1088 



FAMILY LII. — CERAMBYCIM5. 



Badly infested trees should be cut and burned before the beetles 

 have had an opportunity to emerge in the spring or, in Indiana, 

 before the middle of May. Infested portions of other trees should 

 also be cut away and burned. Removing portions of the bark has 

 also been recommended. The badly infested portions should be cut 

 away and the grubs destroyed and, where a few are working in 

 living bark, it might be well to remove the upper layers until the 

 grubs are nearly exposed and then brush over the shaven surface 

 with strong kerosene emulsion or whale oil soap solution, finally 

 covering the wound with a paste formed of a mixture of fresh cow 

 dung and lime or with a coat of cheap red paint. 



2006 ( ). Saferda imitans Felt & Joutel, Bull. 74, N. Y. St. Museum, 



1904, 58. 



Resembles tridentata, but more slender. General color darker; first 

 crossbar of elytra oblique without spots on each side; second crossbar 

 usually not connected with marginal stripe, the tip more pointed and rarely 

 reaching suture; third crossbar usually rudimentary and transverse. Ely- 

 tra with humeral angle less pronounced and tips rounded. Length 11- 

 13 mm. 



Crawford and Posey counties ; scarce. May 12-May 15. Beaten 

 from foliage of hickory, in the wood of which the larva? are sup- 

 posed to live. 



2007 (6486). Saperda lateralis Fab., Syst Ent., 1775, 185. 



Elongate, rather robust. Piceous black; pubescence beneath gray and 

 dense ; above blackish-brown, very sparse and intermixed with short semi- 

 erect black hairs; thorax and head marked with orange as in tridentata; 

 elytra each with a submarginal orange stripe connecting with that of tho- 

 rax at humeral angles and often also with a very narrow sutural stripe 

 of same hue. Males with a tooth or process on all the claws. Length 9- 

 15 mm. 



Throughout the State ; frequent. May 30- 

 July 2. Beaten from hickory and elm. Breeds 

 in the former, but rarely abundant enough to 

 do much damage. 



8. cretata Newm. (Fig. 472), length 12-20 

 mm., and 8. fayi Bland., length 10-12 mm., 

 both breed in the red -haw {Crataegus) and 

 emerge in June. The former ranges from New 

 England to Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, while 



(After Chittenden.) fQy - ^ known f rom Qhio eastward. 



