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White spotted sawyer 



jMoiiohaiiiiiuts sciitcllat lis Say 



This longirorn is inm h less aluinihint ai)()ut Albany than its larger relative 

 M. c o n f 11 s () r Kiiiiw It nit-asiirt-s about Ss inch in length and may l)e recognized 

 by its nearly unitOnn bhu k (olcjr mottled with white. 



The writer took a specimen on chino- white pine at Batli-on- Hudson 

 July 26, 1901, antl one on hartl |)ine at Karm-r |une 13 of the same year. 

 It ap|_)ears to he mnnerous in the /Vdirondack ret^ion, antl somewhat so at 

 Pike. Accordino- to Dr Packard it is common, sometimes abundant, in 

 Maine and northern \cw Ent,dand and speciall\- in the himher reo^ions of 

 Lake .Sii|j(;rior, from whence he had received it in lar^c mmil>ers. It also 

 occurs, accordino- to him, in pine forests of British America, and in W^ash- 

 in:j;;ton and ( )rey<)n alono' the Pacific coast. Dr A. I). Hopkins records it 

 as a common and dcstructi\'e wood Isorer in tlyin<;' antl ileatl white pine in 

 West \'irs4'inia. This species apijears to Ije comparative!)' rare in New 

 Jersey, since I )r Smitli lists a single sj^ecimen from Newark and gives but 

 one other locality where it is known to occur. 



Rev. C. J. .S. Prthune, writing;' of this insect in 1877, states that the 

 species is sometimes \cr\' abimdant in Canada, and that he has (occasionally 

 foimd the insects swarmino- in M-rc-at numbers on fallen pines. Rew Thomas 

 W. P\'les records an instance where this species was e.xtrenu'ly inpu'ious to 

 spruce in 1805. J^'" "^t'^te's that in the sjjrino- one of his neighbors planted 

 an extensive hedt^e around his i^rfoinuls and by the entl of the summer nearly 

 every scion had been ijirdled or partially so by this beetle. He adds that 

 in a heavy wind he has seen a larg-e spruce tree snajj off two feet from the 

 j^roimd, and on examination found that the stem was honey combed with 

 the larval tjalleries of this insect. Dr fames Fletcher states that shading 

 cut logs with balsam boughs appears to be a verv effective method of pre- 

 venting injur)- by this species and M. c o n f u s o r Kirby. 



