Curculio Aurifer, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Jamaica.
Head black, long, and rostrated; as long as the thorax, which is also black. They are both striped underneath with streaks of a shining, golden, green colour. Scutellum very small. Elytra dark brown, extending very low down the sides, and terminating in a point, double margined. The abdomen dark brown, and, with the wing-cases, adorned with many oblong spots or streaks, of a golden green colour. Femora simple, and dark brown. Tibiæ hairy, particularly within. Underside of the tarsi brown yellow.
The golden spots, or streaks, on this insect vary very much; in some individuals being ash-coloured, some blue, and in others nearly white. The colour also of the wing-cases in some is almost black, in others of a red brown.
COPRIS MOLOSSUS.
Plate [XXXII]. fig. 2.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Scarabæidæ.
Genus. Copris, Geoffroy. Scarabæus, Linn.
Copris Molossus. Thorace retuso bidentato, utrinque impresso; clypeo lunato unicorni integro, elytris lævibus. (Long. Corp. 2 unc.)
Syn. Scarabæus Molossus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 543. No. 8. Fabricius Ent. Syst. 1. p. 51. No. 167. Olivier, 1. 3. t. 5. f. 37. ♂. t. 4. fig. 25. De Geer. Ins. 1. t. 32. f. 2. Schonherr Syn. Ins. p. 43.