268 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Mr. Fitch, in his very interesting and studious article on 
“Granary Weevils” in the February number of this year’s 
‘Entomologist,’ speaks of having met with no less than fifteen 
different species of Coleoptera in company of Calandra; and as 
his experience is the result of three years’ hard study, I am 
somewhat surprised he has not met with more, considering that 
out of so small a quantity as three and a half ounces of borings, 
&e., I should meet with no less than eleven, besides the two 
Calandra, and two of those are not mentioned by that accurate 
observer in his list before mentioned. The numbers and species 
captured by myself were as follows:—Calandra oryze, or the 
rice weevil (650), C. granaria, the true corn weevil (17). Then 
come their companions, but whether in mischief or not is some- 
what doubtful,—/Typophleus depressus (791). Cox, in his ‘ Hand- 
book of the Coleoptera of Great Britain,’ speaks of this imsect 
as being not common; at any rate, if numbers are any criterion 
in the case, they were the most plentiful. Then comes the 
curious little Silvanus surinamensis, with its row of teeth on each 
side of the thorax (45), the pretty and very active Alphitophagus 
quadripustulatus (21); of the dark brown Rhizopertha pusilla, which 
Mr. Fitch.says he found so abundant, there were only fourteen ; 
and of the flat red-yellow Lemophleus ferrugineus (5); of Typhea 
Jumata, one of the insects not yet found by Mr. Fitch, and mostly 
to be met with at stack-bottoms, there were five; of the flat 
black or red-brown T'rogosita mauritanica four. In addition there 
were two of Tenebrio molitor, the larve of which are the well- 
known mealworms; and last, but not least, there was one 
T’. obscurus. This Mr. Fitch does not mention among his 
observed insects, but he tells me he has some five or six of these 
creatures, walking about one of his old stores, collected in 
1876 and 1877. The total number of living insects taken by 
myself was 1554, irrespective of those which were too active for 
me and got away, and the dead, perfect and broken imagos were 
nearly in the same ratio, to say nothing of the larvee, which I did 
not attempt to count. I think, after looking at the numbers 
taken from so small an amount of rubbish, one can scarcely be 
surprised when reading Mr. Fitch’s startling account of the vast 
quantities of corn and other grain destroyed by the two Calandras, 
leaving out of the question what part of economy their associates 
muy play, and which seems at present, as I said before, somewhat 
