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G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E R .
Antcnn® club-ihaped, and inferted in a horny probofcis or fiiouc.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R .
Beak long. Thighs clentated. Body covered with yeilowlih powder, exeept a ftripe of black on the fides
o f the thorax and wing cafes: a fpine on each fide of the beak, a t the apex.
Coitob-Lto Cm nE x sis; longiroilris, femoribus dentatis •, corpore polllne flavefcente obteflo. latcribus
nigris, roftro utrinque fpinofo.
This in fe a feems nearly allied to Curculio mucorcus, an Indian fpecies, defcribed by Linnæus, but not
figured by any author : the lateral stripe o f blaek ; and the denticulations on the pofterior thivhs o f onr
in fe a clearly removes it, however, from the Linnæan fpecies. Among the CurcuUoncr defcribed fince by
Fabrieius, we have not difcovered any with which onr fpecies can be confounded; and deeming it a non-
defcnpt, we name it fpecifically CUucnfu ; a name, perhaps, too local, but expreffive of the native place of
onr fpectmen ; and not applied by Fabricins, in his laft work, to any in fe a o f the fame genus, though that
author has exhanfted almoft every applicable name, in thc defcriptions o f more than four hundred o f it,
fpecies.
The only fpecimen o f this curious in fe a we have feen, is in the poflbffion o f Mr. Drury o f London from
f h'° " " P ^ i a e d to copy, and defcribe, fuch In fe a s as we con
lidered worthy of noticing in this work.
. U a eu s, Nmeus, &c. and efpecially on that gigantic beetle Scarabaeus Ehphas.