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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Family SPONDYLIDiE 



Oblong, brown, somewhat flattened beetles, with rather short antenna; ; the 

 tarsi 5-jointed but the fourth short and the third somewhat lobed. The thorax 

 is almost square, well separated from the rest of the body and the mandibles 

 are rather prominent, the head horizontal. 



P. brunnea Fabr. 

 VI and VII ; 



(Ch). 



PARANDRA Latr. 



Occurs throughout the State, but rarely common, V, 

 breeds in a variety of deciduous and coniferous trees 



Family CERAMBYCLDiE. 



These are the "long-horned beetles," so called because the antennae or feelers 

 are as long as or much longer than the body. The body is more or less cylin- 

 drical and elongate, though many of them are much flattened and only the 

 thorax being without a lateral margin or suture in most instances carries out 

 the idea of a cylinder. The front is vertical and the mandibles are usually stout 



and sharp pointed. The tarsi are appar- 

 ently four-jointed only the third being 

 deeply lobed. 



The larvae are wood-borers, though a 



few bore in herbaceous plants. They are 



more or less cylindrical, the joints well 



marked, the thoracic joints enlarged. 



They resemble the larva; of the Buprestids 



in general shape but are not flattened, 



hence they are called the " round-headed " 



borers. They live chiefly in the solid or 



heart wood and few of them bore in the sap-wood of living trees On dead or 



dying trees or in, stumps some species live between bark and wood, often in 



such numbers as to detach the bark completely. 



Some species bore into live healthy wood, and these must usually be kept out 

 by mechanical barriers 



ORTHOSOMA Serv. 



O. brunneum Forst. Not uncommon throughout the State, the larva in oak 

 stumps: adults in July. 



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123. — Leg structure in the Phytophaga ; 

 showing the characteristic tarsi. 



TRAG-OSOMA Serv. 

 T. harrisii Lee. Newark, rare (Bf) : found also along shore in the wash-up. 



