BRUCHUS. 481 
This little insect will be readily identified by the bright-coloured legs and antennae, 
and by the hind femora and tibie being unarmed. The whole of the body is nearly 
uniformly clothed with ochreo-griseous pubescence. Four examples. 
93. Bruchus infirmus. 
Minimus, niger, tenuiter griseo-pubescens; antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis, illis brevibus, subclavatis ; femo- 
ribus posterioribus submuticis, dente minutissimo armatis. 
Long. 12 millim, 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerdénimo (Champion). 
Although only a single individual has been obtained, and it agrees in the colour of 
the legs and antenne with B. flavicornis, yet it is clearly a distinct species, being 
smaller, scantily clothed with pubescence, and with much shorter antenne, the joints from 
the fifth outwards being transverse. There exists, moreover, a very minute denticle or 
tooth on the hind femur, which I have not been able to detect in B. flavicornis. The 
apex of the hind tibia is, as in B. flavicornis, destitute of mucro, 
94, Bruchus zqualis. 
Minimus, niger, dense sequaliter griseo vestitus ; antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis, femoribus posterioribus - 
basi late nigra, dente gracili denticulisque duobus minutissimis armatis ; antennis latiusculis, subclavatis. 
Long. 1% millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato, Toxpam (Sadlé). 
Antenne stout and rather short, the four basal joints yellow; joints 6-10 black, 
strongly transverse. ‘Thorax transverse-conic, the sides a little rounded in front, the 
sculpture concealed by the clothing. Pygidium rather large. Three terminal ventral 
rings rather short. Hind femora black, with the apex red, armed with a rather long 
slender tooth and two extremely obscure denticles; tibiz with only a very short apical 
mucro. 
Very similar to B. flavicornis, though readily recognized from that species by the 
colour of the antenne. Four examples. 
95. Bruchus probus. 
Minus convexus, niger, griseo vestitus; antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis, his extrorsum fuscescentibus, sub- 
_ clavatis ; femoribus posterioribus submuticis, dente omnium minutissimo armatis. 
Long. 2-23 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 
Antenne broad, joints 5-10 strongly transverse, infuscate. Thorax transverse-conic, 
the sides rounded and narrowed in front ; coarsely punctate, the punctuation somewhat 
obscured by the clothing. Elytra rather short, their strie distinctly punctured. 
Pygidium rather large, far from perpendicular in its direction, rather densely pubescent, 
and with a condensation of the pubescence at the base in the middle, so as to form a 
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