aoS 
Nafutus. 
Diffar, 
Cylittdricor- 
nis, 
Bifrotis, 
INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 29. Curculio. 
All the thighs and fore-fhanks toothed : thorax long 
' (hells pointed. 
Inhabits Jamaica. Oliv, Inf. 84. tab, 2. fig. 7. 
Antennae as long as the head; head braffy. green : Jnoui 
long, deprefled and thicker at the tip; thorax 
Jhells plane, ftriate pundured, black with abbreviated 
ginous lines : legs black. 
Body linear, black : (hells ftriate with red. 
Inhabits America. Oli<v. Inf 84. tab. i fig t. 
Thorax ovate, black, polilhed with an obfolete dull rufo’*’* 
each fide ; Jhells Itriate black with 4 obfolete ipots. 
(f 
* 
Thorax rounded brafTy-black : (hells ferruginous fubHf'^ 
with yellow. 
Inhabits New Zealand. 
Stmt dull ferruginous : antennae twice as long as the 
dull ferruginous, the joints cylindrical : thorax poli(hed» 'j 
caniculate : Jhells obtufe, ftriate with numerous yellow 
Black; (hells ftriate, with glabrous yellow fpots. 
Inhabits Cayenne. 
In one fex the fnout is cylindrical black, antennee (liort, 
purplifti with 3 black lines: in the other fex the fnout i* 
jeded cylindrical, thickened at the tip with incurved r 
thorax caniculate, black. 
1 
29. CURCULIO. clavate, _ 
on the fnout, which is horny and 
minent: jeelers 4, filiform. 
X i 
The lar-vae of this moft fplendid tribe have 6 fcaly legs, x 
fcaly head : fome of them infeft granaries, eating theit " ' 
into the grains of corn and leaving nothing but the h“ 
fome dwell in other feeds, or are lodged in the 
artichokes, thiftles and various plants : and others devu^^ 
leaves of trees and herbs. 
A. Jaw cylindrical, lAoolhed, Curculio. 
a. ^nout longer than the thorax; thighs unarmed- 
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