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the seeds or if some would remain within the seed until the 

 next fruiting season. I found that the weevils showed no ten- 

 dency to remain in the seeds after once making an exit through 

 the husk. No specimens appeared in the cage from the seeds un- 

 til October 8th, when four specimens were found. On October 

 15th, one specimen was taken out and on November 16th, two 

 specimens, the last to appear, were found. By this time all 

 traces of the weevil had disappeared in the infested districts. 

 Diligent search failed to show where they were until January 30th 

 when I ran on them after a long hunt, feeling sure they would be 

 found in a state of hibernation somewhere. On that day I 

 found them by the hundred in the crevices of an old board fence 

 and stone wall beneath a group of neglected mango trees in a 

 deserted kuleana* in Moanalua Valley. No precaution had been 

 practised there in regard to the destruction of the fallen mangoes 

 and refuse seeds. 



The weevils were to be found in a state of hibernation through- 

 out the following months up to May 16th, when one active adult 

 was observed on the foliage of a mango tree. From the last 

 date on, hundreds of mangoes were opened, at intervals when I 

 could visit the infested district, to find evidences of the larvae. 

 Not until May 28th was the search successful when one specimen 

 within the seed of a nearly full-grown mango was found. This 

 was a very minute larva and a faint discolored line leading from 

 its tiny burrow in the seed through the husk and flesh to the rind 

 indicated its mode of entrance. On other fruits I then observed 

 what I took to be and still think are the eggs of this weevil al- 

 though I have not succeeded in hatching any of them to note 

 the resulting larvae. The eggs appear on the surface, light yel- 

 low in color, oval, and are invariably situated alongside a slight 

 incision in the skin from which has exuded a small amount of 

 juice that envelops them. In several instances I found the faint 

 discolored line leading from the rind to the seed infested with 

 newly hatched larvae but as the larvae develop to a size easily 

 observable to the unaided eye, all evidences of the means of 

 entrance become effaced. It is to be seen from this that the 

 seed is infested rather late in the development of the fruit. 



*A small, native homestead. — Eds. 



