412 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



oblongis), elytris ovatis striatis omniao (regione basali triangulari except^) testaceis, anteaais 

 pedibusque testaceis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1^. 



Curculio MalecB, Fab. Syst. Ent. 132 (1775). 



, Mshm, Ent. Brit. i. 246 (1802). 



Apion Malom, Schoa. Gen. et Spec. Cure. i. 272 (1833). 

 , Eedt. Fna Austr. 462 (1849). 



Habitat super folia Maivarum in locis subinferioribus Maderse, tempore vcrnali hinc inde vulgaris. 



A. rather short and robust, black, very slightly shining, and more or less clothed (usually not very 

 densely so on the elytra) with large (though somewhat deciduous) whitish or yellowish-white 

 scales. Rostrum rather short and thick, generally slightly denuded (and often paler) towards its 

 apex, — and with the antenna inserted into it at a considerable distance in front of its base. 

 Prothorax somewhat broad (especially behind), and with its posterior margin just perceptibly 

 sinuated ; rugosely punctured (the punctures being subcontluent, and more or less elongated or 

 oblong). Elytra ovate, and striated (the strise not being crenate, but simple) ; entire at their 

 apex ; and testaceous, — except tlic inner region of the base of each, which is obliquely darker (the 

 two together causing a large triangular dusky patch to appear about the region of the scutellum). 

 Antenna and leys robust, and testaceous. 



The A. JIalf(e, common througliout the Avhole of central and southern Eiu-ope, 

 and which perhaps has been imported into these islands from more northern 

 latitudes, may be known by its rather ovate and thickened form, by its pale 

 testaceous elytra and limbs (the former of which have merely a triangular patch 

 at their base darker), and hj the large, whitish, or yellowish- white scales with 

 which it is besprinkled. It is found on the foliage of plants (esiiecially Mallows), 

 during the spring months, in the vicinity of Funchal, — being by no means gene- 

 rally diffused, though in certain spots sufficiently abundant. I have taken it in 

 the Rev. E,. T. Lowe's garden at the Levada ; as also about half-way up the Ilibeii'o 

 de Santa Luzia, during my encampment there in May of 1849. 



316. Apion finunentaiium. 

 A. pallido-sanguineum (oculis solis nigris) opacum subtiliter cinereo-pubescens, rostro robusto, pro- 



thorace profunde et crebre punctato, elytris ovatis profunde crenato-striatis, antennis pedibusque 



vix pallidioribus. 

 Long. corp. lin. li-lf. 



Curculio frumeiitarius, Linn. Fna Suec. 175 (1761). 



, Payk. Moil. Cure. 139 (1792). 



Ajnon hwrnatodes, Stejih. III. Brit. Ent. iv. 174 (1831). 

 frumentarium, Schon. Oen. et Spec. Cure. i. 283 (1833). 



Habitat Maderam, et borealeni et australem, toto anno, passim : necnon in Porta Sancto, sed minus 

 frcquens occurrit. 



