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Remedies. 

 The remedies for it would be the same as for the preceding species. 

 In addition to those, a very simple one is mentioned in Miss Ormerod's 

 12th Eeport, viz.: "In experimenting on infested beans, I found that 

 if placed for a short time to soak [in cold water presumably], the 

 water passed through the thin film of coating of the bean at the end 

 of the gallery, and soddened the powdery dust and rubbish within, 

 and thus choked the breathing pores of the beetle lying within, and 

 killed it." If this will accomplish the purpose, it will be decidedly 

 preferable to tne risk of the hot-water application. 



Bruchus lentis Boheman. 



The Lentil Weevil. 



(Ord. Coleoptera: Fam. Bruchid.e.) 



Bruchus lentis Boheman: in Schoenherr's Gen. et Spec. Curculionidum, i, 



1833, p. 70. 

 Bruchus lentis Koyi. Dejean : Cat. Coleop. Coll. Comte Dejean., Edit. Ill, 



1837, p. 254 (hab. in Italj-). 

 Bruchus lentis Koy . Schh. Gaubil: Cat. Syn. Coleop. d'Eur. et d'Alg., 



1849, p. 175. 

 Bruchus rufiniajius Sch. Horn: in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv, 1873, p. 315 



(description). 

 Mylabris rufimanus Sch. Eeinecke-Zesch : List Coleop. Vicin. Buff,, 1880, 



p. 10. 

 Bruchus lentis: Baudi: in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschript, xxx, 



1886, Hept ii, p. 395, 

 Bruchus lentis Koyi. Eitzema Bos: Tierische Schadlinge und Nutzlinge, 



1891, p. 204 f. 163. 



Observed at Buffalo, N. Y. 

 This species of weevil is an European insect which, so far as known, 

 has only occurred within the United States, at Buffalo, N. Y., where it 

 was taken abundantly in a provision store. It has since been learned 

 that lentils {Lens esculenta),* the food-plant of the insect, were kept for 

 sale in the store, but whether they were imported fi'om Europe is not 

 known; they are not grown in the vjcinity of Buffalo, From the 

 number obtained, Mr. Keinecke made free distribution through his 

 exchanges, under the name of B. rufimanus to which, from its general 

 resemblance to that species, or difference from B. obsoletus, he referred 

 it.f During the recent study given to the European bean-weevil, 

 which, through the aid of our English friends, has resulted in its posi- 

 tive identification on this side of the Atlantic, and an understand- 

 ing of its confused synonymy, it became evident that the Buffalo 



*8o recorded in Gray's School and Field-Book of Botany. 1869 (page 111), and in Wood's 

 New Ame)'ican Botanist and Florist, 1889, part iv, page lOO: the Ervum lens or Vicia lens of 

 many botanists. 



t Of four of the examples sent to Dr. Hamilton under this name, two proved to be the 

 lentil species and the others the common Bruchus mimus Say. 



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