76 Mr. Kirby on Herbst's Genus Apion, 



Columniferce, in our gardens. Had it the tubercles upon the 

 thorax, I should consider it as the Attelabus cyaneus of Fabricius, 

 to whose description in other respects it answers, and for the 

 habitat of which he gives the mallow. 



59. APION HJEMATODES. 

 A. rufum, Oculis nigris, rostro brevissimo. 

 Curculio coccineus. Mas. Leak. 18. 381 ? Gmcl. 1742. 558 ? 



Long. Corp. 1^ — H lin. 

 Habitat in AngliA. In gramine sub Ulice Europao semel plura 



inveni. Mus. nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS rufum, obscurum, pilis brevissimis, nisi 

 sub lente vix conspicuis, rarius con si turn. 



Caput thorace vix brevius, punctulatum. Rostrum bre- 

 vissimum, (in hoc genere) crassiusculum, punctulatum, 

 apice nitidum. Antenna longiores, mediae : clava ma- 

 juscula. Oculi nigri, prominuli. 

 Truncus subcylindricus, leviter punctulatus, lineola aut 

 puncto majori nullo. Scut ell um minutissimum. Cole- 

 opt ra oblongiuscula, striata : striis punctatis ; intersti- 

 tiis vix striis latioribus, convexis. 



This species, which is noticed by Herbst as a variety of Apion 

 frumentarium, appears nevertheless distinct from it, not only on 

 account of differences of character, which I shall notice here- 

 after, but also from the different situations in which they are 

 usually found ; this, namely, upon the .ground, and the other 

 upon the dock : such is Herbst's remark from Hedwig, which is 

 confirmed by my own observation, for I usually find Apion ha- 

 matodes upon the earth ; the other is common upon the dock in 

 this neighbourhood, and Mr. Dillwyn finds it upon the same 



plant in Wales. 



y 60. APION 



