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die uugnawed away, bo that in spite of the superior toughness of this 
timber the twig could scarcely have stood a high wind without break- 
ing off and falling to the ground." 
10. TlIK COMMON OIUN'GK SAWYER. 
Blapkidion mennc Newman. 
In his report on Orauge Insects, Mr. EL G. Hubbard says that "the 
larva of this beetle are more properly scavengers or primers, feeding 
by preference upon dead branches, not only of orauge, but also of hickory 
and other hard-wood trees, and confining themselves to the dry and 
lifeless wood, unless compelled by hunger to euter the living portions 
of the plant." The female deposits one or two eggs in the dead stubs 
of orauge trees, and presumably of hickory trees. 
Fig. 115. — Elaphidion inerxie.—Ailer Hubbard. 
Larva. — Body cylindrical, whitish, with rudimentary legs, length 1 inch. 
The beetle. — Body long, cylindrical, with a rather roughly pitted surface; dark 
brown, dusted densely beneath, but irregularly above, with fine ash-gray hairs: the 
anteunaj are not longer than the body, Leugth 11— 15 mm . (Hubbard).) 
11. The lurid dicerca. 
Dicerca lurida (Fabricius). 
Order Coleoptera; family Buprestid.e. 
Boriug in the trunks and limbs of the pig-nut hickory, a flat- 
headed grub of a yellowish-white color, changing to a flat- 
tened, hard-shelled beetle with short slender antennae, of a 
lurid dull brassy color above, and bright copper beneath, 
with the wing-covers lengthened into diverging obtuse points. 
Larva.— Of a yellowish-white color, very long, narrow, and 
depressed in form but abruptly widened near the anterior ex- 
tremity. The head is brownish, small, aud sunk in the fore- 
part of the first segment; the upper jaws are provided with 
three teeth, and are of a black color; and the antenme are very 
short. The segment which receives the head is short and trans- 
verse ; next to it is a large oval segment, broader than long, 
and depressed or flattened above and beneath. Behind this, 
the segments are very much narrowed and become gradually 
longer; but are still flattened, to the last, which is termin- 
ated by a rounded tubercle or wart. There are uo legs, nor 
Fig hg —Dieerca lurida. 
Smith •hi. 
