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INSECT A SAUNDEESIANA. 
towards the third part of the length ; both this callosity and the basal part 
of the 2nd interstice denudate, transversely rugose ; remainder of the elytra 
indistinctly rugulose ; covered with a grayish brown pile, having a white 
band rising from the shoulder, where it is narrow, obliquely directed to¬ 
wards the suture, where it meets with the corresponding band at the mid¬ 
dle of the length of the elytra, being there widened and more distinct, 
forming a large central irregular spot; with here and there, especially near 
the apex, some whitish maculae, very small, punctiform, scarcely distinct. 
Pygidium oblong-subconic, perpendicular, finely and densely punc¬ 
tate, covered with a dense yellowish white pile. 
Body beneath : — Pectus finely punctate, with a slight dark brown 
pile ; posterior margin having a large white band. Pectoral lamince black, 
shining, glabrous, having deep distant punctures ; posterior margin raised 
in a thin pad. Abdomen pitchy, finely and densely punctate, covered with 
a thin, short, brown-grayish pile. 
Legs having their thighs pitchy, with the knees, tibise and tarsi ru¬ 
fous; the posterior darker. Four anterior rather thin and short: thighs 
scarcely clavate, edentate : tibice subcylindvic, slightly curvate, truncate at 
the apex. Posterior long, rather thick: thighs long, extended beyond the 
apex of the abdomen, subclavate, edentate: tibice nearly as long as the 
thighs, thin at the base, where they are somewhat bent, then evidently wi¬ 
dened towards the apex ; nearly flat beneath, convex and subtelragonal on 
the upper side, with four longitudinal ridges, two lateral, one sublateral 
outside, one subcentral, each of them terminated at the apex by a spine, the 
internal long, the others very short. 
Obs. — Though no indication is given of the habitat of this species, 
analogy leads me to believe it to be a South American, and probably a 
Brazilian insect. I have only seen two specimens. 
Bruchus Saundersii, JeTcel. 
. Ovaius , subdepressus, niger , dense albido-pilosus ; capite , thoracis medio 
disci , elytrorum maculis tribus magnis laleralibus pygidiique punctis 
duabus marginalibus nigris subholosericeis ; articulis tribus primis 
antennarum infra ferrugineis ; rostro , capite pone oculos transversim 
impresso thoraceque subconico crebre punctatis ; elytris anguste punc- 
tato-striatis , interstitiis planis, latis , rugulosis ; pygidio obliquo ; 
pedibus supra sat dense , subtus parcissime griseo-subargenteo sericeo- 
pilosis. 
