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kind help would save me long search. Amongst the larvae 

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

 in Curtis) = Lcemophloeus ferrugiiietis 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 

 ferruginens ? 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 Lcemophlcetis in this quantity before, they 

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

 PtimiSj 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. 



