380 INSECTA. 



their body is very scabrous or uneven. These Insects are peculiar to the south 

 of Europe and to Africa, live on the ground and appear very early in the 

 spring. The women of Ethiopia use one species as a sort of amulet ; they pass 

 a string through its body and hang it round their neck. 



CURCULIO. 



Where almost the whole under part of the tarsi is furnished with short and 

 stiff hairs, forming pellets, and their penultimate joint is deeply bilobate. 

 Their antenna? are composed of eleven joints, or even of twelve if we count 

 the false one, which sometimes terminates them, the last of which forms the 

 club. 



As this genus, although much more restricted than in the Linnaean system, 

 still comprises numerous species discovered since the time of that naturalist, 

 various savans, Germar and Schoenherr in particular, have divided it into many 

 others. 



C. imperialis, Fab. (The Diamond- Beetle.) A brilliant golden-green, with 

 two black and longitudinal bands on the thorax; ranges of golden-green 

 impressed points on the elytra, with black intervals. 



The Longirostres, or those whose antennae are inserted beyond the origin of 

 the mandibles, and frequently near the middle of the proboscis, which is usually 

 long, comprise, with some exceptions, the genera Lixus, Rhynchwnus, and 

 Calandra of Fabricius. 



Jn the two first the antennae present ten joints at least, but most commonly 

 eleven or twelve, of which the three last at least form the club. 



Lixus, Fabricius. 



The Lixi almost resemble the Cleoni in their organs of manducation, as 

 well as in the elongated fusiform club of their antennae, the narrow and elon- 

 gated figure of their body, and the armature of their tibiae. 



RHYNCH^ENUS, Fabricius. 



The Rhynchseni present no such ensemble of characters. 



Sometimes the legs are contiguous at base, and there is no sternal fossula 

 for the reception of the proboscis. 



Some never leap, and their antennae are composed of eleven or twelve joints. 

 The subgenera are numerous. 



The remaining Longirostres have generally nine joints at most in the an- 

 tenna;, and the last, or two last at most, form a club with a coriaceous epider- 

 mis and spongy extremity. They feed, at least while in the state of larvae, on 

 seeds or ligneous substances. 



They may be united in the single genus 



CALANDRA. 



In Calandra properly so called, the antennas are strongly geniculate, but 

 inserted near the base of the proboscis ; their eighth joint forms an ovoid or 

 triangular club. 



C. granaria. But too well known ; its body is elongated and brown ; tho- 



