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its hinder femora are armed beneath with a much longer and more 

 powerful spine, and its third tarsal joint is perceptibly more expanded. 



581. Bruclius rufimanus. 



Bruchus rufimanus, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. i. 58 (1833). 



, Woll, Ins. Mad. 419 (1854). 



, Id, Cat. Mad. Col 123 (1857). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, in iisdem locis ac proDcedens, 

 vulgaris. 



This common European BnicJms, which occiu'S also in Madeira (and 

 which has probably been imported into both Groups from more north- 

 ern latitudes), is, like the B. pisi, universal at the Canaries, in the 

 whole seven islands of which, except Gomera, I have myself captured 

 it ; whilst in Gomera it was found by Dr. Crotch (who also met with 

 it in Palma). In Lanzarote, Palma, and Hierro it was taken like- 

 wise by Mr. Gray ; and in Teneriflc by the Barao do Castello de Paiva 

 and M. Hartung. As in the case of its ally, it abounds principally 

 in houses, granaries, and about cultivated grounds. 



582. Bruclius terminatus, n. sp. 



B. fere rufimanum simulans, sed paulo minus ovatus ; antennis bro- 

 vioribus, crassioribus, articulis inter se magis transversis ; oculis 

 sensim minus profunde excavatis ; prothorace ad latera argiitius 

 angiilato ; olytris oblongioribus ; tibiis anticis crassioribus, inter- 

 mediis angustioribus rectioribus necnon ad angulum internum spina 

 valde obtusa subbifida terminatis ; tarsis intermediis (ut pedibus 

 anticis) Isete rufo-testaceis. — Long. corp. lin. 1|^. 



Habitat Teneriffam, in montibus supra Sanctam Crucem repertus. 



Two examples only of this Bruchus, captiu'ed by myself in Tene- 

 riffe (on the mountains above S"' Cruz), have as yet come beneath 

 my notice. The species is very closely allied to the B. rtifimamis, 

 for which at first sight it might be mistaken ; nevertheless, judging 

 from the individuals before me, it is a trifle smaller and more oblong ; 

 its antennae are shorter and thicker, the subclaval joints being more 

 transverse ; the excavation of its eyes is not quite so deep (a struc- 

 ture which causes the eye itseK to be slightly broader, or less scooped 

 out) ; its prothorax is more angulated on either side in the centre ; 

 its pubescence is browner ; its elytra are a little less ovate ; its front 

 tibite are thicker ; its intermediate pair are slenderer and straighter, 

 and are terminated at their inner apical angle by a robust, blunt, up- 

 wardly-directed, subbifid spine, or process (which is best seen when 

 the insect is viewed with its abdomen foremost) ; and its middle feet 

 are, like the whole anterior legs, of a bright rufo- testaceous hue. 



