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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 particular species, funebris, is black and non- 
metallic. Eyes dark brown, antennae almost as long as the thorax ; 
flagellum of eight segments, there being five in the funicle and three in 
the club ; the funicle segments have each a 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 long as the thorax, and its 
fourth segment is the largest. 
The female is like the male in coloration but is larger, with these 
distinctive characters. Antennal segments not petiolate, and without 
the long hairs ; flagellum of nine segments, the funicle having six and 
the club three. Abdomen not pedunculate, 
longer than the thorax, with the fourth and 
fifth segments short and subequal, and with a 
light brown pointed extremity — a part of the 
ovipositor. 
Fig. 2. — Clover 5?eed-chalcid, 
Bruchophagus funebris , 
eggs. Greatly enlarged. 
Fig. 3. 
Clover Seed-chalcid, Bruchophagus funebris: Fig. 3, larva, 
and liead at right; Fig. 4, pupa. (Webster, Circ. 69, Bur. 
Ent., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.) 
The tgg (Fig. 2) is broadly elliptical to ovate in form, ending 
anteriorly in a small papilla and prolonged posteriorly as a slender 
tube, at least twice as long as the egg proper, which averages 0.26 mm. 
in length. The egg when laid is translucent whitish, and smooth ; 
within a day, the appendage shrinks and turns brown. 
The maggotlike larva (Fig. 3) is white, stout, and footless, with a 
small head; length, when full grown, 1.5 to 2 mm. The larva shows 
few distinctive characters, tho it is stouter and less active than para- 
sitic larvae of the same family. 
The pupa (Fig. 4) is for a time white, but darkens as the color 
of the imago develops; length 1.9 mm. 
Life History. — In 1904 and 1905 we made daily observations on 
the number of adults emerging from clover heads collected thruout the 
season and kept in large glass jars — each lot having been collected at 
one time and place. The observations when plotted on coordinate 
paper showed several new things. 
