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specimens of black beans infested by this species, present in all stages 
at the time of receipt. August 1. Our correspondent stated that these 
beans were raised in Mexico, in hot regions, and immediately after 
harvest were taken to cold regions, where the seed was kept for a long- 
time, sometimes even for two years, but as a result of being in Cuba 
even ten days seed commenced to show evidences of attack and soon 
destruction was complete. In winter this seed keeps in Cuba about 
thirty days. The same happens to black beans harvested in Cuba. 
The species does not appear to have been previously recorded from 
the West Indies. 
From the material obtained and kept under observation it is now pos- 
itive that this species has practically the same life habits as the other 
pea and bean weevils, accounts of which the writer has given in the 
Yearbook of this Department for 1898 (pp. 234-248). 
The Pea Weevil (Bruehus pisantm Linn.). — So far as known to the 
writer, no parasite of the pea weevil has been recorded. A single 
species of the family Chalcidida?. however. Bmchobius laticollis Ashm. 
MSS., was reared from peas infested exclusively by this weevil and 
received in October. 1S9S. from Fayetteville. Ark. This parasite is 
much more abundant on other species of Bruchus which affect bean and 
pea. our two bean weevils and the cowpea weevil. 
The Boll Worm, or Corn-ear Worm (HeLiothis armiger Hbn.). — This 
species, after a year of comparative rarity in Virginia. Maryland, the 
District of Columbia, and northward, became quite numerous during 
the year 1900, particularly toward the close of the season, doing con 
isderable damage to late corn and some other crops, including Lima 
bean, the seeds of which it devoured. During 1S99 also we received 
this insect with reports of its having been found on what appear to be 
new food plants, as follows: October 21. 1S99. the larva was found 
boring into the stems of peanut by Mr. T. I. Todd. Athens. Ga. : June 
14. 1900, Mr. F. S. Earle. Auburn. Ala., reported this larva to be 
eating into and destroying seeds in the pods of hairy vetch ( Yicla ml- 
losa); October 15, larvae were found by Mr. F. C. Pratt in considerable 
numbers in an experimental plat of chick-pea or gram ( t f ict r arietin um) 
on the Potomac flats near the Department of Agriculture. 
It may be well to mention in this connection an extreme instance of 
injury to beans reported by Mr. J. H. Matheny. Long Beach. Miss. 
May 20, 1899. he sent larvae, with the accompanying statement that 
they destroyed the bean crop in that vicinity nearly every year, the 
damage being estimated at thousands of dollars. In response to inquiry 
our correspondent sent additional specimens of larva?, together with 
moths and bean pods, showing the work of this species, and further 
stated that no other insect was concerned in this injury, and that the 
boll worm was destroying the bean crop of the entire Gulf coast. 
The Fall Webworm ( Hyphantria cunea Dru. ). — During the years 1899 
