252 INSECTS COLEOPTERA. 29. Curculio. 



Moerens. Above afhy-brown, beneath black : fnout (lightly grooved* 

 Inhabits Saxony : fize of C. grifeus : Jkells fubftriate. 



Grefforius. Grey ; head and thorax black, with a white dorfal line. 

 Inhabits Italy ; middle fize. 



Head black with a whitifh groove, beneath cinereous; Jhclls 

 brown : abdomen cinereous. 



Gemnatus. Cinereous ; thorax with 3 brown lines : fliells with nume- 

 rous brown ftrice in approximate pairs. 

 Inhabits Keil\ nearly globular. 

 Club of the antennae ferruginous. 



Gramineus. Black ; fhells rtriate : antennas and legs ferruginous. 



Inhabits paftures of Germany. 



Body ovate, club of the antennae fometimes cinereous : thorax 

 grooved, with a fmall rubercle each fide : fulls with crenate 

 ftriae, a little fhorter than the abdomen : body beneath covered 

 with cinereous down. 



Diadema. Covered with yellowifh down: fnout retufe and black at 

 the tip. 

 Inhabits Cayenne-, larger than C. coryli. 

 Snout dufky, black at the end : legs cinereous. 



Meles. Grey ; back of the thorax brown with a whitifh line : fhells 

 dotted with black, the future whitifh before the tip. 

 Inhabits Germany; lcfs than C. coryli. 



Snout cylindrical, black: fiells ftriate, fometimes inclining to 

 ferruginous. 



* Coryli. Varied with cinereous ^nd brown: future of the fhells 

 black on the upper half. 

 Inhabits England^ on the hazel nut. 

 Snout ]black at the tip : thorax and fnelh glabrous. 



* Lineatus. Brown; thorax with 3 paler flripes. 



Inhabits Europe. Scbaff. Icon. tab. 103.7%. 8. 



* Lunatus. Shells with raifed lines, a femicircular white band, and a 

 white fpot behind in which is a black lunule. 

 Inhabits England. Taken near Richmond. 



Snout cinereous with an imprefTed frontal point : fiells cinereous 

 with a white femicircular band reaching from the angle of the 

 ihoulder to the middle of the future; behind this is a large 

 white fpot with a common black lunule in the middle : legs 

 banded with brown. 



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