66 Mr. Kirbt on Herbs tfs Genus Apion. 



lente forti haucl conspicua) obscura, sulcato-striata : 

 striis punctatis; interstitiis convexiusculis. 



Herbst's Apion cyaneum appears to be a variety of this insect 

 with blue elytra. It cannot be Attel. cyaneus of Fabricius, as 

 this author indeed suspects, because it wants the tubercles on 

 the thorax, peculiar to that species ; which also is clearly not 

 Cure, cyaneus of Linne, though given as such; for two cha- 

 racters mentioned in Faun. Suec. (581) are quite at variance 

 with the Fabrician insect, viz. Pedes f err uginei. Scutellum punc- 

 turn album. There is no specimen of Cure, cyaneus now in the 

 Linnean cabinet. Apion violaceum, in that collection, is gummed 

 upon the same paper with Apion Fagi, from which it should 

 seem that Linne regarded it (although he no where notices it) 

 as a variety merely of that insect. It certainly agrees with it in 

 habit and shape, but the different colour of the legs and elytra 

 seems to furnish a sufficient distinction. There are no beech 

 trees in the neighbourhood of the place where I first took it. 



48. APION HYDROLAPATHI. 



A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris oblongo-obovatis caeruleis virides- 



centibusve, rostro brevi crassiusculo. Tab. l.fig. 17. 

 Curculio Hydrolapathi. Mar sin Ent. Brit. i. 249. S3. 



Long. Corp. if — H. 

 Habitat in Angliae Rumicibus Lapathis frequens. Mus. nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glaberrimum. 



Caput thoracis fere longitudine et latitudine, punctatum, 

 inter oculos ex punctis confluentibus confertim stria- 

 tum. Rostrum> pro hoc genere, brevissimum, nee capite 

 longius, punctulatissimum, obscurum, supra planius- 

 culum. Antenna pone medium rostri inserts, longiores: 

 clava crassiuscula\ Oculi subprominuli. 



Truncus subcylindricus confluenter punctulatissimus, 



lineol& 



