NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 99 



almost subulate rostrum, and by its longer antennae: the 

 female differs from A. assimile in its larger size, dull and very 

 closely rugose-punctate thorax and longer antennce ; and is 

 easily distinguished from the same sex in fagi by its very 

 strongly arched rostrum. All the femora are rufo-testaceous 

 (the anterior coxse and trochanters being also of that colour); 

 the anterior tibiae are very dusky testaceous, and the other 

 tibiffi black. 



Mr. Sharp's insects agree with a type sent by Schonberr 

 to the late Mr. Walton, and supposed to have been taken by 

 Gyllenhal ; and a specimen of Dr. Power's has (I believe) 

 been returned from the Continent as A. ononidis. 



Thomson, having examined the original specimens of 

 SchiJnherr's Apions, has identified Boheman's insect with 

 Gyllenhal's. The change of name will certainly avoid con- 

 fusion with the A. ononis of Kirby ; though, I suppose, 

 grammatical purists would have preferred the suppression of 

 the false genitive. 



62. SiTONES GRESSORius, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. ii. 465, 296 

 (Curcidio)', Redt. ; Allard, Ann. de la Soc. d. Fr. 

 Tom. xiv. 1864, 329 ; G. R. Crotch, " The Ento- 

 mologist," vol. i. p. 211, 147. 

 Mr. Crotch states that he has an example of this species 

 (mentioned as being likely to occur in England by me) 

 placed with Tanymecus palliatus in an old duplicate box of 

 insects taken by himself in the South of England ; and 

 there can, he thinks, be no doubt of its genuineness. 



From my note (Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 229), it will 

 be observed that this insect, re-united by Schonherr to 

 S. gjiseus, differs from that species in being larger, with the 

 head less inclined, and the eyes more prominent ; the head 

 and the thorax together, also, are longer in proportion, the 



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