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TIMBER BEETLE ( Nacerda melanura L.) 
Massachusetts A. P. Morse (Jan. to June): There was a local outbreak of this 
"beetle in a newspaper office at Salem, The beetles were quite 
active, disagreeably in evidence while flying about, both day 
and evening. They seem to have been brought in through secreting 
themselves in the folds at the ends of rolls of newspaper stock 
imported from Dalhousie, New Brunswick. They are said to breed 
in decayed wood and it seems possible that the large amount of 
sawdust, bark, and such material in the vicinity of pulp mills 
might account for their presence in numbers. 
J. V. Schaffner, jr. (July 7): A representative of an 
insecticide company of Boston brought in specimens of N. nelanura 
L. for identification. He reported that these beetles were 
swarming all over an old four-masted schooner which had been 
fitted up as a night club and tied up to a wharf in Boston Harbor. 
His company had been called on to exterminate this insect. On 
July 16 he reported that the breeding places were located in the 
lower hold where the insects were boring in the timbers and that 
instead of the beetles coming from the outside there wore swarms 
of them trying to get out of the boat. 
All A1T0BIID BEETLE ( Xyletinus peltatus Harr.) 
Mississippi J. Milton (July 2l): This species has caused damage to pine 
floors in a home at 3ooneville, 
