4 



a pupa that Mr. J. E. Higgins discovered July 5, 1905, within 

 the seed of a mango that he had collected at Mr. Allan Herbert's 

 former place at Kalihi, Island of Oahu. Two days later the 

 writer visited the district of Moanalua, this Island, and there 

 found larvae, pupae and adults within the seeds of various varie- 

 ties of mangoes. Mr. Donald Maclntyre, Superintendent of 

 Moanalua Gardens, had not noticed the presence of the weevil in 

 the seeds for the reason that for the past two years he had not 

 removed the husks from the seeds before planting them. For 

 seven years previously, however, Mr. Maclntyre informed the 

 writer that he had practiced the removal of all husks before 

 planting seeds in the nursery and it is reasonable to suppose from 

 this that the weevil made its advent into the Moanalua Gardens 

 not earlier than 1903. Inquiry of Mr. David Haughs, Mr. J. E. 

 Higgins and Mr. G. P. Wilder, all prominently interested in 

 mango culture, brought out the information that the weevil had 

 not been observed in Honolulu up to the summer of 1905. Mr. 

 Haughs, in his connection with the Territorial Government Nur- 

 sery, has planted mango seeds for many years and has practiced 

 removing the husks from the seeds for horticultural reasons. 

 The distribution last year, then, so far as is known, was con- 

 fined to this Island (Oahu) and extended from Kalihi to Moana- 

 lua. 



In July, 1906, Mr. Alexander Craw in a report as Superin- 

 tendent of Entomology to the Territorial Board of Commission- 

 ers of Agriculture and Forestry, recorded the mango weevil as 

 having been found this season from Palama, Honolulu, to Pearl 

 City. 1 



Mr. Otto Swezey informed the writer that he found specimens 

 of the larvae, pupae and adults within the seeds of ripe fallen 

 mangoes on Gulick avenue, Honolulu, on June 12th, 1906, and 

 Dr. R. C. L. Perkins likewise states that he had found mangoes 

 infested with the beetle this season at his home in Nuuanu Val- 

 ley. The beetle is seen to have extended its distribution over a 



a Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, Vol. IIT, No. 7, (July), Hono- 

 lulu, 1906, pp. 198-199. 



