CURCULIONID,E. 295 



Apion Wollastoni, WolL, Ins. Mad. 414, tab. viii. f. 4 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat., Can. Col. 122 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), inter Vicias in humidiusculis intermediis 

 minus frequens. 



A beautiful Apion, which has been observed hitherto only in Ma- 

 deira proper where it occurs (principally, I believe, on a species of 

 Vidd) at rather low and intermediate altitudes, and chiefly in the 

 north of the island. 



818. Apion umbrinum. 

 Apion umbrinum, WolL, Cat. Can. Col. 314 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Can., Ten., Gom., Palma, Hierro), in sylvaticis 

 subsylvaticisque vulgare. 



A common species throughout the sylvan and subsylvan districts 

 of all the Canarian islands except the two eastern ones (Lanzarote and 

 Fuerteventura), in which it has not been observed. I have taken 

 it in Grand Canary, TenerifFe, and Palma in the first and second 

 of which, as well as in Gomera and Hierro, it was found by the 

 Messrs. Crotch. It somewhat resembles the European A. ononis, of 

 which perhaps it may be regarded as the Canarian representative. 



819. Apion longipes. 



Apion longipes, Woll, Cat. Can. Col 315 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (Ten., Palma), in sylvaticis subsylvaticisque 

 hinc inde vulgare. 



A rather abundant Apion in the sylvan and subsylvan districts of 

 TenerifFe and Palma ; but hitherto it does not happen to have been 

 detected in any of the other islands. It is so closely allied to the 

 common European A. vorax that I am doubtful whether it should be 

 treated as more than a geographical phasis of that species. Indeed 

 it seems to differ from it, merely, in being a little larger and more 

 pubescent, and in having its legs still longer. The tarsi particularly 

 are modified in accordance with this last peculiarity ; for their basal 

 joint is very conspicuously more lengthened. 



(Subfam. XI. CEYPTOPHIDES.) 



Genus 252. SMICRONYX. 



Sckenkerr, Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. 423. [script. Micromjx] (1836), 



