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primo elongato excepto, obconicis, tertio sequentibus longiori, 
octavo elongato clavato tres ultimos brevissimos excipiente, et 
. clavam subsolidam quasi petiolatam simul formante. Thorax 
medio postice elevato-lineatus: dorso utrinque nodosus, lateri- 
bus bispinosis: spina anteriori longiori emarginata, sub spinas 
latera deflexa varie plicata. Elytra oblonga, rugosa, seriatim 
spinosa: seriebus tribus, duabus interioribus anum versus ab- 
breviatis, exteriori dimidiata ; spinis acutis. Serierum intersti- 
tia seriatim nodulosa. Elytrorum latera et apex deflexa. 
This species, as well as that which precedes it, would in a mo- 
dern system doubtless form two genera, from the remarkable dif- 
ference in their mandibles. But since, in a late number of Ger- 
mar’s Magazin der Entomologie (Zwieter Band, p. 339) the names 
of 52 genera of Curculionide are given, amongst which these may 
probably be included, I judged it best to give them for the pre- 
sent as Curculiones. 
Amico mihi semper facili et bencvolo auctori Entomologie Britan- 
nice celebri hoc insectum sacrum esse volui. | 
elegans. ‘78. C. angustus, viridi-auratus, thorace vittis quatuor, 
elytris plurimis atris. se aie 
| PLATE XXII. Fie. 12. — 
Long. corp. (Rostro incluso) lin. 74 
Habitat in Brasilia, D. Hancock... . 
Animal elegantissimum, statura fere C. Sprengleri, sed angustius. 
Corpus ovato-lanceolatum, angustum, squamulis viridi-auratis 
micans, subtus subvillosum; lateribus nigro maculatis. Rostrum 
tetragonum, supra carinatum, Antenne clava lanceolata, qua- 
driarticulata. Thorax subcylindricus, vittis alternis atris et viri- 
di-auratis : his nigro punctatis, eleganter variatus. Elytra vittis, 
Zi  lineolis, 
