Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Rhyncophora. FAMILY: Curculionidæ, SUBFAMILY:
Entimides?
GENUS. HIPPORHINUS, _Schonherr_. Curculio p. _Drury_.
HIPPORHINUS? MURICATUS. Fuscus; thorace cylindrico nigro-pustulato;
elytris marginatis, striatis, interstitiis tuberculis elevatis rotundatis
seriatim dispositis; femoribus ad apicem dente magno obtuso armatis.
(Long. Corp. 9 lin.)
SYN. Curculio muricatus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Bay of Honduras, America (_Drury_).
Head small. Eyes entirely surrounding the head, meeting underneath and at
top. Beak long, black, and slender, the antennæ being placed near the
extremity. Thorax brown, cylindrical, and covered with a great number of
small black pustules. Scutellum triangular. Elytra brown, margined, and
striated or furrowed; being thick beset with a great number of high,
round pustules, regularly placed in rows from the thorax to the anus;
some being large, others very small. Femora furnished near the tips with
a thick obtuse spine. Tibiæ with a single smaller spur.