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PLATE LX. 



CURCULIO SCROPHULARliE. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER* 



Antennas elbowed in the middle, and fixed in the fnout, which is 

 prominent and hairy. Joints in each foot four. 



*** Long fnout. Thighs dentated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Somewhat fpherical. Thorax narrow, befet with yellow-white 

 hairs. Shells black brown, ftriated; a large black fpot on the future, 

 on each fide of which are two fmall fpots. Length three lines. 



Syji. Ent, 140. b%>—Linn, Syji. ISfat. 2. 614. 6l» 

 — Fn. Sv. 603. 



Geoff. Inf. I. 296. 44. 



Degeer Inf. 5. 208. 3. Tab. 6. Fig. 17. 18. 19. 2C» 

 Liji. Scarab. Angl, 395. 35. 

 > Reamn. Inf. 3. Tab. 2. Fig. 12. 



This fingular little infeft feeds, when in the larva ftate, on plants of 

 the fcrophidaria genus, (fig-wort), and thence receives its fpecific 

 name. The beetle is not uncommon in June, and is ufually found 

 on the fame plants as the larva : the minutenefs of this creature evades 

 a complete difcovery of the uncommonly teflelated appearance it af- 

 fumes before the fpeculum of an opake microfcope; our plate repre- 

 fents the chryfalis and beetle, natural fize, together with a confide- 

 rably magnified figure of the latter, 



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