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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY— BULLETIN No. 56. 



L. O. HOWARD, Entomologist. 



THE BLACK HILLS BEETLE, 



WITH 



FURTHER NOTES ON ITS DISTRIBUTION, LIFE HISTORY, 

 AND METHODS OF CONTROL 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 BY 



A. D. HOPKINS, Ph. D., 



In Cliarye of Forest Insect Investigations. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 



1905. 



