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Britain it is somewhat local, though not uncommon where 

 it occurs. 



d. Protective Rules. 



Infested plants and coppice-shoots should be cut down by 

 the end of July and burned. 



The beetles should be knocked off the trees on to cloths. 

 This should be done carefully, as the slightest shaking of the 

 trees induces the beetles to fall and lie as if dead on the 

 ground, where they may escape observation. 



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Fig. QQ.Hylobii(s abietis, Fabr. 

 a Imago. b Larva. c Pupa. 



8. Hylobius abietis, Fabr. (Pine-iveevil).* 

 a. Description. 



Beetle 8 to 13 mm. long, of strong build, pitchy-brown, with 

 2 or 3 golden (rarely pale yellow) irregular stripes across the 

 elytra, and a few spots of the same colour near their apex. 

 Head with a strong, somewhat curved rostrum, thorax 

 gradually narrowed from the middle to the apex, with coarse 

 confluent punctation and a slightly elevated median ridge, 

 clothed with patches of thick hair ; elytra thrice as broad as 

 the base of the thorax, and somewhat elevated at the shoulders. 

 Legs brown, the femora toothed below (by which it may be 

 distinguished from Pissodes pini, L., which otherwise greatly 

 resembles it), and generally darker than the tibiae. 



* The most valuable account of this very destructive forest insect is by 

 Oberforster von Oppen, " Untersuchungen iiber die Generationsverhaltnisse des 

 Hyl. abietis" "Zeitschr. fr. Fret. u. Jgdw." 1885, pp. 81 and 141. 



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