6*2 Mr. Kirby on Herbs t's Genus Apion. 



Tn uncus postice paulo latior; antice margine ex pilis 

 tenuissime albo, levissime punctulatus, puncto insuper 

 majori ante scutellum notatus. Scutellum minutissimum. 

 Coleoptra oblongo-ovata, leniter striata: striis subpunc- 

 tatis ; interstitiis planiusculis. 

 Obs. — Alter scans rostro mediocri. 



This insect and the preceding are very nearly related, but the 

 species now described is quite hoary with down or hair; its head 

 is shorter than that of Apion temie ; its thorax proportionally 

 wider, and the rostrum longer. The body of both is remarkably 

 slender. 



44. APION CONFLUENS. 

 A. atrum angustum piloso-subincanum, coleoptris oblongo-ova- 

 tis, fronte bisulco, antennis posticis, rostro mediocri. Tab. 1. 

 J%. 15. 



Long. Corp. li. lin. 

 Habitat in Anglia semel lectum. Ex Mus. Dom. Sheppard. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, tenue, pilositate parva leviter in- 

 canum. 



Caput la3viusculum, inter oculos sulculis duobus postice 

 approximatis, vel fere in literae V figuram confluentibus 

 profundus exaratum. Rostrum mediocre, nitidum. 

 Antenna, postica?, sublongiores. Oculi prominuli. 

 Truncus capite vix latior, leviter punctulatus, lineol& 

 dorsali postica exaratus. Scutellum minutum. Coleop- 

 tra oblongo-ovata, subnitida, striata: striis levissime 

 punctatis. 

 In habit this little Apion agrees with Ap. tennc and Senicidus, 

 it is nevertheless quite distinct from them. It was taken by my 

 indefatigable friend, and the pleasant companion of many an 

 entomological walk, the Rev. Revett Sheppard, F.L.S. 



45. APION 



