1899.] CONFIRMATION OF IDENTIFICATION 267 



November i, 1899. 



I received the Grouse fly slide in perfect safety, beauti- 

 fully put up ; many thanks- to you for procuring the same. 

 If at your very best convenience you would settle my debt 

 to Mr. Norman for his help, I should be greatly obliged. I 

 am getting into your debt assuredly also, but whilst I am 

 troubling you, thanks to these infested cargo people, I think 

 I had better let this stand over. It is very weary work 

 getting up information in this minute way, and as matter 

 of choice I had rather be without a visit[ation] from six 

 professional gentlemen and a shorthand writer all at once ! 



I have had a beautiful specimen of workings in willow of 

 Cryptorhynchits lapathi beetle. 



E.C.K. 



Beetle, natural size and magnified ; willow stem, tunnelled by larvae. 



FIG. 71. MOTTLED WILLOW WEEVIL, "ALDER-KILLER" (GERMAN), 

 CRYPTORHYNCHUS LAPATHI, L. 



December 29, 1899. 



Many thanks for a sight of Mr. Fuller's letter (returned 

 enclosed). I have enjoyed reading it very much ; it is so 

 interesting to have a real letter about the war, not made up 

 " for press." I worked myself nearly stupid in running up 

 the habits of the Calandra mentioned in " Insect Life," and 

 there was some such roguery somewhere or other about the 

 mate's report, which he stated afterwards was written under 

 intimidation, that I felt a little uneasy about having anything 

 to do with the matter. 



