Si Mr, Kirby on Herbs? $ Genus Apion. 



BESCR. CORPUS atrtim, pilosilate subcinerea levissime in- 

 canum, subtus, praecipue ad latera, pilis densioribus lacteum. 

 Caput Ieviter punctulatum. Rostrum longius, nitidum, 



basi pauld crassius. Antenna breviores, postica?, totae 



nigrse vel piceo-nigrae. Oculi parum prominuli, ex 



parte inferiori cilio longiusculo albido cincti. 

 Tr uncus ex globose teretiusculus, Ieviter punctulatus, 



lineola dorsali brevissim& postice obsoletius exaratus. 



Pedes testacei: tarsis DJffris. Scutettum minutissimum. 



Cokoptra ovata, nitidiuscula, nigro-aenea, striata: striis 



subpunctatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 

 This insect stands in Mr. Marsham's cabinet as Curculio Tri- 

 folii of Linne, and it certainly agrees with the description of the 

 illustrious Swede better than any other of these yellow-legged 

 Apions; so that my ingenious friend's error, since he did not 

 fcnow the true habitat of the insect in question, furnishes, in 

 effect, a proof his accuracy, especially when it is considered 

 that he had been informed by Mr. Markwick of the devastation 

 committed upon Trifolium pratense by a species, which from the 

 description of that gentleman seemed synonymous with it. I 

 say error, because I think this species is not C. Trifolii of Linne, 

 and clearly distinct from that to which Mr. Markwick so justly 

 attributes the damage often occasioned to crops of clover-seed. 

 Linne informs us that his insect feeds upon Trifolium montanum^ 

 whereas Apion Malvarum is confined to the mallow, and is never 

 to be met with upon any diadelphous plant : the former, except 

 the abdomen and thighs, appears to be all black, but the elytra 

 of the latter are nigro-eeneous : in that the thighs only are de- 

 scribed as of a pale colour (pallida) ; in this the whole leg, ex- 

 cept the tarsus, is testaceous. Yet had this insect fed 

 upon Trifolium, and been synonymous with Mr, Markwick's, 



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