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of the so-called coffee weed or seuua, Cassia occidentalis and C. obtusi- 
folia, and is particularly abundant in the seeds of a plant known in 
Florida as wild indigo, possibly either Indigo/era tinctoria or I. anil, 
species formerly cultivated there and employed in the manufacture of 
indigo. It has also been received at this office in all its stages in a dry 
orange from Florida. 
Living specimens were found by the writer at the Columbian Exposi- 
tion in cacao beans from Liberia and in mace in the Trinidad and Johore 
exhibits. All of the jars containing the latter commodity had been 
attacked. There is also a record of this weevil having been a very 
destructive to nutmegs." 
In addition to the localities above given it is recorded from Cape of 
Good Hope, Japan, Persia, New Holland, and the Sandwich Islands. 
The species is obviously tropical, aud thought J)y M. Fauvel to have 
come originally from India. 
The beetles often occur in our large commercial cities and seaports, 
but it is improbable that the species will ever become completely accli- 
matized (i. e., to an outdoor life) north of the cotton belt for lack of 
appropriate food. The experience of the past few mouths, however, 
have shown, somewhat to the writer's surprise, that the insect breeds 
rather freely in dried apples, so there is some slight danger of its find- 
ing a permanent footing in such storehouses as it may invade. 
PARASITES OF FLOUR AND MEAL MOTHS. 
The prominence that has been given to that scourge of the flouring 
mill, the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia Ixuehniella Zell., by its 
recent discovery in injurious abundance in mills in the States of 
New York and Pennsylvania, as first announced in the columns of the 
American Miller for May and December, 1895, and the fact that a new 
parasite has been found to prey upon this insect in California, renders 
it timely that certain memoranda concerning the known parasites of 
this destructive pest be brought together for record. 
Parasites have also been reared from other moths occurring in flour 
and meal, and from what is known of their host relations it is fairly 
certain that they prey indiscriminately on moths of related habits, and 
some, and perhaps all, will in time be found to attack also the flour 
moth. 
In the preparation of these notes I am indebted to Messrs. Ashmead 
and Coquillett for determinations of Hymenoptera and Diptera, respec- 
tively, and for other data. 
PARASITES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH. 
Bracon (Hadrobracon) liebetor Say. — In Entomological News for 
December, 1895 (Yol. VI, p. 324), Mr. W. G. Johnson makes the first 
mention of the rearing of this species, together with another which 
Mr. Ashmead at present considers a variety of the same, from Ephestia 
Jcuehniella from Sau Francisco, Cal. 
