164 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Apion. 
recorded from the north of England or from Scotland; Ireland, Phoenix Park, near 
Dublin. : 
The larva of this species has been observed in galls on the young shoots of 
U. nanus; it is 6 mm. in length when full grown, of a yellowish colour with the 
head reddish-brown ; the galls resemble threaded beads and do not injure the vegeta- 
tion (v. Wencker, Apionides, L’Abeille, p. 117). 
A. livescerum, Gyll. (reflexum, Gyll., hedysari, Walt.). Black, 
with a more or less bronze reflexion on thorax, and with the elytra blue 
or greenish-blue, sometimes black-blue ; pubescence very fine, scarcely 
evident; head rather broad, punctured and very finely, often obsoletely, 
striated between eyes which are a little prominent; rostrum cylindrical, 
slightly curved, rather strongly and very closely punctured, about as 
long as head and thorax ; antenne rather long, inserted at about the 
middle of rostrum ; thorax about as long as broad, scarcely narrowed in 
front, strongly punctured, the punctuation being sometimes closer and 
sometimes more diffuse, with a small stria or fovea before scutellum ; 
scutellum oval, furrowed; elytra rather short, convex, dilated behind 
middle, with deep and rather broad punctured striz, interstices some- 
what convex, finely and plainly shagreened ; legs black, moderately 
long. L. 25-2? mm. 
Male with the rostrum shorter and thicker and more closely puncturcd 
behind than in female, and the anterior margin of thorax more raised. 
On Onobrychis sativa ; in chalky districts; local; Darenth, Purley Downs, Chatham, 
Caterham, Mickleham, Dartford, Whitstable, Southend ; Swanscombe ; Birchington ; 
Brighton; Littlington, Cambridge; Knowle, near Birmingham; Bidston Hill, 
Liverpool, on heather, July (Ellis). 
A. Waltoni, Steph. (Curtisi, Boh., nee Walt.). Allied to A. 
livescerum, but smaller, more evidently pubescent, and with the punctua- 
tion of the thorax much finer ; head and thorax bluish or slate-coloured, 
more or less metallic, elytra bluish or slaty-blue ; vertex closely punc- 
tured, finely striated between eyes which are slightly convex ; rostrum 
a little longer than head and thorax, punctured ; antenne inserted about 
middle, rather long and slender ; thorax about as long as broad, with 
the sides subparallel and scarcely rounded, closely punctured, furrow 
before scutellum fine or obsolete; scutellum small; elytra convex, 
rather short aud broad, dilated behind middle, with the shoulders 
rounded, and the punctured striz not deep, interstices flat, broader than 
the striz, very finely shagreened ; legs black, not elongate. L. 2 mm. 
Chalky places; on Thymus serpyllum and other low plants ; often found in moss 
in winter ; very local, but not uncommon in the London district ; Reigate, Caterham, 
Mickleham (abundant, Power), Sevenoaks, Dartford, Chatham, Purley, Riddlesdown, 
near Croydon, Faversham; Brighton; Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth (Walker) ; 
Heysham (Power). 
A. loti, Kirby (angustatum, Kirby, modestum, Germ., glabratum, 
Germ.).. Black, clothed with evident, but not very close, ashy pubes- 
cence; head narrower than the anterior margin of the thorax, closely 
