. Coleoptera. Beetles. 328 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARTHROPODS. mottled \\\\\\ cream white. Ptychodes viUatun is slender, about an inch long, with very long antenna? and legs, and is of a rich Ijrown ground color, with sutural and marginal strijies of white. Both the above-mentioned species are found in the south- western United States. In Europe a closely allied longicorn. Lamia textor, bores, in its larval state, in willow twigs. The beetle is from 1 to l.'io inches long and nearlv half as broad, of a dark brown color, with fine yellowish pubescence, through which glimmer little black points; its
. Coleoptera. Beetles. 328 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARTHROPODS. mottled \\\\\\ cream white. Ptychodes viUatun is slender, about an inch long, with very long antenna? and legs, and is of a rich Ijrown ground color, with sutural and marginal strijies of white. Both the above-mentioned species are found in the south- western United States. In Europe a closely allied longicorn. Lamia textor, bores, in its larval state, in willow twigs. The beetle is from 1 to l.'io inches long and nearlv half as broad, of a dark brown color, with fine yellowish pubescence, through which glimmer little black points; its antennte are about tvvo-tliirds as long as its body. Pseiiocerits svpernotutus is a beetle only about of an inch long, whose larva bores in the twigs of different kinds of currants. Its front coxal cavities are angulated, its prothorax is constricted behind and the liumeral angles are distinct. The ground color of the beetle is black, the prothorax and margins of the elytra are jiale brown, and there are a few white or gray spots on the elytra. Mr. William Saunders has well described the life-history of this species as follows: "Early in June the parent beetle of the native currant borer deposits her eggs upon the currant stalks, where they soon hatch into tiny grubs, which burrow into the heart of the stem and, feeding on its pith, reach full growth before the close of the season. They are footless grulis, which measure when full grown about half an inch in length. The iiead is scarcely half as broad as the body, is of a dark lirown color, with black jaws. The Ixxly is whitish with some Virown dots along each side, and is slightly clothed with very tine short hairs. When full grown and about to to a chrysalis, the larva gnaws a channel through the ^\â¢(_1ody fibre to tlie outer bark, so that wlien changed to a beetle it can make its escajie by merely ru]ituring the bark. The ea^â ity thus made is filled with little chips to ])revent the liark from being l
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