286 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
This is perhaps the most common borer in the hickory aud walnut 
m the Northern States. According to Fitch 
the young worm lives at first upon the soft 
outer layers of the sap-wood, mining a shal- 
low cavity all around the orifice in the bark t 
and the bark dies and turns black as far as 
this burrow extends. Its jaws having at 
length become sufficiently strong, it gnaws 
its way into the solid wood from the upper 
part of its burrow under the bark, boring 
obliquely inward and upward, all the lower 
part of its burrow being commonly packed 
with its sawdust-like chips. Finally, hav- 
ing completed its growth, it extends the up- 
per end of its burrow outward again to the 
Fig. 108.— Goes ttgrinus (Smith del). bark. 
2. The beautiful hickory borer. 
Goes pulchra (Haldemanj. 
Similar to the preceding. " Scarce, but a few are found every season 
in the shagbark and pignut hickory, June 
and July." (Dr. T. Hadge, Buffalo, N. Y., 
Amer. Ent. m, p. 270.) 
3. Goes oculatu8 Lee. 
Another but much smaller species is Goes 
oculatus Lee. "The beetle is rare, and I 
have only taken two specimens. There were 
a pair captured on hickory 
in the end of June, and 
which were copulating when 
taken. They are hardly 
half an inch long, and are 
black, densely covered be- 
neath with short white hairs. The pubescence above 
is more sparse and scattered, and the coarse punctur- 
ing of the elytra gives them a mottled appearance. 
There is a black spot on each elytron just behind the 
middle, and the presence of these spots gives to the 
beetle its distinctive name of "oculatus or eyed.*' 
(W. H. Harrington, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario for 1883, 
p. 48.) 
4. Goes debilis Lee. 
Fig. 109 —Goes pulchra (Smith del). 
Fig. 
110— Goes debQU 
(Smith del.). 
Like the foregoing species of Goes, this is known to inhabit hickory 
trees, but its larva has not been yet identified with certainty, and its 
habits need to be studied. 
