688 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
of an insect was heard in one of the leaves of this table, which noise continued for a 
r two, wh long-horned beetle made its exit therefrom. Subsequently 
the same noise was heard again, and another insect, and afterwards a third, all of 
the same kind, 8imd from thif tah!e-leaf, the first one coming out twenty and the 
Fig. 2*26. —Larva of* Ifonohammus conf>(- 
tor ; a top. b side view, nat. size; d 
tipper, c under side of the head.enlareed. 
e aide, and/ under side of papa. — From 
Packard in Harden '■ Survey. 
Fig. 227. — Monohammu* con/u- 
sor. the bet tie in its o-ll in a 
piece of planed plank. — 
Packard. 
venty-eigbt years after the trunk was cut down. These facta are stated more 
fully in the History of the County of Berkshire, published at Pittstield iu 1- 
39. This, I believe, is the lougest period of an insect remainiug alive in timber of 
which we have any record, and it is desirable to ascertain, if possible, what insect 
this was. John J. Putnam, esq., of White Creek, N. Y.. was a young mau residing 
at his fathers when these remarkable incidents occurred. On showing to him - 
meus of all the larger long-horned beetles of this vicinity, he points to Cera9phoru$ 
balteatus M being the same insect, according to the best of his recollection, but is 
not certain but it might have been the CaUidium agreste. 
- This testimony, iu connection with what President Fitch, of Will- 
iams College, says of the insect in the notice above referred to — • its 
color dark glistening brown, with tints of yellow ' — releases us from all 
doubts upon this subject, as the agreste is of a uniform brown, whilst 
the balteatus commonly presents traces, more or less distinct, 
oblique yellowish spot or band near the middle of the wing-covers." 
Mr. Sereno Watson adds the following case in a letter dated Her- 
