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family of beetles, who pronounced it a new species and gave it the 

 scientific name, Luperisimis californicus. 3 For a common name the 

 writer has proposed the olive bark-beetle, which seems to be sufficiently 

 descriptive. 



Fig. 8. The olive bark-beetle, Luperisinus calif ornicus Swaine. Work and exit 

 holes made by the larvae and adults on an olive limb. (Original.) 



(Photo by Div. Sci. Illust., Univ. Calif.) 



The insect is a small, robust beetle about one-eighth of an inch 

 long, black with whitish scales forming a more or less definite pattern 

 on the back, as shown in the drawing (fig. 9). The legs and most 

 of the antennae are reddish and the entire body is covered with small 

 simple and plumose hairs of various sizes. In general shape and size, 



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