cinereous each side, a slight impressed dorsal line ; base 

 with the edge almost angulated, central lobe almost trun- 

 cate ; scw/e^ quadrate, wtiitish, longitudinally divided by a 

 dusky line : elytra with the interstitial lines having a slight 

 appearance of alternating whitish & dusky ; on the middle 

 of the third interstitial line is a more obvious abbreviated 

 whitish line: posterior thighs with a black spine, & tw^o 

 smaller ones. 



.tiength over one tenth of an inch. 



The whitish or cinereous marking-? are not very striking ^ 

 on the elytra they may sometimes be traced into two,, 

 obsolete macular bands. I obtained many specimens from 

 the seeds of an Astragulus in August, in company with 

 Apion segnlpes, nob. 



7. B. mw.9CM/M*, Blackish, with cinerous hair I antennae 

 & feet rufous. 



Inhab. Indiana. 

 Body Blackish-cinereous, with a slight tinge of brown, or 

 blacK with cinerous hair: lubrum piceous: antennae 

 rufous at base & tip, piceous in the middle : thorax rather 

 long, narrowed before, somewhat cinereous each side & on, 

 a dorsal line; basal edge lobed at ' the scute! : scutei 

 quadrate cinereous, with a dusky line : elytra , third in- 

 terstitial line with an abbreviated cinereous line on its 

 middle : y^e/ rufous ; anterior thighs at base, intermediate 

 pair to the middle, black ; posterior thighs with a spine, & 

 three close set smaller ones distant from it, & with their 

 tibiae black. 



Length less than one tenth of an inch. 



Resembles obsoletus, nob. but is a little smaller &the 

 rufous antennae & feet distinguish it. 



80 B. transversus, Black, with cinereous hair; inter- 

 stitial spaces with transverse black lines. 

 Inhab. Indiana. 



Body black, more or less covered with cinerous hair ; 

 head black : antennae rufous : thorax transverse, widely 

 rounded before , with a scutellar lobe: scutei subquadrate 

 with a dusky line -.elytra^ interstitial spaces interrupted by 

 transverse black lines: /ee/ rufous: posterior thighs black 

 at base, armed with a spine near the tip. 



Length over one tenth of an inch. 



