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.
CALANDRA SERRIROSTRIS [female]?
Plate XXXIII. fig. 3.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY:
Calandrides.