350 PHYTOPHAGA. [Longitarsus. 



Ii. exoletuB, L. (femoralis, Marsh., nee Redt. ; pratt-nsis, 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 ; antennae long, fuscous with base testaceous ; thorax a little 

 broader than long, very finely punctured ; scutellura 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 tibiae armed with 

 a large spur. L. 2|-3 mm. 



On Echium vulgare und Convolvulus sepium ; locally common; Micklebum, 

 Dun-nth Wood, Croydon, Bearsted near Maidstone, Sheerness, Whitstable ; Diti-h- 

 ingham, Suffolk ; Dover; Folkestone; Brighton ; Eastbourne ; Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 Chesil Beach ; Bristol ; Swansea ; York ; Northumberland and Durham district, 

 not common ; Scotland , Forth district. 



Ii. 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, antennae 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 tibiae with a small spur at apex. L. 1-ly 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, Caterliam, Nor- 

 wood, Aylsham, &c. ; Chatham; Suffolk; Margate; Hastings; Eastbourne; Isle of 

 Wight (common); Bristol; Barmouth ; Sutton, near Birmingham; Hunstanton; 

 Bepton ; Chat Moss and Barton Moss; Northumberland and Durham, grassy places 

 in woods on sea banks, &c., 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 1^ mm., and then 

 says that it is distinguished by its much smaller size from T. nasturtii, 

 to which he assigns 1| mm. ; Thomson says that L. pusillus is in length 

 vix \ lin., and he is certainly nearest the truth. 



Xi. Reichel, All. Oblong-ovate, head, except forehead, and under- 

 side, except of thorax, black, thorax and elytra testaceous, anterior 

 margin of the former often pitchy ; antennas 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. H-lj mm. 



