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hairs, bent over. There isa pair of parallel short honey-yellow lines in the 
middle of each wing-cover, with a third one a little in front, making in all six 
streaks. The legs and feet are black. It is a little over eight-tenths of an inch 
in length.” (Packard). 
Bores in elm trees. Mr. George Hunt has observed this species inserting its 
eggs in the crevices of the hark. Occurs in Ontario and Quebec, but apparently 
is not abundant. 
5. THE RED-HEADED CLytus, Neoclytus erythrocephalus Fab, Order Coleop- 
tera, Family Cerambycidee.—This pretty little beetle bores in the elm and also in 
hickory, ete. “ It is about one-third of an inch long, and hardly one-tenth of an 
inch wide, the thorax being very cylindrical and as wide as the wing-covers. 
The colour is a rusty red, the head being of a lighter red, whence the name 
erythrocephalus, from two Greek words signifying “red-head.” The antenne are 
about one-half as long as the body ; the elytra have four narrow vellow bands 
across them, and the legs are long and slender, especially the hinder pair, which 
are almost twice as long as the body. This beetle is exceedingly quick in its 
movements, and is difficult to capture as it runs swiftly, and take to flight in- 
stantly, if disturbed.” (Harrington). This species has been taken on hickory by 
Mr. W. H. Harrington and has been bred from that tree by Drs. Leconte and Horn. 
It has been found under the bark of an old sugar maple by Mr. G. Hunt, and 
bred from oak by Dr. Riley. It has been tound boring in dead elms in Michigan 
by Hubbard, and I have myself found it at Montreal on a fallen red oak, so that 
it appears to infest. various kinds of forest trees. 
At least two species of bark-beetles are known to infest the elm. The 
Scolytide, to which family they belong, are all of very small size. The female 
drives a long gallery between the bark and the wood, depositing an egg at inter- 
vals as she progresses ; each larva when hatched drives a tunnel at almost a right 
angle to the main gallery, and when its transformations are completed, cuts a hole 
through the bark, through which it escapes. A tree infested by these insects, 
looks as if it had been riddled with shot, and the surface of the wood is scored in 
all directions with their burrows, loosening the bark and destroying the tree. 
6. THE ELM Bark-BoreER, Phle@otribus liminaris, Harris, Order Coleoptera, 
Family Scolytidze.—According to Dr. Harris this little beetle “is of a dark-brown 
colour ; the thorax is punctured, and the wing-covers are marked with deeply 
punctured furrows, and beset with short hairs. It does not average one-tenth of 
an inch in length.” 
7. THE BLAcK ELM BARK-BORER, Hylesinus opaculus, Leconte, Order Coleop- 
tera, Family Scolytide.—This is a stoutly built pitechy-black beetle found under 
the dry bark of elm and ash trees. Both these species are given in the Society’s 
list of Canadian beetles. 
8. According tu Packard, THE SNowy TREE CRICKET, Weanthus niveus, Ser- 
ville, deposits its eggs in the corky bark of the elm in the Southern States. The 
perfect insect, Fig. 43, is a slightly formed pale green cricket, 
with ivory white wings; the 
female, Fig. 44, with a long ovi- ae 
positor. Very common in Ontario Sc. vhs 
and Quebec, as far east as Mon- - 
treal. Fig. 44. 
Second are insects injuring the leaves. 
9. THE ANTIOPA BuTTERFLY, Vanessa antiopa, Linne, 
Order Lepidoptera, Family Nymphalidze.—Every one who has 
Fig 43. walked through the woods in early spring, must have noticed a 
large dark-colored butterfly, that dashing up when approached, after circling 
