5 U 
Genus XIII. — Bruchus. 
T his family of infects is fuperior in fize to the Iaft, and 
more diverfified : It contains feven fpecies, having club- 
formed antennte ; four palpi placed at the extremity of a 
Abort roftrum *. 
The bruchus of the pea bloffom frequents that flower ; 
is covered with a£h-coloured down, forming cloudy fpots 
upon the thorax and elytra ; the latter are fo Ihort, that 
they leave a great part of the abdomen expofed, and 
thickly covered with longitudinal ftreaks. 
• Syftema Nat. p. 6o^t 
