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(265) 2. * Lepyrus gemellus. Twin-streaked Lepyrus. 



L. ( gemellus J ater albido-pilosns ; rostro, prothoraceque albido bivittato, carinatis ,■ elytris striis gemellis pluribus piloso-albis. 

 Twin-streaked L. gemellus, very black, covered with white hairs, rostrum, and prothorax two-striped with white, ridged : 

 elytra with several pairs of hairy white longitudinal streaks. 



PLATE V, FIG. 7. 



Length of the body 1\ lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body very black, covered more or less with decumbent white hairs, and also with minute tubercles. 

 Rostrum as in L. Colon : prothorax ridged, confluently tuberculated, minutely punctured between 

 the tubercles, marked on each side with an oblique stripe composed of white hairs : elytra confluently 

 tuberculated, with five pairs of longitudinal streaks, composed of white hairs, converging towards 

 the apex : the first and fifth including the rest. 



2. Brevirostres. Linn. 



Family CLEONIDJE. Cleonidans. 



CII. Genus CLEONIS. Meg. 



In the Introduction to Entomology, willing to retain the ancient name Curculio, 

 to indicate one of the modern genera into which the immense tribe of Rhynchophora 

 is divisible, we had considered Linne's Curculio nebulosus, belonging to the present 

 genus, as the type of it, but viewing the matter more attentively, it strikes me 

 that the only group entitled to be distinguished by that ancient name, is the 

 Curculio of Pliny and the Romans, called by us the weevil, and by the French 

 Calendre, which Clairville, latinizing the word, has made Calendra. 5 The species 

 above described as a Calandra belongs to a different group from Curculio grana- 

 rius, Oryz<e, Zece, &c. distinguished by its superior size and its triangular and very 

 distinct scutellum. I would therefore propose calling this and its congeners, 

 Calandra, and the granivorous ones, above noticed, Curculio. 



' In his plate it is written Calandra, which Fabricius has adopted. Clair. Ent. Heluet. i, 62, t. ii. 



