2 o8 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 29. Curculio. 



Nafutus. All the thighs and fore-ihanks toothed : thorax long brafTy : 

 fhells pointed. 

 Inhabits Jamaica. Olw. Inf 84. tab. 2. fig. 7. 

 Antennae as long as the bead: head braffy-green : fnout very 

 long, depreffed and thicker at the tip ; thorax grooved : 

 Jhelis plane, ftriate punctured, black with abbreviated ferru- 

 ginous lines : legs black. 



Pj/par. Body linear, black : fhells ftriate with red. 

 Inhabits America. OU<v Inf 84 tab, 1 fig 1. 

 Thorax ovate, black, polilheci with an obfolttr dull rufous {pot! 

 each fide: Jhelis itriate black with 4 obibicte ipots. 



Cylindricor* Thorax rounded brafly-black : fhells ferruginous fubftriate 

 *w« with yellow. 



Inhabits Nenv Zealand. 



Snout dull ferruginous : antennae twice as long as the /£crtf.vJ 

 dull ferruginous, the joints cylindrical: thorax polifhed, noJ 

 caniculate : Jhelis obtufe, ftriate with numerous yellow lines I 



Bifrons. Black ; fhells ftriate, with glabrous yellow fpots. 



Inhabits Cayenne, 



In one fex the fnout is cylindrical black, antenna, fhort, thorax \ 

 purplifh with 3 black lines: in the other fex the fnout is pro- 1 

 jected cylindrical, thickened at the tip with incurved jaws, J 

 thorax caniculate, black. 



29. CURCULIO. Antenncc clavate, feated 

 on the fnout, which is horny and pro- 

 minent: Jeelers 4, filiform. 



The larvae of this mofl fplendid tribe have 6 fcaly legs, and a 

 fcaly head : fome of them infeft granaries, eating their wajj 

 into the grains of corn and leaving nothing but the hulk ; 

 fome dwell in other feeds, or are lodged in the infide of 

 artichokes, thirties and various plants : and others devour the 

 leaves of trees and herbs. 



A. Jaw cylindrical, i -toothed. Curculio. 

 a. Snout hnger than the thorax; thighs unarmed. 



Giga: 



