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Caput. Rostrum brey'ms, crassiusculum, villosulum, apicc 

 glabrum. Antenna longiores, pone medium rostri in- 

 serts, testaceae, crassiusculae: clav& majuscula. Oculi 

 magni, subprominuli. 

 Tr uncus. Thorax postice paulo latior. Pedes testacei. 

 Coleoptra oblonga, testacea, striata: striis vix punctatis. 

 Elytrum utrumque interne apud basin oblique nigri- 

 cat. 

 Fabricius, and after him Mr. Marsham, have regarded Curcu- 

 lio Pinetiof Paykull (Mon. Cure. 61.58.) as synonymous with 

 this insect, being led into this opinion by the error of the latter 

 author; who, in that work, has confounded two insects essen- 

 tially different. In his Fauna Suecica, however, (iii. 252. 72.) 

 Paykull acknowledges his mistake. « Minimi Attel. Malvee Fa- 

 bricii (says he) quod olim putavi, quia omnino hujus generis est." 

 Herbst's Rynchites Malvcz is Paykull's insect, which, in the work 

 last mentioned, that author names Curculio Indigent, it is found 

 upon the Scotch fir {Finns Sylvestris). Apion Malvte is extremely 

 common upon the mallow in this country, and is found upon no 

 other plant. 



4. APION VERNALE. 



A. fusco-nigricans cinereo-villosulum, elytris fasciis duabus fuscis 

 pedibus rufis. 



Herbst.Natursyst. vii. 123. 12. t. 102. /. 12.— M. 



Attelabus vernalis. Fabr. Ent. Syst. Em. i. b.' 392. 36. Syst 



Eleuth. ii. 427. 60. Payk. Faun. Suec. iii. 183. 18. 

 Curculio vernalis. Fayk. Mon. Cure. 138. 129. 

 Curculio concinnus. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 248. 26. 

 Curculio urticarius. Herbst. Arch. 74. 30. 

 Curculio Lythri. Fanz. Faun. Germ. Init. 17. t. 8. 



Long. 



