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55. APION CARDUORUM. 



A. atrum, coleoptris ovatis obscuris viridescentibus cseruleisve, 



rostro basi utrinque gib bo. Tab. 1. Jig. 19« 

 Curculio Sorbi. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 244. 15. 

 Curculio cyaneus. De Geer. v. 252. 41. 

 Attelabus seneus /S. Payk. Faun. Suec. lif. 180. 14. 

 Apion gibbirostre. Mus. Dom. Gyllenhal. 

 Apion Alliarue. Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 104. 3. t. 102. f. 3— C? 



Long. Corp. 1a lin. 

 Habitat in Angliae Carditis frequens, item in Suecia. Mus. nostr. 

 DESCR, CORPUS atrum, pilositate parv& obscurum. 



Caput inter oculos striato-rugulosum, fovea leviter im- 

 pressum. Rostrum longius, punctulatum, apice nitidum, 

 basi latius, et insuper utrinque dente brevi seu tu- 

 berculo acutiusculo, quo insidunt antennae, munitum. 

 Antenna longiores, postica?. Oculi subprominuli. 

 Truncus cylindricus, leviter punctulatus, postice lineolA 

 dorsali exaratus. Scutellum minutissimum. Coleoptra 

 oblongo-ovata, viridescentia aut caerulea, ex pilositate 

 obscura, striata : striis punctatis ;. interstitiis pla'nius- 

 ■culis* 

 That this is the Curculio cyaneus of De Geer, and Attelabus 

 teneus, variety ]3, of Paykull, appears not only from their re- 

 spective descriptions, but also from the circumstance of their 

 finding it upon the thistle; (it is the only species I find upon 

 that plant in this country) yet is it neither Curculio cyaneus of 

 Linne, (for reasons before assigned) nor a variety of Attelabus 

 teneus of Fabricius, for it is considerably smaller than the latter 

 insect, and wants the remarkable furrow between the eyes which 

 distinguishes it; its elytra also are of a different colour, with 



punctured 



