!Mr. J. \\"altou un the genus Apion. 337 



which is now in the collection of ^Ir. Kiiby, and the other in that 

 of Mr. Stephens ; these are the only specimens knoAra. 



49. A.jlavipes, Fab. (1781), Herbst, Kirb., Gyll., Germ., Steph., 



Schonh. 

 Common on the white or Dutch clover [Trifolium repens), 

 Uv. Kirby. 



50. A. nigj-itarse, Kirb., Germ., Stcph., Schonh. 



— IVnterhousci, Scbiinh. 



The tyjjical example of the last-named insect being in the ca- 

 binet of Mr. Waterhouse, I have had ample opj)ortuuity of exami- 

 ning it ; it is doubtless a female variety of the present species, 

 having the tibiae obscure testaceous. 



Found rather abundantly on vai'ious plants, which renders its 

 habitat uncertain. 



51. ^. assimile, Kirb., Germ,, Gyll., Steph., Schonh. 



— (var. b.) flavipes, Gyll. vol. iii. 



Taken occasionally in profusion from April to October in red 

 clover fields, pastures, meadows, and on hedge-banks, frequently 

 in company with the two following species {Ap. Fagi and Ap. 

 Trifulii) . 



52. A. Fagi, Linn., Kirb. 

 Cure. Fagi, Mus. Linn. 



A. apricans, Hcrbst, Germ., Gyll., Steph., Schonh. 



— Fagi, Mus. Kirb. 



— fiavifeinoratum, Kirb., not Herbst. 



The law of priority requires that the name given by the illus- 

 trious naturalist should be restored to this species. 



Mr. Kirby has demonstrated* that the original specimens now 

 preserved in the Linnpean museum are " beyond all question '* 

 the true Cure. Fagi of Linnaeus. I have recently rigorously re- 

 examined and compared these specimens with all the yellow- 

 legged Apions that are liable to be confounded with them, and I 

 can now affirm, without the least hesitation or doubt, that they 

 are two immature males of Ap. apricans of Herbst : the form of 

 the rostrum being nearly straight; the pale yellow basal joints of 

 the antennse, their shallow subremote punctures on the disc of 

 the thorax, the pallid or pale yellow trochanters and femora, 

 distinguish them from all the other albed species. 



Ap. Fagi of Kirby is described by him from the above-named 

 Linna^an examples. There is an insect in the Kirbian collection 

 of Apions vdth the name " Fagi " ; it is fastened ujjon a piece of 

 paper with giun, and compressed to imitate the Linnsean spcci- 



* Linn. Tvans. ix. p. 41. 



