. The American entomologist and botanist. es, (like a limb infested by the gout,) forthe length of an inch or so, as shown in Figure08. Instead of being smooth and of a uni-form color, like the , the swelled part ofthe cane, which is a truegall, always splits up lon-gitudinally into a greatmany short, rough, brown-ish slits, and on inspectingthese gouty galls more care-fully, numerous little ridgeswill be observed, the gen-eral direction of which isround and round the axisof the cane. If the observertakes his knife and cuts intothe ridges just now describ-ed, lie will find under e
. The American entomologist and botanist. es, (like a limb infested by the gout,) forthe length of an inch or so, as shown in Figure08. Instead of being smooth and of a uni-form color, like the , the swelled part ofthe cane, which is a truegall, always splits up lon-gitudinally into a greatmany short, rough, brown-ish slits, and on inspectingthese gouty galls more care-fully, numerous little ridgeswill be observed, the gen-eral direction of which isround and round the axisof the cane. If the observertakes his knife and cuts intothe ridges just now describ-ed, lie will find under eachof them the passage-way ofa minute borer, filled witlithe brown excrement whichhe has left behind him; andeither in these passage-waysov- in the pith of the cane hewill often detect the insi-dious little borer himself.(Fig. 69, h.) This borer isa small, thread-like larva, a creamy white color, with the front part ofits body much flattened out horizontally, as intlic common Hammer-headed llorer of the^ [Fig, .;!!.]. (olnrs—That of the cane,
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