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was a very thin mixture of turpentine and asphalt, or coal tar. This was 

 a|)plied to the posts and pillars by borin^j small holes obliquely inward and 

 downward and then filling' them with the mixture, which would quickly 

 penetrate the powdery mass in the burrows, not only killing all life with 

 which it came in contact, but also carrying with it the asphalt, thereby 

 rendering the uneatt:n portion ptM-manently distasteful to the insects. 



Bibliography 

 iS<i6 Webster F. M. Ohio A;4ri<-. Exp. St;i. I'.iil. 6.S, |.. 47-48 



Small red horned borer 



P/i/in/is r/i/iii-rius .Sa)' 

 :\ small dark l)ro\vn hectic, aboul ,,, inch long, with l)ri<ilit rufous antennae, may be 

 found boring in wood of various kinds. 



This species was brought to the writer's attention July 1 1, 1900, by the 

 recei])t of a ninnber of examples from Saranac Inn X. \'., accompanied by 

 the sial<'m(nt that birch and maple lloors were severely injured in some of 

 the cottages. 



This beetle also infests trees where the wood has been exposed, and it 

 has even been found in kindling wood. Mi' \\ . II. Harrington states that 

 he has seen great niniiiiers of these insects issuing from 

 -^ maple trees wliiih had been riddled with small holes, 

 lie Slates that these beetles are very common and 

 attack \arious trees, both living and dead. lie adds 

 that when a tree, such as an oak, hickory or maple has 

 been injiu'ed 1)\- blazing or peeling off the bark, this little 

 beetle may fretpiently be seen boring into the exposed 

 FipT. 57 Sm.iii rcd-horncd wood, or if the injur\- be an old one, possiblv numbers 



borer, much <-iil:,rsc.l 



(.riKinai) UKiy be fouud emerging. 



Mr W. L. Dexeraux is said by Dr I'ackan.1 to liavi; foiuid lar\'ae of 

 this insect in great abinulaiice in timber, logs ami cord wood. Me states 

 that it de]50sits its eggs in the sunimcr in which the tree is rut and that 

 many gt'nerations follow each other for a numbc-r of years in the same log. 

 Dr A. D. lIo|;kins records this sijecies as infestiuir dead or dr\- wood where 



