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The life history of this insect has been summarized by liim as follows : 

 The adult beetles appear in the District of Columbia during May and the 

 early part of June, their emergence varying according to season and locality. 

 Eggs are deposited on the tree and tlie larvae work under the bark in the 

 manner described above. The following spring they construct a chamber 

 which in living trees, so far as observed, is always in the bark, and in the 

 case of small dead trees in the wood. The final transformations take 

 place in cells thus formed. The pupal stage lasts about two weeks and 

 then the beetles appear. Mr Chittenden records this species as infesting 

 the while, scarlet and yellow oaks. 



Description. The beetle is nearly 3 ^ 

 inch in length, elongate and subcylindric 

 in shape. It is black with a more or less 

 greenish tinge, and the thora.x is clothed 

 with a light golden yellow pube.scence, and 

 the wing covers are each marked with a 

 stripe of the same color. The larva or 

 borer is long, slender, considerably flattened, 

 and a milk white or yellowish color, except 

 the mouth parts and the peculiar anal forks 

 which are dark brown. The pupa is white 

 like the larva. 



Distribution. This species is a native 

 insect antl has been recorded as occurring from Maine and Massachusetts, 

 southward to Te.xas and westward to the Rocky mountain.s. 



Natural enemies. .'\ single parasite, .S p a t h i u s s i m i 1 1 i m u s Ashm., 

 has been bred from this insect in considerable numbers. Mr Chittenden 

 states that it was e.xceedingly abundant in th(; District of Columbia during 

 the two years this borer was destructive. .Another ])arasite was reared but 

 has not been identified. 



Preventive or remedial measures An iiitcstetl tree can not be sa\H-d 

 and for the sake of others it should \h- cut before the api)earance of the 



FiK. 48 ARrilns b i I i n e .t I u s : »-.iduli 

 beetle, enlarged; /l-anlennii of same. enlarKcd 

 { -claws of posterior tarsi of female, some 

 what cnlarsed; S -same of male, somewhal 

 enlarged ; f —larva, enlarged ; r/— pupa, enlarged 

 (After Chittenden, U. S, Dep't Agric. Div. F.nt 



