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Hylurgops (Hylesinus) opacitlus. . 



EIvM BARK BORER. 



Specimens of these scolytid beetles toget'her with a sample 

 of their work on elm were received from Augusta, July 24, 

 Lot 1 53 1. 



• Xyleborus dispar. 



APPIvE TREE SHOT BORER. 



Complaints of this species accompanied specimens of the 

 beetle and examples of its work in apple bark from Rockport, 

 Aug. I. Lot 1 55 1. Similar material was received Sept. 10 

 from Carmel. Lot 1582. 



Oberea bimaculata. 



CANE BORER. 



Raspberries and other canes in Maine are frequently attacked 

 by this borer which gives yearly evidence of its presence. 

 Oviposition wounds in raspberry cane were received from East 

 Boothbay July 17. Lot 1524. Oviposition work in blackberry < 

 and adult beetles were received from North New Portland 

 Aug. I. Lot 1552. 



LepUtra canadensis. 



Specimens of this long-horned borer were received from 

 South Paris Aug. 8, with the statement that "they have made 

 so many holes in a piazza post of southern pine that it looks 

 like a pepper box."" Lot 1556. 



Galerucella luteola. 



IMPORTED EEM LEAE BEETIvE. 



Hibernating adult elm leaf beetles were received from Bidde- 

 ford, April 20. Lot 11452. Other sendings of the adults were 

 received from the same place May 16. Lot 1464. Larvse were 

 received from Eliot July 15. Lot 15 15. The experience of 

 other infested states with this imported pest seems to be in 

 store for ^^faine. Much of the work on elms popularly laid to 

 the door of Galerucella luteola in Maine during the past two 

 seasons, however, was done by the larvae of a blue Haltica 

 (Bui. 195, Me. Agr. Exp. Sta. p. 233). 



