Mr. Kirby on IJerlsfs Genus Apion. 4[) 



Long. Corp. Ti Tin. 

 Habitat in Suecia : ex Mus. Dom. Gyllcnhal. 0, In Anglia : ex 

 Mus. Dom. Lathhury. 7 . ex Mus. Dom. Spencc. 



DESCR. CORPUS atruna, obscurum, sub'dabrum. 



Caput inter oculos fovea impressum, et in fovea striatu- 

 lum. Rostrum submedioere, crassiusculum, punctula- 

 turn. Antenna rnediocrcs, media : clava crassiuseula. 

 Oculi subprominuli. 

 Tiiuxvcusantiee submarginatus seu coarctatus, excavato- 

 punctatus, dorso postice canaliculars. Scutellum mi- 

 nutissimum. Cokopira ex obovato subglobosa, cserulea, 

 pilositate quadam brevissima, et nisi sub lente forti vix 

 conspicua, obscurata, subsulcata: sulculis punctatis; 

 interstitiis planiusculis. 

 Var. /?. Frontts fovea impression canaliculate, antennis ros- 

 tro longioribus, corporis pilositate magis conspicua, tho- 

 race antice vix coarctato. An idem ? 



y. Rostro longiori nitido, in medio supra inter antennas 



puncfo impresso, corpore glabriori. 

 Obs. — Front is fovea nisi a latere vix conspieiencla. 



This insect is very similar to Apion subsulcatum, but the head 

 is wider, the eyes more prominent, and the space between them 

 hollowed out into a concavity with one or more furrows ; the 

 thorax or trunk, also, is of a shape rather different and wider, 

 with a much stronger dorsal furrow. A. differs from (3. and y. 

 more than the sexes usually do, and may possibly be distinct; 

 yet they are so extremely similar to each other, that I judged it 

 Jbest not to separate them. The former was sent me from Sweden 

 as Attelabus cyaneus of Fabricius, and Apion sulcifrons of Herbs t, 



but I- cannot think it is either. The character of At. cijaneus 



thorax utrinque tuberculo elevato — evidently does not belong to 



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