Mr. Kirby's Ceniurxf of Inxc'cts. 437 



piimo elongate excepto, obconicis, tertio sequentibus longiori, 

 octavo elongato clavato tres ultimos brevissimos excipiente, et 

 clavain subsolidam quasi petiolatam siraul 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. Elytrorura 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 CurcitUonidie 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 benevolo auctori Entomologice Britan- 

 nicce celebri hoc insectum sacrum esse votui. 



elegaris. 78. C. angustus, viridi-auratus, thorace vittis quatuor, 

 elytris plurimis atris. 



Plate XXII. Fig. 12. 

 Long. Corp. (Rostro incluso) lin. 7$. 

 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 carinatura. Antenna: clava lanccolata, qua- 

 driarticulata. Thorax subcylindricus, vittis altcriiis atris et viri- 

 di-auratis : his nigro punctatis, elegantcr variatus. Elytra vittis, 



3 L 2 lincolis, 



