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15. APION OBSCURUM. . 

 A. nigrum albido-villosulum, pedibus quatuor anterioribus runs, 

 coleoptris globoso-oblongis obscure nigro-seneis. 

 Curculio obscurus. Marsh. E?it. Brit. i. 244. 16. 

 Long. Corp. 14. lin. 

 Habitat in Anglia rarissime, a D. Lambert lectum. Mus. D. Mar- 

 sham. Nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS nigrum, pilis albidis subcinereum. 



Caput inter oculos excavatb-punctatum : punctis con- 

 fluentibus. Rostrum longius, pone antennas crassius. 

 Antenna: pone medium rostri insert*, nigra: articulo 

 primo obscure rufo. 

 Thuncus punctatus: punctis valde cxcavatis confluent!- 

 bus, lined dorsali intermedia postice exaratus. Pedes 

 quatuor anteriores run : genubus nigris. Scutellum mi- 

 nutum, medio excavatum. Cokoptra ex globoso ob- 

 longa, obscure nigro-amea, striata: striis subpunctatis; 

 interstitiis planis. 

 This is the largest species of this minute genus that I have yet 

 seen; it has been noticed by no author besides mv ingenious 

 fncnd Mr. Marsham in his excellent Erifomotogia Britanhka 

 1 wo specimens were found amongst a parcel of insects given 

 him by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., and these are the only 

 ones that have yet been seen. 





16, APION MALVARUM. 

 A. atrum cincreo-subvillosum, subtus piloso-albicans, pedibus 

 tcstaceia: plan tis nigris, coleoptris ovatis nigro-ceneis. 

 Curculio Trifolii. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 246? 22. 

 Long. Corp. 14 I in. * 



Ha/mat in Angliee Malvis frequens. Mus. nostr. 



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