1897-] CONSULTATION CONTINUED 263 



kind help would save me long search. Amongst the larvae 

 I found one answering to that of Cucujus testaceus (as given 

 in Curtis) = Lcemophlceus ferrugineus and in the flour there 

 were numbers of the minute rusty little beetles of which I 

 enclose some in a corked bottle. Will these be Cucujus 

 ferrugineus ? I do not think I have any types, and as this 

 is such a decided business inquiry, I feel sure you will 

 allow me to ask you to keep me right about it, at your con- 

 venience. The flour or barrels or something must have 

 been (to my thinking) in a very neglected state. 



October n, 1897. 



I am greatly obliged to you for your kind help about the 

 flour coleoptera. I was puzzled about the granarius, as there 

 was a slightly different look about it, from the specimens 

 which I usually have, and I had no series for comparison. 

 I have never had Lcemophlceus in this quantity before, they 

 run in all directions out of the flour. I cannot find another 

 Ptinns, but the information you have given me is quite 

 enough, I am sure, for my flour people. The really impor- 

 tant attack that they have got is E. kuhniella (Flour moth) 

 but as the flour is in barrels perhaps it will not trouble them 



I have kept my X. saxeseni (Shot-borer beetles), in a good- 

 sized glass-topped box, where the larvae are still throwing out 

 dust and the beetles come out and die, but I do not see any 

 more, and I think that instead of giving you more trouble 

 about them I had better get Mr. Knight to copy one of the 

 U.S.A. imagos and add larvae, pupae, and strange "cleft" 

 like cell from life. If the specimens you have are of interest 

 to you pray oblige me by keeping them. I think I have 

 material for a really interesting paper. Do you happen to know 

 what has become of my very much valued correspondent, 

 Dr. Karl Lindeman [the Russian Entomologist] ? 1 have 

 not heard from him for a year and a half, and I do not find 

 his name in the U.S.A. Scientists' Guide. He was truly 

 friendly and very punctilious in writing, but if he were dead 

 I think I should have seen his obituary. I wonder whether 

 he was so useful to the people that he has had to take a trip 

 to Siberia ! 



October 26, 1897. 



What work Hylurgus piniperda (Pine beetle), 1 continues to 

 make in some of the great Pine woods in Scotland, conse- 

 quent on the damage by high winds some years ago. I had 



1 With one possible exception the most destructive beetle of British 

 forestry. 



