96 SEVENTEENTH Report STATE ENtomMoLocist oF MrInNesota—1918 
“The adult is a minute, compact, flylike insect mostly black, but 
with parts of the legs yellowish brown. It is small, the female being 1.9 
mm. in length and the male 1.7 mm.—yet its actions on a clover head 
are so characteristic that one 
who has made the acquaintance 
of the insect can recognize it at 
once. Apart from its natural sur- 
roundings, however, one must 
look to certain minute details of 
structure in order to determine 
the species. 
“In the genus Bruchophagus 
the marginal vein is linear and 
not longer than the stigmal vein ; 
the mesonotum is umbilicately 
punctate and the abdomen ovate, 
pointed, and compressed in the 
female. The male resembles the 
female but lacks the point to the 
abdomen and the abdomen is 
shorter than in the other sex; 
while the male, unlike the female, 
has oval funicle segments and 
long antennal hairs. 
“The male of this. partienlan 
species, funebris, is black and 
non-metallic. Eyes dark brown, 
\ antennae almost as long as the 
thorax; flagellum of eight seg- 
ments, there being five in the 
funicle and three in the club; the 
funicle segments have each a 
Fig. 17. Female chalcid ovipositing. short apical peduncle, and _ all 
but the first of these segments 
have either two or three whorls of yellowish hairs—usually three on 
the second segment of the funicle and two on segments three to five. 
The knees, anterior tibiae, and all the tarsi are light yellowish brown. 
The stigma of the wing gives off a feeble branch. The abdomen, joined 
to the thorax by a short, stout peduncle, is small, being less than half as 
jong as the thorax, and its fourth segment is the largest. 
“The female is like the male in coloration but is larger, with these 
