
COLEOPTERA. 
CURCULIO VERRUCOSUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Snout fhort, colour throughout black, with a faint bratly glofs. Wing-cafes befet with ftrize of elevated 
points, and terminated at the apex in a fingle obtufe protuberance, 
CuRCULIO VERRUCOsUs: breviroftris aeneo niger elevato punctatus elytris poftice verrucofis. Linn. Sy/. 
Nat. 2, 618. 90. 
Fab, Ent. Syft. 1. p. 2. 478. 353. 

This can be no other than Curculio verrucofus, though our fpecimen came from China, and that 
noticed by Fabricius from the Cape of Good Hope. The three elevated ftrize of warts on each of the wing 
cafes, and the intermediate double row of imprefled points, are decifive in our opinion of this fpecies.— 
We have another that is mottled with clay colour, which is probably found in Africa. 


CURCULIO SQUAMOSUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Probofcis fhort. Entirely covered with green fcales. Impreffed lines on the thorax and probofcis. 
CurcuLio savamosus: breviroftris viridi {quamofus roftro thoraceque canaliculatis. Fab. Ent. Sy/. 1. 
p- 2. 452, 244. 

A {mall, but fuperb fpecies, being totally covered with minute fcales of an oblong form, and refplen- 
dent green colour, interfperfed with changeable {parks of gold and crimfon, in various reflections of light. 
This fcaly covering is not unlike that of Curculio argentatus found in England; but of a brilliance fcarcely 
inferior to the gem-like {pangles on the Curculio imperialis of Brazil—Curculio fquamofus is reprefented 
in its natural fize, in the annexed plate; and, in juftice to an infeé of fuch uncommon beauty, an ad- 
ditional plate is given, to exhibit its appearance in the opaque microfcope.—lIt is extremely common in 
China. 

