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PLATE CCCCXIV. 



FIG. I. L 



CURCULIO VAU. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

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Antennae clavated, and feated on the ihout, which is horny and 



prominent : pofterior part of the head thick. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. ' ' 



Wing cafes with a fpot, and common V-mark of white. 



CuRCULio Vau : elytris macula et figura V ccmmuni albis. Mar/ft. 

 Ent. Brit. T. 1. p. 299. n. 177 .Schrdnk, 



Wl.— Vill. 7.214. 174. 



The body of this infeft is rather downy, and of a cinereous colour ; 

 the figure fomewhat oblong, and the ihout thick. The common 

 V-like mark, formed by the union of two oblique whitilh lines on 

 the pofterior part of the future, and the fingle anterior white fpot ia 

 the middle of each of the wing-cafes, are very eharafteriftic of this 

 fpecies. — The fmaller figure denotes the natural fize. 



vol. xn. I FIG. 



