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Show 498 INSECTA. Vine, from which in certain seasons, and when unusually numerous, they sometimes completely strip the foliage. They are known in some p~rts of France, by the names of Lisette Beche, &c. ' The snout in A pion is not widened at the end, and even frequently terminates in a point. The abdomen is 5tt•ongly inflated(!). The following genera have been formed with Rhynchophora, very similar to the Attelabi, but with a narrower and more elongated body. RHINOTIA, Kirb.-Belus, Schrenh. Where the antennc:e gradually enlarge without forming a club, and the body is almost linear(2). EuRHINus, Kirb. Where they terminate in an elongated club, of which the last joint is very long in the males(3). 'fuBICENus, Dej.-Auletes, Schrenh. Where they also terminate in a club, but it is perfoliate, and the joints are nearly of a imilar length or differ but little. The abdo· men also forms a long square, and not an oval, like that of Eurhi· nus( 4). Those, in which the antenn::e are filiform, or where the last joint alone forms the club; where the proboscis, frequently longer in the males than in the females, and often differently tet·minated, always pt·ojects forwards; in which all the other parts of the body are usu· ally much elongated, and the penultimate joint of the tarsi is bilo· bate, form the genus BRENTus, Fab.-Curculio, Lin. These Insects are peculiar to hot climates. In some the body is linear, and the antennc:e, filiform or slightly enlarged towards the extremity, are composed of eleven joints. They constitute the genus BRENTus properly so called. M. Steven has separated from them, under the generic name of { 1) See Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect.; Herb stein, Olivier, and Scha:nherr. (2) Kirby, Lin. Trans., XII. (3) Kirby, Ibid. (4) Schrenh., Curcul. Dispos. Method., 46; Dej., Catalogue, &.c. COLEOPTERA. 499 .8rr/Jenodes, those species in which the head is as if cut beh' d th h . m e eyes, where t e snout . 1s s•h ort and terminated by ·two n arrow an d projecting mandibles m the males. All the Brenti of North Ame-rica, .and the only species found in_ Europe-the B. italfca-belong to tlus group. The latter, accordmg to the observations communicate? to .me by M. Savi, Jun., professor of Zoology and Mineral~gy at P1sa, 1s always found under the bark of tt·ees and in the midst of certain Ants w.hich hav: a similar domicil. M. de la Cordaire, who made a splendid collectwn of Insects in Brazil, has also informed me that he ~l~ays found the Brenti under the bark of trees( I). Others, s1m1lar as to the form of their body, have but nine joints in the antennre, the last of which forms a small club. Such are those which constitute the ULooERus, Schcenh.(2) In the last, or the CYLAs, Lat. The antennc:e are composed of ten joints, the last of which forms an oval club. The thorax is as if di videcl into two knots, the posterior, or that which forms the pedic1e, being the smallest. The abdomen is ova1(3). Sometimes the antennc:e are distinctly geniculate, the first joint being much longet· than the following ones. They form the genus CunouLIO of Linnc:eus. · We will divide them into the Brevirostre.s and the Longirostres, according as the antennc:e are inserted near the extremity of the pro· boscis, and even with the origin of the mandibles, or further back, either near its middle or close to its base. The Brevirostres of this naturalist, according to the system of Fabricius, are divided into two genet·a. BRACHYCERUS. Where all the joints of the tarsi are entire and without brush or pellet beneath. Their short and but slightly geniculate antennc:e pre· sent externally but nine joints, the last of which forms the club. They are destitute of wings, and their body is very scabrous or (1) Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., II, p. 244; Oliv., Ibid., 84; Scha:nb., Curcul. Dispos. Method., p. 70. {2) Scha:nh., Ibid, 75. {3) Lat., Ibid, p. 268; Olivier, Ibid, 84, bis. For some other genera derived from Brentis, see the Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., article Rhynclwpn{)f'u. |