Apion longimanum

Hab.GUATEMALA, Cahabon (Champion).

Sat elongatum, nigrum, subopacum, antennis pedibusque elongatis; rostro maris mediocri; prothorace lato, anterius fortiter angustato, fortiter punctato; elytris profunde sulcatis, interstitiis convexiusculis.
 
Long. 2 millim.

Only one male of this species has been obtained, but the species is—in that sex at any rate

—very easy to distinguish, the antennæ and legs being slender, with the club of the former and the basal joint of the front tarsus unusually elongate; the front and middle tibiæ are mucronate internally at the apex. The rostrum is moderately stout, just as long as the head and thorax, the antennal insertion slightly in front of the middle. The eyes are not large, the interval between them moderately broad, feebly sculptured. The thorax is very coarsely sculptured, and has a small deep fovea in front of the scutellum. The grooves of the elytra are deep, and are deeply punctate, the interstices being only about as broad as the sulci. There is but little setosity on the under surface, and the middle coxæ are closely approximate. The mucro on the front tibia is very conspicuous, being directed strongly inwards.