APION. 75 
This is an easily recognized species: the slender form, the pallid apical parts of the 
legs, and the deep sculpture of the elytra being unmistakable. Only five specimens 
have been procured. 
63. Apion germanum, sp. n. 
Angustum, nigrum, fere opacum, nudum, antennis pedibusque fusco-testaceis, tarsis pallidioribus; rostro 
mediocri; prothorace conico-cylindrico, fortius minus crebre punctato; elytris profunde sulcatis, inter- 
stitlis subconvexis. | 
Long. 12 millim. 
Hab. Muxtco, Orizaba in December (F. D. Godman & H. H. Smith), Teapa in 
February, Atoyac in April (1. H. Smith). 
Rostrum moderately stout, in the male as long as the head and thorax, in the female 
longer, obscurely strigose; head narrow ; eyes but little convex, the space between them 
somewhat coarsely bisulcate ; antenne dusky yellow, inserted ata distance in front of the 
eyes rather greater than that of the ocular interval. Thorax small, distinctly narrowed 
in front, very coarsely punctured. Elytra with deep grooves, and with interstices that 
are only slightly convex. Legs slender. Under surface without pubescence; middle 
cox moderately distant. 
Although there is a general similarity between this species and A. pallitarse, the 
two are not at all closely allied. 
64, Apion disparatum, sp. n. 
Sat angustum, nigrum, subopacum, pallide griseo-setosum, in elytris subsnescens, antennarum basi, tibiis, 
tarsis marisque rostro anterius rufo-testaceis; prothorace fortiter punctato, mox pone marginem ante- 
riorem constricto. 
Long. 2-23 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, near the city (Champion). 
Rostrum rather slender, curved, of the male scarcely so long as the head and thorax, 
of the female a little longer than these two parts—in the male yellow in front of the 
insertion of the antenne, and above this clothed with white sete, in the female black, 
subcylindrical, curved, and feebly punctate ; eyes rather small, scarcely at all prominent, 
moderately widely separated; antenne inserted at about one-third or one-fourth of the 
length of the rostrum, their first joint elongate, red. Thorax rather short, a little 
narrowed towards the apex, close behind the front a little constricted transversely, 
so that the anterior margin looks somewhat as if it were turned upwards; it is closely 
and coarsely punctured, dull, clothed with whitish sete. TElytra not deeply sulcate, 
interstices flat; the colour is feebly enescent, and the clothing of pallid sete scanty. 
The legs are reddish-yellow, with the tarsi blackish, the knees more or less infuscate, 
the coxee and trochanters black ; the middle coxe are rather widely separated. 
LL 2 
