150 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Apion. 
sometimes rather rugosely punctured, with a distinct channel at base ; 
the elytra are elongate ovate, with moderately strong punctured strie. 
L. 13-2 mm. 
On white clover (Trifolium repens), Spirea, &c.: common and geverally distri- 
buted throughout the kingdom; it extends over Europe and Northern Asia. 
I have adopted Bedel’s name for this species, as the common name 4. 
flavipes has been applied tu several insects by different authors, and it 
does not seem at all clear to what species the original type must be 
assigned ; it is better therefore to adopt an entirely new name. 
A_nigritarse, Kirby. Smaller than the preceding from which it 
may at once be known by the more finely punctured and smoother thorax, 
and by the fact that the male has the anterior half of the rostrum yellow- 
red; the anterior coxe are red in both sexes, and the antenne are reddish- 
yellow except the club, whereas in A. dichroum the anterior coxe are 
black in the female, and the apical half of the funiculus of the antennz 
is black in both sexes. L. 1} mm. 
On various species of Zyifoliwm, and also on other Jow plants; common and gen- 
erally distributed throughout England from the Manchester and Liverpool district 
southwards; recorded by Bold as not common in the Northumberland and Durham 
district, and by Dr. Sharp as occurring oply in the Solway district of Scotland; Ire- 
land, Dublin, &c.; the larve of the clover-feeding species appear to be almost always 
found in the flower-heads. 
The A. Waterhouset of Boheman is, according to Walton, a variety of 
the female of this species with the tibiz obscurely testaceous. 
Group 7—22. 
The whole of the species in the remaining groups have the body black 
or metallic with the legs entirely dark (except A. annulipes, which has a 
testaceous ring at the base of the tibie in male, A. flavimanum which has 
the base of the tibie yellow-brown in both sexes, the colour being often 
vbscure, and A. filirostre which sometimes has a testaceous ring at the 
apex of the anterior femora) ; the chief distinguishing characters will be 
found in the table of species (pp. 184 et seqq.), 
Group 7. 
Rather small narrow species, with the forehead marked with two dis- 
tinct furrows in the form of a V (on Corymbifere). 
A. confluens, Kirby. Rather narrow, black, somewhat shining, 
clothed with distinct but fine and sparse pubescence; head almost as 
broad as the anterior margin of thorax, finely shagreened, rostrum 
slightly curved, about as long as head and thorax, antenne rather stout, 
inserted near base of rostrum ; thorax almost cylindrical, a little lorger 
than broad, sparingly and finely punctured with a small fovea at base ; 
