SO Mr. Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



Long. Corp. I* lin. 

 Habitat in Europe septentrionalis Vicice Grace* seminibus et flo- 

 ribus. Mus. Linn. Nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, obscurum, ex pube albida leviter in- 

 canotn. 



Caput punctulatuni, inter oculos rugulosum. Rostrum 

 brevius, compressuin, basi valde incrassatum rugu- 

 losum depressum, apice attenuato-subukitum heve, ni- 

 tidum, subtus carinatum, ab apice basin versus sensim 

 dikitatum et quasi sacculiforme ; dein incisum*. An- 

 tennce longiores, posticae, basi testacege : clava\ nitida, 

 in fossula rostri insertae. Oculi prominuli, magni. 

 Truncus ex globoso teretiuseulus, leviter punctulatus, 

 dorso lined longitudinali utrinque abbreviate exaratus,' 

 antice submarginatus. Scutellum minutissimum. GolL 

 optra subglobosa, sulcato-striata : striis punctatis; in- 

 terstitiis planiusculis. 

 Amongst the synonyms of Apion Grace* I have not referred to 

 Fabncius, because he appears to have mistaken a different in- 

 sect for it. Elytra obscurt ccendea and Rostrum apice depressum 

 are terms which will not at all agree with the true Apion Grace* 

 the original specimen of which still remains in the Linnean Ca- 

 binet. Panzer, likewise, has figured an insect under this name 

 which has no relation to ours, for it differs from it both in size 

 (being considerably larger,) shape, and colour, and it wants the' 

 subulate rostrum, the most prominent feature of this speciesf. 



13. APION RUFICORNE. 



A. atrum villoso-incanum, rostro crassiusculo : apice subulate 

 antennis totis t^staceis, coleoptris subglobosis. 



* Tab. i.j%. 4. c. f Faun. Germ. Init. 20. /. 10. 



Herbst. 



