BY HENRY TRYON. 
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immediately beliiud the wiiig-covers features not present in the 
beau weevil. As in the case of the latter insect, ]3ruchus 
attacks its food plant when this is still gi owing am 
pods are green, but long betore they are fully deve opec , le 
being deposited superhcially on the sides of the legume, an 
tiny gi-nb on hatching out mining its ^vay inwards until the see 
is reached. Unlike wliat occurs in the case o£ the bean weev , 
but a single gmh occurs in eacli pea. In other respects, hoj 
■ever, the life histories of the two insects are somew i.i si ' 
Bruclins pisorum is of European origin, and from le . 
raiiean area has been spread widely by commerce, ° jt • + ^ 
proved a very serious pe.st in the fields and gai;dens of Unite 
States. The specimens exhibited were found on P 
the northern part of Queensland, and afford the on y i 
yet known to me of the occurrence of this insect in 
though this pea weevil is suspected as having 
entire destruction of a parcel of these legumes lecen .° y/ 
Plantation from Brisbane, as reported to the ivi-itei by ili. W. 
Gibsou, one of the proprietors. i . fhp 
The Smaller Pea Weevil.-Tlie third mender o ^ 
Bruchidie to be noticed on this occasion as 
Bruchus chinensis. This is half the 
two weevils previously reteired to y -weevil 
«e of .a i It. how™,. 77'“ ™ 
in coloui-ation. being feiTUgmone nnii ac 
white upon the w,„g-eove„. It “"J™, ‘“‘■“B^lneneie in 
blotches on the hmd-body above, 
traversed by a longitudinal wlnte other 
present pea weevil are not alike, antenme are 
both in structure and colour. In on lacks this 
conspicuously branched black being largely 
feature but has a much palei y ^ ;«gect are doubt- 
replaced by reddish brown. The hab.ts ,,,, i, 
less very similar to those of its congeners, 
thestorebutalsoin the held; “ '“ .eed. Like 
weevil several larvie are often met ^ cosmopolitan insect, 
the two preceding weevils it is now ^„^ther. It 
being introduced with seed insect quite a hundred 
was described by Fahricius as a European 
