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vember, 1880. The track was made at the beginning of the roots, and 
is slightly sinuous, 2 or 3 inches long; 3 mm wide, while the diameter of 
the hole for the exit of the beetle is 2£ to 3 mm in diameter. 
6. Cupes concolor Westwood. 
Order Coleoptera ; family CuPESiDiE. 
This beetle has been found by Mr. Gr. Hunt upon or among spruce 
boards in a tannery in northern New York; hence he thinks it may be 
a spruce iusect. 
7. The pine longicorn borer. 
Monohammus confusor Kirby. 
Order Coleoptera; family Cerambycid.e. 
This common and pernicious borer has been described and figured on 
pages 685-694. It occurred under the bark of dead spruces at Bruns- 
wick, August 3 and 27. At the latter date three sets of the larvae 
occurred — one measuring about 6 mm , another 9 mm , and a third from 16 
to 20 mm in length. There were no fully grown worms. It is possible 
that the eggs from which these came were laid in the early summer ; 
but it is more likely that they were deposited by the female during the 
previous summer, as the beetle is not to be seen except from June to 
early September. 
8. The long-legged melanophila. 
Melanophila longipes. 
Order Coleoptera; family Buprestid^e. 
This beetle is thought by Mr. George Hunt to bore into the wood of 
the spruce, as he has found it on charred spruce timber under such cir- 
cumstances as to lead him to believe that it depredates on this tree. 
Nothing is known of the habits of the larva. 
The beetle. — Body deep black, immaculate ; thorax with an ob- 
solete indented line; scutel small, subangulated ; elytra finely 
granulated ; an obtuse, obsolete, elevated line from the shoulder 
to the tip ; tip abruptly terminated by a small spine in the center ; 
beneath polished, slightly tinged with violaceous, Tarsi of the 
intermediate and posterior feet elongated, as long or longer than 
the tibia ; first joint equal to tho three following ones conjointly ; 
fourth joint bilobate, very short. Found in Pennsylvania and 
the Western States. (Say.) 
Le Conte states that it inhabits Pennsylvania, 
Kansas, and the Lake Superior region ; that it is very 
closely related to the European M. appendiculata, but fig. 2so.^Meia?io- 
on comparison the thorax is less rounded on the sides, smith drf.^ ipes '~ 
which are less sinuate posteriorly. As in that species, 
the sculpture is very indistinct at the middle and the small carina at the 
basal angles nearly parallel with the margin. The elytra are more grad- 
