INSECTA. 485 
Small leaping beaked-beetles, of which the larve feed on the paren- 
chyme of leaves. Sp. Orchestes Alni, Curculio Alni L., Vorv Coleopt. U1. 
Tab. 40, fig. 51, Duméri Cons. gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 16, fig. 8 ;—Orchestes 
populi, Rhynchenus populi F., Panzer Deutschl. Ins. Heft 18, Tab. 17; 
Orchestes fagi, Rhynchenus fagi GYLLENH., Ratzepure Forst-Ins. 1. 
Tab. Iv. fig. 14, &c. 
Tachyerges SCHOENH. 
Ehynchenus Fase. (in part), Hrirhinides SCHOENH. Anterior 
feet approximate at the base; posterior not saltatory, 
Balaninus GrrMar. Rostrum slender, arcuate, very long (longer 
than half the body, sometimes than the whole body). 
Sp. Rhynchenus nucum, Curculio nucum L., Rass Ins, 111. Suppl. Scar. 
terr. Cl. Iv. Tab, 67, figs. 1—6, PanzER Deutschl. Ins, Heft 42, Tab. 21. 
Anthonomus GrrMAR. Rostrum of the length of head and 
thorax, little arcuate. Feet somewhat long; anterior longer, with 
thighs thick, dentate. Body sub-oval, pubescent. 
Sp. Rhynchenus pomorum Fasr., Curculio pomorum L., Vort Coleopt. 11. 
Tab. 35, fig. 8; RatzeBurG Forst-Ins. 1. Tab. v. fig. 8; V. Berox Ver- 
handeling ten bewijze, dat niet de zwarte vliegen, maar de olifants-of snuit- 
torretjes de bedervers zijn van de blemen der vruchtboomen. Haarlem, 1827, 
8vo. (figure on the title-page.) This little beetle bores in the blossom-buds 
of the apple a hole with its beak, and lays an egg in it ; the larva consumes 
the anthers and the pistil; the blossoms become brown, and close round 
the little animal; after four or five weeks the perfect insect makes its 
appearance from a round aperture in the spoiled blossoms. 
Add many genera or sub-genera which must be here omitted ; 
comp. SCHOENHERR Tom. 111. pp. 154—489, vir. 2, pp. 27—369. 
Livus Fasr. Rostrum thickish, little arcuate. Antenne short, 
with club oblong, fusiform, four-jointed. Thorax conical, of the 
breadth of elytra at the base. Body elongate, pubescent, covered 
with dust (farinose). Elytra sometimes dehiscent at the apex, 
acuminate. 
Sp. Livus turbatus GYLLENH., Curculio paraplecticus Panzer Deutschl. Ins. 
Heft 6, Tab. 15, Dumérin Cons. gén. s. 1. Ins. Pl. 16, fig. 10, Evurs- 
MANN Bullet. de la Soc. Imp. de Moscow xvi. 1843, pp. 530—534, Pl. vit. 
f, 25 (metamorphosis), This species is often confounded with Lixus para- 
plecticus L., Curculio phellandrii Du Grrr Ins. v. Pl. 7, figs. 3-9. The 
larve of this beetle live in the hollow stalk of Phellandriwm aquaticum and 
other umbel-flowering plants. 
Comp. on this and other allied genera SCHOENHERR III. pp. I—1I54, 
VII. I, pp. 418—479, 2, pp. I—26. 
