Mr. Kikby on Herbst's Genus Apion* 63 



45. APION GYLLENHALII. 

 A. atrum subangustum piloso-obscurum, coleoptris oblongius- 



culis, antennis piceis, rostro longiori. 

 Apion Pisi. Mus. Dom. Gyllenhal. 

 Curculio flavipes (3. y. Payk. Mon. Cure, 144. 135. 

 Attelabus flavipes (2. y. Payk. Faun. Suec. iii. 182. 17. 



Long. Corp. It lin. 



Habitat in Suecia, in foliis Betula alba. Dom. Paykull. Mus. D. 

 Marsham. M'Leay. Nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, subangustatum, pilositate quadam 

 cinerascenti obscurum. 



Caput valde angustum, vix rostro latius, elongatum, 

 confluenter punctulatum, inter oculos ruguloso-striatu- 

 lum, postice transverse elevatum. Rostrum lon<>ius, 

 filiforme, leniter arcuatum, punctulatum. Antenna: 

 mediocres, mediae, nigro-piceae basi rufescentes. Oeull 

 immersi. 



Truncus brevis admodum, fere cylindricus, excavato- 

 punctatus : punctis subconfluentibus, lineola dorsali 

 postice exaratus. Coleoptra ex ovato oblonga, striata : 

 striis punctatis; inters titiis planiusculis. 



Var. @. Corpore minus piloso, elytris atro-caeruleis. 

 Major Gyllenhal sends me this insect for Attelabus Pisi of 

 Fabricius, and likewise regards it as synonymous with Apion 

 Mthiops of Herbst : yet, with all deference to the authority of 

 so judicious and skilful an entomologist, I must venture to dis- 

 sent from him upon this occasion, for this insect does not appear 

 to me to answer the description of either of these authors. Fabri- 

 cius says of his Att. Pisi " coleoptris globosis," a character 

 which will not well suit Apion Gyllenhalii, whose elytra, taken 



together, 



