Mr. J. Walton on the f/riws Apinn. 395 



and very finely punctured, with a small ronnd f<n-ea before the 

 scutelluni. I forwarded to Gerniar seven exanijilcs of Ap. ebe- 

 nimtm of Kirhy, and at the same time I solicited him to send mc 

 specimens of Ap. Kanzci, as he had recorded in his ' Mono<;raph ' 

 that he possessed examples of Ap. ehenininn from Kunze of Leipsic. 

 1 received from him two insects named " Ap. eheniuam of Ger- 

 mar " with the following note : " Ap. Kunzci, Schonh., is un- 

 known to me ;" the specimens which I forwarded to Germar were 

 taken promiscuously from the same series as those I had pre- 

 viously sent to Schonherr, and were collected in the same locality ; 

 Germar, in prefacing his observations upon the British s})ecies of 

 Curculionides, presented to him by me for examination, observes, 

 that " all the species in which we concur are omitted," and Ap. 

 eheninum is one of that number. I have now in my possession 

 two insects which were sent to M. SehonhciT by Mr.AV^atcrhouse, 

 and returned in October 1837, named Ap. eheninum. 



I have been induced to re-examine the insects in Mr. Kirby's 

 collection with the name of Ap. eheninum, to examine carefully 

 the sj)ecimens of Mr. Waterhouse, and the two insects from Dr. 

 Germar, together with a long series of seventy specimens of my 

 own, found partly in the same locality as those I sent to M. Schcin- 

 hcrr; and after a tedious and minute examination of so many 

 insects, I feel perfectly satisfied they all belong to the same 

 species. 



This remarkable insect has very little affinity to any other 

 species, except its being of the same genus, and may be cHstin- 

 guished at first sight by its singular form and peculiar sculpture ; 

 nevertheless the sculpture, particularly on the thorax, will be 

 found, when critically examined, to vary in many specimens, yet 

 they are so intimately linked together in a long series, that it 

 is impossible to regard them otherwise than as varieties. The 

 majority have the head with three impunctate striae between the 

 eyes, the central stria frequently deeply cut, sometimes faintly 

 marked, oecasionaDy abbreviated, rarely entirely absent, with one 

 or two rows of minute punctures on each side, which are occa- 

 sionally confluent, the vertex smooth ; the greater part have the 

 thorax veiy minutely punctured, the punctures more or less scat- 

 tered, sometimes distinct, at other times obsolete, uniformly with 

 a fovea near the base before the scutellura, which is invariably 

 intersected either by a dorsal furrow or an impressed line, always 

 commencing at the base, and more or less abbreviated in front, 

 rarely contiiuied to the apex ; some have the furrows broad and 

 deep, extending nearly to the apex, almost obliterating the fovea3 ; 

 these varieties agree with the descriptions of Ap. eheninum by 

 Kirby, anj of Ap. Kunzei of Schonherr : other specimens have a 



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