206 Mr. J. Walton on the genus Bruchus. 



Page 175 supra. I suspect from the description of Ardea nobilis 

 that it is identical with the A. Goliath, Temm. PL Col. 474, from 

 Abyssinia. 



Page 176. Ardea Caboga belongs to the genus Ardeola, Boie, 1822 

 (^Buphus, Boie, 1826). This bird is decorated with no less than eleven 

 synonymous names, the earliest of which is Ardea Bubulcus, Savigny, 

 ar.d the following is, I believe, the chronological order of the re- 

 mainder : — A. lucida, Rafinesque ; A. cequinoctialis, Mont. ; A. coro- 

 mandelensis, Steph. ; A. bicolor, Vieill. ; A. russata, Teram. ; A. af- 

 finis, Horsf. ; A. coromandelica, Licht. ; A. Veranii, Roux ; A. leuco- 

 cephala, Cuv. ; and A. Caboga, Franklin. 



XXIX. — Notes on British species of the genus Bruchus, with 

 Descriptions of two species not hitherto recorded as indigenous. 

 By John Walton, Esq. * 



Section CUBCULIONITES. 

 Fam. BRUCHiDiE. 

 1. Bruchus Pisi, Linn. (Mus. Linn.), Germ., Schonh. 



Oblong-ovate, black, densely clothed with cinereous and white 

 pubescence : antennpe with the four basal joints rufo- testaceous : 

 thorax transverse, much broader than long, and armed on each side 

 with a distinct acute tooth : elytra elongate ; each elytron with a 

 somewhat arched fascia near the apex, composed of white spots : 

 pygidium with two large ovate black spots ; anterior femora en- 

 tirely Mack ; the anterior tibise and tarsi ; the intermediate tibise at 

 the apex and the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the posterior femora armed 

 with an elongate spine beneath, near the apex. Length 2^ lines. 



The two examples (one being pinned through the name) in the 

 Linnsean cabinet with a white pea a])pended to each pin containing 

 the insect, I have not the least doubt, are the genuine B. Pisi of 

 Linnseus. Li all the British cabinets that I have examined I 

 could only detect one true example of this species, and that in 

 the collection of Mr. Waterhouse. I consider it very doubtful 

 whether the Bruchus Pisi of Linnaeus should be regarded as a 

 British species. It occurs in Germany and the southern parts of 

 Europe, and likewise in North America. 



* In iTi)' paper published in the last number of the ' Annals,' some errors 

 in the punctuation liave caused one of the paragraphs to be obscure : p. 88, 

 line 5 of the last paragrapli, insert a semicolon after the word "straight," 

 and take out the stop after the next word : in line 12, for '• rugose ; punctate 

 anteriorly ; mider both sides," read " rugose-punctate ; anteriorly under both 

 sides," &c. 



