INSECTS AFFECTING PARK AND WOODLAND TREES 



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Bothrideres geminatus Say 



This rather slender, slightly flattened, light brown beetle about yi inch long, was 

 taken in the galleries of Scolytus t| u a d r i s p i n o s u s Say, and it has also i)een 

 found by Dr Smith under dry oak bark. 



This species has brownish, moiiiliforin antennaL-, tht; two apical seg- 

 ments being distinctly enlarged. The prominent eyes are coarsely granu- 

 late and the head and prothorax coarsely and confluently punctured, the 

 latter with expanded margins, particular!)- anteriorly. Tht; wing covers are 

 strongly ridged and the entire body sparsely clothed with rather long, 

 golden yellow setae. 



