100 PINE. 



If be still has it, I will get the measurement of the horns, which I 

 fancy would be about two and a half inches long." — (H. L. L.) 



The enormous length of the antennne, and especially of those of 

 the male beetle, are the chief characteristic of this species, of which it 

 is stated by Dr. Taschenberg that it has in the male the longest horns 

 which are known to occur in any European kind. In this sex they 

 are from three or four times to as much as five times the length of the 

 body, or, by measure, may be as much as about three and a half inches 

 long. The horns of the female are much shorter, being only about 

 twice the length of the body of the beetle, which may vary from about 

 half to three-quarters of an inch. 



The shape of the beetle is as figured (at p. 99, magnified) from the 

 specimen sent me from Strathpeffer, somewhat flattish above, and the 

 general colour of a brownish ash, or "smutty violet grey," and it is 

 clothed with a greyish pubescence. The thorax has one blunt tooth 

 on each side (see figure), with four much smaller ones above placed 

 transversely in front. 



The wing-cases have numerous black spots, arranged to some 

 degree in rows, and are marked by two somewhat oblique brownish 

 bands, the front one in the specimen figured only extended a little 

 way from the outer edge. Legs chiefly grey or brownish, with grey 

 down. 



The beetle is found on the Continent in great numbers, and the 

 grubs live in the wood as well as under the bark of fallen Pine stems. 

 Also it is noted that " the larva makes wide galleries and perforations 

 in Pine stumps, forming a nidus, with coarse gnawed fragments near 

 the surface, in which it changes to pupa. . . . 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 state, staying 

 as such in its nest until the following summer." * The beetle is noted 

 as being observed in great numbers after hybernation in early spring 

 in forest clearings ; and another continental observer mentions having 

 himself taken thirty beetles in one morning in a woodyard about Pine 

 wood. 



As yet, in this country, however, the only locality where it appears 

 to have been observed as not uncommonly present is at Rannoch, in 

 Perthshire, and it cannot be said as yet to rank amongst the really 

 injurious beetles of Britain. But, like the species noticed in the pre- 

 ceding paper, the grubs have certainly a capacity for doing mischief 

 by feeding in fallen or felled Pine timber, and it may be well to draw 

 attention once again to the occasional presence of the beetle as an 

 infestation that may cause trouble. 



• ' British Beetles,' by E. C. Eye, F.E.S., p. 208. 



