136 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Of the Pleurothallis group may be mentioned the pretty little Masdevallia 
Carderi, M. demissa, and others, also Pl hall pis; and of the 
Pp group H i Epidendrum Linkianum, and 
E. varicosum. Sarcochilus Fitzeraldi is a pretty little Australian species 
with some light purple spots in the centre of the white flowers, while the = 
allied Cleisostoma Wendlandorum has dense spikes of small yellow flowers. 
A few other species now in flower are Eria confusa, Cirrhopetalum fimbri- 
atum, Xylobium corrugatum, and Cypripedium virens, the latter being one 
of the least attractive of the group with tessellated leaves. 
Fe | 4d umeiicen | 
THE DENDROBIUM BEETLE. 
You will receive a parcel ining a pseudobulb cut from a plant of 
D bium PI I believe you will find it infested with a brown 
beetle, and its larva, and if you carefully examine it before cutting it open a 
you will be able to find the borehole by which the insect has entered. 1 
shall be much obliged for some information as to the life-history of this 
insect, and also whether it be the same pest which attacks Cattleyas. 
Amongst 100 plants purchased last autumn we have had to destroy many 
dJobulbs, and fresh di ies are being made almost daily. 
O. O. WRIGLEY. 
Bridge Hall, Bury. 
A note on the same subject appears in the February number of the 
Kew Bulletin (p. 62), under the title, “ Beetle-larvee attacking Orchids,” 
summary of which it may be interesting to reproduce. Sir Trevor Law- 
rence submitted to Kew pseudobulbs of Dendrobium Imperatri attacked 
by larvae, which were handed to Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, Lecturer 0? 
Entomology at the Forestry Branch of the Indian Civil Engineering 
College, for report. Mr. Blandford states that they are beetle larve, and 
pretty certainly those of a Longicorn beetle, though they show ou 
divergences from the ordinary type, probably correlated with their habitat 
in a soft stem instead of Hard woody tissues. It is impossible to identify 
such larve positively, except when their mode of life is such as to exe™ 
any doubts ; but it happens that the larva of the only two known species a 
the genus Diaxenes live in Orchids. These are D. Taylori, described ie 
an example found in the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, where it wis 
found gnawing the stem of a Phalenopsis from Manila, and D. Dembro) » 
known by four specimens taken alive on imported Dendrobium atro- 
Purpureum and D. nobile, the latter said to have been imported 0M 
Moulmein (where, however, D. nobile is not known to grow)- = 
