Apion lentum

Hab.GUATEMALA (Champion).

Breve, convexum, parce setosum, nigrum, supra rufescens, elytrorum sutura nigricante, prothorace fere impunctato, elytris anguste sulcatis.
 
Long. 1½ millim.

Of remarkably short form and peculiar coloration, the upper surface bearing a scanty, but rather elongate, white setosity. The rostrum is red and as long as the head and thorax, somewhat slender, shining, sparingly punctate; the eyes are small but slightly convex, placed near to the thorax; antennæ inserted as near to the eyes as the width of the ocular interval, which is not great. Thorax short and broad, much narrowed in front, without distinct punctuation, but with a conspicuous depressed white setosity. Elytra pale testaceous-red, with the suture black, with rather fine moderately deep grooves and broad interstices, which have a slight convexity. Legs, including the trochanters, yellow; metasternum very short; middle coxæ slightly separated.
 
We have no other species at all closely allied to this one.
 
Three examples.