60 Mr. Kir by on Herbs fs Genus Apion, 



41. APION ATERRIMUM. 



A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris subovatis nitidiusculis atro-caeru- 



leis, rostro mediocri. 

 Curculio aterrimus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 6'07- 10. Faun. 



Suec. 582. 

 Apion iEthiops. ITerbst. Natursijst. vii. 130. 21. t. 103./. 9. I. 



Long. Corp. 1^ lin. 

 Habitat in Suecia, Germania. Mus. Linn. 

 DESCR. CORPUS aterrimum, glabrum. 



Caput thoracis fere latitudine, inter oculos rugulosum. 

 Rostrum mediocre, filiforme, pone antennas punctula- 

 tum, apice nitidiusculum. Antenna mediocres, mediae*. 

 Oculi subimmersi.. 

 Tr uncus punctulatus, lineola dorsali nulla. Coleoptra 

 subovata, nitide nigra seu potius atro-eaerulea, subsul- 

 cata: sulculis concinne punctatis; interstitiis planius- 

 culis. 

 The label affixed to the specimen of this insect preserved in 

 the Linnean cabinet appears to be the hand-writing of the 

 younger Linne ; it agrees, however, so well with the father's de- 

 scription of his Cure, aterrimus, that I have little doubt of its 

 being synonymous with it. That which Fabricius has given for 

 C. aterrimus is a very different insect*, belonging to the Linnean 

 division, Longirostres femoribus dentatis, which appears to be the 

 same with Mr. Marsham's Cure, atramentariusf. Herbst's descrip- 

 tion of his Apion JEthiops answers to our insect in every particu- 

 lar. Mr. Marsham's Cure, aterrimus is a different species, which 



* Ent. Syst. Em. i. b. 439. 189. Syst. Eleuth, ii. 486. 225. Rhynchsenus. 

 t Marsh, Ent. Brit, i, 293. J 63. 



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