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APPLE. LIMBS. 



Two other New-York species, very similar to this and doubtless 

 having the same habits, may here be noticed. They are much 

 less common, and are met with in the month of April. 



10. Purblind snapping beetle, Alaus myops, Fab. 



Brown, clouded with ash-gray, the eye-like spots much smaller, 

 dim, and oval instead of round. 



11. Blinking snapping beetle, j^laus luscus, Fab. 



Differs from the foregoing only in being wholly destitute of any 

 gray or white coloring. 



The Divaricated Buprestis (see No. 71,) is sometimes met 

 with upon decaying apple trees. 



AFFECTING THE LIMBS AND TWIGS. 



Mining the tivigs internally causing them to perish. 



12. Apple twig BOR'E.R,Bostrichushicaudatus,Sa.j- (ColeopteraBostrichidae.) 



Particular twigs withering and their leaves turning brown in 

 midsummer, with a hole the size of a knitting needle perforated 

 at one of the buds some six or twelve inches below the tip end 

 of the twig, this hole running into the heart of the twig, which is 

 consumed some inches in length. 



The insect, a small cylindrical beetle, dark chesnut brown, 

 black beneath, the fore part of its thorax rough from minute ele- 

 vated points, and in the males furnished with two little horns, 

 and the tips of their wing covers above, with two prickle-like 

 points which curve inwards. Length 0.25 to 0.35. 



This insect occurs from Pennsylvania to Mississippi, and has 

 been common of late years in the orchards of Michigan and Illi- 

 nois, but has never been met with as yet in New- York or New- 

 England. 



The BLIGHT BEETLE dcstroys the twigs similarly, perforating a 

 minute hole at several of the buds instead of one only, but it is 

 more common on the pear tree. See No. 56. 



The OAK pruner, represented on plate ii., fig 2, in its larva 

 state severs the small limbs, in summer, cutting them off as 

 smoothly as though the work were done by a saw. It is rare on 



