Insects Injurious to the Potato and Apple. 601 



bothris femorata, Fabr.), is the larva of a bronze beetle, 

 of a greenish bronze above, and a reddish bronze below. 



Fig. 11. 



FLAT-HEADED APPLE-TREE BORER— CHRYSOBOTHRIS 



FEMORATA, Fabr. 



LARVA OF CHRYSOBOTHRIS FEMORATA. 



On the wings are two spots more decidedly bronze than the 

 rest. It ren:iains, according to Riley, but one year in the 

 tree. It does not, in all localities, commit ravages that are 

 worth noticing, but it sometimes occurs in such numbers as 

 to do much damage. Besides the apple it is found in a vari- 

 ety of forest trees and in the peach, though it is not the 

 borer most commonly found in peach trees. Tlie same rem- 

 edies as those named above would answer for this species. 

 Several species of the Woodpeckers are exceedingly use- 

 ful in destroying the various sorts of borers, and quite a 

 number of insects prey upon them. Eiley says that this 

 borer, and the same is probably true of others, prefers par- 

 tially decayed trees, and that a vigorous tree is not chosen 

 by tlie female in which to lay the eggs if a sickly or decayed 

 one is near by ; but yet it can live very comfortably in 

 healthy trees, which, however, do not remain so long. He 



