38 Mr. Kirby on Herbs? $ Genus Apion. 



in plants supradictft frequens uterque sexus. Mus. nosfr. 

 Var. (3. Mus. Dom. Marsham. 



DESCR. CORPUS at rum, subnitidum, glabriusculum. 



Caput paulo longius quam in hoc genere mos est, punc- 

 tulatum, inter oculos striatal um. Rostrum brevius ni- 

 tidum, basi et apice paulo crassius. A ?ite?inc£ longiores, 

 pone medium rostri insertae, basi testaceae. Oculi sub- 

 prominuli. 



Trunctjs angustus, subcvlindricus, punctulatissimus, 

 postice lined dorsali leviter exaratus. Pedes tiavi : 

 apophysibus tarsisque nigris. Scutellum minutissimum. 

 Coleoptra globoso-ovata, striata: striis punctatis; inter- 

 stitiis planiusculis. 



Var. (3. Tibiis omnibus piceis. 

 Obs. — In alter o sexu rostrum mediocre, Coleoptra oblongo-ovata. 



This insect, which I received from Sweden as Attelabus fiavipes 

 of Fabricius, is not uncommon in this country : it may frequent- 

 ly be met with, early in the spring, in hedge-rows and warm 

 situations, but it deposits its eggs in the heads of white or Dutch 

 clover (Trifolium repens), in which the sexes may commonly be 

 found. I took it last summer (1805) in great numbers upon 

 this plant in Suffolk, and afterwards in Middlesex; and Mr. 

 Markwick, near Tunbridge. The insect which does so much 

 damage to common clover is a distinct species from this, and it 

 is remarkable, that so far as my observation has extended, these 

 two species confine themselves each to its own kind of clover, 

 without interfering the one with the other. 



20. APION PALLIPES. 



A. nigrum, pedibus testaceis: plantis nigris, fronte canaliculate, 

 coleoptris oblongo-ovatis. Tab. I. Jig. 7. 



Apion 



