208 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
CALANDRA ORYZ4t AND ITS ASSOCIATES. 
By Dake. Binwues: 
In a former article upon Calandra oryz@ and its associates 
(Entom. xii. 267) I promised that, at a future date, the contents 
of a second parcel of corn-refuse received from my friend Mr. Fitch 
should form the subject of a further note; I now propose as 
briefly as possible to state the results of a very minute and close 
examination of the boxes. I was, however, glad to get the 
parcel into my garden before attempting to open it, as the out- 
side of it was covered with life which had escaped in transit. 
A more lively consignment the carrier had never had to 
carry, and all my endeavours to explain to him that our 
little friends were nothing more than small beetles made no 
impression; he was quite sure they were too lively to be beetles, 
so they must be fleas. Our carrier’s fleas, however, proved to be 
Hypophleus depressus, F., an insect Mr. Fitch seems to have met 
with, but not in any particular abundance previously to this: 
these insects had made their escape from a box which contained, 
by weight, exactly six ounces of clean insects without any refuse 
whatever. This box I exhibited at one of the meetings of the 
South London Entomological Society, and it contained probably 
the largest number of living insects ever exhibited before or 
since at one time; to attempt to count the whole of this living 
mass would sorely tax my powers of patience and endurance, so I 
was compelled to take the more systematic way of weighing, and 
then counting some eight or nine samples, to form a rough 
estimate of the enormous quantity in our little box. I found 
that 800 weighed upon an average exactly one grain avoirdupois, 
so that we had in our box, in round numbers, 2,100,000; this is 
entirely irrespective of some thousands that had made their 
escape on transit from Maldon to Peckham. Mr. Fitch told me 
that on sweeping up this collection for me, the sides of the sacks 
standing in the granary were literally covered, so that you could 
scarcely tell the original colour of the sacks. On opening this 
box there was a strong peculiar acid smell, resembling the fumes 
given off from the nest of Formica rufa when disturbed. But the 
result of the examination of the contents of the second box was 
much more interesting, as it contained several Coleoptera unnoticed 
