THE LEAD-CABLE BORER IN CALIFORNIA. 47 



"" SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE. 



1845. annates, 2 ser.. t. 3, Bui. 



Page xvii : Xylopertha described by Guerin-Meneville. 18 



(58) LeConte, John T. (l e. John L.) 



I860. REPORT UPON INSECTS COLLECTED OX THE SURVEY. ZOOLOGY 47TH 



parallel. In Reports of explorations and surveys ... for a 

 railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1853- 

 1855. v. 12. bk. 2, pt. 3. no. 1, 72 p., 2 pis. 

 Page 4S : Sinoxylon dcclive: Original description. 



(59) Horn, George H. 



1878. REVISION OF THE SPECIES OF THE SUBFAMILY BOSTRICHIDAE OF THE 



united states. In Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. v. 17. p. 540-592. 

 Same generic and tribal arrangement of &. declive as LeConte. 



(60) Com stock, J. Henry. 



1881. report of the entomologist for 1880. In Ann. Rept. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. 1880, p. 235-373. 



Page 274-275: Wine cask borers. "In India Tomicus [Xyleborus] 

 monographus is stated by Morse to do great damage by drilling holes in 

 malt-liquor casks, the custom being to destroy the beetles by submerging 

 the casks in boiling water. In California Sinoxylon declive Lee. has simi- 

 lar habits. Oak, chestnut, pine, whitewood. and eucalyptus wood have all 

 been used in making casks with a view to discovering some substance 

 which would prove distasteful to the beetles, but without success. Dr. 

 Rivers, curator to the Museum of the University of California, has, how- 



fever, succeeded in making a cask apparently beetle-proof by saturating 

 the outside with a strong solution of alum water applied while hot, and, 

 as soon as dry, painting with linseed oil. The cask thus treated remained 

 unharmed by the beetles while others were riddled." 



(61) Rivers, J. J. 



1886. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LARVAL HISTORY OF PACIFIC COAST COLEOPTERA. 



Bul. Calif. Acad. Sci.. v. 2, no. 5. p. 63-72. 



Page 68 : " Sinoxylon declive Lee. Any dead tree or unpainted wood, 

 very partial to wine casks and oak barrels. The depredations are done 

 by the beetle while boring for a suitable place to deposit its eggs. Its 

 burrow is straight across the grain of the wood, reaching the interior 

 of the cask, causing waste and deterioration of the contents. Hot so- 

 lution of alum applied to the outside of the casks will prevent boring." 



(62) 



1887. THE OAKS OF BERKELEY AND SOME OF THEIR INSECT INHABITANTS. 



12 p. Sacramento. 



Page 11 : Attacking dry lumber, particularly oak, and especially oaken 

 wine casks. " inflicting a loss of many thousands of dollars annually to 

 the wine interest." 



18 Xylopertha was described by Guerin-Meneville (-57), and Lesne in his monograph of 

 the Bostrichidae (66, p. 528—529) includes three species, as follows: crinitarsis Imb., from 

 Africa ; picea 01., from Africa and also imported into South America ; and scutula n. sp., 

 from Africa. 



Casey (65) places declivis Lee. in the genus Xylopertha with the following remarks : 

 "Xylopertha is confined, as might be expected, to the subsiberian fauna of the Pacific 

 coast, where it is represented by bidentata, declivis and suturalis, hitherto placed in Sin- 

 oxylon, which genus has the two basal joints of the antennal club short and transv< 



In 1900, Lesne (66, p. 584-587) erected the genus Scobicia and included the following 

 species : pustulata Fabr.. barbata Woll., barbifrons Woll., chevricri Villa, ficiola Woll., 

 suturalis Horn, declivis Lee, and bidentata Horn. The genus is distributed through 

 North, Central, and South America. Mediterranean regions of Europe and Africa. Egypt. 

 Syria. Madeira, and Canary Islands. 



