in zoology; a genus of insects belonging to the coleoptera order, the characters of which are these: The antennæ are fusiform, growing gradually larger from each extremity towards the middle; and CCXXXV. are situated between the eyes; the thorax and elytra are covered with protuberances or spines. The larva of this insect seems to be yet wholly unknown. There are but two species of the perfect animal met with in Europe; one of which, the atra, is found in Britain, and is all over of a deep unpolished black, and has the upper part of its body entirely covered with long and strong spines, which render it brittle like the shell of a chestnut. There is even a spine at the base of the antennæ; the thorax has a row set transversely, which are forked; and the elytra are furnished with a very great number that are single. Its being thus covered with spines, makes it resemble a hedge-hog in miniature. It is rather hard to catch, letting itself fall down on the ground as soon as approached. It bears its antennæ upright before it.

HISPALIS a town of Baetica, in the Farther Spain; an ancient mart or trading town on the Baetis, navigable quite up to it for ships of burthen, and thence to Corduba for river barges. Called Colonia Romulensis. It has also a conventus juridicus, a court of justice, or affizes, (Pliny). Now called Seville. W. Long. 6°. N. Lat. 37.