh.,=quadraticollis,~Boh.; B.gimmerthaUi,FLoch.,=semistriatus,
Boh.; B. vestitus, Pevns,=zpalUdieornis, Sch.,=seolopaceus, Gexm.,
var.: H. Brisout, I. c.
Baridius laticollis (Msh.) is bred plentifully from roots of Sisymbrium officinale
by Moncreaff (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 81); 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.
D E MARSEUL (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« ser. x. Bull. p. lxix) refers to Baridius
pieinus attacking the roots, and B. chlorizans 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 Madarus vitis (Riley,=Baridius
sesostris, Lee), is figured and named vitis vulnus in Amer. Ent. ii. p. 104 et
seq., f. 70. A new sp. of Madarus is indicated at p. 105 by Riley, under the
name ampelopsidos, 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. H. Brisout, I. e, describes the following new spp.:—B. erinipes,
p. 45, Sarepta, Caucasus (? loricatus, Sch.) ; sulcipennis, p. 49, Frankfort-onthe-Maine;
dalmatinus, p. 53, Dalmatia, Poland, S. France ; limbatus, p. 56,
Sarepta, Andalusia; tenuirostris, p. 291, Algeria, Syria; vicinus, p. 294,
Jerusalem, Beyrouth; alboguttatus, ibid, Biskra; setiferus, p. 296, Sicily,
Algeria.
Baridius dispilotus, sp. n, Solsky, Horae 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 Sphenophorus; characterizing, under the name nUens, a
French var. of S. piceus, and, under the name incequalis, a var, from France,
of S. abbreviatus.
For an account of injuries to grain by Sitophilus oryzee, cf. Pr. E. Soc. 1870,
p. xv.
WESTWOOD (ibid. p. xvi) briefly describes the larva of S. granarius.
Sphenophorus obliquevittatus, sp. n, Taschenb, Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i.
p. 190, Ecuador ; S. pumilus, sp. n, Allard, I. c. p. 210, Algeria (De Marseul,
Nouv. et faits div. p. lvii, proposes the name grandini for this sp, pumilus
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 linearis, found
in a Canada poplar, and which (like that of C. ferrugineus) has upon the
stigmata of the first 5 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.