310 CANARIAN COLEOPTERA. 



491. Apion chalybeipenne. 



Apion chah beipenne, Schon., ined. (teste Bohemati). 



,'Woll., Ins. Mad 413 (1854). 



■ , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 122 (1857). 



Habitat in Fuerteventura, TeneriiFa, Palma et Hierro, passim. 



The A. chalijheipenne, so well distinguished by its rather large size, 

 elliptic outHne, and submetaUic surface (especially, hoAvever,of the ely- 

 tra), which is sparingly besprinkled all over with decumbent cinereous 

 piliform scales, by its somewhat elongate deeply sculptui'ed rostrum 

 (which has the antenna3 inserted into it at a considerable distance 

 from the base), its regularly punctured prothorax, and its subarcuated 

 anterior tibia), is widely distributed over the Canarian archipelago — 

 where indeed in all probabihty it will be found to be universal. 1 

 have taken it near IS*'' Cruz, Orotava, and at the Agua Mansa, in 

 Teneriffe ; in the Barranco da Agua, of Palma ; and in Hicri'o. It 

 was captured by Mr. Gray in Fuerteventura and Palma, and by Dr. 

 Crotch in Teneritfe. In the Madeiran Group it is miiversal, occurring 

 in Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and on the Desertas. 



492. Apion calcaratum, n. sp. 



A. subopacum, nigrum elytris obsoletissime subviolaceis vel subajneo- 

 metallicis, pube minuta cinerea demissa parce tectum ; rostro elon- 

 gate, tereti, arcuato, ad antennarum insertioncm paulo incrassato 

 et una cum capite prothorace(]ue alutaceo ; illo longitudinaliter 

 striguloso ; hoc subcylindrico, profundc rugoso-punctato et postice 

 iu medio fovea impresso ; elytris grosse crenato-striatis, utrinque 

 juxta scutellum in plaga minutissima albido-squamosis ; an tennis 

 pedibusque robustis, nigris, parce cinereo-pubcscentibus ; tibiis an- 

 ticis subarcuatis. 



Mas tibiis anticis e\'identius curvatis necnon ad angulum internum in 

 spinam minutam acutissimam productis. — Long. corp. lin. l|^-l-l^. 



Habitat in Hierro, in regione " El Golfo " sylvatica repertum. 



This species might perhaps be regarded as the representative in 

 these islands of the common European A. carduorum ; and its habits I 

 believe are similar — the only four examples which I have seen having 

 been brushed from off thistles, during February 1858, in the sylvan 

 region of El Golfo, on the western side of Hierro. It is in fact about 

 the same size as, and with much the general aspect of, the A. car- 

 duorum ; nevertheless, when aceiu-ately inspected, it will be seen to 

 be abundantly distinct. Thus, it is more thickly clothed with a de- 

 cumbent cinereous pubescence ; its elytra are a little more ovate, 

 more coarsely crenate-striated, and furnished on cither side of the 

 scutellum with an exceedingly minute dash of paler scales ; its pro- 



