T][K LOXG-IIOHNKD WOOD-HOKIXG HKK'l'LKS. 



102r) 



2. (After Chitteuden in Bull. Xo. 18, New Ser., 

 U. S. Div. Ent.) 



Length 11.5-17 nun. (Fij 



(\v») small, sniooth elevations each side, the front t>ne ronmled, the other 

 oblong, the two sometimes connected. Elytra deeply, rather sparsely and 

 finely punctured, the tips each with two short spines. Tveugth 14-17 mm. 



Throughout the State; much more fre()uent in the southern 

 counties. June 25-Septeml)er '20. 



1S!)(i (G0G2). KiAPiiiDiox vii.iosiM Fnh.. Knt. Syst.. I. 171)8. :!02. 



Elongate, slender, subcyl- 

 iiulrical. Dark brown, clothed 

 with grayish-yellow, some- 

 what mottled pubescence; an- 

 tenniie and legs reddish-brown. 

 Antenna^ of female shorter, 

 those of male longer, than 

 body, joints 3-5 armed with 

 short spines. Thorax cylin- 

 d r i c a 1 n n a r m e d. s u r face 

 coarsely, deeply and rjither ru- 

 gosely punctured. Elytra par- 

 allel, deeply and rather coarse- p.- ^g^; 

 ly punctured, the tijis each 

 with two short spines, the outer one the longer. 

 43U.) 



Throughout the State; common. INIay ll-July 11. This spe- 

 cies is the well-i^uown "oak-pruner, " which does much damage to 

 oak and other trees by cutting off the small leaf-bearing twigs. Ac- 

 cording to Cliittenden* it attacks almost every woody plant that 

 grows, including all the more common forms of fruit trees. The 

 severed twigs vary in length from a few inches to two or three feet 

 and sometimes are more than an inch in diatneter. An examina- 

 tion of one, and sometimes of both ends of one of the twigs will 

 sho^v a smoothly cut surface, near the center of which will be seen 

 a more or less oval opening plugged up \vith a wad of a material 

 composed of fine shavings and sawdust. If one of these limbs be 

 split open a larva or pupa wall be found. The larva is subeylin- 

 drical, soft and fleshy, and of a whitisli or light-yellowish color. It 

 is provided with legs which are, however, somewhat rudimentary 

 and of little service to the creature as organs of locomotion. 



"The pruning process is not always in itself especially injurious, 

 but the ultimate effects are a]it to ])e more serious. The fallen 

 twigs serve as a breeding place for liosts of other wood borers, many 

 of wliich are injurious to timber. Among these are some which do 

 not hesitate, in default of an abundance of dead wood, to attack and 

 injure living trees. In case this beetle becomes injui'iously abun- 



*Bull. 18, \cw Ser., U. S. Div. Ent., 1898, .37. 



