MORGAN HE BARD 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



257 



Sulphur Springs, North Carolina. ... (14) 



Glendale, Oregon (3) 



9 



Sulphur Springs, North Carolina . . . (20) 



Glendale. Oregon (3) 



Coloration. — General color shining, almost black, showing a 

 paler tinge of claret brown on abdomen and ventral surface (in- 

 tensive) ; deep claret brown, darker on pronotum and laterad on 

 mesonotum and metanotum (recessive). Examples which have 

 recently moulted are pale buffy in general coloration, until they 

 begin to harden. 



The following notes were made on the material here recorded 

 from Oregon. "Two colonies were found in tir logs, only where 

 the wood was soggy and the bark stripped easily. There, directly 

 under the bark and in the burrowings in the sap wood, the series 

 was taken. Individuals eat their way through the sap wood, 

 preferring the places where it is soft, soggy and decayed." We 

 have frequently observed this species and always under similar 

 conditions, the decaying tree trunks belonging, however, to a 

 variety of species. 



The insect is distributed widely through the Appalachian 

 region, from New York state to northern Georgia, and has been 

 recorded westward as far as the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, On 

 the Pacific coast, it is known from Chehalis, Washington; Glendale, 

 Divide and Cottage Grove, Oregon, and "California." 



Specimens Examined : 205; 116 adults and <S9 immature individuals. 



New York, i juv., paralype, [M. C. Z.]. 



Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, i juv. $, [Pa. State Dept. Zool. Cln.]. 



Meadow Mountain, Garrett County, Mar>land, Mil, 191 1, (W. Stone), 3 adults, 

 2 juv., [A. N. S. P.]. 



Sounding Knob, Highland Count\-, X'irginia, 4400 tect, \'I11, 21, 1916, (Hebard; 

 summit forest, in decaying chestnut log), 2 cT, 4 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Hot Springs, Va., 2400 to 2500 feet, VH. 3 to MI, 26, 1916, (Hebard; in decay- 

 ing chestnut logs and in decaying sap wood of pine logs), 5 cf, 5 9,9 juv., [Hebard 

 Cln.]. 



MEM. .AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



