282 FORTT-FOURTH REPORT ON THE iStATE MuSEUM 



Tennessee, 1886, in noticing Bruchus granarius Linn., states: "This is a 

 European insect, but was imported into this country many years ago. 



***** It has not been considered injurious in this country. 

 I have seen no account of any injuries caused by it, yet I am able to 

 report it as being very injurious in this state." Following, an account 

 of its abundance in pease offered for sale in the London market, is 

 given. The differences between it and Bruchus pisi \_pisorum'] and 

 B. obsoletus Say are pointed out, and it is therefore evident that the 

 species had been identified with the one now known as B. rufimanus. 

 Dr. Doran, in compliance with my request for information of the 

 occurrence of the insect in Tennessee, has kindly sent me a number 

 of examples collected at the time of his report ujDon it.* They proved 

 to be Bruchus scutellaris Fabr., or, as recently pointed out by Dr. 

 Hamilton, B. Ghinensis Linn. It is a common species in pease 

 throughout the southern states. A notice of it is contained in my 

 6th Report, which please see and correct the statements made in 

 "Its Probable Life-history" resj)ecting oviposition, inability of the 

 larva to enter ripened seed, and the time for emergence of the 

 imago — as subsequent observations (recorded in preceding pages) 

 have shown them to be erroneous. 



The Confused Synonymy of this Insect. 



To the above brief notice of the European bean-weevil, it may not 

 be ill-timed to add a few words in relation to its mixed synonymy, 

 which has long been an embarrassment to me, and, doubtless, the 

 same to many others. 



Referring to Curtis' admirable volume on Farm Insects, London, 

 1860, on page 358, we find figure 53 illustrative of Bruchus pisi and 

 Bruchus granarius (given on pages 359 and 360), each credited to Lin- 

 naeus; on page 363, Bruchus Jiavimanus is described and credited to 

 Schonherr, Genera et Species Gurculionidum, vol. i, page 59. f Figure 53 

 is presumably among those of which Mr. Curtis in his Introduction 

 to the above volume states : "Nearly all the drawings have been 

 made by mj^self from nature, and were engraved under my own 

 inspection." 



The above figure has been repeatedly copied by subsequent writers. 

 Miss Ormerod, in her Ninth Report for 1885, continues for the "Bean 

 Beetle; Seed Beetle," the name of Bruchus granarius Linn. In her 



* A parasite bred by Dr. Doraa from the London infested pease, as noticed in his 

 Report cited, was sent witla the above. It was in poor condition, and the last one 

 remaining in his possession. Mr. L. O. Howard thinks it may be an undescribed species 

 of Mr. Ashmead's new genus, BrucJiophagus (Insect Life, iv, 1891, page 49). 



1 This species is mentioned incidentally here, it being a British species (see page 284), 

 to correct an erroneous reference of it to B. rufimanus In Riley's 3d Report on the 

 Insects of Missouri, page 56. 



