BARIDIUS ? OVALIS. 



Plate XXXIII. fig. 1. natural size— 2. magnified. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Rhyncojihora. Family : Curculionicloe. Subfamiiy : Cholides. 



Genus. Baridius? Schonherr. Baris, Gerviar, Dejean. Curculio p. Drury. 



Baridius ? OvALis. Fuseus, thoracis marginibus, elytroruraque basi et maculis quatuor lateralibus transversis 

 albidis. (Long. Corp. lin. 5.) 



Syn. Curculio ovalis, Drury, App. I'ol. i. (Exclus. Syn. Linn.} 



Habitat : Jamaica (Drury). 



Head small, round, and black, being furnished with a beak as long as the thorax. Antennae inserted 

 near the end of the beak, consisting apparently of nine articulations, that next the beak being longest. 

 Thorax dark brown, the sides cream-coloured. Elytra dark brown, with three large cream spots on each, 

 placed lengthways. Legs black, with cream spots and hairs on them. Each of the femora is furni.shed 

 with a single spine. 



Drury has incorrectly given this West Indian insect as identical with the northern 

 European species, Curculio ovalis of Linnaeus. Not having seen the insect I place it in 

 the genus Baridius with doubt ; it seems also somewhat allied to Ameris Pavo. 



CALANDRA SERRIROSTRIS ? ? 



Plate XXXIII. fig. 3. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Rhyncopliora. Family : Curculionidae. Subfamily : Calandrides. 



Genus. Calandra, Fabr. Rhyncophorus, Herbst. Curculio p. Linn. 



Calandka Serrirostris 5 ? Obscura rufa; thorace lineis duabus magnis dorsalibus, elytris substriatis. (Long. 

 Corp. rostro incl. 2 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Calandra serrirostris ^ ? Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 2. 429. Oliv. Ins. 83. tab. 17./. 211. 

 Curculio longipes, Drury, Append, vol. 2. (nee. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 2. 395.) 



Habitat : Island of Johanna, near Madagascar. 



General colour dark red brown. Head as long as the thorax, terminating in a slender beak, three- 

 fourths of an inch long. Antennae apparently 8-jointed, that next the head being nearly as long as all 

 the rest. Thorax marked longitudinally, with four black stripes or bars. Scutellum very narrow and 

 triangular. Elytra marked longitudinally with several black narrow striae, and are shorter than the abdo- 

 men. Legs vei-y long, especially the anterior pair. Tibiee with sharp hook-like spurs, those of the fore- 

 legs being longer than the rest. 



The insect described by Fabricius under the name adopted above is distinguished from 

 that here figured, by having the " Rostrum porrectum, rectum, dorso apice serratum, dente 

 elevato compresso." Its habitat is also distinct, being from Java. It may possibly be a 

 male, and that figured by Drury a female. 



