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209. The Curious Cypress Borer. 
Curius dentatus Newm. 
Larvee mine the smaller branches of young bald cypress. 
Exuisir: Adults, work. 
210. The Banded Ash Borer. 
Neoclytus caprea Say. 
Larvee very injurious to dying trees and saw logs of black ash, boring numerous 
holes through the wood. 
Exuisit: Adults, work. 
211. The Rigid Cypress Borer. 
(Hme rigida Say. 
Larvee mine inner bark of girdled bald cypress and dying white cedar. 
Exuisir: Adult, larva, work. 
212. The Southern Oak Borer. 
Mallodon dasystomus Say. 
Larve bore in healthy live oak, hackberry, and hickory trees, greatly injuring 
them. Southern States. 
Exursit: Adults. 
213. The Live-Oak Root-Borer. 
Mallodon melanopus Linn. 
Larve bore into the roots of young oaks, causing dwarfed and worthless trees. 
Southern States. 
Exuisir: Adult. 
214. The Variable Oak Borer. 
Phymatodes variabilis Fab. 
| 
Larvee mine inner bark of dying and recently dead oak; are also injurious to tan- 
bark. 
Exursit: Adult, work. 
215. The Thunderbolt Beetle. 2 
Arhopalus fulminans Fab. 
Larvee mine the inner bark and sapwood of chestnut and oak. 
Exuisit: Adults. 
216. The Lesser Prionus. 
Orthosoma brunneum Forst. 
Larva in decaying logs and stumps of nearly all forest trees. 
Exuisir: Adults. 
217. The Cottonwood Root-Borer. 
Plectrodera scalator Fab. 
Larvee in roots of aspen and cottonwood. 
Exuisit: Adults. 
218. The Broad-Necked Prionus. 
Prionus laticollis Dru. 
| Larvee in roots of oak, aspen, and cottonwood. Sometimes destructive. Also in 
stumps of pine. 
Exursit: Adults. 
