Mr. J. Walton on the i/eiivs Bniclms. 211 



Mr. Doubleday in East Florida. The male has the antennie pec- 

 tinated, and the female serrated. I have between sixty and seventy 

 examples, with many varieties, of this truly protseau insect, taken 

 out of the interior of the common chickpea {Cicer arietinum, so 

 named from its strikine; resemblance to a ram's head), which I 

 obtained from the East India and China ships, lying in the Lon- 

 don and St. Katherine's Docks ; it is called 'Gram' by the sailors : 

 there is a tine series of the B. pectinicornis in the foreign cabinet 

 of the British Museum and likewise in that of Mr. Kirby, who 

 found them in the same kind of seeds*. 



8. B. villosusf, Fab. (1792), Mus. King of Denmark. 



— Clsti, Payk. (1792), Gyll., Steph., Schonh.. Curt, not Fab. 



— ater. Marsh. Syst. Cat., Stej)h. 



— ater, Kirb. MSS. et Mus. 



This insect, which varies much in size, differs from the follow- 

 ing in having the anteunse with the four basal joints sinall, and 

 of a dull red or piceous colour ivitkin ; the thorax transverse, &c. 

 I possess foreign specimens sent to me by Schonherr; and I 

 have carefully examined the four examples in the collection of 

 Mr. Kirby, which are all of this species ; Mr. Kirby gives them 

 in his MS. as the B. ater of Marsham. On the 14th of October 

 last, at Shirley Common, near Croydon, I beat sixteen specimens 

 of this insect decidedly from the broom {Spartium scoparium) . 



9. B. Cisti Fab. (1781), Mus. Banks. + 



— cunus } Germ., Schonh., Steph. Man. 



— ater, Curt, not Marsh. 



This species was separated by Mr. Curtis from the preceding, 

 with w^hich it had been confounded in this country ; it differs 

 in having the three basal joints only of the antennae small, and 

 entirely black ; the thorax subcorneal, &c. It varies considerably 

 in size, like its congener B. villosus. (Length 1 — 1^ line.) 



" Habitat in floribus Cisti Helianthemi. Mus. Dom. Banks." — 

 Fab. Ent. Syst. i. p. 372. 



* See Introd. to Ent. by Kivby and Speuce, i. p. 177. 



t 1 am aware of the inconvenience of changing the specific name of a spe- 

 cies that has been very generally used for fifty years ; but it must be observed 

 that Fabricius first employed the name Clsti for an insect differing from the 

 Cisti of Paykull, and consequently the latter name must sink into a synonym. 

 The B. villosus of Fabricius, according to his Museum, is identical with the 

 Cisti of Paykull. — See Schonherr's Syn. Ins. v. p. 109. 



X Of this rem.irkable and very distinct species there are now two ex- 

 amples preserved in the Banksian cabinet, pinned through the name: short 

 as the description is (" ater immaculatus ; femoribus muticis "), by Fabricius, 

 it agrees with these insects, and not at all with any other of the six species 

 in the cabinet : therefore they cannot have been transposed, and are un- 

 doubtedly the authentic types of the species referred to in the ' Ent, Syst.' 



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