CURCULIONIDiE. — APION. 187 



punctate-striate, the interstices rather flat : legs yellow, with black coxse and 

 tarsi. 

 The tibiae are sometimes piceous; and the anterior coxae are occasionally yellow. 



Very abundant, especially in tlie spring, on the white, or Dutch 

 €lover, throug-hout the metropolitan district, the larva feeding on 

 the heads. "Common in Cambridgeshire." — i?ef. L. Jenyns. 

 " Raehills."— igez'. W. Little. " Caernarvon."— C. C. Babington, 

 Esq. " Southend."— Mr. WaterJwuse. "On Crwmlyn-burrows." 

 — L. W. DUlwyn, Esq. 



3. Antennae medial. * Coleoptra oval. 



Sp. Q5. nigritarse. Atrum, glabmni, rosiro dimidiato pedihusque testaceis, an- 

 tennis clavi tarsisque nigris, coleoptris oblongo-ovatis. (Long. corp. j lin.) 



Ap. nigritarse. Kirby.—Linn. Trans, ix. 36. pi \.f. Q.— Staph. Catal. 188. 

 No. 1940. 



Black, glabrous, with the exception of the head, which is covered with whitish 

 pile, and punctulate between the eyes: rostrum moderate, pale testaceous 

 before the antenrice, which are rather long, medial, pale testaceous, with the 

 club black : eyes prominent : thorax minutely punctured, with a channel be- 

 hind : coleoptra oblong-ovate punctate-striate : legs, the anterior coxa?, and 

 all the trochanters pale testaceous, with the tarsi black. The other sex has 

 the rostrum entirely black, with the four anterior coxae yellow. 



Very abundant in certain situations within the metropohtan 

 district, especially at Ripley. " Caernarvon."— C. C. Babington, 

 Esq. " Wimbledon-park."— Mr. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 66. assimile. Atrum, glahrum,femoribus omnibus tibiisque anticis testaceis, 



coleoptris suhellipticis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Ap. assimile. Kirby.—Steph. Catal. 188. No. 1941. 



t Sp. 64. Fagi. Atrum, glabrum, antennis basi femorihusque palhdis, coleoptris 

 oblongis nigricantibus. (Long. corp. if lin.) 



Cu. Fagi. Linne.—Berkenhout ( ! ). Ap. ¥&gi.Steph. Catal. 188. No. 1939. 

 note. 



Black, very glabrous : head punctured : rostrum long : antennae long, pale at 

 the base ; eyes large, slightly prominent : thorax subcylindric, punctulated, 

 with an obsolete channel behind : coleoptra rather oblong, pitchy-black, with 

 a violet tint 5 punctate sulcate : femora, and sometimes the tibiae, pale. 



Said by Berkenhout to inhabit England, but I have not hitherto seen an indi- 

 genous specimen, agreeing with the above description, and with Mr. Kirby's 

 fi,";ure. 



