In December 1912, Mr. T. E. Holloway recorded (1, 2) the discovery on April 28, 1910, by D. L. Van Dine at Fairview Plantation, Berwick, La., of a small weevil working in the rootstocks of cane below the surface of the ground. Later Mr. E. R. Barber found what seemed to be the same species in cane at the Audubon Park Sugar Experiment Station, and Mr. Holloway reports finding it also at Brownsville and Donna, Texas, and at Donaldsonville and Franklin, La.