Bruchus.] PHYTOPHAGA. 261 
(Waterhouse); Scarborough (Lawson and Wilkinson); Salford and Manchester, 
in granaries (Chappell) ; the species is almost cosmopolitan in its distribution. 
B. cisti, F. Oblong ovate, black, clothed with fine and scanty 
pubescence, not variegated ; antenne stout, serrate ; thorax finely and 
closely granulate, long and strongly narrowed in front, conical, about as 
broad as head at apex, and about as broad as elytra at base; elytra with 
distinct and strong striz, interstices very finely punctured ; legs black, 
posterior femora not toothed. L. 14-1 mm. 
Chalky and sandy places; on Helianthemum vulgare, &c.; local, but not un- 
common in some districts, Caterham, Birch Wood, Mickleham, Dorking, Kenley 
(Surrey), Shirley, Darenth, Chatham, Maidstone, Reigate, Esher, Eastry (Kent) ; 
Portsmouth district ; ‘Winchester ; Glanvilles Wootton; Powderham, Devon (on 
broom) ; Bristol ; Rodborough, Gloucestershire. 
B. canus, Germ. This species is by many authors identified with 
the preceding, but may be easily known by its more elongate form, and 
much thicker pubescence, which gives the insect a uniform grey colour ; 
the strize also of the elytra are finer, and the formation of the antennz 
and thorax are slightly different; in other points it closely agrees with 
B. cisti. L. 14-2 mm. 
On Onobrychis sativa (Common Sainfoin); rare; Caterham, Mickleham, and 
Chatham (Champion) ; Darenth Wood and Gravesend (Power); Winchester (Gorham); 
it has also occurred at Strood, Riddlesdown, and Brighton, | believe in each instance 
to Dr, Power. 
B. pisi, L. (pisorum, L.). One of the larger species, oblong ovate, 
black with the four basal joints of the anteune, the anterior tibie and 
tarsi, the apex of the intermediate tibie, and the intermediate tarsi 
red; head with a strongly marked raised central line, vertex with 
brownish pubescence, antenne strongly thickened ; thorax rather strongly 
sculptured, subparallel towards base, gradually narrowed in front, trans- 
verse, with variegated brownish and white pubescence, base with a 
distinct white spot before scutellum; scutellum greyish-white ; elytra 
mottled with bands and patches of brownish and white pubescence, 
moderately strongly striated, interstices broad distinctly punctured, 
pygidium thickly clothed with whitish pubescence with two large bare 
ovate spots ; posterior femora toothed. L. 4-5 mm. 
A cosmopolitan species; found in peas, &c., in warehouses; London, Walworth, 
&c.; Guildford; Birmingham and Knowle; Manchester (general in shops and 
granaries) ; Scotland, not indigenous, Solway and Clyde districts; Mr. Chappell 
records it as taken at Stretford near Manchester on Sisymbrium. 
B. rufimanus, Boh. Very closely allied to the preceding, which it 
strongly resembles in general appearance ; it may, however, be easily 
known by having the anterior femora (which are black in B. pis?) entirely 
red ; the thorax, moreover, is evidently longer and more closely and finely 
punctured, and the tooth on the posterior femora is shorter and more 
obtuse ; the pygidium is almost entirely covered with whitish-grey 
