INSECTS AI'FliCTI.NG I'AKK A.NU WUOULANU TKliES 



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Pine chrysomela 

 Glyptoscclis pubcsccns Fabr. 



Thick, cylindric, brilliant, brassy, co|)i)ery liued, rather stout beetles occur on hard 

 pine foliage in May and June. 



This species ranges from 1% to ? ,6 incii in length | pi. 20, fig. 7]. It 

 was common on hartl pines at Karner in June 1901, and occurred through- 

 out May, June and early Jul\- the following year. This insect ranges from 

 the Middle States to North Carolina and has been recorded from Oregon. 

 It appears to be a rather characteristic spruce and pine beetle, jutlging 

 from accessible records. 



Cryptocephalus schreibersii .Suffr. 



A stout, yellowish brown beetle a trille over ] i, inch long occurs 

 on hard ])ine. 



This stout yellowish brown beetle, only a trille over 

 y% inch in length, was taken in small numbers on hard 

 pines at Karner in September. This species has been 

 recorded I>\- Dr LeConte, from Massachusetts and Georgia, 

 and I)r Smith reports it from several localities in New "^ '.,,"* f/hVc'ibrrTiii 

 Jersey, and states that it occurs on hartl pine leaves. en argcd (ongma 



Cryptocephalus quadrimaculatus .Say 

 lAu A small, stout, black, red-spotted beetle /s inch long occurs on 



/ hard ])ines in niidsumnier. 



This species was taken through June and in early July 



iQOi, and the latter part of June 1902, on both scrub oak 



Fip..,7 cryp.oceph- and hard jfine at Karner. It has also been listed from 



i.,t us enlarged (oriR- N ew^ Jcrscy tca ( C e a n o t h u s a m e r 1 c a n a) and also on 



Rubus. Little IS known ol its lite historv. 



