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same place. It is also reported by Mr. G. W. Newberry to have caused 

 damage in Liv e Oak County, about 30 miles northeast of Alice. 



It is found all the way up the Nueces Eiver, for 40 or 50 miles above 

 Corpus Christi. I also found it 8 miles south of Corpus Christi, on 

 the coast. Eosita, San Patricio, and Sharpesburg are localities within 

 the infested region on the Nueces. It is found around Beeville and 

 30 miles to the south of there, and is reported on good authority at La 

 Parra, about halfway between Corpus Christi and Brownsville. 



Fir;. 31. — Map showing the present known distribution of the cotton-boll weevil in Texas and 



Mexico (original). 



At Pearsall and at Sabinal it was reported to me as present, but 

 search at the latter place and at Moore, near Pearsall, did not reveal 

 either the weevil or any unmistal^ahle sign of its work. It was said to 

 be abundant in all the cotton fields around Pearsall, but I was unable 

 to examine them. Bolls collected at Sabinal may have been attacked 

 by it. Pearsall is over a hundred miles across country from San Diego^ 

 and I am told that cotton fields are scattered all through the intervening 

 region. Mr. Fred. E. Stark, jr., informed me that he has known the 

 insect, off and on, at San Tomas, 8 miles down the river from Browns- 

 ville, for about ten years. The Brownsville region is, therefore, doubt- 

 less tlie first point where it appeared in Texas. At La Noria, about 14 

 miles north of Brownsville, I was told that it had been known for three 

 years. At La Parra, above mentioned, it appeared in 1893, so I was 



