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BRITISH BEETLES. 
They are all small and shining, and are found under 
bark, or by beating dead twigs. 
Rhinosimus viridipennis (Plate XI., Fig. 3) is per- 
haps the most elegant of the family ; it occurs not 
uncommonly in old hedges near Darenth. 
The best transition, however, to the Rhynchophora 
is formed by the Mycterina, which greatly resemble 
that group in general appearance, and also as regards 
the characters of the rostrum, intermediate coxae, 
scutellum, &c. j Mycterus curcuiionoides, taken in Eng- 
land many years ago by Mr. T. V. Wollaston, and, 
more recently, near Oxford, by Mr. Gunning, is found 
abroad on flowers (chiefly Umbelliferse ) ; and it has 
been remarked that, like certain of the Owrculionidss , 
and in particular those of the genus Larinus (to which 
it has some resemblance in form), it is covered with a 
yellowish pubescence which is renewable during - life, 
after having been rubbed off. 
