78 Mr. Km by on Hcrbst's Genus Apion. 



red ; the rostrum is longer in proportion ; the thorax is of a dif- 

 ferent shape, channelled behind, with a margin next the head ; 

 the clava also of the antennae is more distinctly jointed ; besides 

 this, it is' three times as big as the other. 



Fabricius, in his Sy sterna FJe ut her at or urn, has placed Curculio 

 purpureas of Linne in the synonymy of Attelabus frumentarius, 

 regarding, I suspect, my Apion frumentarinm as that insect, and 

 Apion hamatocles as the Linnean Curcidio frumentarius, the for- 

 mer being of a much brighter colour than the latter: but neither 

 of these will agree with the term by which Linne defines the ros- 

 trum of his C. purpureus — " longissimum" since both of them 

 have a very short rostrum. What the true C. purpureus is, seems 

 not now to be known : there is no specimen of it in the Linnean 

 cabinet. Petiver's specimen was found in England, but it 

 does not appear to have been taken since his time. According 

 to Linne, Apion frumentarinm is very destructive to the grain of 

 wheat. I generally find it upon the common dock, which other 

 entomologists have done both here and on the continent, as was 

 observed under the preceding species. The larva and imago 

 may perhaps live in different situations. 



ADDENDUM. 



After the Synopsis Specierum, and nearly the whole of this 

 paper were printed, I met with the following fine nondescript 

 species, which ought to follow Apion affine, iu 50. 



61. APION LIMONJT. 



A. aeneum, supra purpurascente-cupreum, coleoptris obovatis, 

 rostro crassiusculo. Tab. 1. fig, 20. 



Long. Corp. 2 I'm. 7 . 1 lin. 

 Habitat in Angliae Statices Limonii foliis. Apud-Holme-juxta 



• mare 



