ing a little over three-eighths of an inch in length when full grown, 

 live within the buds and bolls and feed upon their interior substance. 

 The squares attacked usually drop, but most of the damaged bolls 

 remain upon the plant and become stunted or dwarfed, except late 

 in the season, when they either dry or rot. 



DISTRIBUTION, 



This insect through its ravages caused the abandonment of cotton 

 culture around Monclova, Mexico, about 1862. Two or three years ago 

 cotton was again planted in that vicinity, but the weevil immediately 

 reappeared and destroyed the crop. At Matamoras the weevil was 



FKi. 2. — Map showing- rlistriliutioii of the Mpxican eottoii-lioll weevil. 



noticed eight or ten years ago. About 1893 it crossed the river at 

 Brownsville, and in 1894 was noticed in the country around San Diego, 

 Alice, and Beeville. At the close of the season of 1894 the insect occu- 

 pied a territory extending to the north a little beyond Beeville, a few 

 miles to the east of that point, and southwest to the neighborhood of 

 Realitos, on the National Mexican Railway. The greatest damage 

 seems to have been done along tbe lower Nueces River. During 1895, 

 and particularly in the latter part of the season, it extended its range 

 to a considerable extent. Toward the east it was found in moderate 



