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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CHERRY. TRUNK. 
8. THE CHERRY. — Cerasus vulgaris , et al. 
Though some of the insects noticed below have only been 
observed upon our wild cherries, Cerasus serotina and Virginiana , 
there is little doubt but the same will at times invade the garden 
cherry; and all the trees of this genus are so closely related to 
each other that, for a purpose like the present, it appears unne¬ 
cessary to divide them into different heads. 
AFFECTING THE TRUNK AND LIMBS. 
7 1. Divaricated Bupiiestis, Dicerca divaricata , Say. (Colcoptera. Bupres- 
tidse.) 
A flattened worm resembling a tadpole and otherwise similar to the 
Apple JBuprestis, No. 3; mining in the sap wood under the bark; the 
perfect insect appearing the last of June and through July, run¬ 
ning up and down the trunk of the tree in the sunshine; a thickly 
punctured snapping beetle, having a coppery lustre, its wing covers 
striated and freckled with small blackish spots, their ends narrowed, 
drawn out and spreading slightly apart, the tips blunt and as 
though broken off. Length 0.70 to 0.90. The beech is undoubt¬ 
edly the original residence of this insect, and wherever a dead 
tree of this kind occurs some of these beetles will almost always 
be found upon it on sunny days in midsummer. I know not why, 
in the lately published Catalogue of F. E. Melsheimer, Kirby’s 
generic name Stenuris is preferred to that of Eschscholtz, whilst 
on a following page precedence is given to one of the generic 
names of the latter author over one proposed by Mr. Kirby. As 
Eschscholtz’s names for these genera were published several years 
anterior to those of Kirby I have retained them. For some fur¬ 
ther items respecting this insect see Harris’s Treatise, p. 42. 
The Rough Osmoderma No. 7, and the Horn-bug No. 6, occur 
in their larva state in old decaying cherry trees, and in their dead 
stumps one or both of these grubs will be found in profusion and 
of all sizes. 
