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23. Nanophtes GRACILIS, Redtenbacher, Fauna Austr., 

 1849, p. 370 (2nd ed., p. 819) ; E. C. Rje, /. c, ix, 

 p. 157. 



A single example of this species (recorded only once, from 

 Vienna) was taken by myself in September last near Esher; 

 and Mr. Champion has subsequently detected 2 specimens, 

 found by Mr. J. S. Allin during the past summer in the 

 New Forest. 



From our common lythri, it differs in having two small 

 sharp spines on the under side of each femur ; it has also 

 longer and thinner legs, antennae and rostrum, less evident 

 pubescence, and broader and much less acuminate elytra, of 

 which the interstices are flat. In colour, it seems to differ 

 from any lytliri in having yellow legs, of which the tips 

 only of the femora are narrowly black, and an irregularly 

 triangular basal patch of black on the elytra. 



As M. Henri Brisout remarks (Monographie des Nano- 

 phyes, " L'Abeille," vi, p. 350, Mon. p. 46), it is very pro- 

 bable that the geniculatus of Aube (1864) is identical with 

 this. The latter is recorded from the Pyrenees, Eastern 

 France, Paris (rare), Crete, Spain and Algeria. M. Brisout 

 has taken it in October on Erica cinerea. 



24. Thyajiis distinguenda, E. C. Rye, /. c, ix, p. 157, 

 described. 

 Many examples of this apparently nndescribed species 

 were taken by Mr. Champion at Box Hill in September and 

 November last, on Teucrium scorodonia (not Senecio 

 jacobcEa, as originally supposed) ; and I have long had a 

 specimen set aside in my collection, taken by myself at 

 Mickleham. 



