COLEOPTERA. 93 
OxtTuocuxtes, Germ.*, 
It is the eighth which forms the club, the figure and composition of 
which appear to be the same as in Anchonus. 
The other four subgenera are furnished with wings. 
In the three following ones the tarsi consist of but four joints, the 
penultimate of which is bilobate. 
Runa, Lat.—Lixus, Fab. 
The antenne are strongly geniculate, and inserted near the middle 
of the straight, projecting proboscis, their eighth joint forming’ a 
highly elongated and almost cylindrical club. The anterior legs, at 
least in the males, are longer than the others}. In 
CALANDRA, properly so called, 
The antenne are strongly geniculate, but inserted near the base of 
the proboscis; their eighth joint forms an ovoid or triangular club. 
C. granaria; Curculio granarius, L., Oliv., Col. V, 83, xvi, 
196. But too well known; its body is elongated and brown; 
thorax as long as the elytra, and punctured. Its larva, known by 
the name of weevil (genre ), is the destroyer of our granaries. 
C. oryze@; Curculio oryze, L.; Oliv., Ib., VII, 81. Similar 
to the preceding, but with two fulvous spots on each elytron. It 
attacks rice. 
C. palmarum; Curculio palmarum, L.; Oliv., Ib., H, 16. 
Length an inch and a half; club of the antenne truncated; en- 
tirely black, with silky hairs at the extremity of the proboscis. 
It lives on the pith of the Palms of South America. The inha- 
bitants of that country consider its larva, called the ver-palmiste, 
as a great delicacy}. 
In the fifth subgenus, or 
Cossonus, Clairv., 
We observe antennz hardly longer than the head and proboscis, with 
eight joints anterior to the club. They are stout, and inserted near 
the middle of the proboscis §. 
The last or f 
Dryoptuorvus, Schanh.—Butairer, Dej., 
With respect to the tarsi is anomalous. They consist of joints, 
neither of which is bilobate. The antenne have but six joints, the 
last forming the club ||. 
* Insect. Spec. Nov., p. 302. 
¢ China barbirostris, Lat., Oliv.;—R. scrutator, Oliv. 
¢ The genera Sipulus (Acorhinus, Dej.) Oxryrhynchus, Rhynchophorus (Calandra) 
of Schoenherr. See the article Calandre of Olivier. 
§ The genera Amorphocerus, Cassonus, Rhincolus, of Schoenherr. 
© || Lexus, Lymexylon, Fab. 
