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back to the tree, they should, if possible, be all destroyed, or a sticky 
band put round the trunk at once. 
Many minor methods of treatment have been found of service, as 
jarring the boughs to make the caterpillars fall, also fumigating, and 
numbers of other measures have been brought forward on variously 
trustworthy authority for a length of years; but looking at the records of 
known horticulturists in Canada and the United States, joined to those of 
our own country, it appears to me that, for real broadscale work, sticky 
banding in late autumn and early winter, and spraying in the spring 
when the caterpillars appear, are what we have got to trust to. 
Timberman Beetle. 
ASTYNOMUS ®DILIS, slight- 
ly larger than life ; line 
showing natural length. 
PATNGEs: 
Astynomus @dilis, L.; Acanthocinus edilis, 5. 
The Timberman can perhaps hardly be 
classed amongst insects which are really in- 
jurious to Pine-timber in this country ; but as 
it is rarely met with here, a note of its capture 
is worth record; and also the species is of 
interest from the males possessing the longest 
horns, or antenne, of any of the known 
European beetles. 
On the 12th of August the very beautiful 
specimen, from which the accompanying figure 
(a little larger than life) was sketched, was 
sent me by Mr. William Ross, from Kinnaird, 
Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, N.B., with the obser- 
vation that it had been found on the farm on 
that day, and that neither the sender, nor any 
person to whom he had showed it, had ever 
seen one like it. 
Short notes of the habits of the beetle will 
be found given by various German writers ; 
but the best account I have at hand is given 
by the late K. C. Rye,* as follows :—‘ The 4. 
edilis 1s conspicuous for the enormous length 
of its antenne, especially in the male. This 
.. occurs at Rannoch” [in Perthshire, Ep.], 
‘where it may be not uncommonly seen 
* See ‘British Beetles,’ pp. 207, 208, by E: C. Rye. 
