226 LOXGICORXIA. [ClytllS. 



land in the Forth and Clyde districts, and as probably not indigenous, but imported 

 with timber. 



C. mysticus, L. (s.g. Anaglj/ptv*, Mulsant). Elongate, sub- 

 pamllel, clothed with tine ashy pubescence; black, elytra with base re<l, 

 and hinder part black, with the apex broadly clothed with thick greyish 

 pubescence, and with two or three more or less bent and wavy fascia- <>f 

 yellowish-grey pubescence behind the rufous colour of the base ; head 

 rather large, closely punctured, antennas 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 pitchy, femora clavate ; under-side with grey pubescence, and 

 with thick yellowish pubescence at sides of breast. L. 6-1 1 mm. 



Male with the antennae and posterior femora lunger than in the 

 female. 



In old posts, dead hedges, &c. ; occasionally found in flowers ; local ; London dis- 

 trict, not uncommon, Durtford, Bhu-kheuth, Forest Hill, Darentli, Wt-st Wickham, 

 Keigate, Tonbridge, Westerham (Kent), Lough ton (Essex); The Holt, Furuham ; 

 Hainault Forest ; Dover ; Bath (rare) ; Bewdley ; Trench Woods ; Montgomery ; 

 Llangollen ; Repton, Burtou-on-Trent ; Cambridge; Askhum 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 arc 

 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. 



CRACILIA. 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, tlie short third joint of 

 the antennae, and the long and subcylindrical thorax ; the anterior coxae 

 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 Lamiida3 ; 

 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. (pygmcea, F.). A very small species, narrow, 

 linear, and depressed, clothed with fine silky pubescence, of a lighter or 



