. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. THE BROAD-BEAN WEEVIL. THE ADULT. The adult (fig. 2) is from to mm. long and a little over half as wide. The general color is black, with white markings on the elytra and pygidium, giving it a somewhat mottled grayish appear- ance. The head is dark. The basal four joints of the antennie are reddish brown, tlie remainder black. The forelegs are reddish brown and black, while the middle and hind pairs are black. The species closely resembles the pea weevil (Z?. pisonim L., fig. 3), but may be separated by the following chara
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. THE BROAD-BEAN WEEVIL. THE ADULT. The adult (fig. 2) is from to mm. long and a little over half as wide. The general color is black, with white markings on the elytra and pygidium, giving it a somewhat mottled grayish appear- ance. The head is dark. The basal four joints of the antennie are reddish brown, tlie remainder black. The forelegs are reddish brown and black, while the middle and hind pairs are black. The species closely resembles the pea weevil (Z?. pisonim L., fig. 3), but may be separated by the following characters: Posterior femora acutely dentate; thorax broad; pattern of elytra well defined; pygidium with a pair of dis- tinct apical black spots pisorum L. Posterior femora obtusely or obsoletely dentate; thorax narrow; pattern of elytra more or less suffused; pygidium with black apical spots lacking or illy defined mfimanus Fig. 2.—The broad- bean weevil {B ru c h u s mfi- manus) : Adult or beetle. Enlarged. (Chittenden.) SYNONYMY. Bnichus rufimanus Boheman. BrucJms rufimanus Schoenlierr, Qen. et Spec. Curculionidum, v. 1, p. 58, 1833. Bnichus granarius auct. (not L.) Westwood, Curtis, Ormerod, Wood, Riley, Fletcher, Lintner, et al. Mylabris rufitnaiia Boh., Baudi, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., ISSO, p. 404. The Bruchus granarius L. is Laria atomaria L., Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 605, 1776-1778. RECORDS OF OCCUR- RENCE IN CALIFOR- NIA. Although horse beans were grown in Cali- ornia as early as 1887, the horse-bean weevil was not recorded as ac- tually established in the United States until September 18, 1909. On that date Mr. I. J. Condit, then collaborator of the Bureau of Ento- mology, collected live specimens at San Luis Obispo, on growing horse beans (2, 3). Inquiry by the writer among buyers and growlers indi- cates that the weevil was established in California many years before 1909. Mr. P. G. Hammer, San Francisco, writes as follows, "We are quite positive of the dat
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