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A Canarian Apion, of which two specimens were taken by myself 

 (during May of 1858) in the island of Palma ; and a third is now 

 before me, captured by the Messrs. Crotch (during the summer of 

 1864) in Gomera. 



805. Apion vernale. 



Attelabus vernalis, Fab., Etit. Syst. i. ii. 392 (1792). 

 Apion vernale, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. i. 273 (1833). 



Wall., Ins. Mad. 409 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 120 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 307 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Tbi., Hierro), plerumquo 

 super folia Urticce urentis in cultis inferioribus parce occurrens. 



The European A. vernale has been captured sparingly, on Nettles 

 (for the most part at low elevations, and about cultivated grounds), 

 both in the Madeiran and Canarian Groups namely, in Madeira 

 proper of the former, and in Teneriffe and Hierro of the latter. 



806. Apion delicatulum. 



Apion delicatulum, Woll., Cat. Mad. Col. 120 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col 307 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.) et Canarienses (Ten., @om., Palma, 

 Hierro)) in inferioribus intermediisque hand infrequens. Ad 

 folia Parietarice invenit cl. G. K. Crotch. 



Widely spread over these Atlantic islands, at low and intermediate 

 elevations, though nowhere very common. I have taken it in the 

 north of Madeira proper ; and it has been observed in Teneriffe, 

 Gomera, Palma, and Hierro, of the Canarian Group. Its occurrence 

 in Gomera is on the authority of the Messrs. Crotch, who obtained 

 an extensive series of it in that island, and who state that it is pecu- 

 liar to the Parietaria (or Pellitory). 



807. Apion sagittiferum. 



Apion Scigittiferum, Woll, Ins. Mad. 410 (1854). 

 - Id., Cat. Mad. Col 121 (1857). 

 , Id., Cat. Can. Col. 308 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P 10 S to , Des.) et Canarienses (in Lanz. 

 solahaud observatum), in subinferioribus intermediisque vulgare. 



There is no Apion so widely diffused over these Atlantic islands 

 as the present one. Indeed we may be nearly sure that it is abso- 

 lutely universal throughout the Madeiran and Canarian Groups ; for 

 although in the former it does not happen to have been observed on 



