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Executive greenhouses in 1906 were determined as this species 

 some years ago by Mr. E. A. Schwarz and measure 3.2 (9), 4 

 (9) and 4.1 (c?)'mm. 



A summary of the papers encountered by the writer in this in- 

 vestigation which may prove useful in its continuance by others 

 is appended, but he has included the 1844, 1859, 1866, and 1874 

 citations only because of possible systematic usefulness, since no 

 relationship of these weevils with orchids is indicated in them : 



1844 Schoenherr (Gen. et Sp. Curculionidum, vol. 8, p. 258) erects the 

 genus Apotomorhinus (type A. submaculatus) . 



1S44 Boheman (in Schoenherr, I.e., pp. 259-260) describes Apotomorhinus 

 submaculatus and cribratus n. spp. from Manilla and Pondichery. 



1X59 Walker (An. Nat. Hist. (3), vol. Ill, p. 264) describes Apotomorhinus 

 albo-ater n. sp. and A. signatus n. sp. from Ceylon. 



1866 Lacordaire (Gen. Coleop., vol. 7, pp. 226-7) redescribes Apotu- 

 morhinus Schoenh. correcting the number of funicular joints from 

 8 to 7 and citing the two species of Walker 1859 as apparently not 

 belonging to this genus. 



1869 Murray? (Gardner's Chronicle, 1869, p. 1279) describes Centrinus 

 epidendri (apparently a new species) believed to attack soft- 

 hearted orchids such as Epidendrum. (See remarks by Rye in 

 Zool. Record, vol. 6, pp. 280-281.) 



1874 Pascoe (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 12, Feb., pp. 61-63) describes 

 a new genus Acythopeus containing five new species, two of which 

 are figured (pi. 3, figs. 11, 11 a and 17). 



1874 Waterhouse (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 10, March, p. 226) describes 

 Baridius aterrimnx n. sp. from Singapore, where it was "de- 

 structive to Phalaenopsis and other orchids," and believes the 

 species should enter Pascoe's just published genus Acythopeus. 



1900 Blackburn (Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral., vol. 24, pt. 2, p. 61) describes 

 Saris orchivora n. sp. bred from steins of a Queensland orchid 

 (Di'iiilrolii uni sp.) at Sidney (Froggatt). 



1904 Froggart (Agr. Gazette, X. S. W., vol. lf>, p. .117, and plate facing 

 p. 514, fig. 2) notes the infestation of the pseudo-bulbs of Dcn.ilro- 

 bin/ti from which he had taken the specimens de-rribed as Baris 

 orcli irorti by Blackburn 1900. The work, larva, pupa and adult 

 are described briefly and the adult is figured. 



1906 Kolbe (Gartenflora, vol. 55, pp. 2-6) describes A i><>inn>n-lii iuii 

 orrhidearum n. sp. from cultivated orchids (/'W//''//.i*/>.s/x ) be- 

 lieved to come from the Malayan Islands but makes no allusion 

 to earlier papers. 



1906 Lea (Trans. II. Soc. South Austral., vol. 30, p. 101) compares a 

 Specimen of (it<-rrinms received from Waterhonse with what he 

 believed to be (in-liimrn and reported them undoubtedly identical. 

 The assignment to the genus Aci/llm/n-ux is strongly crit irixed but 



