^4 Mr. Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



6. APION LATHYRI. 



A. atrum, antennis totis testaceis; clav& distincte articulata, co- 

 leoptris subglobosis. 



Long. Corp. H lin. 



Habitai in Anglia cum praecedente. Mus, nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, ex pilositate albida haud densa levi- 

 ter incanum. 



Caput inter oculos bistriatum. Rostrum brevius, pilosu- 

 lum, apice nitidum. Antenna longiores, mediae, totae 

 pallide testaceae : clava tenui admodum; articulis sub- 

 distinctis. Oculi subprominuli. 

 Truncus dorso longitudinaliter canaliculars. Scutellum 

 minutissimum. Coleoptra ex obovato subglobosa, sub- 

 sulcata : sulculis punctatis. 

 Obs. — Maris rostrum vix pilosum. Antennae clava majuscula : 

 articulis arete connexis. Thorax postice puncto irnpresso, nee 

 canaliculars. 



This species so nearly resembles the preceding, that it is not 

 without considerable hesitation I give them as distinct : since, 

 however, I possess the sexes of each, and the males differ in the 

 shape of the rostrum, and the females both in the proportion of 

 the clava of the antennae and the connection of its joints, these cir- 

 cumstances will, I think, warrant my separating them. That they 

 feed upon the same plant, though a presumptive, is by no means 

 a demonstrative, evidence of their identity, since it often hap- 

 pens that the same plant furnishes food to several species in this 

 genus. Major Gyllenhal, however, sent this amongst specimens 

 of Ap. Ervi, considering it, I suppose, as merely a variety. 



7. APION 



