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237. The Golden Buprestis. 
Buprestis aurulenta Linn. 
Larvee bore into trunks of dead pines, spruce, fir, and other conifers. 
Exarsir: Adults. 
238. The Heart-wood Pine Borer. 
Chalcophora virginiensis Dru. 
Larvee bore into trunks of dead pine and spruce and into heartwood of living 
trees. 
Exarsir: Adults, work. 
THE TIMBER BEETLES. FAMILY SCOLYTIDZ. 
ACEC (Oink GAS ni Aol 
240. The Hickory Timber-Beetle. 
Xyleborus celsus Eich. 
The adults excavate long branching galleries in dying trees and logs of hickory. 
Exuisir: Adults, work. 
THE POWDER-POST BEETLES. FAMILY PTINIDZ. 
PAE TE OR CASS Hy 461: 
242. The Red-Shouldered Ptinid Borer. 
Sinoxylon basilare Say. 
Adult bores short curved galleries in branches of dead hickory, persimmon, and 
most other deciduous trees; the larvee bore the solid wood. 
Exuisit: Adults, work. 
243. Powder-Post Beetles. 
Genus Lyctus. 
Exutsit: Work, sections of seasoned ash and hickory showing characteristic injury. 
by the beetles and larvee. 
THE TIMBER WORMS. FAMILIES BRENTHIDA AND 
LYMEXYLIDA. 
PART OF CASE 41. 
244. The Northern Brenthis. 
EHupsalis minuta Dru. 
The larve excavate extensive galleries in solid wood of recently dead and dying 
oak, chestnut, beech, elm, bald cypress, and most other species of deciduous forest 
trees. 
Exuisir: Adults, work. 
245. The Chestnut Timber Worm. 
Lymexylon sericeum Harr. 
The larvee excavate extensive galleries in the heartwood and sapwood of living and 
dead chestnut and oak. 
Exnisit: Adult, work. 
THE CARPENTER WORMS. ORDER LEPIDOPTERA, FAMILY 
COSSIDZ. 
CASH 42. 
246. The Leopard Moth. 
Zeuzera pyrina Fab. 
An introduced species very injurious to forest, shade, and orchard trees in the 
vicinity of New York City. 
Exuisit: Adults, larve, pupa, work. 
