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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ETJPOGONITJS Lee. 



E. tomentosus Hald. Orange Mts., on dry twigs (Bf), Atlantic City, Brig- 

 antine, VI, 24, 26, g. d. (W), Cape May Court House, VII (Sz), Angle- 

 sea, Hammonton : bred from apple twigs. 



E. vestitus Say. G. d. (Li), infests Cornus florida (Ch), hickory (Riley) 

 and walnut (Hpks). 



ONCIDERES Serv. 



O. cingulata Say. Palisades, VII (Lv), Fort Lee district, VI (Bt), Nutly 

 (U S Ag), Camden (Li) ; girdles twigs of oak, hickory, persimmon and 

 a number of fruit trees (Ch). 



HIPPOPSIS Serv. 



H. lemniscata Fabr. Camden, VII, 6, Merchantville, VI, 22 (W), Westville 

 (Li), Bloomfield, VIII (Bf), Madison, VI, 80 (Pr), Anglesea, VII, 4 



(Lv). 



SAPERDA Fabr. 



S. obliqua Say. Throughout the State, rarely ; breeding in black alder. 



S. calcarata Say. Newark at light, rare (Bf ), and occasional throughout the 

 State : infests poplar and Cottonwood, boring into living trees. 



S. mutica Say. Gloucester, on willow (W), Caldwell (Cr). 



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Fig. 131. — Round-headed apple-borer, Saperda Candida; a, larva.- b, pupa; c, adult. 



S. Candida Fabr. Throughout the State, late May to August. The larva is 

 the round-headed apple-borer which does great injury in orchards each 

 year, especially in South Jersey : it also breeds in quince, which is even 

 more injured than apple, and in Cratcsgus. The larvae can be cut out 

 when first noticed ; but the best practice is to protect the base of the tree 

 by a wire netting kept at a distance of half an inch from the trunk on all 

 sides. Heavy whitewash with paris green is also used, and indeed any 

 mechanical protection that keeps the beetle from the bark a distance of 

 from eighteen inches to two feet above the surface. 



