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footless grub. Early in abr it changes to a pupa, and a month after the 
beetle =a and in a few days deposits its egg under the bark of old 
pine tre It also ov aaa in the terminal shoots of we yor 
. race and permanently deform- 
ing the tree. Associated with this 
we Sent found the sma waar round- 

Cylindrical bark-borers, pein are little round weevil-like beetles, are 
now flying about fruit-trees, to lay their eggs in the bark. Associated 
with the Pissodes, we found in vaste the galleries of Tomicus pini, branch- 
mg out from a common centre. They are filled up with fine capt and, 
Fig.5 according to Dr. Fitch, are notched in Fig 
R a f the si 
lery.” Fidd little beetles have not the \ 
os snout of the Ptg hence they 
annot bore through the outer bark, but 
enter a iis burrows made the pre eine year, 
and eyed the eggs along the side (Fitch). 
Another Tomicus, more dangerous than the preced- 
ing, arel exclusively in the sap-wood, running sag galleries for a 
distance of two inches towards the centre of the tree. We figure Tom- 
icus Ejtögräpkis Say (Fig. 5). It is the most formidable enemy to the 
white pine in the North, and the yellow pine in the South that we have. 
It also flies in May. Ptinus fur (Fig. 6) is now found in out-houses, and 
is destructive to cloth, furs, etc., resembling the Larder-beetle (Dermes- 
tes) in its habits. It is fourteen-hundredths of an inch in length. 


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peeun. 
ha ADEMY ATURAL Sciences. Philadelphia, Oct. 1, 1867 
y ays echitased | a Ph specimen of Malachite; he also exhibited several 
pensan of hair from Albino negroes. Dr. Leidy spoke of the white 
bino, and mentioned that the term “‘ wool” was a misnomer as app: 
