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LONGIHORNED BEETLES. 



If this insect (Fig. 127) should become abundant enough to 

 become troublesome, it can be held in check by close pruning 

 during the late fall or winter ; the cuttings should be burned be- 

 fore spring to destroy the larvae in them. According to Dr. 

 Hamilton this beetle sometimes hibernates, as he found three of 

 them in tiie folds of a Cecropia cocoon taken in February from 

 the currant bush. 



Although not an enemy to fruit-producing plants the Saw- 

 yer {Monohainmns confusor Kirby) is so frequently seen, so 

 destructive to pines, and so often received by the enltomologist 

 to be named, that its life-history will be given in a few words. 







Fig. 127. — Psenocerus supemotatus, 

 Sav. After Saunders. 



Fig. 128. — Alunohammus confusor, 

 Kirby.-AfterDivi>ionof En^oinologj, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



It is a beautiful brown or gray beetle, covered more or 

 less densely with a silky down, most prominent upon the thorax, 

 for which reason it is sometimes called the "Silver-bug." The 

 elytra are mottled, with raised black dots or dashes ; the thorax is 

 armed upon each side with a large thorn. The beetle measures 

 about one inch and a quarter in length, and is readily recognized 

 by the long feelers, which in the female are as long as the body, 

 and in the male twice as long. These enormously long antennae 



