Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . h veiy thick femora, ^jfIt flies the last of May. I have received a larva of this ispecies from Dr. Shimer, which was found by him boring ^in the grape-vine. The genus Callidium has antennte Fig. 484of moderate length, a broad rounded prothorax, and a flattenedbody behind. The larvse are unusually flattened, with a broad horny head, small stout man-dibles, and six small legs, andthey are said to live in thisstate two years. Callidiumantennatum New
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . h veiy thick femora, ^jfIt flies the last of May. I have received a larva of this ispecies from Dr. Shimer, which was found by him boring ^in the grape-vine. The genus Callidium has antennte Fig. 484of moderate length, a broad rounded prothorax, and a flattenedbody behind. The larvse are unusually flattened, with a broad horny head, small stout man-dibles, and six small legs, andthey are said to live in thisstate two years. Callidiumantennatum Newman is en-tirely blue ; it bores in pinewood and in red cedar, min-ing under the bark. C. semi-circrdaris Bland (Fig. 484) isreddish brown, with a whiteband on each elytron, enclosing a rather large, semicircular,black spot. It was discovered in Pennsylvania. Clytus has a more cylindrical body, and spherical prothorax,besides being beautifully banded with golden, on a darkground. Clytus s2yeciosus Say injures the maple. We havetaken the beetle on the summit cf Mount Katahdin in beetle lays its eggs in July and August, and the larvae. 497
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