6 BULLETIN 1393, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
(63, pp. 139-141), of Missouri, in 1902, mentions granarius as the 
only true weevil in Missouri, while in 1915 Haseman (36, p. 35) of 
the same State records the granary weevil, and not the rice weevil, 
among the stored-grain pests of Missouri. On the Pacific coast the 
granary weevil is reported in 1915 by Essig (26, pp. 305-307) as 
very common throughout the State of California. 
In the typically southern States, however, especially those border- 
ing on the Gulf of Mexico, where weevil damage is greatest, the 
injury is caused not by the granary weevil but by the rice weevil. 
Quaintance (53, p. 366), in 1896, writes from Florida that "the 
granary weevil is not sufficiently abundant to be the cause of much 
damage," the rice weevil and the Angoumois grain moth being 
responsible for the greater part of the injury done to stored grain. 
Hinds (3S), in 1914, in discussing the pests of stored corn in Alabama, 
does not mention the granary weevil. Smith (63, p. 10), in 1909, 
writing from North Carolina, states that the granary weevil "re- 
quires only passing mention here, for the rice weevil far surpasses 
it in numbers and destructiveness in the Southern States," and 
Sherman (62), in 1903, also of North Carolina, does not mention 
granarius in writing of common pests of grain. Back (1), in 1919, 
in discussing the conservation of corn from weevil attack in the 
Gulf Coast States, after an extended study of the stored-grain 
situation, did not consider granarius sufficiently important in that 
region to be mentioned. 
It is accepted, naturally, that trade carries the rice weevil well 
into the territory of the granary weevil, particularly at the large 
ports such as New York and London (see reports of Durrant (25) 
in 1921), receiving cargoes of grain from warm climates. Ililey 
and Howard (58), in 1888, reviewing a paper by R. A. Philippi on 
the changes in the fauna of Chile, caused by man, state that the two 
grain weevils occur, and that the damage done by granarius is often 
enormous. Doane (22, p. 312), in 1919, records the presence of 
franarius in Australian wheat brought into the United States through 
'acific ports, but found that oryza was the more abundant. The 
writers, in examining Australian wheat brought into this country at 
Baltimore during the war period, found that it contained relatively 
few granarius as compared with oryza. Gurney (35, p. 41), in 1918, 
in discussing the insect pests of New South Wales, states that, 
while oryza was very abundant, granarius had been noticed twice 
only in imported grain. Froggatt (29, p. 4&5), in 1903, writes that 
granarius is a comparatively rare beetle: "I have met with it for 
the first time for over a year in a packet of macaroni left at the 
office, which was purchased at a Sydney grocer's." In South Africa, 
oryza and not granarius is the destructive species. Lounsbury (45, 
p. 94), writes in 1903, " The rice weevil is by far the more abundant 
species at the cape." The statement by Herrick (37, p. 250), in 
1914, that granarius "is a more cosmopolitan species" than oryza, 
does not seem true to the writers, especially in these days (1923). 
Since the granary weevil has no effective wings and is by nature 
not very active, it is found chiefly in granaries and other storehouses 
and has become now dependent upon man for its dissemination or 
spread. It seems very possible that, with the present-day tendency 
to treat all infested grain and to ship only clean grain, the granary 
weevil will become more and more scarce and may even be eliminated 
as a serious pest of stored grain in any part of America. 
