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seldom farther south than Washington, D. C. Unless the insects are 
dead when received, the active ones die long before the next crop of 
seed is ready for harvest; in other words, there is no food supply for 
them, as they do not breed continuously in dry seed, but produce 
only a single generation a year, as in the case of the related pea 
weevil (Laria pisorum L.) . 
Thus it happens that although this weevil has probably been 
brought to this country in seeds every few years for a very consider- 
able period, it has not hitherto become established in the United 
States. Western conditions are different, and the above notes fur- 
nished by Mr. Condit require no further elucidation. 
Among the notes of the Bureau of Entomology are many records, 
more or less brief, of the receipt of this species in seed beans from a 
number of localities. 
May 14, 1894, this species was received from Prof. R. H. Price, 
College Station, Tex., in beans. 
In 1900 (February 9) Mr. A. J. Pieters, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, received this species in broad beans ( Viciafaba) from Italy. 
In 1907 this species was received, December 17, from Reading, 
England, in a lot of 30 pounds of broad beans containing also a 
parasite, Sigalphus sp. 
In 1909 this species was received from several sources. March 8, 
horse beans infested by this species were received from Mr. Mor- 
timer D. Leonard, New York City, with inquiry if investigations had 
been made in regard to the insect, which had evidently been intro- 
duced from Italy with the beans. September 18 of that year, as has 
previously been mentioned, we received the insect from San Luis 
Obispo, Cal. — a record of actual establishment of the species in 
America. October 4 it was received from Magyar-Obar, Hungary, 
in horse beans; October 15, from Mr. H. C. Moore, Watsonville, Cal., 
in horse beans 1 — a second report of occurrence in the United States. 
October 5 the insect was taken from the seeds of Viciafaba collected 
in California, and from a lot imported from Italy in samples rejected 
by the United States customs officials as adulterated. October 30, 
badly infested beans containing this species were received from Italy 
through the Bureau of Chemistry. During the same year specimens 
were received from Valencia, Spain. 
April 20, 1910, Mr. M. L. Peairs, of the Maryland Agricultural 
College, reported that a shipment of horse beans seized at the Balti- 
more customhouse was infested by weevils. The beans were traced 
to a firm in Berlin, Germany. The samples were infested to the 
amount of 50 per cent. Identification in this case was made by an 
assistant, Mr. C. H. Popenoe. Other seizures have been made of this 
weevil by the Bureau of Chemistry in New York City. Efforts were 
made to ascertain whether the species was present in other localities 
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