Mr. JCirby on Hcrbst's Genus Apion. 53 



ano obtusissimo, sulcata: sulculis punclatis; intcrstitiis 

 modice convexis. 



Var. j3 minor; rostro breviori. 

 This little insect is very nearly related to the preceding; it is 

 however considerably smaller, the head between the eyes has 

 two or three little furrows, the thorax has no dorsal channel, and 

 the elytra, taken together, are longer in proportion. Var. /3. is 

 scarcely half the size of *. 



32. APION VIRENS. 



A. atrura, coleoptris oblongo-ovatis caeruleis viri descent! bus ve 



striatis ; stria suturali profandiori, thorace lyeviuseulo. 



Var. & 

 Ilerbst. Natursyst. vii. 128. 18. t. 103. /. 6— E? 



Long. Corp. 14 — It. 

 Habitat in Anglioe sepibus. Mus. nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glabriusculum, nitidiusculum. 



Caput vix punctatum, inter oculos rugulosum, in recenti 

 insecto atrum cum levissima tinctura senea. Rostrum 

 mediocre, nitidum. Antenna mediocres, pone medium 

 rostri inscrtae. Oculi subprominuli. 

 Tji uncus ater, nigrore, in recenti insecto, Jeviter aeneo 

 infecto, nisi sub lente forti vix conspicue punctulatus, 

 puncto majori dorsali ante sciitclluin notatus. Scutel- 

 lum minutissimum. Coleoptra ex oblongo obovata, coe- 

 rulea, sulcata: sulculo suturali in medio reliquis pro- 

 fundiori, in sulculis puncta impressa, interstitia sul- 

 culorum convexiuscula. 

 Var. /3. minor, capite thoracequc nigro-aeneis, elytris virides- 

 centibus. 

 It is not easy to judge from figures of these minute insects, 



the 



