62 INSECTS AFFECTING STOEED PRODUCTS. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
The distribution of this weevil in Europe is given by late authority 
as middle and southern. The species is also known to be established 
in Austria, Spain, Italy, southern France, Sardinia, the Crimea, 
Egypt, Syria, Algeria, and Tunis, and it has long been credited with 
being a pest in England. It is also recorded from Teneriffe, Canary 
Islands. 
During 1893 the writer found this species commonly in many 
exhibits of broad or Windsor beans at the World's Columbian Exposi- 
tion held at Chicago, 111., during that year; indeed, the exhibits of these 
last two varieties of seed were almost invariably badly infested or 
showed evidence of attack of greater or less severity. Specimens 
of the beetles were taken, mostly dead, in the exhibits of Algeria, 
Tunis, Spain, and Italy, but some beans damaged by this species 
were taken in other exhibits, for example, some purporting to come 
from Porto Rico — perhaps a mistake. 
Reports have several times been made of the rinding of this species 
in seeds in various portions of our country, from portions of Canada, 
and southward to Texas. 
The following reason why the species has not before been established 
in America permanently may be deduced. This weevil, like the 
pea weevil (Laria pisorum L.), produces, as does that species, only a 
single generation a year and hibernates as an adult in the seeds. 
Thus the chances are that after the seeds are collected and exported 
to this country the contained insects are subjected to so much 
handling and agitation in different ways as to interfere with their 
proper hibernation, so that by the time the bean plant has attained 
sufficient growth to produce pods, the beetles are mostly dead or 
too feeble to propagate. At least this seems to be the case in the 
Atlantic region and Middle States. 
RECORDS OF OCCURRENCE. 
September 18, 1909, Mr. I. J. Condit, collaborator of the Bureau 
of Entomology at San Luis Obispo, CaL, sent living specimens of this 
weevil in horse beans (Viciafaba), which are now being grown quite 
extensively in that region for feeding stock. They are commonly 
planted early and are ready to harvest in January or February. 
Some were planted late, about March 1, but did not produce well 
on account of the dry season following. When ready for harvest 
they were found to be infested with this weevil; on account of this 
and the small size of the pods and beans they were not gathered. 
This is without doubt the first notice that we have of the establish- 
ment of this species in America. All other records, so far as the 
writer knows, are of the occurrence of the insect in samples of seed 
introduced, usually from Europe, into the more northern States and 
