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either the northern or southern Desertas, or in Lanzarote of the latter 

 (unless indeed the following species be but a modification of it), there 

 cannot be much doubt that it will be found ultimately to exist in 

 them no less than it does in the various other islands, in each of 

 which it has been taken (more or less abundantly). 



808 Apion German. 



Apion Germari, Walton, Ann. Nat Hist. xiii. 456 (1844). 



albopilosum, Lucas, Col. de PAlgerie, 408, pi. 35. f. 5 (1849). 



Germari, Woll., Cat. Can. Col 308 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Lanz., Fuert.), plerumque folia Mercurialis 

 annuce nisi fallor edens. 



Found in Lanzarote and Euerteventura, the two eastern islands of 

 the Canarian Group, and so nearly related to the preceding species 

 that I should scarcely have ventured to separate it therefrom had 

 not Mr. Haliday informed me that he considered it to be identical 

 with an Apion (" distinct from the sagittiferum ") which he had 

 captured in Italy. The latter species he identified with the Algerian 

 albopilosum and the European Germari ; and since both his Italian 

 examples and my Lanzarotan ones were taken off the Mercurialis 

 annua, there seemed every reason to conclude that they (at all events) 

 were conspecific. 



Assuming therefore my Lanzarotan (and a few of the Euerteven- 

 turan) specimens to be rightly referred to the European A. Germari, 

 it certainly follows that the sagittiferum approaches that species very 

 closely. Nevertheless its habits appear to be different ; and it has 

 also a few permanent characters of its own (even though small ones), 

 which have been fully alluded to in my Canarian Catalogue. 



809. Apion chalybeipenne. 



Apion chalybeipenne, Schon., ined. (teste Boheman). 



Wott., Ins. Mad. 413 (1854). 



, Id., Cut. Mad. Col 122 (1857). 



f 2d., Cat. Can. Col. 310 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to , Des.} et Canarienses (Fuert., Ten., 

 Gom., Palma, Hierro), foliis Malvarum gaudens. 



Like the A. sayittiferum, this Apion will probably be found to be 

 universal throughout these Atlantic islands where it occurs on the 

 foliage of Mallows, at low and intermediate elevations. It has been 

 taken in Madeira proper, Porto Santo, and the Deserta Grande, of 

 the Madeiran Group, and in all the Canarian islands except Lan- 





