116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
very hot sunshine the Rhynchiles some- 
times unfurls its wings very rapidly and 
flies away, even during the short journey 
from the tree to the net. They appear 
to bite half through the tender stems of 
the hazel, about a couple of inches from 
the young terminal leaves, which shortly 
wither and hang down, as if damaged by 
the beating-stick of a collector; and in 
or upon these apparently unprofitable 
shoots a male and female will generally 
be detected, often accompanied by a sup- 
plemental male (or “rider”) for reasons 
best known to themselves. When no 
beetles are found the last leaf is curled 
up tight with a large oblong yellow egg 
in it. Having never observed more than 
one egg at a time I presume the female 
deposits on several shoots of the same or 
different bushes. If any doubt exists as 
to the distinction of the sexes in this 
species I can most decidedly affirm that 
the blue specimens with spines on the sides 
of the thorax are the males, having care- 
fully observed them upwards of a dozen 
times in copulA — and I particularly in- 
truded my observations upon that cere- 
monial, thinking it not impossible that the 
normal position of the sexes might be in- 
verted(as in some insects, &c.),and so have 
misled former observers, but this is most 
certainly not the case. Among a large 
number of specimens taken by me there 
is but one instance of departure from the 
sexual distinction of colour, a large male 
with spined thorax being bright coppery 
green instead of dark blue. It is possible 
that others may have found similar ex- 
amples, and so have formed an erroneous 
opiniou. I have endeavoured to detect 
similar habits in the other species of 
this genus, but as yet without success, 
although pube!icens,popnli,(e(jua(us,a;7iio- 
virens, allia>icc, yermanicus and nanus, 
have all occurred to me this year in some 
numbers. Why hetuleti should be called 
so is a mystery to me, never having seen 
it breeding on anything but hazel, and 
seldom showing any partiality for other 
trees except dwarf poplar. — E. C. Rve, 
284, Kinys Road, Chelsea, S.fV. 
Darenth . — Since my last notice, I 
have taken the following additional spe- 
cies ; — 
Omaloplia ruricola 
Leptura sex-guttata 
Pogonocherus pilosus 
Necydalis timbellalarum 
Tritoma bipustulatum 
Agrilus biguttalus 
Trachys minutus 
Clytus mysticus 
Drilus flavescens 
Endomychtts cocciueus 
Ampedus balteatus 
Athous vitlatus 
Omias hirsutultis 
Melandrya caraboides 
Rhytichiles atneovirens {var. fra- 
garia*) 
Mordellistena ubdominalis 
... pumila 
Balaniuus villosus 
... pyrroeeras 
Amara spinipes 
... orichalcica 
Calathus fuscus 
Melasoma tremultc 
Pachyta collaris 
... livida 
Toxotus meridianus 
Rbagium inquisitor 
... bifasciatttm 
Silpha ihoracica 
Onthophagus ctenobila 
Corynetes violaceus 
Liophlatus utibilus 
Ciouus thapsi 
Orchesles qtterctis 
Anoplus plantaris 
Catliodes guttula 
Taehyerges stigma 
Choleva velox 
... agilis 
... nigricans. 
— Inti). 
Cuptitres of Coleoptera , — Notwith- 
standing the late excessive wet weather 
