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foliage. Very variable. Tbis insect bas no saltatory powers what- 

 ever." 



4. Brown, R. E. Strychnine as food of Arceocerus fascicularis De Geer. 



(Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIV, 1906, p. 116.) 



Reported breeding in the St. Ignatius bean (Strychninos ignatii) in 

 the Philippines. 



5. Chittenden, F. H. Insects affecting stored cereal and other products in 



Mexico. (Bull. 4, Tech. Ser., Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, 1896, p. 30.) 

 Mentioned as "coffee-bean weevil," with the statement that it is dis- 

 posed to be omniverous, being known to breed in raw coffee-berries, 

 cacao beans, mace, nutmegs, cotton bolls, the seed pods of the coffee 

 weed (Cassia, sp.), and a plant called wild indigo, probably a species 

 of Indigofera. Well known throughout the cotton states and some- 

 times found in the northern states in articles of commerce. 



6. . Insects affecting cereals and other dry vegetable foods. 



(Bull. 4, n. s., Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, 1896, p 129; also Rev. Ed., 

 1902, p. 129.) 



Name proposed as "coffee-bean weevil." Infesting dried apples, also 

 coffee beans, mace, nutmegs, chocolate beans and roots of ginger. 



7. . An invasion of the coffee-bean weevil. (Bull. 8, n. s., Div. 



Ent, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1897, pp. 36-38, fig. 9, larva, pupa and adult.) 



The species found to have been introduced in a grocery store of 

 Washington, D. C, from coffee in sacks, the insects afterwards enter- 

 ing boxes of dried fruits and into crackers, especially fig cakes, breed- 

 ing freely in dried apples. Mentions cotton bolls as food ; also all stages 

 in dry orange from Florida. Gives reference to original spelling of 

 generic name. 



8. Fullaway, D. T. Insects of cotton in Hawaii. (Bull. 18, Haw. Agric. 



Exp. Sta., 1909, p. 24, fig. 16, larva, pupa and adult of coffee-bean 

 weevil, from Chittenden.) Mentions the species as "found about cot- 

 ton, probably seeking shelter," and quotes Dr. L. O. Howard's refer- 

 ence. 



9. Giffard, W. M. Presidential address. (Proc Haw. Ent. Soc, I, pt. 5, 



April 8, 1908, p. 181.) Mentioned as an introduced species. "Beaten 

 from Kukui" (Aleurites moluccana). 



10. Glover, T. Entomological record. (Monthly Rept. U. S. Dept. Agric. 



for August and September, 1872, p. 367, fig. 13, larva and adult.) 



Referred to as Arceocerus coffece Fab. and reported breeding in de- 

 caying peaches from Baton Rouge, La. 



11. . Report of the entomologist and curator of the museum. 



(Rept. U. S. Com. Agric. for 1872, p. 114, fig. 3, larva and adult) 



Reference same as 10. 



12. Howard, L. O. The insects which affect the cotton plant in the United 



States. (Bull. 33, Office Exp. Sta., U. S. Dept Agric, 1896, p. 348.) 



The author in his account of the "Insects Injuring the Boll" says, 

 "Among these the larva of a little weevil, Anccerus fasciciilatus, de- 



