AQA PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
130. Polytus mellerborgi. 
Sitophilus mellerborgw Boh., in Schénh., Gen. Cure., iv. p. 976. 
Calandra mellenborgi (sic) Gemm. et Harold, Cat. Col., vill. p. 2653. 
Polytus mellenborgi Faust, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, xxxiv. p. 353 (1894). 
Calandra remota Sharp, Scient. Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc., (2) mi. pp. 183, 254 (1885) ; 
Perkins, Fauna Hawaiiensis, 1. p. 139. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette, Praslin. Réunion, Burma (Rangoon), Java, Nias, 
Hawaiian Islands (near Honolulu). 
Twenty-six specimens from the Seychelles: the majority were found near Morne 
Blanc in Mahé in’ XI. 1908, and one had previously been captured in Mahé in 1905. 
Several were found near Mont Pot-4-eau in Silhouette in VIII. 1908, and one in Praslin, 
XI. 1908. The male has the metasternum more broadly and deeply excavate posteriorly, 
and the apical portion of the rostrum less elongate and more closely punctured, than the 
female. We are indebted to Dr Heller for comparing a Seychelles example with others 
from which Faust’s description of the genus was taken. Boheman describes the prothorax 
as “obsoletissime carinato”: in the examples before me there is usually a narrow smooth 
space down the middle, but there is no trace of a carina. P. mellerborg: has been found 
commonly in the stems of banana and prickly pear near Honolulu. 
CALANDRA. 
Calandra [Clairville], Ent. Helv., i. p. 62 (1798). 
Sitophilus Schénherr, Gen. Cure., iv. p. 967 (1837). 
This genus, as now restricted, includes several widely distributed well known forms 
which are carried everywhere in commercial products, and various typical species, such as 
C. exarata and C. stegmaticollis in the east, and C. setulosa in the west, the last- 
mentioned being less widely dispersed at present. 
131. Calandra oryze. 
Curculio oryze Linn., Amcen. Acad., vi. p. 395 (1763). 
Cossonus quadrimacula Walk., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) iv. p. 219 (1859). 
It is not necessary to quote the synonymy of this insect, except to add that of 
Walker, whose type was from Ceylon. 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé, 1908—9. Coetivy, 1905. Providence; Cerf 
Island, 1905. Aldabra: Takamaka, 1908 (Fryer). Cosmopolitan. 
In Mahé this species was found on Cascade Estate and in the Mare aux Cochons 
district. A number of specimens collected by the 1905 Expedition are labelled 
‘H.M.S. Sealark” and were presumably found on the ship. 
132. Calandra linearis. 
Rhynchophorus linearis Herbst, Kifer, vil. p. 5, pl. 100, fig. 1 (1797). 
Cordyle striatus Thunb., in Nova Acta Ups., vil. p. 112 (1815). 
Calandra linearis, var. striata Perkins, Fauna Hawaiiensis, i. p. 139. 

