22 Mr. Km by on Herbs fs Genus Apion. 



Long. Corp. 1. lin. 



Habitat tempore vernali in Ballota, Lamio et Urticis haud rarum. 



Mns. nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS angustum satis, fusco-nigricans, albido-pi- 

 losum. 



Caput cinereo-pilosulum. Rostrum mediocre, filiforme, 

 leviter arcuatum, glabrum, nitidurn, pone antennas in- 

 crassatum. Antenna mediocres, posticae, testaceae. 

 Oculi prominuli, pilis densis albidis undique cincti. 

 Truncus. Thorax piloso-cinerascens : lateribus albidiori- 

 bus, postice paulo latior et canaliculars. Pedes tes- 

 tacei: tarsis articulo unguiculari nigro. Coleoptra 

 ovato-oblonga, striata : striis subpunctatis, ex pilis de- 

 cumbentibus cinerea: fasciis duabus obliquis, undula- 

 tis, fuscis, glabris, prima ad medium, secunda pone me- 

 dium parvo intervallo. 

 Mas minor, rostro breviori pilositate cinerea tecto. 

 Obs. — Elytrorum pubes cinerea interdum abraditur, et tunc fusca 

 sen fusco-picea evadunt. 



I received this very minute insect amongst the Swedish Cole- 

 optera sent me by Major Gyllenhal, for Attelabus vernalis of Fa- 

 bricius, and upon comparing it with that author's description no 

 doubt can remain of its beino; the same. It is common in Ensr- 



o to 



gland in the spring, feeding principally upon black ballote (Bal- 

 lota nigra), sometimes it is found on white dead-nettle (Lamium 

 album), and often upon the common stinging nettle (Urtica 

 dioica), a circumstance which seems to indicate that the latter 

 plant possesses some further affinity with the former than the 

 mere shape of the leaves*. 



5. APION 



* I mention this fact that it may not be lost, without wishing to build any hypothe- 

 sis 



