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the middle and sides ; the latter ending in two thick pointed tubercles. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra 

 dark red, and full of black round tubercles, some very small, others larger, placed longitudinally in striae, 

 extending so low along the sides, as nearly to meet underneath. Legs black and full of punctures. 

 Tliighs streaked with red. Tarsi brown underneath. 



HIPPORHINUS? MURICATUS. 



Plate XXXIV. fig. 4. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidae, Subfamily: Entimides? 



Genus. Hipporhinus, 5c7iOHfte/T. Curculio \). JJrury. 



HiPPORHiNUS? MuRiCATUS. Fuscus; thorace cylindrico nigro-pustulato ; elytris marginatis, striatis, interstitiis 



tulierculis elevatis rotmidatis seriatim dispositis ; fcmoribus ad apicem dente magiio obtuso armatis. 



(Long. Corp. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Curculio muricatus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat : Bay of Honduras, America (Drury). 



Head small. Eyes entirely surrounding the head, meeting underneath and at top. Beak long, 

 black, and slender, the antenna being placed near the extremity. Thorax brown, cylindrical, and 

 covered with a great number of small black pustules. Scutellum triangular. Elytra brown, margined, 

 and striated or furrowed ; being thick beset with a great number of high, round pustules, regularly 

 placed in rows from the thorax to the anus ; some being large, others very small. Femora furnished 

 near the tips with a thick obtuse spine. Tibiae with a single smaller spur. 



SAGRA FEMORATA. 



Plate XXXIV. fig. b. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section': Eupoda Family: Crioceridce, Leach. 



Genus. Sagra, Fabricius. Tenebrio p. Drury. 



Sagra Femorata. Viridi-senea, femoribus tibiisque posticis dentatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.) 



Syn. Tenebrio femoratus, Drury, App. vol. 2. Fab)-. Mant. 1. p. 66. (Alumus f.) Syst. Eleuth. 2. 26. 1. 

 (Sagra f.) Herbst. Col. 7. 266. 1. 112./. 6. Weber Obs. Ent.p. 60. 1. 

 Tenebrio viridis, Sulzer Gesch. der Ins. t. 7. /. 8. 



Habitat : ( ? Drury). India (Fabricius). 



General colour golden, blueish, green. Head small, flat, and square, with four palpi. Antennae 

 black, the two terminal joints being larger and longer than the rest. Thorax about twice the breadth of 

 the head, and a third part longer, not cylindrical, but flattish and smooth. Scutellum small and trian- 

 gular. Elytra twice the breadth of the thorax, smooth and margined. Thighs thick and strong, the 

 hinder ones having a short thick obtuse spine placed near the tips. Posterior tibiae long, thin, and 

 grooved underneath, thickest next the tips, where are placed three short and strong spines, one in the 

 middle, the others on the sides. Tarsi very flat and brown underneath. 



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