Bruchus
a genus of beetles belonging to the section tetramera, and the family rhyncophora or curculionidæ. The antennæ are 14-jointed, and are filiform, serrate or pectinated, not geniculated as in the more normal curculionidæ. It contains small beetles which deposit their larvæ in the germs of leguminous plants, and, when hatched, devour their seed. B. pisi is destructive to the garden ca.