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current, dark brown ; the posterior process rounded and very acute at the 

 tip, which does not quite reach apex of tegmina ; there is a shining, 

 irregular black scar near the base of prothorax on each side ; the yellow 

 atoms are sparingly scattered over the prothorax, except those on the 

 dorsum, which are arranged in the form of an oblong oval ; a large 

 triangular yellow spot, shaded with fuscous, on each side at the middle of 

 the lateral borders ; the lateral borders for about one fourth their length 

 very narrowly yellow. Tegmina coriaceous and mostly opaque, densely 

 punctured, reddish ; two discoidal cells, the exterior small, round and 

 transparent, the interior larger, triangular and opaque ; the tirst and fifth 

 apical cells transparent ; the third triangular and about as broad as long. 

 Wings with four apical cells, the second sessile. Below yellowish-red ; 

 femora yellow with a broad reddish band just above the tips ; tibia3 

 triquetrous, hairy ; tarsi dark red. 



Length, 7 mm.; width, 3^ mm.; altitude, 3 mm. 



Habitat — Norway ; Maine. One $ from S. Henshaw. 



SOME NOTES ON BRUCHUS IN NEW MEXICO. 



BY C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. 



A number of the bur-like fruits of Glycyrrhiza lepidota, a species of 

 licorice native to Arizona and parts of New Mexico, were collected in the 

 Mesilla Valley of the Rio Grande River, north of Las Cruces, in the fall 

 of 1892. The following May, there were found issued from these burs 

 many specimens of a Bruchid, which was identified at the Agricultural 

 Department in Washington as Bruchus alboscuie/laius, Horn. There 

 were also many parasites issued, which were determined by Mr. Ashmead 

 as Briichophagus mexicamis, Ashm. I am indebted to Mr. Coville for 

 the determination of the plant. 



Many pods of the tornillo or screw-bean, Prosopis ptibescens, were 

 also collected in the fall of 1892, at Las Cruces. In the following May, 

 there were found issued from these many specimens of Bruchus amicus, 

 Horn. Two parasites of this species were also bred with it, and have 

 been determined by Mr. Ashmead as Eupelmics cyaniceps, Ashm., and 

 Holcopelte pi'oducta, Ashm. 



From a pod of Z^/"?/^ sp. , collected by Professor Wooton, near Las 

 Cruces, there issued specimens of Bruchophagus mexicanus, Ashm., so 

 determined by Mr. Ashmead. This further indicates that the pods of this 

 Lotus sp. are affected by a Bruchus sp., in the Mesilla Valley region. 



