314 CANARIAN COLEOPXKRA. 



This Apion, which is most ;ibunclant, and universal, in the Ma- 

 cleiran Group (occurring iu Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and on the 

 Desertas), is equally common at the Canaries — where, although it 

 does not happen as yet to have been observed in Gomera, it is 

 doubtless universal throughout the central and western portions of 

 the archipelago. Whether, however, it exists in the two eastern 

 islands, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, is perhaps questionable, as I 

 have myself collected with great assiduity in both of them and have 

 not detected it. But in Grand Canary, TenerifFe, Palma, and Hierro 

 I have met with it in profusion — chiefly in semicultivated spots of 

 intermediate elevations. My Teneriffan examples are principally 

 from the vicinity of S*'' Cruz, Taganana, Las Mercedes, the Agua 

 Garcia, and Orotava ; and the Palman ones from the Barranco da 

 Agua. In TenerifFe it was found also by Dr. Crotch, and in Palma 

 and Hierro by Mr, Gray. Its anteriorly acute and posteriorly 

 rounded outline, in conjunction with its small and narrow prothorax, 

 dark hue but more or less metallic elytra (which are exceedingly 

 convex, and have their stria? very coarsely crenate), and its slender 

 rostrum and limbs, will at once distinguish it from the other species 

 here enumerated. 



498. Apion ceuthorhynchoides, n. sp. 

 A. curtulum, nigrum elytris obsoletissime subcyanescentibus, squamis 

 cinereis demissis piUformibus parce vestitum ; rostro bre\dusculo, 

 crassiusculo, lineari, tereti, arcuato, parce punctidato ; capite pro- 

 thoraceque alutaceis, illo inter oculos magnos longitudinaliter stri- 

 guloso, hoc brevi transverse convexo punctato foveaque centrali 

 antiee evanescente canahculato ; elytris nitidioribus, convexis, sub- 

 quadrato-oblongis, punctato-striatis. — Long, corp. lin. 1. 



Habitat Teneriffam, a Dom. Gray prope Portum Orotavse Januario 

 A.D. 1858 semel repertum. 



Like the A. austrinum, this little Ap'ioti is hitherto unique, — a 

 single example, captured by Mr. Gray near the Puerto Orotava, in 

 the winter of 1858, being the only one which has as yet come be- 

 neath my notice. It may, however, be easily known from the other 

 species here enumerated by its smaU size and thickish form, by its 

 abbreviated and ventricose prothorax, convex, more shining, and ob- 

 soletely subcyaneous elytra (which are of a rather elongate -quadrate 

 outline, and a good deal obliquely-truncated at the shoulders), and 

 by its somewhat short and thick (though linear) rostrum. Altogether 

 it is a little suggestive prima facie of a minute, dark, elongate Ceu- 

 thorhynclius ( particulai-ly of those species allied to the common Eu- 



