NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 199 



7. R. cupREUs, Linn, 



Steph. Illust, Mand., iv., 203. 



^' Twizell."— P. J. Selhy, Esq. 



If Wallis could be depended upon, the splendid Rhynchites 

 Betuleti (BetulfB Steph.) might have a place in our list. He 

 says : — "The small, green, purple, and gold-yellow horned beetle is 

 sometimes, but rarely, found on heaths and mountainous pastures 

 in June and July, in warm summers. The head, face, thorax, belly, 

 and legs, are of a beautiful purple, bright and shining, like silk. 

 The elytra are of a grass-green, elegantly spotted with a gold- 

 yellow. The clavated antennae, or horns, and the eyes are a glossy 

 black; the latter full and prominent. I met with this here 

 described in the rectory garden at Simonburn, in a remarkable 

 warm summer. I have since observed it on Wark common, 

 among the heath, near Wordley-sheels, in Tynedale, in July." — 

 Wains' Hist. North., 366. The references given are to R. Betuleti; 

 but did the author not see Cicindela compestris, in some of the 

 localities mentioned? 



25Q. Rhamphus, Clair ville. 

 1. R. PULiCARius, Herhst. 



Steph. Illust., Maud., iv., 197. 

 On whitethorn, blackthorn, willows, &c. Long Benton, Axwell, 

 Budle, Gibside, Shotley Bridge, Sunderland, base of Cheviot. 

 June — September. 



257. OxrsTOMA, Dumeril, 

 1. 0. Ulicis, Forst. 



Steph. Illust, Mand., iv., 196. 

 On furze, in the seed pods of which it breeds, sometimes appear- 

 ing in a fresh state in the end of February. 



258. Apion, Herhst. 

 1. A. Cracc.5:, Linn. 



Steph. Illust, Mand., iv., 166. 

 On Vicia Cracca: fields above Swallwell, opposite Axwell 

 Park. — /. H. Bothall; near the bridge above Gibside; and at 

 Gosforth, in July.— r. J. B. 



