Plate [XXXIII]. fig. 3.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Rhyncophora. Family: Curculionidæ. Subfamily: Calandrides.
Genus. Calandra, Fabr. Rhyncophorus, Herbst. Curculio p. Linn.
Calandra Serrirostris ♀? Obscura rufa; thorace lineis duabus magnis dorsalibus, elytris substriatis. (Long. Corp. rostro incl. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
Syn. Calandra serrirostris ♂? Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. 2. 429. Oliv. Ins. 83. tab. 17. f. 211.
Curculio longipes, Drury, Append. vol. 2. (nec. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 2. 395.)
Habitat: Island of Johanna, near Madagascar.
General colour dark red brown. Head as long as the thorax, terminating in a slender beak, three-fourths of an inch long. Antennæ apparently 8-jointed, that next the head being nearly as long as all the rest. Thorax marked longitudinally, with four black stripes or bars. Scutellum very narrow and triangular. Elytra marked longitudinally with several black narrow striæ, and are shorter than the abdomen. Legs very long, especially the anterior pair. Tibiæ with sharp hook-like spurs, those of the fore-legs being longer than the rest.
The insect described by Fabricius under the name adopted above is distinguished from that here figured, by having the "Rostrum porrectum, rectum, dorso apice serratum, dente elevato compresso." Its habitat is also distinct, being from Java. It may possibly be a male, and that figured by Drury a female.