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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The larva is one of the familiar tlat-headed borers and has been 

 described b)' Ur Packard as follows : 



Prothoracic segment moderately broad, not so long as wide, but not so 

 wide in proportion to the two succeeding segments as in Chrysobothris ; the 

 second thoracic segment trapezoidal, narrower than the first by two thirds of 

 its len<^''th ; third thoracic segment a little narrower and a little longer than 

 the second. All the abdominal segments about two thirds as wide as the 

 third thoracic, and round and thick. The terminal segment a little over 

 one half as wide as the one before it. Prothoracic segment with a large 

 broad rough chitinous surface, with an inverted narrow V with long slender 

 arms to the Y. On the underside of the segment, the rough surface is 

 divided into two by two nearly parallel longitudinal smooth lines. Length 

 of body, 35 mm ; length of prothoracic segment, 5 mm ; breadth, 7 mm ; 

 width of metathoracic segment, 5 mm ; width of an average abdominal 

 segment, 4 mm. 



Life history. The beetles occur abroad during the uKjnths of jiiur, 

 July antl August, at whicli time they may be fouml sunning themselves on 

 the liml)s of affected trees. Dr Fitch states that the beech is untloubteiUy 

 the original food plant of this insect, ami tliat wherever a dead tree of this 

 species occurs some of the beetles will almost always be found on it on 

 sunny midsummer da)s. 



Food plants. This species breeds in a considerable variet)' of deciduous 

 trees, having been listed from apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach, beech and 

 maple. 1 



Distribution. This beetle is recorded as abundant from the Middle 

 .States by Dr LeConte, and it has been listed from New York, New Jersey, 

 District of Columbia and Ohio l)y various writers. It is undoubtedly 

 generally distributed and rather abundant in the northeastern United 

 States. 



Banded buprestid 

 Biiprcstii faxciixfa Fabr. 



.\ brilliant green, golden vellow, flat beetle .ihoul J.s ini h long, bores as a larva in 

 maple. 



This ijrilliant grt;en, flattened beetle, ranging from about U to 5/^ inch 

 in length, may be easily recognized by the bright golden yellow markings 



