Mr. KutBr on Herbsfs Genus Apion. si 



Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 110. 8. t. 102. f. 8 II. 



Long. Corp. 1-r lin. 



Habitat iiTAngM, Borussid rarissime. In Cortjlo Wi Jun ex 

 1805. Mm. D. Hooker. Nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, obscurum, piloso-incanum. 



Caput pnbe alb& densius obsitum: linea intermedia gla- 

 bra. Rostrum brevius, to turn ex pilis deeumbentibus 

 mveum, basi incrassatum, apice subulatum acumine 

 breviusculo, subtus fere ut in specie praeccdenti. An- 

 tenna longiores, mediae, tenues admodum, totse testa- 

 cea3. Oculi prominuli, magnL 

 Truncus minutissime punctulatus, lined dorsali antice 

 abbreviate! obsoletius, exaratus. Scutellum minutissi- 

 mum. Colcopira subglobosa, sulcato-striata : striis 

 punctatis; interstitiis planiusculis. 

 This little insect, although very nearly related to Apion Craccce, 

 is, I think, distinct from it : the hair on the body is thicker; the' 

 rostrum has a shorter acumen, and is covered, from the base to 

 the tip, with white hairs ; the antennae, likewise, are entirely tes- 

 taceous. Fabricius regarded it, as I observed before, merely as 

 a variety of his Attelabus Vomona, but from that insect it differs 

 not only in the colour of its elytra, but also in their shape, beino- 

 proportionally shorter, so that, when taken together, they are 

 subglobose. Herbst never saw but one specimen of it; and 

 three only, that I know of, have been taken in England, one by 

 Mr. W. J. Hooker, of Norwich, a most ingenious and indefati- 

 gable entomologist, and two others by myself. 



14. APION VICIiE. 



A. atrum villoso-canescens, subtus niveo-pubesceiw, antennis 

 pedibusque testaceis, coleoptris ovatis. 



Attelabus 



