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the stigmal vein about as long as the postmarginal; in the male the 

 postmarginal somewhat longer than the stigmal; hind legs with one 

 apical spur; pubescence in female flattened, scale-like, in the male 

 normal; axiUse at base not widely separated; lateral ocelli somewhat 

 more than the diameter of an ocellus from the eye margin; in the 

 female the first four abdominal segments deeply incised medially; in 

 the male, the basal segment only; antennae 13-jointed with a sub- 

 quadrate ring joint; the three apical joints forming a club distinctly 

 enlarged in the female and slightly in the male; ovipositor in the 

 female exserted. 



Type of the, genus. — Bruchocida vuilleti Crawford. 



In Doctor Ashmead's classification of this group ^ this genus runs 

 to couplet No. 19 and runs out, since it has segments 1-4 of the 

 abdomen incised apicaUy. The genus can be recognized by this, by 

 the swollen apical jomt of the maxillary palpi and in the female by 

 the appressed pubescence. 



BRUCHOCIDA VUILLETI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 3 mm.; sheaths of ovipositor about 0.75 

 mm. Green with bronzy tints; the head and thorax with thimble- 

 like punctures, where coarsest somewhat resembling reticulations by 

 carinse; those at rear of mesopleurse coarse and deep, on disk of mes- 

 opleurse very fine, anteriorly somewhat coarser; scape testaceous, 

 pedicel greenish, rest of antennae dark brown; first joint of funicle 

 about one and one-half times as long as pedicel; the following joints 

 of funicle successively decreasing in length, the last subquadrate; 

 sides of abdominal segments reticulate-punctate ; dorsal surface finely 

 reticulated on segments 1-4 ; segment 5 reticulate-punctate ; legs red- 

 dish, coxae green, tarsi whitish, wings slight^ dusky, hairs on wings 

 all dark. 



Male. — Length about 2,25 mm. Green with some brassy tints; 

 head and thorax reticulate-punctate, the scutellum reticulate ; anten- 

 nae more elongate than in the female ; scape testaceous, pedicel brown 

 with a small green spot above; rest of anteimae dark brown; wings 

 not as dusky as in female nor as distinctly hauy, but all hairs dark 

 colored; abdomen finely reticulated; coxae green, front and middle 

 femora aeneous with greenish reflections posteriorly; hind femora 

 green; tibiae brown, with lighter colored bases and apices; tarsi 

 whitish. 



Habitat. — Koulikoro, Haut Senegal-Niger. 



Described from four females and two males reared from Bruchus 

 quadrimaculatus by Mr. J. Vuillet, after whom the species is named, 

 and transmitted by Mr. A. Vuillet. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15300, U.S.N.M. 



» Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, 1904, p. 287 et seq. 



