Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidæ. Subfamily: Entimides.
Genus. Hipporhinus, Schonh. Bronchus, Germar. Curculio, Linn. &c.
Hipporhinus Verrucosus. Elongato-ovatus niger, æneo-micans, rostro quasi abscisso, quinque sulcato, thorace confertim tuberculato, elytris seriato-tuberculatis apice singulatim verrucâ crassâ auctis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Curculio Verrucosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12. p. 618. No. 90. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 2. 534. No. 161. Herbst. Col. 6. 308. t. 84. fig. 6. Schonh. Syn. Ins. Curcul. 1. 481. 27.
Habitat: Cape of Good Hope.
General colour brassy black. Head long, and furnished with a thick rostrum, whereon are placed the antennæ. Thorax rounded, and regularly covered with small pustules. Head and thorax almost the length of the elytra, which are long, brassy, and covered with several rows of tubercles; some being small and round, others larger and oblong; they extend very deeply down the sides of the abdomen, and at their extremities terminate in two swellings. Scutellum obsolete. Femora simple. Posterior tibiæ very crooked.
LAMIA (STERNOTOMIS) PULCHRA.
Plate [XXXII]. fig. 6.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Longicornes. Family: Lamiidæ.
Genus. Lamia, Fabr. &c. Cerambyx p. Linn. &c. Subgenus. Sternotomis, Percheron.