468 . BRUCHIDES. 
and broad; eyes widely separated. Upper surface rather densely covered with a 
fuscous pubescence. Scutellum with pallid pubescence. Thoracic punctuation fine 
and excessively dense. Pygidium densely clothed with ochraceous pubescence at the 
base, where it is arranged in three indefinite, connected patches. Hind femora feebly 
dilated, provided on the inner side near the extremity with a slender, rather long tooth, 
and on the outer side in the corresponding spot with a rather deep emargination ; tibia 
straight, short, with definite, though rather short, apical mucro. There is no lamina 
to separate the apex of the front coxe. 
The only example found is no doubt a male; the terminal ventral ring is very short, 
in the middle still shorter. 
This species resembles B. morosus, though not very closely allied thereto. 
62. Bruchus militaris. (Tab. XXVI. fig. 11.) 
Brevis, convexus, niger, subtus et in pygidio albido vestitus, supra subnudus, nitidus; elytris macula magna 
humerali rufa, pygidio basi rufescente; antennis geniculisque fusco-testaceis; femoribus posterioribus 
dente acuto instructis. 
Long. 4-44 millim., exc. capitis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Hége); Britis Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blan- 
caneauc). 
Antenne short and stout, fusco-testaceous, with the basal joints brighter; joints two, 
three, and four rather small, subequal ; penultimate joints strongly transverse. Head not 
broad ; eyes widely separated. Thorax greatly narrowed in front, the sides not rounded, 
the disc convex, the basal lobe broadly impressed ; the surface shining, rather coarsely 
but not densely punctate, about the sides with fine, not dense, white pubescence. Elytra 
short and broad, deeply striate, the striae punctate, the interstices rough, but not punc- 
tate, the pubescence fine and scanty; each with a large bright red spot, quite at the 
shoulder, reaching the base and outer margin, but not the suture. Pygidium very 
large, rufescent at the base, black at the apex, but the ground-colour concealed by the 
dense fine white clothing ; this is somewhat denuded on two spaces below the middle, 
giving rise to the appearance of two black spots. Hind femora not slender, but not 
dilated, armed with a tooth very acute, though broad at the base, and with no appear- 
ance of denticles; tibia straight, rather stout, not mucronate, but with the anterior 
of the terminal angles perceptibly longer than the others. Terminal ventral ring short. 
The femora are not canaliculate, and the front coxz are contiguous. 
Of this very distinct species six examples were met with by Herr Hoge, and one by 
M. Blancaneaux. 
63. Bruchus obesulus. 
Brevis, subrotundatus, minus convexus, niger, brevissime tenuiter pallido-griseo vestitus, elytro singulo macula 
maxima Jaterali rufa; antennarum basi tibiisque anterioribus fuscis; femoribus posterioribus dente 
mediocri acuto instructis. 
Long. 3 millim. 
