2x8 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 29. Curculio. 



Suturalis* 



Crux. 



lemnae.. 



Ovate, brown with a longitudinal white line. 

 Inhabits Germany, on the willow. 

 Small, fnout arched, black : thorax brown with a dorfal whitti 

 line : Jhelft ftriate, gibbous, the future white; 



Black ; thorax with 2 white dots at the bafc : fhells with i 



white future and fcattered dots. 



Inhabits Hamburg. 



Snout incurved: thorax rounded: Jhells ftriate: body beneatl 



whitifh : legs black. 



Black ; fnout fiat at the tip : fhells ftriate> 

 Inhabits Germany, on Duck-weed ; very fmall. 

 Thorax punctured : Jheih fyiate. 



Exdama* Black ; fhells with a white dot in the middle and final 

 tionis. white line at the bafe. 



Inhabits New Holland. Q!i<v, Inf. 83. /^. 167* 



Venufius. Brown ; thorax and fhells with white lines : legs teftaceous 



Inhabits England', fmall. 



Head brown with a white dorfal line : antenna teftaceous : thora: 



with 5 whitifh lines: Jhells ftriate punctured with 2 whitifh lines 



Plantaginis. Shells cinereous with a brown fpot in the middle. 



Inhabits Saxony, on the Plantaci. > 



Snout black : thorax brown in the middle with a cinereous dorfa 

 line : Jhells with a few brown dots. 



* Rumias* Grey clouded with black : antennae brown. 



Inhabits Europe. Degeer, Inf. 5. tab, 7. Jig. 10, 1 1 . 



Mgricollis* Grey ; thorax black with cinereous lines : fhells rciiellat 

 with black dots. 

 Inhabits Germany. Curculio adfherfus. Fabric. 

 Snout cylindrical, black : thorax with a lateral whitifh line 

 Jhells dufky with pale lines, teflellate with numerous blac 

 dots and a larger common one at the tip. 



*Granarius Pieeous; thorax punctured, as long as the fhells. 



Jobbot. Obs. Microfe. 1757. tab. 7. fig. l. 



This is the Infed called the Weevil or Bond, fo very deftructiv' 

 in granaries where corn has been kept fome time: it 

 deftroyed by fli swing boughs of Elder, Henbane or wc 

 among the corn. 



Qryzae 



