STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
TOD 
PINE. TRUNK. 
species or the following one is his cotifusor. Indeed it is only 
from the dimensions he assigns to it that we are assured this is 
the species to which he refers. 
One of these insects in which the black spots upon the wing 
covers are more numerous and distinct than in any specimen 
which had previously fallen under my notice, obligingly flies 
into my room by night, at the very time I am copying this 
account for the press, and I hereby become assured of what I 
had previously been suspicious. The black spots in specimens 
that are newly disclosed from the pupae and most fully marked, 
are chiefly of a square form, some of them oblong and others 
equilateral, and in such specimens it is plain to perceive that 
these spots are arranged in three rows running lengthwise upon 
each wing cover, the hoary white spots alternating irregularly 
with them in the same rows. In the specimen before me, the 
black spots, at least on the anterior half of the wing covers are 
so identical in their position and shape with the representation 
given in Drury’s fig. 2, pi. 35, vol. ii, that no one can doubt its 
having been an insect of this species from which that figure 
was taken. Drury states that his specimen was received from 
Norway. Mr. Westwood, however, remarks that no such beetle 
is known to inhabit Norway or any other country of Europe. 
There is no doubt, therefore, that Drury’s insect was either 
transported in its larva state in pine timber taken from this 
country to Norway, as might readily happen (i. e. if coals are 
ever carried to Newcastle), or else it was captured in New- 
York, in common with a large portion of the other insects in 
Mr. Drury’s collection, and the ticket belonging to it became 
accidentally misplaced. Mr. Westwood notices the very near 
correspondence of Drury’s figure with the Lamia dentator of 
Eabricius, the name, very likely, by which the species before us 
may be ticketed in his cabinet. We, however, are at a loss to 
understand why Mr. Westwood gives precedence to this Fabri- 
cian name, when that of Drury clearly has the priority, and 
must therefore supercede all those which have more recently 
been applied to this insect. 
The synonyms of this species, it thus appears, are as follows : 
Ccnmiby.r notatus, Drury, vol. ii, Appendix. (PI. 35, fig. 2),.. 1773 
Not Lamia notata, Fab. Mant. ins. i, 139,. .• . 1787 
