306 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



tarsisque (proesertim versus fvpices) obscurioribus, horum articulo 

 primo minus elongato quam in A. conicicolli. 

 Far. ft. Eostro vix longiorc ; prothorace angustiore, magis cylindrico ; 

 tarsis omnino palliclis. — Long. corp. lin. l^— 1^. 



Habitat in Canaria Grandi, rarissimus : "var. /3 " ad TenerifFam 

 pertinct. 



This appears to be a smaller insect than the A. cylindricoUis, and 

 its punctation is both denser and less coarse ; its rostrum is rather 

 shorter, narrower, more shining and less sculptured, and has the an- 

 tenna} (which are somewhat slenderer) inserted, if anything, even still 

 more evidently into its extreme base ; its forehead is convexer ; its 

 eyes smaller ; and its prothorax is more abbreviated and less cylindric 

 — being about equalhj rounded at cither side. Its colour is variable ; 

 nevertheless its feet and antennal club would seem perhaps to be 

 more evidently infuscated. The normal state I have observed hitherto 

 only in Grand Canary (principally in the Barranco of Mogan) ; but a 

 single example captured at the Agua Mansa in TenerifFe offers slight 

 modifications in its features (indicated above), though, I think, of 

 scarcely sufficient importance to warrant its specific separation from 

 the Grand-Canarian ones. 



(Subfam. APIONIDES.) 



Genus 197. APION. 

 Ilerbst, Kiif. vii. 100 (1797). 



§ I. Antcnnoi aut versus basin aut (jxirius') pone medium rostri inserta'. 



486. Apion senex, n. sp. 

 A. testaceum, fronte (angusta), prothorace elytrorumque sutura ni- 

 gr-escentibus, opacum, squamis valde robustis albidis omnino de- 

 pressis (ncc piliformibus ) dense (in disco elytrorum postico minus 

 dense) tectum ; rostro in fcemineis tenuissimo, tereti, arcuato, valde 

 pallido, glabro, polito, minutissime et parce punctulato (fere, nisi 

 oculo armato, impunctato) ; prothorace elytrisque ad basin inter se 

 latitudine subajqualibus, his ovato-oblongis, subpunctato-striatis ; 

 pedibus bre\T.bus, robustis, albido-squamosis ; antennis gracilibus, 

 paUidioribus. — Long. corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Palmam ; mense Maio a.d. 1858 specimina duo (foeminea) 

 in montibus supra Sanctam Crucem doprehendi. 



In its general aspect and testaceous hue, this little Apion seems, 

 at first sight, a good deal alUed to the common European A. malvce ; 

 nevertheless, when closely inspected, it will be perceived to be very 

 distinct in all its details. Thus, it is not only smaller and narrower 

 (the prothorax, however, being nlativehj broader— of about the 



