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bus and made careful notes for me. It is found boring partly in the 

 solid wood in all stages. So numerous were the insects that the pattern 

 of the larval burrow, which is usually very characteristic in the Scoly- 

 tids, was confused and undecipherable. The insect is very destructive 

 to the tree by hastening decay, although it was not observed to at- 

 tack perfectly healthy trees. The adolescent states show little that is 

 specificially characteristic, the larva having the normal form and lack- 

 ing legs. 



This insect has a persistent enemy in a small predaceous beetle {Clerus 

 ichneumoneus) which attacks and destroys the Scolytid when the latter 

 emerges from its gallery and the larva of which, there is every reason 

 to believe, also destroys the Scolytid larva. 



The following additional Coleoptera are also known to affect Celtis, 

 but are not peculiar to it, the most injurious being No. 20: 



Cerambycid^. 



17. Mallodon melanopus Linn. 



18. Mallodon serrulatus Lee. 



19. Smodicmn cuvujiforme Say. 



20. Bomaleuni atomarium Drury. 



21. Liopus crass^llus Lee. 



22. Ataxia crypta Say. 



SCOLYTIDJE. 



23. Micracis rudis Lee. 



24. Scolytus muticus Say. 



25. Phloeotribus frontalis Oliv. 



The following species of Cucujidae are found under the decaying 

 bark: 



26. Catagenus rufus Fabr. 



27. Scalidia linearis Lee. 



28. Ino reclusa Lee. 



29. Lwmophlceus hornii Casey. 



Cecidomyidous Hackberry Galls. 



The Cecidomyidous galls occurring on twigs and leaves of Celtis 

 often assume a close resemblance to those produced by the Psyllids and 

 are almost as numerous in species as the latter. They have not yet 

 been thoroughly studied, and a full description is not here intended, nor 

 a characterization of the insects which make them and which are very 

 difficult to rear. But a short account of a few of the more striking galls 

 which are liable to be mistaken for those made by Psyllids will be ap- 

 propriate. 



30. Cecidomyidous galls on the tender twigs, either singly or placed 

 in rows of two or more specimens ; occurring also singly ou the petiole 

 or on the lower surface of the leaf. Gall usually resembling somewhat 



