RHYNCHOPHORA. 
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Deal, Southend, Wickham, and elsewhere. Through 
its cui-ious appearance this insect has been at different 
times considered as allied to Cryptocephalus , Cis, and 
Anobium. 
The CuRCULiONiDAi, by far the largest of the family 
in point of numbers, may be separated from the two 
preceding families by the shape of the maxillary 
palpi, which are shoa-t, thick, rigid and conical, with 
the joints gradually diminishing in size to apex ; from 
the Scolytidx they differ in the well-developed rostrum, 
and the fact that the legs are not formed for burrow- 
ing into wood, as in the latter group ; they may be 
subdivided into four sub-families, viz. Attelabinse (or 
Rhynchitinse) Apioninse, Otiorrhynchinse and Curcu- 
lioninse. 
The Attelabinas have the rostrum more or less 
elongate and enlarged iu front ; the antennm straight, 
with the scape short, and with a more or less distinct 
club j the pygidium almost always exposed ; the an- 
terior coxae conical, cylindrical, exserted and contiguous, 
and the central projection of the first ventral seg- 
ment acuminate at apex ; the segments of the abdomen 
are uneven in length. 
Some of these insects are exceedingly beautiful, 
having the brightest metallic hues of blue, golden, 
green, red, or copper, and many are very pubescent. 
Attelabus and Apoderus are each represented by a 
single species, which are bright red, and are not un- 
common in woods in many localities in early summer. 
Attelabus cur culionoides, the shorter, more convex and 
smooth of the two, infests young oaks ; its female 
rolling up their leaves into a thimble-like mass, in 
which she deposits her eggs. Apoderus coryli is found 
