260 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Orchestes. 
1866, near Surbiton, and confirmed by M. Brisout; the species is found in Algeria, 
Spain, and the South of France, and is rare near Paris, so that we should hardly 
expect to find it in England. 
O. avellane, Don (signifer, Creutz). Ovate, rather short, black ; head 
dull, slightly pubescent ; antennz testaceous, with the club sometimes 
dusky ; thorax rather thickly punctured, with more or less distinct whitish 
pubescence ; elytra with distinctly punctured strie, with a large common 
white subcordate or double lunulate spot covering base and extending 
broadly along suture beyond middle, and a white band before apex ; 
femora black, simple, tibiz and tarsi or tarsi, red, legs sometimes entirely 
black. L. 2-24 mm. 
On hazels and oaks, &c.; local, but not uncommon; Hammersmith, Chatham, 
Sydenham, Darenth Wood, Sevenoaks, Wickham, Box Hill, Ashtead, Birch Wood, 
Coombe Wood; Bearsted; Rusper; Windsor; Hastings; Eastbourne; Arundel ; 
New Forest; Portsmouth district; Glanvilles Wootton; Woodbury Common, 
Devon ; Bristol; Swansea; Ditchingham and Bungay, Suffolk; Knowle, near Bir- 
mingbam : Sherwood Forest; Scarborough; not recorded from the Northumberland 
and Durham district; Scotland, Solway district; the variety wiih black legs has 
been taken by Dr. Power at Birch Wood and Wickham. 
O. lonicerze, Herbst. Oval; reddish yellow, eyes, breast, abdomen 
and a ring before apex of posterior femora black; thorax truncate, 
and with the sides rounded, dise obsoletely punctured, dull; elytra 
broad, with the shoulders somewhat rectangular, with deep punctured 
striz, interstices narrow and elevated; there is a small round fuscous 
black spot at shoulders and an irregular narrow fascia in the middle, 
both sometimes brownish ; in the male the rostrum is evidently shorter 
and duller than in the female. L. 25 mm. 
Very doubtfully indigenous ; Stephens (II. iv. 63) says, ‘‘ Specimens of this insect 
have dong been in the collection of the British Museum; found on the Lonicera 
Xylostewm (Fly Honeysuckle) at Spitchweek, Devon.” There is no reason why it 
should not be found in Britain; in fact we should expect to find it rather than 
O. sparsus, of which a single specimen has been taken by Dr. Power, as it is a more 
northern inseet, occurring in Russia and Denmark as well as not uncommonly in 
France, &c.; it is also found on Lonicera Periclymenum (the Common Honey- 
suckle). 
O. fagi, L. Oblong, black, clothed with rather thick ashy brown 
pubescence, which is, however, often abraded in older specimens ; ros- 
trum black, rugosely punctured; antenne testaceous, with the club 
globose-ovate and the scape long and inserted a little behind middle 
of rostrum ; thorax transverse, with the sides slightly rounded, closely 
but distinctly punctured, elytra with distinctly punctured striz, inter- 
stices flat, minutely sculptuied; logs black, tarsi testaceous, auterior 
and intermediate femora with an indistinct tooth, posterior pair with a 
stouter tooth, and ciliated. L. 2-25 mm. 
On the beech; common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 
O. pratensis, Germ. (‘omentosus, Gyll. nee O1.). Ovate, or oblong- 
ovate, black, covered thickly with a uniform grey pubescence, which will 
