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age to telephone poles, and consequently has received the name o 
’ the chestnut telephone pole borer. C. A. Hart also reports it a: 
doing serious damage to apple, maple and other trees, includin; 
conifers, burrowing into the sound wood and hastening decay. 
112. Control. So little is known in regard to the habits o: 
this species that control measures have not been worked out 
From what is known it will probably cause little trouble if wound: 
are properly protected against decay and the cavities are properly 
cleaned out and filled. 
FLAT-HEADED BORERS 
113. BUPRESTIDZ. A large proportion of the beetles be. 
longing to this family are bronzed or have a metallic luster, and other: 
are marked with gaudy red or yellow bands or spots. The beetle: 
are elongate, usually stout, but sometimes cylindrical, and have < 
broad thorax and elytra tapering back from the shoulders. The 
prothorax is closely united with the mesothorax and is usually 
somewhat flattened. Most of them are so characteristic in ap- 
pearance that they are easily recognized. 
114. ‘The larve are also very characteristic, with their slende1 
abdomen, the segments well defined, and their large flattenec 
thorax with the small head and strong mouth parts partly con- 
tracted within it. When at rest, the abdomen is usually curvec 
back upon itself in the form of a U. Most of these larve feed upor 
dead or dying trees, burrowing under the bark or through the wood. 
making rather broad but shallow galleries or chambers. However. 
some of them feed upon living tissue, and in some cases seem tc 
attack trees in perfect health. The common names of “‘flat- 
headed”’ or ““hammer-headed”’ borers came from the slender ab- 
domen and greatly enlarged and flattened thorax. 
15. FLAT-HEADED APPLE TREE BORER 
Family BUPRESTID. Species Chrysobothris femorata Fabr. 
115. ‘This bronze-colored beetle, about one-half inch long, car 
frequently be seen on the sunny side “of the trunk of fruit and shade 
trees during the latter part of May to July. It is a native species 
widely distributed throughout the United States and Canada, anc 
even extends its range into Mexico. When first described it wa: 
placed in the genus Buprestis, but later transferred to the genu: 
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