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I found in ground-pools and they appeared to differ in other respects, 

 so that I gained the impression that they belonged to other species 

 and possibly to other genera. They seemed to be of very slow growth 

 and none were reared. 



Are the larvae in tree-holes distinct from those in gronnd-pools, 

 and those in Bromeliads- distinct from the ones in the tree-holes? 

 I believe that at least those inhabiting the Bromeliads are distinct, 

 but, in the alisence of exact knowledge of the generic and specific 

 characters of Cyphonid larvae, rearings alone can settle this question. 

 My belief, in the meantime, gains some support from the fact that 

 the Blptera breeding in the Bromeliads have been found to be, almost 

 without exception, confined to this habitat. 



Should the Bromeliadicolous Cyplionidie prove distinct, speci- 

 fically or generically, a description of one of these forms, which 

 appears to have been lost sight of, becomes important. The insect 

 was reared from Bromeliads by Friedenreich in the province of Santa 

 Catharina, Brazil. His account of it appeared in 1883, and he 

 described the form as a new aberrant genus of HaUicinas, Pentam- 

 eria hromeliaruni, evidently having been misled as to its systematic 

 position by the saltatorial hind legs.* 



The description of the beetle and of its larva leaves no room for 

 doubt that Friedenreich had before him one of the saltatory Cyphonidds. 



U. S. Bui-eaii of Entomology, 

 Washing-ton, D.C. : 



February, 1913. 



COLEOPTEBA IN OECHIDS. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



In the February No. of this Magazine (antea, p. 33) the capture 

 of a weevil, Acythojjeus aterrimus, in the orchid house at Kew, &c., 

 was recorded. Two other orchid beetles have now come under my 

 notice. One of them, a MordelUstena, has recently been sent in some 

 numbers to the British Museum, by Prof. E. Newstead, of Liverpool, 

 and Prof. E. S. MacDougall, of Edinburgh, for identification. These 

 specimens were all obtained from a species of Cattleya, a genus of 

 orchids peculiar to the warmer parts of America. Mr. Newstead's 

 examples are labelled as having been bred from leaves of a Cattleya, 

 December, 1912, from an orchid house at Groombridge, near Tunbridge 



* Friedenreich, C. W. Pi iitamcria bromeliarum, eine peutainere Haltioide. Ent. Zeitung, 

 Stettin, Vol. xliv, pp. 14U-144. 1S83. 



