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that of the grain weevils, Calandra granaria and oryza, but it is at 
present impossible to speak of this with certitude, as the living material 
secured was limited, and for some reason did not survive, the winter. 
This appears to be the first instance of the occurrence of this insect 
in either stored cereals or legumes. There is, however, one reeord, by 
Mr. C. H. T. Towusend, of its having been found at Kingston, Jamaica, 
in a case of " scraped ginger" (Institute of Jamaica, Notes from the 
Museum, No. 78). Mr. Schwarz, in The Coleoptera of Florida (p. 4G8), 
says "rare, beaten from dead twigs;" and in volume I of Insect Life 
(p. 198) the species of Caulophilus are stated to have similar habits to 
other Cossonini, which live under bark and in decaying wood. Doubt- 
less this was the original habit of the genus, and probably even at the 
present time it bores in dead roots and perhaps even in twigs. 
The insect is slender and somewhat depressed, about an eighth of an 
inch in length, of a dark-brown color, and superficially resembling our 
native species of Phloeophagus and Pentarthrinus. Wollaston compares 
it to the European Rhyncolus cylindrirostris Oliv. (=lignarius Marsh.), 
but structurally it differs from these three genera. From Phheophagus, 
with which it is most likely to be associated, the genus Caulophilus is 
said by Wollaston to be distinguished by its linear outline, depressed, 
deeply sculptured surface, and comparatively large eyes and scutellum 
(Insecta Maderensia, p. 315). Of the characters mentioned it differs 
from indigenous species of Phloeophagus only by the last two. 
Since all the living material of this species perished, it is not yet posi- 
tively proven that the insect actually breeds in grain, although such is 
with little doubt the case. However this may be, the published state- 
ments of the writer and others that only two species of weevils are 
injurious to stored grain in this country must now be modified in the 
light of the recent discovery by Mr. A. L. Quaintance of the anthribid 
weevil, Braehytarsu s altcrnatus Say, breeding in stored corn, pease, and 
cowpeas (Ent. News, Yol. VII, p. 1, etc.). A near relative of the latter 
species, B.variegatus Say, has been discovered in stored wheat, but the 
injury was slight and apparently confined to the adults, as the species 
is a fungus-feeder, living in the smut of wheat and corn. 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE GRAIN MOTH (TINEA GRANELLA 
L.) IN AMERICA. 
Tinea granella Linn., the wolf, or little grain moth, of Europe is o\' 
such rare occurrence on this continent that there are lew if any authen- 
tic records of injuries by it, although in European countries it is classed 
with insects of the first rank in point of injur ion sness. The word 
"authentic" is used for the reason that there are no preserved speci- 
mens of the moth, so far as can be learned, to substantiate published 
statements of either injuries or occurrence in cereals, and there arc 
good grounds for the belief that some other species has been identified 
as T. granella more from the manner of its work than from the moth. 
