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Colchester ; and though I have not since looked for it, I have no 
doubt but that it may still be taken there abundantly at the 
proper season. It may be of interest to state that the beetle is 
about three-quarters of an inch in length, and its colour is very 
beautiful bright metallic green.—Gnro. J. Grapes; 2, Poronall 
Crescent, Colchester, November 6, 1879. 
Granary WereEvits.—If further evidence be wanted of the 
excessive damage caused by Calandra (Sitophilus) oryz@ and 
granaria, we find it in a recent parliamentary report “On Indian 
Wheat,” by Dr. Forbes Watson. In this instructive and exhaustive 
report we read:—“ As will be seen from the figures noted below, 
more than one-half of all the samples were found on arrival to 
be more or less damaged by weevil. Of the 325 samples entered 
as lost or otherwise unfit for valuation the great majority were 
found to be unfit for valuation on account of excessive weevilling. 
Only 497 samples out of a total of 1152 were in a perfectly 
sound, or at any rate nearly sound, condition.” The samples 
from Bombay and the Central Provinces appear to have been in 
the soundest condition, while those from Punjab and Sind were 
more greatly damaged. In tracing the cause of this great 
deterioration in the samples Dr. Watson clearly tells us that 
many of them were already weevilled before they left India. 
“The Bengal samples, for instance, were packed each in a hermeti- 
cally-sealed tin case, so that no weevil could have found access to 
them during the voyage, and yet out of 117 samples 70 arrived 
more or less weevilled.”’ The introduction of comparatively 
simple screening and dressing machinery, also to a certain extent 
of the more expensive steam threshing machinery is recom- 
mended ; for “in this manner,” says Dr. Forbes Watson, “ one of 
the greatest obstacles to the development of the Indian wheat 
trade would be reduced to a minimum.” The total production of 
wheat in India is quadruple that of the United Kingdom, and 
is also of excellent quality.k—Epwarp A. Fircu. 
ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE HaGcEerRsTon ENTOMOLOGICAL 
Socrery.—The Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Haggerston 
Entomological Society was held at the Society’s Rooms, at 
Haggerston, on the evenings of the 13th and 14th November. 
There was a large attendance each evening. By far the greater 
portion of the exhibition was as usual composed of Lepidoptera, 
