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HICKORY. TRUNK. 



tree, as the one herewith presented shows its entrance and the 

 lower part of its burrow, of the natural size. 



152. Belted Cerambtx, Cerasphorus balteatuSj Degeer. (Coleoptera. 

 Cerambjcidae.) [Plate 1, fig. 8] 



A worm similar to the preceding and boring the trunk in the 

 same manner, producing a more flattened long-horned beetle of a 

 dusky brown color with a short dull straw-yellow band placed 

 obliquely forward of the middle of each wing cover, and with a 

 small sharp spine on each side of the thorax and two slender ones 

 on the tips of each wing cover. Length 0.60 to 1.10. See Har- 

 ris's Treatise, p. 86. 



All our American authors have entered this species under 

 Drury's name ductus or the still later name garganicus of Fab- 

 ricius. Although it was figured and described in Drury's first 

 volume, the name was not given till the appendix of his second 

 volume was published. The name given it by Degeer (Memoirs, 

 vol. V. p. Ill) thus appears to have preceded all others. 



It is difficult to decide upon the most suitable common name 

 for many of our insects. In those instances where the generic 

 name is long and difficult of pronunciation by persons not clas- 

 sically educated, and where this name cannot readily be trans- 

 lated, I have deemed it better to fall back upon the family name, 

 thus following the example of recent English authorities in the 

 smaller Lepidoptera and several other groups. 



153* DiscoiDAL Saperda, Saperda discoidea, Fab. (Coleoptera. Cerambj- 

 cidae.) 



A similar but much smaller worm than the foregoing, changing 

 to a cylindrical long-horned beetle of a black or blackish-brown 

 color, clothed with ash-gray pubescence which is less dense 

 above and commonly forms three gray stripes upon the thorax and 

 a band or crescent upon the middle of the wing covers, its legs 

 being yellow or reddish. Length 0.40 to 0.60. 



154. Banded Saperda, Oncideres cingulatus, Say. (Coleoptera. Ceramby- 

 cidae.) 



A worm similar to the preceding and producing a similar beetle 

 but distinguished chiefly by having its wing covers sprinkled over 

 with faint tawny yellow dots. Length about 0.60. 



