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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[March, 



I have recently received evidence that leads me to believe that the abun- 

 dance of woodpeckers and the rarity of the Cossids are directly related. 

 Through my friend, Mr. J. T. Brakeley, of Bordentown, N. J., who spends 

 a considerable portion of the year in the New Jersey pines, 1 have recently 

 received some good specimens of the work of woodpeckers in oak, and a 

 figure* of one of the specimens is herewith presented shewing the holes 



1 on of trunk sawed to show the burrows ot 



the larva sougtit by the woodpeckers ; the termination ol 

 their holes marked by a x ; one-third natural size (from a 

 photograph). 



made by the woodpeckers on the outside of the tree, and showing also a cut 

 through the trunk to indicate the locality of the larvae that the wood- 

 peckers were after. I urged upon Mr. Brakeley in his chopping opera- 

 tions to keep a lookout for the insects that the woodpeckers were after, 



* These figures were first published in " Garden and Forest," No. 300, and electrotypes 

 were obtained through the kindness of the publishers of.that paper. 



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