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’following statement: “Found them under the hark of a tree. They 
don’t seem to bore the wood, especially where the bark is broken or 
marred.” In 1872 Mr. Merton Dunlap, of Ford county, stated to the 
State Hort. Society thaJ; the borers had nearly destroyed the soft 
maples. They are also said to attack the ash-leaf maple or box elder. 
Prof. Riley reports having found them abundant at East Sumner,Ill., in 
1867, Onarga in 1869, and I have had similar statements of their work 
from the vicinity of Chicago. 
. Remedies —The principal thing to be done seems to be to keep the 
bark smooth, as such trees are seldom attacked by this borer. White¬ 
washing has been recommended as also filling up all holes and fissures 
with mortar, so as to render the trunk as smooth as possible. Also 
rubbing with whale-oil soap, kerosene, etc. 
TEgeria syringe, Harris—The Lilac Borer. 
Our lilac bushes are sometimes bored into by a caterpillar 
similar to the preceding. It may be found during the lat¬ 
ter part of summer making its galleries through both sap 
and heartwood of limbs even an inch in diameter, leaving in 
its track its chips and excrementitious matter. From the 
notes of Miss Middleton, who reared this moth from larvae taken 
from the lilac bushes here in Carbondale, they were first noticed the 
tenth of August, 1876, and made their cocoons the middle of May of 
the following season. The cocoons were slim, light brown, three- 
fourths of an inch long, and each joint of the abdomen armed, as in 
the other iEgerians, with short teeth with which it works its way out 
of its gallery before the moth issues. 
Spec. Char. Imago .—The moths expand 1.20 inches ; are dark brown, 
The fore wings are opaque, except a space about one-fourth the length 
of the wing at the base, which is clear. Hind wings are rather broad, 
clear, with the fringe at the posterior edge brown,rather heavy. The 
antennae, palpi, ring back of the head, the veins in.the base of the 
fore wings, the front and middle shanks, and the middle of the hind 
pair rust red. The hind legs are, below the red, first, a ring of black, 
the rest yellow. The female differs from the male in being larger, 
and having at the base of the abdomen a dark red band two segments 
in width. These emerged from the chrysalids May 26. 
Larva —“ Length (description taken August 8, 1876) 0.37 of an 
inch, body flattened and somewhat margined at the sides, fusiform in 
outline; head small, triangular, reddish brown; first segment pale 
yellowish brown above ; other segments with a cellular dark-brown 
spot on each side leaving a pale median line. The lateral margin 
of each segment (each side) is furnished with a spine which points 
laterally, and has a triangular base but acute point; beneath pale yel¬ 
lowish white ; six thoracic feet; width at widest part over one-third 
the length.”—Thomas. 
