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FAMILY LIV. — BRL'CHIDiE. 



re HliKl femur with either one or two teeth or denticles, or both. 

 (/ Hind femur without denticles; one or two teeth always present. 



Group .1. 



(M Hind femur with denticles and usually a single tooth present. 



Group B. 



liSS (7115). 





BKrci-uis pisoRUM Linn., Syst. Nat, II, 1765, 604. 



Oblong-oval, subde- 

 pressed. Black, feebly shin- 

 ing; above, densely clothed 

 with reddish-brown and 

 whitish hairs ; thorax with 

 a triangular whitish space 

 in front of scutellum; ely- 

 tra with yellowish, grayish 

 and whitish hairs, the lat- 

 ter forming an oblique baud 

 behind the middle; pygid- 

 ium covered with gray 

 hairs except two oval black 

 spots near apex; anteun;ie 

 black, the three basal joints 

 rvTfous; legs black, front 



Fis 556, A, young larva; B, prothoiacic spinous process; C larva ruf OUS ; un- 



greatly magnified; D, pea-pod, with tracks of entry; E, portion of pod, tlDut ana taisi luious, 

 with egg, and the track made by larva; F, mature beetle (After jig,- surface black, shining, 



^""^■^ densely punctate, sparsely 



clothed with fine grayish hairs. Tliovax broader than long, coarsely and 

 densely punctate. Elytra slightly longer than broad, striate, the strise finely 

 punctate. Length 4.5-5 mm. (Fig. 5.56.) 



This is the "pea weevil" and occurs in abundance throughout 

 the State wherever peas are cultivated. Its habits are given above 

 under the family heading. 



22.S0 (7116). Bkuchl-s mimus Say. Des. of X. Amev. Curculionid;\\ 1831, 

 L' ; ibid. I, 260. 

 Robust, subquiidrate. lU-ownish, variejjated with gray, black and white 

 pubescence ; sides of median ridge of thorax black or dark brown at sum- 

 mit, divided liy a small white spot; elytra with a common heart-shaped 

 blackish spot behind the scutelhun and with numerous small, black, oblong 

 spelts tipped with white at their basal eads; antenna^ and legs pale reddish- 

 brown, the hind ones banded with piceous ; pygidium clothed with whitish 

 hairs, male, or with a large, smooth, oval, brown space, female. Thorax 

 bell-shaped, disk with two median ridges separated Iiy a narrow groove and 

 with a tubercle each side near base. Elytra nearly as broad as long, striie 

 jmnctured; intervals flat, densely punetnlate. Length 3 mm. 



Throniilioul tlie State; freiinent. April '2:5-October If). Occurs 

 on (lowers, ('specially those of red and black haws; ox-eye daisy 

 and Kupiihirimu. It, as well as other members of the family, feign 

 death and tuni1)le to earth wluui disturbed. 



