ATTELAEUSj 
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Genus XV. — 'Attelalus. 
T His tribe very much refembles the laft, but is inferior 
in fize and beauty : The animals which compofe it have 
the head inclined, and gradually tapering towards the 
thorax ; the antennae increafe in thicknefs as they ap- 
proach the extremity *. 
Attelabus curculionoides has obtained its name from its 
fefembling the curculio ; the antennae are (hort, fixed on 
the point of the head, which is of a triangular fliape 9 
having the fbarp angle joined to the thorax ; the head, 
part of the thorax, and belly, are black ; the reft of the 
infecl is of a fine red. 
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* Syftema Nat. p. 
