226 LONGICORNIA. [Clytus. 
land in the Forth and Clyde districts, and as probably not indigenous, but imported 
with timber. 
Cc. mysticus, L. (s.¢. Anaglyptvs, Mulsant). Elongate, sub- 
parallel, clothed with fine ashy pubescence; black, elytra with base red, 
and hinder part black, with the apex broadly clothed with thick greyish 
pubescence, and with two or three more or less bent and wavy fasciz of 
yellowish-grey pubescence behind the rufous colour of the base; head 
rather large, closely punctured, antenne black; thorax somewhat longer 
than broad, very thickly punctured, with traces of a raised central line 
in some specimens, sides slightly rounded ; elytra considerably more 
strongly punctured in front than behind, with the shoulders and a 
callosity on each at base near suture strongly marked; legs black, pubes- 
cent, tarsi pitechy, femora clavate ; under-side with grey pubescence, and 
with thick yellowish pubescence at sides of breast. L. 6-11 mm. 
Male with the antenne and posterior femora longer than in the 
female. 
In old posts, dead hedges, &c.; occasionally found in flowers; local ; London dis- 
trict, not uncommon, Dartford, Blackheath, Forest Hill, Darenth, West Wickham, 
Reigate, Tonbridge, Westerham (Kert), Loughton (Essex); The Holt, Farnham ; 
Hainault Forest; Dover; Bath (rare); Bewdley; Trench Woods; Montgomery ; 
Llangollen; Repton, Burton-on-Trent; Cambridge; Askham Bog, York; Dunham 
Park, Manchester. 
One of the records in Stephens’ Illustrations, iv. 243, is ‘ Bottisham, 
C. Darwin, Esq.” In the life of Mr. Darwin recently published, we are 
told by him, as an early reminiscence, that the insertion of his records 
by Stephens was in his young days a source of great pleasure to him, 
and this apparently is one of the records that he refers to. 
GRACILIA, Serville. 
This genus contains four species, one of which is found in Europe, and 
the other three in North America; our single species is one of the 
smallest, if not the smallest, of the British Longicorns; it may be dis- 
tinguished by having the eyes almost divided, the short third joint of 
the antenns, and the long and subcylindrical thorax ; the anterior coxe 
are almost contiguous, and the posterior more widely distant; the femora 
are stout and strongly clavate ; the larva feeds on dry twigs of hazel ; it 
is, consequently, often found in old hampers and baskets in great abun- 
dance ; it does not call for any particular remark, except that the legs 
are so small that the larva forms a transition to those of the Lamiide ; 
occasionally other allied species of the same habit are imported with 
foreign baskets; I have received Leptidea brevipennis, Muls., from 
Manchester, where it was found in some numbers ; it much resembles 
Gracilia, but may at once be known by its strongly abbreviated 
elytra. 
G. minuta, F. (pygmea, F.). A very small species, narrow, 
linear, and depressed, clothed with fine silky pubescence, of a lighter or 
