. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. ACTER AND and thorax red. Head black. Attelabus CURCULIONOIDES: riigcr thorace elytrifque rubls.— Lin. Syji. Nat. 2. 619. niger thorace elytrifque rubris, probofcide longitudine capitis.—Geef. Inf. i. 273. Nitens, PaykulL Mo
. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. ACTER AND and thorax red. Head black. Attelabus CURCULIONOIDES: riigcr thorace elytrifque rubls.— Lin. Syji. Nat. 2. 619. niger thorace elytrifque rubris, probofcide longitudine capitis.—Geef. Inf. i. 273. Nitens, PaykulL Monogr. 130. Icoji. tab. 56. fig. Inf. tab. 4. fig. 12. A pair of this very fingular and rare fpecies was taken on a youngnut tree in Darent Wood, Dartford, early in May, 1795. The remarkable ftrudure of its head deferves particular notice ;it is fhaped like a vafe, and when the Infe6l is alive is protruded B 2 far 12 PLATE CXLIX. far beyond the thorax by its long (lender neck. It has alfo a verfbufy motion of its head from the right to the left when it runs: weobferve a limilar motion in many Infefls^ but as few have fuch allender neck, it is feldom fo quick and repeated as in this. The natural fize is given in the upper part of the plate, the mag-nified appearance of the head is fhewn below* PLATE O A.
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