HABITAT: Virginia (_Drury_). North America.
Head very long, black, with a red brown spot on the middle. Antennæ dark
brown, the basal joint being longest, thickest, and lightest coloured;
the others are nearly of equal length; the whole being a little longer
than the elytra. Neck distinct and black. Thorax light red brown, and
almost oval, about the length of the head, and a little broader; it is
also a little margined, and next the body truncate. Scutellum minute,
black, and triangular. Elytra black, margined and furrowed, oval next the
thorax, but more square at their extremities, and not covering the anus.
Abdomen black. Breast light red brown; as are all the legs. The basal
joint of the posterior tarsi is very long.
{90}BRENTHUS MINUTUS.
Plate XLII. fig. 3. natural size, and 7. magnified.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY:
Brenthides, _Schonh._