Genus 2. — BRUCHUS. 109 
Habitat in Terra Caffrorum. Dom. Eckrow et ZEYHER. Mus. 
ScHH. 
Magnitudine Bruchum granarium nonnihil superat. Caput de- 
flexum, subtiliter punctulatum , nigrum , tenuiter fusco-pubescens ; 
oculi depressi, profunde emarginati, nigri. Antennz thoracis basin 
vix attingunt, rufo-testacez , unicolores. Thorax latitudine baseos 
brevior, antice angustior, oblique truncatus , angulis deflexis, late- 
ribus nonnihil ampliatus, basi sub-bi-sinuatus, angulis acuminatis, 
lobo ante-scutellari obtuso ; supra convexus, rude punctatus, niger, 
pilis fusco-griseis sparsis, in lobo magis condensatis, obsitus; in 
medio dorsi punctis duobus minutis, niveis. Scutellum sub-quadra- 
tum, nigrum, fusco-pubescens. Elytra antice thoracis basi non 
latiora, pone humeros vero nonnihil ampliata, postice singulatim 
rotundata; supra parum convexa , nigra, punctato-striata, inter- 
stitiis planis, subtiliter alutaceis, undique pube fusca albidaque 
parce obsita, in ipso margine baseos circa scutellum utrinque ma- 
cula parva albido-tomentosa et ante medium disci punctis tribus 
obsoletioribus, in serie obliqua positis, niveis, notata. Pygidium 
apice sub-rotundatum , atrum , punctatum, fusco-pubescens, an- 
gulis baseos, apiceque maculis plus minusve distinctis, e tomento 
ferrugineo, pilis albidis immixtis, notatis. Corpus subtus convexum, 
nigrum, ano sub-ferrugineo,, undique pube sericea obsitum , 
maculis duabus, e pube albida condensata, ad latera pectoris utrin- 
que. Pedes quatuor anteriores breviusculi, toti rufo-testacei, postici 
validiores , rufo-picei , femoribus compressis, basi late nigris, tibiis 
versus basin obsolete fusco annulatis.— Fus. 
* 180. B. Cisrr. Fabric. — Huj. op. Y. p. 79. 85. 
Ej 
Ovatus , niger, pube tenui, grisescente, undique equaliter obsitus , an- 
tennis dimidii corporis longitudine, basi subtus ferrugineis; thorace 
crebre punctulato, in medio baseos lineola impressa ; elytris regula- 
riter punctato-striatis. — Fns. 
Ad Syn. loc. cit. allatam adde : 
SrEPH. Brit. Ent. IV. po a1» 9. 
FRroELICH. Naturf. XXVIII. p. 62. 10. 
Bruchus villosus. FAR. Syst. El. II. p. 400. 30. — Ent. Syst. I. II. 
p- 373. 20. — Huc pertinet secundum Mus. Reg. Danis. 
Patria : Europa borealis et intermedia. 
