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Apionides.
CURCULIONIDJE. 311
DESBR. DES LOGES (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 160) redescribes his Apian heydenii
under the name cantabricum (cf. Z. Rec. 1869, p. 276).
Apion. Desb. des Loges (Mittheil. schweiz. ent. Ges. iii.) describes the
following spp.:—A. curtipenne (no locality given) and russicum, Sarepta,
p. 179; interrupto-striatum, p. 180, Sarepta; stierlini (no loc. given), p. 181;
rhomboidale, p. 182, Austria; subglah-um, p. 183, Carinthia; robustirostre,
p. 184, Algiers; talpa, p. 185, Sarepta; diversum, p. 186, Corsica; consanguineum,
p. 187, Rhenish Bavaria; lethierryi, p. 188, Batna; uhagonis, p. 195,
Bilbao ; insolitum, p. 196, N. France; distincticolle, Spain, einipedemontanum,
Piedmont, p. 197; elongatissimum, p. 198, Madrid ; zuberi and subeonicicolle,
p. 199, and frater, p. 200, Sarepta; cegyptiaeum, Egypt, and caviceps, Russia,
p. 201; kirschi, p. 202, Egypt; neapolitanum, Abruzzi, and cuHulum, S.
France, p. 203 ; kiesenwetteri, p. 204, Hungary; laticeps, p. 205, Russia.
Apion parens, sp.n, Desb. des L, B. E.Z. xiv. Beih. p. 161, Cintra; A.
revelieri, sp. n, Perris, L'Ab. vii. p. 24, Corsica; A. nigrosparsum, sp. n,
Suffrian (Chevr.), Arch. f. Nat.,xxxvi. p. 230, Cuba.
Attelabides.
Attelabusjekelii, sp. n, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 371, Bogota; A. foveipennis,
Suffrian, I. c. p. 228, Cuba.
Rhinomacerides.
Rhynchites multipunctatus, Ha,ch, = alliarice (Payk.), Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv.
p. 217; R. longirostris, Bach,=eeneovirens (Msh.), Kirsch, I.e. p. 218. For
observations on synonymy of the B. megacephalus of Schonherr and Germar,
cf ibid.
Rhynchites ursus, Gebl, = hungaricus, F, var, of which longimanus,
Gebl, is probably only a small var.; R. prceustus, Boh, is Algerian ; Auletes
tessoni, God, taken at Lyons, =politus, Boh.; characters are given for Diodyrhynchus
austriacus, Germ, and Rhinomacer attelaboides (F.). Desbr. des
Loges, L'Ab. vii. (in Mon. des Magdalinides, pp. 60 & 61).
CROTCH (Ent. 73, pp. 8-11) briefly abstracts from Des Loges's monograph
characters for the British spp. of Bhynchites.
Rhynchites trifasciatus, sp. n, Suffrian, I. c. p. 229, Cuba.
Scolopterides.
Nyxetes, g. n, Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 456. Differs from Seolcpterus in its
antennas, the scape of which reaches beyond the eye, and of which the funiculus
is 6-jointed, with 3 basal joints elongate (the 1st the longest) and the
last 3 turbinate, and the club is oblong, its conical prothorax, its elytra
being scarcely wider at the base than the prothorax and having no shoulders,
and the appendiculate claws of its tarsi. Sp. N. bidens (Fab, Cure.),
fig. in White, Voy. Erebus & Terror, pi. iii. f. 12.
Erodiscides.
Toxophorm (Schon.), being preoccupied, was changed to Toxeutes by its
author. The latter name, however, was also preoccupied in the Longicornia;