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A. pale sanguineous (the eyes being aloue black), opake, and sparingly besprinkled with a fine 

 cinereous pubescence. Rostrum rather short (though somewhat longer than in the A. Malva) 

 and robust, slightly shining, — and with the antennse inserted into it at a considerable distance in 

 front of its base. Prothorax with its posterior margin straightly truncated ; closely and deeply 

 punctured. Elytra ovate, deeply crenate-striated, and entire at their apes. Antennce and %« 

 scarcely pajer than the rest of the surface. 



The bright red, or pale sanguineous, hue of the present Apioii (its eyes alone 

 ])eing black) Avill at once serve to distinguish it from the other species with which 

 Ave have here to do. It is a universal insect throughout Europe, — ^and widely 

 scattered (though somewhat sparingly) over Madeira at rather low and inter- 

 mediate elevations. I have taken it in the neighboui-hood of Funchal; at the 

 Ribeiro Frio ; as also (in the north of the island) at Sao Vincente and Santa Anna : 

 and I have Likewise captured it in Porto Santo. 



317. Apion chalybeipenne. 

 A. elongatum nigrum subnitidum, squamulis cinereis subtilibus parce irroratum, rostro elongato 

 arcuate, prothorace profunda punctato et postice in medio leviter canahculato, elytris subellipticis 

 crenato-striatis et obscure subsenescenti-viridescentibus, antennis ad basin ipsam rufo-ferrugineis. 

 Var. /3. omnino (prsesertim in elytris) chalybeum et minus cinereo-pubescens. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1|^-1|. 



Apion ehalyheipenne, Schon. in lift, (teste Dom. Bohemann). 



Habitat in montibus Maderre Portusque Sancti, prssertim super folia Malvarum, tempore vernali 

 et sestivo non infrequens : varietatem /3. ad Feijaa de Corte solum vidi. 



A. elongate, black (except on the elytra), slightly shining, and sparingly besprinkled with small, 

 exceedingly deciduous, cinereous scales. Rostrum long and arcuated (being more curved than in 

 any of the other species), — and with the antennfe inserted into it at a considerable distance in 

 front of its base. Prothorax with a very faint tendency to have its posterior margin sinuated; 

 deeply and regularly punctured, but not quite so closely so as in the preceding species ; and with 

 an impressed central channel behind. Elytra subelliptical (being widest about the middle), and 

 crenate-striated ; a little acuminated at their apex, — where each of them has a slight tendency to 

 be separately rouuded-off; of a more or less obscure brassy-green tinge. Antennx and legs 

 rather robust ; the former with their extreme base rufo-ferruginous. 

 Var. j3. altogether of a chalybeous, or bluish, lustre (especially on the elytra) ; and with less appear- 

 ance of the small cinereous scales or pubescence. 



Very closely aUied to the common A. rad loins of more northern latitudes, — 

 from which it differs in being a little smaller, in having its rostrum and limbs 

 somewhat shorter and less thickened, in its antennae being more evidently ferru- 

 ginous at their extreme base, and in its surface being usually more besprinkled 

 with minute cinereous scales. The var. |3. however is often almost free from 

 pubescence, — nevertheless that particular state recedes entii'ely from the A. radi- 



