250 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FOREST AND SHADE TREES. 
The larva.—Of the usual shape, flesh-colored, the head and prothoracie shield highly 
polished, deep gamboge yellow. Body wrinkled, tapering very gradually from meso- 
thoracic segment to the end of the body; body with small hair-bearing warts, which 
‘are extremely small, and indicated more by the short, pale, glistening stiff hairs aris- 
ing therefrom, Hind borders of abdominal joints slightly thickened dorsally. 
Chrysalis. _—Color hone »y-yellow, the skin so delicate that the colors of the moth show 
‘clearly through it before emergence. Of the usual shape, long and slender; the 
abdominal segments having above two transverse rows of rather minute spines; the 
anus, blunt and unarmed; the under side with a few blunt stiff hairs; the antennze 
not reaching quite to the tips of the wings. Average length, 5™™, 
The moth.—Average expanse of wings, 12™™, Fore wings bright glossy orange, 
‘crossed by four reddish-brown bands. The second band from the costa is slightly bent : 
the third band has the form of a letter K, the top of the K being usually closed, though 
occasionally open. The apical band is wedge-shaped, reaching nearly to the inferior 
angle. Frequently this coalesces with the lower part of the third band. Hind wings 
dark gray, with cilia of the same color. (Riley.) 
AS a remedy, Riley recommends showering the shrubs with Paris 
green or London purple, so as to kill the larve as they eat the leaves. 
3. THE SIX-SPOTTED METACHROMA. 
Metachroma 6-notata Say. 
Order COLEOPTERA ; family CHRYSOMELID®. 
Feeding on the leaves in July, an oblong pale shining beetle, 0.15 long, narrower 
anteriorly and punctured, the punctures in rows on the wing-covers becoming very 
faint towards their tips, and on each wing-cover three black spots, the forward one 
long and narrow, the other two situated on the middle, parallel and almost in con- 
tact, the inner one placed rather farther back. 
4, THE APPLE LEIOPUS. 
Leiopus facetus Say. 
Order COLEOPTERA; family CERAMBYCID. 
Feeding on the leaves in July, a small black long-horned beetle 0.18 long, with long 
slender hair-like tawny-yellow antennie, their basal joint and the tips of two or three 
following joints black ; its thorax with an ash-gray stripe on the middle and an oblique 
one on each side of this, the hind ends of these stripes sometimes uniting and forming 
a letter W ; its wing-covers with a large ash-gray spot forward of the middle and 
almost reaching the suture, having in it anoblique triangular black spot, and towards 
the tip an ash-gray band concave on its hind side. 
Mr. Say states that he obtained his specimens from the juniper, but 
‘its occurrence thereon was perhaps accidental, as I have found it on 
apple trees in a section of country where no juniper grows. (Fitch.) 
We may add that the European Leiopus nebulosus Linn., though usually 
living in the apple and other fruit trees, also in Europe, mines the Pinus 
abies ane P. picea. 
We extract the following account of this and the prickly ash Leiopus 
from our first annual report to the Massachusetts Board of Agricul- 
Lure; 
This new borer in the limbs of the apple was found June 11, in all its 
Stages of growth, in the rotten limb of an apple tree in Chelsea, by Mr. 
