1895-] 



BREAD OR BOOT BEETLE 



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receive your letter this morning, in all excepting that I find 

 I might possibly have seen yourself and Mrs. Lounsbury. 

 I am really very sorry not to have done this, for there are 

 many things so difficult to enter on in writing, which yet (as 

 now you are on our British staff) I should like you to 

 know, relative to entomological matters, and also, though 

 1 should have said this first, it would have been a pleasure 

 to my sister and myself to become personally acquainted 

 with you. How fortunate you are in having such 

 a skilled colleague [his wife] ; it must be a real comfort 

 to you to have an entomological alter ego, and yet such 

 a charming companion. 



I do not know whether you have my little book on 

 " South African Insects," so I beg your acceptance of a copy 

 sent by this post. 



You will have made acquaintance with your colleagues, 



i, Beetle ; 2, larva ; 3, pupa, magnified (from Bulletin No. 4, New 

 Series, U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, p. 124). 



FIG. 66. BREAD, PASTE OR BOOT BEETLE, DRUG STORE BEETLE (U.S.A.), 



ANOBIUM PANICEUM ( = SITODREPA PANICEA] LINN. 



and you will, I conjecture, find Mr. Bairstow useful if he be 

 still attending to insect matters. He collected a great deal 

 of information for me when I was compiling my little 

 S.A. book. But now I am chiefly writing to indicate the 

 pleasure it will give me to be in communication with you 

 as occasion may occur, and with good wishes both for your 

 success and comfort to yourself and Mrs. Lounsbury, &c. 



November 4, 1895. 



I had great pleasure in receiving your letter of the i2th 

 of October, and first of all I will try to reply so far as 

 I am able about the Boot beetle, Anobium paniceum. The 

 English manufacturers did what is so very inconvenient 

 though one is not surprised at it they begged that their 



