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rain to enter and soak downwards, will destroy the worm. And 
it may be that by introducing soap or some other substance into 
the hole, the tree will be aided in its recovery, and the bad scar 
be prevented which commonly results from the wound made by 
this worm. These are points which can only be determined by 
experiments which I have not yet had opportunities for carrying 
into operation. 
Boring under the bark and in the solid wood; a pale yellow, footless grub, its 
anterior end enormously large, round, and flattened. 
Running up and down the trunk and limbs in June and the fore part of July; 
an oblong, brassy-blackish snapping beetle, nearly half an inch loDg, its back 
under its wings brilliant bluish-green. 
The Thick-legged Buphestis, or Snappino-beetle, Chrysobothris femorata, 
Fabkicius. 
Another insect, which has not heretofore been noticed in our 
country as a borer in the Apple tree, pertains to the Family 
Buprestidje, or the brilliant snapping beetles. Mr. P. Barry, of 
the Mount Hope nurseries, Rochester, has forwarded to us sections 
of the body of some young Apple trees, which were sent to him 
from a correspondent in Hillsboro, in southern Ohio, who states 
that in that vicinity the borer, which is contained in the specimens 
sent, is doing great damage to the Apple trees, and that he has had 
Peach trees also killed by this same worm. From an examination 
of these specimens, it appears that this insect is quite similar to 
the common Apple tree borer in its habits. The parent insect de¬ 
posits its eggs on the bark, from which a worm hatches, which 
passes through the bark and during the first periods of its life con¬ 
sumes the soft sap wood immediately under the bark. But when 
the worm approaches maturity and has become more strong and 
robust, it gnaws into the more solid heart-wood, forming a flattish, 
and not a cylindrical hole such as is formed by most other 
borers—the burrow which it excavates being twice as broad as it 
is high, the height measuring the tenth of an inch or slightly 
over. It is the latter part of summer when these worms thus 
sink themselves into the solid heartwood of the tree, their burrow 
extending upwards from the spot under the bark where they had 
