Mr. Km by on Herbst's Genus Apion. 13 



Obs. — Mas vix a femind differt, nisi rostro breviori et pauld eras- 



swri. 



LARVA apoda, antice subtus loco pedum tuberculis tribus 



utrinque instructa, mollis, annulata, plicata*. 

 PUPA folliculata, ovata, laevis. 



VICTUS Larvce plantarum semina soepius diadelphicarum, Ima- 



ginis autem folia. 

 TEMPUS inter sequinoctem vernalem et autumnalem. 



Lmne, in his Fundamenta Entomologia, defines the Truncus to 

 be that part "qui pectus seu thoracem comprehendit, inter caput et 

 abdomen cut pedes inserti" yet in all coleopterous insects, and 

 many of the other orders, the part which I have here called 

 Epigastrium, to which the four posterior legs are affixed, seems 

 rather to belong to the abdomen than the trunk; with the former 

 it is closely connected, but from the latter it is separated by a 

 deep incisure, so that what should in strictness be called the 

 legs (for the anterior pair having a different direction, being ap- 

 plied often to different uses, and inserted in a different part, I 

 would rather denominate hands or arms), the Elytra and Epi- 

 gastrium, are parts of the abdomen: yet in hymenopterous in- 

 sects the incisure is between the abdomen, properly so called 

 and the trunk: in these the anterior legs are affixed to the un- 

 der-side of the neck, and their direction is likewise towards the 

 head. 



With respect to Families, I have as yet been able to find 

 no clue for a natural subdivision of this genus, except the fol- 



* Fabricius says of Attelabus, Larva 6-poda, this remark probably belongs to the 

 true Attelabi, and so furnishes another proof that Apion is essentially different Mr 

 Markwick [Unn. Trans, v, p. 143. tab. 5. jig. a-A.) observed three tubercle's only 

 on each s.de, near the head, in the larva of one Apion, winch supplied the place of 

 legs. De Geer could discover none upon the larva of Ap. Grace*. (Tom. v. * S54 

 tab. vi. Jig. 35, 36.) r 



lowing, 



