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tent it has been injurious appears to be unknown. Some closely- 

 allied species are known to be injurious to pine, spruce and hemlock 

 wood and lumber, in which the larvae bore. The larvae are very- 

 much flattened, with a broad, horny head and six small legs, and are 

 said to live two years. 



Spec. char. Imago. — Body rufous, with short hair, punctured; antennae 

 black; thorax subinequal, polished; punctures very numerous on each 

 side, less numerous on the disk; scutel rufous; elytra violaceous, with 

 confluent excavated punctures, furnishing short black hairs, tip 

 rounded; tibia and tarsi black. 



Ciiion cinctus. — Dru. (0. garganicus. — Fab.) The Hickory-trunk 



Borer. 



Elongate and rather slender ; the scutellum acute at the tip and 

 triangular; thorax without callosites on the back, thighs with 

 minute spines at the tip. 



Spec. char. Imago. — It is of a reddish brown color, the head and 

 thorax being darker than the wing-cases ; covered throughout with 

 scattered, pale yellow down or hairs; antennae very long ; exceeding 

 the entire length of the body; a smooth, dark, red line across the face 

 between the eyes; thorax barrel shaped, with a sharp spine each side 

 near the middle; scutellum yellow. Each wing-case has an oblique, 

 yellow partial band across it, a little in front of the middle ; com- 

 mencing about one-fourth of an inch behind the shoulder of each 

 wing-case, they run obliquely inwards and backwards to the suture or 

 inner margin. On each side of these bands the color is darker than 

 on the other parts of the wing-cases ; each wing-case, has at the tips, 

 two little sharp teeth or spines projecting backwards, the inner spine 

 or tooth being the longest ; length of the inject from seven-tenths to 

 one inch ; width about or slightly more than one-fourth the length. 



The larvae of this species inhabit the trunk of the hickory, in 

 which they form long galleries in the direction of the fibers. 



I am not aware that any remedy has been suggested or tried in ref- 

 ference to this particular species. 



Ebueia quadrigeminata — Say. The Honey-Locust Borer. 



This species which is of a pale brown or fawn color may be distin- 

 guished by two ivory-like spots on each wing-case ; by the two black 

 tubercles on the upper surface, and one short spine on each side of 

 the thorax. It varies in length from a little over three-fourths to 

 nearly an inch. Its larva lives and bores in the Honey Locust. 



Spec. char. Imago. — Body entirely pale yellowish brown ; antennae 

 hardly more' obviously hairy on the basal joints than on the others ; 

 thorax with two black tubercles above, rather before the middle, 

 placed transversely, and a short spine each side on the middle of the 

 length of the thorax; elytra rather paler than the thorax ; each with 

 two double, somewhat elevated bright yellow, abbreviated very short 

 lines, the two members of the basal spot equal, the other spot is 

 placed on the middle, the inner member is shorter than the exterior 

 one ; tip two spined, the exterior spine longest; intermediate and pos- 

 terior thighs two-spined at tip, the inner spine rather longest. 



