
COLEOPTE & A. 
ei 
CURCULIO. CHINENSIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne club-fhaped, and inferted in a horny probofcis or fnout. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Beak long. Thighs dentated. Body covered with yellowith powder, except a ftripe of black on the fides 
of the thorax and wing cafes: a fpine on each fide of the beak, at the apex. 
Curcutio Cutnensis: longiroftris, femoribus dentatis 3, corpore polline flavefcente obtecto, lateribus 
nigris, roftro utrinque fpinofo. 

This infect feems nearly allied to Curculio mucoreus, an Indian {pecies, defcribed by Linnzus, but not 
figured by any author: the lateral stripe of black; and the denticulations on the pofterior thighs of our 
infect clearly removes it, however, from the Linnean fpecies. Among the Curculiones defcribed fince by 
Fabricius, we have not difcovered any with which our {pecies can be confounded; and deeming it a non- 
defcript, we name it f{pecifically C/menjis ; a name, perhaps, too local, but expreffive of the native place of 
applied by Fabricius, in his laft work, to any infect of the fame genus, though that 
our fpecimen ; and not 
in the defcriptions of more than four hundred of its 
author has exhaufted almoft every applicable name, 
{pecies. 
The only fpecimen of this curious infect we have feen, is in the poffeffion of Mr. Drury of London, from 
whofe extenfive colle@tion we have been liberally permitted to copy, and defcribe, fuch Infeéts as we con- 
fidered worthy of noticing in this work. 
a Except the lateral black ftripes, and the roftrum, Curculio Chinenfis is totally covered with a bright brown powder, or 
rather, with very minute hairs which adhere but flightly, and refemble that fubftance. We obferve a fimilar farinaceous ap- 
pearance on the Curculiones, Laéteus, Niveus, &c. and efpecially on that gigantic beetle Scarabeus Elephas. 

