228 LNovember, 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF APION FEOM THE 

 SHETLAND ISLES. 



BY TUE REV. T. BLACKBURN, B.A. 



Apion Etei, n. s. 



OhJonffum, nigrum, nitidum ; rostro arctiato, tlwrace longiore, fem- 



ince lonrjiore guam maris, medio dilatato, pmictato ; antennis hrevihus, 



articulo primo bnsi testaceo ; femorihus (^apice excepto) tibiisque anticis 



Jlavis ; thorace hrevi, lato, laterihus rotundatis, parce profunde pmictato ; 



elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis vix elevatis. 



Long. corp. 1\ — 1^ lin. 



This species is separated from all the rest in the group with the 

 femora and anterior tibia) alone yellow, by its short broad sparingly 

 punctured thorax (which is scarcely, if at all, longer than broad) the 

 sides of which are very evidently rounded. Its rostrum is as strongly 

 arched as in ononidis, from which, however, besides the thoracic and 

 other characters, its short dark antenna? (resembling those of assimile) 

 distinguish it. It appears to me most nearly allied iofagi, from which 

 it differs (besides the thoracic characters) by its shorter rostrum and 

 anteunse, the greater arcuation of the former, and the darker base of 

 the latter. Its larger size, apart from thoracic and other differences, 

 at once removes it from assimile and trifolii. 



I have examined the European collection at the British Museum, 

 and descriptions of all European species of Apian I could ascertain to 

 have been described in the yellow-legged group, without finding any- 

 thing like this insect. I should have wished to forward it to M. 

 Wencker, as the highest authority on the genus, before taking any 

 further step, but his untimely decease has prevented my doing so. 

 Under the circumstances, I think I am justified as describing it as 

 new. I dedicate it, as a tribute of respect, to my friend Mr. E. C. Eye. 



This insect was obtained, first by my friend Mr. C. E. Lilley, and 

 subsequently by myself, by promiscuous sweeping in the Shetland 

 Islands, last July. Unfortunately, I mistook it at the time for fagi, 

 and did not give particular attention to its food-plant. 



Greenliitho : October, 1874. 



DESCRIPTION OF a NEW SPECIES of ERIOCAMPA FROM SCOTLAND ; 



WITH NOTE ON A VARIETY OF TAXONUS EQUISETI, FALL. 



BY P. CAMERON, JuH. 



EeIOCAMPA TESTACEIPES, sp. 11. 



E. nigra, nitida, genuhus, tihiis, taj'sisque testaceis ; alis suh- 

 fumaiis. Long. corp. 2 Jin. ; exp. alar. 5 lin. 



