348 PHYTOPHAGA. [Longitarsus. 



Shirley, Darenth Wood, Crohamburst, Chatham, Gravesend ; Dover ; Hollington, 

 near Hastings ; Lee Valley, North Devon ; Knowle, neur Birmingham ; Repton ; 

 Heysham, oear Manchester; Scotland, Bulmuto, Fifeshire (Power); the latter 

 specimens have the head and thorax rather darker than is usually the case, and the 

 elytra a little more strongly punctured, but can hardly be considered as a constant 

 variety. 



Xi. ballot ee, Marsh. Oblong-ovate, convex, head and under-side 

 pitchy black, thorax and elytra reddish-testaceous ; antennae rather long, 

 testaceous, darker towards apex ; thorax rounded at sides, moderately 

 convex, a little compressed towards anterior angles, rather distinctly 

 and somewhat rugosely punctured ; scutellum small, testaceous ; elytra 

 moderately long, rather dull, obliquely rounded at shoulders, rounded 

 and subacuminate at apex, closely, deeply and distinctly punctured, 

 with the interstices alutaceous, or more or less distinctly cross-reticulate ; 

 legs testaceous, with the posterior femora pitchy or pitchy black ; under- 

 side shining black, obsoletely punctured ; the punctuation and colour 

 of the under-side will easily separate this species from the preceding. 

 L. If-lf mm. 



On Sallota, nigra and Marrubium vulgare ; local, but common where it occurs ; 

 Darenth Wood, Headley Lan*, Fuversham, Crohamhurst, Chatham, Gravesend, 

 Sheerness ; Wai ton -on- Naze ; Birchiogton; Ditchingham, near Bungay, Suffolk; 

 Norfolk ; Wicken Fen ; Swansea. 



Zi. Waterhousei, Kuts. (pratensis, Panz. ?). Ovate, convex, shining ; 

 head ferruginous, with the vertex darker and the labrum pitchy ; thorax 

 rufo-testaceous, elytra testaceous ; antennae fuscous, with base testaceous; 

 thorax transverse, somewhat rugosely and distinctly punctured ; wings 

 present; elytra ovate, with the shoulders somewhat prominent, rather 

 strongly punctured, the punctures being usually confused, but sometimes 

 disposed in indistinct rows towards base; abdomen black, with the last 

 segment and the pygidium ferruginous; legs testaceous with the apex 

 of the posterior femora reddish or ferruginous, posterior tibiae with a 

 long apical spur. L. 2 mm. 



By sweeping herbage ; rare ; Chatham (Champion) ; Chattenden, Kent ; Esher 

 (Power); Mickleham (Rye) ; Wicken Fen (Power). 



This species is allied to L. bcdlotcs and L. lycopi ; from the former it 

 may be known by its more shining and less closely punctured elytra, 

 and from the latter by its larger size, greater breadth, and the coarser 

 punctuation of the elytra. Rye (Ent. Ann. 1869, 58) says that it may 

 briefly be described as T.flavicornis with the six apical joints of its 

 antennae more or less blackened. By many authors it is identified with 

 T. pratensis, Panz. ; it is quite possible that this is correct, but there 

 seems to be so much confusion regarding this species, that I have 

 preferred to adopt Herr Kutschera's name, at all events for th 

 present. 



I*, ferruginous, Foudr. This species is distinguished from the 



