74 i&V Km by on Herbst's Genus Apion. 



Truncus levissime et creberrime punctulatus, posticfc 



lineol& dorsali exaratus. Scutellum minutissimum. CV 



leoptra ovata, acuta, atro-caerulea, striata: striis sub- 



puiictatis ; interstitiis convexiusculis. 



Obs. — Alter sexus variat corpore magis piloso, capite punctulato, et 



inter oculos insuper obsolete canaliculate, rostro subfiUformi punc- 



tnlis admodum conspicuis obscurato, et, postremo, elytris virides- 



centibus. 



Mr. Marsham entertained doubts, whether this was the Cur- 

 culio aterrimus of Linne : in my opinion, that which I have de- 

 scribed above from the Linnean cabinet possesses a stronger 

 claim to be considered as the true one ; but the description in 

 Fauna Suecica, unless the original specimen had existed, is too 

 general to decide the question. Linne says, however, Elytra 

 punctis striata, which will scarcely agree with Apion oxurum, in 

 which the punctures in the furrows of the elytra are not easily 

 discoverable. The term punctis striata, taken in strictness, 

 should signify that the elytra had no furrows, but merely punc- 

 tures arranged in lines, a circumstance observable in no insect of 

 this genus, that I have ever examined. 



58. APION ^ENEUM. 



A. atrum glabrum, coleoptris ovatis acutis aeneis viridescente- 

 caeruleisve, fronte canaliculate 



Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 101. 1. t. 102. fig. 1 — A. 

 Attelabus seneus. Fabr. Ent. Syst. Em. i. b. 389. 23. Syst. Eleuth. 



ii. 423.37. Fanz. Ent. Germ. 296. 11. Fayk. Faun. Suec. iii. 



179- 14. 

 Curculio aeneus. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 243. 13. Gmel 1748. 132. 



Fill. Ent. Eur. i. 187- 41. iv. 267. Fayk. Man. Cure. 134. 



Var. £. 



