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About 3 millimetres in length, shortly oval, black, mottled with dusky 

 down and whitish spots above ; this especially on the middle basal 

 lobe of the thorax, on the wing-eases somewhat irregularly sprinkled. 

 Pyijidlum inth wliituh down. Horns (antennte) in the male red ; in 

 the female dark, with the four or five basal joints, and likewise the 

 terminal or sometimes the two terminal joints of some shade of red. 

 Both sexes with the anterior legs only red.-'' 



The localities of this species are recorded as being Central and 

 Southern Europe and Algeria ; and of a variety it is noticed that it is 

 rare in the mountains of Southern Europe. Also it is noticed of 

 B. pallidicornis, Bohm., by which name this species is often known, 

 that it is frequently found in Syria, especially in Lentils. f 



B. riifipcs, Herbst. (fig. 2, p. 25). Ovate, rather shiny, slightly 

 pubescent, the wing-cases ornamented with whitish grey or tawny 

 spots or little patches ; similar to B. brachial is in length (3 millimetres), 

 but sometimes a little larger, and when seen from above somewhat 

 subquadrate iu shape. Basal lobe of the thorax and the scutellum 

 with grey pubescence ; pygidium also with grey pubescence. 



Antennae in both sexes have the basal joints alone red, and the 

 foremost and the second pairs of leys reddish, whereby this species is 

 distinguished from B. hrachialis, as well as by its squarer shape, which 

 is conveyed at fig. 2, p. 25. 



Localities. — Europe, also Tiflis in Syria. Very common in Italy in 

 vetches ; " especially mixed with Wheat in fields or granaries " (F. B.). 



It cannot be said that this species {B. rujipes) is wholly unknown 

 in this country, as the following observation is appended by Canon 

 Fowler I to his description of this species: — "On Legnminoscp., very 

 rare ; three specimens taken by Dr. Power at Surbiton and Gravesend 

 in June, 1869, are all, apparently, that have occurred in Britain." 



Amongst the vast number of species of Bruchi distributed in various 

 parts of the world, amounting to four hundred or more, it is impossible 

 to say how far the details of structure of the larvfe (maggots) and the 

 precise methods of infestation may be similar in all cases ; but, as regards 

 ourselves, that of our British Bean and Pea-seed Beetles appear to be 



* By the above-mentioned colouring of the legs and horns this species may be 

 distinguished from B. rufipes (of which a description is given below), which other- 

 wise it much resembles. It is exceedingly difficult to convey the differences in a 

 moderate sized figure, but at 3, p. 25, it has been endeavoured to convey the pale 

 colour of the terminal antennal joint of the male, and also the whitish coloured 

 downy spot at the base of the thorax. 



f The descriptions of the two above-mentioned species, B. tristis and B. hrachi- 

 alis, and also of B. rufipes, given below, are abridged from those given in the 

 ' Monograph of Mylabridce seu Bruchida,' by Flaminio Baudi, referred to in note, 

 p. 25, preceding, together with careful comparison of my own verified type 

 specimens. 



+ 'Coleoptera of the British Islands,' vol. iv. p. 263, 1890. 



