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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



INSECTS OF MINOR IMPORTANCE AFFECTING FOREST 



TREES 



This divie ; on is purely an arbitrary one and made as a matter of con- 

 venience because it enables the bringing together of accounts relating to 

 species which are more or less injurious from year to year. Many of the 

 insects noticed in this latter section, are of considerable importance and 

 occasionally may cause serious injury. This division is defective in that it 

 involves looking in several places in order to learn about the insects 

 affecting a tree, and this difficulty is remedied in part by indexing all the 

 species under their food plants as well as under their generic and specific 

 names. 



INSECTS AFFECTING DECIDUOUS TREES 



Borers in living or relatively sound wood and bark 



A stout beetle about an inch long and beautifully marked with dark brown, silvery and 



reddish yellow, bores in hickory. . . Beautiful hickory borer, Goes p u lchr a, p. 431 

 A brownish gray beetle about inch long, and with very long, slender antennae, occurs 



on oak L i o p-u s p u n c t a t u s, p. 432 



A small, grayish, black-spotted beetle about ){. inch long, may be bred from dead twigs of 



oak and other trees Hyperplatys m a c u 1 a t u s, p. 432 



A narrow, triangular, blackish beetle ^ inch long, marked witli lines and spots of 



yellowish or orange, occurs on various flowers in June 



Mordella octopu nctata, p. 433 

 A slender, flattened beetle with red prothorax and bluish wing covers, mines as a larva 



the inner bark of dead and dying trees; also injurious to tan bark 



Variable oak borer, Phymatodes v a r i a b i 1 i s, p. 433 

 A stout, brownish, gray-spotted, long-horned beetle about an inch in length, may be bred 



from oak, walnut and hackberry 



Dusty oak borer, Romale u m a t o m a r i u mf, p. 434 

 A stout, brown, grayish mottled, long-horned beetle occurs in midsummer on oak and 



various trees, the larva is an oak and pine borer . U r o g r a p h i s fasciatus, p. 434 

 A black beetle about l /i inch long, with brick-red wing covers marked with reddish 



yellow spots, occurs on scrub oak Typocerus v el u t in u s, p. 436 



A small grayish weevil }i to 3 ,6 inch long occurs on oak foliage, the larva tunnelling the 



wood Gray sided oak weevil, Pandeletejus h i 1 a r i s, p. 436 



A black, clearwing moth with red-spotted wings and yellow-banded legs and abdomen, 



may be reared from oak galls S e s i a r u b r i s t i g m a, p. 437 



