affecting the Peas and Beans. 
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and the hinder are notched and spurred like tliose of 13. granai ius. 
Old specimens are black, and clothed with grey pubescence, the upper 
and under sides being often of the same colour. 
From the number of the beetles in the beans, this species 
seems to be the most destructive of all ; but from the compara- 
tively cold temperature of England, I expect our climate will not 
suit it, and therefore nothing need be apprehended by our agri- 
culturists from its operations ; but in purchasing beans for seed or 
food, good judgment should be exercised, and this may easily be 
acquired if a persorn will attend to our suggestions. 
Before entering upon the remedies recommended by authors, I 
may mention that, as usual, the parasitic f^ies are employed to a 
great extent in keeping down the multiplication of the Bruchi. 
I have already discovered three species which no doubt puncture 
the maggots in their cells, depositing the eggs in their bodies, 
which hatch and feed upon the larva3 of the Bruchi. They all 
belong to the Order Hymenoptera, the Family Iciineumo- 
NiDES AD3CITI, or AlysiiDyE, and two of them to the Genus 
SiGALPHUS, and appear to be identical with a species named 
by Nees ab Esenbeck * — 
9. S. pallipes. The female is black, shining, and similar to »S'. cau- 
(latiis,^ figured in a former plate of this Journal, but it is larger, and 
the ovipositor is shorter: the head in somewhat globose; the antennae 
are as long as the body, composed of 22 joints ; basal joint the stoutest, 
but not longer than the 3rd or 4th ; the terminal joints globose : abdomen 
short, oval, with 3 striated segments vanishing towards the apex, which 
is finely punctured ; ovipositor as long as the abdomen, the central 
oviduct ochreous ; nervures of wings and stigma like those of S. cau-' 
datus : legs stoutish, bright ochreous ; apex of hinder tibiae, and all the 
tarsi, brown : length 2 lines, including the ovipositor ; expanse 3 lines. 
This is an abundant insect in England in the summer months. 
A female was taken from a cell of Bruchus granariiis in the Rus- 
sian beans, and a female of the following species from one of the 
Sicilian beans. As I cannot find it described, I have given it the 
name of — 
10. S. tboracicus. It is similar in size and form to S. pallipes, but 
the thorax is of a red colour : all the legs are bright ochreous, the feet 
tipped with fuscous : the head was broken off and lost. 
The parasitic fly which I have frequently found with the 
BmcMis granarius is much smaller than the foregoing species : it 
belongs to Mr. Haliday's Genus Chremylus,| and is named by 
* Hymenoptera Ichneumonibus affinia, vol. i. p. 270. 
t Royal Agile. Jour., vol. v. p. 499, pi. L, f. 39 and 40. 
t Ent. Mag., vol. iv. p. 50. 
