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Is a sraoothlsh faintly-marked line, and on each side of each segment is an irregular 
triangular indentation, from the Inner angle of which a faint impressed line extends 
inwards. On each side, beneath, is an impressed, longitudinal line. There are no 
conical projecting points at the apex of the last segment. 
These borers, sent to me as above stated, have not yet completed 
their transformations; but they will in all probability remain in 
their present cells in the wood, and be changed to pupae the com¬ 
ing spring, from which the perfect insects will issue the latter 
part of May and during the month of June. And there can be 
little doubt that they will prove to be the species named by Fabri- 
cius Buprestis femorata, which species pertains to the modern 
genus Chrysobothris. This insect may be met with in all parts of 
our country. The natural place for its larva is in the White oak, 
and it is probable that being deprived of a sufficient supply of 
this wood, in which to deposit its eggs, in consequence of our 
forests being so rapidly and extensively cut down, this insect has 
been obliged to resort to the Apple and Peach trees. Dr. Harris 
speaks of meeting with it upon and under the bark of Peach 
trees, and I have captured it upon the Apple tree. Professor 
Kirtland, of Cleveland, Ohio, doubtless alludes to this species, 
(Downing’s Horticulturist, vol. ii. p. 544,) when he says, “Our 
Apple trees are often injured by the larvae of the Buprestis, which 
-will girdle out extensive portions of the bark and young wood.” 
This, moreover, is in all probability the beetle of which a wood 
cut illustration is given in the Ohio Cultivator, vol. x, page 242. 
Although no description of the insect or its larvae is given, the 
figure presents more points of resemblance to C. femorata than to 
any other common American species. The following interesting 
particulars, there stated, sufficiently indicate that this beetle will 
be liable to do great damage in our orchards. The editor says, 
« The late Dr. Barker, of McConnellsville, (Morgan county, Ohio,) 
called our attention to the injury done to his Apple trees, by the 
beetle represented above, several years ago. It was in the month 
of July, and large numbers of these beetles were seen running up 
and down the trunks and branches of the trees, while beneath 
the bark extensive ravages of the larv® were found. We ob¬ 
served, however, that these injuries seemed in nearly or quite all 
cases to have commenced where the bark had previously been 
