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more or less spotted and suffused with black towards the 
apex, membrane pale smoky brown, base and nervures 
white ; abdomen bronzy black ; legs with the femora black, 
their apices reddish; tibie and tarsi reddish brown ; 
anterior femora beneath with two spines and several bristly 
hairs; all the tibiz without erect bristles. 
L. 33-4 mm. 
Rare and local; Worthing ; Shoreham and Whitstable, 
Champion ; Ventnor, Lewis, 
T. agrestis, Full. (var. dispar, Stal)—A much broader 
andshorter species than thepreceding. Head black, antenn 
entirely black, except in the gd, which has the basal joint 
testaceous ; pronotum with the sides very slightly sinuate, 
narrowly pale and foliaceous, base deeply sinuate, surface 
punctured, black in front, bright pale ochreous across the 
base, punctured with black; scutellum entirely black; 
elytra with the clavus and corium punctured with black 
in rows, the latter with a subquadrate spot near its inner 
apical angle, membrane black with the nervures white ; 
abdomen black, a spot near each coxa and the posterior 
margin of the metasternum pale; legs, front pair in male 
testaceous, in 9 with the femora more or less black, second 
and third pairs with the femora testaceous in the ¢ with 
a subapical black band, black in the 2; tibiw black or 
with the intermediate ones more or less rutescent; tarsi 
black. 
L. 3-5 mm. 
A large pale and brightly coloured form is known under 
the name of dispar, Stal, but I can really see no characters 
except colour and size to distinguish it by. 
Common in many places at roots of grass, in rubbish, 
etc. Reigate, Woking, Deal; Norfolk, dwards ; Exmouth 
Devon, Parfitt; Folkestone, Rye; Morayshire, Forres, 
O. M. Reuter ; Ireland, Haliday ; Chobham and Chertsey, 
Billups; var. dispar, Darenth Wood, Douglas. 
T. Ullrichii, /%iel.—Larger than the preceding, and 
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