BARIDIUS? OVALIS.
Plate [XXXIII]. fig. 1. natural size—2. magnified.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidæ. Subfamily: Cholides.
Genus. Baridius? Schonherr. Baris, Germar, Dejean. Curculio p. Drury.
Baridius? Ovalis. Fuscus, thoracis marginibus, elytrorumque basi et maculis quatuor lateralibus transversis albidis. (Long. Corp. lin. 5.)
Syn. Curculio ovalis, Drury, App. vol. 2. (Exclus. Syn. Linn.)
Habitat: Jamaica (Drury).
Head small, round, and black, being furnished with a beak as long as the thorax. Antennæ inserted near the end of the beak, consisting apparently of nine articulations, that next the beak being longest. Thorax dark brown, the sides cream-coloured. Elytra dark brown, with three large cream spots on each, placed lengthways. Legs black, with cream spots and hairs on them. Each of the femora is furnished with a single spine.
Drury has incorrectly given this West Indian insect as identical with the northern European species, Curculio ovalis of Linnæus. Not having seen the insect I place it in the genus Baridius with doubt; it seems also somewhat allied to Ameris Pavo.