872 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Plate XII, Fig. 5, represents the Longicorn larva mentioned on p. 241 

 of Bulletin 7 (^o. 2), as found in abundance under the bark of the hem- 

 lock at the Glen, N. H., July 22. It is IQ'"'" in length ; width of the 

 prothoracic segment, 4.5™'". 



3. A SHORT, THICK LONGICORN BORER. 



Order Coleoptera ; family Cekambycid^. 



Found anderthe bark of dead hemlocks at Bath, Me., July 30, a short, thick unknown 

 longicorn borer. 



Plate XII, Fig. G, represents a Longicorn larva found under the bark 

 of the hemlock, and mentioned on p. 241, Bulletin 7 (No. 3), as having 

 occurred at Bath, Me., July 30. 



The body is remarkably short and thick ; as wide near the end as 

 across the prothoracic segment. It is 20""" in length. Mandibles 

 rounded; antennae long and slender, 4-jointed; maxillae with the lobe 

 long, extending as far as the end of the 4-jointed palpi. Labium nar- 

 row ; palpi large, 3-jointed. Ijabrum small and narrow. 



4*. A BUPRESTID BORER. 



Order Coleoptera; family Buprestidjs. 



Found under the bark of dead hemlocks at Bath, Me., July 30, a Buprestid larva 

 of different sizes, perhaps a species of Dicerca. 



Plate VI, Fig. 5, represents a Buprestid larva, mentioned in Bulletin 

 7, p. 241 (No. 4). It is 20'"'» in length, and Dr. Gissler's figures so well 

 represent the larva that a longer description will not at this time be 

 needed. 



5. The white pine weevil. 



Pissodes strobi Peck. 



This weevil and its cells were found in hemlocks among a number of 

 small standing dead spruces, which had, like them, been killed by the 

 attacks of Longicorn borers, and by the following species of bark-borer : 



6. Crypturgua atomus Le Conte. 



This minute bark-borer was observed in considerable numbers in 

 standing dead hemlocks at Bath, Me., July 30. 



7. The hemlock bark-borer. 

 Hadrohregmus foveatus (Kirby). 



Order Coleoptera ; family Ptinid^, 



The bark of hemlock trees and of hemlock logs, as well as the sepa- 

 rated bark piled up by the roadside near the Glen House, in the White 

 Mountains, last summer, was found to be perforated in all directions 



