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from them (from Hull), and most of these I now enclose to 

 you, as I thought you might care to see if anything of 

 interest would develop. The specimens in the little bottle, 

 including one or two hymenopterous parasites, are also from 

 the beans. 



In a little box with the beans is a fine specimen of the 

 Goat moth, Cossus ligniperda, larva, which is very diligently 

 spinning. 1 I have been much interested in watching the 

 way it thickens its beginning of lacework web. I believe 



Bmclnts bracliialis. Brnclms tristis. Brnchns rnftpes. 



Bmchus pisontin=pisi. BnicJuis rnfimanns. 

 Magnified, with lines showing natural length. 



FIG. 73. PEA AND BEAN WEEVILS, BRUCHI. 



(unless the top specimen has eaten it !) that there is another 

 larva at the bottom. 



September 23, 1900. 



I am very much obliged to you for these nicely set Bruchi, 

 and I do not think it would be at all out of place, although 

 two of the species are not British, to give figures of the three 

 kinds (brachialis, rufipes, and tristis) as found in a cargo in- 

 cluding beans and wild peas from Smyrna, together with 



1 The caterpillars of the Goat moth feed in poplar, willow, elm, oak, 

 lime, and beech, as well as in apple, pear, walnut, and other trees. 

 (E. A. O.) 



