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INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 
Typus : Attel. dentipennis, Sch. (Euscelus). 
Congen. : Attel. tuberifer, Jekel. Huj. Op. 
Attel. verrucifer, Jekel,* and some others. 
Attelabus cueculionoides, L. 
This variable species, well known to all entomologists, has long been 
regarded as the unique European species of the type it represents, and 
specimens from the most extreme parts of that continent, from north to 
south and east to west, had not been deemed worth being separated. 
But of late, two species have been created,— Maculipes (Villa), Kiister, 
and Atricornis, Mulsant. But the comparative distinctions given 
by their respective authors (their descriptions having not a single par¬ 
ticularity that could not be applied to some of the varieties of Cur- 
culionoides) bearing principally on differences in coloration, and on sup¬ 
posed proportions of width, length, size and depth of punctuation, which 
are just to be observed partly or entirely in various specimens of this 
rather polymorphous species, and their having said nothing touching 
the sexes, I may reasonably regard the three following at least as good 
species as any of those, intending to study the whole of these pretended 
* Attel. verrucifer. — Valde attenuatus, virescenti-cuprescens, pilis 
albescentibus tectus; rostro apice valde ampliato, punctato; capite 
subquadrato-cylindrico, convexo, punctato; tliorace an-tice abrupte— 
dein versus basin emarginatim — ampliato, basi tenue marginata apice- 
que late marginato oblique truncatis, dorso medio tuberculis quatuor 
compositis cum canalicula interjacente nonnullisque lateralibus parvis 
instructo; scutello medio impresso utrinque elevato; elytris subtriangu- 
laribus, singulo prope scutellum tuberculo composito, duabus prope 
suturam (uno prope medium, altero postico, mediocribus) multisque 
minimis disci instructo humeris late obliquae lateraliter extensis cari- 
natis; femoribus muticis, tibiis infra dentibus distantibus armatis. 
Long, (rostr. excl.) 3^ ; elytr. 2^. Lat. hum. 2^ mill. Natal; Dorn. 
Delegorgue, D. Dupont, Mus. D. Bowring. 
