Apion longicolle

Hab.GUATEMALA, Paso Antonio (Champion).

Angustum, nigerrimum, nitidum, antennis tibiisque testaceis vel fusco-testaceis; rostro brevi, crasso; prothorace elongato, cylindrico; elytris striatis, singulo ad basin albido-cristato, ante apicem impresso.
 
Long. 1¾—2 1/8 millim.

Rostrum not curved, shorter than the thorax, thick, feebly setose; eyes rather large, convex, somewhat widely separated, the space between them strigose; antennæ inserted just behind the middle. Thorax elongate and slender, the sides rather irregular in outline, owing to a very feeble transverse depression in front of the middle and a still more obscure one behind it; impunctate, bearing a very few, small, white hairs. Elytra narrow, finely striate; each at the base with a small patch formed by some white hairs, and just before the extremity with a depression in which there are some white hairs. Femora nearly or quite black; tibiæ either sordid yellow or strongly infuscate; middle coxæ separated by a slender lamina.
 
This insect is allied to A. constricticolle, and its location in another section, owing to the colour of the legs, is unsatisfactory, especially as this character appears to be variable; as species the two insects are, however, quite distinct.
 
Five specimens.