350 PHYTOPHAGA. [Longitarsus. 
L. exoletus, L. (femoralis, Marsh., nec Redt. ; pratensis, Foudr., nee 
Panz.). Rather a large species, with the head dark, the vertex being 
lighter, the thorax testaceous or reddish-testaceous and the elytra pale 
testaceous ; antenne long, fuscous with base testaceous; thorax a little 
broader than long, very finely punctured ; scutellum small, ferruginous ; 
wings more or less developed; elytra oval, finely punctured, with the 
suture sometimes slightly reddish; under-side of thorax ferruginous, of 
the rest of the body pitch-black, distinctly punctured ; legs testaceous, 
posterior femora pitchy black, except at base, posterior tibiz armed with 
a large spur. L. 23-3 mm. 
On Echium vulgare and Convolvulus sepium; locally common; Mickleham, 
Darenth Wood, Croydon, Bearsted near Maidstone, Sheerness, Whitstable; Ditch- 
ingham, Suffolk; Dover; Folkestone; Brighton; Eastbourne; Glanvilles Wootton ; 
Chesil Beach; Bristol; Swansea; York; Northumberland and Durham district, 
not common; Scotland, Forth district. 
L. pusillus, Gyll. A small, short and rather convex species, of a 
pale testaceous colour, with the head, breast, abdomen and apex of 
posterior femora pitchy black, and the thorax pitchy black or ferru- 
ginous ; head large, antenne moderately long, testaceous at base, fuscous 
towards apex ; thorax short, very finely punctured, often redder on 
disc than at sides; scutellum pitchy; wings present; elytra broader 
than thorax, very finely and more or less indistinctly punctured, obtusely 
rounded at apex; legs, except posterior femora, reddish-testaceous, 
posterior tibiz with a small spur at apex. L. 1-1} mm. 
Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi slightly dilated, and the 
fifth ventral segment furnished with a broad triangular fovea. 
On Thymus serpyllum; locally common; Shirley, Mickleham, Caterham, Nor- 
wood, Aylsham, &e.; Chatham; Suffolk; Margate; Hastings; Eastbourne; Isle of 
Wight (common); Bristol; Barmouth ; Sutton, near Birmingham; Hunstanton ; 
Repton ; Chat Moss and Barton Moss; Northumberland and Durham, grassy places 
in woods on sea banks, &., common; Scotland, Solway district; Ireland, near 
Waterford and Armagh. 
This species may easily be distinguished by its small size from all 
those that precede it, some of which it resembles in colour; the lengths 
of the various species are certainly given erroneously by different 
authors ; Allard states the length of this species to be 15 mm., and then 
says that it is distinguished by its much smaller size from T. nasturiii, 
to which he assigns 1{ mm.; Thomson says that Z. pusillus is iu length 
vix 4 lin., and he is certainly nearest the truth. 
L. Reichei, All. Oblong-ovate, head, except forehead, and under- 
side, except of thorax, black, thorax and elytra testaceous, anterior 
margin of the former often pitchy ; antenna rather long, with the first 
four or five joints testaceous and the rest fuscous; thorax short, not 
closely, finely, and obsoletely punctured ; elytra with the shoulders 
marked, although not projecting, rather long, separately rounded at 
apex, closely and finely punctured; legs moderately long, pale testaceous, 
posterior femora a little darker, sometimes reddish, L. 13-1} mm. 
