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top, and a narrow green one between them ; the green colour being thickly beset with small black spots. 

 Scutellum very small and green. Elytra next the thorax, almost quadrangular, narrowing to their 

 extremities, the ground colour being black and shining, and ornamented with a great number of small 

 round hollow punctures, or dents, of a golden green, which are smaller on the sides and extremities than 

 the top, being regularly placed in grooves, so as to compose not less than eleven striae (including the 

 suture) on each elytron. Abdomen green, with silvery rings. Legs black, and covered with green 

 hairs ; the thighs being plain. Tarsi brown underneath. 



RHINA BARBIROSTRIS ?. 



Plate XXXIV. fig. 3. 



Okder : Coleoptera. Section : Rhyncophora. Familv : CurculionidEE. Subfamily : Rhyncophorides, Sch. 

 Genus. Rhina, Latrielle. Cureulio, Drury. 



Rhina Barbieostris. Nigricans; thorace rotimdato tuberculato, elytri3 striatis et punctatis; tibiis anticis 

 subtus 4-dentati3. (Long. Corp. 1 une. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Cureulio barbirostris, Fahr. Eni. Si/st. 2. 418. 105. Latrielle Gen. Crust. §-c. 2. 269. (Rhina barb.) $ . 



Cureulio niger, Drury, App.i^ol. 2. J. 



Rhina verrirostris, Uliger, 5 

 Habitat : Tlxe Island of Johanna, near Madagascar. 



General colour black. Head short and round, terminating in a small narrow beak, almost the length 

 of the thorax; in the middle of which are placed the antennae. Eyes entirely surrounding the head, 

 meeting at top and underneath. Thorax round and rough, being full of small tubercles ; having a pos- 

 terior margin. Scutellum small and triangular. Elytra striated, full of small punctures or holes, and 

 covering the anus. Femora smooth. Anterior tibiae furnished with four teeth, the hinder ones with 

 three. Tarsi brown beneath. 



The male has the rostrum more elongated and furnished with long hairs, somewhat 

 like a bottle brush. It is figured by Olivier, Entomol. Vol. 5. Charans, pi. 4. f, 37. a. b. 



BRACHYCERUS ORNATUS. 

 Plate XXXIV. fig. 3. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidse. Subpamili' : Brachycerides. 



Genus. Brachycercs, Fabr. Cureulio, Linn. Sfc. 



BRACHYCERUS Ornatus, Ovatus, niger thoracis dorso valde infequali sculpturato, spin^ lateral] obtusa, tuber- 

 culatEl, elytris seriatim tuberculatis, inteijectis maculis subinapressis rotundatis ferrugineo squamosis, 

 femorib^is puncto rufo-squamoso. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Cureulio ornatus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Brachycenis apterus, Herbst. Col. l.p. 75. No. 1. t. 101./. 1. 



Brachycerus granosus, Schonherr Syn. Ins. Curcul. 1. p. 387. No. 2. ? 

 Habitat : ( ? Drury). Cape of Good Hope {Schonherr). 



Head very short and entirely occupied by the eyes, which are black and meet underneath. From 

 this part issues a strong thick beak, black and rough, with the antennae placed in the middle ; the upper 

 part being full of small holes or punctures. Thorax dark red, with a number of black excrescences on 



