40 Mr. Km by on Herbs? s Genus Apion. 



21. APION FAGI. 



A. atrum glabrum, antennis basi femoribusque pallidis, coleop- 



tris oblongis nigricantibus. Tab. 1. Jig. 8. 

 Curculio Fagi. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 611. 44. Faun. Suec. 609* 



It. Scan. 111. Gmel. l?Gl. 44. 



Long. Corp. 1-rlin. 

 Habitat in Sueciae Faari foliis. Linn. Mus. Linn, nostr. 



O r 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glaberriinum. fv 



Caput punctulatum. Rostrum longius # pone antennas 

 paulo crassius et punctulatum. Antenna longiores, 

 mediae, basi pallidas. Oculi majusculi, parum promi- 

 nuli. 

 Tr uncus subcylindricus, punctulatissimus. Thorax pos- 

 tice obsoletius canaliculars. Pedes nigri : femoribus 

 luteo-pallidis. Scutellum minutissiinum. Coleoptra ob- 

 longiuscula, nigro-picea cum levi tinctura violse, sul- 

 cato-striata : striis punctatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 



Var. jg. Tibiis anticis etiam pallidis. 



This is one, amongst many, of the original Linnean insects, 

 which appears not to be known by the entomologists of the 

 present day. Paykull candidly owns {Faun. Suec. iii. 26'8. 90.) 

 Olim in Mon. Cure, sub nomine Cure. Fagi a me determinatus, (viz. 

 Cure. Populi Fahr.) sed descriptio Linnccana Cure. Fagi non 

 quadrat, mihi igitur ille adhuc ignotus est. 



I should conjecture, from Fabricius's altering the terms of 

 Linne's description, that he had seen an insect which he took 

 for Cure. Fagi, but since the true one would be an Attclabm ac- 

 cording to his system, and he has kept his in CurcuIio 9 (RIiyncha'nus 

 Syst. Eleuth.) and amongst the saitatorti, — hence, I imagine, 



that 



