180 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FOREST AND SHADE TREES. 
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taken from Leconte’s essay on the Rhynechophora, or weevils of the 
United States. 
48. Hypomolyx pinicola Leconte. 
This species was originally described by Couper (Trans Lit. and His- 
torical Society of Quebec, 1854), under the name of Hylobius pinicola. 
The body is elongate, ovate, broader behind, the eyes small, elytra oval, 
convex; the beak is as long as the. prothorax, rather stout, slightly 
curved; the prothorax is rather small, subserrate on the sides, very 
coarsely punctured, thinly clothed with coarse hair, carinate in front; 
the elytra are densely punctured, mottled with small spots of yellow 
hair ; striz composed of large elongate deep punctures. Length, 13.5™™ 
(.5-.3 inch). 
49, Hilipus squamosus Leconte. 
The genus Hilipus, says Leconte, largely developed in tropical Amer- 
ica, is represented by a single rare species found in Georgia and Florida, 
where it occurs under pine bark. It differs from Hylobius in the body 
being ornamented with small scales instead of spots of fine pubescence. 
It is a beautiful black insect, with a broad white lateral vitta on the pro- 
thorax, and a very irregular one on the elytra, with many scattered 
small spots, densely clothed with depressed, very small, round, chalky 
white scales. Punctures of elytra very large, distant; interspaces 
smooth, shining, except where covered with scales. Length, 14.4™™ (.57 
inch). 
50. Crypturgus atomus Leconte. 
Canada, Massachusetts, New York; under bark of dead pine branches. 
Length, 1™™ (.04 inch). ; 
This species, though common in white pine bark, is especially de- 
structive to the sprnee, and is more fully described under the head of 
spruce insects. It occurred in abundance at, Brunswick, Me., in all 
stages of development, from the fully-grown larvee to the beetle under 
the bark of white pine stumps (the trees having been felled the pre- 
vious November), from the middle of July until the Ist of September, 
and probably still later. 
51. Ernobius tenuicornis Leconte. 
Order COLEOPTERA ; family PTINID&. 
According to Leconte this beetle has been detected in the boughs of 
Pinus rigida in Massachusetts by Mr. Blanchard. (Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc., vill, xxiii, 1880.) . 
52. THE PINE “GERIAN. 
igeria pint Kellicott. 
Order LEPIDOPTERA; family ASGERIAD#. 
Boring in autumn under the bark and into the superficial layers of wood, usually 
just below a branch, a white smooth caterpillar an inch long, transforming to chrysa- 
lids late in May, the moth appearing from the middle to the end of June. (Kellicott.) 
