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PLATE CXLIX.

AT Tfi, LAB US CURCULIONOIDES.

CoLEOPTERA .

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v Jn gs two, covered by two shells, divided by a longitudinal future.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae thicker towards the end. Head narrow behind, Four4°'nts in each foot.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

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SY N 0 NY MS.

Shells and thorax red. Head black.

“^■Ttelabus curculionoides: niger thorace clytrisque rubris,

^ Lin. Syjl. Nat L. 619. 3.

tnomacer niger thorace elitrisque rubris, proboscide lorigitudinecapitis .—Geof Inf.A. 273. 10.

Urc ulio Nitens, Paykull. Monogr. ISO. 122 . 4

Schœff. Icon. tab. 56. fig. 7.

Sulz. Inf. tab. 4 .fig. 12.

Pair of this very singular and rare species was taken on a young^ Oee inDarent Wood, Dartlord, early in May, 1795.

. remarkable structure of its head deserves particular notice;ls ^ a ped like a vase, and when the , In sect is alive is protruded

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