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LONG HORNED BEETLES. 



(luring the following spring. The wood-men on that account call 

 them "Bark-slippers." Other species in the Southern States are 

 very apt to injure tan-bark. Trees cut in summer or early in 

 autumn, after 'the beetles have disappeared, are not attractive to 

 them in the following season, and escape injury. 



Fig. 118. — Hylotrupes bajulus, Linn. — After Brehm. 



Hylotrupes bajulus Linn., a beetle very similar in form to the 

 species of Phymatodes, is shown in Fig. 118; it is one of the few 

 longicorn beetles that burrow in the larval state in dead wood, 

 even after it has been used for building purposes. 



THE BELTED HICKORY-BORER. 



(Chion ductus Drury). 



This common beetle, (Fig. 119), distinguished by very 

 narrow wing-covers, which are armed with two little thorns to- 

 ward the tips, is of a hazel color, with a tint of gray produced by 

 the short hairs covering it ; it is also marked by an oblique ochre- 

 yellow band across each wing-cover, not always present, however. 

 The thorax is armed with a short spine on each side. The feelers 



