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PLATE CCCLXXXDL 



FIG. I. I. 

 CURCULIO RUBER. 



RED CURCULIO. 



CDLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, and feated on the fnout, which is hofiiy and pro* 

 Ininent : pofterior part of the head thick. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONrMS. 

 Heddifli-teftaceous : thorax grey : wing-cafes clouded with whitifti, 



Curcuho jruber : rufo teftaceus, thorace grifeo, elytris nebulis 

 albicantibus. Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 25 L- 

 fp.39. 



This fpecies, though fmall, is interefting for its rarity. The general 

 tolour of the body is reddilh brown : head, and thorax fufcous : wing- 

 cafes filiated., fomewhat villofe., and banded with whittih. Taken in 

 Kent, 



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