Crossword-Solution: BRUCHID 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

There are exceptions to this premature end; sometimes the two eggs develop equally well; but such cases are exceptional, so that the Bruchid family would be reduced to about half its dimensions if the binary system were the rule.

May not the central portion of the pea be the feeding-bottle of the Bruchid? With equal rights, fired by an equal ambition, all the occupants of the pea bore their way towards the delicious morsel.

With the bean did those ancient teachers also involuntarily bring us the insect which to-day disputes it with us? It is doubtful; the Bruchidæ seem to be indigenous.

For years attentive to matters agricultural, I had never seen haricots attacked by any insect whatever; not even by the Bruchidæ, the licensed robbers of leguminous seeds.

The difficulty of such a supposition lies in the fact of discrimination; but if we did not possess a sense of taste or smell discrimination would seem inconceivable in their case also.--[TRANS.]] [Footnote 8: This classification is now superseded; the Pea and Bean Weevils--_Bruchus pisi_ and _Bruchus lenti_--are classed as Bruchidæ, in the series of Phytophaga.