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132. Pytho americanus Kirby. Adults common under bark of 

 pine tree cut the previous winter near Kanawha Station, Feb. 

 20, '90. Adults under bark of white pine tree killed by Den- 

 droctonus frontalis, Crow, Apr. 26, '93. 



Order COLEOPTERA : Family CURCULIONIDAE. 



133. Pissodes strobi Peck. The white pine weevil. Common 

 in the terminal twigs of spruce and pine, and in bark of living, 

 dead and dying pine and spruce trees, Cheat Bridge, Sept. 1, 

 in spruce; Bayard. July 8, in spruce, emerging; Spruce Mt., al- 

 titude 4860, June 23, '92, pupa under bark of spruce tree; Poca- 

 hontas county, June 27, in white pine; Moorefield, July 13, 

 pupa in yellow pine ; St. George, Tucker county, July 11, in 

 Norway spruce, terminal branches of living tree; Greenbrier 

 county, in scrub pine bark ; Kanawha Station, June 29, pupae 

 under bark uf yellow pine: Green Springs, adults, July 14; 

 Romney,*May 3, in scrub pine, side of living tree. 259, 345. 



134. Hyhbius pales Herbst. Common in pine bark near Kan- 

 awha Station, May, '90 and May 18, '91, near roots of dying 

 tree ; near Romney, July 14, on bark of injured pine tree ; near 

 Tibbs Run, adult at root cf pine: Kanawha Station, Apr. 19, 

 '91, flying at night. 



135. Gopturus longulus Lee. Reared from larvae which were 

 common under bark of small scrub pine; the larvae making 

 short mines in the inner bark and surface of wood and entering 

 the wood to pupate; near Berkeley Springs, Mar. 10, '97. 

 ("Widely distributed the larva is inquilinous in the galls of 

 Podapion gallicola^Schwarz). 



Order COLEOPTERA : Family CALANDKIDAK. 



136. Himatium conicum Lee. Adults common under bark on 

 spruce logs near Cheat Bridge, Sept. 1, '90; in bark on dead 

 spruce tree top and dead tree near Davis, Mar. 26, '91 ; and un- 

 der bark on dying pine tree, Brushy Run, May 4, '91 ; flying 

 near Kanawha Station, Apr. 17, '91. 



137. Himatium errans Lee. Adult under, bark of dying spruce 

 tree, Williams River, May 6, '93. 



138. Cossonus corticola Say. Adults very common under bark 



