COLEOPTERA. 
CURCULIO SEX-SPINOSUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Blackifli : wing-cafes ftriated and dotted with white, with three black fpines ; anterior legs longeft : thighs 
dentated. 
CuRCtrjLio Sex-Sfinosus : nigricans, elytris albo pun6tatis fpinis tribus nigris, pedibus anticis longis : 
femoribus dentatis. 
From New Holland. This fpecies is undefcribed. 
CURCULIO NIGRO-SPINOSUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Yellowith : fnout Ihort and thick : three rows of fmall black fpines down the wing-cafes. 
CuucuLio Nigro-Spinosus : flavefcens, roftro brevi cratfo, elytris lineis tribus fpinarum parvaruni 
nigrarum. 
An infedt of this curious kind occurs among the Auftralafian Cirrculiones in the cabinet of Mr. Fran- 
eillon. There can be no doubt of its being a Curculio of Linnaeus, but we were mifled by its ambiguous 
appearance in the firfl; inftance to believe it a Curculio, of that particular feftion which Fabricius defcribes as 
a diftindt genus under the name of Brachycerus, an opinion which, on further inveftigation, we are in- 
clined to retradt, for it is apparently a Curculio of Fabricius, as well as of Linnaeus. This is a new fpecies. 
BRENTUS LINE AT US. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae moniliform: head fmall, projedting into a very long ftraight cylindrical fnout: wing-cafes longer 
than the abdomen: body elongated and cylindrical. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Fufcous, thorax, with three yellowifh lines : wing-cafes dotted, with two lines of contiguous yellowith 
dots. 
