Frequently the process stopped here and parasite moved 

 again as if not satisfied with the position. This was 

 observed to happen in one case as often as five times. 



''When the position was finally found, satisfactory boring 

 commenced (Fig. 9). This consisted practically of a vertical 

 drilling motion consisting of raising and depressing of abdo- 

 men. Small quantities of meal (borings) could be seen about 

 the ovipositors. The boring lasted in the two cases observed 

 about 15 minutes and at the end, the ovipositors were sunk 

 into the seed right np to the sheath and the top of the abdo- 



FlG. 9. — Bruchocida orientalis ovipositing through seed of Cajanus indicus. Note 

 ovipositor betwe3n middle and hind legs. (From photograph.) 



men was then pulled out and the parasite walked away. 

 During the act of drilling, the insect keeps up a jerky move- 

 ment of the outer antennae. 



"Oviposition has been observed to take place in the 

 centre of the hilum also. The following are the descriptions 

 of the two species :— 



Bruchocida orientalis, (Crawford.) (Fig. 10.) 



'' Female. — Length about 4 mm.; sheaths of ovipositor 

 exposed 1 mm. ; bronzy, with tints of green, the scape of 

 antennae reddish, pedicel green, rest of antennae dark brown ; 

 first joint of funicle about one and one-half times as long as 

 the pedicel, the following joints successively decreasing in 

 length, the last somewhat longer than broad ; very similar 

 in sculpture to B. vuilleti ; wings with white hair as far out 

 as the apex of submarginal vein ; beyond this the hairs dark, 

 longer and more numerous than in vuilleti and the wings 

 somewhat infuscated ; front and hind coxae bronzy ; front 



