562. 



ANTHONOMUS POMORUM. 



The Pear and Apple Weevil. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Curculionidae. — Erirhinides Scho. 



Type of the Genus, Curculio Pomorum Linn. 

 Anthonomus Germ., Scho., Dej., Curt. — Pallene Meg. — Rhyn- 

 clisenus Fah., Gyll. — Curculio Linn., Marsh. 

 Antenna inserted beyond the middle of the rostrum (7), long, 

 slender, geniculated and r2-jointed, basal joint equal in length 

 to the remainder, clavate, the following pubescent, 2nd elongate- 

 clavate, 3rd short obovate, a little longer than the 5 following 

 which are nearly globose and gradually increasing in diameter, 

 the remainder forming an ovate-conic club, the apical joint being 

 the smallest (6). 



Mandibles bidentate, the lower tooth large and curved (2). 

 Maxillce furnished with an internal ovate lobe, ciliated with short 

 curved spines. Paljn short and triarticulate, two basal joints 

 somewhat cup-shaped, 3rd slender and oblong (3). 

 Mentuyn linear. Lip semiorbicular, the anterior margin bisi- 

 nuated. Palpi short and triarticulate, 2 basal joints cup-shaped, 

 3rd subovate (4). 

 Head rather small. Eyes small, globose and prominent , placed close to 

 the base of the Rostrum which is longer than the thorax, slender 

 and a little curved (7, upper side of head and rostrum). Thorax 

 subconic, suddenly narrowed before. Scutellum distinct, suborbicular 

 and a little convex. Elytra ample, elongate-ovate, twice as broad as 

 the thorax, very convex behind. Wings ample. Legs rather long 

 and slender, anterior a little the longest and approximating . Thighs 

 incrassated but narrowed at the base, with a strong trigonate tooth 

 beneath near the apex, largest in the anterior. Tibise a little curved, 

 acuminated at the internal angle of the apex, and slightly dilated and 

 convex on the inside a little below the middle in the anterior jjair. 

 Tarsi 4-jointed, 2 basal joints suhtrigonate, 3rd forming two elon- 

 gated lobes, 4th clavate. Claws simple (5, afore leg). 



PoMORUM Linn. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 356, 10. 



Piceous, punctured and clothed with depressed ochreous and 

 ferruginous hairs ; antennae ferruginous, excepting the base and 

 club ; anterior edge of thorax of same colour, with a pale line 

 of hair down the middle ; scutellum white : elytra with punc- 

 tured striae, indistinctly tessellated with hairs, having a pale U- 

 shaped mark beyond the middle, with a row of white dots on 

 the margin, bounded on both sides by a piceous bar, the upper 

 one oblique, the hinder one more transverse, apex bright ferru- 

 ginous. Legs ferruginous, excepting the middle of the thighs ; 

 tarsi dusky as well as the base of the tibise. 



In the Author s and other Cabinets. 



