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Mr. Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



this species, and it certainly is not Herbst's insect, which we 

 shall shortly describe, whose admirable figure clearly points out 

 the species he meant. The impressed point on the rostrum of 

 Var. 7 . may perhaps be accidental. 



28. APION PUNCTIFRONS. 



A. atrum glabrum, cpleoptris subglobosis cseruleis, rostra me- 

 diocri, capite latiusculo inter oculos punctulato. Tab. 1. fig. 9. 



Long. Corp. 1 * lin. 

 Habitat in Anglic semel lectum. Iff**: nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glaberrimum. 



Caput longius et latius quam in plerisque praecedentibus, 

 postick nitidum laeve, inter oculos excavato-punctatum. 

 Rostrum submediocre, punctulatum, crassiusculum. 

 Antenna mediocres, mediae. Oculi prominuli. 

 Tr uncus discrete excavato-punctatus, postick dorso ca- 

 naliculatus. Scutellum satis conspicuum. Cokoptra sub- 

 globosa, caerulea, sulcata: sulculis jucunde punctatis; 

 interstitiis convexiusculis. 



The insect I have here described is of the same habit with the 

 two preceding ones, yet \ery distinct from either. The head is 

 both wider and longer; the space between the eyes is punctu- 

 late; and the furrows of the elytra are wider and deeper with 

 convex interstices. 



29. APION SULCIFRONS. 



A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris subglobosis caerule/s, rostra me- 

 diocri : basi crassiori, capite inter oculos trisulco. 



Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 132. 25. U 103. /. 12— M. eximia. 

 Attelabus punctiger. Payk. Faun, Suec. iii. 179. 13. 



Long. 



