LONG HORNED BEETLES. 



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of the male are more than twice the length of the body, which 

 measures from three-quarters of an inch to one and a quarter 

 inch in length. 



The larva of this beetle feeds in the wood of hickory and 

 walnut. Here it forms long galleries in the trunk in the direc- 

 tion of the fibers of the wood, and in such a gallery it later under- 

 goes the transformations to a pupa and adult. 



Besides the trees mentioned above as furnishing food to 

 these larvs, others are equally infested, as the oaks ; even plum 

 and apple trees do not escape. 



Fip. 119. — Chion cinctus, Drury. — After 

 Harris. 



Fig. 12\V2—CyUenedecotus,0\\\'.- 

 After Leconte. 



0.\K PRUNER. 



(Elaphidion parallelnm Newm.). 



The name "oak-pruner" does not mean that the larvae of 

 these destructive beetles devote all their attention to oaks ; they 

 are also found in the apple, hickory, cherry, and other trees. The 

 name "pruner" is very descriptive as the larvae, when nearly full 

 grown, girdle the twigs and branches inhabited by them from the 

 inside, not the outside, so that the first high wind of autumn and 



