788 A. FE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 
Rust-colored Flour-beetle. (Tribolium ferrugineum Fabr.) Figure 
158, f. 
Mr. Geo. A. Bishop reports the occurrence of this species, also, in 
stored corn and beans. It also feeds upon meal, flour, and rice. It 
closely resembles 7. confuswm, in size and color, but has more 
clavate antenne, the club 3-jointed, and a narrower head, the sides 
not projecting beyond the eyes. 
Silvanus Surinamensis (fig. 161) is reported to occur, but we did 
not secure specimens for study. It is a slender, flattened, chocolate- 
brown Flour-beetle, only about 2.5"™ in length, of the family 
Cucujide. The sides of the prothorax are serrated. 
Bruchide. This family is well represented by the Bean-weevil 
(Bruchus obtectus 8., tig. 158b); )Pea-weevil (Bruchus pisorum L.= 
B. pisi L., figs. 159, 159a), which are common and were probably 
sarly introductions from Europe in the magazine ships. 
Cow-pea Weevil. (Bruchus Chinensis L.) Figure 160. 
This small beetle is reported by Mr. Geo. A. Bishop as occurring 
in Bermuda. It is common in the middle and southern United 
States, and most warm countries. 
It infests not only cow-peas, but various other kinds of peas and 
beans, often becoming very injurious, utterly destroying large 
quantities. 
159a 
Figure 159a.—Pea-weevil (B. pisorum); a, beetle, side view, much enlarged ; b, 
pea from which it emerged, nat. size; c, d, larve, enlarged ; after Riley. 
Figure 158b.—Bean-weevil (Bruchus obtectus); a, imago, much enlarged ; b, 
infected bean ; after Riley. 
Chrysomelids; Leaf-beetles ; Flea-beetles ; Potato-beetles, ete. 
A few undetermined species of this family were observed, and 
doubtless many more occur. Among them, according to the state- 
ments of the farmers, is perhaps the striped Melon or Squash Beetle 
