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varieties in the locality above referred to. I have left the description^ 

 &,c., as it stands, as it shows the confusion that may so easily arise with 

 regard to the members of the genus. 



L. curtus, A]l.(= Teinodacti/la ])ratensis, AH. nee Panz.) (Gal. 

 Anis. 137, 832). Ovate, short and broad ; head pitch-black, shining, 

 antenna; dark towards apex ; thorax short, transverse, testaceous or 

 piceous, with obsolete scattered punctuation ; elytra, at base, broader 

 than thorax, with the shoulders well marked and the sides almost 

 parallel for two-thirds from this point, rounded and terminating in an 

 obtuse sutural angle, scarcely a third longer than broad, with rather 

 strong but confused and not close punctuation, testaceous, or with the 

 sutvu-e narrowly ferruginous ; under side pitchy ; legs testaceous, 

 posterior femora pitchy towaixls apex. Length, 1| mm. 



Introduced as British by Mr. Tomlin on specimens taken at Colby, 

 Isle of Man (Ent. Mo. Mag. xl. (2 Ser. xv.) 1904, 60, 179). According 

 to him it has the appearance of a small L. melanocephalus, All., but 

 is less finely and closely punctured, besides the diflerence in size; its 

 food-plant, as a rule, is Echiwin vulgare. 



Mr. Newbery (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlii. (2 Ser. xvii.) 1906, 87) dis- 

 putes the determination of these specimens, but Mr. Elliman {I.e. 137) 

 records the species without doubt as British, having taken it at Chesham, 

 Bucks (he believes on Mi/osotis) ; he compares it with L. atriceps, from 

 which it may be known by its paler colour and by the punctuation of 

 the elytra not being quite so deep ; his specimens have the suture of 

 the elytra slightly rufescent, and the apex only of the femora pitchy or 

 rufescent, whereas these parts in L. atriceps are usually wholly black, or 

 at all events dark brown, and the tibiae also. 



L. pratensis,Panz. {nee All.) (Faun. Germ. 21, 16) ; L.pusillus, Gyll. 

 (Ins. Suec. 3, 549); var. medicaginis, All. (Gal. Anis. 124); relchei, 

 All. (Gal. Anis. 132). It is probable that the above synonymy must stand ; 

 the var. onedieaginis, is somewhat larger (the sizes given by Allard are 

 L. medieaginis, li mm., Z. j^usilhis, Ih mm.) and is said to be less 

 obsoletely punctured, but this varies within certain limits. L. reichei 

 is merely regarded as a synonym and not even a variety of L. j)ratensis 

 in the catalogue of Heyden, Reitter and Weise ; it is, however, 

 probably the insect recorded by Mr. W. E. Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 xlii. (2 Ser. xvii.) 1906, 39) as a dark form of L. jmsiUus, appa- 

 rently the Thyamis collaris of Stephens, and probably synonymous 

 with the L. reichei of British collections ; it occurred abundantly in 

 Buckinghamshire, between Heading and Maidenhead, in September 

 1905» 



L. seruginosus, Foudr. (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. vi. (1859) pp. 239 

 and 315; Altis. pp. 127 and 203). (Ent. llec. 1904, p. 82). This is 

 the L, kevis of the British Catalogues and the L. Icevis of Allard is 

 the L. sioccineus of Foudras. L. 2^eUucidns, Foudr., seems somewhat 

 doubtful, and the localities given for it (Brit. Col. iv. 354) probably 

 belong, either in whole or in part, to one of the other two species. 



