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A golden yellow and black wasplike, clearwing niotli having a wing spread of i}.4 in( lies, 



is very injurious to red oak M e m y t h r u s s i in u 1 a n s, j). ^.58 



A brown-headed, greenish larva witii rose-colored elevated points, about i ' _• inches long, 



bores in black oak • 



Lesser oak carpenter worm, P r i o n o x y s t u s ni a c ni u r t r e i. p. 439 

 A small, black, yellowish, gray-marked, long-horned beetle may be reared from dead 



limbs of hickory, oak and other trees L e p t u r g e s q u e r c i, p. 439 



A black beetle about fs inch long, variably markeil with dark orange red, occurs on s( rub 



oak I. e p t u r a v a g a n s, p. 440 



A grayish, narrow, triangular beetle from fs to yi inch long, may be met with on hickory 



in early June T o m o x i a b i d e n t a t a, p. 441 



A narrow, triangular, brownish, gray-marked beetle about y,6 to Y,^ inch long, occurs on 



decaying hickory in early June T o m o x i a 1 i n e e 1 1 a, p. 441 



A small, cylindric, stout, black, red-shouldered beetle about '/^ inch long, makes short. 



curved galleries in the branches of a number of deciduous trees 



Red-shouldered twig borer, S i n o x y 1 o n b a s i 1 a r e, ji. 442 

 A flat-headed, yellowish white grub bores in the trunk and limbs of pignut hickory, trans- 

 forming to a flattened, hard-shelled, lurid, dull brassy colored beetle 



Lurid Dicerca, Dicerca obscura var. 1 u r i d a, p. 442 

 A stout, black beetle with golden yellow s])ots and transverse bars on its wing covers, 



occurs on chestnut, oak and hickory in midsummer. . C a 1 1 o i d e s n o b i 1 i s, p. 443 

 A slender, blackish, gray-marked beetle about 5 3 inch long, mines as a larva the inner 



bark and sapwood of chestnut and oak 



Thunderbolt beetle, A r h o p a I u s f u 1 m i n a n s, p. 444 

 A black, slender, cylindric, long-horned beetle about --8 inch long, is easily reared from 



hickory twigs Dprcaschema nigru m, p. 444 



A brownish black, red-bordered beetle about ji inch long, bores as a larva in hickory 



Red-edged Saperda, Saperda lateralis, p. 445 

 A small, jet-black beetle about J^ inch long and with an oblique white line on each side, 



works in hickory and chestnut branches .... E u d e r c e s p i c i p e s, p. 445 



A cylindric, brownish beetle about 3/,6 inch long, makes holes of nearly uniform diameter 



in hickory and oak Hickory timber beetle, X y 1 e b o r u s c e 1 s u s, p. 446 



A short, stout, black beetle about ",6 inch long, may be bred from hickory twigs 



Hickory twig borer, C h r a m e s u s h i c o r i a e, p. 448 

 A slender, odd looking larva with a prominent hump on its neck, and leaflike, fleshy 



appendages at the end of its back, excavates extensive galleries in the heartwood and 



sapwood of living and dead chestnut and oak 



Chestnut timber worm, L y m e x y 1 o n s e r i c e u m, p. 449 



