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Variable in the colouring of the elytra. The base, suture 

 and lateral margins are broadly piceous or black, but in 

 some examples somewhat mottled with whitish or castaneou^ 

 pubescence ; the rest of the surface (a broad discal patch not 

 reaching the base) is of lighter colour and is variegated with 

 whitish and slightly reddish pubescence not differing much in 

 colour, but each shade running longitudinally so as to give a* 

 faintly striped appearance ; abraded examples have black elytra 

 with a wide reddish discal vitta not reaching the base. The 

 antennas have their fifth and following joints much wider in. 

 comparison with the fourth joint than in the species described 

 above, causing the antennae to appear as consisting of a stem of 

 four joints and a long serrate club of seven joints (the first three 

 joints of which gradually increase in size). The tooth on the 

 hind femora is much larger than that of B. Oodnadattai but a 

 little smaller than that of B. diver sives and does not seem to 

 vary in development. In Mr. Lea's tabulation of Bruchi this 

 species stands beside B. despicatus. Lea, from which it differs 

 inter alia by the basal four (not three) joints of its antennae 

 testaceous and their series of serrate joints beginning with the 

 fifth (not the fourth). 

 S. Australia ; Quorn. 



JB. fabce, Fab. I presume that the insect which Mr. Tryon 

 reported (Tr. Nat. Hist. Soc, Brisbane, vol. I.) as B. obtectus, 

 Say, is this species. Mr. Tryon does not say why he prefers 

 Say's name ; it is to be noted however that it is later than that 

 of Fabricius. 



B. pisi, Linn. In a note to his remarks on Bruchus (loc. cit.) 



Mr. Lea quotes Mr. Tryon as having reported a species from 



Queensland as " B. pyri." Mr. Tryon, however, has no such 



name, but mentions " B. pisorum." I presume both names are 



intended for B. p>isi, Linn., — indeed in the body of his paper Mr. 



Lea mentions B. pisi (without an author's name) apparently as 



the same species which in the note he calls pyri. 



B. persimidans, sp. nov. Niger, antennis (his nonnullorum 



exemplorum articulos 6° — 10° plus minusve infuscatos 



praebentibus), pedibusque (horum femoribus posticis basin 



versus et tarsorum articulo ultimo obscuris) testaceis, elytris 



rufis nigro-cinctis (apice ruf o excepto) ; sat asqualiter cinereo- 



pubescens ; antennarum articulis 4° — 10° sat robustis leviter 



serratis ; elytrorum interstitiis quam prothorax multo magis 



subtiliter sculpturatis, vix asperis ; cetera ut B. quornensis. 



Maris segmento basali ventrali nullo modo foveolato. Long., 



15- 1 • lat., 4 1., vix. 



Except in respect of the characters mentioned above, the 

 description of B quornensis applies to this species also. The 



