344 PHTTOPHAGA. [Lonyitarsug. 



Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi oval, somewhat dilated. 



On Medicago aud other low plants ; local, but not uncommon ; London district, 

 common and generally distributed ; Littlingtou, Cambridge ; Hastings ; Portsmouth 

 district ; Isle of Wight ; Devon ; Bristol ; Knowle ; Repton ; Matlock ; Barton 

 Moss, Cheshire ; Manchester district; Northumberland and Durham district, not 

 uncommon ; Scotland, Sol way and Moray districts; Ireland, Dublin and Waterford, 

 and probably widely distributed. 



Zi. patruelis, All. Rather a large species, of a brownish-yellow 

 colour, with the elytra often lighter, suture, and occasionally more or 

 less of disc, dark, at all events behind ; according to some authors it is 

 smaller than L. melanocephalus, but the specimens that I have seen are 

 quite as large or considerably larger ; antennae dark, with the bas-e 

 ferruginous ; thorax finely but distinctly punctured ; elytra oval, rather 

 strongly punctured, the punctures running somewhat into striae ; legs 

 ferruginous, sometimes more or less pitchy, with posterior femora black ; 

 the species is allied to L. melanocephalus^ but may be known by the 

 loss evident shoulders of the elytra and their stronger punctuation. L. 

 2f-3 mm. 



On Verlascum, &c. ; rare ; Darenth Wood ; Esher ; Hastings district ; Langworth 

 Wood, Lincoln ; Manchester district. 



Several specimens of a Longitarsus were taken some years ago in a 

 salt marsh near Dumfries, which Mr. Eye was inclined to refer to this 

 species ; he afterwards considered them to be intermediate between 

 L. patruelis and L. melanocephalus, but probably distinct from either ; 

 some of the Dumfries specimens are very dark ; a good many authors 

 have believed L. patruelis to be the same as L. lateralis, 111 , but others 

 consider this doubtful; M. Allard's description of L. lateralis certainly 

 agrees well with some at least of our specimens of L. patrudis, and it is 

 possible that we possess both species, if they are to be regarded as 

 distinct. 



Zi. melanocephalus, All. (atricillus, Foudr. ; atric.apillus, Duft.). 

 Ovate, convex, head pitchy, thorax rufo-testaceous, elytra testaceous, 

 with suture narrowly dark, under-side pitch- l>lack ; antennae long and 

 slender, pitchy with base testaceous ; thorax short, very finely punctured; 

 scutellum small ; wings present ; elytra oval, with the shoulders rounded, 

 but marked, almost acuminate at apex, finely and closely, but distinctly, 

 punctured ; anterior pairs of legs testaceous with the femora usually 

 pitchy, except at apex, posterior legs with the femora black, the tibiae 

 often pitchy, and the tarsi testaceous; under- side closely and distinctly 

 punctured ; the colour is variable, the thorax being sometimes pitchy red, 

 and the whole of the leg?, except posterior feiuora, being very often 

 testaceous. L. H-2 mm. 



Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi dilated, and the fifth 

 ventral segment of abdomen triangularly incised in middle of apex. 



