THE PEA AND BEAN WEEVILS. 1 - 4 1 



B , hn _ tarsi niceous; antennae black, slightly longer 

 brown ; femora piceous at base, tarsi P lceo ™> t b e tban 



than head and thorax, gradually thicker to tip 1 snr . 



long , sid es ^er^ the raid . 



face densely punctured. Elytra iuu&ei fH . ■> nmi 



:L finely punctured; interval fiat, densely punctate. « ^ - 

 Lake and Crawford counties; rare. May 25-May 28. Saul to 

 breed in the seeds of mallows. 



2298 (7155). Beuchus muscuuus Say, Desc. N. Am. Cure., 1831, 3; ibid. 



Oval, moderatel/Lust. Black, sparsely ^J^^^l 

 antenna, usually entirely reddish, often w> * ^eous. 

 dish-yellow, middle femora at base and hi ^ J^ 1 ^^ „ than 

 Head coarsely punctured; eyes very deeply ^J^^Srite at base 

 bead and thorax, gradually thicker to tip. ^orax om, mrd wid 

 than long, rapidly narrowing from l^J^J^SC —red 

 tured. Elytra subquadrate, disk natteneu, wii B 



trte- intervals flat, densely and finely pnnctulate. Leng h 2-2.5 mm. 

 Marshall, Knox, Lawrence, Posey and Crawford counts; rare. 



June 2-September 4. 



2299 (7157). Beuchus exiguus Horn, Trans. Amer. But. Soc, IV, 1873, 

 341 



■ ml* „,,.,,s,.lv clothed with short, fine grayish-yellow 

 Oblong-oval. Black, syai sely elotnea g ^ 



pubescence; elytra in great part dul reddl *;™ 61 ^ le re(Wish . 



rowly Piceous; antemne black, four Urn* and 



~- ""^^^ — t apex, flnely striate, the 

 densely punctured. Ely tia g a™ * ^ punc tulate. Pygidiun. 



stria, indistinctly punctured; intervals flat , dens y y 

 reddish, rather convex, coarsely punctured and pubescent. Be g 



Vigo Posey and Jennings counties; scarce. April 27 . July li. 

 Ocou s on flowers of the yellow puccoon and wild parsnip and said 

 to breed in the seeds of the false indigo (ArnvrpM fruUcosa L.). 

 2300 (7158). Beuchus smi«ULUM Horn. Trans. Amer. But. Soc, IV, 1873. 

 342 



i i5ior.v «nnrselv clothed with pale gray pubes- 

 Narrowly oblong-oval. Black spaisely ciorn 



with a row of distant coarse punctures. Length 1.5 mm. 



Vigo County ; rare. June 15. Taken from flowers of dogwood. 

 Our smallest and most slender species. 



O301 (7159). BEUCHUS MACEOcnEUS Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc IV. 1S73, 



