22 Appendix. 



Southern States of America. All that is required is to put a few of the leaves in the barn 

 with each wagon-load of corn, whether maize or wheat, and to scatter some of the leaves 

 between each tier of sacks of grain when loading a sliip. This is pretty generally known 

 and extensively used in some districts of the N. W. P. of India. I observed it in the dis- 

 trict of Cawnpore, where the people preserve their grain in large pits made in the ground: 

 which will contain from 300 to 500 maunds. " A suggestion is made of mixing 

 thoroughly half a bushel of blown salt with one hundred bushels of wheat as a pteventive, 

 and an account of the species Calandra granaria and C. or_yz« is appended. — {From Agri.- 

 Hort. Soc, Ind., Vol. V, Appendix, y. 147 (1846).) 



' On the hanks of the Nerbudda wheat is kept in bundehs or pits containing over 500 to 

 2,500 maunds. They are shut up soon after the harvest, and covered over with earth. If 

 unopened the grain keeps without being attacked by any insects, or becoming tainted, for 

 several years ; a high place isalwaj's selected for a bundeh which is sometimes thatched.' — 

 (From a paper by Colonel Ouselei), Journ., Agri.-Hort. Soc, Ind., Vol. I'l, Appendix, 

 p. 148 (1848).) 



A letter, reprinted from the pages of the Economist, giving an account of the protection 

 of grain from weevil by keeping the granary dry. — (Journ., Agri.-Hort. Soc, Ind., Vol. 

 Vr, Appendix, p. 148 (184S). ) 



An account of Calandra granaria is given'in Griffith's Auimal Kingdom, cla.'i.i Insect a. 

 Vol. II, quoted at length in Journ., Agri.-Hort. Soc, Ind., Vol. Ill, Appendix, p. 139 

 (1884). 



References are given by Westwood in his Modern Classification of Insects, Vol. I, p. 

 347 (1839), to the following paj^ers on Calandra granaria : — 



Kieferstein in Silbermann's Revue Entomologique, No. 9. 



Latreille Hist. Nat., Vol. XI, p. 54. 



Kirby and Spence's Introd., Vol. I, p. 173. 



Gardener's Mag., Vol. I, p. 444. 



Bulletin de la Soc. Philomat.for 182o. 



Various memoirs referred to by Dryaader, Cat., Liber. Banks, 236, 237, 544. 



Papers on Calandra granaria irom the Gardener's Chronicle, Deceinber 30th, 1843, and 

 August 3rd, IS**, are quoted at length in Journ., Agri.-Hort. Soc, Ind., Vol. Ill, p. 144 

 (1844). 



A paper in Journ., Agri.-Hort. Soc., Ind., p. 4, Appendix, page 29, on wheat weevils, 

 by G. S. Mercer. 



In the " Standard Natural History," edited by T. S. Kingsley, Boston, 1884, 

 Calandra oryzcB and Calandra granaria are said to be distributed throughout North 

 America. Calandra oryzce is said to attack rice, wheat, and corn, ovipositing on the rice 

 when growing. 



