52 [August, 



out of birch, and found in dry cow-dung. The heather produced 

 Geuthorhynchus ericce in abundance, and ripping off bark often disclosed 

 Wiyncolus chJoropiis. A small Anthonoinus, like ruhi, but constantly 

 much smaller, and with livid elytra (certainly not immature, the speci- 

 mens being mostly old and broken), was found by sweeping in places 

 where was no vestige of any JRuhus* 



The elegantly marked Xyloterus lineatus, offcener seen than cap- 

 tured, reposed in neat round burrows in the solid wood of felled pines, 

 warily keeping watch, and retrograding to an indefinite depth on the 

 approach of the knife. 



As might be expected, Longicornea and their traces were easy to 

 see. All our species of Uliagium (indagator certainly the rarest as 

 well as prettiest) often settled on felled trunks ; the sluggish Asemum 

 (mostly in couples) could nearly always be found on freshly-cut 

 stumps; and the long-horned Astinomus (Gaelice, "timber-man ")t, 

 whereof the male is frequently broken, owing to his excessive appen- 

 dages and pugnacious propensities, was to be seen on logs or flying in 

 the open glades. The large holes of its larva may often be observed 

 here in fir stumps ; where the pupa, also, may be easily detected by 

 the coarse frass with which the entrance to its nidus is closed. The 

 larva appears to be full-fed at the beginning of the summer, and, after 

 remaining two or three weeks in the pupa state, changes to the perfect 

 insect, staying as such in its nest until the following summer. 



Only a single Lamia textor was found by us, the species appearing 

 to have been nearl}^ exterminated from the willows. 



Donacia aquatica, of every colour, was particularly common on 

 Sphagnum in very wet places, brassy specimens being the most plenti- 

 ful. This is, however, also a metropolitan species, having been taken 

 by us under similar conditions at Wimbledon. 



To our surprise, the Cryptoce.pliali were comparatively not rare ; 

 C. lineola being found on dwarf sallow, growing very close to the ground 

 in wet places, and one or two intermediate specimens clearly showing 

 the specific identity of G. bipustulatus with tliis insect. On the same 

 plant, also, we found C. \0-punctatus, Linn. (Syst, Nat., Faun. Suec, 

 5G0) ; Gyll. (Faun. Suec, iii., 619, 15), new to Britain, a most elegant 

 and variable species, rather larger than G. Moroei. 



* We have since a-icertained pretty certainly, from Mr. Henderson, of Glasgow, that this insect 

 comes off the same species of sallow as the Cryptocephalus lO-punctaius hereafter mentioned. 



+ [LinntBus (Faun. Siiec, is'J, 1761) remarks that this beetle occurs commonly in Sweden, coming 

 out of the lo.'s with which the country people buiUl their liouses; and that the children call it 

 " Timbermaii, i.e. iKdilis;" a name (inspector of buildings) well applied, as the insect walks about 

 planks with its horns held like an extended pair of compasses. It is odd that precisely tlie same name 

 should be used in localities so widely separaed as Sweden and Perthsliire, and after a century's interval. 

 The German " Ziuimermann " (Carpenter) is probably the connecting link. — E C. U.] 



