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5. APION ERVI. 

 A. attain, antennis testaceis: apice nigris, coleoptris subglobosis. 

 Attelabus Ervi. Mus. Dom. Gyllcnhal. 



Long. Corp. 1^- lin. 



Habitat in Anglia, Suecia. In vico dicto Brent-Illeigh prope 

 Lavenham in SurTolcia, Jul. 14, 1804 (et iterum apud Barham, 

 Jul. exeunt. 1805), in Lathyro pratensi legi. Mus. nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, pilis albicantibus, nisi sub lente vix 

 conspicuis, respersum. 



Caput inter oculos striatulum. Rostrum longius, ante 

 antennas nitidum, basi obscuriusculum. Ante mice sub- 

 longiores, pone medium rostri insertae, testaceae: clava 

 nigra. Oculi subprominuli. 

 Truncus subcylindricus. Thorax postice lineolii im- 

 pressa. Tibice tenues admodum. Scutellum minutissi- 

 mum. Coleoptra ex obovato subglobosa, subsulcata: 

 sulculis punctatis. 

 Obs. — In altero seiu rostri apex paulo ditatatus. Thorax per totam 

 fere* longitudinem canaliculatus. 



I originally received this insect from Major Gyllenhal, under 

 the name of Attelabus Ervi. I have since taken it both at Bar- 

 ham and elsewhere upon Lathyrus pratensis. 



The Swedish specimens are more hairy than our English ones. 



sis upon it. It is further remarkable, that Curculio Scrophularice and lipustulatus, 

 (Marsh. Ent. Brit. n. 117- 121.) both of which feed upon water betony (Scropku- 

 laria aquaticu), attack, in great numbers every year, Buddleia occidentalis in my garden. 

 It is observable that these plants, though of different classes and orders, are all te- 

 trandrous. 



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