308 CAXAKIAN COLEOPTERA. 



and subdivaricated, at the apex ; by its antennae being slenderer, and 

 with their funiculus-joints laxer ; and by its legs being more infns- 

 cated — the femora (especially, however, the fonr hinder ones) being 

 more or less pieescent in the centre. 



489. Apion sagittiferum. 



A. fnsco-picenm, subopacnm, squamis snbtlavescenti-albidis adsper- 

 sum ; rostro in foemineis glabro, polito, minutissime et parce pnnc- 

 tnlato ; prothorace rugoso-pnnctato ; elytris crenato-striatis, ma- 

 cula seutellari svibsagittiformi et fascia postmedia transversa sub- 

 recta, communibus, pallido-ornatis ; antennis ad basin pcdibusque 

 obscure testaceis, illis versus apicem femoribus(|ue (pra?sertim in 

 medio) plus minus picescentioribus. 



Var. /3. Pedibus pallidioribus (an A. German melius referenda?). 

 \_Ins. Fuerteventura.] — Long. corp. lin. 1-1-g-. 



Apion sao-ittiferiuu, Woll, Ins. Mad. 410 (1854). 

 -, Id, Cat. Mad. Col. 121 (1857). 



Hahitat insulas Canarienses, in Lanzarota sola adhuc baud obser- 

 vatum. 



The A. sagittiferum, so abundant throughout the Madeiran Group, 

 is almost equally common at the Canaries — where, although hitherto 

 it does not happen to have been observed in Lanzarote (the specimens 

 from that island, as well as the generality of those from Fuerteventura, 

 pertaining apparently to the A. Germari), we may be pretty certain it 

 is universal. In the central and western portions of the archipelago 

 it is common ; but as it seems to be less so in Grand Canary, and stiU. 

 less in Fuerteventura, it is certainly possible that it maj' not occur 

 at all in Lanzarote — where its place is supplied by the A. Germari 

 (if indeed the two be really distinct from each other). My Teneriffan 

 specimens are principally from the mountains above S*'' Cruz, Taga- 

 nana, and Orotava ; in the last of which localities, as well as in Hierro, 

 it was found also by Mr. Gray. In Gomera I did not myself capture 

 it ; but it has been taken there, lately, by Dr. Crotch (who also met 

 with it in Teneriffe and Palma). 



490. Apion Germari. 



A. prsecedenti simile sed vix minus opacum squamisque paiJo albi- 

 dioribus adspersum ; rostro in foemineis vix latiore et paulo minus 

 evidentius punctulato ; elytris vix minus distincte albido-pictis 

 (fascia postmedia ssepius magis suffiisa indeterminata) ; pedibus 

 clarioribus, omnino pallidis. — Long. corp. lin. li. 



Apion Germari, Walton, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. 456 (1844). 



albopilosuni, Lucas, Col. de rAlr/erie, 408. pi. 35. f. 5 (1849). 



Hahitat in Lanzarota et Fuerteventura, prajciinie (nisi fallor) super 



folia Mercurialis annutr hine inde degens. 



