U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY— BULLETIN No. 56. 



L. O. HOWARD, Entomologist. 



THE BLACK HILLS BEETLE, 



WITH 



FURTHER NOTES OX ITS DISTRIBUTION, LIFE HISTORY, 

 AND METHODS OF CONTROL. 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 BY 



A. D. HOPKINS, Ph. D., 



In Charge of Forest Insect Investigations. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

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