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and central United States, though it appears to be rare in Minnesota and 



some of the northern states, while in the South its work is more abundant. 



Dr J. B. Smith has listed it from several New Jersey localities, where it is 



recorded as girdling twigs of oak, hickory, persimmon and a number of fruit 



trees. 



Remedial measures. It is comparatively easy to control this insect, 



because the winter is passed in the twigs lying on the ground, and in 



the case of valuable trees on lawns and in similar localities, it would not be 



difficult to collect and burn them at any time during the winter or early 



spring. 



Bibliography 



1890 Packard, A. S. U. S. Ent. Com. 5th Rep't, p. 288-90 



189s Scheffer, T. H. Insect Life. 7:345-47 



189S Parrott, P. J. Kan. .\gric. Exp Sta. Bui. 77, p. 56-62 



Hickory snout borer 



Magdalis olyra Herbst. 



A black, long snouted beetle about 3/0 inch in length, breeds commonly in dying or 

 dead hickory limbs. 



Examples of this species were bred from hickory limbs taken at Ilion 

 N. Y., in August 1902. The tree was badly infested with a gnarly growth 

 and presumably in poor condition. We have also met with it in large 

 numbers in recently cut hickory limbs. 



Description. The beetle is about -Vi^ inch in length, jet-black, with the 

 thorax angulated anteriorly, coarsely punctured ; wing covers deeply 

 grooved by nearly confluent series of punctures. The grub is a short, 

 white, fleshy larva closely resembling that of the pine weevil and of other 

 species of Magdalis. 



Life history. This species appears to confine its attacks very largely 

 to diseased and dying trees and is sometimes present under the bark in 

 enormous numbers, at which time the inner bark and sapwood may be 

 almost riddled by the many irregular, anastomosing galleries. 



Food plants. This species is credited by Dr Packard with boring in 



