Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . ing, if not the same insect, whichtransforms into a dark-brown beetle with dark-blue reflpctions, and the wing-coverscrossed by four zigzag fine gray lines. The following notice of this beetleis taken from ray Second Report onthe Injurious insects of Massachu-setts (1872): My attention has been called by Mr. R. , a student in the State AgriculturalCollege, to the fact that the Arhopalus fulmi-nans Fabr. (Fig. 129, enlarged tw
Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . ing, if not the same insect, whichtransforms into a dark-brown beetle with dark-blue reflpctions, and the wing-coverscrossed by four zigzag fine gray lines. The following notice of this beetleis taken from ray Second Report onthe Injurious insects of Massachu-setts (1872): My attention has been called by Mr. R. , a student in the State AgriculturalCollege, to the fact that the Arhopalus fulmi-nans Fabr. (Fig. 129, enlarged twice), one ofthe family of longicorn beetles, bores in thetrunk. I know nothing further concerningits habits nor of the appearance of its beetle itself is blackish brown, with slightdark-blue reflections ; the legs and antennae are of the same color, the latter being scarcely 1 ,, -i. 1 J mi i ^ ii 1, J Fig. 129.—Chesiuut Packard. longer than its body. The top of the head and the sides of the prothorax and under side of the body are covered with a pale-gray pile, while certain silver markings on the wing-covers are composed of similar. ,S44 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. close-set liiie hairs. The hairs on the sides of the prothorax inclose a couspicuonsblack spot, while the top is black, and more coarsely punctate than the latter are each crossed by four acutely zigzag lines, composed of microscopic hairs,forming yy^-like bands on the elytra, the basal lines being less distinctly markedthan the others. The ends of the wing-covers are also tii)i)ed with gray, especiallyon the inner side of the end. The legs are pitchy brown with light hairs, and witha reddish tinge on the terminal joints (tarsi). It is a little over half an inch long. 3. Thr noble clytus hoijer. Calloides nobilia (Say). A longicorn borer, probably depredating upon the chestnut, and transforming to alarge, handsome, black-brown beetle, nearly an inch long, mar
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