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various other plants in the beetle state, as the rhubarb, meadow-sweet 

 {Spircea ulmaria), &c., is a most destructive insect in our pea and bean 

 fields, the larvao feedinf? in the seeds and sometimes destroying more 

 than half the crop. They are exceedingly abundant in some parts of 

 Kent, where they often swarm at the end of May, and are occasionally- 

 found as late as August." {Farm Insects, 1860, p. 301.) 



Not Naturalized in the United States. 

 It is strange that this weevil has never become naturalized in this 

 country, as it was introduced many years ago, and no special effort so 

 far as known was made to stay its spread. The only authoritative 

 published records of its occurrence in the United States are these, 

 each referring to the same event: 



Its Occurrence in New Jersey and Canada. 



Professor Riley, in 1870 {loc. ciL), identified as Bruchus granarius 

 examples received by him from Mr. A. S. Fuller, of Ridge wood, N. J., 

 who had discovered them in some pods presented to the "Farmers' 

 Club," which the donor had gathered from a tree in Switzerland, 

 thought by Professor Riley to be a species of Liburnum. Dr. Horn, in 

 his Revision of the Bruchidce of the United Slates, 1873, adds to his descrip- 

 tion of Bruchus rufmanus Schon. : " This species was sent me by Mr. 

 C. V. Riley, of St. Louis, as having been reared from pea-pods 

 imported from Switzerland." Dr. Hamilton, in the Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society for 1889 {loc. ciL), quotes the same 

 introduction. 



Other writers, as Le Baron, Thomas, etc., have made simple mention 

 of its having been introduced into the United States in recent years. 



It has also been imported into Canada. Mr. Fletcher, in his Report 

 as Entomologist and Botanist of the Department of Agriculture of 

 Canada, for the year 1888, states that some infested seed of the large 

 Windsor bean, which had been imported from Europe, had been sent 

 to him for examination, and was found to contain living examples of 

 the weevil (noticed as B. granarius L.), many of the beans containing 

 from two to three each. 



The identification by Dr. Packard, in Injurious Insects, New and Little 

 Known, 1870, of bean-weevils received by him from the vicinity of New 

 York City as the European Bruchus granarius [B. rufimanus], w&a in error, 

 as appears from the appended description and the correction made by 

 himself the following year in his First Annual Report on the Insects of 

 Massachusetts. 



Erroneously Reported from Tennessee. 



Mr. E. W. Doran, formerly Assistant Entomologist to the Bureau of 

 Agriculture of Tennessee, in his Report on the Economic Entomology of 



