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XV. Descriptions of Seven new Species of Apion. Bi/ the Rev. 



William Kirbi/, F.L.S. 



Read December 3, 1809. 



I BKG leave to offer to the Linnean Society a description of some 

 species of y^pion which I have met with since my paper* upon 

 that genus was printed, together with a few additional remarks 

 upon some of those already described. 



62. APION GENIST.^. 



A. nigrum albido-villosum, elytris villoso-cinereis : vittd rectA 

 albida, pedibus rufis : plantis atris. 



Long. Corp. li lin. 

 Habitat in Anglian Genistd tinctoriit Dom. Scales. Mas. Dom. 



Marsham, Mihie, Scales, Spence, Geo. Sowerby, nostr. 

 DESCR. CORPUS nigrum,pilisdecumbentibus albidis incanum. 

 • Caput rariCis pilosum. Jlos/rMm mediocre, filiforme, de- 

 orsuni spectans, subarcuatum, nitidum, pone antennas 

 incrassatum. Antennce a^yxd basin rostro subtus insertfe, 

 mediocres nigrae : articulo primo rufo. Oculi magni' 

 prominuli. 



Tr UNCUS subglobosus, anticfe angustior, excavato-punc- 



* Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. ix. p. i. 



tatus : 



