INSKCTS AFFIXTI.NG I'AKK AND WOODLAND TREES 43 I 



An olive, gray-mottlod hectic with black licail and thorax and ahoiit ?« in< h long, o(( iirs 



in early spring on partly decayed beech stumps 



A n t h o p h i I a X a t t e n 11 a t u s, j). 4X8 

 A brown-headctl, black-winged, rather stout beetle about '{ inch long, was bred from 



larvae taken from a hollow oak I ) e r m e s t e s [» 11 I c h e r, p. 4S9 



For less important species taken under (leca\ing bark or in decaving wood, .uy p. 4.S9-494 



Fungous beetles 



There are a number of s[)ecies formeii on various fungi growing f>n trees, and some of the 



more common are noticed briefly on p. 494 

 Natural enemies of one kind or another are frequently found in association with the 



above named species, and they are noticed briefly on p. 499-505 



Beautiful hickory borer 

 (rOis piilchra Haiti. 



A stout beetle about an inch long and beautifully marked with dark brown, silvery 

 and reddish yellow bores in hickorv. 



The i)arcnt insect is a stout beetle, about i inch loiii;, bi-aiitifully 

 clothed with dark i)rown, silvery and redtlish yellow jjubescence. There is 

 a broad, transverse, lit^hter band across the wino- covers, and the tips of the 

 latter are conspicuous on account of the orolden i)ubesccnce coverinL,^ them 

 f pi. 0, h.^'- 1 I- 



This insect deposits its egt^^s on tliffen;nt varieties of hickory, fretiuently 

 selectinc^ smaller trees c,x\\\ an inch or thereabouts in diameter. The opera- 

 tions of the _<:jrub inside \<)unL,r trees, causes the trunk to enlari^e so that 

 there is produced a t^all-likc swellinj^-, which weaktMis the tree ami mav result 

 in its breakini:,'- off in a gale. Old borint^^s are marked by an ul;-1\- wound 

 [pi. 9, fi^r. 3 1. Recent ope'rations of the larva are shown at fisj^ure 4, its 

 characteristic feedintrs at the base of leaf stems and the exit hole of the 

 parent beetle are represented at figures 2 ami 5 respectiveh', plate 9. 



This species is not abundant in Xew \'ork, if one may judge from the 

 condition of the .State collections. This mav l)e iliie in part to the retiring 

 habits of the adults. It was reported a number of years ago bv X^x lloilge 

 as scarce, though found every season In shagbark and pignut hickor\-, about 



