228 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
<>. TlIK SHOUT-LINKD DULAHllS. 
DulaHut breriliiitu* Say. 
Order Colbopteba; family C'kuambycidjs. 
Fig. 73.— Dularius breviU7ieu$.—From Packard. 
Boring in partly dead or dry elms, the larva of a pretty longicom, with deep pur- 
plish-blue wing-covers bearing three short white lines in the middle. 
This beetle was first bred from the dry wood of the elm by Eiley, the 
larvae occurring in Ohio; the beetle appearing in May and June. It 
was also known, by the late Mr. G. D. Smith, to inhabit this tree, 
probably in the vicinity of Boston; it was noticed in our second Massa- 
chusetts Report, page 18. Mr. George Hunt has observed this beetle 
on the bark of an elm at Plymouth, N. H., in the middle of July, insert- 
ing its eggs in the crevices of the bark. 
The beetle. — It is a singular-looking beetle, with a round, flattened prothorax, and 
wing-covers contracted in the middle, and not covering the tip of the abdomen, while 
the thighs are unusually swollen. The antenna' are about two-thirds the length of 
the body, flattened towards the end, and somewhat serrate. The body above is 
velvety black, and brown-black beneath. The head is black and coarsely punctured, 
and the prothorax is covered with short, dense, black hairs, like velvet. The wing- 
covers are Prussian blue in color, bent, corrugated, with an interrupted ridge just 
outside of the middle of each cover. They are covered with tine black hairs, bent 
over. There is a pair of parallel, short honey-yellow lines in the middle of each 
wing-cover, with a third one a little in front, making iu all six streaks. The legs 
aud feet are black. It is a little over eight-tenths of an inch in length. 
7. Neoclytus erythrocephahts Fabricius. 
Order Coleoptera; family Cerambycid.e. 
This insect was found in company with Magdalis armicollis under the 
bark of a dead elm at Detroit, Mich., by H. G. Hubbard ; aud also has 
been raised from hickory- wood by Dr. Horn. 
