260 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



pine borer is the one that ruins so much good pine 

 lumber. In the present case the grubs must have 

 been in the pine logs before they went through 

 the saw-mill and were made into flooring boards. 

 The grub must have taken some Rip Van 

 Winkle " naps " which made it sleep and of course 

 remain a baby for a long time. In the Peabody 

 Academy of Science at Salem, Mass., one of these 

 beetles is preserved which had eaten its way out 

 of a blue bureau which was made fifteen years 

 before. As showing a greater imprisonment in 

 furniture, it is traditionally said that in 1786 a 

 son of Gen. Isaac Putnam, residing in Williams- 

 town, Mass., had a table made from one of his 

 apple trees. Out of this table, twenty years 

 afterward, a long-horned beetle gnawed its way, 

 and a second one burrowed his way out twenty- 

 eight years after the tree was cut down. 



LEAF BEETLES (CHRYSOMELm^) 



The leaf beetles are longer than they are wide; 

 egg-shaped, sometimes are very thick through the 

 body, the back is rounded like the half of an egg 

 which has been split endways, the eyes are promi- 

 nent, their chests are narrow and cylindrical. The 



