Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
ENTIMUS IMPERIALIS. Oblongo ovatus; niger, thorace lineâ dorsali
viridi-argenteâ impresso; elytris regulariter sat rude punctato-striatis,
punctis squamulis viridi-aureis repletis, interstitiis angustis,
subcostatis denudatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Curculio imperialis, _Forster, Cent. Ins. p._ 34. _Drury, App. vol._
2. _Fabr. Syst. El._ 2 _p._ 508. 3. _Oliv. Ent._ 5. 83. _p._ 293. _t._ 1.
_f._ a. b. c. _Schon. Syn. Ins. Curcul._ 1. 455. 2.
HABITAT: Brazil.
Head black, and covered with minute scales, of a beautiful golden green
colour, forming two longitudinal black streaks, and three green ones.
From this part proceeds a thick short beak, streaked with black and
green. Antennæ black. Thorax golden green, with two broad longitudinal
black lines on the {66}top, and a narrow green one between them; the
green colour being thickly beset with small black spots. Scutellum very
small and green. Elytra next the thorax, almost quadrangular, narrowing
to their extremities, the ground colour being black and shining, and
ornamented with a great number of small round hollow punctures, or dents,
of a golden green, which are smaller on the sides and extremities than
the top, being regularly placed in grooves, so as to compose not less
than eleven striæ (including the suture) on each elytron. Abdomen green,
with silvery rings. Legs black, and covered with green hairs; the thighs
being plain. Tarsi brown underneath.
RHINA BARBIROSTRIS [female].
Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY:
Rhyncophorides, _Sch._
GENUS. RHINA, _Latreille_. Curculio, _Drury_.
RHINA BARBIROSTRIS. Nigricans; thorace rotundato tuberculato, elytris
striatis et punctatis; tibiis anticis subtus 4-dentatis. (Long. Corp. 1
unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Curculio barbirostris, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. 418. 105. _Latreille
Gen. Crust. &c._ 2. 269. (Rhina barb.) [male].
Curculio niger, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. [female].
Rhina verrirostris, _Illiger_, [female]
HABITAT: The Island of Johanna, near Madagascar.
General colour black. Head short and round, terminating in a small narrow
beak, almost the length of the thorax; in the middle of which are placed
the antennæ. Eyes entirely surrounding the head, meeting at top and
underneath. Thorax round and rough, being full of small tubercles; having
a posterior margin. Scutellum small and triangular. Elytra striated, full
of small punctures or holes, and covering the anus. Femora smooth.
Anterior tibiæ furnished with four teeth, the hinder ones with three.
Tarsi brown beneath.
The male has the rostrum more elongated and furnished with long hairs,
somewhat like a bottle brush. It is figured by Olivier, Entomol. Vol. 5.
Charans, pl. 4. f. 37. a. b.
BRACHYCERUS ORNATUS.
Plate XXXIV. fig. 3.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY:
Brachycerides.
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