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COLEOPTEEA. 
Fig 3a. 
beetles, whose antennae are fixed just before the eyes at the 
base of the snout. 
Ourculio ( Pandeleteius ) hilaris of Herbst (Fig. 35), which 
we may call the gray-sided Curculio, is a little pale-brown 
beetle, variegated with gray upon the sides. Its 
snout is short, broad, and slightly furrowed in 
the middle ; there are three blackish stripes on 
the thorax, between which are two of a light 
gray color ; the wing-covers have a broad stripe 
of light gray on the outer side, edged within by 
a slender blackish line, and sending two short 
oblique branches almost across each wing-cover ; 
and the fore-legs are much larger than the others. The 
length of this beetle varies from one eighth to one fifth of 
an inch. The larva lives in the trunks of the white oak, on 
which the beetles may be found about the last of May and 
the beginning of June. 
The Pales weevil, Curculio ( Ilylobius ) Pales of Ilerbst 
(Fig. 36), is a beetle of a deep chestnut-brown 
color, having a line and a few dots of a yellow- 
ish-white color on the thorax, and many small 
yellowish-white spots sprinkled over the wing- 
covers. All the thighs are toothed beneath, 
and the snout is slender, cylindrical, inclined, 
and nearly as long as the thorax. On account 
of the length of the snout this insect has been 
placed in the genus Rhynchoenus by some nat- 
uralists ; but the antennae are implanted before the middle of 
the snout, and not far from the sides of the mouth. This 
beetle measures from two to three eighths of an inch in 
length, exclusive of the snout. It may be found in great 
abundance, in May and June, on board-fences, the sides 
of new wooden buildings, and on the trunks of pine-trees. 
I have discovered them, in considerable numbers, under 
the bark of the pitch-pine. The larvae, which do not mate- 
rially differ from those of other weevils, inhabit these and 
Fig. 36. 
