Mr. Kirby on Herbs? s Genus Apion. 59 



depressus et latior, excavato-punctatus, lineola ante 

 scutellura exaratus. Coleoptra oblonga, apiee obtuse 

 subacuminata, sulcato-striata : striis punctatis; inter- 

 stiliis convexis. 

 This insect comes very near to A. Loti, but the rostrum is con- 

 siderably thicker, somewhat tumid in the middle, and under- 

 neath (just before the insertion of the antennae) gibbous; it is 

 distinguished likewise, if this circumstance be not accidental, 

 by a pair of minute elevated points between the antenna?. The 

 head, viewed from before, has two little striae between the eyes; 

 and the thorax has not the smallest tendency to a globose figure. 



40. APION ATOMARIUM. 



A. atrum piloso-incanum, coleoptris ovatis, rostro longiori, tho- 



race brevi. Tab. I. fig. 14. 

 Apion atomarium Mus. Dom. Gyllenhal. 



Long. Corp. -f- lin. 

 Habitat in Sueciit. Mus. nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, totum pilis albicantibus incanum. 

 Caput breve. Rostrum longius, valde arcuatum, filiforme, 

 la-ve, nitidum, glabrum, basi line& transversa elevatius- 

 cula. Antenna posticae, breviores. Oculi magni, subim- 

 mersi. 

 Tr uncus brevissimus, ex globoso teretiusculus, postice 

 paulo latior, lineola punctove dorsali ante scutellum 

 aut obsoleto aut nullo. Coleoptra ovata, striata: striis 

 punctatis; interstitiis convexiusculis. 

 This is the most minute species of this genus, with which I 

 am at present acquainted. It was sent me by my liberal friend 

 Major Gyllenhal, and is clearly distinct from every other. 



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