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CURCULIO LONGIPES. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
General colour blackifh brown. Wing-cafes ferruginous. Beak long, margined with fmall irregular 
tubercles on each fide, and at the apex. Anterior legs longett. 
CurcuLio Loneires: longiroftris nigricans elytris ferrugineis, roftro emarginato, pedibus anticis longi- 
oribus. Fab. Ent. Syft. J . Pp: 3. 395. A, 
Oiiv. fig. 191. 

All the fpecimens of this Curcu/io that have come under our infpection, are natives of China. Fabricius 
fays it is from the Cape of Good Hope >. 

CURCULIO BARBIROSTRIS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Entirely black. Beak long, and bearded. Three {pines on the anterior fhank of the legs. 
CuURCULIO BARBIROSTRIS: longiroftris niger roftro barbato, tibiis anticis tridentatis. Fab. Ent. Syft. 1. 
: p. 2. 418. 105. 

Uncommonly fearce. Fabricius refers for this infect to the collection of Cramer. We have only feen 
the fpecimen from which our figure is taken. ' 
b The inaccuracy of this remark of Fabricius will appear by comparing the defcriptions and fynonyms of Curculio longipes, 
in his Species Infeftorum, with the fame fpecies in his Entomologia Syftematica. In the firft he defcribes Curculio longipes, quotes 
fig. 3. tab. 33. vol. 2. of Mr. Drury’s work, and gives its habitat, Cape of Good Hope. In his laft work he gives the fame de- 
{cription, changes the reference from Mr. Drury’s work to that of Olivier, fig. 191; but continues the other references, by which 
the Chinefe f{pecies is probably unintentionally left as a native of Africa. 
