1900] BEAN AND PEA-SEED BEETLES. 25 



This kind is very well known with us as an infestation. It is 

 especially found in Central and Southern Europe, Syria, and Algeria, 

 and is recorded in the North of America by Schonherr : "Is common 

 everywhere in Peas and Beans." 



Bruchi. — 1, B. tristiti ; 2, B. rufyies ; B, B. brachialis — magnified, and lines 

 showing natural length. 



The figures of B. rnjimanus and B. pisonim are repeated again at 

 4 and 5 (as well as at p. 21) to show the similarity of species known 

 to be received from Smyrna with those which, whether naturalized or 

 indigenous, have long troubled us in Britain ; and also for convenient 

 comparison with the figures above, numbered 1, 2, and 3, showing the 

 characteristic differences of these newly noticed specimens received with 

 them from Smyrna at Hull. 



B. tristis, Bohm., figured above at 1, is about 4 millimetres in 

 length, oblong ovate (narrower in shape than rufimanus SbixA pisorum, 

 see figures), and especially distinguishable by its almost bare and shining 

 black dipper surface, with a small but conspicuous ivJiite spot at the base 

 of the thorax, and another of a somewhat long shape on the middle of 

 the base of the pygidium. Thorax finely punctate ; wing-cases striated 

 with the interstices finely rugose. Antennae with the lower part red, 

 the rest dark. Tarsi and tibiae (feet and shanks) of two pairs of fore 

 legs pale ; pair of hind legs black. 



Localities. — Central and Southern Europe ; little found in higher 

 Italy ; more frequently in Central and Southern Sicily. Also has been 

 found in Syria ; has been reported from Central Persia, and found in 

 Liguria in Pea seed.* 



B. bracliialis, Fahrs. (male rujicornis, All.), see fig. 3, above, 



* For full description, together with localities of B. tristis, from which the 

 above abstract is taken, see "■ Mylahridum seu Bruchidum europeae et finitimarum 

 regionum Faunm recensitio," Flaminio Baudi (Deutsche Ent. Zeit. xxx. 1886, 

 Heft ii. p. 397). In the above-named monograph, Signer Baudi adopts the generic 

 name of Mylahris instead of that of Bruchus ; but the latter name has now been 

 generally adopted for such a great length of time that it seems undesirable to revert 

 to that of Mylahris, which has now been long used for the group of Blister Beetles. 

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