~ Seven new Species of Apion. 951 
Truncus brevis, teretiusculus, postice latior, punctulatus, 
ante scutellum lineolä exaratus. Coleoptra ovata, striata: 
striis subpunctatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 
Obs. Maris rostrum brevius, crassius, leviter arcuatum. 
This species should follow A. atomarium, (Linn. Trans. ix. 59. 
40.) which it very much resembles: the head however is longer, 
the rostrum in both sexes shorter, the trunk is more conspicuously 
punctulate with a very visible dorsal channel, the interstices also 
of the furrows of the elytra are wider and flatter, and the furrows 
themselves less conspicuously punctate. 
66. APION SIMILE. 
A. atrum, coleoptris obovatis zneo-nigris subsericeo-nitidis, 
rostro femineo longiori. 
Long. Corp. 1— i4 lin. 
Habitat in Anglià. Apud Hunstanton in Norfoleiä in maritimis a 
nobis semel lectum. Mus. Dom. Marsham, W. J. Hooker, nostr. 
DESCR. CORPUS atrum ex pube quädam parva obscurum. 
— Carvr. Rostrum longius, filiforme, leviter arcuatum, apice 
nitidum, in medio subincrassatum. Antenne mediocres, 
pone medium rostro insidentes. Oculi magni, sub- 
immersi. 
Truncus subcylindricus, confluenter punctatus, lineolä 
ante scutellum exaratus. Coleoptra obovata, nigra, :eneo, 
sed levissime, tincta, subsericeo-nitida, striata: striis 
_ subpunctatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 
Obs. Maris rostrum brevius et quàm femine crassius. Elytrorum 
nitor sericeus ex rugulositate quádam, sed levissimá, exoritur. 
222 A. simile 
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