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Billings on the Pine-bori?ig Beetles. 



fine short light hairs. When these are rubbed off, the head and 

 thorax are seen to be nearly black and smooth and shining, the 

 thoraK being scarcely at all punctured. The elytra, when depriv- 

 ed of the hairs becomes of a horn colour, darkest near the thorax, 

 and covered with small punctures. Some specimens are almost 

 entirely destitute of the dark brown spots, and in general the nnm- 



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ber and size of these marks vary a good deal. On each side of 

 the thorax there is a short broad-based spine. The antennae con- 

 sist of eleven joints, the second of which is very short, and the 

 first much thicker than any of the others. This species is found 

 in all parts of Canada where there are pine trees, and Dr. LeConte 

 says it is abundant at Saratoga in New York.^ A specimen has 

 lately been caught flying in the streets of Philadelphia.f 



•Lk Conte, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadelphia, 2d Sec. Vol. 2, p. 148. 

 t Trans. Entomlogical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, p. 98. 



