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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 
.--Actual occurrences, 1895. 
o--Points examined where no wee- 
vils were found. 
Fig. 2.—Map showing distribution of the Mexican cotton-boll weevil. 
cotton was again planted in that vicinity, but the weevil immediately 
reappeared and destroyed the crop. At Matamoras the weevil was 
noticed eight or ten years ago. About 1898 it crossed the river at 
Brownsville e, and in 1894 was noticed in the country around San Diego, 
Alice, and Beeville. At the close of the season of 1894 the insect oecu- 
pled 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 the 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 
