32 Mr. Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



Attelabus Vicia?. Fayk. Faun. Suec. iii. 181. 16. 



Apion difficile. Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 124. 13. t. 103. 



/• l-A ? 



Long. Corp. H lin. 



Habitat in Angliae et Sueciae Vicia Craccd. Mus. D. Gyllenhal, 

 Nostr. 

 , DESCR,. CORPUS atrum, supra pilis albis subincanum, subtus 

 ex pube densa niveum. 



Caput inter oculos striatulum. Rostrum brevius, ex pi- 

 lositate niveum, summo apice glabro nitido. Antenna: 

 / longiores, mediae, totac flavo-testaceae. Oculi subpr.0- 



minuli. 

 Truncus brevis admodum, ex globoso teretiusculus, le- 

 viter punctulatus, lineola dorsali postice impressus. 

 Pedes flavo-testacei : tibiis quatuor posterioribus tar- 

 sisque omnibus nigricante-rufls. Scutellum minutum, 

 apice rotundatum. Cokoptra ex globoso ovata, suleato- 

 striata : striis punctatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 

 Obs. — Alter sexiis rostro mediocri tenzriori, basi subincrassato oh- 

 scuro, ante antennas glabro nitido. Ant ennis pone medium rostri 

 insertis. 



This insect was described by Paykull from specimens furnish- 

 ed by my learned correspondent Major Gyllenhal, who likewise 

 sent it to me. He met with it upon Vicia Cracca; I have since 

 found it very plentiful upon the "same plant. I once thought 

 that this might be the true Cure. Trifolii of Linn6, but the cha- 

 racters Rostrum thorace longius and Thorax cicavato-punctatus will 

 not at all suit our insect. I have referred to Apion difficile of 

 Herbst with a mark of interrogation, because he makes no men- 

 tion of the whit^down which covers the underside of the body, a 

 circumstance not likely to be omitted by so minute a describer, 

 yet his insect in other respects is certainly nearly related to ours. 



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