64 INSECTS AFFECTING STORED PRODUCTS. 
in California, with some success. Thus far indications are that the 
beans have all been introduced by individuals or firms and not by the 
Federal or State Governments. Some of these cases have attained 
considerable newspaper notoriety from the alleged report that the 
insects were poisonous, a matter which will be taken up later. May 
24 this insect was received from Elisanetpol, Caucasus, Russia. In 
June it was received from Rhodesia, South Africa. Later additional 
specimens were received from San Luis Obispo, Cal., and February 2, 
and later in 1911, specimens were received from Sacramento, Cal., 
collected by Mr. Wm. B. Parker, an agent of this bureau. They were 
taken in local stores, and were collected in a garden just outside of the 
city. 
In nearly all of these records the insect occurred in broad beans, 
but in a few cases the records read simply ‘‘in beans.” 
In discussing the introduction of this species into California, and 
the seizure by the Bureau of Chemistry of horse beans infested by the 
weevil in New York City, Mr. David Fairchild, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, with whom the writer conferred, desired to know the exact 
localities other than San Luis Obispo in which the species was known 
to have become introduced. During the discussion of the advisa- 
bility of excluding further introductions of the horse bean by firms 
and private individuals in the Eastern United States, it became 
apparent that some measure should be enacted, if possible, to prevent 
the introduction of the beans from California eastward, as there is a 
ereater probability of the introduction of the pest into the Eastern 
States in beans from California than in beans from abroad. _ 
Altogether, the further introduction of this seed, when infested by 
living weevils, either from abroad or from California, should be 
stopped if possible or Federal inspection of all seeds should be made, 
that the seed stock may be properly fumigated. The California 
authorities might be empowered to act, but there is no means pro- 
vided for Federal inspection other than that by the Bureau of Chemis- 
try under the provisions for inspection under the pure food and 
drugs act of 1906. 
NOTES ON OCCURRENCE IN CALIFORNIA. 
By Wm. B. Parker, Agent. 
March 25, 1911, the beetle was first observed and captured on Windsor beans at 
Sacramento, Cal. The beans ranged in height from 3 to 34 feet and were in full bloom, 
Pods of various lengths were present, the longest measuring 3 inches. 
By March 30, beetles were active, flying from leaf to leaf or from blossom to blossom 
and running about on the plants. They were not observed to feed or deposit eggs, 
although watched closely. 
A resident of Sacramento who had some beans in his yard stated that the seed was 
infested when planted, and that a lot of seed was sent to Mr. Henry R. Russell, Richey, 
Amador County, Cal., and was planted that spring. 
