2GO BHYNCHOPHonA. [Orchestcs. 



I860, near Surbiton, and confirmed by M. Brisoub; 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. avellanae, Don (signifer, Oeutz). Ovate, rather short, black; head 

 dull, slightly pubescent ; antennae testaceous, with the club sometimes 

 dusky ; thorax rather thickly punctured, with more or less distinct whitish 

 pubescence; elytra with distinctly punctured stripe, with a large common 

 white subcordate or double lunulnte spot covering base and extending 

 broadly along suture beyond middle, and a white band before apex ; 

 femora black, simple, tibiae and tarsi or tarsi, red, legs sometimes entirely 

 black. L. 2-2 mm. 



On hazels and oaks, &c. ; local, but not uncommon; Hammersmith, Chatham, 

 Sydenhiiin, Darenth Wood, Sevenonks, Wickham, Box Hill. Ashtead, Birch Wood, 

 Coombe Wood; Bearsted ; Rui-per ; Windsor ; Hastings; Eastbourne ; Arundel ; 

 New Forest; Portsmouth district; Glauvilles Woottou ; Woodbnry Common, 

 Devon; Bristol; Swansea; Ditohingham and Bungay, Suffolk; Knowle, near Bir- 

 mingham : Sherwood Forest; Scarborough ; not recorded from the Northumberland 

 and Durham district; Scotland, Solway district; the variety with black legs has 

 been taken by Dr. Power at Birch Wood and Wickham. 



O. lonicerae, Herbst. Oval ; reddish yellow, eyes, breast, abdomen 

 and a ring before apex of posterior femora black ; thorax truncate, 

 and with the sides rounded, disc obsoletely punctured, dull ; elytra 

 broad, with the shoulders somewhat rectangular, with deep punctured 

 striae, 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. 2| mm. 



Very doubtfully indigenous; Stephens (11. iv. 63) says, "Specimens of this insect 

 have long been in the collection of the British Museum ; found on the Lonicera 

 Xy losteum (Fly Honeysuckle) at Spitchwefek, 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 insect, 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. fag-i, L. Oblong, black, clothed with rather thick ashy brown 

 pubescence, which is, however, often abraded in older specimens ; ros- 

 trum black, rugosely punctured; antennas 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 stria?, inter- 

 stices flat, minutely sculptured ; legs black, tarsi testaceous, anterior 

 and intermediate femora with an indistinct tooth, posterior pair with a 

 stouter tooth, and ciliated. L. 2-2| mm. 



On the beech; common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 



O. pratensis, Germ. (lom.ento$us, Gyll. nee 01.). Ovate, or oblong- 

 ovate, black, covered thickly with a uniform grey pubescence, which will 



