120 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



TWO HUNDEED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH MEETING, 



MAY 7, 1914. 



The following program was presented: 



On Parthenogenesis A. C. Baker 1 



The Cotton Boll Weevil in Cuba G. N. Wolcott 



Classification of Cerambycid Larvae Subfamily Prioninse. . .F. C. Craighead 1 

 The Present Status of Muscoid Taxonomy on the Basis of Reproductive 



Characters.. ..J. M. Aldrich 1 



THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL IN CUBA. 



BY G. N. WOLCOTT, Porto Rico Board of Agriculture. 



The earliest record of the boll weevil in Cuba was made by 

 Suffrian 2 in 1871, at which time he recorded it from Cardenas and 

 San Cristobal. 



It was next recorded from the island by Gundlach 3 in 1891. 



After the American occupation of Cuba the boll weevil began 

 to attract considerable attention. In 1902 it became quite in- 

 jurious to cotton at Cayamas. Mr. Schwarz visited this locality 

 in 1903 and published his report in the Proceedings of this 

 Society. 4 



The next notice of the insect's occurrence in the island was 

 published by Mr. Cook 5 in 1906, at which time he reported it 

 from Santiago de las Vegas, in addition to places previously 

 reported. 



While in Cuba during the winter of 1911-12 a few observations 

 were made on the presence, or rather the absence of the cotton 

 boll weevil. I was fortunate in meeting Mr. H. A. Van Hermann 

 on the occasion of the visit and he told me that when he came to 

 Cuba about a dozen years ago, there was a great increase in the 

 acreage devoted to the cultivation of cotton, but that the boom 

 was suddenly checked by a plague of boll weevils which entirely 

 destroyed the crop for a series of years. His observations were 

 made at the grounds of Estacioii Agronomica at Santiago de las 



1 Withdrawn for publication elsewhere. 



2 E. Suffrian. Verzeichniss der von Dr. Gundlach auf der Insel Cuba 

 gesammelten Rlisselkafer. Archiv. f. Naturg., vol. 37, Jahrg. 13, pt. 1, 

 pp. 130-131. 



3 Juan Gundlach. Contribucion a la entomologia Cubana, vol. 3, pt. 

 5, p. 285. 



4 E. A. Schwarz. The cotton boll weevil in Cuba. Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Wash., vol. 6, pp. 13-17. January 15, 1904. 



5 Mel T. Cook. Insectos y enfermedades del algodon. Primer Informe 

 Anual de la Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba, pp. 178-180, 1 fig. 1906. 



