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hind the middle of the rostrum. I think, however, it is perhaps 

 better phiced in this situation than elsewhere. 



496. Apion fallax, n. sp. 



A. elongato-ovatum, subopacum, nigrum elytris plus minus obscure 

 subteneo-viridi-micantibus, ubiquc subtilissime alutaceum et pubc 

 minuta cinerca demissa parce vestitum ; rostro elongate, lineari, 

 tcreti, dense punctate ; capite prothoracoque profunde et dense 

 punctatis, hoc conico, postice in medio fovea punctiformi impresso ; 

 elytris subdepressis, crenato-striatis, interstitiis parce et subtilis- 

 sime punctulatis ; antennis pedibusque robustis, nigris. — Long. 

 Corp. lin. l|-2. 



Hah i tat in Lanzarota, Canaria, Teneriffa, Palma et Hierro, sat 

 frequens. 



Apparently the representative in these islands of the common Eu- 

 ropean A. violaceum. It is, however, on the average, larger than 

 that insect ; and the colour of its elytra is never cyaneous-blue, but 

 of a more or less obscure brassy-green ; its rostrum is rather longer, 

 and, together with the head and prothorax, more thickly, though 

 somewhat more finely, punctured ; its prothorax is more conical, or 

 less rounded at the sides ; and its elytra are a trifle more depressed, 

 and with their strise much less coarsely crenated. In its general 

 prima facie aspect it is perhaps closer still to the (nearly allied) A. 

 hydrolapathi; nevertheless its longer rostrum and somewhat robuster 

 limbs, in conjunction with its entire freedom from a prothoracic 

 channel (which, as in the violaceum, is replaced by a small central 

 punctiform fovea) and its more flattened, difierently coloured elytra, 

 the interstices of which (though minutely so) are more evidently 

 punctulated, will sufficiently distinguish it from that species also. 



The A. falhuv is probably universal throughout the archipelago, 

 though as yet it has been observed only in Lanzarote, Grand Canary, 

 Teneriffe, Palma, and Hierro. My Grand-Canarian examples are 

 principally from the region of El Monte ; the Tenerifian ones from 

 the vicinity of S*"" Cruz, Souzal, and Orotava ; and the Hierro ones 

 from the hills to the westward of Valverde. In Teneriffe it was 

 taken also by Mr. Gray and Dr. Crotch, the former of whom captured 

 it likewise in Palma. 



497. Apion rotundipenne. 



Anion rotundipenne, WoU.,Ins. Mad. 415. tab. viii. f. G (1854). 

 — . , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 122 (1857). 



Habitat in Canaria, Tcnerifta, Palma et Hierro, praoscrtim in cultis 



vulgaris. 



