Reports to various Correspondents. 1 1 5 
“ Several topics are presented on the enclosed sheet about which 
information is especially desired, and I shall be very grateful if you 
will have the kindness to give them your consideration and answer 
as fully as possible, etc.” 
The following records were forwarded to Professor Howard : — 
In India. 
Occurrence recorded from Chingleput district, Janjore district, 
Azamgarh, N.W.P,, Cawnpore, Bengal, Kersari in Patna, Ceylon. 
Food plants : Rice, poppy, paddy, ganja, in safflower, cotton, Cape 
gooseberry, hemp, grain and rabi. 
Seedling paddy plants, stems of rice; cotton is attacked at 
Cawnpore, hemp in Ceylon. 
The damage in India seems to be done to immature cotton plants. 
In Austkalia. 
Occurrence: Western Australia and Victoria. 
Food plants : Cereals, tomatoes, peas and Acroclinum roseum. 
Methods used to prevent Injury. 
Trenches dug round wheat and oat fields. Poisonous compounds 
are placed in these trenches in Western Australia. Poison baits are 
used as tor “ Cut-worms ” and Paris green wash. 
The Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil. 
(Anthonomus grandis.) 
"This Weevil was forwarded by Col. Sanderson, to whom speci- 
mens had been sent asking for information, owing to the great damage 
it has been doing in South-west Mexico. Col. Sanderson says in his 
let tei that it gets into the “ boll ” of the cotton, and is destroying 
hundreds of thousands of acres. 
This Weevil is one of the worst cotton pests. It is found in 
cotton fields throughout the season, and punctures and lays its eggs in 
both the “ squares ” and “ bolls.” The eggs hatch into larvae, which 
aie ci eamy- white and footless, and which reach when mature three- 
eightlis ffl an inch in length. The maggots feed inside the buds and 
bolls. i] ie squares attacked usually drop, but most of the damaged 
bolls lemain upon the plant and are always stunted, except late in 
the season, when they either dry or rot. 
The insect passes the winter in the Weevil stage. It can be 
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