'rile ncxl ;irliclc oi" inlcrcst on I his siihicct \\;is a sci-ics of Id- 

 lers piililislud ill Ihc l',iil(iiii()l(ii!,i(;il News. \'()l. X. IS!)!). V. S;j, 

 troiii II. (i. I I iiMiard. I will cxli-acl I'l-din tlicsc sucli |)assa<^cs as 

 may shed lii;lil on llic liahils. clc. of lliis hectic. 



Hct'erriiii; lo I'alm (aiiyoii ( imdcr dale ol' I'\l). H, lHi>7) Hub- 

 hard says: 



"'I'lic W.isliiiiLili'iii.i p.iiiiis (Xeowa.sliingtonia (ilifera) in Iliis siiiali 

 eainon arc few in miiiilicr, several liiiiidreds perliajis striiii)^' alonji' in a 

 si ragnlinii' line and niost o( llieni liiirncd hy the IiuMans wiio set (ire to 

 tlie tans as a siikiIvC olVerinii- te, their dead. There are very few young 

 pahns, as llie treshels wasli away most of the seed. However, tliere are 

 occa.siiin li (iiinips of not very old plants on the liigher henelies and these 

 are slicatlied wilh iinniense aeeiiimihdions of dead fans. J<',ver\' ])art of 

 this tree is so Iniiic and loiiuli Ihat I, with my small hatchet, can make 

 hilt iittU- iinjiression upon it. J"">ven to cut througli one of the handles 

 of the dead leaves is almost beyond my strength, and where tliere are 

 aeennmlations of leaves upon tlie ground, the long handles armed with 

 knife-like points are so interwoven, tliat it is a severe task to overturn 

 them. I found no living specimen of Dinapate in any stage^ but I un- 

 covered a dead and disintegrated- S2iecimen of this gigantic Bostrychid 

 beetle lying between dead fans at the foot of a young palm. Many of tiie 

 old palms are uprooted by the flood waters, and I saw proljably 50 of 

 these prostrate trunks upon the ground. Almost all of them are per- 

 forated all over, with round open holes, into most of which I can insert 

 tlie end of my thumli. Some of the holes will, however, only admit the 

 little finger. These holes evidently made by Dinapate larvae open directly 

 into a huge pupa chamber which is two inches long and lies vertically 

 with the grain not more than one or two inches from the surface. The 

 remainder of tlie gallery is solidly i)acked witii sawdust and leads into 

 such a labyrinth of borings into the interior that most of the attacked 

 logs are completely riddled, and at tlie heart there is very little of the 

 original texture left. So solid is the sawdust, however, that these bored 

 logs hardly lose any of their strength and, in fact, are used as gate posts 

 at several of the ranches and at the hotel at the Springs, where the jseople 

 tliink the holes are made by carpenter bees (Xylocopa). It is very cer- 

 tain that a log once vacated by a colony of Dinapate is never afterwards 

 entered or again attacked by them. I should say that most of the logs 

 showed from 100 to 250 exit holes of tlie beetle, and, at the time of 

 emergence, the person lucky enough to discover such a colony would find 

 no difficulty in filling several Mason jars with the beetles. Of course, 

 until the}' begin to emerge, there is no sign upon the outside of the 

 presence of the insects within a palm trunk. I could find no trace of 

 the living larvae and heard no sound of them in unperforated logs." 



"Several logs, which Mr. \V. (Wright) has laid open to the heart, 

 gave me an excellent chance of examining the old borings of the beetle, 

 and I found some dead larvae and always, in each gallery examined, the 

 pair of great jaws and the clypeus of the larva packed in the sawdust at 

 the bottom of what was the pupal cell." 



"I think, from my own observation and the evidently fruitless visits 

 of Mr. AVright, that colonies of the beetle are rare and very hard to find. 

 This is probably its northern limit, but in Baja California it may pos- 

 siblv be more abundant." 



