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Lefroy, and he has confirmed my identification of the insect. 

 It has no doubt been introduced from India, or some other 

 jjart of the Orient, in seeds of some leguminous plant. 



AcYTHOPEus ATEKRiMus (Watcrh.). 



This black Curculionid of the tribe Barini has been found 

 established in an orchid house in Honolulu. It no doubt was 

 introduced in orchids from the Philippine Islands, as there is 

 a specimen of the species in the collection of the Bureau of 

 Agriculture and Forestry that was taken from orchids im- 

 ported from Manila. I have identified the species from a figure 

 in a paper by Lea on Orchid and Fern AVeevils (AgT. Gaz., N. 

 S. W., June, 1904) and by referring to the original descrip- 

 tion. It was described by Blackburn in Australia as Baris 

 orchivora ; but Lea, later, synonomizes this with Waterhouse's 

 species. 



CEYPTOJJiiYNCHrs BATATAE (Waterh.). 



Dr. Perkins has called my attention to an account by H. A. 

 Ballon (West Indian Bulletin, pp. 180-192, 1909) of this 

 weevil as a pest on sweet potatoes in Barbados. The paper con- 

 tains a copy of the original description by Waterhouse in Proc. 

 Ent. Soc., London, 1849. Comparing our specimens, bred 

 from sweet potatoes, with this description, we conclude that 

 ours is the same as the Barbados pest.^ Our specimens had 

 been identified as Blackburn's Hyperoniovplia squamosa, but 

 not with certainty, though it prol^ably is the. same species. 



* More recently specimens of this weevil have been compared 

 by Mr. Schwarz at the United States National Museum and by Mr. 

 Champion of England, and it is settled beyond a doubt that this species 

 is Ixitatar. Champion has referred it to the genus Eiisccpcs, however, 

 and hence, it should now be known as Eiixcritcx hatntae (Waterh.) 

 It has not been sattled definitely yet, however, whether it is the same 

 as Hyperomorohd xi/iinniDXd Blkb. — [Ed.] 



