CERAMBYCIDJE. 



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Fig. 478. 



the segments, with the first pair of stigmata placed on the 

 sides of the mesothorax. It is found in dead beach trees. 



The Oi'thosoma unicolor Druiy (Fig. 477) is a light bay col- 

 ored beetle found flying from the middle of July until Septem- 

 ber. We have found the larva (Fig. 478) in the rot- 

 ten stumps of the pine, and in the Western States 

 Riley states that a larva (Fig. 479, head and tho- 

 rax seen from beneath), probably of this species, 

 eats the roots of the grape-vine, hollowing out and 

 sometimes severing the root and killing the vine. 



Prionus brevicornis Fabr. is a very large, not un- 

 common beetle, of an ovate shape and pitchy black 



color, with short, thick jaws, and 

 antenna? about half as long as 

 the body. The larvre, Harris 

 states, are as thick as a man's 

 thumb, and are found in the 

 trunks and roots of the Balm of 

 Gilead and Lombardy poplar. 



Pig. 479. Crossidius pukhrior Bland (Fig. 480), 



from Nebraska, is a pale reddish beetle, with the antennae, 

 head, base and the large mark on the disk of the elytra and 

 legs black. An allied form is Eburia? Ulkei Bland 

 (Fig. 481, showing the sculpturing of the head) -which is 

 described as coming from Cape St. Lucas, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



The larva of Stenocortts putator Peck (Fig. 482 ; a, 

 larva, just about transforming; />, pupa) nearly ampu- Fl8 ' 480 ' 

 tates the branches of the black and white oaks. After becoming 

 mature in the trunk, and just before undergo- 

 ing its transformations, it gnaws off a branch 

 which falls to the ground, containing the larva, 

 which changes to a beetle in midsummer, and 

 lays its egg near the axilla of a leaf stalk or 

 The beetle is a very slender one, with an tenure 

 longer than the bod}' in the males, the third and fourth joints 

 of which are tipped with a small spine or thorn. It is dull 

 brown, with gray spots. The Banded hickory borer, Chion 

 (Cerasphorus) cinctus Drury, makes long galleries in the 



Fig. 481. 



small stem 



