CO LEOPTERA. 
CURCULIO 
S E X-S PIN O SUS 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. , 
J 'ti, „hue with three black fpines: anterior legs longed: thighs 
nfpc fl r ; a ted and dotted with white, w it 
Blackilh: wing-cafes dentated. 
. nigricans, elytris albo pontefe fpinis tribus nigris, pedibus anticis longis: 
Curculio SEX-Sfisosus. g • femor ibus dentatis. 
From New Holland. 
This fpecies is undefcribed. 
Curculio 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Yellowifli: (bout fhort and thick : three rows of (mall black fpines down the wing-cafes. 
Nigro-Spinosus : flavefcens, roliro brevi craffo, elytris lineis tribus fpinarum parvarum 
nigrarum. 
An infeft of this curious kind occurs among the Audralafian Gurculiones in the cabinet of Mr. Fran- 
ciUon. There can be no doubt of its being a Curculio of Linnaeus, but we were milled by its ambiguous 
appearance in the fil'd indance to believe it a Curculio, of that particular fettion which Fabricius defcribes as 
a didinft genus under the name of Brachycerus, an opinion which, on further invedigation, we are in¬ 
clined to retract, for it is apparently a Curculio of Fabricius, as well as of Linnaeus. This is a new fpecies. 
BRENTUS LINE AT US. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae moniliform: head fmall, projecting into a very long draight cylindrical finout: wing-cafes longer 
than the abdomen: body elongated and cylindrical. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Fufcous, thorax, with three yellowidi lines: wing-cafes dotted, with two lines of contiguous yellowilh 
dots. 
