ENTIMUS IMPERIALIS. Oblongo ovatus; niger, thorace lineâ dorsali
viridi-argenteâ impresso; elytris regulariter sat rude punctato-striatis,
punctis squamulis viridi-aureis repletis, interstitiis angustis,
subcostatis denudatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Curculio imperialis, _Forster, Cent. Ins. p._ 34. _Drury, App. vol._
2. _Fabr. Syst. El._ 2 _p._ 508. 3. _Oliv. Ent._ 5. 83. _p._ 293. _t._ 1.
_f._ a. b. c. _Schon. Syn. Ins. Curcul._ 1. 455. 2.
HABITAT: Brazil.
Head black, and covered with minute scales, of a beautiful golden green
colour, forming two longitudinal black streaks, and three green ones.
From this part proceeds a thick short beak, streaked with black and
green. Antennæ black. Thorax golden green, with two broad longitudinal
black lines on the {66}top, and a narrow green one between them; the
green colour being thickly beset with small black spots. Scutellum very
small and green. Elytra next the thorax, almost quadrangular, narrowing
to their extremities, the ground colour being black and shining, and
ornamented with a great number of small round hollow punctures, or dents,
of a golden green, which are smaller on the sides and extremities than
the top, being regularly placed in grooves, so as to compose not less
than eleven striæ (including the suture) on each elytron. Abdomen green,
with silvery rings. Legs black, and covered with green hairs; the thighs
being plain. Tarsi brown underneath.
RHINA BARBIROSTRIS [female].
Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ. SUBFAMILY:
Rhyncophorides, _Sch._
GENUS. RHINA, _Latreille_. Curculio, _Drury_.
RHINA BARBIROSTRIS. Nigricans; thorace rotundato tuberculato, elytris
striatis et punctatis; tibiis anticis subtus 4-dentatis. (Long. Corp. 1
unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Curculio barbirostris, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. 418. 105. _Latreille
Gen. Crust. &c._ 2. 269. (Rhina barb.) [male].
Curculio niger, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. [female].