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Genus XIII. — Bruch^u 



This family of infecls is fuperlor in fize to the lafl, and 

 more diverfified : It contains feven fpecies, having club- 

 formed antenncii ; four palpi placed at the extremity of a 

 fbort roftrum *. 



Th& bruchus of the pea blofTom frequents that flower j 

 is covered with afli-coloured down, forming cloudy fpots 

 upon the thorax and elytra ; the latter are fo fliort, that 

 they leave a great part of the abdomen expofed, and 

 thickly covered with longitudinal ftreaks. 



• Syftema Nat. p. 6 of. 



