64 Mr, Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



together, are oblong rather than globose, but agrees perfectly 

 with Apion striatum, which I have given above as synonymous 

 with it. Herbst's description of Apion Mthiops agrees better with 

 Apion aterrimum, to which I have referred it, than with the insect 

 before us, for, he says, the thorax has no impressed stria ; and, 

 moreover, so^. accurate and minute a describer would not have 

 overlooked the hair on the body, or the unusual colour of the an- 

 tenna?. On these accounts I have given this as a new species, 

 and named it after the kind and liberal friend and correspondent, 

 as well as learned and experienced entomologist, who sent it me. 



Paykull has considered it as a variety of Apion Jlavipes, ex- 

 pressing, however, a suspicion that it may be distinct : it has 

 certainly no relation, except being of the same genus, to that 

 species. Major Gyllenhal regards Var. (2. (which is Attel. Jla- 

 vipes y of Paykull) as Herbst's Ap. marchicum ; the insect 

 which I have given above under that name, is more nearly re- 

 lated to Ap, virens, which makes me consider my reference as 

 most correct, since Herbst says that it is uncommonly like 

 that species, 



46. APION MELILOTL 



A. atrum subangustum, coleoptris obovatis viridescenti-caeruleis, 

 an tennis mediis, rostro longiori. 



/3. Apion angustatum. Mus. Dom. Gyllenhal. 

 Long. Corp. 14 lin. 



Habitat in Angliae Trifolio Meliloto rarius. /3. in Suecia. Mus. 

 nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, tenuiusculum, pilositate parva ra- 

 xitis conspersum. 



Caput vix thorace brevius, punctulatum, inter oculos 



rugulosum 



