46 Mr. Km by on Hcrbst's Genus Apion. 



24. APION FILIROSTRE. 



-A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris subglobosis, rostro pedibusque 

 elongatis. 



Long, Corp. 1^- lin. 



Habitat in Anglia rarissimum. Mus. nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glaberrimum, vix nitidum. 



Caput inter oculos striatulum. Rostrum longius, subfili- 

 forme, nitidum, levissimc punctulatum, ante antennas 

 subattenuatum. Antenna breviores, pone medium ros- 

 tri insertae. Oculi subimmersi. 

 Truncus subcylindricus, levissime punctulatus, ante 

 scutellum lineola obsoletius impressus. Pedes elongati. 

 Scutellum minutum. Coleoptra ex globoso ovata, striata : 

 striis subpunctatis; interstitiis planiusculis. 

 Obs. — Sexus alter rostro mediocri ; antennis mediis, 



This insect very much resembles Apion Jiavifemoratum, but is 

 at first sight to be distinguished from it by its entirely black legs : 

 I have taken two specimens only of it, upon what plant I did 

 not observe. 



25. APION SORBI. 



A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris globosis virescenti-cseruleis, rostro 



longissimo. 



Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 111. 9. t. 102. /. 9—1. eximia. 

 Attelabus Sorbi. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. i. b. 390. 29. Syst. Eleuth. 



ii. 426. 52. Payk. Faun. Suec. iii. 178. 12. Panz. Faun. Germ. 



Init. 20. t. U. 

 Curculio viridescens. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 249. 31. 

 Curculio laevigatas. Payk. Mon. Cure. 133. 



Long. Corp. 2 lin. 



Habitat 



