228 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FOREST AND SHADE TREES. 
wick, August 3 and 27. At the latter date three sets of the larve 
occurred—one measuring about 6™™, another 9™, and a third from 16™™ 
to 20™" in length. There were no fully-grown worms. It is possible 
that the eggs from which these came were laid in the early summer; but 
it is more likely that they were deposited by the female during the pre- 
vious summer, as the beetle is not to be seen except from June to early 
September. 
2. UNKNOWN BUPRESTID LARVA. 
A species of Dicerca or Melanophila. (?) 
Rather long and slender larvie, with the segment next behind the head 
much narrower than in Chrysobothris, occurred in abundance under the 
bark of a dead spruce at Brunswick, August 27. They were nearly 
fully grown. The larve of either this or an allied species also occurred 
under the bark of a spruce near the Glen House, near Gorham, N. H., 
July 22. 
3. THE LONG-LEGGED MELANOPHILA. 
Melanophila longipes. 
Order COLEOPTERA; family BUPRESTID&. 
Probably boring into the trunks, a flat-headed borer, changing to a small Buprestid 
beetle. 
This beetle is thought by Mr. George Hunt to bore into the wood of 
the spruce, as he has found it on charred spruce timber under such cir 
cumstances as to lead him to believe that it depredates on this tree. 
Nothing is known of the habits of the larva. 
The beetle.— Body deep black, immaculate; thorax with an obsolete indented line ; 
secutel small, subangulated; elytra finely granulated; an obtuse, obsolete, elevated 
line from the shoulder to the tip; tip abruptly terminated by a small spine in the 
center; beneath polished, slightly tinged with violaceous. Tarsi of the intermediate 
and posterior feet elongated, as long or longer than the tibia; first joint equal to the 
three following ones conjointly ; fourth joint bilobate, very short. Found in Penn_ 
sylvania and the Western States. (Say.) 
Leconte states that it inhabits Pennsylvania, Kansas, and the Lake 
Superior region; that it is very closely related to the European J. ap- 
pendiculata, but on comparison the thorax is less rounded on the sides, 
which are less sinuate posteriorly. As in that species, the sculpture is 
very indistinct at the middle and the small carina at the basal angles 
nearly parallel with the margin. The elytra are more gradually nar- 
rowed behind, and the apex is rectilinearly attenuated from the suture, 
while in M. appendiculata the inner outline of the tip is concave, though 
not so much so as in JV. atropurpurea. The tip of the abdomen, as in 
the others of this group, is slightly emarginate, with the angles acute. 
4. THE WHITE-PINE WEEVIL. 
Pissodes strobi Peck. 
This common weevil, which is described and figured on p. 185, we have 
found the past season from the 10th to the 15th August, at Brunswick, 
