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Forty- FOURTH Report on the State Museum 



Bruchus grana7nus and B. rufimanus. Dimmock : in Cassino's Stand. Nat, 



Hist., 1884, ii, pp. 334, 335, fig. 375, 5, c (mention). 

 Bruchus granarlus Linn. Whitehead : Kept. Ins. Inj. Gr. Britain, 1885, 



pp. 57-58, f. xvii, 1, 2 (brief notice). 

 Bruchus rufimanus Boh. Wood : in Entomol. Month. Mag., xxii, 1885, 



p. 114; in Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., Oct., 1886, Part III, pp. 375-380 



(productiveness of infested beans). 

 Myldbris rufimana Bohm. Baudi: in Deuts. Entomologische Zeits., 



Heft ii, 1886, p. 404, no. 20 (description and distribution). 

 Bruchus granay^ius L. Fletcher : in Kept. Min. Agricul. Canada, for 



1888, p. 55 (imported in beans from Europe). 



Bruchus rufimanus Schon. Whitehead: 2d Ann. Kept. Agr. Adv., 1888, 



pp. 49-51, f. 17 (injuries, transformations, prevention). 

 Bruchus rufimanus Sch. Hamilton: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xvi, 



1889, p. 150; in Entomolog. Amer., vi, 1890, p. 43 {" B. rufimanus 

 Bohm. should be dropped " — ? from our lists). 



Bruchus granarlus Curtis ; Bruchus rufimanus Boh. Ormerod : 12th Kept. 

 Inj. Ins., 1889, pp. 19-24, figs. 1-8; Manual Inj. Ins., 2d Edit., 1890, 

 pp. 5-9, f. 1-8 (description, prevention and remedies). 



Bruchus rufimanus Schonh. Ritzema Bos: Tierische Schadlinge und 

 Nutzlinge, 1891, p. 293, f. 162. 



A Comnioii European Insect. 

 By^uchus rufimanus is the common bean-weevil of England, where it 

 fills the place that is held in this country by B. ohsoletus in its injuries 

 to beans, while at the same time covering a broader field, as it infests 



pease largely and also feeds 

 in other of the Leguminosce. 

 From this range of food it 

 has come to be known as 

 the " grain beetle " and the 

 "seed beetle," and until 

 recently has borne the sci- 

 entific name of Bruchus gra- 

 narlus — erroneously given 

 it, as will be seen here- 

 after. Fig. 18 (part) rep- 

 resents it in its transforma- 

 tions and bean infestation. 

 It is both a common and 

 destructive species in Eng- 

 land, as appears from many 

 Fig. 18. — The European bean- weevil, Beuchus ku- . n \.- 4. * - 



FiMANUs: 1 and '2, iu natural size and enlarged; 3, writers. OurtiS states of it: 

 infested bean; 4 and 5, larva in natural size and *' This species which is 

 enlarged; 6 and 7, pupa ditto; 8, an infested bean , 



showing subsequent vegetation. Nos. 9, 10 and 11 everywhere abundant early 

 are of Beuchus pisoRUM. (After Curtis.) in February on the furze 



[ ? JJlex EuropcBus] when it is in bloom, inhabiting also the flowers of 



