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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW YORK 
OAK. I-IMBS. 
Usually those insects which undergo a complete metamorphosis, remain 
at rest, lying dormant and motionless during their pupa state. The 
Oak pruner, however, is a remarkable exception to this* Whenever its 
cell is opened it will be seen moving from one end of it to the other 
with quite as much agility as it shows in its larva state. The sutures of 
its abdomen have the same deep transverse grooves as in the larvae, 
admitting the same amount of motion to this part of its body that it pre¬ 
viously had. And lying on its back, it uses the tip of its abdomen as 
though it were furnished with a pro-leg, the little sharp points with which 
it is covered being pressed against the rough walls of the cell, and the 
body pushed forward or drawn backward hereby, step after step, at the 
will of the animal. 
ThoTUPA is of much the same size with the larva and of a yellowish white color. Its eyes 
are sometimes white, sometimes blackish brown. The antenmo-sheaths arise in the notch 
upon the inner side of the eyes and passing directly across the surface of these organs, extend 
down along each side of the hack above the sheaths of tho fore and middle pairs of legs, then 
curving inward they pass back to tho eye along the inner side of the same legs, their ends 
being placod upon the eye slightly insido of their origin. Tho knees of the hind legs protrudo 
far out from under the upper sides of the wing-sheaths forward of their tips, whilst tho feet 
of these legs occupy the space between the tips of the wing-sheaths. Tho back of the abdo¬ 
men shows a distinct pale brown stripe along the middle, on each side of which tho surface 
of the segments is furnished with numerous small erect sharp points of a dark brown color, 
those on the apical segment being double the length of the others. 
Prof. Peck bestowed upon this insect the name Stenocorus putator, the 
latter epithet meaning a pruner or vine-dresser, and he characterizes the 
beetle thus named, as varying in length from 0.45 to 0.60, the largest 
individuals being but 0.12 in thickness, and being of a dull or obscure 
brown color with white hairs, its thorax without spines, its wing-covers 
two-toothed at their tips, and its autennoe of the length of the body, the 
two joints next to the base with a small spine at their tips. Dr. Harris 
adds to this that the surface is sprinkled with gray spots composed of very 
short close hairs and the scutel is yellowish white. These characters, 
however, will include what at present stand in the books as several distinct 
species. I would therefore observe that the specimens which I have 
obtained from the severed oak limbs of this vicinity and which I therefore 
regard with confidence as being the true putator of Prof. Peck, present 
the following characters. They are usually from 0.50 to 0.55 in length 
and 0.12 broad, of a slender cylindrical form, of a dull black color, tinged 
more or less with brown on the wing covers, more evidently so towards 
their tips, whilst the antenna) are paler brown, and the under side and legs 
chestnut colored, sometimes bright, sometimes dark and blackish. The 
surface is everywhere clothed with shortish prostrate gray hairs, and on 
the wing-covers these are in places more dense, forming small gray spots, 
and on each side of the thorax, in the middle, is a whitish dot, formed in 
the same manner. Sometimes also on the base of the thorax, on each side 
of its middle, a short gray stripe formed by these hairs, is very obvious, 
whilst in other individuals no traces of these stripes can be discorned. 
