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in Nebraska. The same year, Hopkins (1893) reported it from West 

 Virginia, where it was boring in mulberry and hickory. Johnson (1898) 

 mentioned its time of appearance at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while 

 Dr. Hamilton reared it in the southwestern part of that state. Webster 

 and Mally (1897) recorded it as being injurious to fence posts in Ohio. 

 That same year, Lintner (1897) received specimens from Brooklyn, New 

 York, where they had emerged from firewood. Wickham (1897) listed 

 it from Ontario and Quebec. Lugger (1899) recorded it among the beetles 

 injurious to fruit-producing plants in Minnesota. Smith (1900) stated 

 that it was found thruout the state of New Jersey. Moffat (1902) 

 received specimens of this insect from London, Ontario. Felt (1905) 

 reported it as common in New York State where, it was found frequently 

 on hickory. Gahan (1908 a) recorded a variety of this species from Texas, 

 and another variety from Villa Lerdo, Durango, Mexico. Douglass 

 (1912) stated that it was not a very common species in Indiana. Webb 

 (1911) believed that its range was coextensive with that of the hickory. 

 The writer has taken this insect at State College, Pennsylvania, at Welland, 

 Ontario, and at Ithaca, New York. In all three localities, it was abundant 

 during May and June. 



According to the above data the insect has been reported from Ontario, 

 Quebec, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West 

 Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, Texas, 

 and Durango, Mexico. 



FOOD PLANTS 



The hickory borer is injurious mainly to the hickories, especially the 

 shagbark variety (Carya ovata [Mill] K. Koch). In 1862, T. B. Ashton 

 bred it from black walnut (Juglans niger L.) in Pennsylvania, where he 

 said the larvae were not uncommonly found in that tree. Riley (1880) 

 stated that it also . attacked pecan (Carya illinoensis [Wang] K. Koch) 

 and butternut (Juglans cinerea L.). Hopkins (1893) recorded it as 

 attacking the dead branches and small trees of mulberry (Morns sp.) 

 in West Virginia. Beutenmuller (1896) added honey locust (Gleditsia 

 triacantkos L.) to its list of food plants. LWebster_and Mally (1897) 

 said that it had developed a fondness for osage orange (Madura pomifera 

 [Raf.] Schneider) hardly second to its partiality for hickory. Moffat 

 (1902) received from A. Morde, London, Ontario, specimens of the insect 

 which had been reared on a stick of bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis 

 [Wang] K. Koch). Fisher and Kirk (1912) stated that they had reared this 

 insect from wild grape (Vitis sp.). Blatchley (1910) said that it occurred 

 on the elm (Ulmus sp.) and that the larvae bored in the wood of that 

 tree. In July, 1917, Henry Dietrich, of Ithaca, New York, reported 



