CURCULIONID.E. — OXYSTOMA. 195 



channel : coleoptra oval, moderately broad, blue, or bluish-black, punctate- 

 sulcate. 

 Rather different in form from the foregoing species. 



Found at Ripley in June, 1827, not common. 



Sp. 88. Meliloti. Atrum subangustatum, coleoptris obovatis viridescenti-cosruleis, 

 antennis mediis, rostro longiori, (Long. corp. l| Un.) 



Ap. Meliloti. Kirhy.—Steph. Catal. 189. No. 1961. 



Black, rather slender, with a scattered pile : head punctulated, rugulose-striate 



. between the eyes, and with a delicately impressed fovea : rostrum long, fili- 

 form; very much curved, and shining: antennas moderate, medial: eyes 

 slightly prominent : thorax punctulate, with a dorsal channel behind : coleoptra 

 obovate, greenish-blue, or black, punctate-sulcate, tvith the interstices rather 

 flat. 



Not common ; the only locality where I have observed the species 

 being in a sand-pit near Charlton-wood. " Windsor." — Mr. Wa- 

 terhouse. 



Genus CCCXLV. — Oxystoma, Dumeril. 



AntenncE not geniculated, 11-jointed, inserted at the base and beneath the 

 rostrum, the basal joint rather long and stout, the two following subglobose, 

 the five next smaller, subnodose, the remainder forming a compact ovate sub- 

 acute club. Rostrum elongate, slightly curved, deflexed : head broad : eyes 

 large: thorax subglobose, conic, broadest at the base, densely pubescent: 

 elytra rather elongate, convex, pubescent : legs long, unarmed : tibi(E shorter 

 than the femora, attenuated at the base : tarsi short, rather broad, with the 

 terminal joint deeply bilobed. 



The species of this genus differs from the true Apiona, not only 

 by having the rostrum more or less deflexed, elongate, with the 

 antennae seated at the base beneath, and slightly dissimilar in struc- 

 ture to those of Apion, but by having the body densely pubescent. 



Sp. ]. fuscirostris. Nigricans, villosulus, elytris fuscis, strigd ohliqud haseos 

 cinered, pedibus rufis, plantis atris. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 



At. fuscirostris. Fabricius. — Ap. melanopum. Kirhy.—Linn. Trans, is., pi 1. 

 f. 1.— Ox. fuscirostris. Steph. Catal. 189. No. 1962. 



Dusky, with an ashy pile, whitish beneath: rostrum rather short, fiUform, 

 slender, smooth, shining, a little bent, and obscurely thickened behind the an- 

 tennae ; the latter rufous, with the club dusky : eyes large, slightly prominent . 

 thorax dusky, rather widened behind, the sides densely pilose, the pile whitish : 



