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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Fig. 163.— Work of the fruit bark-beetle 



S. rugulosus Ratz. The fruit bark-beetle : com- 

 mon throughout the State, the insects often 

 hastening the death of feeble fruit trees of 

 all sorts, and often boring into healthy peach 

 and plum. Remedies ; keep trees healthy 

 and vigorous, and cut out at once all in 

 which the beetle has secured a breeding 

 hold. 



OHRAMESUS Lee. 



O. icorise Lee. Throughout the State, V and VI, 

 boring under bark of cut or dying hickory 

 branches. 



PHLCEOTRIBUS Latr. 



Fig. 164 — !*'ruit bark-beetle Sco- 

 lytus rugulosus, enlarged. 



P. liminaris Harr. Hopatcong (Pm), Orange Mts., V, 19 (Bf): attacks living 



peach, cherry, &c. (Ch), mines under green bark (Hp). 

 P. frontalis Oliv. "New Jersey" (Jl): mines under green bark of mulberry 



(Hp). 



CARPHOBORUS Eich. 



C. bifurcus Eich. "New Jersey" (Jl), said to infest pine. Mr. Hopkins 



questions the correctness of the identification. 

 C. bicristatus Chap. Anglesea (W) ; a floridian species (Horn). 



DENDROCTONUS Br. 



D. terebrans Oliv. Throughout the State, locally common : mines in green 



bark and turpentine on pine. 

 D. rufipennis Kirby. Lakewood (Bradford, det 1,1). Mr. Hopkins declares 



that other New Jersey specimens in his hands suggests a new species. 



