72 PINE. 
The ‘‘Timberman’’ Beetle is of the shape figured magnified, with 
natural length given by the line accompanying, at p. 70. The length 
varies from about half to three-quarters of an inch; the shape is 
depressed above, clothed with a greyish pubescence. The general 
colour above is of a brownish ash, or, as well described by Dr. Altum, 
of a smutty violet-grey, like Pine-bark. The fore body has one blunt 
tooth on each side, with four much smaller ones above placed trans- 
versely in front. The wing-cases have numerous miuute black spots 
arranged to some degree in rows, and are marked across by two some- 
what oblique brownish bands; the front one, in the specimen before 
me, only extending a little way from the outer edge. Legs chiefly 
grey or brownish, with grey down. The oyipositor is exserted in the 
female. 
The distinguishing point, however, is the enormous length of the 
horns of the male beetle; these are from three or four times to as 
much as five times the length of the body, or, by measure, three and a 
half inches; the general colour grey, with a black line outside the 
lowest joint, and the others, excepting the terminal one, black at the 
apex; this joint is longer than the others, and very slender. The 
antenne of the female are much shorter, only about twice the length of 
the body of the beetle. My own specimen was three-quarters of an inch 
in length; the expanse of its antenne as it walked, bearing them at right 
angles to its body, was as near as may be half a foot; and as it moved 
gently along, with its delicate horns lightly arched from their strong 
enlarged lowest joint to their fine slender extremity, it formed a 
singularly graceful object. 
Pine-shoot Tortrix Moth (‘ Post-horn” attack, German). Retinia 
buoliana, W. V. 
On the 7th of June I received, by favour of Mr. R. Gough, Forester 
to the Duke of Bedford, from the Woods Department, Park Farm 
Office, Woburn, Bedfordshire, a parcel of specimens of injured Scotch 
Fir-shoots, with some insects accompanying, and a request for infor- 
mation as to the nature of the attack. 
This proved, on examination, to be of the Pine-shoot Tortrix Moth, 
the Netinia buoliana. Just a few caterpillars were still unchanged to 
the chrysalis state, and with these, and the chrysalids, the moths, 
which after a time developed plentifully, and the characteristic dis- 
tortion of the shoots from the larval injury which had taken place 
within, the attack was very well represented. The moths are said by 
Taschenberg to be found at the end of June, and in July from England 
to Russia and from Sweden to the South of Europe wherever the Firs 
