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etc.) becoming relatively more numerous in the forest regions south- 

 ward. Taking the Curculionidae as a whole — the sub-families Curcu- 

 lioninae and Calandrinae, in addition to those worked out in the present 

 volume — the number of species enumerated altogether from Central 

 America is as follows: Vol. IV, part 3, 616; IV, part 4, 1365; IV, 

 part 5, 908; IV, part 7, 344; total 3233. The three other families of 

 Rhynchophora' — the Brenthidse, Scolytidae and Anthribidse — dealt with 

 in Vol. IV, part 6, number 615 species, thus bringing the total for the 

 whole of the weevils up to 3848. The Rhynchophora, therefore, as 

 anticipated (though not to the extent roughly estimated by myself in 

 the introduction to Vol. IV, part 4 of this series), greatly outnum- 

 ber the Phytophaga (2619, including the Hispidae and Cassididae) 

 within our limits. 



The Otiorhynchid material examined by me includes that belonging 

 to the U. S. National Museum, to whom we are indebted for co-types 

 of all the species here described from their collection, as well as for 

 many North American forms for comparison. From Costa Rica we 

 have received during recent years numerous interesting species, both 

 from Pittier and Biolley. Mr. Wickham, too, during his visit to Mexi- 

 co in 1909, secured various Otiorhynchids, and, as usual, has kindly 

 allowed us to retain any of these specimens that we required. Signer 

 A. Solari again, has also permitted us to keep for the British Mu- 

 seum the types of such species as have been described by me from his 

 collection, which includes a portion of that of Jekel. The "Sommer 

 collection" of Curculionids (including various types of Boheman, etc.) 

 having been recently acquired by Prof. Poulton for the Oxford Uni- 

 versitj^ Museum, we have been enabled to verify the names of certain 

 species left unidentified by Dr. Sharp, and this involves some slight 

 corrections to the synonymy of the "Otiorhynchinje Apterse," which 

 are noted in the Supplement. 



As stated in a footnote on p. 317, various Apioninae left undetermined 

 by Dr. Shirp for want of sufficient material, with such forms that have 

 since come to hand have been handed over to the specialist Herr 

 Hans Wagner for study, and his descriptions of the new forms wall 

 be published elsewhere. 



Of the fifteen colored plates issued, the first six were drawn by Mr. 

 Purkiss, the others by Mr. E. Wilson, of Cambridge. 



It will not be out of place to note here that the enumeration of the 

 Coleoptera, commenced in 1879, is now completed, bringing the total 

 number of species to 18,039, for which eighteen volumes have been 

 required. — G. C. Champion, December, 191 1. 



