Mr. Kir by on Herbst's Genus Apion. 77 



60. APION FRUMENTARIUM. 



A. sanguineum, ocuJis nigris, thorace subgloboso : postice ca- 

 nalicular. 



Herbst. Natursyst. vii. 107. 6. t. 102./. 6-—F. 



Curculio frumentarius. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed, 12. 608. 15. Faun. 



Suec. 586. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 242. U. Gmel. 17 "4.5. 15. VilL 



Ent. Eur. i. 177- 12. Jc*. M<iro*. iii. 391. 10. Faun. Etrusc. 



SO). Flelw. 301. JW. JWW. 10. 94. Payk. Mon. Cure. 130. 



^<tf. #?ae#&. 1750. 186. 1. Lewenh. Arc. 183. ^wg. 6. ^. 83./. 1* 

 Curculio sanguineus. Dc Geer. v. 251. 40. 

 Attelabus frumentarius. Fabr. Ent. Syst. Em. i. b. 392. 35. Syst. 



Elcuth. ii. 427. 59. Payk. Faun. Snec. iii. 177. 10. Faun. lug* 



320. Panz. Ent. Germ. 298.24. Faun. Germ. Init. 20. t. 14. 



JValck. Faun. Paris, i. 237. 15. Latr. Hist. Nat. #c. xi. 90. 

 Rhinomacer frumentarius. Ent. Helv. 109. 1» t. 13./. 1, 2. 



Long. Corp. 2± lin. 



Habitat in Europa frequens. Tn frumento diutius asservato pes- 

 simus. Linn. Imago in Lapathis passim obvia. Mus. nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS laete sanguineum, ex pilositate quadam 

 parva obscurum* 



Caput vix thorace brevius, punctulatum. Rostrum bre- 

 vius, crassiusculum, basi punctulatum, apice laeve niti- 

 dum. Antenna longiores, pone medium rostri insertae : 

 clavae articulis subdistinctis. Oculi nigri, prominuli. 

 Truncus subglobosus, antice marginatus, punctulatissi- 

 mus, postice canaliculatus. Scutellum minutissimum* 

 Coleoptra ex oblongo obovata, sulcata : sulculis punc- 

 tatis ; interstitiis convexis vix sulculis latioribus. 

 Var. (3. ex sanguineo flavicans. 

 This insect, although very similar to the last, differs from it 

 in some material characters. The colour is more of a blood 

 • red; 



