Mr. KiuBr on Herbsfs Genus Apion. JS 



Var. (3. 

 Curculio chalceus. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 243. 12. 

 Attelabus cyaneus. Panz. Faun. Germ. Ink. 20. t. 12. 



Long. Corp. 2 lin. 

 Habitat in Angliae Malvis et Columniferis. Mas. nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS atrum, glaberrimum, nitidiusculum. 



Caput postice laevissimum, inter oculos punctulatum, 

 sulco intermedio profundius exaratum. Rostrum pan 16 

 brevius, crassiusculum, punctulatissimum, apud an- 

 tennarum insertionem utrinque tumidulum. Antenna 

 paulo longiores, pone medium rostro insidentes. Oculi 

 subprominuli. 



Tkuncus leniter et creberrime punctulatus, antice sub- 

 marginatus, postice lineola ante scutellum exaratus. 

 Scutellum minutum. Coleoptra ovata, seneo nitidula, 

 striata: striis impunctatis; interstitiis convexiusculis. ? 

 Var. /3. Rostro breviori quam in a , thorace postice puncto 

 impresso nee lineola, elytris viridescente-ca?ruleis. 

 Mr. Marsham observes under his Curculio ceneus, speaking of 

 its resemblance to the preceding species (Curculio chalceus)~An 

 species disiincta? An sexus differentia? . When we consider that 

 these are in almost every respect the counterparts of each 

 other, even to the little channel drawn visibly between the eyes, 

 differing scarcely in any thing except a slight variation in the 

 colour of the elytra, we shall be inclined to adopt the latter 

 opinion, especially when the following circumstance, that they 

 feed together upon the same plants, is taken into consideration. 

 Influenced by these reasons, 1 have given them as varieties Va- 

 riety /3 is evidently Panzer's Attelabus cyaneus, who took it upon 

 Alcea rosea, a plant upon which it abounds, as well as on other 



L 2 Column if erce, 



