$ 0 % CURCULro* 
ternally appear, it is no fooner espofed to the wind, that* 
it blows before it like chaff. 
It is with the huffs of grainj after they have ate the 
fubftance, that thefe animals are transformed into chry- 
falids ; and when ready to come forth winged, they per- 
forate their manfion, to make room for their el'cape. 
Beans, peafe, oats, and other kinds of grain, afford food 
and a retreat to this tribe ; many of which alfo perforate 
plants, and dwell in the interior parts ; fome of them 
mine into the leaves of trees, devouring the parenchyma 
that lies between the outward pellicules. 
T!ie green curculio *. This fpecies is of a bluiili 
green, Alining with a fine refplendent fliade of gold, like 
the neck of a pigeon : The head, thorax, abdomen, and . 
feet, are all of this beautiful colour ; the antennae arc: 
black, having the laft articulation longer than the reft. 
* Pelivert. Gaza, p. 77. 
