STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 441 



HICKORY. TRUNK. 



155. Slender footi:d Dysphaga, JDysphaga tenuipes, Haldeman. (Coleop" 

 tera. Cerambycidae.) 



Small grubs in the dead limbs and twigs, producing in May a 

 small black long -horned beetle with rough wing covers but half 

 as long as the abdomen and tinged wath paler yellowish at theii 

 bases, its head having a furrow in the middle and its thorax 

 cylindrical. Length 0.25. 



156. Lurid Buprestis, Dicerca larida, Fab. (Coleoptera. Buprestidae.) 



Mining shallow burro w^s in the sickly dying limbs, a long taper- 

 ing yellowish white grub, its second ring very broad and strongly 

 flattened, its head small and brownish, producing a blackish brassy 

 snapping-beetle which may be found upon the trunk and limbs 

 through the summer, its surface rather rough and with coarse 

 punctures running into each other, its wing covers with raised 

 lines on their inner part and two toothed at their tips, the end of 

 the abdomen having three teeth and its under side being more 

 brilliant brassy and with punctures opening backward. Length 

 about 0.70. See Harris's Treatise, p. 43. 



157. Walnut ant, Formica CarycB, Fitch. (Hjmenoptera. Formicidae.) 



Mining long narrow passages in the interior of the trunk and 

 limbs and staining the adjacent wood light brown; alongish black 

 shining ant, its abdomen with equidistant transverse rows of fine 

 bristles, two rows upon each segment. Length 0.20 to 0.33. See 

 Transactions, 1854, p. 855. 



158. Red-shouldered Apate, Jlpate basillaris, Say. (Coleoptera, Bos- 

 trichidae.) 



Boring small holes straight towards the heart of the tree, small 

 fleshy white six-footed grubs with backs transversely wrinkk'd; 

 changing to pupae at the inner ends of their burrows, and pro- 

 ducing small cylindrical black beetles covered witli ])unctures, 

 with the fore part of their thorax very rough and their wing 

 covers with a tawny red or yellow spot on their base, their tips 

 abruptly cut otf oblii^uely, the margin of tlie declivity showing 

 two or three little teeth on each side above and an elevated line 

 below. Length 0.20 to 0.25. See Hai-ris's Treatise, p. 81. 



