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1880 Osborn, Herbert. New Enemy to Appletrees. West. Stock Jour. 



and Farmer, December, ro:273~74 (.Characters, habits and means 

 against) 



1881 Cook, A. J. Can. Ent. 13:191 (Injuring appletrees in Michigan, 



carbolic soap wash) 

 1881 Osborn, Herbert. la. State Hort. Soc. Trans. 1880, 15:11-13, figure 



(Description, life history and remedies) 



j^j Am. Nat. March, 15:244 (Oviposition, work of larva) 



[882 Lintner, J. A. Injurious and other Ins. N. Y. 1st Rep't, p. 331 (Listed 



on apple) 

 iSSS Cook. A. J. Mich. State Bd Agric. 27th Rept, p.i6S, fig. 6 (More 



common than S. Candida, description, remedy) 

 1SS0 Harrington, W. H. Ent. Soc. Ont. 20th Rep't, p. 52 (In appletrees) 

 1891 Cook, A. J. & others. Insect Life, 3:249 (Prefers branches) 

 1805 Hamilton, John. List Coleopt. Southwest. Pa. etc. Am. Ent. Soc. 



Trans. 22:369 (Common in limbs of Crataegus) 

 1S96 Leng, C. W. & Hamilton, John. Am. Ent. Soc. Trans. 23:147, 149 



(Systematic account) 

 1896 Lintner, J. A. Injurious and Other Ins. N. Y. nth Rep't, 1895, p. 269 



(Listed on apple) • 

 189S Chittenden, F. H. U. S. Dep't Agric. Div. Ent. Circ. 32, June, p.S, 



fig. 2 (Description, injuries, distribution, habits) 

 1S9S Wickham, H. F. Can. Ent. 30:41, 42 (Specific characters, food 



plants) 

 1800 Lugger. Otto. Minn. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bui. 66, December, p. 215 



(Attacks apple and thorn) ; same in Ent. State Exp. Sta. 5th Rep't, 



p.131 



Saperda discoidea Fabr. 

 Hickory safer J a 



This species is remarkable in having the sexes so unlike that 

 one unacquainted with it would certainly consider them distinct 

 species. In a long series of males, however, there will be found 

 individuals having the same color and markings as the females, 

 and some very poorly developed females lack entirely the char- 

 acteristic markings of the sex. This is a common insect and 

 breeds abundantly in hickory, frequently following the work of 

 the destructive hickory bark borer, S c o 1 y t u s q u a d r i- 

 spines u s Say. It is sometimes so abundant that a piece of 

 bark 6 inches square may contain a dozen or more larvae. 



Life history. The beetles have been taken abroad the latter 

 part of June and in July. The larvae feed partly on the bark 

 and partly on the wood and on approaching maturity, in our 



