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HICKORY. TRUNK. 
155. Slender-footed Dyspiiaga, JDysphaga tenuipes, Ilalderaan. (Coleop- 
tera. Cerambycidas.) 
Small grubs in the dead limbs and twigs, producing in May a 
small black long-horned beetle with rough wing covers but half 
as long as the abdomen and tinged with paler yellowish at theii 
bases, its head having a furrow in the middle and its thorax 
cylindrical. Length 0.25. 
156. Lurid Buprestis, Dicerca lurida, Fab. (Coleoptera. Buprestidae.) 
Mining shallow burrows in the sickly dying limbs, a long taper¬ 
ing yellowish white grub, its second ring very broad and strongly 
flattened, its head small and brownish, producing a blackish brassy 
snapping-beetle which may be found upon the trunk and limbs 
through the summer, its surface rather rough and with coarse 
punctures running into each other, its wing covers with raised 
lines on their inner part and two toothed at their tips, the end of 
the abdomen having three teeth and its under side being more 
brilliant brassy and with punctures opening backward. Length 
about 0.70. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 43. 
157. Walnut ant, Formica Carycc, Fitch. (Ilymenoptera. Formicidte.) 
Mining long narrow passages in the interior of the trunk and 
limbs and staining the adjacent wood light brown; a longish black 
shining ant, its abdomen with equidistant transverse rows of fine 
bristles, two rows upon each segment. Length 0.20 to 0.33. See 
Transactions, 1854, p. 855. 
158. RF.D-snoui.DERBD Apate, Apate basillaris, Say. (Coleoptera, Bos- 
trichidoe.) 
Boring small holes straight towards the heart of the tree, small 
fleshy white six-footed grubs with backs transversely wrinkled; 
changing to pupae at the inner ends of their burrows, and pro¬ 
ducing small cylindrical black beetles covered with punctures, 
with the fore part of their thorax very rough and their wing 
covers with a tawny red or yellow spot on their base, their tips 
abruptly cut off obliquely, the margin of the declivity showing 
two or three little teeth on each side above and an elevated line 
below. Length 0.20 to 0.25. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 81. 
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