CURCULIONID7E. — APION. 175 



whitish hairs : thorax with ashy pile, the sides whitish, rather broadest behind, 

 and with a short channel behind : coleoptra oblong-ovate striate, the striae 

 subpunctate; with decumbent ashy pile, with two oblique, undulated, //wcom^, 

 ^SihioVLS, fascicE : legs testaceous, with the joints of the tarsi black: coxas 

 black. Male smaller, with the rostrum shorter and clothed with an ashy pile. 



Common in the spring on the Ballota, Lamiura, and Urtica, neai' 

 Hertford, and in Suffolk. " Common on Urtica dioica (near Swan- 

 sea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 26. Onopordi. Atrum, glahrum, coleoptris ovatis nitide viridi-ceneis cwrule- 



scentibusve, thorace scahro. (Long. corp. ij — 2 lin.) 

 Ap. Onopordi. Kirbij.—Steph. Catal. 185. No. 1901. 



Black, glabrous, rather shining: head short, punctate, elevated behind, depressed 

 in front, rugulose, with confluent punctures between the eyes : rostrum mo- 

 derate, with the apex shining, a little incrassate behind the antenna; the 

 latter rather long, with the club ovate : eyes prominent : thorax subcylindric, 

 7'ough, vtith very large excavated confluent punctures, and a deeper short dorsal 

 line: coleoptra ovate, shining brassy-gTee?i or blue, sulcate, the sulci sub- 

 punctate, interstices rather flat. 



Not uncommon on Onopordum Acanthiura, and according to Mr. 

 Spence on docks and thistles. " Common near Bottisliam on the 

 Onopordum Acanthium." — Rev. L.Jenyns. " Among herbage, near 

 Danygraig." — L. W. Dillwyn^ Esq. 



Sp. 27. rugicolle. Atro wneum, glabrum, nitidum, thorace punctato-rugoso, late- 

 ribus rotund.ato, coleoptris ovalibus punctato-sulcatis, interstitiis striata punc~ 

 tails. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Ap. rugicolle. Germar. Mag. ii. 201. jd/. 3. f. 18.— Ap. scabricoUe. Steph. Catal. 

 185. N'o. 1902. 



Brassy-;6ZacA;, glabrous, shining: head short and small, punctate, obscurely 

 striated between the eyes, which are rather prominent: rostrum short, round, 

 moderately stout : antennse stout, moderate : thorax with the lateral margins 

 rounded, the disc very coarseli/ punctured, the punctures confluent and slightly 

 wrinkled : coleoptra ovate, Tpunctate-striate, with the interstices faintly punc- 

 tate, the punctures disposed in sirise. 



My specimens of this species I captured several years ago in the 

 vicinity of London. 



Sp. 28. penetrans. Atrum, griseo pilosum, thorace oblongo, postice canaliculato , 

 coleoptris oblongo-ovalibus, punctato-sulcatis. (Long. corp. I5 lin.) 



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