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black, with reddish brown curved hairs at the apex; the ovi- 
positor itself is pale brown (fig. 14). The legs are white, with a 
slight tinge of brown ; the base of the coxe and the larger part 
of the femora are shining black: there is also a fine black 
line on the inner side of the coxe; the apical joint of the tarsi 
is brown. The wings are yellowish at the base and colourless at 
the apex; the stigma is black, from which a curved band of 
a brown colour extends across the wing. The costal margin as 
far as the stigma is yellow; the principal nervures are black ; 
the transverse and some of the longitudinal nervures are milk- 
white (fig. 15). 
With us this species is scarce, but in some parts of Scotland 
it appears to be rather common; it also occurs in North 
Germany, among other places at Insterburg and Konigsberg. 
The male is still undiscovered. 
CALANDRA ORYZA AND ITS ASSOCIATES. 
By IT. R. Brewurs. 
Havine a vacancy left in my cabinet for Calandra oryze and 
its allied species granaria, I asked my friend Mr. Fitch, to whom 
I am greatly indebted, if he could give me any assistance with 
those species to fill up the space thus left. That gentleman, 
with his usual kindness, at once consented to help me with the 
required desiderata, and on the 3rd of September last I received 
from him a box containing not quite three and a half ounces of 
dust, broken bits of corn, or, more properly speaking, the remains 
of what had been bored out, rubbish, &¢., presumably collected 
up from one of that gentleman’s granaries or storehouses. I had 
not the slightest idea of receiving more than one, or probably 
two dozen at the most, of the insects I required; but one may 
judge of my surprise when, on opening the box, I found it 
literally teeming with insect life ; not only with Calandra, but with 
several other species of Coleoptera. To capture the whole of 
these was no mean task—in fact, one I did not easily accomplish ; 
however, after much patience, | succeeded in getting most of 
them into the laurel-bottle. Thinking the results might not 
be uninteresting to many of your readers induced me perhaps to 
be somewhat more careful than I should otherwise have been. 
