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CEDAR. JUNIPER. 
285. Six-spotted Metachroma, Metachroma 6 notaia, Say. (Coleoptera. 
Chrysomelid®.) 
Feeding on the leaves in July, an oblong pale shining beetle, 
0.15 long, narrower anteriorly and punctured, the punctures 
in rows on the wing covers, becoming very faint towards their 
tips, and on each wing cover three black spots, the forward one 
long and narrow, the other two situated on the middle, parallel 
and almost in contact, the inner one placed rather farther back. 
286- Facetious Leiopus, Leiopus facetus, Say. (Coleoptera. Cerambycid®.) 
Feeding on the leaves in July, a small black Long-horned 
beetle 0.18 long, with long slender hair-like tawny yellow an¬ 
tennas, their basal joint and the tips of two or three following 
joints black; its thorax with an ash gray stripe on the middle 
and an oblique one on each side of this, the hind ends of these 
stripes sometimes uniting and forming a letter W; its wing 
covers with a large ash gray spot forward of the middle and 
almost reaching the suture, having in it an oblique triangular 
black spot, and towards the tip an ash gray band concave on 
its hind side. 
Mr. Say states that he obtained his specimens from the juni¬ 
per, but its occurrence thereon was perhaps accidental, as I 
have found it on apple trees in a section of country where no 
juniper grows. 
In addition to the foregoing there are probably one or more 
species of gall-fly belonging to the cedar, producing the roundish 
galls which we meet with on its leaves and twigs. 
5. THE LARCH or TAMERACK — Finns ( Larix) Americana. 
The Pine bark-beetle, No. 244, is reported to mine the bark 
and outer surface of the sap wood of the tamerack the same 
that it does the pine. 
In July and August troops of white caterpillars with black 
dots and along their backs eight black tufts of hairs, the larvae 
of the Hickory tussock moth, No. 183, are sometimes found on 
this tree, nearly stripping the leaves from the limbs which 
they occupy. 
