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PLATE CXLIX. 



ATTELABUS CURCULIONOIDES. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Wings two, covered by two fliellsy divided by a longitudinal future. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas thicker towards the end. Head narrow behind. Four 

 joints in each foot* . 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Shells and thorax red. Head black. 



Attelabus CURCULIONOIDES: riigcr thorace elytrifque rubls. — 



Lin. Syji. Nat. 2. 619. 3. 

 Rhinomacer niger thorace elytrifque rubris, probofcide longitudine 



capitis. — Geef. Inf. i. 273. 10. 

 Curculio Nitens, PaykulL Monogr. 130. I22. 

 S chaff. Icoji. tab. 56. fig. 7. 

 Sul%. Inf. tab. 4. fig. 12. 



A pair of this very fingular and rare fpecies was taken on a young 

 nut tree in Darent Wood, Dartford, early in May, 1795. 



The remarkable ftrudure of it's head deferves particular notice ; 

 it is fhaped like a vafe, and when the Infe6l is alive is protruded 



B 2 far 



