10 Mr. Kirbv on Herbsfs Genus Apion. 



neither be called entire nor broken, but between both, snbfracta. 

 This confirms an observation which I made in a former work, 

 ** that the connecting links between two proximate genera 

 usually borrow their characters from both*." 



Herbst has called this genus Apioji, because, in shape, it some- 

 what resembles a pear ; I retain this name from my dislike of 

 change, although a Greek termination in a Latinized word is 

 rather awkward. Apium, indeed, was before engaged in botany, 

 but perhaps its diminutive, Apiolum, might have done. I once 

 had called this little genus Eurkynchus y from su bene, and pvyx°s 

 rostrum. 



Herbst gives no generic character of Apion, but details most 

 of its peculiarities -J-. I shall therefore endeavour to supply this 

 deficiency, by constructing its Essential, Artificial, and Natural 

 Characters. 



APION. 



Character Essentialis. 



A ntennce integral, subcapitatae : capitulo ovato-lanceolato acuto 

 subsolido, rostro elongato insidentes. 



Character Artificialis. 

 Antenna integral, subcapitatae : capitulo subsolido. 

 Rostrum saepius porrectum, elongatum, subcylindricum. 

 Truncus teretiusculus. 

 Tibia apice inermes. 

 Corpus pyriforme *. 



Character Naturalis. ^M 



CORPUS pyriforme, saepius glabrum, interdum at subpubescens, 

 crust& cataphractum. 



* Monogr. Jp, Angl. torn, i, p. 48. f Natursyst, &c. torn, vii. p. 100. 



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