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from w in the slightest degree, I was induced to compare ß with 
it again. ‘The result of this comparison was the conviction that 
they ought to be given as distinct species; for, exclusive of the 
difference of size which is considerable for such minute insects, 
the body of A.angustatum is more hairy and obscure ; the head be- 
tween the eyes has no concavity, and is differently sculptured ; the 
trunk and coleoptra, which last are proportionally shorter, are of 
a shape rather different, the former inclining a little more toa 
globose form, and the latter being more oblong; the minute scu- 
tellum is distinguished by a longitudinal channel, and the fur- 
rows of the elytra are wider in proportion. | 
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68. APION SCUTELLARE. 
A. atrum subangustum piloso-subincanum, coleoptris obovatis 
sulcatis, scutello elongato. 
£ Long. Corp. 15 lin. 
Habitat in Anglià semel lectum. Mus. nostr. 
DESCR. CORPUS admodüm angustum, atrum, ex pilositate 
parva subincanum et obscurum. 
Capur thorace paulo brevius, inter oculos striatulum. 
Rostrum longius, filiforme, arcuatum, ante antennas sub- 
attenuatum apice ipso iterum paululum dilatato. An- 
tenne breviores, pone medium rostro insidentes, nitidi- 
uscule. Oculi immersi. 
Truncus teretiusculus, anticé paulo angustior, conflu- 
. enter punctatus, ante scutellum fossulä exaratus. Scu- 
tellum quam obtinet plerumque in hoc. genere longius. 
Coleoptra ex oblongo obovata, sulcata: sulcis intersti- 
tiorum feré latitudine, punctatis. 
I had 
