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my conception of the species was based. Mr. Wenzel now 
announces—Ent. News, 1912, p. 140—that a series taken re- 
cently by H. A. Wenzel in Western Texas are typical julianus 
and quite distinct from the Brownsville species. Specimens 
sent to me by Mr. Wenzel prove to be my recently described 
ochreolineatus, which name therefore falls into synonymy, 
This leaves the big Brownsville species without a name, and 
I would propose for it the specific name 
Bruchus major n. sp. 
The two species are much alike in structure and markings, 
but the ochreous lines of pubescence on the elytra of the 
smaller species are more conspicuous, the second antennal 
joint is relatively shorter as compared with the third, and the 
number of blackish joints of the antennze is two or three 
greater than in major. Julianus, according to Mr. Wenzel, 
is always found on a low shrub near the ground, while major 
breeds abundantly in the seed pods of the tree Acacia flexi- 
caulis. 
The two following species were represented in my collec- 
tion at the time of my recently published tables of Bruchus.* 
The first was held back thinking it might possibly have been 
described from Cuba, and the second was known to me only 
by a unique specimen. Recently Mr. Schwarz has seen the 
Florida specimens and pronounced them different from any- 
thing known to him from either Cuba or Mexico; and of the 
second I have just received additional specimens from Dr. 
Blaisdell. 
Bruchus depressus n. sp. 
Form strongly depressed, black, shining, lateral half of elytra red, 
varying through the reduction of the red area to entirely black; 
antenne black, basal four or five joints pale; legs entirely red, or 
with the hind thighs blackish at extreme base; pubescence thin, short 
and inconspicuous, ochreo-cinereous in color. Antenne moderately in- 
crassate; fifth joint as long as wide, following moderately transverse. 
Eyes separated by about their own width as viewed from the front; 
head finely closely punctate; front feebly obtusely carinate. Pro- 
thorax subconical, wider than long, impressed before the scutellum, 
rather coarsely and closely punctate with intermixed finer punctures. 
Elytra as long as wide; sides parallel and broadly evenly arcuate, 
depressed along the suture; striae rather strong and strongly punctate 
* Trans. Am. Ent. Soa XOXO 1910, p. 160. 
