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are all ]ilauts of considerable iiiijuu'rauee in ti'opical aui'i'Mil- 

 tnre and forestry. 



Ir is nneertain how long tlii' sjieeies has been csralili-licd 

 ill the islands l)ut certainly its general spread over this i-huid 

 has occurred since 1U17, since the trees of Pilliccolnhi n m 

 under which extensive collections of seeds were made at tliar 

 time without iinding- this weevil, have the fallen seeds in- 

 fested now. 



Cnshnian has recorded this species (Joiir. Econ. Ent. 

 4:498, 1911) as bred from an unknown leguminous clia])- 

 ])aral at Brownsville, Texas, called ''tenaza" by the Mexicans, 

 ami from Sidcrocarpus flexlcaulis. Amundsen reported this 

 species from an undertermined Mexican legume presumably 

 growing at San Diego, California, called Guamuchile by the 

 Mexicans. This plant, judging from his figure of the ])od 

 and seed, is PifJiccolo/n tun inif/iiiscdtdc or some allied species. 



On Dec. iMi. 1till», this weevil was found at work on rlie 

 fallen p<:»ds of Satnaiwd saiiKni on the government r(jad not 

 far from Pearl City. Egiis had been hud in great numbers on 

 the uiuler side of the old pods as lluy lay on rhe ground 

 and many others on the seeds as they had been exposed by 

 the weathering of the ])ods. Those eggs so concealed had been 

 but little ]»arasitized b\- I'sraini. though a few |)arasiti/ced ego-s 

 wei'c^ seen. 



Examination of the ])ods showed them to be in general 

 without syrupy contents. They were also somewhat attacked 

 b\ Pi/rodcrccs nhj/i. and one or two other moths, by Araccc- 

 nis fdslciihil IIS and one of the species of Carpoph'il iix. 



A well-grown pod at maturity is about 0-8 iiudies long, 

 not (piite an inch wide and a lialf incli tliiek and contains 

 18-22 (u- more s<'eds. eacli in a separate clunnher formed 

 by the tirni. rathei- woody layei' (d" the pocl, witli hixcrs of 

 the two halves touching eacli other between the seeds. There 

 is a eollular syi-npy layer between the inner layer and the 

 firm cuticle. Each vi\iy(' (d" the pod is thickened and the pods 

 do not d(^hisce. 'idie se(>ds are -^/x in. (9 nun.) lonir. iiearh' 



