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FAMILY LIV. — BIU.'CHID.^. 



r. Iliiul foiiuir with either oue or two teeth or denticles, or both. 

 d. riliid femur without denticles; one or two teeth always present. 



Gi'oup A. 

 (Id. Hind femur with denticles and usually a single tooth present. 



Group B. 





2288 (7115). BRrcHUS pisorum Linn., Syst. Nat, II, 1705, 604. 



Ohlong-oval, subde- 

 pressed. Black, feebly shin- 

 ing ; above, densely clothed 

 with reddish-brown and 

 whitish hairs; thorax with 

 a triangular whitish space 

 in front of sciitellum ; ely- 

 tra with yellowish, grayish 

 and whitish hairs, the lat- 

 ter forming an oblique band 

 behind the middle ; p.vgid- 

 ium covered with gray 

 hairs except two oval black 

 spots near apex ; antenn:e 

 black, the three basal joints 

 rufous; legs black, front 



rig 556. A, young larva; B, prothoracic spinous process; C, larva . . • <• 



Kreatiy magnified; D, pea-pod, with tracks of entry; E, portion of pod, tibiaj and tarSl rUfoUS ; UU- 



with egg, and the track made by larva; F, mature beetle (.\ftfr /jgj. surface black ShiniU". 



Rilev.) ' '^' 



densely punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with tine grayish hairs. Thorax broader than long, coarsely and 

 densely punctate. Elytra slightly longer than broad, striate, the strire finely 

 punctate. Length 4.5-5 mm. (Fig. 556.) 



This is the ''pea weevil" and occiti-s in abiindanco throughout 

 the State wh(>i'e\('i- peas arc cultivated. Its habits are given above 

 under the faiiiily heading. 



2280 (7116). Bruchus mimis Say. Des. of N. Amer. Curculionida^, IS31, 

 2 ; ibid. I. 260. 

 Robust, subtjuadrate. Brownish, variegated with gray, black and white 

 pubescence; sides of median ridge of thorax black or dark brown at sum- 

 mit, divided ]»y a small white spot; elytra with a common heart-shaped 

 blackish spot beliiud the scutellum and with numerous small, black, oblong 

 spots tipped with white at their basal ends; antemife and legs pale reddish- 

 brown, the hind ones banded with piceous; pygidium clothed with whitish 

 hairs, male, or with a large, smooth, oval, brown space, female. Thorax 

 Itell-shaped, disk with two median ridges separated by a narrow groove and 

 with a tul)er('l(> each side near base. Elytra nearly as broad as long, stria' 

 puiiclnred ; inlcrv.-ils flat, densely ]»nnctu]ate. Length ;*> mm. 



'I'hi'ougliout the State; l're(|uent. Api'il 23-0('t()ltei' 15. Occurs 

 on Mowers. es])ecially those of red and bbick liaws; ox-eye daisy 

 and E\it)iti oiiiiiii . It. as well as otlier iiiembers of the famil^^, feign 

 death ami liiiiihlc to t';ir11i wlicii disl tirhcd. 



