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In such the system of branching galleries reaches its normal develop- 
. ment, whereas in young saplings it is distorted and altered, showing 
that these do not represent the original breeding place of the beetle. 
. . Eiehhoff, the authority on these insects, says distinctly (7) that X. 
dpa avoids sound wood for r breeding purposes, if dying or newly 
felled timber is to be had. 
_ There are no sufficient facts s eontradict this 
. Sehmidberger, who first accurately recorded its habits (1), did not 
Observe its attacking felled tiibeti and though Altum is quoted by 
Eichhoff (7) as denying the fact in his “ Forstzoologie,” the denial does 
not appear in the second edition of that work (8). 
. I have u— € it abundant in felled trunks in Belgium, and 
never in living tree 
"c X he bad xen on saplings, which have been observed from time 
should make them specially attractive. As the species is one of our 
rarest English beetles, the Gloucesters hire attacks cannot be ascribed. to 
excessive multiplication ;” possibly no proper brood material was 
2 The diffi alty i in clearing up the economy of a well-known European 
American insect ect like X. dispar, and the fact that it ME its 
respects , 
e independent. of pe Realth and condition: = oe 
Do is Hinon a deieioriü t of their health whic eee 
attractive to epei e ps 2^ 
A weakly y state yos by continual propagation of the same 
apnd on the same soil, &c. 
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0 Vieira attacks of other insects ? 
m. If there is a definite cause which origi the attach, is it the 
same in all ü biis where the beetle has been injurious? 
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