REHPORT OF THE NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM 1909 4AMOMDMIVE ‘ODS NKOK ¥ a ~/PuBysLourg (2 ied STAs P 7.20, \ rey did¥lS Wisvood a SN3uYVe8 SNid ‘ i a A3STIVA SYYMV1390 Bees Ni¥1d LNOWG3ld NOLSVoL GKEDER A (Aesuar Man go Aaauns jeo1Ba}0Aa9g ay) Aq dew aseg) AO dVIN V 0% SL iy — ; s Pali Ae ree tae PST AUSTIN C. APGAR, former Head of Biological Department. PROF. JOHN B. SMITH, State Entomologist. WILLIAM H. WERNER, State Taxidermist. THREE HEAD OF DEPARTMENTS OF THE MUSEUM. ANNUAL REPORT mew ICKSEY STALE MUSEUM Including a Report of the Insects of New Jersey 1909 TRENTON, N. J. MacCRELLISH & QUIGLEY . STATE PRINTERS. hie 2 Commissioners of the New Jersey State Museum. Strate Supt. oF Pusitic Instruction, CHARLES J. BAXTER, President. Srars Grorocist, HENRY B. KUMMEL, Secretary. PRESIDENT State Boarp oF AcricuLturE, E. B. VOORHEES. PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SAMUEL K. ROBBINS. SPEAKER OF THE House oF ASSEMBLY, JOHN D. PRINCE. SILAS R. MORSE, Curator. Heads of the Several Departments of the New Jersey State Museum. C. J. BAXTER, Strate SuPERINTENDENT OF Puslic INSTRUCTION, Educational. E. B. VOORHEES, Rutcers CoLLecs, Agriculture. HENRY B. KUMMEL, State Grotocisr, Geology. JOHN C. SMOCK, Ex-Srate Gronocrs’, Forestry. JOHN B. SMITH, Strate Entomotocist, Entomology. JAMES T. MORGAN, Deputy or Bureau or Lazor Sratismics, Manufactures. WILLIAM H. WERNER, Tasxidermist of Museum. HERBERT M. LLOYD, Secretary or GEoLOcICAL SuRVEY, Archeology. (3) eakietagh | Pseteieak e ie - ra Sate i : CUNARD Hy nore Per ‘apie’ ia.9 Mah PROM Ur ate rte PAY FE ORD ae ea ar ee ae Thee uae 6G. Pees qrier ‘ tt JAG tied, a Wr: ty ‘ anuiad i Pre mh VO peat uae. wp ; ead SSG Ie: ae ‘hi me ro wl 14) Ansiiheged laa al att oral ae arent’) otete fouiak al i by Koni aia! Howe: Wc CAML eT eee, +Ehet Hor | Wades i \ Se. eagerazl au - nas " oe Poa : vie ilies * Su 4 wee socutrs) Neate aR rn a Bis FE > Mo rh rey i geen) Sb oe at OTs ii i x ; : Th eriikts h Rs a x yes ; (HetGorpy ute wate +. ci uae va : ims ; | ‘ Janu touene ae sag ae) _ ae i a5 an! Pe eee hro. WM Aek ai. ool Be ee tA palace my, hil ssHa\ bal yh ee ray aa Sens ah Ane a gs | Rian d Letter of Transmittal. TRENTON, N. J., November 30th, 1go9. To the Honorable John Franklin Fort, Governor of the State of New Jersey: Str—I have the honor to present, for the Commissioners of the New Jersey State Museum, the annual report, including a Report of the Insects Found in New Jersey. SILAS R. MORSE, Curator. (5) *. i cit t 5 ) a 4 ; « b, ‘% . le ‘ AG} a mee CO0e Libr veduaa i CPPS ‘ , i A ee oe eer ee ete a | aM de sar: 1, , Xs Sel Tidy Bink OG TT SPA Me HS er | eee , . ie Ceare ? He | mee ; 7 : ar 0 erenigigelrmnmio > sat Tor -.JoqeIerd ai Teena) “S@8 Biles: jiogan fennas adie, souaaen WE ogee rete : 3 i esnips Do TA cet ~ | a dei be 3 wea a} ba nk ae ‘i he au a aaa ah Ee Pre iZ ees | oo Curator’s Report. In the present report for 1909, we are endeavoring to present a subject that will be on the line of education, as in the previous reports. It is a subject that every person in New Jersey should be interested in and study. It follows the Report on Birds, as they are the destroyers of the insects. Unless the people of New Jersey study insects and how to destroy them, it will cost the State many thousand dollars to prevent the destruction of the crops, trees, etc. Massachusetts has spent, it is said, over a million dollars in trying to destroy two imported insects, the Gypsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth, which are sure to invade New Jersey as they have every New England State. In selecting Prof. John B. Smith, of the New Jersey Experi- mental Station, at Rutgers College, we know no better man in the United States could have been procured. He has a reputation as one of the best entomologists, not only in this country, but in Europe. His success is known to every one. We feel sure that no former report of the State Museum has done more good than this one will do. THE NEEDS OF THE MUSEUM. The one thing we need most is more room. It is impossible to display many of our specimens, and those that are on exhibi- tion are so crowded that they are not shown to advantage, while others cannot be displayed. Our exhibits of school work cannot be seen to any advantage on account of a proper place to install them. There should be rooms especially for this depart- ment of the Museum, where it could be made one of the most interesting and educational parts of the whole Museum. ‘There is, in this department, work that was exhibited at seven great 7) 50863 8 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. expositions, and it shows the growth and advancement of the educational system of New Jersey for the last thirty years. The specimens now owned by the Museum need double the space we now have, and we are continually adding to the number. The historical department can be made one of the best if room could be had for it. Valuable specimens of this kind are being lost for the want of room to place them. ‘There are many valuable specimens in the State that we could procure at no cost if we could have a place to display them. ‘They are continually being collected by other States, and thus can never be procured for the Museum. ADDITION TO THE MUSEUM'S SPECIMENS BY PURCHASE. Black Guillemot, M. & F. Dovekie, F. BIRDS. bo Whistling Swan, M. 2 Pomarine Jaeger, M. &. F. Great Grey Owl, F. 2 Royal Term, M. & F. Great Horned Owl, M. 2 Least Term, M. &. F. Horned Grebe, M. 2 Greater Shearwater, M. & F. Mallard Duck, M. 2 Sooty Shearwater, M. & F. Ring Neck Duck, F. 2 Wilson’s Pintail, M. & F. Harlequin Duck, F. 2 Cormorant, M. & F. 2 Northern Phalarope, M. & F. Gadwall, F. 2 Red Phalarope, M. & F. Redhead, F. Wilson’s Phalarope, F. Ring Neck Duck, M. 2 American Avocet, M.’& F. 2 Lesser Snow Goose, M. & F. 2 Long-billed Dowitcher, M. & F. 2 Greater Snow Goose, M. & F. 2 Stilt Sandpiper, M. & F. -2 Marbled Godwit, M. & F. 2 White Rumped Shrike, M. & F. 2 Western Sandpiper, M. & F. 2 American Oyster Catcher, M. & F. Wilson’s Plover, F. 2 Pine Siskin, M. & F. 2 Red Bellied Woodpecker, M. & F. 2 Lark Sparrow, M. & F. 2 Fork Tailed Flycatcher, M. & F. 2 Lincoln Sparrow, M. & F. 2 Arizona Kingbird, M. & F. Prairie Hen, M. 2 Olive Sided Flycatcher, M. & F. Yellow-Headed Blackbird, F. 2 Canada Jay, M. & F. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, F. Cowbird, F. Spotted Sandpiper, F. Lapland Longspur, F. American Pipit, F. Savanna Sparrow, F. 2 Brown-headed Nuthatch, M. & F. Henslow’s Sparrow, F. 2 Canadian Chickadee, M. & F. 2 Ard. S. T. Sparrow, M. & F. Gray Cheek Thrush, M. 2 Swamp Sparrow, M. & F. 2 Bicknell’s Thrush, M. & F. Indigo Bunting, F. 2 Wilson’s Thrush, M. & F. Summer Tanager, F. NON No wo NN bo NH HN HN CURATOR’S REPORT. 9 Prothonotary Warbler, F. Golden Warbler, M. & F. Nashville Warbler, M. & F. Cape May Warbler, M. Yellow Warbler, F. Magnolia Warbler, F. Bay Breasted Warbler, M. & F. Yellow Palm Warbler, M. & F. Prairie Warbler, M. & F. Kentucky Warbler, M. & F. Wilson’s Warbler, F. Canadian Warbler, F. Louisiana Water Thrush, F. Conn. Warbler, F. Morning Warbler, F. Bewicks Warbler, M. & F. House Wren, M. & F. American Scoter, M. & F. Long-billed Curlew, M. & F. Hairy Woodpecker, M. Wood Pewee, M. & F. Yellow Billed Flycatcher, M. & F. Orchard Oriole, M. & F. Boat Tailed Grackle, M. & F. Blue Grosbeak, F. FISH. Brown ‘Trout. Brook Trout. Porcupine Fish. Fool Fish. Trunk Fish. Angel Fish. Moon Fish. Saw Fish. Sea Bat. Horse Foot Crab, large and small. Hermit Crab. Fiddler Crab. Swimming Crab. Brook Trout. Purple Spined Urchin. Key Hole. Sea Horse. Devil Fish. 2 I 3 5 2 I I I I I MAMMALS. Mounted Fisher. Group of 6 mounted Beaver. Moles. Mice. Mounted group of 3 Deer. Mounted Raccoon. BIRDS’ EGGS. Holboell’s Grebe eggs. Parastic Jaeger egg. Ring-bill Gull eggs. Gull-billed Terms eggs. Caspian Terms eggs. Sooty Terms egg. Fulamr egg. Cormorant egg. American Merganser egg. Baldpate egg. 13 Blue-winged Teal eggs. I I 2 4 3 3 4 § I I 2 5 3 8 r 4 3 2 4 I I 4 2 4 3 I 5 Canvas Back egg. Old Squaw egg. Harlequin eggs. American Bittern eggs. American Egret eggs. Yellow-crowned Night Heron eggs. Purple Gallinule eggs. Bartramian Sandpiper eggs. Canada Grouse egg. English Pheasant egg. Mourning Dove'eggs. Cooper’s Hawk eggs. American Osprey eggs. Burrowing Owl eggs. Hairy. Woodpecker egg. Arkansas Kingbird eggs. Prairie Horned Lark eggs. American Magpie eggs. Blue Jay eggs. Northern Raven egg. Rusty Grackle egg. Savanna Sparrow eggs. Blue Grosbeak eggs. Barn Swallow eggs. Red-eyed Vireo eggs. Blue-winged Warbler egg. La. Water Thrush eggs. 10 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 1908— November— Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Public Museum of Milwaukee. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodélogy, Harrisburg, Pa. University Bulletin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, D. C. Report of New York State Museum—The Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths New Jersey Review of Charities and Corrections. The Odlogist. December— Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. 1909—January— Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. Bulletin of New York Botanical Garden. Annual Report of the Field Museum, Chicago, 1908. Contributions to Texan Herpetology. The Auk, Ornithology Bulletin. February— Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Gardens. March— Bulletin of the New York Botanical Gardens. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. Reports of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, 1895-1908. John Crerar Library Handbook, 1907. John Crerar Library List of Books Exhibited. John Crerar Library Supplement to the List of Books in the Public Li- braries of Chicago and Evanston. John Crerar Library List of Current Periodicais in Reading Room. John Crerar Library List of Cyclopedias and Dictionaries with a List of Directories, August, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 4, No. 4, April, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 4, No. 5, May, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 4, No. 6, October, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 4, No. 7, November, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 4, No. 8, December, 1908. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1900. Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1900. April— Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. General Zodlogy, Catalogue No. 39. CURATOR’S REPORT, II Zodlogical Society Bulletin, No. 33. The Foothills Formation of North Central Colorado. Report of the State Librarian of Pennsylvania for 1907. Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1908. Pedigree Cultures and Museums, University of Chicago. The Ecological Succession of Birds, University of Chicago. New Species of Fishes from Tropical America, Field Museum, No. 132. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, 1909. May— Popular Lectures of Natural History, by S. E. Morse. University of Illinois, Bulletin No. 135, Bordeaux Mixture. Journal of Comparative Neurology and Physchology, Wistar Institution. Esperanto or Odo. Anthropologie Metrique, Paris Imprimeris Nationale. Bulletin of the Chicago’ Academy of Sciences. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Annual Address, 1878. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Thirty-eighth Annual Report, 1895. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Thirty-ninth Annual Report, 1896. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Fortieth Annual Report, 1897. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Its Past History and Present Collection. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Historical Sketch of the Academy. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Higher Fungi of the Chicago Region. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Glacial Markings of Unusual Forms. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Observations on Fluviatile Deposits. Chicago Academy of Sciences, List of Batrachia and Reptilia of Illinois. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Microscopic Organisms in the Bowlder Clays of Chicago and Vicinity. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Northern Pitcher Plantor Side-Saddle Flower. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Boulder Clays. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Micro-Chemistry of Fats. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago Artesian Wells. Chicago Academy of Sciences, On Rhizocarps in the Erian Period of Amer. Chicago Academy of Sciences, A Paper on Elephas Primigenius. Chicago Academy of Sciences, The Trilobita. Chicago Academy of Sciences, The Mineralogy of the Chicago Area. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Birds of the Chicago Area. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Preliminary Outline, Vol. 2, No. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Preliminary Outline, Vol. 2, No. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Preliminary Outline, Vol. 2, No. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Preliminary Outline, Vol. 3, No. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Preliminary Outline, Vol. 3, No. Chicago Academy of Sciences, The Lichen-Flora. Chicago Academy of Sciences, The Pleistocene Feature and Deposits. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Mollusca of the Chicago Area. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Gastropoda. Chicago Academy of Sciences, The Crinoidea. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zodlogical Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. Ya kwh 12 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY SLATE. MUSEUM. June— Artesian Wells, by John Dean Caton, LL.D. The Training School, Vineland, N. J. Zoological Society Bulletin, New York Zodlogical Society. Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas, Academy of Sciences, St. Louis. Occasional Memoirs of the Chicago Entomological Society, 1900. Zoological Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. Observation on Instantaneous Changes in Color Among Tropical Fish. Report of the Director of the Aquarium of the Board of Managers, New York Zodlogical Society. August— Natural History Survey of Illinois, Fishes of Illinois. Natural History Survey of Illinois, Atlas. University of Illinois, Circulars Nos. 131 and 133. University of Illinois, Bulletin No. 136. I Museum of Brooklyn, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Report for roo8. Arbor and Bird Day, Illinois, 1909. Civil Service Commission of New Jersey, First Annual Report. Progress of Game Protection, Depart. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. September— University of Illinois, The Mineral Contents of Illinois Waters. University of Illinois, Chemical and Biological Survey of the Waters of Illinois. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Zodlogical Bulletin, Division of Zodlogy, Harrisburg, Pa. October— Zoological Society Bulletin, New York Zodlogical Society. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, Vol. 6, Nos. 3 and 4. Bulletin of the Charlestown Museum, Vol. 5, No. 6. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin 376, Game Laws, 1909. Museum News, Central Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Colorado Geological Survey, First Annual Report, 1908. Bulletin of the N. Y. Botanical Garden, Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Erie, Pa., Public Library, Annual Report. Bulletin No. 2 of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy ead Biology. Penn. Museum, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Bulletin No. 2, 4 and 5. Penn. Museum, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Bulletin No. 6. Penn. Museum, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Bulletin No. 7. Penn. Museum, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Bulletin No. 8. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Thirty-third Annual Report, 1909. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 9, January, 1905. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 10, April, 1905. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 11, July, 1905. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 12, October, 1905. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 13, January, 1906. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 14, April, 1906. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 15, July, 1906. CURATOR’S REPORT, 13 Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 16, October, 1906. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 17, January, 1907. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 18, April, 1907. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 19, July, 1907. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 20, October, 1907. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 21, January, 1908. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 22, April, 1908. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 23, July, 1908. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 24, October, 1908. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 25, January, 1909. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 26, April, 1909. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 27, July, 19009. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, No. 28, October, 1900. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Tulip Ware of the Pa. Ger. Potters. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Majolica of Mexico. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Lead Glazed Pottery. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Artificial Soft Paste Porcelain. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Tin Enameled Pottery. Penn. Museum and School of Industrial Art, Salt Glazed Stoneware. a ae wa Oe aes eNO Hae aM a aOTMa TD arr, crete A Aa ee ye eerste hag f eask es AOU bee to fone Bee me hee SOA Tera nif lak nein Las, bw ie peeve PiEh” ANE it rs fesse a Shree: bc sist «ab “aeht Pisturabeia le We ‘ atal ve As Bf pce arta eet Raye ter Pew ae Sh ae ae ee Livni’ hreg ris eek Alpi 4 3b WV aa) Fartsso bey ai tall ey \ HX4 aa tA ITA Pree ie ot! age jehea' ha : Spf — Fe at SA Taertarheal Te fvatlont bine di SrA talrienhel he oe: bere f 'h at ate at ; Yorn its ; Cuil: they tke “Te La i : seni prise Site derailed) age rid ee, alia “wt _ i b) sade hott ale Piel! nd den ae ea te | bi 1 et “vais te om : | diy “pat ve ya ts Gio yO ee tT ve “es wenn ci Me : : - ey mo. is i , ' ana, # . P ri - j ve Pere te be ce ha : ; Hitt oa | ae * ey hal , iA lg et wy , } heae : = ‘ : 1 tee Ag wih ais } a p r Mi oe Part LInsects, their Classification and _ Distribution. CHa TERT: INTRODUCTORY. Twenty years ago, Dr. Geo. H. Cook, then State Geologist as well as Director of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, asked me to prepare, as part of the final report of the survey which was published in 1890, a list of the insects known to occur in New Jersey. ‘The time was brief, the sources of in- formation were few and our knowledge of the classification of some of the orders was limited. That, under the circumstances, the list should be incomplete and imperfect was to be expected, and no one recognized that better than I. Nevertheless, in spite of its defects, the list served a useful purpose and stimulated interest beyond all expectation. It also produced so much addi- tional information that, in 1899, ten years later, the State Board of Agriculture authorized me to prepare another edition, or in reality a new ‘work, which was published in 1900 as a supplement to the T'wenty-seventh Annual Report. In this second edition a number of departures were made. More time being allotted and more material being at hand, the aid of specialists in the various orders was enlisted and a much more complete picture of the insect fauna was obtained. LIllus- trations were introduced and an attempt was made to picture at least representative species of the main groups. And, while it was impossible to give much information about so many species, a great many brief notes on food habits and on the methods of dealing with economic species were incorporated. The publication was the most ambitious faunal list ever at- tempted in the United States, and it proved unexpectedly ac- (15) 16 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ceptable and useful. Requests were received from all parts of the country, from educational institutions and students, and long since the entire edition was exhausted. There is, perhaps, no similar work in such general use, and copies that find their way to dealers in second-hand books find a ready sale at a good price. , The book has stimulated study and has created increased de- mand for information concerning insect habits from all parts of the State. There is no other one work in New Jersey libraries from which an equal amount of such information can be ob- tained, and as.a reference work it is in constant demand. Since the publication of the last edition a new generation of collectors and students has come into being, and the entomolog- ical societies in New York City, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and in Newark have increased largely in membership. Niew Jersey still furnishes a favorite hunting-ground for many of these collectors and students, and our knowledge of the species has increased enormously. In the present edition there are 139 recorders, and many of those that had only a few records in the last edition have contributed liberally to this. Almost an equal number of contributors have died or have ceased to add to entomological work; but their notes are still serviceable and suggestive. Among those who have contributed to the actual work of preparing the list there have been additions and subtractions. Mr. R. P. Dow has contributed a list of Thysanura, an order which was entirely unrepresented before. In the Neuropterous orders Mr. Nathan Banks is still authority, save in the Odonata, which, as before, have been done by Dr. Philip P. Calvert. The biting and sucking lice have been worked over by Prof. Herbert Osborn, and the list is from his publications as marked for me by him. In the Homopterous section of the Hemiptera, Mr. E. P. Van Duzee has helped me out and has identified a large part of the species for collectors of New Jersey material, while Dr. W. E. Britton has very kindly done the Aleyrodide. In the Hemiptera Heteroptera Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno has pre- pared the list except in the Capside, in which Mr. Otto Heidmann has again contributed. In the Orthoptera Mr. James G. A. Rehn has arranged the list and has named much of the material gath- THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 17 ered. In the Coleoptera .and Lepidoptera the list has been writ- ten by me with such help as is specifically acknowledged, except that the Microlepidoptera are almost entirely the work of Mr. W. D. Kearfott. In the Hymenoptera Mr. Henry L. Viereck is responsible for the present general arrangement, the gall-flies and ants being written by Mr. Beutenmuller and Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, respectively. The Diptera are again listed by Mr. C. W. Johnson except for the gall-midges, which were done by Mr. Beutenmuller, and the mosquitoes, which were written by Mr. John A. Grossbeck. To all these gentlemen especial thanks are due, for without their help the list would have lacked much of its present completeness and accuracy. I have not mentioned here, specifically, all who have assisted to greater or less extent, but individual help will be found acknowledged in connection with the particular specialty, and I do not consider this assistance less valuable or worthy of grateful recognition because of its smaller scope. To the members of the Newark Entomological Society, of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, of the New York Entomo- logical Society, of the Feldman Social and of the American Entomological Society I am indebted for hearty co-operation and encouragement in all phases of this work. In this edition the intention has again been to connect it with the preceding, so that so far as possible every name in the latter should be identifiable here. In most orders this has been possible ; but not in all. Sometimes names are omitted without explana- tion where they were recorded as only probable; in such cases the probability has for some reason become remote, and that should be considered the explanation. Where species have been transferred from one genus to another, the generic name used in the previous list is given in parentheses after the specific name; but when several species in succession have been so transferred, the generic name may appear in parentheses only two or three times to call attention to the matter and to locate the transferred names. In no case must the synonyms given here in parentheses or following an = sign be considered as a scientific synonymical 2 IN 18 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. reference. It means only that the first name given 1s the correct name or theyname now in use to represent the species previously recorded under the second name or the name inclosed in paren- theses. ‘These references are merely for the identification of the names used in the previous edition and carry no weight otherwise. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 19 Chee Pek ol The system used in this list is practically the same as that of the previous edition, and it may be well to briefly state the char- acters of the orders as used here. . I assume that the primitive insect from which all the types now existing have descended was a small, soft-bodied creature living in moist earth or mud along the banks of bodies of water. It had six true legs, and probably leg-like abdominal appendages, no wings, no compound eyes or no eyes at all, and no developed breathing system; taking in oxygen from the surrounding moisture through all parts of the skin surface. The head was not much differentiated from the rest of the body, and the mouth parts were generalized, with three or four pairs of fleshy processes from which the jointed and other appendages of the more specialized mouth structures developed. ‘These were the Proto- thysanura, and creatures not so very different occur among the Thysanura of the present day. The latter, however, have in some cases well developed mouth parts, while many live in dry places and have a fairly complete tracheal system. There are no distinct metamorphoses and the insects are wingless throughout. Our primitive Thysanurans divided early into two branches on mouth structure; some becoming mandibulate or fitted for chewing, while others became haustellate, fitted for puncturing plant or animal cells, and living on the juices alone. In both these branches wings developed, very different in type and yet with fundamentally the same scheme of venation. The little order Thysanoptera has the mouth parts fitted for puncturing or scraping the surface so as to get at the plant juices, which are then drawn into the body. ‘The wings are long, very narrow, frail, not connected, and altogether the structure is primitive. Popularly they are known as Thrips, and some of them are decidedly injurious to farm crops. A decided step forward is made in the Rhyngota, in which the mouth parts are developed into slender lancets fitted for piercing, and are protected by a jointed beak except in the parasitica and 20 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. scale insects. ‘These creatures are able to puncture tissue and to suck the juices of animals or plants as the case may be. The Parasitica contains those forms without wings, adapted to live among the hair, on the blood of certain vertebrates, and here the lancets are retractile into the head, the beak being lost or modified into a short snout with or without anchor hooks or processes, The order Homoptera, or Hemiptera-Homoptera, contains the plant lice, scale insects, leaf-hoppers, mealy bugs, etc., hence is, in its entirety, injurious to the agriculturist. The head is here closely applied to the thorax, the beak is directed backward and issues underneath the head so far that, in many cases, it seems to come out between the front legs. In the scale insects the beak is lost in the female, and in the males the mouth structures are partially or altogether lost. When wings are present they are uniform in texture throughout, but there is often a difference in the texture of the two pairs. The order Heteroptera or Hemiptera-Heteroptera marks the extreme of the development in the Rhyngota, and here the mouth structures are more free, the beak often from the front of the head so that it may be directed straight forward, the forewings thickened and leathery or chitinous at base, thin and mem- braneous at tip, usually divided into well-marked regions. None of the Rhyngota have a completed metamorphosis and altogether this branch, with sucking mouth parts in all stages, remained a limited and inferior one. The branch in which mandibles were developed found a much greater range of food-getting possibilities and split up into a much greater number of divisions. With the development of wings, the thoracic segments which bear the organs of locomotion became modified. At first the three segments were similar to each other, and one series retained this peculiarity, all the rings being of practically equal import- ance. All these are loose-jointed frail forms with large, trans- parent wings. A departure was made when the second and third segments, which bear the wings, became united for more compact muscular attachments, and the first segment or prothorax THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 21 was left free. The highest specialization was reached when all three of the thoracic segments united to form a compact body supporting all the organs of locomotion. ‘These modifications, once started, tended to become intensified, and there is little difficulty now in recognizing the orders belonging to each series. Perhaps the simplest type in general structure are the /sop- tera, including what are generally known as Termites or white ants. They are soft-bodied, loose-jointed, all the thoracic rings well developed and altogether primitive in appearance. The wings are large and frail, net-veined, not united in flight and not folded when at rest. Yet, while these insects retain their primi- tive structure, they have become very highly specialized socially, living in immense communities with specialized worker, soldier and other castes. The workers are blind, never become winged, and even the sexually-mature winged forms have no resting stage; the metamorphosis is incomplete. The Mallophaga are the biting lice, and have the same general form as the Termite workers except that they are more flattened and are adapted to their parasitic mode of life. Wings are never developed, the metamorphosis is incomplete, and the insects most commonly infest birds. The Corrodentia mark yet another step in advance, but are still soft-bodied and loose-jointed. The book-lice found in houses are a common type, and resemble the biting lice in form; but they are very active and run rapidly. Some forms develop wings, which are peculiarly veined and not folded when at rest. The Neuroptera, including Aphis lions and Ant-lions, are yet further specialized. The larve retain the Termite worker type, but are more oval and the jaws are much larger and character- istically developed for a predatory mode of life. The larve, when full grown, form true pupz, which remain quiescent until the adult emerges, and the metamorphosis is thus complete. The adults have, generally, long, slender bodies, with large wings, which are laid flat when at rest and not folded. This is by far is very compact, the constriction between head and thorax is very is very compact; the constriction between head and thorax is very well defined, and, altogether, the resemblance to some of the types of the third series is strongly marked. 22 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. It. will be noted that all the orders of the first series are terres- trial in all stages, and that in none of them are the wings folded in any way. The second series of the mandibulates is that in which the first segment of the thorax became separated from and movable upon the second, while the second and third became closely united. In all cases the head 1s set into the first thoracic segment, and there is never any distinct neck between. This series branched early into two main divisions, one of them adapted to living on land, the other living in or under water. The Plecoptera, or plaited winged forms known as stone-flies, have the wings net-veined, and the hind wings are folded or plaited beneath the fore wings when they are at rest. The larve live under stones in water, breathing by means of gill- tufts; the pupz are active and the metamorphosis is thus incom- plete. An advance is noted in the Platyptera, where the transforma- tions become complete. In general appearance they are not unlike the stone-flies, but are more compactly built, with the wings folded in much the same way. ‘They are known as fish- flies, and some of them are very large and formidable in appear- ance. The larve live on the bottom of streams under stones, breathing through gill-tufts and usually coming to the shore to pupate. The largest of these larve are known to fishermen as Hellgramites, and are often gathered in numbers as bait for bass. In the terrestrial series the roaches first became developed, and from them the other members of the order Orthoptera or straight-winged insects, grasshoppers, katydids, crickets and the like. In all these the fore wings are actually or comparatively narrow, more or less thickened in texture, while the hind wings are folded fan-like beneath them. The pupal stage is active, and the transformation, therefore, incomplete. Some of the roaches had, and some yet have, the secondaries transversely folded, and from this type we derive the Dermoptera and Coleoptera. The Dermoptera, or ear-wigs, resemble small, short-winged beetles, with a curious, forceps-like anal appendage, which they THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 23 use in tucking in the elaborately folded hind wings beneath the short wing-covers. The transformations are incomplete. The Coleoptera, or sheath-winged insects, commonly called beetles, illustrate the extreme of this line of development. They have the fore wings hardened so as to be useless for purposes of flight, and they are laid on the back so as to meet in a straight line down the middle. The secondaries are folded transversely under the wing-covers or elytra, and the metamorphosis is com- plete. The third and last of the mandibulate series is that in which all the thoracic rings are united together to form a more or less compact or even, barrel-shaped mass. The head is now free from the thorax and united to it only by a slender neck. A fly, a bee or a butterfly will serve as an illustration. The ancestry of this series began in the aquatic forms passing the larval stages under water, and the Ephemerida or day-flies are the earliest types. The larve live in the mud of stream and other water bodies in immense numbers and, when full grown, change to frail, gossamer-winged flies which have the fore wings larger than the second pair and both pairs held upright like those of butterflies when at rest. Most of the species have slender anal filaments, the mouth parts are aborted and the life period is very short in the adult stage, though as larvee they may live for years. The transformations are incomplete. The Odonata or dragon flies are also aquatic in the larval stage and in their day were numerous and well developed. They have two pairs of flat, net-veined, similar wings, and they are predatory in habit. The larve live in the mud of ponds and among water plants, feeding upon any soft-bodied insects that come in their way, and the pupa is as active as the larva. The order has many structural peculiarities in all stages and ‘has no descendants, the line now tending to become lost. From the Ephemerid type two lines diverged in larval struc- ture—one to a caterpillar-like larva living in mud and moist places generally, the other toward a similar larva living in water and building a tube or case for protection. ‘The latter are known as Trichoptera or “caddice-flies,” the larve either preda- tory or plant-feeding. The adults have the wings more or less 24 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. densely covered with hair, the hind pair is folded under the fore wings and the mouth parts are aborted. The transformations are complete, and some of the local caddices or cases are marvels of structure and mimicry. Direct descendants of this order are the Lepidoptera or scale- winged insects, including butterflies and moths. In these the mouth parts of the adult are modified into a coiled tongue serving only to lap up liquid food, while the caterpillars or larve have the mandibles well developed and chew their food. ‘The transforma- tions are complete. The mud or earth living larve developed at once into terrestrial types, of which the oldest and most generalized are the M/ecoptera or scorpion flies. They derive their common name from the fact that the males of many of the species are furnished with a promi- nent anal forceps curved upward like the tail of a scorpion, although entirely harmless. The wings are long, rather narrow, net-veined and not folded. ‘The mouth parts are prolonged into a beak-like structure in which the parts are much divided and synthetic in type. They are predatory in all stages and the trans- formations are complete. The Hymenoptera contain the bees, wasps, ants, saw-flies and the like, and among them we find the highest type of social organization and the extreme of intellectual development among insects. ‘The mouth parts are in many cases elongated to enable them to gather the nectar of flowers, and they have four trans- parent wings with comparatively few veins and cells except in the saw-flies, where the venation is more complicated. The trans- formation is complete and in many cases the larva is dependent for its food upon the supply gathered by its parent. The Diptera or flies can always be recognized by having two wings only, the hind pair appearing as vestiges merely. The larvee are mostly footless, grub-like or maggots, and, while there is no development of social or intellectual characters, the flies are in their transformations and physical structure at the head of the insect world. The mouth structures are variably developed and may be adapted for lapping as in the common house-fly, or for piercing and sucking as in the equally common mosquito. The THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 25 importance of certain of these flies to the human race has only come to be appreciated in very recent years. An offshoot from the Diptera, which has become partially parasitic, we find in the fleas, for which the ordinal term Sipho- napteya is used. ‘They are wingless, laterally compressed, and live as adults on warm-blooded, hair or fur-coated animals. In a graphic form the scheme of classification is shown on the accompanying diagram. (See p. 26.) For convenience of cataloguing, the sequence of the orders is modified so that all the neuropterous forms are grouped together before the Rhyngota, irrespective of the series to which they belong in point of development. 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Only in the mountainous northwestern section in Warren and Sussex Counties is there a distinct element of the Transition zone, which is manifested to a much smaller extent along the northern boundary in Passaic and Bergen Counties. Yet, although the State belongs to one general faunal area, the fauna is by no means uniform and it offers several very distinct though not sharply limited regions. These are based largely upon geologic formations which cannot be discussed here ; but their general boundaries and character should be briefly stated. And first I wish to credit Dr. Philip P. Calvert with suggesting the importance and outlining the characters of the regions to avoid unnecessary elaboration in recording widely distributed species, and with suggesting the designations for the various regions. Beginning at the northwestern corner of the State we have the Appalachian region, bounded at the southeast by that series of elevated ridges extending northeast and southwest, beginning with the Pochunck Mountain on the north, and reaching the Delaware River at the Marble Mountain, just north of Easton, including as part of the ridge the Scott, Jenny Jump and Alla- muchy Mountains. ‘This region contains the greatest elevations in the State and resembles in character the adjacent regions of Pennsylvania and New York. It has not been at all thoroughly collected, Mr. Johnson’s records at Dunnfield and in the Water Gap region forming the most important contributions, and evi- — dencing the transition characters strongly. ‘Thus far no truly boreal elements have been found, but there may be a trace in the unexplored sections of the mountains. East and a little south of the Appalachian come the Highlands, fairly defined at their western border, but very irregular at the 28 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. junction with the Piedmont Plain. This contains the hilly country of most parts of Hunterdon and Morris, and of smaller areas in Passaic and Bergen Counties. It extends from Riegels- ville on the Delaware north to the junction with the Appalachian above Phillipsburgh. From the Delaware it extends irregularly eastward to the vicinity of White House Station on the Central. Railroad of New Jersey. From that point it extends northeast in avery irregular line to the northern boundary, taking in Morris Plains, Boonton and Butler near the edge of the line. It extends as a narrow border along the northern line of the State and sends two spurs to the south. One of these spurs includes the Palisades and Highlands along the western shore of the Hudson River, to Hoboken. ‘The second extends southward to Paterson, is there broken by the Passaic Valley and then takes in the narrow ridge of the Orange or Watchung Mountains, the southern tip coming near to Somerville. This region is rolling or hilly in character, with deciduous forests, and contains much area under cultivation. The transition element is marked though not conspicuous in this region, and many of the New York species come into it. A large part of the Orange Mountain and Palisade districts have been thoroughly collected in some of the orders, but along the northern border little has been done except in the Greenwood Lake district, and in the more central portion only the Hopat- cong territory has been explored. ‘The Ramapo Mountains are almost unknown entomologically, and so indeed are most of the ridges in line with and parallel to the Green Pond Mountain. The Piedmont Plain takes in the great red sandstone region, which is quite sharply bounded on the south by a line extending rather evenly southwest from the mouth of the Raritan River to Trenton. From Trenton it extends along the Delaware nearly to Riegelsville, and it fills in to the north everything to the edge of the Highlands, but does not quite extend to the shore line on the east. ‘This area is largely under cultivation, has no great elevations, but has many large swamp areas and low meadow regions. The forests are deciduous and insect life is less abundant than to the north or south. There are a number of distinctive features in this region which are interesting: the elm-leaf beetle is strictly one-brooded, while in the Delaware THE INSECTS. OF NEW. JERSEY. 29 Valley region it is at least partially two brooded; the codling moth never has a full second brood, and only in exceptional seasons even a partial one. And so there are other points which are of economic interest and agricultural importance. The Delaware Valley region extends south from ‘T'renton along the Delaware River to the bay, and along the bay to Cape May, fringed south of Salem Creek by salt marshes. It extends eastward an average distance of about fifteen miles, until about opposite Bordentown it crosses the State in a strip about twenty miles wide to the Monmouth shore. Its northern border is formed by the Piedmont Plain; its southern and eastern border merges into the Pine Barrens. When it reaches the Monmouth shore this region sends a narrow strip northward along the coast- line, broadening along the shores of Newark Bay so as to take in the entire peninsula from Jersey City to Bergen Point and extending up the Hackensack Valley, including all the space between the Palisade spur of the Highlands on the east and the edge of the Piedmont Plain on the west. A southward extension of this region extends in a narrow strip along the ocean to Point Pleasant and then partially breaks up into a narrow inter- rupted fringe between the Pine Barrens and the salt marsh, and even appear on the large islands—e. g., near Barnegat City, on seven-mile beach, five-mile beach, etc. Islands of this region occur also in the Pine Barrens, especially along the edges, and the boundaries here are difficult to establish. This Delaware Valley region contains the best agricultural land in the State, and most of it is under cultivation. It is level or slightly rolling and has a rich diversified flora and insect fauna. Nearly the whole region has been thoroughly collected over and its peculiarities are well known. The Pine Barrens occupy the area between the coastal strip on the east and the Delaware River region on the west, and alto- gether contain a greater area than any one other faunal region in the State. There are no natural boundaries to the north or west, and it simply merges into the Delaware Valley in an irregular manner, sending out spurs and islands of all sizes and forms. A singular detached island extends along the southern shore of 30 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. the Raritan River, and from South Amboy to Jamesburg, form- ing an excellent collecting ground. The term “barrens” applied to this area is, in a way, a mis- nomer. ‘There are many desolate stretches of pines and scrub oaks on a level sandy soil, but, on the other hand, there are hundreds of acres of excellent truck lands, and for small fruits there is no better section in the State. Pines and scrub oaks are, however, the dominant trees, and the country is level or but slightly rolling, the soil more or less sandy. ‘There are acres of cedar, sphagnum and other swamps in this region, and many of these have been turned into profitable cranberry bogs. ‘There is a great diversity of conditions in this area and, in consequence, the insect fauna is extremely rich. The species on the whole resemble those of more southern States, and Georgian or even the Floridian forms are not uncommonly met with, and yet the only trace of real boreal species has been found in the deep cold swamps of Ocean County. ‘This area has been thoroughly ex- plored by the Philadelphia collectors and certain parts of it by the New York collectors as well, so that its insects are tolerably well known. The Coastal strip includes the marshlands lying between the bars fringing the coast and the mainland, and also those along the Delaware Bay and the rivers extending. inland through the marshes. ‘The insect fauna is scant, but some very characteristic species occur. The strictly maritime region extends along the coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May, and is confined to the beach and the sand hills immediately back of it. It is not rich in species and the fauna is fairly well known. The map which accompanies this report shows these regions as accurately as is at present possible. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. ax CHAD TER IV: BENEFITS AND INJURIES CAUSED BY INSECTS. It is universally understood that insects cause greater or less injury each year to farm crops, and that injury has been con- servatively estimated as averaging 20 per cent. of the total value. For the year 1908 this meant a loss to the United States at large of $1,500,000,000, an almost incredible sum! In the State of New Jersey the 20 per cent. depreciation in value is fully maintained when all the crops are jointly considered, and it means an annual loss to the State running well into the mil- lions. Much of this loss is avoidable and much of it is avoided by progressive agriculturists and horticulturists, leaving most of the burden where it justly belongs—the ignorant, careless or in- different farmer. But it is fair to present, on the other hand, the fact that with- out insects many kinds of crops could not be raised at all, and it is a serious question whether, if benefit and loss could be bal- anced, the benefit would not far outweigh the injury. It is as pollenizers that insects are chiefly beneficial, aside from _bee- products, and many of our fruit and forage plants are largely or altogether dependent upon them for bountiful crops. Red- clover seed depends upon bumble-bees entirely; small fruits like strawberries, raspberries, &c., would be only a scant set without the flies and bees that visit the flowers, and many of our tree fruits are similarly served. Cucurbs, including citrons, melons, squashes and the like, need bees of definite species for best results, and there are few cultivated plants on which some insects are not of some benefit. Not only plant life is affected; indeed, almost all farm and other animals have insect parasites of some kind, internal or external, and here there is little to be said in favor of insects. To be sure, many of them are scavengers, removing animal and other decay, and thus they are indirectly beneficial, but the bene- fits so derived are in no proportion to the injury caused by the direct attack. Every dairyman knows that when cattle have to 32 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. fight flies or other pests they fall off in milk, and every farmer that ever sold a hide knows that bot holes lessen its value. Even man does not escape attack, and has parasites as specific- ally dependent upon him as has any other animal. But it is not only the direct attack that is annoying, unpleasant or dangerous. Some of the most common of our pests act as carriers or inter- mediate hosts for serious diseases. It is bad enough to be bitten by a mosquito, but if that mosquito inoculates its victim with the. germs of malaria, yellow fever or other pernicious trouble, the matter becomes much more serious. ‘To be bitten by a flea is no great matter in itself, but if the flea came from a plague-infested rat, it is quite another matter. It has been definitely demonstrated that a considerable number of febrile diseases depend for their transmission altogether upon certain kinds of insects, and that if these insects were eliminated, the diseases would disappear. Ordinary house flies are about the most abundant of all our usual pests, and besides the annoyance they cause they are capa- ble of carrying and often do carry the organisms that cause typhoid fever, and other enteric diseases, consumption, diph- theria and several other equally dangerous ailments. We must not, therefore consider these small creatures as insignificant or unworthy of study and attention. They are more dangerous and less easily controlled than the large predatory animals of the field and jungle. A campaign against flies and mosquitoes looks un- worthy of a comparatively huge animal like man; but the com- bat 1s not so unequal and the victims of insect-borne diseases run into the thousands each month. Large areas of Africa have been depopulated by the sleeping sickness, borne by a T'setse fly, and a similar fly makes the keeping of horses an impossibility in other portions of the same continent. The fight against insects is not confined to the farmer and fruit grower, nor is he the only one that suffers from their depre- dations. The community at large is as much on the defensive; but it is only recently that this fact has been appreciated by our sanitary and medical authorities. As the agriculturist has learned to control those insects that oppress him and to lessen to the vanishing point their tax upon him, so it is quite possible to ma- terially lessen if not to altogether eliminate the fly, mosquito and other pests that prey upon humanity at large. Part II—Systematic List. Order THYSANURA. This order contains the “spring-tails” and “bristle-tails,’ which are small or minute, soft-bodied creatures without wings and no obvious transformations. The mouth parts are feebly developed, without obvious mandibles, and they are, as a rule, feeders upon the products of decay, though some of the larger forms are able to attack dry and hard sub- stances by scraping we surface. They are ; y among the most primitive of existing insects, \, f a few of them closely resembling the early 4 stages of “Myriapods,” while in others the tracheal system is so feebly developed that respiration seems a function of the entire skin surface. Such insects can live in moist places only, and die as soon as they are ex- % £ posed to drying out. : ig In this order Mr. R. P. Dow has kindly fur- NK / nished the list, including such species as are so generally distributed that their occur- rence in New Jersey is practically certain. There have been no actual collections. Sub-order CINURA. The long anal appendages which give these insects the name “bristle tails’ are many-jointed and extend straight out. None of the species are jumpers. LEPISMA Linn. L. saccharina Linn. Occurs in households all over the world and generally in cel: lars or damp places. Is fond of moist sugar, and will feed also on starchy materials. > L. quadriseriata Pack. Similar in habit to he pr in i i , ; the preceding, but a native insect, more Bie eS iive Guha Meniemarep.: common southwardly. very much enlarged. 3 IN (33) 34 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. THERMOBIA Bergr. T. domestica Pack. The common “silver-fish” or “fish moth” found every- where in houses, and usually in dry places around kitchen stoves, in pantries, and even in dusty drawers. Feeds on starchy material, and sometimes gnaws the bindings of books. All these species are economically harmless. SCOLOPENDRELLA Gerv. S. gratis Ryder. In damp places, under leaves and mold; resembles a minute larval centipede. CAMPODEA Westw. C. americana Pack. Common everywhere in woods, under stones and leaves. MACHILIS Latr. M. variabilis Say. Generally distributed in the Atlantic States. Sub-order COLLEMBOLA. Much more abundant in species and specimens, and all small or very small. They are distinguished by a pair of short anal spines or “furcula,” which are turned under the body and form a spring or leaping organ, which gives them the common name “spring-tails.”” Most of the species are feeders on vegetable decay, and they occur literally in thousands on manure beds, in toad-stools, on stored fermenting vegetables, in cellars and generally in damp places. A few species occur on living, healthy plants, but not in such a way as to prove injurious. The insects are very light, and after a heavy rain thousands may be seen hopping about on the surface of the pools formed in low meadows. I have seen millions on the water covering a cranberry bog reflowed late in May or early June. SMYNTHURUS Latr. . arvalis Fitch. This and the four next following species are found on garden plants and are locally common. . elegans Fitch. With the preceding. . hortensis Fitch. Common on grasses. . quadrimaculatus Ryder. Locally common. . clavatus Banks. Under rotten bark, Sea Cliff, Long Island. Fig. 2.—Podurid SOK: : 3 with spring S. macgillivrayi Banks. Long Island, on weeds, in May. extended. P. Pp: Pe P. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 35 PAPIRIUS Lubbock. marmoratus Pack. Found on Long Island; probable in New Jersey. novee-boracencis Fitch. Under boards and rubbish. unicolor Harv. On fungi, Maine to Ohio. purpurascens MacGill. Long Island and probably New Jerey. The number of species occurring in New Jersey will prove greater than this list shows. The material already in hand indicates this, but unfor- tunately it has not been worked up. O. Ue A. A. A. ORCHESELLA Templ. flavopicta Pack. Long Island to Tennessee. TOMOCERUS Nicolet. plumbeus Linn. . New Jersey is within the faunal region indicated by MacGillivray for this species. SEIRA Lubbock. . buskii Lubb. A common European species which Professor Folsom regards as a recent .mportation to the eastern United States. LEPIDOCYRTUS Bourlet. albus Pack. Recorded from Maine to Tennessee. marmoratus Pack. Massachusetts and probably New Jersey. . metallicus Pack. Maine to Tennessee. . pusillus Linn. Another European species; but there is room for doubt as to the correctness of the identification. ENTOMOBRYA Rond. . fasciata Say. Recorded from Maine to Florida. : griseo-olivata Pack. Described from New York. . purpurascens Pack. Recorded from Maine to Tennessee. ISOTOMA Bourlet. - albella Pack. Maine, New York and probably New Jersey. . fimetaria Linn. Throughout Europe and the United States. . glauca Pack. Recorded from “Massachusetts to Ohio.” . hivalis Pack. New Jersey specimens taken are probably this species. . plumbea Pack. Long Island and probably New Jersey. . quadri-oculata Tullb. A green-house species, imported from Europe. ACHORUTES Templ. boletivorus Pack. Occurs from Maine to District of Columbia. nivicola Fitch. The “snow-flea,’’ found very early in the year on snow banks. pratorum Pack. Described from “New York.” 36 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PODURA Linn. P. aquatica Linn. Europe and: the United States generally; equally at home on land and water. LIPURA Burm. L. ambulans Linn. New York to District of Columbia. L. fimetaria Linn. A common European species, which has been taken in Massa- Fig. 3.—Podurid, commonly found chusetts and Ohio. on manure beds; spring not visible because curved beneath body. ANURIDA Laboul. A. maritima Guer. Common throughout Europe and the Hastern United States. ANOURA Gervais. A. gibbosa Pack. Recorded from Maine to New York. New Jersey is probably within its range. A. granari Nicol. Another European species which has been found as far west as Ohio, and probably cccurs in New Jersey. F Order EPHEMERIDA. The members of this order are popularly known as ‘“‘May flies” because of the time of their greatest abundance, or “day flies” because of their short life in the adult stage. The ordinal term here used is based upon this same peculiarity in their life cycle. The adults have two pairs of wings, very closely net-veined, frail in texture, and the anterior much larger than the posterior. - The head is large, set on a distinct neck, the mouth parts are aborted, the eyes prominent and the antenne very short. The body is loosely jointed and the abdomen has long anal filaments, varying from three to five in number. The insects are attracted to light and on favorable evenings in early summer often come in swarms to the electric lights in cities or towns on lake or river banks. The early stages are passed in the water, the larve feeding in the mud and ooze, some- times for a considerable number of years, before they attain maturity. There are many interesting and peculiar structures in this, perhaps the most ancient of the existing types of insects, and the enormous numbers of individuals that still occur, even though the number of species is limited, indi- cates the richness in organic life of the bottoms in which they feed. They are not of economic importance from any point of view. POLYMITARCYS Eaton. P. albus Say. New Brunswick in July. HEXAGENIA Walsh. H. bilineata Say. Caldwell (Cr); New Bruns- wick (Coll); Westville VI, Riverton VII, (Jn). H. limbata Pict. Echo Lake, Passaic Co. VII, 2, Normannock VII (Ds). Fig. 4—An adult May-fly. EPHEMERA Linn. E. decora Wlk. Caldwell, common (Cr). LEPTOPHLEBIA Westw. L. cupida Say. (Blasturus) Great Piece Meadows IV, 10-28, very com- mon (Gr); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee V, 1, Staten Island IV, 17, 27 (Ds); Jamesburg, Trenton IV, 30, Lahaway IV, 1 (Coll); Westville IV, 9 (Jn). (37) 38 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. L. mollis Eaton. Recorded from New Hampshire to North Carolina. L. nebulosus Wlk. (Blasturus) Caldwell (Cr). L. preepedita Eaton. Riverton V (Jn). HADROPHLEBIA Eaton. H. americana Banks. Passaic (Berry); the type locality. EPHEMERELLA Walsh. E. excrucians Walsh. Lake Hopatcong VII, 7, New Brunswick (Coll). CAENIS Steph. C. diminutiva Wlk. Occurs from New York to Florida. C. hilaris Say. Riverton VII (Jn). BAZTIS Leach. B. propinquus Walsh. Delaware Water Gap VII (Jn). B. unicolor Hagen. New York to District Columbia. CLEON Leach. C. vicina Hagen. Caldwell, common (Cr). CALLIBAETIS Eaton. C. americanus Banks. Staten Island (Ds). . ferrugineous Walsh. Ranges from Canada to the Southern States. C. undatus Pict. (Cleon) New York to Cuba. 7) BAETISCA Walsh. B. obesa Say. Caldwell, not rare (Cr). HEPTAGENIA Walsh. . canadensis Wlk. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick (Coll). . flaveola Pict. (Betis) New Brunswick VIII, 1 (Coll). . fusca Wlk. Caldwell, not rare (Cr). ; :.maculipennis Walsh. New Brunswick V, 22, VII, 10 (Coll). interpunctata Say. Riverton VII (Jn). . pulchella Walsh. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn). . simplex Walsh. New Brunswick VII, 24 (Coll). . terminata Walsh. Princeton VI, 11 (Coll). . verticis Say. Ranges from Canada to Georgia. ae es rag cs es Oe cele ps sagt . vVicaria Say.” Recorded from Canada to Georgia. Order PLECOPTERA. The “Stone flies’ which constitute this order are loose-jointed, flat- tened, soft-bodied creatures with long net-veined wings, the hind pair longitudinally folded beneath the anterior. The head is large, the mouth parts are soft, antenne long and tapering, eyes rather prominent. The prothorax is free and quadrate, the other segments loosely jointed. The abdomen is soft and usually with anal filaments or processes. These “flies” are found along the streams and rivers in which their larve occur, resting on the leaves and not easily disturbed; their flight is heavy and they do no feeding upon living plants so far as known. The larve live in streams under stones to which they cling so closely that, being very much flattened they are easily overlooked. They breathe by means of lateral gill tufts which occur also on the head, and which, in some species, persist even in the adult stage; a curious reminder of ancient conditions and an indication of the primitive character of this order! The pupe are active and the transformation is incomplete. They form an important feature of the aquatic fauna in numbers of individuals as well as of species, but are of no economic importance. Since the previous edition quite a number of genera and species have been taken, practically all of which have been determined by Mr. Banks. Fig. 5.—A stone-fly and its larva. Family PERLID/. PTERONARCYS Newn. P. nobilis Hagen. New York to Tennessee. P. regalis Newn. Philadelphia, and certainly occurs in New Jersey. (39) 40 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ACRONEURIA Pict. A. abnormis Newn. Newfoundland VI (Ds); Philadelphia. A. arenosa Pict. (arida Hag.) Warren County VIII, 13, Orange Mts. (Coll). ISOGENUS Newn. l. frontalis Newn. Canada to New York and west to Ohio, so should occur in New Jersey. PERLA Geoff. . annulipes Hagen. Eastern States to District of Columbia. . ephyre Newn. New York to Georgia. placida Hagen. Riverton VII (Jn). . postica Wlk. New York to Georgia. . similis Hagen. Pennsylvania and Maryland. . tristis Hagen. Del. Water Gap VII, 3, 12 (div). . xanthenes Newn. Eastern States, generally. a av veaoee Fao Ge llara PERLESTA Banks. P. virginica Banks. (Chloroperla) Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll). NEOPERLA Need. (PSEUDOPERLA Banks). N. occipitalis Pict. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, So. Jersey, New Brunswick IX, 19 (Coli). ISOPERLA Banks. ]. transmarina Newn. Del. Water Gap (Slosson); Barnegat Bay dist. VII, 14 (Coll). ALLOPERLA Banks. A. maculata Pict. (Chloroperla) Philadelphia, and sure to occur in New Jersey. CHLOROPERLA Newn. C. cydippe Newn. (lsopteryx) New York to Chicago. TAENIOPTERYX Pict. T. maura Pict. Common along the Passaic at Paterson III, 19; IV, 23 (Gr). RHABDIOPTERYX Klap. R. fasciata Burm. (Tzeniopteryx) Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island IV (Ds); “New Jersey” 2 specimens in collection without definite locality. THE INSECTS OF NRW JERSEY. AI NEMOURA Pict. . albidipennis Wlk. Canada to Virginia. . similis Hag. (Tzeniopteryx) Caldwell (Cr). LEUCTRA Pict. . ferruginea Wlk. Lahaway VI, 7 (Coll). . tenuis Pict. Taken at Philadelphia. CAPNIA Pict. . necydaloides Pict. Staten Island III (Ds); in March on tree trunks or under bark (Bno). - pygmea Burm. New York and Pennsylvania and surely to be found in New Jersey. | “een a re tend , naar in ioctl aia iki > Lavender (1 Atwhia’s sale inter) ‘ 4 lA AY aie co iF 9 5 i ) . ae | aie uP a Ltt be PBA i - Uy be 2 7 el ew ms he ne] ‘bare (qh meh ‘or 5 ‘Ve : ' wb f(A eee ; “baa Figs "i? i ‘ . _ : Part , io et hee ra ay ah i be. F ® ; ; ie h " e ; fc ; m ws ‘ is te A ’ § Re ie Ok \ 7 ¢ - i Fs as Vee ; Ly : > ie al ere Maine 29 * Vee Paarainoh “lige nuts ‘Wi (ap ok, aie er hats pe Ue eo: Tere Dyes, “a Te poli tote 7 ik. ar ‘ i r , Su ‘tk Ae Aide 1 rT)! ee is am. Order MALLOPHAGA. This order contains the “biting lice,’ infesting warm-blooded animals generally, but so commonly found on birds that the term “bird-lice” has come to be generally used for them. They do not suck blood, the mouth parts being formed for biting only, but live among the hair and feathers of their hosts, subsisting upon what they can scrape from the surface. While they do not actually puncture the skin or feed on living tissue, they gnaw the soft material at the base of hair and feathers, eat the particles of dry scurf, the clotted blood at the edge of a scratch or other wound, and create a more or less constant irritation, which is likely to result in a loss of hair or plumage and a consequent mangy appearance. I have seen ill kept dairy cattle with patches bare of hair from this cause. In shape these parasites are flattened, elongate oval, with a large obtuse head, and often bulging eye prominences. The eggs are attached to hair or feathers, and the young resemble the adults in general appearance, there being no obvious transformations. Practically all birds, wild as well as domesticated, are infested, and in this list Prof. Herbert Osborn, _of the Ohio State University, who has been good enough to aid me in its preparation, has indicated all the species whose host is known to occur in New Jersey; for where the host occurs the parasite is almost sure to be found when sought. The list as it stands contains just one hundred species. It is probable that a few of these will never be found, either because the birds them- selves are very occasional visitors, e. g., the Pelicans, or because the distri- bution of the parasite is really a very limited one. On the other hand, only a small proportion of our wild birds have been closely examined, and it is at least probable that a large percentage of those from which no parasites are yet reported will be found to be infested. So I believe that the list will be increased rather than lessened as the result of future work. Remedial measures for domesticated birds are plenty of dust, with which they may thoroughly powder themselves, and the free use of white- wash and crude petroleum in chicken and other fowl-houses. Horses and cattle may be thoroughly brushed occasionaly with a stiff brush dipped from time to time in crude petroleum. Kerosene must not be used, because it is likely to take out the hair. Where its application is convenient on small birds, carbolated vaseline can be employed to good advantage. On other animals carbolated soaps,, miscible oils and other materials of that character may be used, and, in general, the amount of success is in pro- portion to the determination and persistence of the person making the application. Family PHILOPTERIDAS. The antenne are filiform, five-jointed, exposed; the tarsi have two claws, and all the species are parasitic on birds. (43) s) 0 0 Og wsO. Oop io ooo uo Op 2 7 44 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DOCOPHORUS Nitzsch. . lari Denny. Found on several species of gulls occurring along the Jersey shore and bays. . melanocephalus Burm. Occurs on gulls and terns of various species in North and South America and Europe. . icterodes Nitzsch. Common on ducks and geese, domesticated and wild. . cygni Denny. The little red swan louse; common throughout Europe and eastern North America. . fusiformis Denny. Occurs on the Sandpipers; “Tringa”’ sp. . testudinarius Denny. Taken on Bartrams Sandpiper; also known as “Upland,” “Field” or “Grass” Plover. . platystomus Nitzsch. Infests hawks and eagles generally. . buteonis Pack. Found on the red-shouldered hawk and on one of the king-birds, ““Tyrannus atra.” . halieti Osb. Found on the bald eagle. . cursor Nitzsch. Occurs on owls of various kinds. . bubonis Osb. Infests the great horned owl. ceblebrachys Nitzsch. Parasitic on the snowy owl. coccygi Osb. Taken from the yellow-billed cuckoo. . superciliosus Nitzsch. Infests the hairy woodpecker. . fusco-ventralis Osb. Occurs on the wood pewee. . corvi Osb. Makes life miserable for the common crow. transpositus Kellogg. Found on the cowbird. agelaii Osb. Infests the red-winged blackbird. . quiscali Osb. A parasite of the crow blackbird. . compar Piaget. On the American or red cross-bill. communis Nitzsch. A general parasite on larks, blackbirds and many other Passerines. NIRMUS Nitzsch. . lineolatus Nitzsch. Taken on various gulls in Europe and America. . furvus Nitzsch. Occurs on “Phalaropus,’ and also recorded from Plovers. . piceus Nitzsch. On the American Avocet or “Blue-stocking.”’ - Signatus Piaget. A companion of the preceding on the same hosts. . cordatus Osb. Recorded from the Hudsonian Godwit or ring-tailed Marlin. . orarius Kellogg. A parasite of the Golden Plover. . boephilus Kellogg. Infests the ‘“Killdeer.” . abruptus Osb. Infests the common “Bob White.” > le Ae ier ZO 2 A ae 2 2 ee ee Fig. 6.—Turkey-louse, Goniodes ee lee eet pe eee eee ie THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 45. fuscus Nitzsch. A common parasite of eagles, hawks and falcons. discocephalus Nitzsch. Another parasite of the bald eagle. . fenestratus Nitzsch. Infests the black-billed cuckoo. . candidus Nitzsch. Parasitic on the hairy and red-bellied woodpecker and on the ‘Flicker’ . tyrannus Osb. Infests kingbirds. . rotundatus Osb. Parasitic on the common crow. secondarius Osb. With the preceding on the same host. . ornatissimus Giebel. On the red-winged blackbird. . illustris Kellogg. With the preceding on the same host. . picturatus Osborn. A parasite of the meadow lark. cyclothorax Nitzsch. Infests the English sparrow. pallidus Osb. From the rose-breasted grossbeak. . gracilis Nitzsch. A parasite of the Purple Martin. . brachythorax Giebel. Found on cedar-bird and other wax-wings. . orpheus Osb. A parasite of the catbird. . simplex Kellogg. Infests the robin. LIPEURUS Nitzsch. L. longicornis Piaget. Occurs on the double- crested Cormorant. L. forficulatus Nitzsch. Found on Pelicans. Two species of Pelicans are listed as occurring in New Jersey, and specimens of one of the species are in the State Museum; but they are rare visitors, and it is stretching matters a little to record this as a New Jersey insect. L. bifasciatus Piaget. The same remarks apply to this species. L. sqgualidus Nitzsch. The common duck- stylifer. louse; occurs on both wild and domesti- eated forms. . jejunus Nitzsch. Found on geese; wild and domesticated. . leucopygas Nitzsch. Occurs on Herons and Bitterns. . botauri Osb. On the American Bittern or marsh hen. luridus Nitzsch. Infests the American Coot or mud hen. . picturatus Kellogg. Occurs with the preceding. . infuscatus Osb. Found on woodcock and upland plover. — . dissimilis Piaget. Another parasite of the “Bob White.” . polytrapezius Nitzsch. The turkey louse. . Variabilis Nitzsch. Common on domestic fowls. . heterographus Nitzsch. Occurs with the preceding. . baculus Nitzsch. Found on domestic pigeons. 46 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ORNITHOBIUS Denny. O. goniopleurus Denny. Infests the Canada goose. O. cygni Linn. The white swan louse. ONCOPHORUS Rudow. O. minutus Nitzsch. On the American Coot or mud hen. GONIOCOTES Burm. G. compar Nitzsch. Another pigeon parasite. GONIODES Nitzsch. . dispar Nitzsch. A parasite of quail. G G. stylifer Nitzsch. Another turkey louse. G. damicornis Nitzsch. Infests the common pigeon. G . falcicornis Nitzsch. Common on pea-fowl. Family TRICHODECTIDA:. Like the preceding family, but the antenne are 3-jointed, the tarsi have only one claw, and all the species infest mammals. TRICHODECTES Nitzsch. T. scalaris Nitzsch. Common on domestic cattle. T. parumpilosus Piaget. Biting louse of the horse. . 8.—Dog-louse (a) and sheep-louse (b), Trichodectes latus and spherocephalus. climax Nitzsch. Infests the domestic goat. sphzrocephalus Nitzsch. Found on _ do- mestic sheep. subrostratus Nitzsch. Infests the house cat. Fig. 7.—Cow-louse, Trichodectes scalaris. ‘T. retusus Nitzsch. Recorded from weasel. ‘T. mephitidis Osb. Occurs on the common skunk. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 47 Family LIOTHEIDZ. The antenne are 4-jointed, with an enlarged club at tip, concealed; tarsi with two claws, and all the species infesting birds. vU O00: O-O°O = ee ae ee ee oe PHYSOSTOMUM Nitzsch. . lineatum Osb. Infests the ruby-throated humming bird. » angulatum Kellogg. On the king bird or “bee Martin.” . frenatum Nitzsch. Taken in New Jersey from the golden-crowned Kinglet. TRINOTON Nitzsch. . luridum Nitzsch. Another of the duck parasites. . lituratum Nitzsch. Found on wild ducks and geese. NITZSCHIA Denny. . pulicaris Nitzsch. Louse of the chimney swallow. COLPOCEPHALUM Nitzsch. . lari Pack. Found on the great black-backed gull. . fuscipes Piaget. Also a parasite of gulls. . ochraceum Nitzsch. Found on the pectoral sandpiper. flavescens Nitzsch. Louse of the swallow-tailed kite. . subpachygaster Piaget. Infests the great horned owl. . pustulosum Piaget. Parasite on the belted king-fisher. MENOPON Nitzsch. . tridens Nitzsch. Yet another parasite of the mud hen; probably in- festing also other allied birds. . consanguineum Piaget. A third species found on pelicans, and prob- ably not a good Jerseyite. . crocatum Nitzsch. Taken on American woodcock and ring-tailed Mar- lin. : pallescens Nitzsch. Yet another parasite of the Bob White. : pallidum Nitzsch. Also found on the domestic fowl. . biseriatim Piaget. Occurs with the preceding. . interruptus Osb. Parasitic on the common crow. . expansum Osb. Infests the bobolink. - crassipes Piaget. Found on the Baltimore Oriole. . dissimile Kellogg. Found on the purple Martin. . rusticum Giebel. A companion of the preceding on the same host. 48 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family GYROPID/. Similar to the preceding; but the tarsi have only a single claw and the species occur on mammals only. GYROPUS Nitzsch. G. ovalis Nitzsch. Occurs on the Guinea pig. G. gracilis Nitzsch. Occurs with the preceding. Of course, these species are not really natives of the State, but the host animals are some- times raised as pets and for other purposes and the parasites follow them, as do those of other domesticated animals. Order ISOPTERA. This order is characterized by having a flattened, loose-jointed body, the wings similar in size and shape, net veined, the metamorphoses in- complete. Only a single representative species occurs in New Jersey, the Termite, commonly known as a “white ant.” These “white ants” live in colonies in dead or decaying stumps, logs or _ standing trunks or under stones in woodland. The forms most commonly seen are the “workers,” which are whitish in color, have a large head without eyes, moderately de- veloped jaws, a soft, some- what flattened oval body, and are about one-quarter of an inch long. Scattered among them are somewhat larger individuals with long, sharp- pointed, brown-tipped mandi- . bles, and these are the sol- Fig. 9.—Termes flavipes or ‘‘white ant,” showing qdjers whose function it is to the castes: a, larva; b, winged female; c, defend the colony. In the worker; d, soldier; e, large female; f, z pupa. Natural size marked by lines. spring, yet larger, chestnut- brown forms with eyes and developed wings are found, and these are the males and females which “swarm” in May or June, coming out of the nests in immense numbers and fluttering feebly in the bright sunshine for a short period. They do not attack growing vegetation in our State, but are often found in partly decayed trees and may hasten the death of such. Some- times they get into the woodwork of fences and buildings, and may then do considerably injury. Remedial measures must be adapted to the case in hand and may mean the injection of carbon disulphide, soaking with creosote or the actual removal of the infested wood. In all cases an effort should be made to locate and destroy the central nest from which the specimens come. Our species is listed as follows: Family TERMITIDA. TERMES Linn. T. flavipes Koll. Found commonly throughout the State. 4 IN (49) moe. aoasoua A hy i : be ’ ‘ 4 BAREAAT RaaHt totic ks tn Shite: Rae ore WAP Caron Hier: five WHA aan wenote had Alia we ON AN in “yt pee ie Pi reves adit ee OT") ae Aa? yp 8G. rh ee , BUEL MOA). ant net cio ie “y hia ital hai wins : ib yids fetes iv i" 2 Ney re i Lee vey Oconto aay ‘ : Visite fi * : , alti’ r Rony, i = ne ; ‘de fit oj! Lar > ww 4) wird i if [ent , orn ow) Piadviw ise teil ees Pil ' 1H eT ey , oy } f ‘ wor be “) i vF ast — WAH! uM , ae thy if inay i : r -ireieyg th i i} - 7 | | » 4 4 on? ni re »: liatoh Slates, Naduyee “gh yee! b) ; o ; tT at Si? ee a” alg ’ { ! ) CA-CILIUS Curt. 8 . aurantiacus Hagen. United States, generally. . definitus Aaron. Philadelphia. impactus Aaron. Philadelphia. PERIPSOCUS Hagen. . madidus Hagen. Eastern States. . permadidus Walsh. Eastern States. MESOPSOCUS Kolbe. unipunctatus Miill. (Elipsocus) Northern States; New York. ELIPSOCUS Hagen. . canadensis Prov. Eastern States. . conterminus Walsh. Hastern States. . maculosus Aaron. Philadelphia. . pumilis Hagen. New York. POLYPSOCUS Hagen. . corruptus Hagen. Eastern States. MYOPSOCUS Hagen. M. lugens Hagen. Eastern States; Mass. to Dist. Col. = of) ae ae) 19) ay} “te ae) Qe qe) qe} ae) lao} ce) . Sparsus Hagen. (Psocus) Eastern States. PSOCUS Latr. . atratus Aaron. Philadelphia. . confraternus Banks. (contaminatus Hagen.) Eastern States. . inornatus Aaron. Philadelphia. . juvenilis Kolbe. Pennsylvania. This species with “moestus” and “variegatus” appeared as Amphigerontia in the previous edition. . leydyi Aaron. Eastern States. . moestus Hagen. Eastern States. . quietus Hagen. New York to Georgia. . semistriatus Walsh. Eastern States. . sexpunctatus Linn. Philadelphia. . Slossonz Banks. Eastern States. . Striatus Wlk. Eastern States. . Variabilis Aaron. Philadelphia. CERASTIPSOCUS Kolbe. . trifasciatus Prov. (Psocus) Eastern States. C. venosus Burm. (Psocus) Freehold (U S Ag), Egg Harbor City VIII, on cherry trunks. This or an allied species is frequently received as abundant on the bark of trees. It probably occurs throughout the State under suitable conditions. an oe re ry oe pera ts ¥ or py “ aA ae a ee ia uz dyiien pein Me Ni #4 tviida. La 1 " ; , ic ee . wae i. ek ky . fhe va sosaenieae di | ; MRM rain aor toner Mans Hiolantt hetero out . anlan ie aeilaese aiden! 9 Be el Cuca GI ihe an wig SU0ORIGiAi, asin? We | Nae ae WAT a} i” “4 44 reeying wring i ix niculo tay i (AC, # ene > radi . tf We at ere im ] , 7 Shean 1a 1 3 ist aay Bist t ‘ 4 +) a i AL Hie) na 0G cha tether (deka rialeo (audemt) my zx * « a _ a — — be = - ‘ Aa A ; +? eusIOeg ‘pie se a * 4a a ae 5 x... ee eRe TALS eee Pe - ify aaa : SHUR, Saelenl - Linigelh airtanivedieed) ’4. Aaa 7. BF so HO ayaa io te ‘ iM ie air PRS “haa * eer nite : * 01s , ar ‘ be ? ‘ 4 im ; a ee ve - ie ‘a : : ‘ Neat aes ae a ay oe fis | t | Order PLATYPTERA. This is an aggregation of loosely-jointed species, very few of which occur in our State. It is not numerous at best and, as represented with us, consists of rather large forms, the head as broad or broader than the square or oblong thorax, the mandibles large and sometimes prominent, antenne many-jointed and often pectinated in the male. The wings are large, net-veined, the posterior not much the larger and folded only once near the anal angle when at rest beneath the anterior pair which covers them. The early stages are passed in the water, under stones or among the vegetation at the bottom of running streams. The larve are rather long and flattened, usually blackish, and breathe by means of a series of gill-tufts. When full grown they crawl on shore, burrow into the soil, or an old stump, or under a stone and pupate; the transformations are com- plete. N Sty BE _ Sy Seo Sa So ae SSS : Far = =6 Es = eS 5 Ss Ae SE — SS (Oe Fig. 12.—Corydalis cornuta: a, larva, ‘“‘hellgramite’ or ‘‘dobson’’; b, pupa; c, male adult; d, head of female, showing the comparatively small jaws; natural size. (55) 56 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. The species belonging here are of no economic importance. The adults are known as “‘fish-flies,’’ and the larve of some of them make good bait for certain kinds of fish; otherwise they may be simply classed as “‘innoxious.” Cc. Cc. Cc. Cc. C. C. Family SIALIDA. CORYDALIS Latr. cornuta Linn. Throughout the State, but more common northwardly, late June to August. The larve are found under stones in running streams or brooks, and are known as ‘‘Dobsons” or ‘Hellgramites.” CHAULIODES Latr. angusticollis Hagen. Middlesex County VII, 10 (Coll). fasciatus Wlk. (lunatus Hagen.) Newfoundland VI, 6, So. Orange (Ds); Newark. pectinicornis Linn. Chester, Paterson, Springfield, Orange Mts., Pali- sades V, 30, New Brunswick, Trenton VI, 10, 28, Anglesea, VII, 12 (Coll); Summit (U S Ag); Short Hills (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island VII (Ds); seems to be the most common of our fish-flies. rastricornis Ramb. Staten Island VI, 6 (Ds); Anglesea VI, 25 (Coll). serricornis Say. Paterson VI, 6, New Brunswick, Mercer Co. VI, 10, Lakewood (Coll); Tuckerton VI, 14, common (Gr); Caldwell (Cr). Fig. 13.—FEarly stages of Corydalis cornuta; a, egg-mass on leaf; b, same, detached, from the under side—natural size; c, single eggs, enlarged; d, newly hatched larva, enlarged; with structural details yet further enlarged e to /. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 57 C. concolor Needh. Staten Island VII, 31, VIII, 4 (Ds). SIALIS Latr. S. infumata Newn. Lafayette V, 22, Greenwood Lake V, 30, Paterson VI, 6, New Brunswick VI, 1, Jamesburg VI, 16, Lahaway VI, 1, Atlantic County (Coll). S. americana Ramb. Recorded from New York to Georgia hie At ey es alt iy ony UCN Pie seine ; CRSA AE Aol th aN rai “nite c . heheh AT adele Ge ips sida AN te ny ate ¥ ibatiores td yen RAL AURIS Aes toes Ln 4 ports 488 | Cea hile Y at bas i ee ay ere ey Ay ae Sad teat al pc) VS 2 i ety yee ive ies ast adjandt Py ‘9 Teeny wet hie rath nq ain sn ivi RAT b= K Wa hae . i oH nine AY A) ; : Fad | f 19 vee me Ain i ny A Me " ( a nn i iy ae yaa f ye ith at, ea iz ney 10) Wine IM Hy We idl et ale UE, sincconpl aa a mt Ne a wig di heen ia aren in wn | ih ie OLA Order NEUROPTERA. In its original or Linnean scope this order included all the net or nerve-winged insects, hence was easy of definition. It is the most ancient of all the orders in this sense and the course of evolutionary divergence left its mark in the form of remnants, retaining the original wing type, but differing greatly in other respects. Recognizing its composite char- acter, the first attempt to divide it was upon the method of transforma- tion, and we had Pseudoneuroptera in which the metamorphoses were incomplete, and Neuroptera in which they were complete. This was un- satisfactory, because nothing in the adult indicated the character of its transformation and also because there were a number of transitional forms which were not easily classified. Hence the modern tendency to give each compact group ordinal rank, and that I consider the correct solution. There is as yet no entire agreement as to just where the lines of division should be made, and, while I have in general followed the classification in Mr. Nathan Banks’ Catalogue of 1907, I have adopted the ordinal divisions that were indicated by my own studies along the lines of the introduction to this work. The ordinal terms are in general those used by Prof. Comstock. As the order Neuroptera is limited here it contains insects that have a moderately compact thorax, the prothorax being well developed yet im- movably connected with the mesothorax whatever its size, and no dis: tinct neck between it and the head. There are four large net-veined wings which are not folded and are carried obliquely or roof-like when at rest. They are not densely hairy in any case, there is little or no dif- ference in texture between the two pairs and usually not much in size. All of them are terrestrial in all stages and all are predatory in character as larva, although in one case at least with a tendency to parasitism, and in all there is a complete metamorphosis. Several families occur in New Jersey, differing considerably in habits and appearance and most of them of small extent. The Mantispide have only two representatives—remarkable looking forms with long prothorax and immense clasping fore-legs, much resemb- ling the “Mantide” of the Orthoptera. The larve prey upon the eggs of spiders and are semi-parasitic, living in the egg-sac and becoming grub-like in form. The Hemerobiid# resemble the Chrysopide except that they are brown instead of green in color, and the larve, for their own protection, make sacs composed of the skins of their victims and dirt particles held to- gether by threads of. silk. The Chrysopide, termed “lace-wing” or “golden-eyed flies” as adults, and “aphis lions” as larve, are well represented with us and distinctly useful. The term ‘aphis lion’ refers to the habits of the larve which are spindle-shaped, a little flattened, with prominent, long mandibles which are grooved on the inner side. This larva grasps a plant-louse, punctures it and draws in its juices, the body being thrown away when exhausted. (59) 60 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM: The adults are green in color, the wings very transparent and delicate, justifying the term “lace-wing.”’ The eyes are hemispherical, prominent and gold-bronzed, which gives base to the other of the common names. They have a peculiar sickening ordor when handled, reminding one of an ill-kept urinal. The eggs of this, as well as the preceding family, are laid on long stalks by the adult and the larva spins a spherical silken cocoon. The species are decidedly beneficial and sufficiently numerous to be accounted a notable check to plant-lice increase. The Coniopterygide are scarcely more abundant than the Mantispide. All those that I have seen are small, covered with a white mealy powder and have the hind wings unusually small. The larve, so far as their habits are known, feed on scale insects and resemble in form those of the “Chrysopide.” So far as they go, therefore, the insects are bene- ficial. ; The Myrmeleonide are “ant-lions’’ in the larval stage and very much larger as adults than any of the preceding. The larve are not so different in form and structure from those of the “‘Chrysopide,” but they differ altogether in habit by living underground or build- ing pits in sand or dry earth to serve as traps for the capture of such unwary insects as may tumble into them. They can scarcely be considered beneficial though, on the other hand they are certainly not injurious. The larve pupate in silken cocoons covered or mixed with sand grains. In the adults the antenne are short, terminated by a gradual club at tip. The Ascalaphid# are much larger insects, more hairy, with broad head and very long antenne terminated in an abrupt club. The larve are like those of the preceding families, but build no pits and the species are always rare. Fig. 14.— Ant-lion. Family MANTISPID/. MANTISPA III. M. brunnea Say. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Coll); Lakehurst V-IX (div); Da Costa (Dke); probably rare throughout South Jersey. M. interrupta Say. Lakehurst VII, 4-30 (div); Lahaway in June (Coll); Philadelphia. Family HEMEROBIIDA. LOMAMYIA Banks. L. flavicornis Wlk. (Berotha) Prospertown pea simie . pees IX, 22 (Coll); Lakehurst (Bno). line from side. POLYSTCECHOTES Burm. P. punctatus Fabr. Philadelphia: United States generally. P. vittatus Say. Recorded from New Jersey by Hagen. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 61 HEMEROBIUS Linn. H. humuli Linn. (castanea Fitch. —tutatrix Fitch.) New Brunswick, Princeton VI, 11, Anglesea IX, 4 (Coll); Staten Island VI (Ds). Fitch says it is everywhere common on chestnut, walnut and other trees. H. hyalinatus Fitch. New York on pine, May to July. H. conjunctus Fitch. (pinidumus Fitch.) Clementon VIII (Jn). H. stigmaterus Fitch. Staten Island (Ds); Riverton III (Jn). BORIOMYIA Banks. B. fidelis Banks. (Hemerobius) Riverton VII (Jn); Lakehurst (Bno). B. longifrons Wlk.—alternatus Fitch. (Hemerobius) New York, on pine and hemlock in June (Fitch). SYMPHEROBIUS Banks. S. amiculus Fitch. (Hemerobius) New York, on peach trees, V—X (Fitch). PSECTRA Hagen. P. diptera Burm. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll). MICROMUS Ramb. M. posticus Wlk. (insipidus Hagen.) Chester VIII, 11 (Coll); Westville VII, Riverton VII (Jn). Family CHRYSOPIDA® ALLOCHRYSA Banks. A. virginica Fitch. (Noto- chrysa) Staten Island Da ee Di Ns (( wees VIII (Ds). Fig. 16.—Lace-wing fly, Chrysopa sp., showing the CHRYSOPA Leach. stalked eggs from the side, the larva, the small round cocoon intact and with the lid C. albicornis Fitch. Riverton opened, and the adult with wings VIII, Burlington County of one side absent. VIII. C. chlorophana Burm. (latipennis Schneid.) Greenwood Lake V,_ 30, New Brunswick VI, 15 (Coll); Caldwell (Cr). C. harrisii Fitch. Staten Island X, 18, Lakehurst IX (Ds). . interrupta Schneid. (tabida Fitch.) The common species at New Brunswick whose larva feeds on the slugs of elm-leaf beetles and other soft-bodied insects on tree trunks, fences, ete. C. lineaticornis Fitch. New York and generally distributed. C. nigricornis Burm. Staten Island VIII, 9 (Ds); New Brunswick VI, 6 (Coll). . 62 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. oculata Say. (lIllepida Fitch.) Throughout the State VII-IX, and probably our most common species. C. plorabunda Fitch. Chester, Anglesea IX, 6 (Coll). C. quadripunctata Burm. (sulphurea Fitch.) Staten Island IX (Ds); New Jersey (Banks); probably throughout the State. C. rufilabris Burm. Staten Island IX, ee ae ee A aa 11 (Ds); New Brunswick IX, 18 when ties i Lee fe (Coll). C. ypsilon Fitch. New Brunswick IX (Coll). Family CONIOPTERYGIDA. CONIOPTERYX Curt. C. vicina Hagen. Lakehurst (Bno). MALACOMYZA Wesm. M. westwoodii Fitch. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll); South Jersey on oak VII (Sm); Lakehurst (Bno). Family MYRMELEONIDA. ACANTHACLISIS Ramb. A. americana Dru. Sandy Hook VIII, IX rare ===2 (Bt); Anglesea VIII, = 1, one specimen (Coll). MYRMELEON Linn. = M. crudelis Wlk. (rusti- ———— cus Hagen.) Staten 1-H aL —— land VII, Lakehurst a —— VII (Ds); Lahaway 2] VI, 28, VII, 3 (Brake- j ley). Fig. 18.—Section through the pit of ant-lion, showing the insect in position at the bottom. PSAMMOLEON Banks. P. guttipes Banks. Lakehurst IX (Engelhardt). GLENURUS Hagen. G. gratus Say. (Dendroleon) Taken at Philadelphia, and certain to occur in New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 63 DENDROLEON Brauer. . obsoletum Say. New Brunswick VII, 24; Jamesburg VII, 21 (Coll); Lahaway VII, 4, IX 20 (Brakeley). . pumilis Burm. (Brachynemurus) Staten Island, a small species and usually rare (Ds). BRACHYNEMURUS Hagen. . abdominalis Say. Staten Island VI-IX, Lakehurst VI, VII (Ds); New Brunswick VII, 23, common, Jamesburg VII, 21, Anglesea VII, 12, IX, 4 (Coll); Shark River VII, 9, (Jn); Lahaway VI, 28, VIII, i7 (Brakeley). Fig. 19.—Myrmeleon sp. Winged adult. CRYPTOLEON Banks. . nebulosum Oliv. —conspersa Ramb. (Maracanda) Jamesburg VI, Lakehurst VI, VII (Ds); Lahaway VII, 8-18 (Brakeley). . signata Hagen. Almost certain to occur in New Jersey. Family ASCALAPHID/. NEUROPTYNX McCl. . appendiculatus Fab. Lakehurst VII (Ds); DaCosta VII, 16 (Dke). ULULODES Currie. . hyalina Latr. New Brunswick VII, 9, Anglesea IX, occasional at light (Coll). . 4-punctata Burm. Staten Island, Lakehurst VII (Ds); New SBruns- wick VIII, 3, Anglesea (Coll); Belmar VII, 9 (Jn). COLOBOPTERUS Burm. . excisus Hagen. Belmar VII, one specimen (Jn). ou preter mi ria iit: y oan | ner ACHACARS wits % he ee re ate ithe lca entre Arwen Mar Rca OA Ai i eA AOA TEL GE, FEN) Oe oie Ne } vs i te 4! (6 ena tii phe st besatie gee hance \ ; Ph i vi i r fi; i a ¥ tye ‘ ; Mi gual} 4 } “i cha _ peri rate eae Mas ail pera l ee aghaltt, Bie: Norn i (leicht Ly, yt vetane in mB Ji perdeoarpahe tt etna, ag teil ay) b. | Yee AS . aren). ' ' (ly aD SaMesy ‘va Ri yy i ' \ , a " | * i a " it ; « we ehenual han iv e 0 i i j » : ree, IT os To eit) —_ > ef seer a iad, fabmsarieth) Leia mae eagteny Sage iasieeey) See bee v VES AS oi hk @ , ottht, Ween Goode imc beeen itive RAWTIORU AM ‘ touth). bf 10 Hace sath Beye fieiiaaheak bait met 2 Pi HiHyiA AF bhi a: sa i ra Pipe tT Vie NEP i ee 9 41 a4 Dnaty Lisa an raed ug i ee RL Ee eee ‘i Pd eat " AW’ Pad it TLE a ty a ne i | Le aaa Aivud Aare i ’ ne . ee hye ner BA AML iain oht: Sa), peat WS ‘ ‘, 4 : re u , } Th f rn 4 i me ls 8 A % ne A by t ay ; ij , ; i a i vi i Pa f he mh " : ; i ihe rth . : ‘i het , : i Teh aed tig y An eke oid, ibe, - wt iy Va , 0 We las af ae Nk yy | EE ER Me ORM Mich Say a ie me Lr? an r Ria nan Ver “4 i Ht ‘ere Al { i fi or / if i" if ' ti < ' ) 1 i i b Ni il ) 7 \ i j i Order MECOPTERA. The “scorpion flies’ are a curious remnant of what I believe was the ancestral type from which the orders Hymenoptera and Diptera were developed. They have narrow, net-veined wings, the cross-veins rather few in number, laid flat across the back when at rest. The mouth parts are mandibulate and set at the end of a proportionately long beak, so that the order is readily recognizable. In the males of ““Panorpa” the abdomen is fur- nished with a curiously jointed forceps, curved upward so that it somewhat re- sembles the tail and sting of a scorpion, and that gives the order its common name. The flies are predatory, and feed on a variety of Fig. 20.—A male scorpion fly; small insects. Panorpa sp., somewhat enlarged. They are never common in my experience, but are not really rare, and in some locali- ties .are freely taken by collectors. The 3 species of “Boreus’ occur in late winter and very early spring, often on the surface of snow after a short period of mild weather. The larve are caterpillar-like in shape, have 8 pairs of fleshy pro-legs, live in damp ' : soil and are predatory in habit. Taken as Fis. greats. ee ak a whole, the order is of no economic im- portance, and none of the species are at any time injurious, directly or indirectly. PANORPA Linn. P. confusa Westw. Orange Mts., Lahaway, Anglesea VII, 20 (Coll). P. maculosus Hagen. Hopatcong VII, 6, Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Green- wood Lake V, 30, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); Ft. Lee Dist. IX, 9 (Bno). P. nebulosus Westw. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Staten Island VI (Ds). P. rufescens Ramb. (debilis Westw.) Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); Little Falls (Ds); Woodbury V, 28, Pitman Grove VIII, 4 (Acad). P. venosa Westw. Sparta VII (Ds). BOREUS Latr. B. brumalis Fitch. Staten Island XiI, 6 (Ds); on snow, New York, April. B. nivoriundus Fitch. New York, on snow, in early spring. 66 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BITTACUS Latr. B. apicalis Hagen. Eastern States generally. . occidentis Wlk. Pennsylvania and Hastern States generally. w B. strigosus Hagen. Common near Philadelphia (Haim). MEROPE Newn. M. tuber Newn. Atlantic States generally. Order TRICHOPTERA. The ‘‘caddice” or ‘‘case-flies” are so named from the fact that the larve make cases or tubes of stones, sticks or other fragments of vegetable, animal or mineral matter among which they live. They are aquatic, resemble caterpillars in shape, but have the thoracic legs very long, the others very short or obsolete, and the hind body soft because of the pro- tection afforded by the case. Usually they frequent running brooks, streams or ditches, but some live in water that is sluggish or almost stagnant. The adults have a free head with distinct neck, a compact thorax, an abdomen without anal appendages, and four net-veined wings, the posterior folded under and covered by the anterior. The antenne are usually very long, the fore-wings are narrower than the hind-wings, often a little thicker in texture and covered with a fine hair, which some- times becomes scale-like. The mouth parts are mandibulate in type, but are rarely well developed, and in many cases so nearly obsolete as to be entirely useless for feeding purposes. They have many resemblances to the Lepidoptera, and some of the species of either order may be readily taken for members of the other. It is believed that in the Trichoptera we have the direct ancestors of the Lepidoptera. Fig. 22.—Caddice-fly cases of varying types. Collections in this order are not much more complete than they were at the time of the previous edition, and comparatively few new species have been added. Some of the species added as probabilities have been veri- fied, and a very few of these have been omitted as unlikely to occur from better knowledge. (67 ) 68 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family PHRYGANEID/. PHRYGANEA Linn. P. interrupta Say. Caldwell (Cr); Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll); “New Jersey” is the type locality. P. vestita Wlk. Staten Island V (Ds). NEURONIA Leach. - angustipennis Hagen. Newark, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Coll). .» concatenata Wlk. Recorded from Canada to Florida. . dossuaria Say. Buena Vista VI (Jn). . ocellifera Wlk. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Orange Mts., Jamesburg, Anglesea VI, 10-21 (Coll). N. postica Wlk. Caldwell (Cr); Chester VII, 8, Palisades V, 30, Orange Mts., New Brunswick VI, Lahaway VI, 1, VII, 7 (Coll). N. semifasciata Say. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Bt). N. stygipes Hagen. Staten Island, Ft. Lee V (Ds); Paterson IV, 21, So. Orange IV, 18, Monmouth Jn. V, 9 (Coll). Fe eM eS Family LIMNEPHILIDA. LIMNEPHILUS Leach. L. submonilifer Wlk.—pudicus Hagen. (Goniataulius) Newark X, 30, New Brunswick, Prospertown VI, 1, Anglesea IV, 26 (Coll). Riverton. IV (Jn). PLATYCENTROPUS UIm. P. maculipennis Kolen. (hostis Hagen.) Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Manchester VI Fig. 23.—A caddice-fly, Limnephilus (Ds); Barnegat Bay Dist. Vi, 4, Laha- rhombicus; enlarged. way VI, 24 (Coll). HALESUS Steph. H. argus Harr. Staten Island VI (Ds). PYCNOPSYCHE Banks. P. guttifer Wlk. (Halesus) Occurs from Canada to Georgia; certain to be found in New Jersey. P. scabripennis Ramb. (Stenophylax) Lakehurst VIII, 23 IX (div). ALLOPHYLAX Banks. A. punctatissimus Wlk. Chester (Coll). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 69 PLATYPHYLAX McLach. P. lepida Hagen. Recorded from Pennsylvania and the N. E. States. P. subfasciata Hagen. Philadelphia and eastern States generally. CHILOSTIGMA McLach. C. difficilis Wlk. (Cryptothrix) Staten Island XI, XII (Ds); Lahaway XI, 9 (Coll). CHAZTOPTERYGOPSIS Stein. C. parvula Banks. (Oecetina) New Brunswick IX, 18. Fanuly REY ACOPHILID As, RHYACOPHILA Pict. R. terminata Banks. Delaware Water Gap (Slosson). R. torva Hagen. Delaware Water Gap VII (Jn). CHIMARRHA Leach. C. aterrima Hagen. Lafayette V, 23, Newark V, 12, Barnegat Bay Dist. VI, 14 (Coll). Family SERICOSTOMATID.. BRACHYCENTRUS Curt. wo . fuliginosus Wlk. (incanus Hagen.) Paterson V, 1, New Brunswick IV, 21, [X, 18 (Coll). HELICOPSYCHE Hagen. ae . annulicornis Banks. “New Jersey” (Banks). aE . borealis Hagen. New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll). Fig. 24.—Larva LEPIDOSTOMA Ramb. of caddice-fly and its case; enlarged. L. togata Hagen. Del. Water Gap (Slosson). Family CALAMOCERATID/E. HETEROPLECTRON McLach. H. borealis Prov. Del. Water Gap (Slosson); Passaic VI, 8 (Coll). GANONEMA McLach. G. americana Wlk. (Sericostoma) New Brunswick, Cumberland Co. VI (Coll). 70 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family LEPTOCERIDA#. BERA-A Steph. B. nigritta Banks. Clementon VIII (Jn). MOLANNA Curtis. M. cinerea Hagen. “Eastern States;” sure to occur in New Jersey. LEPTOCERUS Leach. L. mentiens Wlk. New Brunswick VI, 23, VIII, common (Coll). . resurgens Wlk. (Setodes) New Brunswick VI, 23 (Coll). L. transversa Hagen. Will probably be found in. South Jersey. r TRIAENODES McLach. T. flavescens Banks. Del. Water Gap (Slosson); New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll); this is the species listed as ‘‘venusta” in the last edition. T. ignita Wlk. New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll); Riverton VII (Jn). LEPTOCELLA Banks. . albida Wik. (Setodes) Sure to be found in New Jersey. . exquisita Wik. New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll). . uwarowii Kolen. Riverton VII (Jn). Te oat CECETINA Banks. avara Banks. New Brunswick VI, 23, IX, 19, common (Coll). flaveolata Hagen. (Setodes) New Brunswick. fumosa Banks. Staten Island VI (Ds). guttata Banks. New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll). incerta Wlk. New Brunswick VI, 1-22, IX, 18 (Coll); Westville VI, Riverton VII (Jn). parvula Banks. New Brunswick IX, 18. R RAMA A MYSTACIDES Latr. M. nigra Linn. New Brunswick, and probably throughout the State. M. sepulchralis Wlk. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, New Brunswick VI, 22 (Coll). Family HYDROPSYCHID. MACRONEMA Pict. M. zebrata Hagen. New Brunswick VI, 23, very common (Gr). a5 25 2S ah ge THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 71 HYDROPSYCHE Pict. . alternans Wlk. Chester VIII, 19 (Coll); Caldwell, common (Cr). . analis Banks. New Brunswick VI, Lahaway VII, 21 (Coll). . phalerata Hagen. New Brunswick V, 3, VI, 28, VII (Coll). . scalaris Hagen. New Brunswick (Coll). . sordida Hagen. Hastern States generally. PLECTRONEMIA Steph. . confusus Hagen. (Polycentropus) Staten Island VI (Ds); Jamesburg V, Lahaway V (Coll). PHYLOCENTROPUS Banks. . lucidus Hagen. (Polycentropus) Chester VIII, 17 (Coll). PHILOPOTAMUS Leach. . distinctus Wlk. Caldwell, rare (Cr). PSYCHOMIA Latr. . flavida Hagen. Canada to Virginia, and sure to occur in New Jersey. CS “gale alavasanavee ie Le AOS. 19) divining iw ae ties: Oy" nee vie who, i" Ht i i i Nihon! Is) ney Lewy: ‘hi ee a wean naPh Hite fy) PCa A a , Bat a eae: Lette rth cat aN: ht My Movin wat qr inn uA i am nen ‘ aa il y ( (at Shien wild, woes ae UNM ic, wiring, Sse retain ari - ak ni, di fuhie a in vitor Ai he BAY aA shih Aah i hi ms (¥ ipruaMant! ; (nck TY Oitiiet cynae “ousiorggolot),. Neogats he hie CALI ded Wi, NRO ok OWA ey ha ei u oe} i ; n y } Wags rT bah t inh aia A) Hibernian SON Wnt beh iB LOE TW aconigHme rape Mohs CrecqunhhTOnao.SAPN anny peeeiinn ‘ia int ; oe GAO BUR Fogle it yee a Pree em ini frat Age eT ae ts LAM LARS ea Lb Ae YT, eet ie ve Oe Waa 1 Oli we a ies SY ave Riad: ALM erent teed Rae hi . a" ; \e : as CLAN dee MANOR, ORT ul ie Ooh radia fy dyes LY Ot eos a teas ; F : ‘ “ j ay ‘ it i i De = tle at; ‘ uP wy 1 } 1 } . ee tan, } erat vies { } i Bh pan ay | iv } 1p) s Lio : 2 if . Tay | E ee 5 ' ' LY { il ¥ yi i ii j . 2 A y i! jes: i i bh j 4 = } U } } : i Pe iD, (ike f Mi i ; t i . ba an 1 Peete MI rte ol an f By, rales fh 0 Tee FT: Tad MN bc DRL i ator iaioae hy Aa ’ ee ny t ; ts i De v Pt a ay a ‘ 2 f fvaw / Vy : f ‘7 | ‘ } 7 i VA i ( 1 ‘ | ; eh CUE PRR ee, Sa bosdohesh x ad . f I T re xi { ; 7 ee : i vy ienl (ie te me, Hi ad iain fae Wt { 7 iy) I : Order ODONATA. The Odonata or “dragon flies” are predatory in all stages, and none of them are, therefore, injurious to the agriculturist. Some of them are more or less beneficial in the adult stage as destroyers of injurious or annoying species, and their practice of taking mosquitoes has given them the name “mosquito-hawks.” Their habits of flying by day only, and preferably in sunny places, limits their usefulness against the nocturnal pests very decidedly, and makes them practically useless in any attempt to control mosquito breeding. Their appearance and habits have always aroused interest, and often dread, as the common names “snake doctor” and “devil’s darning needle” testify, and many a tale of their dangerous power is current. As a matter of fact, the insects are entirely harmless, and can neither sting nor bite, the mouth being so peculiarly constructed that the insect can chew only what can be gotten into the buccal cavity itself. The eggs are laid on or under the surface of the water, and the larve are aS voracious and formidable in appearance as the adults. The lower lip is hinged, capable of being extended well beyond the head, and almost any soft-bodied water insect coming within reach is liable to be captured and eaten. Mosquito wrigglers furnish a large percentage of the food of some species, and in permanent pools such larve cannot maintain them- selves in any number. The list of species in the last edition was prepared by Dr. Philip P. Calvert, of the University of Pennsylvania, who has also supplied addi- tional notes to the present edition. His absence from the country during the time the list was prepared for the printer, and while it was passing through the press has prevented his looking it over in final form, and he is not to be charged with errors appearing it it, but is to be credited with the determination of the material and the general arrangement as it now stands, as well as all records not otherwise acknowledged. The list of species and varieties has been increased from 90 to 112, and there probably is no other order more thoroughly and completely known in New Jersey. The labors of Messrs. Daecke and Davis, in addition to those of Dr. Calvert, have done much to bring the list to its present state of completeness. Family AGRIONIDAE. Sub-family CALOPTERYGIN 2. CALOPTERYX Leach. Cc. maculata Beauv. Throughout the State except in the Appalachian V, 28-VIII, 9, locally not rare. (73) 74 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. apicalis Burm. Iona V, 8, Bamber VII, 30, Malaga VI, 27, Browns Mills VI, 24 (Dke); Weymouth VII, 30-VIII, 15 (div); Toms River (Bt); Raccoon Creek VIII, 3, Patcong Creek VIII, 25 (C); not rare. HETAERINA Hagen. H. americana Fab. Paterson IX, 1 (Gr); Berkshire, Morris Co. IX, 12, Patcong Creek VIII, 25 (C); Bamber IX, 9 (Dke); South Jersey cranberry bogs (Sm); locally common. Sub-family AGRIONIN#. LESTES Leach. rs i L. congener Hag. Staten Island IX, X, XI (Ds). ig. 25.—An adult Agrionid L. unguiculatus Hag. Bergen Hill (Hag); Staten Island VII, in a resting 15, ovipositing (Ds); DaCosta VII, 20, Hammonton IX, 6 oar (Dke); Minnisink IX, XI, 2, Lucaston VII, 16 (C); Peer- mont VI, 16 (Vk); Anglesea VI, 19—VIII, 21 (Sm). L. forcipata Ramb. Piedmont Plain and southward throughout the Dela- ware Valley and pine barrens, but not in coast strip or maritime IV, 30-IX, 8. L. rectangularis Say. Throughout the State, except Appalachian VI, 3-IX, 10; many records from all regions. L. vigilax Selys. Highlands, southward through pine barrens, but no records from the coast strip or maritime VII, 10-IX, 14. L. inzequalis Walsh. Morris Co. VII, 10 (Jn); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Riverton VII, 19 (Satterthwaite); Kirkwood VI, 16 (C). L. eurinus Say. Staten Island (Ds). ARGIA Ramb. A. putrida Hag. Del. Water Gap VII, 7, Dunnfield Creek VII, 14, Chatham VIII, 8 (C); Norman- nock VII, 23, Little Falls VII, 8 (Ds); Newark, Gloucester Co. VII-(Sm). A. violacea Hag. Throughout the State, except that there are no records from the Appalachian nor the maritime VI, 8-IX, 6. A. translata Selys. Hanks Pond, near Newfoundland IX (Ds); Hopat- cong VII (Rhoades). A. tibialis Hag. Atco IX, 4 (H);: New Jersey VII, 4 (A N S); Browns Mills VII, 29, Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). Fig. 26.—An Agrionid nymph, Lestes rec- tangularis; somewhat enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 73 . apicalis Say. Staten Island (Ds); Haddonfield VII (R); Almonesson VII, 17, Grenloch VII, 29 “in copula,’’ Mullica Hill VIII, 3 (C); Laurel Springs VII, 21 (Dke). . bipunctulata Hagen. Newfoundland VI, 4 (Ds); Haddonfield VIII (R); Atco VII, 12 (N); Berlin VII, 17, Albion VI, 1, Lucaston VI, VIII, 10, Manumuskin V, 21 (C); Browns Mills VII, 21, Toms River VII, 12 (Dke). CHROMAGRION Needh. . conditum Hag. Lakewood V, Iona V, 26, Browns Mills V, 21 (Dke); Hewitt VI (Ds). NEHALENNIA Selys. . irene Hag. Great Piece Meadow VIII, 3 (Coll); Ft. Lee VI, 23, Browns Mills VII, 5, DaCosta VII, 19 (Dke.); Staten Island VI, Lakewood VI (Ds); Berlin VII, 17 (C). . posita Hag. Throughout the State V, 2-VIII, 30, locally common. . gracilis Morse. Iona VII, 18, Hammonton VII, 17 (Dke). . integricollis Calv. Malaga VI, 27, one 9 (Dke). AMPHAGRION Selys. . saucium Burm. Dunker Pond VII, Staten Island VI (Ds); Plainfield V, 18, Jamesburg VII, 4, Lahaway (Coll); Riverton V, 30 (CG); West- ville VI, 16, Clementon V, VI (Jn); Woodstown V, 28 (C); Lucaston VI, 18, Iona V, 24 (Dke). ENALLAGMA Charp. . durum Hag. Westville VIII, 28 (W); Alloway VIII, 28, Bargaintown VIII, 24, Petersburg VIII, 25 (C); Ocean Co. VIII, (R); Toms River VII, 12 (Dke); Lavallette V, 21 (Vk). . doubledayi Hag. New Jersey, near Egg Harbor River (Uhler); Ocean Co., Manahawkin or Tuckerton VIII (R). . civile Hag. Piedmont Plain and southward; most abundant through the pine barrens and in the coast strip; VI, 11-IX, 22; recorded also: from Newfoundland VII (Ds), and probably rare in the Highlands. . carunculatum Morse. Lake Hopatcong VII, IX, 8 (div); Newfoundland VII (Ds). . aspersum Hag. Bergen Hill (Hag); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds); Haddonfield VIII (R); DaCosta VIII, 19; Lucaston VI, 14-IX, 7, Ham- monton VIII, 23, Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke); Seaville VII, 12, Cape May V, 30 (Sk). ; . traviatum Selys. Clementon VI, 4, Almonessen VII, 17 (C); Lucaston VII, 2 (Dke). » geminatum Kellicott. Lake Hopatcong IX, 14, Kirkwood V, 25, mostly 6, VI 16, “in copula,” Almonesson VII,:17, Clementon VII, 22, Mullica Hill VIII, 3, West Creek Pond VIII, 26, Manumuskin VI, 21 (C); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lt); DaCosta V, 17, Lucaston VI, 27, VII, 2 (Dke)- 76 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Merchantville V, 26, Iona VI, 8 (Dke); Kirkwood VI, . divagans Selys. exsulsans Hag. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Jamesburg (Sm); Three E 16 (C). iE. States Point VII, 21, Patcong Creek VIII, 25, Mullica Hill VIII, 3, “in cop” in narrow parts of Raccoon Creek, but not at Mill Pond (C); Merchantville V, 26, Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). ‘E. signatum Hag. Highlands, Piedmont Plain, Delaware Valley and ex- tending a little into the pine barrens along its western border, VI, 6-IX, 6. E. pollutum Hag. Lake Hopatcong IX, 14, Clementon VI, 4, VII, 22, IX, Pine barrens VI, 6—VIII, 29, extending a little into the 22 (C). pictum Morse. Delaware Valley where the two join; “in cop” VII, 22, VIII, 26. TELAGRION Selys. Malaga VI, 27, 1 ¢, Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). T. deckii Calv. ISCHNURA Charp. Recorded, not rarely, from all regions except the Ap- l. verticalis Say. palachian IV, 21—VIII, 29. I. kellicotti Williamson. Clementon IX, 22, Hammonton Lake VIII, 23, Alloway VIII, 28, Bridgeton VIII, 27, Patcong Creek VIII, 25, West Creek Pond, Eldora VIII, 26, Millville VIII, 28, Bargaintown VIII, 25 (C); Tuckerton VIII (R). I. ramburii Selys. Staten Island IX, X (Ds); pine barrens and coast strip, extending a little into the Delaware Valley VII, 2—VIII, 29. ANOMALAGRION Selys. A. hastatum Say. Highlands southward throughout the State; most abundantly recorded from the pine barrens near the shore, V—IX, 15. Family AEKSCHNID/Z:. Sub-family GoMPpHIN®. HAGENIUS Selys. Newfoundland VII (Ds); Franklin Furnace—Wild- H. brevistylus Selys. Weymouth VIII, 16, Bamber VI, 24, VIII, 11 (Dke). OPHIOGOMPHUS Selys. wood Lake (C); Browns Mills Jne. VI, 24, Grt. Egg Harbor River, ‘O. johannus Needh. Hewitt VI (Ds). ‘O. rupinsulensis Walsh. Dover (Jn); Ramapo Mts., near Halifax VI, 12 (Ds). TEE, INSECTS ‘OP-NEW. JERSEY: 77 GOMPHUS Leach. . parvulus Selys. Ramapo V, 31 (Ds); Hewitt V, 31 (Watson). . villosipes Selys. Great Piece Meadow V, 23 (Coll). . exilis Selys. Highlands, pine barrens and coast strip; many records V-VII; none from Piedmont Plain or Delaware Valley; Staten Island V-VII (Ds). . plagiatus Selys. Trenton VIII, 8 (Coll); Edgewater Park Ville) a2oe Manumuskin IX, 3 (DkKe). . albistylus Hag. Lucaston VI, 3 (Dke). . brevis Hag. Browns Mills V, 21 (Dke). . sordidus Hag. Newfoundland VII, 9 (Ds); between Clementon and Blackwood VI, 4 (C). . furcifer Hag. Hewitt VI, 19 (Ds). . spicatus Selys. Newfoundland V, 19, VII (Ds). PROGOMPHUS Selys. . obscurus Ramb. Lakehurst VII, 21 (Ds); Browns Mills VI, 25, VII, 21, Bamber VII, 18 (Dke). DROMOGOMPHUS Selys. . spinosus Selys. Dunnfield Creek VII, 14 (C); Lake Hopatcong VII- IX, 14 (div); Sparta VII, Newfoundland VI (Ds). Sub-family CorDULEGASTERIN &. CORDULEGASTER Leach. . maculatus Selys. Staten Island V, 30, VI, 17 (Ds); Lacey V, 27 (Dke). . diastatops Selys. Lake Hopatcong VI, Hewitt VI, Lakehurst V (Ds). . obliquus Say. Lake Hopatcong VI, 17 (Watson). Sub-family 7H scHNINZE. EPIAESCHNA Selys. . heros Fab. Throughout the State III-X, sometimes very abundant along shore; not actually recorded from the Appalachian and spar- ingly from the Highlands; but from all portions of the pine barrens, BOYERIA McLach. . vinosa Say. Sparta VII, Newfoundland VII, IX, Staten Island VII, Lakehurst VII (Ds); Caldwell (Cr); Bound Brook, in R. R. car (C);. Mt. Holly VII (A N S); Clementon (Gr); Lacy VII, 14 (Dke). 78 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BASIAESCHNA Selys. B. janata Say. Newfoundland V, Great Notch V, Paterson V, Staten Is: land V, 2, Lakehurst V (Ds); Medford (Banks); common in pine barrens IV, 24-V, 13 (Dke). GOMPHAESCHNA Selys. G. furcillata Say. Hewitt VII, Lakehurst V, VI (Ds); Sussex Co. (B. Long); Browns Mills V, Iona IV, DaCosta V (Dke). var. antilope Hag. Newfoundland VI, 22 (Ds); New Brunswick V, 22 (Coll); Clementon VI, 6 (Dke); Sea Isle, 1 9 in wash-up VI, 25 (C). AESCHNA Fab. AE. juncea L., var. verticalis Hag. Staten Island VI, IX, X (Ds); Ft. Lee (Dke). . clepsydra Say. Dunnfield Cr VII, 14 (C); Newfoundland IX (Ds). . umbrosa WIlk. (constricta Say.) Dunnfield Cr VII, 14 (C); Nor- manock VII, Staten Island VI, IX, X (Ds); Haddonfield IX (R); De lair X, 19, Lucaston X, 10 (Dke); Anglesea IX, 6 (Sm). ; AZ. grandis L. Bergen Hill, 1 ¢ (Hag), and probably an introduced ex- ample. The species is European. mm ANAX Leach. A. junius Dru. Throughout the State IV, 23-X 3, locally common. A. longipes Hag. Staten Island VI, 5, VIII, 9, Orange (Ds); Lucaston VI, 27, VII, 22, Bamber (Dke). Family LIBELLULID. Sub-family CoRDULIN#. DIDYMOPS Ramb. iD. transversa Say. Highlands, Piedmont Plain V—VII, many localities; Riverton IV, 23 (Jn); Mt. Holly V, 18 (A N §S); Woodbury IV, 29 (Kp); Hainesport V, 7 (Dke). MACROMIA Ramb. M. illinoisensis Walsh. Del. Water Gap VII, 9 (Jn); Newfoundland VII, Echo Lake VII, 2 (Ds); Bamber VII, 13, Browns Mills VII, 4 (Dke). EPICORDULIA Selys. £. princeps Hag. Hopatcong IX, 14 (C); Newfoundland VI, VII, Singac VI (Ds); New Brunswick VII, 10 (Coll); Almonesson VII, 17 (C). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 79 TETRAGONEURIA Hag. . semiaquea Burm. Lakehurst V, VI (Ds); Kirkwood VI, 16 (C); Clem- enton V (div); Lucaston V, 30, Manumuskin V, 10-28 (Dke); Angle- sea V, 11 (Lt) . spinosa Hag. Great Notch V, 5 (Lv); Clementon V, 27, VI, 3, Laurel Springs IV, 21, Iona IV, 20 (Dke). . cynosura Say. Newfoundland VI, VII, Staten Island V-VU, Lakehurst VI (Ds); Clementon V—VII (div); Blackwood VI, 4, Kirkwood VI, 16 (C). HELOCORDULIA Need. . uhleri Selys. Florence IV, 23 (C); Lakehurst V (Ds); Browns Mills V, 21, Iona IV, 20, Manumuskin IV, 5 (Dke). NEUROCORDULIA Selys. . obsoleta Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 10 (Jn); Lake Hopatcong VI, 17, VII, 4, IX, 14 (div). DOROCORDULIA Need. . lepida Hag. Lakehurst V, VI (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 4, Iona V, 26, VI, 8, Browns Mills VI, 24 (Dke). . libera Selys. Paterson V, 24 (Coll); Normanock VII, 23 (Ds). SOMATOCHLORA Selys. . filosa Hag. Petersburg VIII, 30 (C); Iona VIII, 25, Manumuskin IX, 3, Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke); Cape May Co. IX, 20 (Sm). » provocans Calv. DaCosta VII, 16, Formosa bog VII, 22, Bamber VII, 18, Weymouth VII, 30 (Dke). . tenebrosa Say. Jamesburg VII, 4, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Clementon IX, 6 (C); Malaga VII, 27, Bamber VII, 18, Browns Mills VII, 5 (Dke). Sub-family LrBELLULIN A. PANTALA Hagen. . flavescens Fab. Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); Lucaston VII, 6, Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). - hymenzea Say. Sea Isle City VIII, 15 (Lt). TRAMEA Hag. . carolina L. Bergen Hill (Hag); Staten Island V-IX (Ds); and south- ward through the pine barrens V-IX, along the coast strip but scarcely entering the Delaware Valley. - lacerata Hag. Staten Island V-IX (Ds); Haddonfield VIII (R); Ocean Co. (Sm). 80 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LIBELLULA Linn. Fig. 27.—Libellula sp., showing all stages: 7, larva with jaws extended; 2, pupa shell, from which larva has issued; 3, active pupa capturing its prey; 4, pupa on stalk, ready to transform; 5, adult dragon fly. L. luctuosa Burm. (basalis Say.) Lake Hopatcong (Rhoads); Sparta VII, Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); So. Orange IV, 18, New Brunswick VI, 28 (Coll); Riverton VII (Jn); Haddonfield VIII (R); Westville VII (div); Mullica Hill VIII, 3 (C); National Park VIII, 4, Laurel Springs VII, 21 (Dke). L. auripennis Burm. Staten Island V-—VII (Ds); Petersburg VII, 23, Tuckahoe VII, 21 (C); along shore, Point Pleasant to Cape May VII, VIII. L. flavida Ramb. Haddonfield VIII (R); Lakehurst VII, VIII (Ds); Browns Mills VI, 15, VII, 5, IX, 15 (Dke); Cape May (Sk). L. cyanea Fab. Ft. Lee VI (Bt); So. Orange IV, 18, Ocean Co. VII, 3. (Sm); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds); Jamesburg VI, VII (div); Had- donfield VIII (R);. Westville VII (div); Kirkwood VI, 16, Tuckahoe VII, 22, Seaville VII, 12 (C); Manumuskin VI, 4 (Dke); Cape May V, 30 (Sk). L. axillena Westw. Clementon VI, 4 (C). var. vibrans Fab. Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); no. branch, Big Timber Creek VII, 29, Albion VI, 1 (C). ‘ var. incesta Hag. Highlands, southward through the Delaware Valley and pine barrens; but not along shore VII-IX. L. exusta Say. Highlands, and southward through Delaware Valley and pine barrens; but not along shore IV, 20—-VIII, 8. L. quadrimaculata L. Lake Hopatcong VII (Rhoads); Arlington, Staten Island V, VI (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Dke); Atco VI, 18 (Jn). L. semifasciata Burm. Ft. Lee VI (Bt), and Piedmont Plain southward throughout the State V-IX, often common along shore. L. pulchella Dru. Throughout the State IV, 18-IX, 1, often common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 81 PLATHEMIS Hagen. P. trimaculata DeG. Highlands and southward throughout the State V— IX, often common. ERYTHRODIPLAX Brauer. E. berenice Dru. Bergen Hill (Hag); Staten Island V—VIII (Ds); along shore Sandy Hook to Cape May V-IX, often very common; the larva in salt water and the only one I have found in such places (Sm). NANNOTHEMIS Brauer. N. bella Uhler. Staten Island VI, VII, Toms River VIII (Ds); Clemen- ton VI, 25, Albion VI, 1, Lucaston VI, 1, pruinose 4, Berlin VII, 17, Seaville VII, 21 (C); Lucaston VIII, 10, DaCosta VII, Iona VI, 16 (Dke). CELITHEMIS Hagen. C. ornata Ramb. Lakehurst IX, Toms River VIII (Ds); Clementon VII, 22, IX, 6, Ocean View VII, 25, Indian Creek VIII, 24, Patcong Cr VIII, 24, West West Creek Pond VIII, 26 (C); Lucaston IX, 2, DaCosta VII, 2-20 (Dke). C. elisa Hag. Bergen Hill (Hag); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds), and south- ward throughout the State VI-IX; usually not common. C. fasciata Kirby. Lucaston VI, 27-—VIII, 11, DaCosta VII, 7 (Dke); Malaga VI, VII (div). C. eponina Dru. Hopatcong VII (Rhoads); Staten Island V, VII (Ds); throughout the Delaware Valley, pine barrens and coastal strip VII-IX. LEUCORHINIA Britt. L. intacta Hagen. Normanock VII, Newfoundland VII, Staten Island V, VI (Ds); So. Orange IV, 18 (Coll); Ft. Lee VII, 4, Clementon VI, 28 (Dke); Albion VI, 1 (C). SYMPETRUM Newm. S. rubicundulum Say. Throughout the State VI-IX, not common. var. assimilata Uhler. Westville VIII, 27 (N). S. albifrons Charp. Delair VII, 18, Manumuskin IX, 15, Belleplain IX, 16 (DkKe). S. obtrusum Hagen. Staten Island VII (Ds); Bamber, Browns Mills, Manumuskin, Belleplain all IX, 1-16 (Dke). S. semicinctum Say. Sparta VII, Staten Island VII, 15 (Ds); Shark River WAU Py (pale S. vicinum Hagen. Lake Hopatcong VII (Rhoads); Bergen Hill (Hag); - Staten Island [IX—XI (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll); Delaware Valley and pine barrens generally VII-X, but not from coastal strip or mari- time. 6 IN 82 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. corruptum Hagen. Staten Island V, 27, VIII, 8, several miles west of Barnegat XI, 1 (Ds). PERITHEMIS Hagen. P. domitia Dru. Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Delaware Valley and pine barrens VI-IX; not on coastal strip or from maritime. ERYTHEMIS Hagen. E. simpliciollis Say. (Mesothemis) Piedmont Plain and southward throughout the State VI-IX, often common; also Ft. Lee (Bt); So. Orange V, 27 (Coll). PACHYDIPLAX Brauer. P. longipennis Burm. Throughout the State except the Appalachian V, 23-IX, 5, not usually common. Order THYSANOPTERA. The insects of this order are commonly known as “Thrips” and often cause severe injury to growing plants. They are very small, very slender, somewhat fusiform, with very delicate narrow fringed wings, which are laid flat upon the back when at rest and are not even visible to the ordi- nary observer without a lens. The mouth parts are made up of a number of slender lancets, only the points of which protrude beyond the mouth opening. With these they scrape the surface of the leaf or plant and exhaust the cell beneath, leaving a yellow or whitish spot. Onion leaves sometimes turn almost white under a severe attack, and “silver-tip’” in grasses is often due to these insects. Cabbage leaves are sometimes completely devitalized, and grow- ing tips of young trees may be crippled. Not all species are harmful, however, some of them occurring under such conditions as to make it almost certain that they are predatory. Yet as a whole this little order must be considered as injurious. As to remedial measures it is difficult to make recom- mendations. Ordinarily the species flourish only in dry weather, and their injuries in- crease and manifest them- selves in a dry season, or after a protracted drought. A cold rain may check them when they threaten most, and a spray of cold water, thor- oughly applied, is often suffi- cient for their control. Tobacco decoction and soap suds are good addi- tions, and may generally be relied upon to kill off the species in the green- house and garden. Very little has been added to our knowledge of the New Jersey species since the previous edition, and the number of forms has not been in- creased by coliections. Mr. Pergande is, therefore, still to be credited with the notes. SANA Fig. 28.—Thrips tabaci: a, adult; b, antenna of same; c, young larva; d, full-grown larva; enlarged. Family TER LPL Ay. COLEOTHRIPS Halid. C. trifasciata Fitch. Infests grain and grasses. CHIROTHRIPS Halid. C. antennatus Osb. Infests grasses. (83) 84 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LIMOTHRIPS Halid. L. ceralium Halid. Infests grain and grasses throughout the State. HELIOTHRIPS Halid. H. dracanz Heeger. On hot-house plants. H. hzemorrhoidalis Bouché. In green-houses, often common. THRIPS Linn. T. 6—maculatus Pergande. A general feeder on many plants. T. tabaci Linden. On cabbages, onions and other vegetables throughout the State; a serious pest seasonally and locally (Sm). T. tritici Fitch. On grain, grasses and flowers; also locally in tips of nursery peach trees, sometimes causing serious injury (Sm). PHLCEOTHRIPS Halid. . carye Fitch. Occurs on hickory. . mali Fitch. Feeds on leaves of apple. . nigra Osb. Found commonly on clover. qos) ae) a0) on its inhabitants. . phylloxerze Riley. Occurs in galls of “Phylloxera,’ and is said to feed Order PARASITICA. Under this head come the sucking lice, which are parasitic on warm- blooded animals other than birds. They never become winged, have prac- tically no transformations, the body is more or less flattened and either : the feet are scansorial, fitted for climbing and holding, or the mouth hooks are so formed as to enable the insect to anchor itself firmly in place. The insects remain on their host constantly and the eggs are nearly always attached to the hair of the host animal. Three species attack man and sometimes cause serious annoyance. In extreme cases an inflammatory condition of the skin may be set up to which the terms “phthiriasis” and “pediculosis’ have been applied. Almost all the domestic and many of the wild animals are subject to infestation and the list here given will undoubt- Be creatis edly prove incomplete when systematic collections are enlarged. made. Fig. 29.—Head- louse, Pediculus Family PEDICULID/. PHTHIRIUS Leach. P. inguinalis Leach. The “crab-louse”’: found in the arm-pits and pubic re- gions of man and sometimes on the coarse hair of the breast. The grasp- ing structures of the feet are so well developed that it is easier to pull out a hair than to remove the parasite from it. Liberal and repeated appli- cations of mercurial ointment are re- quired to destroy these species. Fig. 30.—Crab-louse, Phthirius inguinalis; greatly enlarged. PEDICULUS Linn. P. capitis DeG. The common “head-louse;” more generally found on children. A fine-tooth comb and repeated application of pomade or vaseline will readily control this pest. Tincture, or extract of Lark- spur, has also been used with good effect. P. vestimenti Leach. “Body-louse,” ‘“‘clothes-louse” or “‘gray-back.”’ Lays its eggs in the seams of clothing in which also it hides when not actively feeding. Cleanliness is the best preventive; when an attack is to be dealt with, use mercurial ointment in the seams of the cloth- ing or dip them in gasoline two or three times at intervals of one week. Steaming or thorough boiling will answer the same purpose. (85) 86 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 31.—Body-louse, Pediculus vestimentt; greatly enlarged. Fi. acanthopus Burm. HAZMATOPINUS Leach. . piliferus Burm. The sucking-louse of the dog. . pedalis Osborn. Occurs on the feet of sheep be- low the wool and easy to destroy with any good sheep dip. . eurysternus Nitzsch. Short-nosed ox-louse. This and the following may be reached by the crude petroleum brushing recommended for the biting lice. . vituli Linn. Long-nosed ox-louse. H. urius Nitzsch. The hog-louse: our largest spe- H. H. H. ventricosus Denny. H. suturalis Osborn. cies; sometimes very common and conspicuous. asini Linn. Found on the horse and ass. spinulosus Nitzsch. Found on the common rat. Infests field mice. Found on hares and rabbits. Infests chipmunks and ground squirrels. Order HOMOPTERA. This ordinal term is employed for those Rhyngota in which the two pairs of wings are either similar in texture; as in the plant-lice or “Cicada,” or the primaries are of the same texture throughout, though this may be different from that of the secondaries, as in the leaf-hoppers. The mouth parts are composed of four lancets, of which two are usually grown together concealed in a jointed beak, except in the Coccids or seale insects, in which the mouth parts are quite generally aborted in the males and reduced to thread-like lancets in the females. Usually the base of the beak is on the under side of the head, and its point is directed backward so that it rests between the haunches of the fore-legs. All the species are plant feeders, piercing the tissue by means of the lancets and exhausting the cells be- neath. They are, therefore, of eco- é nomic importance, and, as a matter of fact, some of our most destructive species belong to this order. In a general way the transforma- tions are incomplete; but the life his- tories of the species are often involved and sometimes curiously unique. No general recommendations for treat- ment can be given, except that only contact poisons are of any avail and stomach poisons are never indicated. Since the previous list. was pub- lished this order has received much attention from collectors and students, and the number of species here listed has been greatly increased. Most of the species previously included as probable inhabitants have been defi- Fig. 32.—Mouth structure of a plant- nitely authenticated and a few have louse: a, beak; b, the lancets; c, been dropped for one reason or an- tarsus; greatly enlarged. other. By the courtesy of Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, of Buffalo, N. Y., the collec- tions of certain of the groups made in New Jersey have been determined, and he has also been good enough to look over the manuscript in these groups and to give me suggestions as to the order of species and genera. A very few species remain that have not been actually taken in the State, but these are almost certain to occur, and besides these there are undoubtedly many new species yet to be discovered and determined by thorough collecting and study. All of the gentlemen who assisted me ten years ago have continued their aid in one way or another. (87) 88 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family CICADID/E. Figg 33.—Egg punctures made by the Periodical Cicada, the twig broken at a. Contains the largest species in this sub-order, popularly known as “har- vest flies,” and incorrectly as “locusts.” They are found on shrubs and trees, the males making a shrill- ing sound during the day. This song or call is very loud and piercing, and is different for each species, so that each may be recognized by this char- acter alone. In the adult stage they feed little or not at all, and are in no sense injurious except through their method of laying eggs in twigs and shoots, and even in this point only the “periodical cicada” offends. The larve live underground and suck the juices of tree and other plant roots, but grow so slowly that they do no appreciable harm. Just how long our common species require for their complete life cycle is not defi- nitely known; but the larva of the “periodical” species is known to live in that stage sixteen years in the north and thirteen years in the more southern States. TETTIGEA Am. & Serv. T. hieroglyphica Say. Occurs in June and July throughout the pine barrens, and is specifically re- ported from Lakewood, Lakehurst, Lahaway, DaCosta, Anglesea. It is the smallest of our species, the abdomen is almost transparent, and I have noted it ovipositing in cedar. TIBICEN Latr. T. septendecim Linn. The “periodical cicada’ or “17-year locust.’ Occurs at intervals throughout the State, appearing during the last days of May and continuing through most of June. There are two large broods in the State, a third that is fairly marked and two, if not three, that are dying out, and are represented at the present time by a few scattered examples only. The adults cause injury when they appear by their habit of cutting slits to deposit eggs in the terminal twigs of larger trees and in the trunks and branches of THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 89 nursery and other young fruit trees. These slits never heal, and, while on a large tree the injury is a mere trimming as the twigs wilt and break, on the small trees they are a source of permanent weak- ness, and sooner or later the branch or even trunk breaks. Fig 34.—The Periodical Cicada, Tibicen septendecim: a, pupa, ready to emerge; b, pupa skin from which adult has emerged; c, adult; d, cavities to receive eggs; e, eggs, enlarged. The species “rimosa Say” and “striatipes Hald.,” listed in the last edition, are probably not of our fauna. i CICADA Linn. C. marginata Say. Staten Island VII (Ds); New Brunswick, rare, Lake- wood common (Sm); DaCosta, Riverton IX, 10 (div). The largest of our species and the longest winged. Not found every year, but no definite intervals have been noted. C. sayi Grossb. Throughout the State from mid-July to early October, and the most common of our ‘“‘Harvest flies.” It is the species that has in the past been known as “pruinosa”’ because of the uniform white powdering of the underside. C. pruinosa Say. Cape May IX, 20, Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke); Bayside X, 21 (Coll). Really a very rare species, of which only a few specimens are known in collections. C. linnei Grossb. Throughout the State, common from mid-July until frost. This is the species that used to be called “tibicen Linn.’ the latter being really a South American form. 90 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. lyricen DeG. Taken only at points north of New Brunswick, but prob- ably occurs throughout the State with the preceding, which it closely resembles. C. canicularis Harr. Throughout the State; more or less common. Occurs with “linnei,’” than which it is smaller, but otherwise nearly allied. C. davisi Grossb. Paterson IX, 4 (Gr); Anglesea VIII, 25 (Coll). CARINETA Am. & Serv. C. parvula Say. Occurs all along the Atlantic Coast, and, according to Ashmead, should reach New Jersey. It is certain that a form not yet taken has been heard at Anglesea by myself and others, and it is probably this speeies. Family MEMBRACID.. Contains the “tree-hoppers” which are odd-looking creatures, more or less wedge or beech-nut shaped, the prothorax often abnormally developed into horns, spines or crests. They leap and fly readily and are commonly found on trees and shrubs. The eggs are usually laid in slits made in twigs, shoots or other vegetable tissue, and many of the larve or nymphs envelop themselves in frothy masses. A few of them excrete honey dew. Few of the species are really abundant and none of them cause injury by feeding. The “buffalo tree-hopper” and its allies do some harm by their egg-laying. The slits are made in the soft tissue of the twigs and shoots of fruit trees, and these wounds seem to be poisonous. At all events, instead of healing, the slits form open wounds which enlarge, check growth, make weak points where breaks occur when fruit is borne, or any strain is put upon the injured wood. The punctures are readily noticed in winter and should be cut out when pruning and the cuttings destroyed. Insecticides are not indicated. Sub-family SMILIIN &. CERESA Am. & Serv. C. diceros Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, VIII, IX. C. bubalus Fab. Common, VI-IX, throughout the State. This is the “buffalo tree-hopper’’ whose injuries are referred to above. C. brevitylus Van D. Jamesburg VI, 19, New Brunswick VIII, 31 (Coll). Described from the New Jersey material. C. taurina Fitch. Jamesburg VIII, 31, Staten Island V, VII, VIII, IX (Ds); Merchantville, Atco VI, 21 (Ss). C. borealis Fairm. Chester VIII (Coll). C. basalis Wlk. Chester IX, 1 (Coll), and probably throughout the High- lands. The “C. brevicornis Fitch” is omitted because it has not yet been ac- tually taken, although its occurrence is probable. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. gt STICTOCEPHALA Stal. S. inermis Fab. Not actually taken, but sure to occur in the State. S. substriata Wlk. “New Jersey” (Van Duzee). S. festina Say. Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). Ss . lutea Wlk. Woodbury VI, 23 (Ss); Madison (Pr); Atco VI, 4, James- burg V, 3, VI, 9 (Coll). ACUTALIS Fairm. A. tartarea Say. Chester VII, 20, VIII, 24, Jamesburg VII (Coll); Staten Island VIII, 7, IX, 11 (Ds). The species “semicrema” Say, “dorsalis” Fitch, and “calva’”’ Say, are omitted because not yet actually taken; but they almost surely occur in the State. Dorsalis and calva belong to “Micrutalis’” according to Van Duzee. CARYNOTA Fitch. C. mera Say. Chester VII, 4, 20 (Coll); Orange Mts. VII, 5 (Jn); Madi- son VIII, 6 (Pr); Merchantville VI, 29 (Ss); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Gr); Navesink Highlands VIII, 15 (Ds). C. marmorata Say. Chester VII, 4 (Coll); Westfield VII, 9, Staten Island VII, 15, on alder (Ds). THELIA Am. & Serv. T. bimaculata Fab. Common on locust. Chester (Coll); Madison VIII, 12 (Pr); Morris Plains (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island VII, 20, VIII, 2 (Ds); Rahway (Bf). GLOSSONOTUS Butler. G. acuminatus Fab. Lakehurst VI, VII, 19 (Ds). G. turriculatus Emmons. Staten Island, Lakehurst VI (Ds); “New Jer- sey” (Goding). G. univittatus Harr. Madison (Pr); Lakehurst VI, VII (div). . cratzegi Fitch. “New Jersey” (Ss); Sparta VII, Staten Island VIII (Ds). The species here listed appeared as ‘“Thelia” in the last edition, and the species there referred to as “pyramidoides”’ Gdg., is —to “crategi.” Q HELIRIA Stal. H. cristata Fairm. Lakehurst VI, IX, on oak (Ds). H. scalaris Fairm. So widely distributed that it must occur in the State, on beech. TELAMONA Fitch. T. declivata Van D. Sparta VII, Lakehurst VI, IX, on oak (Ds); one of the type localities. 9 T: = REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. reclivata Fitch. Hewitt VI, Staten Island VII, Navesink Highlands VIII, 15, Staten Island VII (Ds). . monticola Fab. Princeton VI, 11, Lahaway VII, 12 (Coll). . ampelopsidis Harr. Hewitt VII, Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick IX, 13, Ocean Co. VIII, Hammonton, Lakewood (Coll). T. coryli Fitch. Westfield (Ds). T. concava Fitch. Anglesea VII, 8 (Ss). T. unicolor Fitch. Staten Island VII, 8 (Ds). T. extrema Ball. Staten Island VI (Ds); Lakehurst VI, VII, IX (div). T. irrorata Godg. Madison VIII, 15 (Pr) — ‘‘inornata” of the previous list and probably an erroneous determination. ARCHASIA Stal. A. galeata Fab. Madison (Pr); Plainfield VII, 4 (Gr); Lakehurst on white oaks VI, VII (Ds); Milltown (Bf). A. belfragei Gdg. Staten Island VII, Jamesburg VII (Ds); Browns Mills Jn VI, 21 (GG). SMILIA Germ. S. camelus Fab. Madison (Pr); Newfoundland, Oak Ridge VII, Staten Island VI (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 4 (Coll). CYRTOLOBUS Goding. C. fenestratus Fitch. Staten Island VII, 15 (Ds). C. ovatus Van D. Staten Island, Lakehurst (Ds). Described from the New Jersey material. C. muticus Fabr. Staten Island (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 5 (Coll). C. sculptus Fairm. Madison VI, 12, 22 (Pr); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Lakehurst VII (div). C. discoidalis Emmons. (Atymna) Sparta (Ds); Chester VII, 4, Madi- son VI, 22 (Coll); Berkeley Hts. (Bf). C. vau Say. Milltown (Bf); Jamesburg V, 31, Anglesea VII, 4, 17 (Coll); Lakehurst VII, 17 (Ds). . Inermis Emmons. Milltown (Bf); Lakehurst VI, 16 (Ds). . cinereus Emmons. Madison VIII (Pr); Lakehurst (Bf). . fuscipennis Van D. Staten Island, Jamesburg (Ds); part of the type material. . varius Gdg. Newfoundland VII, 5, Great Notch V, 30, Jamesburg VII, 2 (Ds); Lakehurst VI, VII (div). Mr. Van Duzee says this is the male of “vau.” ATYMNA Stal. A. castanea Fitch. Throughout the highlands on chestnut V-VII (div); Jamesburg VII, 2, Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 93 A. inornata Say. Chester VII, 5, Jamesburg VI, 24 (Coll); ‘Merchantville (Ss); Lakehurst VII (div). “Querci” Fitch has not yet occurred in the State. XANTHOLOBUS Van D. X. nitidus Van D. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); Staten Island VII, 15 (Ds). Types from these localities. OPHIDERMA Fairm. O. salamandra Fairm. Newfoundland VII, Staten Island VI, 22, Lake- hurst VI, 20 (Ds). O. flavicephala Gdg. Lakehurst VII (Bf, Coll); Malaga VIII, 4 (GG). O. flava Gdg. Staten Island VI, 22 (Coll). QO. pubescens Emm. Chester VII, 4, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). , “O. nigrocephala” of the previous edition is the same as “Atymna cas- tanea.”’ VAN DUZEA Goding. V.. arquata Say. Madison VIII, 6, 30 (Pr); Staten Island VII, 8 (Ds); on locust. ENTYLIA Germ. E. sinuata Fab. Staten Island VI, IX, on “Iva frutescens,’’ Perth Amboy V, Jamesburg VIII (Ds); Merchantville IV, 22, Camden XII, hiber- nating (Ss); Vineland (U S Ag); Jamesburg V, 10, Lahaway V, 20 (Coll). E. bactriana Germ. Berkeley Hts. (Bf); Camden V, 18 (Ss). PUBLILIA Stal. P. concava Say. Madison VI (Pr); said to be common and widely dis- tributed in the U. S. “Nigrodorsum” is a variation only. P. reticulata Van D. Staten Island IX, 26 (Ds); Jamesburg VI, 24 (Coll). One of the types is the Jamesburg specimen. Sub-family HopLoPHorIN&. PLATYCOTIS Stal. P. 4-vittata Say. Caldwell (Cr). Sagittata Germ., has not yet occurred to collectors. Sub-family MEMBRACINA. CAMPYLENCHIA Stal. C. curvata Fab. Common throughout the State VI-VIII. ENCHENOPA Am. & Serv. E. binotata Say. Throughout the State, VI-VII. Mr. Davis records it on locust. 94 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family CENTRODIN&. MICROCENTRUS Stal. M. caryze Fitch. Madison VIII, 11 (Pr); “New Jersey” (Ss). CENTRUCHOIDES Fowler. C. perdita Am. & Serv. Singac IX, Staten Island XI (Ds); Lakehurst Vill EX XS (divs) - Family FULGORID. The “lantern-fly” family is represented by monstrous and bizarre forms in tropical countries, but in New Jersey by insignificant, though often odd forms. There is no real typical form in our species, some having head or thoracic processes, while most have none at all. Some have broad wings laid roof-like along the sides, others have them narrow and almost flat over the abdomen. A few are covered by a floury or pruinose coating, and some resemble the tree or leaf-hoppers. : None of those occurring in the State are in the least harmful, while most of them may be accounted fairly rare. Mr. Van Duzee has been good enough to give me the sequence of genera here, and has added a number of interesting records. Sub-family DicrvoPHARIN &. DICTYOPHARA Germ. D. lingula Van D. Staten Island VIII, 17 (Ds); Anglesea VII, 20, IX, 6 (Sm); Wildwood (Jn); Cape May VIII (Van D). This is the form noted as “sp. nov.” in the last edition. D. microrhina Wlk. Staten Island, salt marsh, VIII, 4, 28 (Ds); Wood- bine VIII, 20, Cape May VIII, 19 (Van D). SCOLOPS Schaum. S. sulcipes Say. Madison (Pr); Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Coll); Westville (Jn); Ocean Co. (Sm); probably through- out the State. S. dessicatus Uhl. Chester IX, 5 (Coll); Jamesburg VIII, 31, Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Ds); Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). S. angustatus Uhl. Riverton IX, 4 (Jn). S. perdix Uhl. Staten Island VIII, 2 Fulgorid@g, or lantern-flies.—a, Scolops (Ds); Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). sulcipes; 6, Paciloptera TEES grossus (hil. aviestville VIII, 18 (Jn). twice natural size. Fig. 35 THE INSECTS: OF NEW JERSEY: 95 PHYLLOSCELIS Germ. P. atra Germ. Madison (Pr); Farmingdale VIII, 12, Lakehurst IX, 6 (Ds); Riverton VIII, 17, Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). var. albovenosa Milichar. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D) P. pallescens Germ. Lahaway, on cranberry bogs, V (Sm); “N. J.,’”’ com- mon (Van D). Sub-family ACHILIN A. ELIDIPTERA Spin. (HELICOPTERA.) E. pallida Say. New Jersey, probably. E. septentrionalis Prov. Manasquan IX, 23, Lakehurst IX, 24 (Ds); Laha- way IX, 14 (Coll). E. opaca Say. “New Jersey” (Uhbler). E. floridze Wlk. Lakehurst V, 29 (Ds); Riverton IV, 26, Pemberton V (GG). E. variegata Van D. Riverton IX, 7 (GG). CATONIA Uhler. C. nava Say. Throughout the eastern United States. C. impunctata Fitch. Cranford VIII, 27, Highlands of Navesink VIII, 15 Jamesburg VIII, 31 (Ds). C. picta Van D. Type locality is Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Gr) X (Ds). C. cinctifrons Fitch. New York and probably New Jersey. Sub-family C1ximn#. BOTHRIOCERA Burm. B. bicornis Fab. “New Jersey” (Uhier). OLIARUS Stal. O. quinquelineata Say. Staten Island V, 22, VIII, 8, Jamesburg VII, 2 (Ds); Barnegat Bay Dist. VIII, 3 (Coll); Lakehurst VII, 7, 24, IX, 4 (div); Browns Mills Jn., VI, 21 (GG); Cape May (Van D). O. humilis Say. Chester VIII, 12, Monmouth Co., on salt meadow VII, 31 (Coll); Madison VIII, 18 (Pr). O. complectus Ball. Chester VII, 24 (Coll); Staten Island VI, 17, VII, 1, Jamesburg VII, 5 (Ds). CIXIUS Latr. C. stigmatus Say. Chester VIII, 12 (Coll); Madison VIII, 6 (Pr); “New Jersey” (Jn). The species “colepeum” Fitch, “pini”’ Fitch and “‘vicarius” WIk. are all so distributed that their occurrence in New Jersey is more than probable, -96 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. but as they have not been actually taken in the rather thorough collect- ing in this group it is deemed best to omit them from the record. “Albi- cincta’” Germ. is probably not found in America at all. iu) OECLEUS Stal. . decens Stal. Clementon V, 30 (GG); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). MYNDUS Stal. . sordidipennis Van D. Staten Island VII, 1 (Ds). . viridis Ball. Monmouth Co., salt meadows, VII, 3 (Coll). Sub-family Issinz&. BRUCHOMORPHA Newn. . oculata Newn. Chester IX, 9, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . tristis Stal. Jamesburg VI, 22 (Ds) VII, 18 (Coll). . dorsata Fitch. Riverton (Jn). NASO Fitch. . robertsonii Fitch. Occurs both north and south of the State. APHELONEMA Uhler. . simplex Uhler. Monmouth Co., salt marsh VII, 31 (Coll); Cape May VIII, 19 (Van D). THIONEA Stal. . simplex Wlk. Woodbury VII, 29 (Ss). . bullata Say. Should be taken in New Jersey (Van D). Sub-family ACANALONIN#. AMPHISCEPA Germ. . bivittata Say. Madison (Pr); Little Falls VIII, Staten Island VII-IX, Farmingdale VIII, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Monmouth Co. VII, 31 (Coll). A pink form is not uncommon. Sub-family FLATIN2. ORMENIS Stal. . pruinosa Say. More or less common throughout the State, VIII & IX, and on a great variety of trees and plants. . septentrionalis Spin. With the preceding; hardly less common, v-Ix. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 97 Sub-family DERBIN A. LAMENIA Stal. . vulgaris Fitch. Recorded from Chester to Lakehurst in all faunal regions VI-IX, inclusive. . uhleri Ball. Jamesburg VIII, 31 (Ds); Riverton (Jn). OTIOCERUS Kirby. . amyotii Fitch. Madison VIII, 30 (Pr). . degeerii Kirby. Madison VIII, 11 (Pr); Staten Island VII, 8, Mana- squan IX, 23 (Ds); Lahaway VIII (Coil). . francilloni Kirby. Grantwood VII, 20 (Coll). . wolfii Kirby. Staten Island VIII, 16 (Ds). “Coquebertii” Kirby, “signoretii’” Fitch and “stollii” Kirby will also be found I have no doubt. re Sub-family DELPHACIN&. STENOCRANUS Fieb. . dorsalis Fitch. Eastern U. S. generally; doubtless in New Jersey. . lautus Van D. Riverton (Jn); New York City (Van D). MEGAMELANUS Ball. . spartini Osb. Staten Island is the type locality. MEGAMELUS Fieb. . marginatus Van D. Staten Island VII, 8 (Ds); Barnegat Bay Dist. VIII, 3, Anglesea (Coll). PISSONOTUS Van D. . brunneus Van D. New York City, and certainly New Jersey. . delicatus Van D. Riverton VII, 17 (Van D). STOBZERA Stal. . tricarinata Say. Ft. Lee Dist. X, 6 (Brb); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); Riverton (Jn); Merchantville X, 29 (Ss). . concinna Stal. Monmouth Co., salt meadows VII, 31 (Coll). LIBURNIA Stal. . ornata Stal. Staten Island X, 21 (Ds); Riverton (Jn). . detecta Van D. New York City and doubtless in New Jersey. . puella Van D. New Jersey (Van D); Riverton (Jn). 7 IN 98 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. L. foveata Van D. Newark IX, 1 on salt marsh (Coll); Anglesea VIII, 23, Cape May VIII, 19 (Van D). L. osborni Van D. “New Jersey” V (Sm); Barnegat Bay Dist. VIII, 3 (Coll). L. pellucida Fab. Will yet be discovered in New Jersey no doubt. PENTAGRAMMA Van D. P. vittatifrons Uhl. “New Jersey” (Uhl); Staten Island VIII, 23, on salt meadow (Ds). Family CERCOPID/. These are the ‘“frog-hoppers” or “‘spittle-insects,’” so called because of the shape of the adults, which is broad and squat, the leaping power being also well developed, and because the larvee live in little masses of white froth resembling spittle. In this group the thorax is without ab- normal processes and is not produced back over the abdomen. While “frog-spittle’ is not uncommon on low meadows, shrubs and bogs, none of the species are injurious to cultivated plants in New Jersey. Sub-family CERCOPIN#. TOMASPIS Am. et Serv. = (MONECPHORA). T. bicincta Say. Throughout the State VII, VIII, not rare. The variety “ignipecta Fitch” has been recorded from Madison VIII, 6. Sub-family APHROPHORIN®. LEPYRONIA Am. et Serv. L. quadrangularis Say. Warren Co. VIII, 13 (Coll); Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island VII-X (Ds); Riverton (Jn); Camden I, Collingswood III, sift- ing (Ss). L. angulifera Uhler. Ocean County (Uhler). APHROPHORA Germ. A. quadrinotata Say. Newfoundland VII, Westfield VII, Staten Island VI-IX (Ds); Chester VII-IX, Orange Mts. VIII, Lakehurst VII (Coll); Shark River VI (Jn). A. parallela Say. Throughout the State VI-IX on white and pitch pine, and probably infests other species; sometimes not rare. A. saratogensis Fitch. Newfoundland VII, Staten Island VII, VIII, James- burg VII, Farmingdale VIII, Lakehurst VII (Ds); Malaga VIII, 4, Browns Mills VI, 21 (GG). A. signoretti Fitch. New York, and probably also New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. - 99 PHILAENUS Stal. . lineatus Linn. Said to occur throughout North America. [UE oo . spumarius Linn. Also of general distribution. CLASTOPTERA Germ. C. proteus Fitch. Throughout the State in July. var. flava Ball. Hopatcong VII, Jamesburg VII (Coll). var. vittata Ball. Chester VII (Coll); Lakehurst VII (div). var. nigra Ball. Jamesburg VI, 22, VII (Ds); Lakehurst VII (Coll). C. xanthocephala Germ. New Brunswick VII, 20, Anglesea VII, 23 (Sm). C. obtusa Say. Piedmont Plain and northward VII-X, not rare; Staten Island X (Ds); Jamesburg VII, VIII (div). var. achatina Germ. Chester VII, 4, Jamesburg VII, 18 (Coll). JASSOIDEA. Under the general term “leaf-hoppers” are included a large number of active little species referred to the families Tettigoniellide, Bythoscopide and Jassidz. They are more or less elongate, usually tapering posteriorly, the head short, generally blunt and more or less crescent shaped, the tip of the beak projecting between the front legs. The feelers are very short and bristle-like, the hind legs long and fitted for leaping. They occur on grasses, shrubs and trees of all kinds and many of them are injurious, sometimes much more so than is generally appreciated. On grape one Fig. 36.—Athysanus vaccini. Fig. 37.—Thamnotetix fitchti. Fig. 38.—Agallia 4-punctata. species occurs that often becomes excessively abundant after mid- summer, punctures the cells of the leaves and produces a yellow spot which afterward turns brown. When these spots are sufficiently close together the entire leaf dries up, dies and drops long before the shoot is mature. Young apple trees frequently suffer from an allied species that yellows and dries the foliage soon after mid-summer. In general, the insects winter as adults in rubbish and crevices and lay 100 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. eggs in spring, many of the species developing several generations during the season. The adults are attracted to light, and many thousands are sometimes found in the globes of electric lamps near cities and towns; but we have not found it practical to prevent injury by thus trapping them. Remedial measures are, in general, cleaning up the rubbish in which they hibernate, capturing them on sticky surfaces, and spraying with some contact insecticide. The first method needs no explanation. Cap- turing on sticky surfaces is much resorted to in vineyards, sometimes merely with palm-leaf fans coated with tar or “tanglefoot,’ sometimes with elaborate screens run between the rows, the vines being jarred to induce the insects to jump or fly. Persistently employed this method de- stroys immense numbers, and if begun early in the season will secure practical exemption in fall. Spraying is with either kerosene emulsion or fish oil soaps. The mix- ture should always be made as strong as the foliage will stand, the spray should be very fine and should be applied with as much force as possible so as to reach the partly-grown insects which tend to crouch close to sur- face among the plant hairs; and it is also desirable to keep the air about the vines or plants filled with the fine mist so as to reach the adults that tend to fly at the first disturbance. In general the toll exacted by these leaf-hoppers is not appreciated by the agriculturist. Family TETTIGONIELLIDA. Sub-family TETTIGONIELLIN&. ONCOMETOPIA Stal. O. undata Fab. Riverton VII, 31 (Jn); Anglesea VI, 30 (Ss). O. costalis Fab. G. d., throughout the U. S. east of the Rocky Mts. AULACIZES Am. et Serv. A. irrorata Fab. Palisades VIII, Staten Island X, Navesink Highlands VIII (Ds); Jamesburg IX, 30 (Brb); Woodbury VI, 4 (Ss); Anglesea V, 30 (Coll). A. guttata Uhl. New York to Florida and sure to occur in New Jersey. KOLLA Dist. K. bifida Say. Madison (Pr); Palisades VIII, 21, Staten Island VIII, 7 (Ds); Jamesburg X, 2 (Coll); Riverton IX, 11 (Jn). TETTIGONIELLA Jacoby. T. tripunctata Fitch. Staten Island IX, 7 (Ds). T. gothica Sign. Staten Island VIII, 26, Jamesburg V, 25 (Ds); Lake- hurst VII, 7 (Coll). “T. hieroglyphica Say” does not seem to occur east of Illinois. DIEDROCEPHALA Spin. D. coccinea Forst. More or less common throughout the State, VI-X. THE INSECTS OF NEW: JERSEY. IO1 DRAECULACEPHALA Ball. . mollipes Say. Throughout the State, common, all season. . angulifera Wlk. Sure to be found in New Jersey. . nove-boracensis Fitch. “Doubtless common in grassy lowlands in New Jersey.” HELOCHARA Fitch. . communis Fitch. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island X, “New Jersey” III (Ds). Sub-family GyPoNIN 2. XEROPHLCEA Germ. . viridis Fab. (peltata Uhl.) Arlington (Coil); Jamesburg Vili, Si (Ds). . major Bak. Ft. Lee dist. X, 12, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Brb). GYPONA Germ. . cana Burm. More or less common throughout the State, VII-X. This name Mr. Van Duzee refers to the commonest large species in the State and cites “quebecensis Prov.,’” as a probable synonym. Some of the references under “octo-lineata” in the last edition belong here. . octolineata Say. This name is now confined to the large form with scarlet marks. Mr. Grossbeck has taken a pink form of this. . striata Burm. (flavilineata Fitch.) Also occurs throughout the State and probably confused with “cana.” Our records range from Chester to Lakehurst, and from VI to X. . melanota Spang. Madison VII, VIII (Pr); Staten Island VIII (Ds); “New Jersey” (Van D). . bimaculata Woodw. Del. Water Gap (Ss); Staten Island VIII, X (Ds). . scarlatina Fitch. Jamesburg VI-VIII (Ds); Merchantville X, 15 (Ss); Lakehurst VII (div). . olivacea Spang., not rugosa Spang. Clifton VIII, 24 (GG); Navesink Highlands VIII, 15, Lakehurst IX, 6-X, 6 (Ds); Riverton (Jn). . albosignata Uhl. Coastal plain of United States (Uhler). PENTHIMA Germ. . americana Fitch. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll); Greenwood Lake V, 18 (Brb); Madison VI, 27 (Pr); Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Lakehurst V-VII (div); Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Anglesea (Ss). 102 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. Family BYTHOSCOPIDAS. BYTHOSCOPUS Germ. . Variabilis Fitch. Newfoundland VII, 4, Singac VI, 15, Staten Island VI, VII, Lakehurst VI, 30 (Ds). . sobrius Wlk. Found in New York and probably in New Jersey. . cognatus Van D. Occurs with the preceding. . fenestratus Fitch. Singac VI, 15, (Ds). pruni Prov. Singac VI, 15 (Ds). . minor Fitch. Staten Island VI, 18 (Ds). . nigrinasi Fitch. Sure to occur in New Jersey. onoanDoooOW . distinctus Van D. New York to North Carolina, and surely in New Jersey. . fagi Fitch. Will probably be found in northern New Jersey. w PEDIOPSIS Burm. . insignis Van D. Newfoundland VII, 4 (Ds). . viridis Fitch. Riverton IX, 25 (Jn). . trimaculata Fitch. Sure to occur in New Jersey. . sordida Van D. Staten Island (Ds). ole oe Ayo) =a) IDIOCERUS Lewis. . pallidus Fitch. Staten Island VI, 22 (Ds). . suturalis Fitch. Sure to occur in New Jersey. . nervatus Van D. “New Jersey” (Van D). . lachrymalis Fitch. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . alternatus Fitch. Occurs throughout the eastern United States. . cratzgi Van D. On thorn, New York to Iowa. - maculipennis Fitch. Sure to occur in New Jersey. - provancheri Van D. New York tc Iowa. AGALLIA Curtis. A. 4-punctata Prov. Throughout the State, V—-VIII, more or less common; sometimes abundant on cranberry bogs, but probably feeding on weeds, etc., rather than on vines. A. sanguinolenta Prov. Newark, Jamesburg VII, 5, Merchantville X, 29, Lakehurst VII, 7, Anglesea VII (Coll). A. constricta Van D. Madisen VI, 1 (Pr); New Brunswick VII, 20, Ocean Co. V, Lahaway VII, 10, Anglesea (Coll). A. novella Say. Riverton (Jn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 103 Family JASSIDA. Sub-family ACOCEPHALIN &. ACOCEPHALUS Germ. . albifrons Linn. (mixtus Say.) Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . brunneo-bifasciatus Geoff. New Jersey (Ball). XESTOCEPHALUS Van D. . pulicarius Van D. New York and probably New Jersey. Sub-family JAssIN 2». Dorydini. s HECALUS Stal. . lineatus Uhl. Shark River VII, 9 (Jn); New Jersey (Van D). SPANGBERGIELLA Sign. . vulnerata Uhl. New Jersey (Sm). PARABOLOCRATUS Fieb. . viridis Uhl. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll). Deltocephalini. MESAMIA Ball (PARAMESUS Van D.) . nigridorsum Ball. Staten Island IX, 11 (Ds). . vitellina Fitch. Madison VI, 30 (Pr); New Brunswick (Sm). . cincta O & B. Manasquan IX, 23 (Ds); is the “jucundus” of the previous list. PLATYMETOPIUS Burm. . acutus Say. Chester VII, 3, Jamesburg X, 2, Lakehurst VII, 4, Angle- sea VII, 12 (Coll); Staten Island VI, VIII, X (Ds). . frontalis Van D. Chester VII-IX, Jamesburg X, 2, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); Madison VI (div); Cranford VII, 27, Staten Island VI, 22 (Ds). DELTOCEPHALUS Burm. . sayi Fitch. Madison VI, 14 (Brb); Riverton VI, 25 (Coll); Clementon (Jn). . inimicus Say. Chester IX, 10, Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll); Camden IX, 27 (Ss). 104 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . nigrifrons Forbes. Camden IX, 27 (Ss). . simplex Van D. Barnegat Bay Dist. VIII, 3 (Coll). . littoralis Ball. Barnegat Bay Dist. VII, 3 (Coll); Anglesea VIII, 23, Cape May VIII, 17 (Van D); on salt marshes. . obtectus O & B. Chester IX, 7 (Coll); Riverton IX, 11 (Jn). . areolatus Ball. Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). . flavicosta Stal. Chester IX, 7 (Coll); Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D); this is probably the species listed as “retroversus Uhl.,’” in the last edition. . affinis Baker. Monmouth Co., salt meadows, VII, 21, Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). “—). virgulatus Uhler,” is “Athysanus bicolor Van D.” GONIOGNATHUS Fieb. palmeri Van D. Staten Island VI (Ds). Athysanini. ATHYSANUS Burm. . striola Fall. Anglesea V, 20 (Sm). . parallelus Van D. Lahaway VII, 21 (Coil). . exitiosus Uhl. (Limotettix) Newark, salt meadows IX, 1, James- burg VIII, 8 on cranberry bogs (Coll); Riverton IX, X (Jn). . extrusus Van D. Madison VI, 16 (Pr); Overbrook V, 30 (Ds). . anthracinus Van D. Staten Island VI, Jamesburg VII, 5 (Ds). plutonius Uhl. Madison VI, 16 (Pr). . vaccini Van D. New Brunswick VII, 1 Jamesburg VII, Burlington Co. VIII, Anglesea V, 28; common on cranberry bogs, but apparently not injurious to the plants. This name replaces A. striatulus of the last edition. . curtisii Fitch. Budds Lake IX, 13, Chester IX, 9 (Coll); Roselle VI, 28 (Brb); Cranford VIII, 27, Staten Island VI, 17 (Ds). . bicolor Van D. (virgulatus Uhl.) “New Jersey” (Uhl). EUTETTIX Van D. . subzenea Van D. “New Jersey” (Ball). var. picta Van D. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Dn). var. tristis Ball. Lakehurst VII, X (div). var. marmorata Van D. Burlington Co. VIII, 19 (Sm). var. southwickii Van D. Newfoundland VII, 29 (Ds). var. lurida Van D. New York to Maryland. . johnsoni Van D. Chester VIII, 12 (Coll); Madison VI, 30 (Pr); Pali- sades IX, 22, Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). -| ot THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 10 . seminuda Say. Sure to occur in New Jersey. . strobi Fitch. Jamesburg V, 25 (Ds). PHLEPSIUS Fieb. . altus O & B. Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). excultus Uhl. New York to Florida, and doubtless in New Jersey. . humidus Van D. “New Jersey” (Jn); Clifton VII, 3 (GG). . truncatus Van D. Philadelphia (Jn). irroratus Say. Chester IX, 5, New Brunswick, Jamesburg X, 2, Lake- hurst VII, 7, Anglesea V, 20 (Coll); Staten Island VII, 9 (Ds). . fuscipennis Van D. Newark IX, 1, Anglesea VI, VII, (Coll), on salt marshes. . latifrons Van D. Aimost sure to occur in New Jersey. . fulvidorsum Fitch. Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Burlington Co. VII (Sm). . uhleri Van D. Jamesburg VII, 2 (Ds). . majestus O & B. Anglesea (Ss). . decorusO & B. “New Jersey” (Jn). ACINOPTERUS Van D. . acuminatus Van D. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D); Lakehurst VII, 12, VIII, 28 (div). SCAPHOIDEUS Uhl. . immistus Say. New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VIII, 16, Lakehurst VII, 4 (Coll); Staten Island VIII, 2, Farmingdale VIII, 11 (Ds). var. major Osb. Lakehurst X, 18 (Ds). . intricatus Uhl. “New Jersey” (Uhl). . luteolus Van D. “New Jersey” (Van D). . lobatus Van D. Madison VIII, 6 (Pr); Staten Island VIII, 7 (Ds). . consors Uhl. Ranges from New York to Texas. . jucundus Uhl. Staten Island VIII, 4 (Ds); Lahaway VII, 20, Lake- hurst VII, 7 (Coll). . auronitens Prov. “New Jersey” (Coll); Cranford VIII, 27 (Ds). . opalinus Osb. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). . fasciatus Osb. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). : Sanctus Say. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). THAMNOTETTIX Zett. . clitellaria Say. Throughout the State, common, V—X. . kennicotti Uhl. Madison VIII, 6 (Pr); Staten Island X, 3 (Ds). . fitchii Van D. Lahaway, Burlington Co., on cranberry bogs. 106 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. Uk T. T. Uc smithi Van D. “New Jersey” (Van D). melanogaster Prov. Have seen this from New Jersey (Van D). subcupreus Prov. Anglesea VIII, 23, Cape May VIII, 21 (Van D). perpunctata Van D. Wildwood (Jn, fide Van D). “Eburata Van D,’ is omitted as probably boreal only. There are, on the other hand, probably undescribed species in the collections from the salt marshes at Newark and from Anglesea. CHLOROTETTIX Van D. . unicolor Fitch. Madison VII, 25 (Pr); salt meadows, VIII, 23, James- burg VII, 15 (Coll); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds). . vViridia Van D. Cranford VIII, 27, Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); New- ark IX, 1, New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VII, 15, Anglesea VI (Coll); Riverton X, 9 (Jn). . tergata Fitch. Chester VIII, IX, Jamesburg, on cranberry bogs VIII, 8 (Coll); Cranford VIII, 27, Staten Island VII, VIII, Lakehurst IX, 12 (Ds). . galbanata Van D. New York to North Carolina, and doubtless in New Jersey. Mr. Baker claims that this is really “unicolor Fitch,” but Mr. Van Duzee does not agree. . rugicollis Ball. Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). Jassini. JASSUS Fab. . olitarius Say. Throughout the State VII-X, common. The name “bi- fasciatus Say,” of the last edition, refers to the female of this species. NEOCCELIDIA G & B. . tumidifrons G & B. Manasquan IX, 23, Lakehurst IX, 14 (Ds). Cicadulini. BALCLUTHA Kirk. (GNATHODUS Fieb.) . punctatus Thunb. Cranford VIII, 27 (Ds); Lahaway V (Coll). . impictus Van D. New Brunswick VII, 20, Lahaway VIII (Coll). EUGNATHODUS Baker. . abdominalis Van D. New Brunswick VII, 20, Anglesea V, 20 (Coll). CICADULA Zett. . sexnotata Fall. New Brunswick VII, 20, Monmouth Co., salt meadows VII, 31, Anglesea V, 21 (Coll); Woodbine VIII, 21, Anglesea VIII, 23 (Van D). o > THE INSECTS OF NEW: JERSEY. 107 . variata Fall. Staten Island VIII, 17 (Ds); Anglesea VIII, 23 (Van D). punctifrons Fall., with its variety “repleta Fieb.,’ have not yet turned up, but will be found almost certainly. Sub-family TyPHLOCcYBIN &. ALEBRA Fieb. albostriella Fall. Common throughout the eastern United States. DICRANEURA Hardy. . fieberi Low. “New Jersey” (Gillette). EMPOASCA Walsh. . smaragdula Fall. Common to the eastern United States. . fabze Harr. The bean leaf-hopper; occurs throughout the United States. . mali LeB. The apple leaf-hopper; common and sometimes decidedly injurious throughout the State. Found on a great variety of plants other than apple, and very difficult to control. . obtusa Walsh. New Brunswick VI, 9, VII, 20 (Coll). EUPTERYX Curtis. . flavoscuta Gill. Quite sure to occur in New Jersey. TYPHLOCYBA Germ. . tricincta Fitch. Will certainly be found in the State. . comes Say. The grape leaf-hopper. Common and sometimes very in- jurious throughout the State, especially in the southern section. Sometimes, in September, the foliage is dead and dry from the attacks of this insect long before the fruit is mature. The varieties “vitis Harris” and “vitifex Fitch’ occur with the type; the variety ‘“‘basilaris Say” occurs at New Brunswick on elm. . vulnerata Fitch. United States generally; the variety “niger Gill.,” has been taken at Chester, IX, 9 (Dn). . obliqua Say. Sure to occur in New Jersey. : querci Fitch. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Coll). . trifasciata Say. Riverton (Jn). bifasciata G & B. New Brunswick VIII, 24 (Coll). rose. Linn. The common rose leaf-hopper, which occurs abundantly throughout the State. 108 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family PSYLLIDA. Commonly known as “jumping plant lice” from their active habits, but really resemble much more closely a miniature Cicada in appearance. Both pairs of wings are transparent as a rule and the antennz are quite long, thus differing from the leaf and tree-hoppers to which in some other respects they are similar. Some of the species produce galls, while others feed exposed on the foliage. Our only injurious species is the “pear psylla,”’ which not only punctures the leaf and fruit stalk, exhausting the juices, but also excretes a honey dew in such great quantity as to coat the leaves and form a foundation for the de- velopment of a black fungus that covers both leaves and fruit and checks development. The insect hiber- nates as an adult in bark crevices and under bud scales, and a thorough spraying just before the buds open, with one of the miscible oils diluted no more Fig. 39.—Pear psylla; winged adult; enlarged. Fig. 40.—Appendiculate eggs of Psylla; much enlarged. than nine times, will kill most of the specimens in their winter quarters. Summer applications are not nearly so effective, because the young are often cov- ered by a frothy secretion and the adults fly readily to avoid the spray; but a strong kerosene emulsion is sometimes a great help in reducing numbers. There has been little collecting in this family since the last edition was published and the present list stands now much as it did then, as Mr. Schwarz left it. Sub-family Livin &. LIVIA Latr. L. maculipennis Fitch. Staten Island VI, 13, Jamesburg VII, 13 (Ds). L. vernalis Fitch. Common throughout the eastern United States on Juncus sp.; imago in winter on pine trees. P. fraxinicola Forst. Sub-family APHALARIN A. PSYLLOPSIS Loew. Atlantic City on “Fraxinus excelsior”’ (C V. R). Imported from Europe and quite injurious to ash trees (Sz). APHALARA Forst. A. calthea Linn. New Brunswick VII, 27 (Sm), on “Polygonum hydro- piper” (Sz). A. sp. nov. Sz. Anglesea V, 28 (Sm), on Solidago throughout the State (Sz). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. tog Sub-family PsyLLInz&. CALOPHYA Liv. C. nigripennis Riley. Common on sumach, “Rhus. copalina,”’ throughout the State; Anglesea V, 28. C. flavida Sz. Found only on the smooth-leaved sumac, “Rhus glabra”; also common. PSYLLA Geoffr. Fig. 41.—Pear psylla; pupa from above; much enlarged. Fig. 42.—Pear psylla; pupa from below; much enlarged. P. annulata Fitch. Sure to occur in New Jersey. P. carpina Fitch. Common on Carpinus in New York, and probably in New Jersey. P. buxi Linn. An -imported species on ““Buxus sempervirens,” which has been found in Jersey City. P. pyricola Forst. Throughout the State but more abundant in the south- ern counties. This is the ‘pear psylla,” and its injuries are very local though sometimes severe. PACHYPSYLLA Riley. P. celtidis-mamma Riley. Makes leaf galls on “Celtis,” in New Jersey (Bt): P. celtidis-cucurbita Riley. Also a common gall-maker on “Celtis” (Bt). P. celtidis-vesiculum Riley. Found with the preceding (Bt). P. venusta O. S. Paterson III, 25 (Coll); makes galls on the leaf petioles of hackberry in New Jersey (Bt). u celtidis-gemma Riley. Locally common in New Jersey, making galls on the twigs of Celtis. 110 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family TRr10zInz&. TRIOZA Forst. T. diospyri AShm. Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); common on persimmon every- where (Sz). ; T. tripunctata Fitch. Staten Island X, 31 (Ds); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); common, the imago frequently met with in winter on’ pine trees (Sz). Family APHIDID#. The “plant-lice,”’ ‘“green-flies” or “aphids” are among the commonest and most abundant of all our insects, and also among the most destructive. They have, when winged, two pairs of transparent wings, the anterior much the larger; but some species and some forms of nearly all species never develop wings at all. The bodies are plump, oval, with usually a pair of “honey tubes” or “cornicles” near the anal end, a pair of long antenne and rather long sprawly legs. They frequently cluster in great numbers about twigs or shoots of plants or on the under surface of leaves, sucking the juices and excreting from the anal end a thin sugary liquid, the honey dew. This honey dew when present in quantity tends to choke the leaves upon which it falls, and that tendency is furthered by a black soot fungus which develops on the honey dew and disfigures and some- times checks the growth of fruits as well as leaves. Fig. 43.—Wheat plant louse; much enlarged. The life history of the species is interesting and sometimes compli- cated; but briefly stated is generally about as follows: They winter as THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. III Fig. 44.—Eggs of apple plant louse; very much enlarged. 112 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. eggs, from which in spring hatch wingless forms which, in a few days, give birth to living young resembling the parents, and, like them, vivip- arous, i. e., giving birth to live young, and parthenogenetic, i. e., neither male nor female. These young are in turn ready to reproduce in a few days, and give birth to anywhere from 4 to 8 daily, according to condi- tions. Some time during the early summer winged individuals are pro- duced and these fly to other localities or other food-plants, thus spread- ing the species. They also are parthenogenetic and usually viviparous, and found colonies wherever they alight, the progeny being winged or wingless or some of each sort. In the fall, when sap ceases to run and -food becomes scarce, sexed individuals, male and female, are produced, and these copulate, the female laying the winter eggs. There are numer- ous modifications of this life history; but in a general way it applies to a large percentage of the species. Some species have alternate food-plants; i. e., they feed upon one plant late in fall and early spring, using it to winter upon, while in summer they fly to some annual like the melon or hop that dies down completely in fall and renders migration to the winter plants necessary again in late summer or fall. The spring migrations usually occur in June and the air is then sometimes apparently alive with these minute flying lice. The rate of increase among these insects is such that, were it not for the numerous natural checks, they would soon destroy every particle of plant life which they are able to feed upon. Remedial measures are, winter pruning where eggs are noticed in large numbers, the cuttings to be burnt; application of contact insecticides early in the season to destroy the stem-mothers; application of contact insecticides at any time when the insects are noticed, keeping in mind at all times that it is easier to kill a few than to reach a great many, espe- cially if they feed so as to distort the leaves or curl them up into shelters not easily penetrated by insecticides. Indoors the pyrethrum, dry or in the form of decoction, is a favorite and effective remedy. In the field, garden or greehouse, tobacco decoction, whale-oil soap or kerosene emul- sions are used. Soluble or miscible oils are not safe for summer use at effective strengths. Whale-oil soaps are used at from 1 pound to 4 to 6 gallons of water, according to the species to be reached. Kerosene emul- sion is used diluted with from 10 to 15 times its bulk of water, the green lice being most easily destroyed in all cases and the black lice the most resistant. Tobacco decoctions, home-made and commercial, are also used, and some of the commercial preparations are more effective than the home made mixtures. Whatever mixtures are used thoroughness in application is always essential. All these mentioned are contact poisons and of no effect unless actually brought into direct touch with the specimens. Therefore it re- quires not only a proper nozzle to make a fine spray, but also a sufficient amount of force to drive this spray to the specimens. Under some circumstances even cold water will kill plant lice, and a cold storm in middle or late June will play havoc with the migrating THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. yee forms and may practically exempt an alternate food-plant for the season. Little systematic collecting has been done in New Jersey in this family, and the list here follows Mr. W. D. Hunter’s Catalogue of 1901 as pub- lished in Bull. 60 of the Iowa Agricultural College Experiment Station. It is probable that numerous additions will be made when our fauna has been more thoroughly studied. Sub-family RHIZOBIIN 2. All the members of this sub-family occur on the roots of plants. TYCHEA Koch. T. brevicornis Hart. Chester VIII, 5, on roots of lettuce (Marsh). RHIZOBIUS Burm. R. lactucze Fitch. The common lettuce-root louse; found locally in- jurious. Sub-family CHERMAPHINA, PHYLLOXERA Fonsc. Mae oe Se iS Mes ing Y “ih ie h of) Fig. 45.—Grape leaf infested by Phylloxera. P. caryze—-caulis Fitch. Common; making galls on twigs and leaf stalks of hickory in New Jersey (Bt). 8 IN 114 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. caryz—foliz Fitch. Makes galls on leaves of Hickory; common throughout the Watchung Mts. P. caryz—venz Fitch. Forms pleats or galls along the veins or ribs of hickory leaves; sometimes locally common. P. vastatrix Planch. The grape Phylloxera; occurs throughout the State, but nowhere in destructive form. The other names occurring in the previous edition do not appear to be sanctioned by description, and are therefore omitted. It is certain, how- ever, that there are several additional species in the State. CHERMAPHIS Mask. (CHERMES.) C. abieticolens Thos. Edgewood (U S Ag); found locally on spruce. C. laricifoliz Fitch. Common locally on American larch or tamarack. C. pinicorticis Fitch. Jamesburg (Coll), and throughout the pine bar- rens; sometimes quite common. Sub-family PEMPHIGIN 2. TETRANEURA Hartig. T. ulmi DeG. Under side of leaves of European and American elms. HORMAPHIS O. S. H. hamamelidis Fitch. Makes galls on leaves of witch hazel, N. J. (Bt). H. spinosus Shimer. Makes gall on fruit buds of witch hazel, N. J. (Bt). PEMPHIGUS Hartig. P. acerifolii Riley. Found throughout the State on the underside of maple leaves, and sometimes abundant at New Brunswick. P. imbricator Fitch. Occurs on the leaves of beech, and is the “Schi- zoneura imbricator” of the previous edition. P. populicaulis Fitch. Makes galls at junction of stem and leaf of “Popu- lus monilifera,’ Passaic (Bt); also elsewhere in State. P. populiglobuli Fitch. Also found on “Populus” at Passaic (Bt). P. populivenz Fitch. Makes galls on veins of poplar leaves. P. rhois Fitch. Common on leaves of sumac (Bt); throughout the State (Sm); Caldwell (U S Ag). P. tessellata Fitch. The “alder blight.’ Sometimes very common locally, in September and October, forming conspicuous masses. P. vagabundus Walsh. Sometimes locally common on poplar. Cc. Ss. Ss. rPrr sr THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 115 Sub-family SCHIZONEURIN. COLOPHA Monell. | ujmicola Fitch. Makes the well- known cockscomb gall on elm; locally and seasonally common throughout the State. SCHIZONEURA Hartig. corni Fabr. A woolly louse on various species of dogwood, but also found on a variety of grasses and other plants. lanigera Hausm. The “woolly apple-louse.”’ More or less com- mon throughout the State, but never really injurious. It forms galls on roots, and clusters in masses about wounds on the trunk and branches. In the latter condi- tion it is easily reached by the kerosene emulsion. Root treat- ments have not hitherto been necessary in New _ Jersey. Occurs also on other plants and trees, and is the ‘ameri- cana” of the last edition. rileyi Thos. (ulmi Riley.) >> > > THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 117 APHIS Linn. . ambrosia Raf. On the various species of ragweed. asclepiadis Fitch. Occurs on various species of milkweeds. brassicee Linn. The common cabbage plant-louse. Occurs throughout the State and often in destructive numbers. cerasifolize Fitch. Common on wild cherry in Hunterdon Co. (Sm). . cornifolize Fitch. On the leaves of dogwood and “Cratzgus.” . gossypi Glover. The melon-plant louse: occurs throughout the State, but much more commonly in the southern counties, where it often destroys entire crops. It occurs also on a great variety of weedy plants on which it passes the winter, migrating to the melon fields in June. In ordinary seasons only a few hills in a field become in- fested in that month, and from these the spread is in every direction. Covering these hills with tight boxes, tubs or hay caps, and evap- orating beneath them carbon bisulphide at the rate of 1 tablespoon- ful to every cubic foot of space will often check the spread of the species over the field and save the crop. Once they are generally distributed the whale-oil soap is the only satisfactory remedy. forbesi Weed. The strawberry-root louse. Locally and seasonally common in the light sandy soils of southern New Jersey, and rarely injurious. In the more northern parts almost entirely absent. . maidis Fitch. The corn-plant louse. Sometimes quite plentiful, but not injurious in New Jersey. maidiradicis Forbes. The corn-root louse. A very destructive species in the middle west, but in New Jersey of only occasional occurrence. Found also on the roots of a variety of weedy plants and attended by ants that care for the winter eggs and colonize the young on proper plants in spring. . mali Fabr. The apple-plant louse. Occurs throughout the State, some- times in great numbers, causing serious injury. Spray very early when this species is noticed in numbers, to kill off the stem-mothers and their first brood before they cripple the leaves so as to serve as shelters. “Malifolie” is now considered a form of this species. persicze—niger H. F. Smith. The black-peach louse. Plentiful through- out the State south of the Piedmont plain and most abundant in the lighter sandy soils where the root form often does serious injury to young trees. On the Piedmont plain and northward it is rare and never injurious. Tobacco dust worked in a trench over the roots around the tree is more or less satisfactorily used as a remedy. : prunicola Kalt. Newark, Vineland (U S Ag); on plum. prunifolize Fitch. A widely-distributed species on plum. quercifoliz Walsh. Feeds on oak, soft maple and button ball. . rumicis Linn. The bean-plant louse. Generally distributed, some- times common, but never, in my experience, injurious in New Jersey. 118 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. = 2 N. SIPHOCORYNE Passerini. . salicis Monell. Occurs on various species of willow. RHOPALOSIPHUM Koch. berberidis Fitch. Feeds on barberry. dianthi Schrank. Kinkora (U S Ag). On pinks, carnations and ger- man ivy. In greehouses throughout the State. . rhois Monell. A feeder on sumac. : . solani Thos. Tomato-plant louse; sometimes does serious injury in parts of Salem and Gloucester Counties (Sm). . violas Pergande. On violets in greehouses throughout the State. MYZUS Passerini. . cerasi Fabr. Very abundant throughout the State on cherry and sometimes does severe injury. This is one of the black lice, very resistant to ordinary sprays, and best dealt with in late September when the sexed forms appear. . mahaleb Fonse. On plum, and a great variety of other plants. . persiczee Sulz. The green-peach louse. Throughout the State, but never in harmful numbers so far as I am aware. . ribis Linn. Occurs throughout the State on currant. Causes a dis- tortion and reddish discoloration of the leaf which is sometimes quite conspicuous and occasionally injurious. PHORODON Passerini. » humuli Schrank. The hop-plant louse. Throughout the northern part of the State wherever hops are grown, and reported also at Freehold (U S Ag). The winter food is plum and only the summer forms occur on hop. NECTAROPHORA Oestl. » avenze Fabr. (granaria Kirby.) The wheat-louse. Occurs throughout the State, and, in the southern counties, sometimes in destructive numbers. Ordinarily kept in check by its natural nemies, and when it does occur in numbers insecticide applications are generally im- practicable. cucurbitz Thos. On squash and pumpkins. Sometimes rather abund- ant late in the season, but never in harmful numbers. fragariz: Koch, var. immaculata Riley. On leaves of strawberry. . lactucze Kalt. Lettuce-plant louse. . pisi Kalt. (destructor Johns.) The pea-louse. Throughout the State south of the Piedmont plain, and seasonally common and destructive. Less abundant in the more northern counties. rose Linn. Throughout the State on rose; often common and injuri- ous. Tobacco decoction is, on the whole, the most effective material against this species. THE INSECTS .OF NEW! JERSEY: 11g N. rubi Kalt. A blackberry-plant louse which I have seen abundantly at Hammonton, and occasionally in smaller numbers elsewhere in the State. N. liriodendri Monell. Sometimes common on leaves of tulip trees. In harmful numbers at Vineland in 1899. N. rudbeckiz Fitch. Occurs commonly on ragweed, golden-rod and other plants. N. viticola Thos. Montclair, Perth Amboy (U S Ag), and generally throughout the State on grape. Family ALE.YRODID/. This little family, popularly known as “white flies,’ contains only a few small species in New Jersey, and most of these are of practically no im- portance except on plants under glass. “White flies” are dangerous pests in Florida and California on citrus plants, and occur in numbers in warmer countries generally. They somewhat resemble plant lice in appearance, but are covered with a fine whitish powder or flour. In the larval stage they somewhat resemble scales, but as adults both sexes have four well- developed wings. In the last edition only three species were listed, and very little collect- ing has been done to increase this number in New Jersey; but Dr. W. E. Britton, of Connecticut, has recently devoted considerable time to the study of these little creatures, and he has been good enough to prepare the following list of species, which he thinks will certainly be found in our territory when properly sought for. ALEYRODES Latr. A. abutilonea Hald. Infests “Abutilon avicenne” in Pennsylvania and should be found in New Jersey. A. actez Britton. Described from Connecticut on baneberry, “Actea alba” (W. E. B.), and will prob- 4 ably occur in New Jer- Fig. 47.—Aleyrodes citri with wings spread at a, dey and in natural position at b; much enlarged. A. coryli Britton. Described from Connecticut, where it occurs through- out the State; locally common on hazel nut and occasional on black- berry (W. E. B.). Should occur in New Jersey. A. corni Hald. On “Cornus sericea” in Pennsylvania, and should be found in New Jersey. A. fernaldi Morrill. Massachusetts and Connecticut on Spirza. A. forbesi Ashm. (aceris Forbes.) Massachusetts to Illinois, on silver maple (W. E. B.), and should occur in New Jersey. 120 REPORT OF NEW: JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. morrilli Britton. Connecticut and New York; locally very abundant on “Impatiens fulva’’ (W. E. B.), and will probably be found in New Jersey. A. mori Quaintance var. maculata Morrill. Massachusetts and Connecti- cut, on ash, hornbeam, catalpa and hackberry, and should occur in- New Jersey (W. E. B.). A. packardi Morrill. Massachusetts, Connecticut and probably through- out the eastern United States on strawberry (W. E. B.). A. vaporarium West. The “white fly’ or plant-house “Aleyrodes.” A common pest of green-houses throughout the State. “It has been found on over sixty different kinds of plants, but is especially in- jurious to tomato, melon, cucumber, ageratum lantana, fuchsia and heliotrope when grown under glass” (W. E. B.). A. waldeni Britton. Described from Connecticut, but will probably be found in New Jersey. Occurs sparingly, but widely scattered, on leaves of “Juglans cinerea” and “nigra” (W. E. B.). The “A. brassicze WI1k.” of the previous edition is probably not found in America at all. Family COCCIDA.. These are the “scale insects,’ broadly speaking, characterized by a degraded, larva-like form in the female, and by the presence of a single pair of wings only in the male. The latter is further peculiar in having a complete metamorphosis, a long anal style or filament and an extra pair of eyes replacing the mouth, which, in this sex, is not used at all for feeding purposes. There are several sub-families, differing much in habit and structure, but in New Jersey we need refer to only three main series, the “mealy bugs,” included in the “Dactylopine”’; the “soft scales,’ included in the “Coccine,” and the “armored scales,” included in the “Diaspine.” In the “Ortheziine’ we have no out-door species. In the “Dactylopine” there are the ordinary “mealy bugs” of the green-house, having no sort of pro- tective covering, and therefore easily reached by penetrating contact in- secticides; the species of “Phenacoccus” and allies, which have long waxy filamentous secretions, partly or wholly covering the insects at cer- tain seasons; and the species of “Kermes,” occurring mostly on oak, which have no powdery or filamentous covering. The species of “Phenacoccus” may be reached during the winter by diluted oil mixtures, and in sum- mer, when massed, may be often destroyed on shade trees by solid jets of water. The soft scales are species of usually considerable size, waxy surface texture, and more or less convex form. The “scale” is merely the thick- ened surface of the insect itself, and not a separate or separable structure. These insects are not easily reached by insecticides, except in the larval stage, and we have several of them that are more or less troublesome, , Tig. 48.—A soft scale; adult females. on Aste ae a ba THE, INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. [21 notably the ‘‘cottony maple scale,” the “tulip soft scale’ and the ‘“terra- pin scale” of peach. The armored scales are usually small in size, and the scale, although excreted by the insect, forms no part of it, and may be removed without necessarily injuring the creature covered by it. In this series are our most destructive species and those most difficult to deal with. Some of these scales are oviparous, laying eggs which winter under the protection of the scale; others are viviparous, wintering in the partly grown condi» tion. The “San José Scale” is an example of a viviparous form, and this may be reached in winter when the plants are dormant by caustics, like the lime and sulphur washes, or by penetrants, like the oil emulsions or soluble oils. The oviparous forms, like the ‘oyster shell scale’ and “scurfy seale,’ cannot be satisfactorily reached in winter, but must be dealt with when the young larve are moving in spring. At that time soap mixtures Fig. 49.—Development of an armored scale: a, active larva with lancets extended; b, somewhat contracted, with waxy filaments ready to run together; d, first scale just formed, from above and side; all much enlarged. or oil emulsions of moderate strength thoroughly applied produce good results. It is practically impossible to go into details of treatment here, because each species must be dealt with according to its own peculiarities. The scale fauna of the State is not well known. No collectors have devoted themselves specifically to this family, and the records of the office deal mostly with the common orchard species. In compiling this 122 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. list I have in general followed the excellent catalogue prepared by Mrs. M. E. Fernald, and published as a special bulletin of the Hatch Experi- ment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Dr. W. E. Britton, of the Connecticut Station, who has paid much attention to the scale insects in this section of the country, and who has especially collected the species found in greehouses and on ornamental plants, has been good enough to supply me with a series of notes indi- cating those species which from his experience he feels certain will occur in New Jersey. Quite a number of these species are confined to green- house plants and are unable to maintain themselves outdoors, hence, strictly speaking, they are not a part of the New Jersey fauna. They have been included, however, as matter of information and to call atten- tion to them. Sub-family ORTHEZIIN#. ORTHEZIA Bosc. O. insignis Dougl. The common greenhouse “Orthezia” occurring on a great variety of ornamentals, as well as on strawberry, tomato and other cultural plants. Not found in the fields. Sub-family DactyLoPIn. ASTEROLECANIUM Targ. A. quercicola Bouché. On various species of oak throughout the State, usually on single trees, and never abundant enough to be harmful. Easily recognized by its circular form and golden color. KERMES Boit. . andrei King. On oak from Massachusetts to Georgia. . galliformis Riley. On oak. Recorded from New Jersey by Fernald. . kingii Ckll. On red oak Cockerell believes it occurs in New Jersey. . pettiti Ehrh. Mass. and N. Y. on oak, and should occur in New Jersey. . pubescens Bogue. Lakehurst on oak (Ds). - guercus Linn. Widely distributed on oak. NUTONE ONION TONG TN, TPN . trinotatus Bogue. Recorded from New Jersey. GOSSYPARIA Sign. G. spuria Mod. Local on elm throughout the State; never common nor really injurious. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 123 ERIOCOCCUS Targ. E. azalez Comst. Found on Cratzegus, Rhododendron and Azalea. PHENACOCCUS CkKII. Fig. 50.—Phenacoccus acericola: a, the cottony masses covering adult females on leaf; b, young females and males on the bark; natural size. P. acericola King. The maple false scale. Referred to as ““Pseudococcus aceris” in the last edition and in economic publications. Locally common on sugar maple, often massing on the trunks in dense clumps and sometimes causing serious injury. In cities and towns where water pressure is available, turning on a solid jet from the hose at short range serves to destroy many of the insects. P. americanz King & Ckll. Found in the nest of the ants “Lasius ameri- canus.”’ 124 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PSEUDOCOCCUS Westw. P. citri Risso. Common mealy bug. Found in greenhouses throughout the State and on a great variety of plants, cultural and ornamental. Soap mixtures are usually found successful against these insects, but must be frequently applied until the species is gotten under control. D. longispinus Targ. Another common mealy bug, the ‘adonidum,” of the last edition. Occurs on ferns, cycas and other greenhouse plants. D. sorghiellus Forbes. Feeds on sorghum and also found in the nests of ants of various species of ‘‘Lasius.” D. trifolii Forbes. Clover root mealy bug; sometimes abundant enough to be injurious. Sub-family Coccin#&. PULVINARIA Targ. Wy Y = => = 2 oe yj Y 7 ta IL-1 Fig. 51.—Cottony maple scales: a, Pulvinaria acericola on leaf; b, P. innumerabilis on the twigs. P. acericola Walsh & Riley. A cottony scale on maple leaves; not really common in New Jersey, but g. d. P. innumerabilis Rathy. The “cottony maple scale.” Occurs throughout the State, chiefly on soft maple, but also on grape and Virginia ereeper. Found chiefly on twigs and branches and sometimes seriously injurious to shade trees. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 125 COCCUS Linn. C. hesperidum Linn. The commonest of the larger brown, soft scales. Found on ‘“Oleanders’” and on many greenhouse plants everywhere. Not an out-door species in New Jersey. C. longulus Dougl. Another common species in greehouses. Infests palms, ferns, ’ Acacia,” ‘“Myrica,” “Citrus,” &ce. EULEUCANIUM CkIl. E. armeniacum Craw. The apricot scale; found also on plum, pear, cherry, peach, &c., but not abundantly enough to be injurious. ml canadense Ckll. Massachusetts to Ohio on elm, maple, oak, hickory and peach, and should be found in New Jersey. E. caryz Fitch. Found on hickory, elm, wild cherry, &e. E. cerasifex Fitch. New York plum scale. On cherry, plum, peach, apple, pear, &c.; not common nor injurious in New Jersey. E. corylifex Fitch. On “Corylus” and “Viburnum.” E. cynosbati Fitch. On gooseberry and “Gleditschia.” E. fitchii Sign. Found in New York on raspberry and blackberry. E . fletcheri Ckll. On “Arbor vite” in N. Y. and Mass., and probably New Jersey. E. juglandifex Fitch. The butternut scale. E. kingii Ckll. On sassafras and Vaccinium corymbosum in Mass. and Conn. E. juglandis Bouché. Not rare locally, but never really injurious in New Jersey. —E. lintneri Ckll. & Benn. On sassafras in N. Y. and probably in New Jersey. m nigrofasciatum Perg. The “terrapin scale.” Common and injurious on peach in certain sections of Cumberland County; local and rare elsewhere in the State. E. persicae Fabr. The “peach scale.” Local and not common. Found also on plum, quince, gooseberry, grape, rose and other plants. E. pruinosum Coq. The “frosted scale.’ Infests a great variety of orchard and forest trees. E. prunastri Fonsc. New York and probably New Jersey on plum and peach. E. pyri Schr. On pear, apple, hickory and white thorn. E. quercifex Fitch. On oak, New York, Mass., and probably New Jersey. E. quercicitronis Fitch. Widely distributed on oak, elm, ironwood, chest- nut, &c. 126 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. ribis Fitch. The ‘currant scale.” Found on currant, gooseberry, mul- berry, &c. E. tulipiferee Cook. Throughout the State on the tulip tree and some- times in harmful numbers. The largest and most offensive of the soft scales in our State. SAISSETIiA Depl. Fig. 52.—Cottony maple scale: a, leaf covered with young scales; b, male scale; c, adult male; b and c much enlarged. S. filicum Bdv. Common on ferns in greehouses. S. hemisphzrica Targ. Common on palms, ferns and other greenhouse plants and often very injurious. Sub-family DIAsPIN 2. CHIONASPIS Sign. C. americana Johns. The “elm tree white scale’ Chatham IV, 29 (Brit- ton). Found throughout the eastern and central United States on American and other elms. C. caryze Cooley. Connecticut to District of Columbia on hickory. C. corni Cooley. On dogwood. I have seen what I take to be this species on several occasions in Middlesex and Mercer Counties. E. euonymi Comst. Common throughout the State on “Euonymus,” and sometimes destructive. Also taken on ‘Celastrus scandens.” THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 127 C. furfurus Fitch. The “scurfy seale” or “Harris louse.’ On orchard trees, chiefly apple and pear, throughout the State, and sometimes de- structive. Also occurs on poplar and other’ shade trees; rarely in troublesome numbers. C. lintneri Comst. Locally com- mon on alder in neighbor- ing States and probably in New Jersey. C. ortholobis Comst. Mass. to Ohio and probably New Jer- sey, on poplar and willow. Fig. 53.—Scurfy scale, Chionaspis furfurus, a, twig infested by female; b, by male scales; C. pinifoliz Fitch. Not uncom- c, female; d, male scale; much mon on pine trees through- enlarged. out the State, and sometimes locally abundant. C. salicis-nigraze Walsh. A common willow scale found at New Bruns- wick and elsewhere in the State. Occurs also on poplar, tulip tree, dog-wood, etc. C. spartinzee Comst. Found on the salt marsh grass, “Spartina stricta.” DIASPIS Costa. D. boisduvalii Sign. A hot-house scale found on palms, Acacia and other ornamental plants. D. bromeliz Kern. Massachusets to District of Columbia on various green-house plants. D. carueli Targ. A Juniper scale. Found occasionally in nurseries, and no doubt distributed by them throughout the State, principally on the trailing variety. D. juniperi Bouché. Another Juniper scale, but also found on arbor vite in nurseries. D. echinocacti Bouché, var. cacti Comst. A common green-house scale. AULACASPIS CkIl. A. pentagona Targ. The ‘West India peach scale.” Has occurred sparingly on young peach trees in South Jersey, but seems not to do well. The scale is a very destructive one where it thrives. A. rose Bouché. The “Rose Scale.’ Throughout the State. Thrives best on plants growing in the shade. Also attacks blackberry and raspberry; sometimes in destructive numbers. : PINNASPIS CkIl. P. buxi Bouché. On boxwood. I have seen this on some old nursery stock, and on one occasion in Burlington County on an old hedge. 128 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. FIORINIA Targ. F. fiorinizs Targ. A common green-house scale on many different kinds of plants. EPIDIASPIS CkIl. E. piricola Del Guer. The “European pear scale.’ Has been introduced on European nursery stock, but has not established itself as an in- jurious species. ASPIDIOTUS Bouché. A. abietis Schr. Burlington County, on pine. Occurs also on fir and hem- lock. A. ancylus Putn. On apple throughout the State; usually on young trees; never troublesome; infests also a variety of other trees. A. comstocki Johns. Infests maple trees. A. cyanophylli Sign. A common green-house pest on palms, orchids, etc. A. forbesi Johns. The “cherry scale.” Not uncommon in parts of Bur- lington County and occasional elsewhere in the State. Infests also apple, pear, quince, currant, etc., but thus far not really injurious. A. hederze Vall. (nerii Bouché.) The Oleander scale. Infests almost every Oleander I have seen, and occurs also on ivy, holly, box, and many other garden plants. A. juglans-regiz Comst. Throughout the eastern United States, on wal- nut, locust, maple and a number of orchard trees. A. ostrezeformis Curt. Has been found in New Jersey on pear, but occurs also on most other orchard and many forest trees. Cig ips ANI | Ms im an) : i f | | I Fig. 54.—a, larva of pernicious scale; b, its antenna; c, adult female showing embryos through body wall; d, tip of anal plate of female; all greatly enlarged. A. A. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 129 perniciosus Comst. The “pernicious” or “San José Scale.” Occurs throughout the State on all orchard trees save certain cherries, and also on some shade trees. The most abundant and destructive of all our species. rapax Comst. The “greedy scale.’ Occasional on walnut, but occurs also on a variety of other trees. ulmi Johns. Found on the smooth inner bark of the trunk of the elm under the upturned edges of the rough or outer bark (W EB). uve Comst. The “grape scale.” Have taken this at Egg Harbor. oxycoccus Woglum. Described from New Jersey on cranberry. CHRYSOMPHALUS Ashm. aonidum Linn. (ficus Ashm.) In green-houses on palms and rubber plants. aurantii Mask. Red scale of California, occasionally found on green- house plants. dictyospermi Morgan. On palms in green-houses; sometimes quite a pest. obscurus Comst. On willow-oak, eastern United States generally. tenebricosus Comst. The “Gloomy Scale.” On red maple, District of Columbia and probably New Jersey. LEPIDOSAPHIS Schimer. Fig. 55.—Oyster shell bark louse, Lepidosaphis ulmi: a, female scale from beneath, filled with eggs; b, same from above; c, twig infested with female scales; d, male scale and a twig infested by them; scales greatly enlarged. OREN 130 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. L. gloverii Pack. Elizabeth (U S Ag). Occurs on magnolia and also in green-houses, on all sorts of Citrus plants. L. beckii Newm. (citricola Pack.) Purple scale. Found commonly on oranges and lemons in market, and in green-houses. L. ulmi Linn. The common “oyster-shell scale,’ listed as “Mytilaspis pomorum Bouché” in the previous edition, and so referred to in the publications of the Expveriment Station. Infests a great variety of orchard, forest and shade trees throughout the State and is some- times destructive to orchard, shade and forest trees. L. neusteadi Sule. A Japanese species introduced on nursery stock, in- festing the conifer “Sciotopitys verticillata.” ISCHNASPIS Douglas. I. longirostris Sign. Occurs on palms in green-houses, Conn. to D. C. PARLATORIA Targ. P. pergandii Comst. The “Chaff” scale. On Citrus plants in green- houses. Order HEMIPTERA. These are the true “bugs,” or “half-winged’’ insects so termed, because the fore-wings have the base thickened and the tips membraneous. The same character also gives them the name Heteroptera or different winged, and not infrequently the two are combined into Hemiptera- Heteroptera as against the Hemiptera-Homoptera. In this series the beak is always more free and the head more mobile than in the Homop- tera, and in many cases the beak can be projected straight forward like a snout. The number of visible joints in the rostrum varies, the ap- parently three-jointed forms with short, thick rostre, being usually preda- tory, while those which have it four-jointed, long and slender, are more generally plant feeders, but there are numerous exceptions. The trans- formations are always incomplete and feeding is always done, in all stages, by piercing and sucking, whether of plant or animal tissues. In the species in which the beak is long and four-jointed it often bends in the middle when the insect is feeding, the lancets only being inserted and the terminal joint of the beak serving to steady and guide. Many injurious and some destructive species are found in this order in which, by the bye, many have peculiar and disagreeable odors. Since the publication of the last edition our knowledge of this order has increased greatly and the classification has been materially changed, while still greater modifications are proposed. Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, who is one of the younger students, has very kindly suggested the present arrangement along very conservative lines, and he has added much information and many records to the list. Im fact, as it stands, it is really his list with other records added, except in the Capside, or, as they are known, the Miride, in which Mr. Otto Heidemann has again arranged the series for me. Mr. H. G. Barber, of Roselle Park, New Jer: sey, has also been good enough to look over the list critically, and he has corrected many of the Paulmier records of the previous edition, the collection of that gentleman having come into Mr. Barber’s hands after the death of its maker. Quite a number of Uhler manuscript names have been omitted, and, although over 100 names have been added, the number of species not authenticated by actual records is lessened rather than increased. About 400 species are here listed. Mr. Bueno thinks that at least 500 occur in the State, and this leaves plenty of opportunity for additional work by collectors. (131) 132 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Division TROCHALOPODA. Super-family CIMICOIDEA. Family PENTATOMID A. These are the “shield bugs’; medium to large-sized species as a rule, rarely small, with more or less enlarged scutel covering a considerable part of the upper surface. Their habits vary, some of them are predatory, a few feed indifferently on plant or insect tissue, the majority are plant feeders, and, as a whole, to be accounted injurious. # a Sub-family ScUTELLERIN &, Fig. 56.—A Penta- tomid and its beak. A . : Large, often bright-colored, very convex species in which the scutel is so enormous as to cover almost the entire abdomen. TETYRA Fab. T. bipunctata H. S. Lakehurst IV-IX (div); DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke); Browns Mills V, VI (div). Sometimes found on young shoots of old pines, but is especially fond of young trees. In cold weather often secretes itself among the dead needles that accumulate on the upper side of the horizontal branches of pitch pine; hibernates as an adult (Ds). STETHAULAX Bergr. S. marmoratus Say. Lakehurst IV—VI, IX, common on cedars. (div). HOMCEMUS Dall. H. zeneifrons Say. Hewitt VII, 2, 25 (J1); Oak Ridge VII (Shoemaker) ; Westfield VII, 2 (Bno); local in distribution and limited in time of appearance. EURYGASTER Lap. E. alternatus Say. Hewitt VI-VIII (div); West Hebron VI, IX (Bno); Staten Island VII (Ds); on edges of marshy meadows; often com- mon. Sub-family GRAPHOSOMIN&. AMAUROCHROUS Stal. A. cinctipes Say. (Podops) Throughout the State all season. A. dubius Pal. Beauv. (Podops) Chester, Arlington (Coll); New Jer- sey IIT (Ds). A. parvulus Van D. Pt. Pleasant V, on sea beach, Lakehurst V, not com- mon (Brb). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. £33 Sub-family CypNINz. Peculiar in this series of species by having the feet formed for digging. They live in sand and mud banks and are of no economic importance. CYDNUS Fab. . obliquus Uhl. Jamesburg VII (Ds). CYRTOMEMUS Am. & Serv. . mirabilis Perty. Staten Island VIII (Ds); Camden V, 5 (Jn): Wood- bury VII, 29 (Ss). PANGAZUS Stal. . bilineatus Say. Madison (Pr); Arlington (Coll); Riverton IV, 16 (Jn); Avalon VI, Anglesea (Ss). GEOTOMUS M. & R. (MELANAETHUS Uhl). . pennsylvanicus Sign. (picinus Uhl.) “Atlantic States” (Uhl). . robustus Uhl. Anglesea (Ss). AMNESTUS Dall. . Spinifrons Say. Great Notch V, Madison X, Pt. Pleasant on beach V (Brb); Staten Island V, VI (Ds); Newark, New Brunswick IV, Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll); Riverton IV, V (Jn); Anglesea (Ss). . pusillus Uhl. (subferrugineus.) Madison V, X (Brb); Glen Ridge VI, 27 (Bno); New Brunswick IV, VIII (Coll); Merchantville X, 29 (Ss). SEHIRUS A. & S. (CANTHOPHORUS M. & R.). . cinctus Pal. Beauv. Greenwood Lake VII, Lakehurst V (Brb); New Brunswick VII (Coll). Sub-family PENTATOMIN &. In this series the scutel tends to become smaller and the wings are better marked. The insects are, as a rule, flatter above and not so firm in texture as some of the preceding groups. The beak is long, four- jointed, and many of the species are economically important. The typical “buggy” odor is well developed in most of them. 134 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BROCHYMENA A. & S. B. arborea Say. Throughout the State IX till next VI. The species are large, rough, known as “‘tree-bugs,” often present in numbers suffi- cient to attract attention, yet not conspicuous because their grayish- brown tints harmonize well with the bark of the trees on which they live. B. quadripustulata Fab. With the preceding and hardly less common. B. annulata Fab. Lakehurst IV—VI, IX (div). The “harisii’” of previous edition is a form of this species. PERIBALUS M. & R. (HOLCOSTETHUS Fieb). P. limbolarius Stal. Throughout the State, V-IX, common on shepherd’s purse. The ‘abbreviatus” of last edition is the same—the true species is western. TRICHOPEPLA Stal. T. semivittata Say. Throughout the State V-IX, common. CHLOROCHROA Stal. (PENTATOMA Oliv). C. saucia Say. (Lioderma) Staten Island IV, IX, XI (div). C. senilis Say. (Lioderma) Staten Island, fall and spring (Ds); Lake- hurst X, 19 (Bno). C. uhleri Stal. Occurs in New York and probably also in New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 135 . persimilis Horv. This is the species usually found as “juniperina” Linn., in collections; but that is European and does not occur in America at all. MORMIDEA A. & S. . lugens Fab. Throughout the State, common, V-IX. SOLUBEA Bergr. (CEBALUS Stal). . pugnax Fab. Ft. Lee VIII, 12 (Bno); Manasquan IX (Ds); Burling- ton Co. VIII, 7, Barnegat Bay Dist. VIII, 3 (Coll); Anglesea VII (div). EUSCHISTUS Dall. . fissilis Uhl. Throughout the State V—X, the most common species. . servus Say. Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI-X, Jamesburg VII (Ds); Lakehurst V (Brb). . politus Uhl. Throughout the State V—XI, locally common. . tristigmus Say. Throughout the State IV-IX, locally common; in marshy meadows. . variolarius Pal. Beauv. Throughout the State all season, often com- mon. . ictericus Linn. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee IX, X (div); Glen Ridge VI, 28, Pt. Pleasant VII, VIII (Bno); Staten Island VIII (Ds); New. Bruns- wick VII, Jamesburg VII, Lahaway VII, Anglesea, V, 28, [X, 6 (Coll). CAENUS Dall. . delius Say. Hewitt VI (Jl); Singac, Oak Ridge IX, Staten Island V, VI, VIII, [IX (Ds); Westfield VII, 16 (Bno); Orange Mts. VII, 10 (Jn); Madison VI, IX, X, Roselle. Park XI, Lakehurst V, common (Brb); hibernates as adult under stones in fields. HYMENARCYS A & S. . aqualis Say. Madison, rare (Pr); New Jersey (Van D). . nervosa Say. Madison VIII, rare (Brb); Staten Island IV, VIII (div); Jamesburg V, X, Anglesea IV, 4 (Coll); Westfield VII, 21, Clementon V, 30 (Jn). NEOTIGLOSSA Kirby. . undata Say. Cape May VI, 22 (Coll); New Jersey (Van D). . sulcifrons Stal. Anglesea VII, 4 (Sm); Lakehurst V (Brb), VII, 4 (Dow). 136 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. COSMOPEPLA Stal. C. carnifex Fab. Chester VII, 5 (Coll); Newfoundland VII, Oak Ridge VI, VII (Ds); Madison VII, Ft. Lee dist. [V (Brb); Great Notch V, 30 (Bno); sometimes locally common. MENECLES Stal. M. insertus Say. Sparta, Staten Island XI, 11 (Ds); Chester, Monmouth Co. V, 9 (Coll). THYANTA Stal. T. custator Fab. Madison VII (Brb), and south of the red shale through- out the season; recorded by all collectors. MURGANTIA Stal. M. histrionica Hahn. The “harle- quin cabbage bug.” This is a southern species that under special conditions sometimes extends into New Jersey, and has been taken as far north as Morris County. In 1896 it oc- curred in destructive numbers along the Delaware, but since then only occasional examples have been taken. Fig. 58.—The harlequin cabbage bug: a, b, larva and pupa, natural size; c, d, e, eggs, natural size and enlarged, NEZARA A & S. from side and above; f, adult, wings closed, and g, open; natural size. N. pennsylvanica De G. Through- out the State, fall and spring. N. hilaris Say. Throughout the State all season: not rare. BANASA Stal. B. calva Say. Madison (Pr); Palisades IX, 4 (Jl); Staten Island X, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Riverton VIII, 21 (Jn). B. dimidiata Say. Madison VI, VIII, X (Brb); Staten Island VI-VIII, Lakehurst V—-VII, X (Ds); Pt. Pleasant VII, VIII (Bno); Clementon V, 2 (GG). B. sordida Uhl. Massachusetts to Maryland, and sure to occur in New Jersey. DENDROCORIS Bergr. D. humeralis Uhl. (Liotropis) Greenwood Lake V, Madison VIII, com- mon (Brb); Farmingdale VIII (Ds); Lakehurst V-IX (div). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 137 Sub-family AsopIn#. STIRETRUS Lap. S. anchorago Fab. Hackettstown (U S Ag); Madison VIII, rare (Brb); Jamesburg VII, 7 (Ds); South Jersey (Coll); a predatory form that sometimes attacks asparagus slugs. Fig. 59.—Stiretrus anchorago; a, adult; b, nymph. PERILLOIDES Schout. (PERILLUS.) P. exaptus Say. Hewitt V, 1 (Bno); Madison VI, Roselle Park (Brb); Oak Ridge VI (Shoemaker). P. circumcinctus Stal. Throughout the State VI, VII, not common; feeds on bettle larve; the records for ‘“‘confluens’ in last edition belong here. P. bioculatus Fab. (Mineus) Staten Island VI (Ds). MINEUS Stal. M. strigipes H. S. Madison VII, 10 (Brb); Westfield VII, 4, Pt.- Pleasant VII, 27 (Bno); Jamesburg V, 11, VII (Coll); Lakehurst VII, 4 (Dow); Iona V, 16 (GG). APATETICUS Dall. (PODISUS H. S.) A. cynicus Say. Morris Co. (Jn); Madison VII, X (Brb); Hewitt VII, Brookville VII, Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); Newark VII, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). The species of this genus are quite usually predatory, and feed upon slugs of all kinds, including those of the potato beetles. 128 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. bracteatus Fitch. Certain to occur in New Jersey (Bno). A. maculiventris Say. (spinosus Dall). Common throughout the State all season. A. serieventris Uhl. Recorded from all sections of the State VI-VIII, but there is a question of determination involved, and most of the speci- mens may prove “maculiventris.” A. modestus Dall. Madison IX, common (Brb); Staten Island IV (Ds). A. placidus Uhl. Hewitt VII, 25 (Jl); Madison VIII (Brb); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Jamesburg (Coll); Lakehurst VII (div). Sub-family ACANTHOSOMIN &. ELASMUCHA Stal. E. lateralis Say. (Acanthosoma) Hewitt VII, 2 (Bno); Chester IX, 18 (Coll); Madison VII (Brb); Staten Island IV, IX (div); Anglesea (Ss). ELASMOSTETHUS Fieb. E. cruciatus Say. (Acanthosoma) Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Chester VII, 4 (Coll); Madison VIII (Brb). Family THYREOCORID/-. These are the Corimelenide or “negro bugs” of the previous edition, so named because of their generally uniform black color. They are shining, convex, almost as broad as long, the scutel covering almost the entire abdomen, and they resemble beetles of the Histeridz more than they do the usual run of bugs. They lay their eggs in black and rasp- berries, and these eggs have a peculiar bed-buggy flavor, which becomes offensively apparent when the fruit is eaten. THYREOCORIS Schrank. (CORIMEL/AENA White.) T. unicolor Pal. Beauv. (atra A & S.) Throughout the State V-—VIII, sometimes locally common. Us nitiduloides Wolff. With the preceding, but more rare. The form that occurs in New Jersey is said to be a variety, the typical form being western. T. lateralis Fab. Hewitt VI, Newfoundland VII, Staten Island VII, James- burg VII (Ds). Mr. Barber suggests that this is “gillettii’ Van D. T. anthracina Uhl. Pennsylvania, and sure to occur in New Jersey. T. gillettii Van D. Staten Island V (Brb); Cape May C. H. VIII, 21 (Van D); Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). i THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 139 pulicaria Germ. Throughout the State V—VIII; often common; occurs also on the salt marshes. Family ARADIDAS. This family contains the “flat bugs,’ so named be- cause of their form, which is adapted for life in the narrowest sort of crevices, under bark or in cracks of dead trees. They are generally dark brown or blackish Fig. 60.—A negro in color, are believed to be predatory in habit, and seem bug, Thyreocoris to be essentially forest species, isolated trees rarely pulicaria; en- larged. being infested. > So Se et See > Sub-family ARADIN&. ARADUS Fab. . equalis Say. New Jersey (Uhl, Bergroth). . quadrilineatus Say. Palisades (Jl); State Island IV, 10 (Ds). : . robustus Uhl. Ft. Lee VII (Jl); Madison, Lakehurst VI, a common species (Brb). . similis Say. Greenwood Lake V (Brb); Great Notch V, 30 (Bno); Staten Island IV, 10 (Ds); Lakehurst (Jl); Clementon V, 2 (GG). Commonly found in and under the fungus “Polyporus betulinus” growing on dead white birches or, in winter, nymphs and adults under bark near base (Bno). . hubbardi Heid. Almost undoubtedly in New Jersey (Bno). . acutus Say. Lakehurst (Ds); Anglesea IV, 11 (Coll). . inornatus Uhl. Prospertown, Lahaway VII, 3 (Coll). . crenatus Say. Pennsylvania and probably also New Jersey. . lugubris Fall. (rectus Say.) Staten Island (Ds). uniformis Heid. Probably occurs in New Jersey. abbas Bergr. New Brunswick IV (Coll). . cinnamomeus Panz. Staten Island IV, 10 (Ds); Lakehurst V, 27 (Bno); Clementon V, 2 (GG); common on pines. . niger Stal. Lakehurst IV, 14 (Ds); also under pine bark. Sub-family Mrzririn&. MEZIRA A & S. (BRACHYRHYNCHUS Lap). . lobata Say. Should be found in New Jersey (Bno). . granulata Say. Occurs from Canada to Maryland. . 140 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. NEUROCTENUS Fieb. N. simplex Uhl. Throughout the State, fall to late spring. N. ovatus Stal. Should also occur in New Jersey (Bno). ANEURUS Curtis. A. inconstans Uhl. Westfield VII-IX (Bno); Staten Island V, Perth Amboy V, 12, 31 (Ds); Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). A. fiskei Heid. Ft. Lee VII, 19 (Jl); Staten Island VI, 26 (Ds); under bark of dead hickory saplings, dead oak branches, etc.; sometimes. in company with the preceding. Family PYRRHOCORIDAE. Resemble the next following Lygeidze in form, but are stouter, with contrasting red and black colors and a different venation in the membrane of wing-covers. They are known as “red-bugs,’ where they occur com- monly, but we have only a single representation in our territory which, while a plant feeder, is not injurious. LARGUS Hahn. L. succinctus Linn. Jamesburg IX, 4, Lahaway VI, 7, Atlantic Co. (Coll); Lakehurst V-IX (div); Toms River (Brb); Clementon VIII (Jn); Atco VIII, 27 (Ss). Family LYGAHIDZ. Narrow, oblong bugs, flattened above, of moderate or small size, often gay colors and medium or soft texture. The position of the antenne and venation of membrane of primaries afford structural characters by which the student recognizes the group. All are vegetable feeders and some of them are distinctly injurious. Sub-family Lycans. ONCOPELTUS Stal. O. fasciatus Dall. Caldwell (Cr); Roselle Park IX (Brb); Staten Island VI, VII, IX, X (Ds); Riverton IX, 25 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 11, very common on milkweed (C G); Woodbury VI, Anglesea (Ss). LYGUS Fab. L. bicrucis Say. (Melanocoryphus) Staten Island, seashore V, 14 (Ds); Woodbury, Anglesea VII (Ss); Clementon VII, 6 (Jn). L. reclivatus Say. So distributed that its occurrence in New Jersey is probable (Bno). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 141 L. kalmii Stal. Common throughout the State IV-X. This is the species usually labeled ‘“‘turcicus” in collectiohs. L. turcicus Fab. All New Jersey specimens seen have proved to be “kalmii,”’ but it is recorded from Pennsylvania by Montandon and should occur in this State also (Bno). NYSIUS Dall. N. ericzee Schill. (angusta- tus Uhl). Camden IX, X (Ss); Westville V, 20° + (Im); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Dn); Lahaway, common on cranberry bogs, Anglesea V,. 28 Fig. 61.—Nysius erice: a, potato leaf showing in- (Coll). jury; b, nymph; c, adult: a, natural size, b, c, much enlarged. N. longiceps Stal. New Jer- sey (Stal). N. minutus Uhl. Woodbine VIII, 23 (Van D); New Jersey (Uhl). N. providus Uhl. Madison VII, VIII, X (Brb); Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Gr); Jamesburg VII, 18 (Coll); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Dn); Pt. Pleasant VII, 26 (Bno). BELONOCHILUS Uhl. B. numenius Say. Anglesea (Ss). ORSILLUS Dall. ©. scolopax Say. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll): May be an error and finally prove to refer to Nysius providus (Bno). ISCHNORHYNCHUS Fieb. I. geminatus Say. (didymus Zett.) Throughout the State all season; also labeled “‘resedee” in collections, but is not really Panzer’s species (Bno). CYMUS Hahn. C. luridus Stal. Pt. Pleasant VII, 26 (Bno). C. discors Horv. Madison (Pr); Roselle Park XI (Brb); Glen Ridge (Bno); Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll). C. angustatus Stal. Throughout the State IX until next VII. The records for “Cymodema tabida”’ in last edition really belong here. C. claviculus Hahn. Throughout the State, fall and spring. C. breviceps Stal. Madison VIII, Lakehurst IX (Brb). 142 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CYMODEMA Spin. C. exiguum Hory. (tabida Say.) Thus far recorded only from the Dis- trict of Columbia, but may occur in So. Jersey. The records in the last edition almost certainly refer to “Cymus angustatus” (Bno). Sub-family BrLiss1n #&. ISCHNODEMUS Fieb. |. falicus Say. Glen Ridge VII (Bno); Staten Island V, VI, IX (Ds); Lahaway, common on cranberry bogs in May (Sm). BLISSUS Klug. B. leucopterus Say. Roselle Park J, sifting (Brb); Caldwell (Cr); Glen Ridge VI, 1, Staten Island X, 25 (Bno); Camden IV, 22 (Ss); Angle- sea VII, 12 (Coll). This is the well known ‘“Chinch bug” that is so destructive in the wheat and cornfields of the middle west. In New Jersey, while it occurs throughout the State, it is really a somewhat rare species, not often found even by the collector. The reason fo. our exemption is climatic and is not due to any natural enemy or parasite peculiar to this region. Sub-family GEocoRIN z. GEOCORIS Fall. G. uliginosus Say. Madison IX, X, Ft. Lee IX (Brb); Camden X-—XII (Ss). G. punctipes Say. Madison, rare (Pr); Riverton IX, 25 (Jn); Merchant- ville X, 29 (Ss). G. discopterus Stal. New Jersey (Stal). G. limbatus Stal. New Jersey (Stal). G. piceus Say. Madison VIII (Brb); Camden Co. XI, 23 (Ss); commonly found on “Potentilla canadensis” (Bno). G. bullatus Say. Alabama to Nova Scotia and sure to occur in New Jer- sey. The species of this genus are found crawling about the roots of weeds in sandy spots, and sometimes under boards in winter. They have not been closely collected, and more will be found when search for them is systematically made. Sub-family PACHYGRONTHIN &. PHLEGYAS Stal. (PELIOPELTA Uhl.) P. abbreviata Uhl. Budds Lake VII, Madison VII, VIII (Brb); Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Gr); Ft. Lee Dist. VII, 4, Westfield VII, 16, Lakehurst V, 23:(Bno); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Jamesburg V, VI (div); Riverton V, 30 (Vk); So. Jersey, Swedesboro VII (Coll). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 143 CEDANCALA A. & S. CE. crassimana Fab. (dorsalis Say.) Madison VIII, Lakehurst IV, XI (Brb); Jamesburg VIII, 15, Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs (Sm). Sub-family OxyCARENINA. CROPHIUS Stal. . disconotus Say. New Jersey (Stal). Sub-family APHANIN#. LIGYROCORIS Stal. . diffusus Uhl. (sylvestris Stal, not Linn.) Greenwood Lake VI, Madi- son VII, [X (Brb); Chester VIII, IX (Coll); Westfield VIII, 13, Staten Island X, 25, (Ds); Jamesburg VII, X (div). . contractus Say. (sylvestris Fieb., not Linn.) Palisades VIII (Brb); Westfield VII, [IX (Bno). . constrictus Say. Chester VIII, IX (Dn); Camden IX, 30 (Ss); New Jersey (Stal). PERIGENES Dist. . fallax Heid. Chester VIII, 12 (Dn); Madison VII, Staten Island VI, Jamesburg VII (Brb). MYODOCHA Latr. . serripes Oliv. Hopewell IV, Madison VII, Ft. Lee Dist. III, Roselle Park XI, Arlington III (Brb); Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Gr); Staten Island III, V, VII, IX, XI, Jamesburg VII (Ds); Camden X, XII (Ss); Lahaway V, VII, XII (Sm). HERAUS Stal. . plebejus Stal. Madison IV, VI, Roselle Park, XII, 1, sifting (Brb); Camden XI, XII, common (Ss). . orbicollis Uhl. Chester, Newark, Arlington, Anglesea III, 19, Laha- way V, on cranberry bogs (Coll). Seems to be a mss. name and Mr. Barber thinks may be the same as above. PAMERA Say. . bilobata Say. Camden XI, XII (Ss). Mr. Bueno says the species is southern and the record may refer to the next following. . basalis Dall. Westfield VII, Glen Ridge VI, Pt. Pleasant VII (Bno); Madison VII, Roselle Park XI, Lakehurst III, IV (Brb); Camden, Merchantville (Ss); Ocean Co. V (Coll). 144 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PTOCHIOMERA Say. P. nodosa Say. Lakehurst IX (Brb). . clavigera Uhl. Lakehurst V, 2, IX (Brb). PYGA-US Uhl. . pallidus Uhl. Ft. Lee, Lakehurst IV, sifting (Brb). CLIGENES Dist. . minutus Berg. Lakehurst IX (Brb); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs (Sm). Is the same as “Pachymerus minutus” Uhl., mss. . pilosula Stal. New Jersey (Stal). CNEMODUS H. S. . mavortius Say. Hewitt VI, Brookville VII, Staten Island V (Ds); Lakehurst IV, VII, X (div). OZOPHORA Uhl. . picturata Uhl. Staten Island XI (Ds); Riverton VIII, 21 (Jn); Cam- den Co. (Ss); Anglesea VII, 23 (Coll). DRYMUS Fieb. . unus Say. (Megalonotus) Roselle Park V, sifting under Alder (Brb); Jamesburg XII, 1 (Dn); Avalon IV, 10 (Coll). PERITRECHUS Fieb. . fraternus Uhl. Lakehurst IIJ-V (Brb); Lahaway, on cranberry bogs V (Coll). SPHRAGISTICUS Stal. . nebulosus Fall. (Trapezonotus) Lakehurst IV (Brb); Camden XII (Ss). . rufipes Stal. Lakehurst V (Brb). ARPHANUS Dist. . umbrosus Dist. (Dorochrosa illuminatus Dist.) New York to District of Columbia, and I have seen it from New Jersey (Sm). EMBLETHIS Fieb. . vicarius Horv. Lakehurst IV (Brb). E. arenarius Linn. is a misidentification of the Linnzan species, and Gonianotus marginepunctatus is probably this same form (Bno). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 145 EREMOCORIS Fieb. E. ferus Say. Paterson IV, Madison III, X (Brb); Staten Island IV (Ds); Lakehurst IV, VII, X (div); Anglesea III, 19 (Coll). CRYPHULA Stal. C. parallelogramma Stal. Camden (Ss); Lakehurst V (Brb). SCOLOPOSTETHUS Fieb. S. atlanticus Horv. New Jersey (Hory). . diffidens Horv. Lakehurst IV (Brb). S. thomsoni Reut. Roselle Park XI, by sifting (Brb). n Family COREIDAL. Oblong, moderately stout species of medium or rather large size, flat- tened above, the common squash-bug being a fair representative of the family. The hind legs are sometimes abnormally developed, the femora large or clubbed or the tibiz with leaf-like expansions; sometimes the edges of the abdomen are raised at the sides so that the wings lie in a depression. The odors in this family are especially well developed, more penetrating and more offensive than in any other. Most of them are vegetable feeders, and some are of economic importance. Sub-family MERocORIN#. CORYNOCORIS Mayer. C. typhzeus Fab. Chester VII, 20 (Coll); Madison VII, VIII, Milltown VIII (Brb); Westfield VII, [IX (Bno); Staten Island VI (Ds); Riverton VII, 3 (Jn). The “distinctus” of previous edition was an error of deter- mination. Sub-family Mictin#&. ARCHIMERUS Burm. A. calcarator Fab. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee VIII (Bno); Staten Island VI, IX (div); Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Anglesea VI, 20 (Coll). ACANTHOCERUS Pal. Beauv. A. galeator Fab. (Euthoctha) Throughout the State VI-IX; not rare. TO TN 146 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family ACANTHOCEPHALIN A. ACANTHOCEPHALA Lap. A. terminalis Dall. (Metapodius) Piedmont Plain and northward, IX until next VII; also Riverton (Jn). The “femoratus” of previous edi- tion is this same species. Sub-family ANISOSCELIN At. LEPTOGLOSSUS Guer. L. oppositus Say. Staten Island X (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, 23 (Coll); Lakehurst V (Brb); Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn). corculus Say. New Brunswick (Coll); Westville VII, 4 (Jn). r Sub-family CHARIESTERIN &, CHARIESTERUS Lap. C. antennator Fab. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island VIII, Jamesburg VII, 5, Lakehurst VII, 29 (Ds); Farmingdale VII (Jn); Camden (Ss). Sub-family CENTROSCELIN &. ANASA A & §S. A. tristis De G. The common squash bug; occurs throughout the State. Hibernates as an adult, lays eggs in large patches on underside of leaves of all sorts of Cucurbs, and matures two broods. In garden's gather the con- spicuous eggs early in the season and destroy them. In fields plow out and destroy the vines as soon as crop is off, to prevent adults from coming to maturity. Insecticides are not indicated. A. armigera Say. Also on squashes and other cucurbs from New Brunswick southward. I have no records from more northern points, but believe it will occur there as well. Under ordinary circumstances it will not be differ- entiated from “tristis.” A. repetita Heid. Also resembles the common species so closely as to be readily mistaken Fig. 62.—The squash- for it. I have no actual Jersey records, but it bug, Anasa tristis; enlarged. has been found in Pennsylvania, and I have no doubt it occurs with us. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 147 Sub-family MiIcrELYTRIN A. PROTENOR Stal. P. belfragei Hagl. Staten Island VIII (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 18 (Coll); in wet meadows on grasses. Sub-family ALYDIN 2. ALYDUS Fab. A. urinus Say. Throughout the State VI-IX; everywhere common. A. pilosulus H. S. With the preceding, but less common. “These two species are commonly found in patches of clover in meadows or in bush clover.” (Bno). A. quinquespinosus Say. Throughout the State Vix A. conspersus Mont. Newfoundland IX (Ds). STACHYOCNEMUS Stal. S. apicalis Dall. Riverton V, 26 (Jn), VIII, 17 (Van D); found running on sandy spots in company with “Cicindela”’ (Bno). Sub-family CorizIn&. HARMOSTES Burm. H. reflexulus Stal. Common throughout the State all season. The “fraterculus” of previous edition also belongs here. CORIZUS Fall. C. crassicornis Linn. (noveeboracensis Sign.) Chester IX, 5 (Coll). C. lateralis Say. Common throughout the State, late VI until winter, and again until late next V. All records of other species in previous list should in all probability refer here. C. side Fab. has never been authentically recorded north of Maryland (fide Hambleton), and should not be included in any lists from the middle States (Bno). C. nigristernum Sign. Is recorded from New York and Pennsylvania and certainly occurs in New Jersey. Sub-family BERYTIN A. These are the “stilt-bugs”; long, slender species with thin, thread-like legs and antenne. The thighs and feelers are clubbed, and, altogether, the insects have a peculiar spidery appearance. They are plant feeders, but of no economic importance. 148 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. NEIDES Say. N. muticus Say. Greenwood Lake V (Brb); Hewitt VII, Staten Island VIII (Ds). JALYSUS Stal. J. spinosus Say. Throughout the State V, VII-IX, locally common. Family TINGITID/. These peculiar little creatures have been called “lace-bugs’ from the net or lace-like covering of the wings and other body parts. This renders them easy of recognition, and, under a lens of even moderate power, they are really pretty. They are plant feeders and sometimes occur in num- bers sufficient to cause injury to garden plants or shrubs. As field pests they are not troublesome in New Jersey, and, in general, contact poisons would be advised against them should they become in the least dangerous. Sub-family PresMINn a. PIESMA Lep. & Serv. P. cinerea Say. Locally common throughout the State on horse chest- nuts, under bark of “Platanus,” &c. Sub-family TIncrrin &. CORYTHUCA Stal. C. ciliata Say. Chester VIII, 19 (Dn); Staten Island (Ds); New Jersey (Sm). On sycamore in great numbers on under side of leaves; adults hibernate under bark and under leaves at base of tree (Bno). C. arcuata Say. (juglandis Fitch.) Throughout the State all season, on a variety of trees, but most abundant on walnut. C. gossypii Fab. Palisades VII, 4, Pt. Pleasant VII, 26 (Bno). C. pergandei Heid. Roselle Park XI-II, sifting under Alder, on which it feeds (Brb); Staten Island VI, 9 (Ds); Lakehurst IX, 20 (Bno). C. marmorata Uhl. New York to North Carolina, and sure to occur in New Jersey. LEPTOBYRSA Stal. L. explanata Heid. Newfoundland VII, 8 (Ds); Springfield, Rutherford V-VII, IX (Dn); on Kalmia and Rhododendron. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 149 GARGAPHIA Stal. G. amorphz Walsh. Lakehurst IX (Brb). G. tiliz Walsh. New York to Virginia, on bass- wood. G. fasciata Stal. Found in Pennsylvania and prob- ably in New Jersey. LEPTOSTYLA Stal. L. oblonga Say. Greenwood Lake V, Jamesburg VII (Brb); Lakehurst VII, 4, Lahaway, V, VIII (Coll); on cranberry bogs (Sm). Fig. 63.—A lace-bug, Gargaphia angulata; much enlarged. MELANORHOPALA Stal. M. clavata Stal. (Tingis) Westfield through VII, the short-winged form only (Bno); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Jamesburg VII (Brb). PHYSATOCHEILA Fieb. P. plexa Say. Madison VIII, IX, Lakehurst IV (Brb). LEPTOYPHA Stal. L. mutica Say. Madison VI, rare (Brb). TELEONEMIA Costa. T. elangata Uhl. “United States” (Uhl). Super-family NEPOIDEA. Family NABIDA. These are yellowish or black, rather flattened bugs, predatory in char- acter, found on flowers and vegetation generally, seeking what they may devour. They are useful in destroying many small vegetable feeders in the early stages. Our collections are poor and not well determined, so the list is, as yet, largely guess work. It is more than likely that all and more will be found with us when systematic collections are made. PAGASA Stal. P. fusca Stein. (pallipes Stal.) Madison VIII, IX, Jamesburg VI (Brb); lives under stones in fields (Bno). REDUVIOLUS Kirby. (CORISCUS Schrank.) R. subcoleoptratus Kirby. Madison VI, common (Brb); Oak Ridge VI, VII, Staten Island V (Bno); New Jersey (Ss). . sericans Reut. Probably found in New Jersey (Bno). . sordidus Reut. Probably occurs in New Jersey (Bno). . pallescens Reut. “New Jersey” (Brb). ee ee) 150 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. R. annulatus Reut. Madison (Pr); Riverton IX, 11 (Jn). R. inscriptus Kirby. Canada to Virginia. R. rufusculus Reut. Occurs from New York to Virginia. R - ferus Linn. Common throughout the State IV—XII, and the best known representative of this family. R. capsiformis Germ. Probably occurs in New Jersey. R. kalmize Reut. Occurs near the line in Pennsylvania. R. roseipennis Reut. (punctipes Reut.) “New Jersey” (Reut). R. propinqguus Reut. New York and probably New Jersey (Bno). R. vicarius Reut. Will probably be found in New Jersey (Bno). R. assimilis Uhl. Ranges from Canada to Maryland. Family GERRID/. This aggregation comprises the “water striders,”’ ‘marsh treaders” and other species that live in wet places or on the water surface. As a rule, the body is narrow and elongated, covered with a velvety pile adapted to shed or repel water. The legs are long and slender, and the insects are adapted to move rapidly over the surface of the water, resembling spiders when the legs are fully extended. They are predatory in habit in all stages, and where they occur in numbers no Anopheles or other mosquito larve are able to maintain themselves. Sub-family VELIINA. RHAGOVELIA Mayr. R. obesa Uhl. Hewitt VII, Cranford VIII, Staten Island VII, VIII, Lake- hurst VII, X (Ds); Bloomfield VI, Rahway River VIII, Lakehurst IX; a very common species in swiftly running streams (Bno). MICROVELIA Westw. M. marginata Uhl. (capitata) Ft. Lee X, 10, Cranford VIII, 6 (Bno). M. albonotata Champ. Westfield V, 3, VII, VIII, 13, Staten Island VII, 8 (Bno); Riverton VIII, 3 (Jn). M. americana Uhl. (Hebrus) Westfield VII, 4-IX, 2, Cranford VIII, Ft. Lee Dist. V, 28, IX, X, 10, Staten Island VI, 3, VIII, 19 (Bno). M. boreale Bno. (pulchella Westw.) Westfield VI-IX, Bloomfield VI 30, Cranford VIII, Ft. Lee Dist. VII-IX, Staten Island V—VIII (Bno). This is the species usually labelled ‘“‘pulchella”’ in collections, but it is really a distinct form. Sub-family GERRIN A. This contains the narrower forms listed as Hydrobatide in the previous edition. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 151 GERRIS Fab. . buenoi Kirk. Staten Island IV—VII (Ds); VIII 19 (Bno). . marginatus Say. (Limnotrechus) Throughout the State III-X, com- mon. . canaliculatus Say. Echo Lake, Westfield IV-IX, Cranford VIII, 6, Ft. Lee Dist. IV, 19 (Bno); Staten Island VII, VIII (div). . remigis Say. (Hygrotrechus) Westfield VII, VIII, Bloomfield V, 23, Cranford VIII, Ft. Lee Dist. X, 20 (Bno); Staten Island III-X (Ds); Grantwood VIII, 19, Jamesburg VIII, 2 (Coll); one of our common forms. . conformis Uhl. Morris Co. (Jn); Great Notch V, 30, Rahway River VIII, 6 ((Bno); Lahaway VI, 1 (Coll). LIMNOPORUS Stal. . rufoscutellatus Latr. Madison (Pr); Westfield VIII, Glen Ridge VI, 30, Ft. Lee Dist. IV-X (Bno); Staten Island VII (Ds); New Bruns- wick IV, 22 (Coll). METROBATES Uhl. - hesperius Uhl. New York to North Carolina and sure to occur in New Jersey. TREPOBATES Uhl. (STEPHANIA White.) . pictus Uhl. Echo Lake, Westfield IX, 2 (Bno); Lakehurst X, 18 (Ds). RHEUMATOBATES Bergr. Fig. 64.—A water-strider, Rheumatobates rileyi, female: a, anterior tarsus; b, ovipositor; c, hind tarsus; much enlarged. 152 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. R. rileyi Bergr. Madison (Pr); Echo Lake, Westfield IX, 2, Cranford VIII, 6-27 (Bno). Sub-family MEsovELIINz. MESOVELIA Muls. & Rey. M. bisignata Uhl. Glen Ridge VI, 28, Bloomfield VI, 30, Westfield VI-IX, Cranford VIII, Ft. Lee Dist. VIII, IX, Point Pleasant (Bno); Staten Island VII-IX (div). Sub-family HypDROMETRIN &. These are the “marsh-treaders,’ found moving about on mud flats; they are listed as Limnobatide in the previous edition. HYDROMETRA Latr. H. martini Kirk. (lineata Say.) Madison (Pr); Westfield VI-IX, Cran- ford VIII, 27, Ft. Lee Dist. V, 21 (Bno); Staten Island IV—X (div); Camden XII (Jn). Family NAVOGEID/. The two species in our fauna were listed under “Hebrus” in the last edition and placed under the family ‘“Veliide,’ which the species re- semble; in fact, the ‘“Hebrus americanus” Uhl. is really a “‘Microvelia.” : NAZOGEUS Lap. (HEBRUS Curt.) N. burmeisteri Leth. & Sey. (pusillus Burm.) “United States” (Uhl). N. concinnus Uhl. Chester, Arlington (Coll); Westfield IV, 19, VII (Bno). There may be really only a single species in New Jersey ana the two names here listed may both refer to that one (Bno). Family REDUVIDZS. Called “pirate bugs” and “assassin bugs” from their predatory habits, which make them decidedly beneficial. They have long legs, the anterior often enlarged for grasping, a very narrow head with small, though promi- nent eyes, and a short, very stout curved beak, which is rigid and cannot be folded back against the head. These characteristics render the family an easily recognizable one, although there is a great variety in form and general appearance. A number of them have become adapted to life in cities, and, on shade trees, are of material service in reducing the num- ber of plant feeders. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 153 Most of the species resent being handled and will, if they get a chance, puncture the hand that holds them, or they may “bite,” on general prin- ciples, if they alight on an exposed surface. The “bite” or puncture is severe and poisonous, often causing intense pain and more or less swell- ing, which may persist for a long time. A few species live in houses, and in the Southern States one of them attacks human beings and is known as the “big bed-bug.” Another species has the more satisfactory habit of feeding on common bed-bugs and other household pests. This, while of good size, is seldom seen, because it covers itself with dust and fluffy material that accumulates in corners which make it resemble a little wad of waste. Sub-family EMEsSIN &. This is a series of very slender species with enormously lengthened legs which has given rise to the common name “thread-legged” bugs. The anterior legs are fitted for grasping, and, slight as the insects are, they depend for their food upon species unable to resist them. They are not usually abundant. PLOIARIOLA Reut. P. errabunda Say. (Cerascopus.) Taken in adjacent States and sure to occur in New Jersey. EMESA Fab. E. longipes De G. Throughout the State VII-IX, not common. Occurs on bushes at the edges of fields and about barns and is said to prey on spiders. BARCE Stal. B. annulipes Stal. Staten Island (Ds); Lakehurst V, VII, IX, X (div). B. simplicipes Uhl. New York and probably New Jersey; both species under planks or logs in fields (Bno). LUTEVA Dohrn. L. carolina H. S. Will probably be found in New Jersey (Bno). Sub-family Sarcrn #. ONCEROTRACHELUS Stal. O. acuminatus Say. Greenwood Lake V, Roselle Park I, sifting (Brb); Jamesburg XII, 1 (Dn); Pt. Pleasant VIII, 8 (Bno). 154 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family STENOPODIN A. PNIRONTIS Stal. P. infirma Stal. Camden VIII, 1 (Ss). P. languida Stal. Will probably be found in New Jersey (Bno). PYGOLAMPIS Germ. P. sericea Stal. Taken in adjacent States and will probably be found in New Jersey (Bno). P. pectoralis Say. Madison VIII, Ft. Lee V (Brb); Pt. Pleasant VIII, 8 (Bno). STENOPODA Lap. S. culiciformis Fab. Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Far- mingdale VII, 14 (Jn); Sandy Hook VII, Anglesea VI, 28 (Coll); at light (Bno). NARVESUS Stal. N. caroliniensis Stal. Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). Sub-family ACANTHASPIN &. REDUVIUS Fab. R. personatus Linn. (Opsiccetus.) Staten Island V, VII (div); Orange Mts., New Brunswick VII, 3, Lahaway VII, 5 (Coll). This is the “bed-bug hunter” referred to in the introduction to the family. CONORHINUS Lap. C. sanguisugus Lec. The “big bed-bug”’ of the Southern States. Has not been actually taken in the State so far as I know, but has oc- curred in Pennsylvania, and its presence in the pine barrens may be expected. Sub-family PrraTin a. MELANOLESTES Stal. M. picipes H. S. Madison IX, Hopewell IV (Brb); Staten Island III, IV, IX (Ds); New Brunswick, Hightstown, Lahaway VII, 5 (Coll); Atco IV, 29, Collingswood V, 4 (Ss). This and the next species made a temporary stir in 1899 as “kissing bugs,’ because of a number of re- ported cases where ‘bites’ had caused swellings of the lips. These species bite very readily, and if, in flight, they strike the face of an individual, they are very apt to puncture promptly. There is no THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 155 doubt that some such cases did occur; there is no doubt either that the majority of the reported cases were attributable to altogether different causes. They live and develop under stones. M. abdominalis H. S. With the preceding at about the same times. RASAHUS A. & S. R. thoracicus Stal. Will probably be found in New Jersey (Bno). SIRTHENEA Spin. S. stria Fab. (carinata Fab.) Westwood V, 4 (Angell); Woodbury V, from globes of electric light (div); Lahaway V, 28 (Coll). Sub-family EcuTRICHODINA. ECHTRICHODIA L. & S. E. cruciata Say. Jamesburg VIII (Ds); Anglesea (div). Sub-family APIOMERIN#. APIOMERUS Hahn. A. crassipes Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 14 (Jn); Jamesburg VII, 4D, Lakewood, Lakehurst VII, 7, Atlantic City VII, 19 (Coll); Tuckerton VIII, IX (Ds); Anglesea (Ss). Sub-family HARPACTORIN#. MILYAS Stal. M. cinctus Fab. Throughout the State IV-VII, [X, not common. ZELUS Fab. (DIPLODUS A. & S.) Z. luridus Stal. Throughout the State VI-VIII; “exsanguis’” Stal is the western form. Z. socius Uhl. Lakewood (Coll); Lakehurst IV, V, VII, IX (div). FITCHIA Stal. F. nigrovittata Stal. Staten Island V, IX, XI (Ds), on salt meadow under boards (Brb); Lakehurst IV—VII, IX (div); on bushes in summer; under stones in spring (Bno). 156 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ROCCONOTA Stal. R. annulicornis Stal. (Heza) Westfield VII, 2 (Bno); New Brunswick VIL, 27 (Coll): Fig. 65.—The “wheel-bug,” Arilus cristatus, in all its stages; natural size, except the individual eggs, which are enlarged. ARILUS Hahn. A. cristatus Linn. (Prionidus) The “wheel-bug.’’ Occurs throughout the State, but more commonly in the southern sections. It is the largest species of the family and conspicuous by its toothed thoracic crest, which looks from the side like the segment of a cog-wheel. The egg- masses are frequently found on fruit trees, but the insects are bene- ficial rather than harmful. They feed on all sorts of slugs and cater- pillars, and according to Mr. Davis, also take grasshoppers and bumble-bees. ACHOLLA Stal. A. multispinosa De G. Throughout the State VI-X. “I have found this dropping from elm and other trees in Westfield; it is highly pre- daceous (Bno). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 157 SINEA A & S. S. diadema Fab. Common throughout the State all summer, especially in clover patches. On city shade trees it feeds on larve of elm-leaf beetles, young caterpillars of all kinds and in general whatever insects it can get hold of. a Family PHYMATIDA3. PHYMATA Latr. P. erosa Linn. (wolfii Stal.) This occurs in two sub-species, “fas- ciata” Gray and “pennsyl- vanica” Handl., throughout the ¥& State VII-IX. The color scheme of the peculiar chunky and angu- lated species is such that the specimens are able to conceal themselves in a flower so as to seem part of it, and this gives Phymata erosa.—a, 6, adult, from above and i side; c, front leg; d, beak. an opportunity to capture on 66. species which they could not otherwise reach. Large butterflies, and even bees are captured and killed. The fore-legs are short and very powerful, and when once the insect gets a hold and has forced its short, chunky beak into its prey it is only a matter of a short time to quiet it forever. No eco- nomically injurious insects are controlled by these species. Family NEPID/A-. These are narrow, long-legged water bugs, the fore-legs fitted for grasping, the others for walking. A pair of grooved anal bristles keeps the insects in contact with the outer air, and enables them to breathe when walking on the bottom of shallow pools, ete. The term ‘water scorpions” has been applied to these species without any warrant so far as danger frem the anal processes is concerned. NEPA Linn. N. apiculata Uhl. Paterson VI, 15, Orange Mts. (Coll); Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Westfield VIII, 15 (Bno); Staten Island III (Ds); Riverton V, 1 (Jn). RANATRA Fab. R. quadridentata Stal. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee Dist. V, VIII, IX, Cranford VIII, 27 (Bno); Staten Island V, VI, VIII, X (Ds); 158 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Riverton VIII, 14 (Jn). To this species belong most of the records credited to “fusca’’ Pal Beauv., a species which probably does not oceur in New Jersey at all. R. grisea Bno. One of the forms mistaken for ‘fusca,’ eand un- doubtedly in New Jersey collec- tions under that name. R. kirkalayi Bno. New York to North Carolina and sure to be found in New Jersey (Bno). Division PAGIOPODA. Super-family MIROIDEA. Family ANTHOCORID. This family, the Acanthiide of the previous edition, in part contains a series of rather small, inconspicuous bugs found under bark of trees or in flowers, and mostly predatory in habit. The adults are winged, and have the membrane of the wing-cover without veins. LYCTOCORIS Hahn. L. campestris Fab. Recorded from New York, and should occur in New Jersey (Bno). Fig. 67.—“‘A ‘‘water scorpion,’ Ranatra species; enlarged. L. domesticus Schill. Ranges from British America to Texas. PIEZOSTETHUS Fieb. P. sordidus Reut. Westfield, under bark of dead trees VIII, [IX (Bno). TRIPHLEPS Fieb. T. insidiosus Say. Common throughout the State III-XII, in fiowers, under bark of trees, in rubbish and generally in about all places where insects occur at all. Feeds upon insect eggs and minute forms generally. CARDIASTETHUS Fieb. C. pergandei Reut. Should occur in New Jersey. C. luridellus Fieb. Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey. ANTHOCORIS Say. A. musculus Say. Probably occurs in New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 159 Family CLINOCORID/. CIMEX Linn. C. lectularius Linn. The common “bed-bug.” — Wingless, flattened, oval, red-brown in color, found in human _ habitations throughout the State. They infest not only beds but the crevices and cracks in other furniture and in the woodwork of the room. A free use of gasoline ap- plied twice at intervals of ten days will serve to clean them out, but the appli- cations must be thorough, and every erevice large enough to hold a bug must be dosed. The family term here used replaces the Cimicide of the previous The bed-bug, Acanthia lectularia. list. Fig. 68 CECIACUS Stal. C. hirundinis Jen. Infests the nests of swallows; common in parts of Burlington County and probably elsewhere in the State. Is very similar to the preceding in appearance, and a close ally in habits, but does not infest human habitation. Family MIRIDZ. These are the “leaf-bugs” or ‘‘plant-bugs,’ recorded as Capsid@ in the previous edition. They are usually soft in texture, oval in shape, some- what flattened above, with the membraneous tip of wings often sloping - down rather abruptly. The colors are green and brown as a rule, more or less mottled and inconspicuous, but red and black bands and spots are not infrequent, and some of them present striking contrasts. While none of the species that occur in this State are first-class pests, many are common and numerous enough to do a great deal of injury that is not always recognized. They feed, as all their allies do, on plant juices, and often puncture buds, blossoms or young shoots, crippling, checking growth or actually killing them. On some small fruits they kill the blossom stalk or even pierce the young fruit, and this kind of injury is not easily avoided. Some winter as adults; hence it is always a good plan to destroy all rubbish, &c., that may serve as a.hiding place. Others lay their eggs in the stems of the plant in which they feed, and these may be reached by intelligent trimming and burning the cuttings. Contact poisons only are available for use against these insects, and these are effective only when used thoroughly and with a full understanding of the particular case in hand. Quite a number of additions have been made to our collections since the previous edition, and again Mr. Heidemann has been good enough to supply the material for the form in which it stands at present. 160 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. HEIDEMANNIA Uhl. H. cixiiformis Uh]. Del. Water Gap (Slosson). CHLAMYDATUS Curt. C. suavis Reut. (Agalliastes) New Jersey without doubt. C. associatus Uhl. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Coll). ATOMOSCELIS Reut. A. seriatus Reut. New Jersey (Uhl). PLAGIOGNATHUS Fieb. P. obscurus Uhl. Warren Co. VIII, 13, Chester VII, 4, Plainfield VII, 4, New Brunswick VII, 20, Trenton X, 2 (Coll). P. politus Uhl. Orange Mts. VII, 12 (Jn); Staten Island VII (Ds); Jamesburg (Coll). P. fraternus Uhl. New Jersey (Heid). REUTERSCOPUS Kirk. R. ornatus Reut. (Episcopus) Throughout the State, all season; more or less common locally. PSALLUS Fieb. P. delicatus Reit. New Jersey (Uhl). STRONGYLOTUS Reut. S. saliens Reut. Riverton X, 9 (Jn). RHINACLOA Reut. R. forticornis Reut. New Jersey (Uhl). MEGALOCOLEUS Reut. M. coagulatus Uhl. (Macrocoleus) Riverton VI, 25 (Coll); New Jer- sey (Uhl). LOPUS Hahn. L. decolor Fall. (Oncotylus) Madison (Pr); Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll). REUTERIA Puton. R. irrorata Say. (Malococoris) Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Bruns- wick VII, 20 (Coll). DIOMMATUS Uhl. D. congrex Uhl. Chester VII, 4 (Coll); Madison, rare (Pr). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 161 CERATOSCOPUS Reut. C. fasciatus Uhl. (Melinna) Madison (Pr); Staten Island VII (Ds). C. modestus Uhl. Chester VII, 4 (Dn); Madison (Pr); Staten Islana VII (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 7, Anglesea VII, 24 (Coll). C. pumilus Uhl. Staten Island (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). ILNACORA Reut. l. divisa Reut. New Jersey (Uhl). i. malina Uhl. Madison, occasional (Pr). I. stalii Reut. New Jersey (Ss). DIAPHNIDIA Uhl. D. pellucida Uhl. Madison, rare (Pr). ORTHOTYLUS Fieb. O. flavosparsus Sahlb. New Jersey (Heid). ECTOPIOCERUS Uhl. E. anthracinus Uhl. Lakehurst (Ds); New Jersey (Jn). HYALIODES Reut. H. vitripennis Say. Madison (Pr); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); James- burg VIII, 15 (Coll), and probably throughout the State. DICYPHUS Fieb. D. famelicus Uhl. United States generally (Uhl). GARGANUS Stal. G. fusiformis Say. Madison, frequent (Pr); New Jersey (Ss). CYLAPUS Say. C. tenuicornis Say. United States generally (Uhl). HALTICUS Hahn. H. uhleri Giard. Madison (Pry; New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VII, 15, Swedesboro VI, 12 (Coll) ; Camden Co. IX, 30 (Ss). LOPIDEA Uhl. L. media Say. Chester IX, 7 (Coll); Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI- VIII, Jamesburg (Ds). var. robinize Uhl. Staten Island VII, on locust. L. confluens Say. Del. Water Gap VIII, 12 (Jn); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds). L. marginata Uhl. Jamesburg VI, Lakehurst VII (Coll). Tat TN 162 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. There are at least two undescribed species in collections including “L. fuscicornis Uhl.,’ which is a mss. name only. LOMATOPLEURA Reut. L. czesar Reut. Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Hewitt (Ds). STRONGYLOCORIS Blanch. S. stygicus Say. (Stiphrosoma) Madison, rare (Pr); Staten Island VII (Ds); New Jersey (Coll). S. atratus Uhl. Chester VII, 4 (Coll); New Jersey (Heid). PILOPHORUS Hahn. . crassipes Uhl. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). . amoenus Uhl. Riverton VIII, 21 (Jn); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . Walshii Uhl. Lakehurst VII (Ds). . schwarzi Reut. (confusus Kirsch.) New Jersey (Uhl). . letus Uhl. Jamesburg (Ds); Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). vuUUvUU UU ALEPIDIA Reut. A. gracilis Uhl. Jamesburg (Ds). FULVIUS Stal. F. heidemanni Reut. (anthocoroides Uhl.) New Jersey (Uhl). F. brunneus Prov. Jamesburg, the short-winged form (Ds). RESTHENIA Spin. R. insitiva Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 15 (Jn); Madison, rare (Pr). R. insignis Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Madison, common (Pr); Staten Island VI, Jamesburg VII (Ds). R. confraterna Uhl. Hewitt (Ds); Madison, rare (Pr). R. nigricollis Reut. Jamesburg (Ds). ONCEROMETOPUS Reut. O. nigroclavus Reut. New Jersey (Uhl). . COLLARIA Prov. C. oculata Reut. Staten Island VIII (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 15, Anglesea V, 28 (Coll). STENODEMA Lap. S. trispinosum Reut. Madison (Pr); Cranford VIII, Staten Island VII (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 15, Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs. This name replaces “Brachytropis calcarata” Fall., which is European, and not found in the United States. 4 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 163 . instabilis Uhl. (Miris) Madison (Pr); New Brunswick, Jamesburg VIII ,15 (Coll); Riverton VIII, 21 (Jn). TRIGONOTYLUS Fieb. . uhleri Reut. Staten Island VI (Ds); New Jersey (U S N M). . ruficornis Fall. New Jersey (Uhl). . pulcher Reut. Madison, common (Pr); Cape May VI, 22 (Jn). MIRIS Fab. . dolabratus Linn. (Leptoterna): Madison (Pr); Staten Island (Ds); Orangé Mts., New Brunswick, Jamesburg VI, 16,. Mercer Co. VI, 28, Riverton VI, 25 (Coll). PHYTOCORIS Fall. . eximius Reut. (Paracalocoris inops Say.) Madison (Pr); Staten Island VIII, Lakehurst (Ds); Jamesburg VIII, 10 (Coll). . tibialis Reut. Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Jersey (Uhl). . puella Reut. Madison, common (Pr); Staten Island VIi, 10 (Ds); Lakehurst VII, 7, Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). . breviusculus Reut. Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D). . pallidicornis Reut. New Jersey (Uhl). . annulicornis Reut. (Campsocerocoris) Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); New Jersey (Uhl). PARACALOCORIS Dist. - scrupeus Say. (Phytocoris) Staten Island VI, Lakehurst (Ds); Mer- cer Co. VI, 24, Camden VI, 7 (Coll). . colon Say. Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Jersey (Heid). NEUROCOLPUS Reut. . nubilis Say. Madison (Pr); New Brunswick VII, 7 (Coll); Staten Island VI, Lakehurst (Ds); Merchantville VI, 29 (Ss). CALOCORIS Fieb. - bipunctatus Fab. Staten Island VI (Ds); Monmouth Co. (Uhl); Tren- ton VII, 2, Riverton VI, 25 (Coll). ADELPHACORIS Reut. . rapidus Say. (Calocoris) Common everywhere VI-IX. EUSTICTUS Reut. - grossus Uhl. (Megaccelum) Staten Island (Ds); New Jersey (Uhl). 164 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. STENOTUS Jakoleff. S. binotatus Fab. (Oncognathus) Staten Island VI (Ds). DICHROOCYTUS Fieb. . suspectus Reut. (rufipennis Fall.) New Jersey (Uhler). LYGUS Hahn. . pratensis Linn. (oblinea- tus Say.) Throughout the State all season; always abundant and sometimes injurious on garden crops. . invitus Say. Madison (Pr) ; Camden VI (Ss); Laha- way V, on cranberry bogs; not rare (Sm). - pabulinus Linn. Warren Fig. 69.—Lygus pratensis: adult at left; Co. VIII, 18 (Coll); New nymph at right; enlarged. Jersey (Uhl). . Vitticollis Reut. (Monachus) Chester VII, 20 (Dn); Jamesburg VII (Ds); Burlington Co. (Coll). . campestris Linn. (Orthops pastinacez.) Palisades (Ds); New Jersey (Uhl). . flayonotatus Prov. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . rubicundus Fall. (Hadrodema pulverulenta Uhl.) Newark, Egg Har- bor City (Uhl). TROPIDOSTEPTES Uhl. . cardinalis Uhl. New Jersey (Uhl). . saxeus Dist. (Neoborus) New Brunswick VI, 9, on ash (Coll). . pettiti Uhl. (Neoborus) New Brunswick VI, 9 (Coll). CAMPTOBROCHIS Fieb. . nebulosus Uhl. Madison (Pr); Staten Island IV, VI, VIII (Ds). . grandis Uhl. Staten Island VI, 8, Jamesburg (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, 8, Lahaway V, Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). CAPSUS Fab. . ater Fab. Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI (Ds); New Jersey (Jn). PCECILOSCYTUS Fieb. Ml . basalis Reut. Common everywhere VI-X, and sometimes seriously in- jurious to garden crops. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 165 P. americanus Reut. (Systratiotus) Chester VII, 9 (Coll); Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI, Jamesburg (Ds). P. venaticus Uhl. New Foundland (Ds). PCECILOCAPSUS Reut. P. lineatus Fab. Throughout the State, all season; occasionally trouble- some to small fruits and in gardens; sometimes to field crops. HORCIAS Dist. H. goniphorus Say. Madison (Pr); Hewitt, Newfoundland, Staten Island (Ds); New Jersey (div). This and the two next following have been removed from “Pcecilocapsus.”’ H. affinis Reut. Hewitt (Ds); Madison, rare (Pr). H. marginalis Reut. New Jersey (Ss). CACCOBAPHES Uhl. C. sanguinarius Uhl. Staten Island VI, on red maple (Ds). ORECTODERUS Uhl. O. obliquus Uhl. United States generally (Uhl). XENETUS Dist. X. scutellatus Uhl. Newfoundland (Ds); Madison, rare (Pr). PARAXENETUS Reut. P. guttulatus Uhl. (Eucerocoris) Madison (Pr); Riverton VIII, 17 (Van D); Lakehurst (Ds). MONALOCORIS Dahlb. M. filicis Linn. Madison (Pr); Staten Island VI, 9 (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll); Woodbine VIII, 21 (Van D). PYCNODERES Guer. P. dilatatus Reut. (Eccritotarsus) Throughout the eastern States. SIXEONOTUS Reut. S. insignis Reut. (Eccritotarsus) Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll). The following manuscript names of the previous edition are omitted: Lopidea fuscicornis Uhl., Paracalocoris instabilis Uhl., Apocremnus ro- bustus Uhl., Macrotylus blatchleyi Uhl. and Phylus modestus Uhl. There seems to be some question as to the identity of Bryocoris pteridis Fall., and that name is also omitted as not representing a New Jersey species. 166 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Super-family NOTONECTOIDEA. Family ACANTHIID. Replaces the term Saldide of the previous edition. They are small or medium size, usually blackish, and inhabit muddy banks or marshes, over or on which they fly or run rapidly. They are rather soft in texture, have a small head and prominent eyes, and some of them dig into the banks on which they are found. They are more or less predatory, feeding on living or dead insects, and none are of economic importance. ACANTHIA Fab. (Salda Auct.) . Signorettii Guer. Cape May VI, 22 (Jn), VIII, 19 (Van D). ligata Say. Canada to North Carolina. - confluenta Say. Westfield VII, 3 (Bno). - interstitialis Say. Westfield VI, 11, VII, 16 (Bno). - reperta Uhl. Ft. Lee Dist. V, 28, Staten Island VII, 9 (Bno). deplanata Uhl. Glen Ridge VI, 23 (Bno); Westville V, 2-VI, 22 (div). anthracina Uhl. N. Y. and Pa., and certain to occur in New Jersey. . sphacelata Uhl. Atlantic City VIII, 20, Cape May VIII, 19 (Van D). - coriacea Uhl. Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Coll). . orbiculata Uhl. On all sides of and probably in New Jersey. - humilis Say. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee Dist. V, 28, Westfield VI, VII, Bloomfield VI, Staten Island VII, 9 (Bno). : pallipes Fab. Madison (Pr); Glen Ridge VI, 2, Westfield VI, VII, 9 (Bno). . xanthochila Fieb. Anglesea VIII, 23 (Van D). . separata Uhl. Pennsylvania and probably also New Jersey. rPPrPrPrP>S>D Spy Dp > . lugubris Say. In the adjacent States and probably also New Jersey. saltatoria Linn. New York and probably New Jersey. - vagator Uhl. Anglesea (Ss); Cape May VIII, 19 (Van D). >>p>Pp p> . Family OCHTERIDZ. Included under the “Galgulidzee’—now “Nerthridax” of previous list, and resemble them in general appearance and habits. OCHTERUS Latr. (PELOGONUS Latr.) O. americanus Uhl. Westfield VII, 4 (Bno); Staten Island V, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Lahaway, on cranberry bogs V (Sm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 167 Family NERTHRID/. The Galgulide of the previous edition. They are broad, squat, with prominent eyes, often called ‘“‘toad-bugs,”’ because of a fancied resemblance to that animal. They are predatory, live in marshes and along the muddy banks of streams and, while not rare, are of no economic importance. GELASTOCORIS Kirk. (GALGULUS Auct.) G. oculatus Fab. Recorded from all parts of New Jersey, but all ex- amined specimens are of an undescribed form (Bno). G. n. sp. Bno. Staten Island VII (Ds); Lakehurst IX, 15 (Eng); Tren- ton VIII, 12, Anglesea V, 30 (Coll), and probably also the Caldwell, Riverton and Westville records of last edition. Family NAUCORID. Resemble the Nerthridze in outline, but without the projecting eyes. They are predatory, the fore-legs are developed for grasping, and they live in water, crawling about among the plants. We have only a single species. PELOCORIS Stal. P. femoratus Pal. Beauv. Cranford VIII, 27 (Bno); Staten Island III, V, VIII, X, Jamesburg IX (Ds); Trenton VI, X, Delair IX, 1 (Coll); Riverton V, VIII (Jn); Camden IV, 17 (Ss). Family BELOSTOMATIDAK. This family contains the “giant water bugs,” oval, flattened creatures, with keel-like bodies beneath, short powerful beak, large fore-legs fitted for grasping, and long broad hind-legs fitted for swimming. At the anal extremity is a pair of short protrusible, strap-like appendages used for respiration. 5 They are predatory, feeding on all sorts of aquatic insects, tadpoles, and even fish, some of the species becoming two inches or more in length. At the mating season they fly from pond to pond at night, and at this time they are often attracted to electric lights in great numbers. This has given them the common name “electric light bugs,’ and their uncouth shape and sprawly motions make them objects of terror. As a matter of fact, they are quite harmless when carefully handled; but they are very strong, and in their struggles to get away will make use of their powerful legs. When they get a good chance they use their beak as well, and their puncture is extremely painful for a short time. It does not, however, produce any swelling or other ill effect. 168 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BENACUS Stal. B. griseus Say. Throughout the State in ponds and at electric lights; the largest of our species. ae LETHOCERUS Mayr. (BELOSTOMA.) L. americanus Leidy. Throughout the State at light, VII, VIII, in ponds all season; sometimes common and hardly smaller than the preceding. L. obscurus Duf. With the preceding and usually confused with it, but less com- mon. L. uhleri Mont. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt). BELOSTOMA Latr. (ZAITHA A & §S.) B. fluminea Say. Throughout the State V— X. It is the commonest of the medium sized water bugs of this family. B. testaceum Leidy. Delair (Coll). : ’ ; Fig. 70.—Giant water bug, B. aurantiacum Leidy. Riverton IX, 5 (Jn). Lethocerus americanus. Family CORIXID. These are the water-boatmen which inhabit almost every clean pond, permanent pool or sluggish stream. They are somewhat flattened above, have a broad short head and an exceedingly hot tongue. The species are predatory in habit, closely allied and not well determined in collec- tions. Practically all that can be done under the circumstances is to give a list of those species that are so distributed that their occurrence in New Jersey is a reasonable certainty, adding the localities for such as have been determined with reasonable certainty. ARCTOCORISA Wallen. (CORISA.) calva Say. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg VI, 16 (Coll). tarsalis Fieb. “Atlantic States” (Uhl). - Signata Fieb. “Atlantic States” (Uhl). lateralis Leach. (hieroglyphica Duf.) “Atlantic States’ (Uhl). verticalis Fieb. “Atlantic States” (Uhl). . burmeisteri Fieb. “Atlantic States” (Uhl). . interrupta Say. “United States” (Uhl). . erichsonii Leach... “Atlantic States” (Uhl). >P>rP>>r Pr > r> THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 169 . stagnalis Leach. (limitata Fieb.) “Atlantic States” (Uhl). . Stigmatica Fieb. ‘United States” (Uhl). . alternata Say. ‘“‘United States” (Uhl). . harrisii Uhl. Madison (Pr). zimmermannii Fieb. “United States” (Uhl). . kennicottii Uhl. “United States’ (Uhl). . suffusa Uhl. New Jersey (Jn). . serrulata Uhl. New Jersey (Jn). expleta Uhl. Lakewood VIII (Coll). >> SSS Se SS CALLICORIXA White. kollarii Fieb. Canada to Florida. 2 Family NOTONECTID. These are the “back-swimmers,”’ so named because the upper surface is keeled, and they swim back down. They are predatory, and “bite” severely if carelessly handled. Mr. Davis lists five species from Staten Island, and remarks that “they are most common in fall and spring, and pass the winter like so many other water bugs as adults.” Mr. Bueno adds that “they can be caught, active, under the ice except in the coldest days of winter.” Sub-family NOTONECTIN#. NOTONECTA Linn. N. insulata Kirby. Ft. Lee Dist. V, VIII, Staten Island VIII, IX, Delair (Bno); DaCosta VII (Jn). N. irrorata Uhl. Piedmont Plain and northward all season, and probably throughout the State. Fig. 71.—A _ water-boatman, Not ct 2cles. N. undulata Say. Throughout the State, Seger ace our most common species, ranging in color variation from almost black to pure white. N. variabilis Fieb. Piedmont Plain and northward throughout the sea- son. Riverton VII, 12, VIII, 17 (div), and probably throughout the Delaware Valley region. “It is apt to be mistaken for a dwarf white undulata, and is the species appearing in the previous edition as americana.” N. raleighi Bno. Delair (Bno). N. uhleri Kirk. Ft. Lee Dist. V, 5, 14 (Bno); Staten Island VIII (div). The rarest of our species if not in the United States. 170 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BUENOA Kirk. (ANISOPS.) B. margaritacea Bno. Staten Island IX-XI (Bno); Delair (Coll). This is the species usually in collections as “platycnemis” Fieb. B. elegans Fieb. Ft. Lee Dist. IX, 7—X, 22, Rahway River, Cranford VIII, 27 (Bno). B. platycnemis Fieb. Mount Holly VII, 18 (Coll); the true species (Bno). Sub-family Plein a. PLEA Leach. P. striola Fab. Cedar Lake (Ss); Trenton IV, 23 (Coll); Westfield VII, VIII, Cranford VIII, 27, Staten Island V, VI, [IX (Bno). Order DERMOPTERA. The members of this little order are popularly known as ‘“ear-wigs,” from a supposed habit of crawling into the ears of persons sleeping out- doors. They are slender, with short wing-covers and resemble “rove- beetles” in shape, except for a forceps-like process at the end of the ab- domen, used in tucking the large, elaborately plaited hind-wings under the wing-covers. The metamorphosis is incomplete, and the females of some species brood over their eggs until they are hatched. Though the species are common and are said to be injurious in some European countries, they are rare in New Jersey and never troublesome in any way. Family FORFICULID. ANISOLABIA Fieb. A. maritima Bon. Along the base of the Palisades north from Ft. Lee (Bt); Sandy Hook VII (Sm); g. d. along the seashore of Staten Island under stones and driftwood V, VI, IX, X (Ds). An in- troduced species. LABIA Leach. L. minor Linn. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island V,, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick VII, Englishtown X, 12, Lahaway IX (Sm). Another introduced spe- cies, flles commonly to light at times and may also be taken sweeping. Forficula teniata, male SPONGIPHORA Serv. See Fig. 72.- §. brunneipennis Serv. Has been recorded from New Jersey (Bt). APTERYGIDA Westw. A. aculeata Scudd. Snake Hill IV, V (Bt). FORFICULA Linn. F. auricularia Linn. The common European “ear-wig,”’ which is occa- sionally found in green-houses on imported plants. Has never as yet been taken outdoors. (171) ft ‘ r etna i : ‘4 (2 4 g Z Pe: ¥ a ‘ lw aad” motu ones od? .cohP aetna : a. ; ; - eset wer a f io ale ihe Order ORTHOPTERA. Contains the grasshoppers, katydids, roaches and crickets, by far the greater portion of which are feeders upon vegetation, and therefore ac- tually or potentially injurious. Most of them feed openly upon the plant tissue and are therefore within reach of the stomach poisons. In the species of this order the fore-wings are narrower and of firmer texture than the secondaries and serve as covers merely, not as organs of flight. The secondaries are folded more or less fanlike and are usually hidden by the primaries when at rest; the shape is in general triangular and the texture thin and membraneous with numerous longitudinal veins, between which the tissue is reticulated. The metamorphosis is incom- plete, and in some cases where the wings are wanting there is little dif- ference in appearance between nymph and adult. The list as it stands here has been revised by Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of Philadelphia, who has collected extensively in New Jersey and is also a recognized authority in the order. In the list of 1900, while the collec- tions were very good, it was, nevertheless, deemed expedient to include a number of species that seemed likely to occur though they had not been actually recorded. Since that time the collections made by Mr. Rehn and other Philadelphia collectors, by Mr. Davis on Staten Island and in eastern New Jersey generally, and by the office force in the State, have been so extensive that it is deemed proper to exclude nearly all species not actually taken. All the doubtful species have been verified and most of the college material has been in the hands of specialists in the various groups for study and determination. Family BLATTID. Better known as “roaches.” They are more or less flattened, soft in texture, with long, slender antennz or feelers and long, stout, spiny legs fitted for rapid running. They live in crevices, under bark or stones in the woods, or in cracks between boards and other hiding places in houses. Their favorite haunt in dwellings is about sinks or water pipes. whence a small brown, fully-winged form received in New York the name ‘Croton bug.” A much larger species, in which the male has short wings and the female none at all, is known as the “black beetle.’ Both of these household pests are importations and have been spread by commerce over most of the civilized world. In this family the eggs of the female are developed in an egg-case or ootheca which the mother carries about with her attached to the end of the abdomen until all the eggs are fully developed. She then drops it in some sheltered place, and, in due time, the case splits along one side and gives exit to the young, which resemble the adults throughout their life as nymphs. None of the species are agriculturally important. In houses the do- mestic species are often extremely annoying and may be destroyed with (173) 174 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. phosphorous paste or Paris green where there is no danger of poisoning children or household pets. A mixture of equal parts of sweet chocolate and borax ground together in a mortar and liberally spread about is at- tractive to the insects and rapidly fatal to them when eaten. Other foods should be kept out of the way so far as possible when this bait is spread. In any case specimens should be killed whenever seen, and a campaign | very early in the season before the eggs are developed will avoid late summer trouble from the new brood. BLATTELLA Caudell. Fig. 73.—The Croton bug, Blattella germanica: a, minute nymphs just hatched; b, second; c, third; d, fourth stage; e, adult male, f, female with egg case attached; h, adult with wings spread—all natural size; g, egg case enlarged. B. germanica Linn. The “croton bug” or small ‘cockroach,’ common in houses in cities and towns throughout the State. It is purely do- mestic, never found out-doors, and there are yet a few places in the State in which the species is unknown. Was referred to Phyllodromia in last edition. The “P. borealis” of that list is the female of “Ischnop- tera pennsylvanica.”’ ISCHNOPTERA Burm. I. pennsylvanica De G. Throughout the State, under bark and attracted to “sugar’’; mature in V—VII; recorded by all collectors. The ‘“Phyllo- dromia borealis” of the last edition is the female of this species. uhleriana Sauss. Represented from every section of the State and taken in every month from V-—X; locally common. Is attracted to light and “sugar,” and also occurs under bark. The “I. unicolor’” of the last edition is this same species, and “Temnopteryx virginica” is the female. I. johnsoni Rehn. Haddonfield II, 2 (Cope). A southern species (Rehn)- BLATTA Linn. (STYLOPIGA Fischer.) B. orientalis Linn. The “oriental roach” or “black beetle.” Occurs in houses throughout the State; more common in the cities and towns than in the farm houses. THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 175 PERIPLANETA Burm. P. americana Linn. Throughout the State, rarely common in my experi- ence. Mr. Davis notes it “in green-houses and other like situations, where it is warm and moist.” In one case, in Camden, it was found infesting a feed store-house so abundantly that two quarts were captured in a single night. PANCHLORA Burm. P. poeyi Sauss. (viridis Burm.) Staten Island, one specimen found in March in a closet where bananas had been kept (Ds). This species, its ally “P. exoleta,”’ “Periplaneta autralasie,’ “Nyctibora mexicana” and “Leucophea surinamensis,”’ are not natives of New Jersey and not really a part of its fauna. Their occurrenc is accidental, merely coming in with material imported from the tropics, and the species do not maintain themselves in the State. Family MANTID/:. Of these very peculiar insects we have only one native species, which is taken rarely in the southern section. There is another which has been intentionally introduced, and this has now established itself at several points. They have a very long, narrow prothorax and immensely de- veloped fore-legs, which they use in holding or grasping their prey, for they are carnivorous. The other legs are feebly developed and the body is clumsy. The eggs are laid in masses on twigs, and are covered by a fibrous substance, which holds them together. The native species is too rare to be of any economic value, and up to the present time that is also true of the introduced species. STAGMOMANTIS Sauss. S. carolina Johann. Has been taken in Atlantic and Ocean Counties. Fig. 74.—Stagmomantis carolina: a, female; b, male; natural size. The “S. dimidiata” Burm., is omitted as unlikely to occur. 176 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 75.—Walking stick, Diapheromera femorata: a, b, eggs, enlarged, front and side view; c, young just hatching; d, male; e, female adult. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Se PARATENODERA Rehn. P. sinensis Sauss. Accidentally introduced at Philadelphia from the Orient, from which parent colony many others have been started, in- tentionally or otherwise. Egg masses were distributed to numerous localities throughout the State, and the insects have been found since at Rutherford, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Staten Island, Moores- town, Woodbine, Atlantic City and Anglesea. Nowhere have they done so well as at the point of original introduction. Family PHASMIDAS. These are the “walking sticks’; odd creatures, two inches or more in length, very slender, with very long antenne and long, slender legs, which they so dispose as to be practically invisible when at rest to all save the trained eye. No wings are developed in our species, which, while it occurs quite generally, and sometimes even abundantly, is never injurious. It feeds on the foliage of a variety of shrubs and trees, and the eggs are simply dropped to the ground at random by the female on the plants. DIAPHEROMERA Gray. D. femorata Say. Throughout the State, becoming adult VIII and IX, ' put found until X. Usually rare, but sometimes locally rather plenti- ful. I have had them reported so in Somerset County on peach trees. Mr. Davis writes that it is “partial to hazel bushes and young chest- nut, but found on many other plants. It is not common on the Island, which is probably due to the fact that its eggs lie on the ground over winter and are destroyed by the oft burning of the woodland.” Family ACRIDIIDA‘. These.are the short-horned grasshoppers, perhaps the most common Fig. 76.—lllustrates egg-laying of a grasshopper: a, a, females with abdomen inserted in the soil; b, broken egg-pod lying on sur- face; c, individual eggs; d, section of soil showing eggs being placed in position; e, egg-pod completed; f, egg-pod sealed over. 2 IN| 178 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. and best known of our insects, jumping or flying up however one turns, among grass or low herbage in roads, fields or meadows. The females have at the end of the abdomen four horny valves, by means of which they lay their eggs in masses in the ground or in soft decaying wood, where they may remain all winter or may hatch in fall. In the latter ease the partly grown larve winter and are sometimes seen on mild days even on the snow. The hind legs are much the longest, developed for jumping, the antennz rarely exceeding and often not equalling half the length of the body. Among the grasshoppers are many injurious species, which in some countries take the form of devastating plagues. In New Jersey the in- sects are usually held in check by their natural enemies, and only in un- usually dry seasons do they become at all troublesome to cultivated crops. In such cases the arsenites may be used and sometimes the bran and Paris green as used for cut-worms proves very satisfactory. Instead of bran, fresh horse manure can be used. The grasshoppers are very fond of that and will eat it in preference to almost anything else. Turkeys and guinea fowl are very active feeders on grasshoppers, and will keep them down whenever allowed to range freely ‘over infested fields. NOMOTETTIX Morse. N. cristatus Scudd. Throughout the pine barren IV—X, found in pine and oak wood undergrowth. Is less abundant further north, but Mr. Davis reports it at Little Falls VI, Great Notch V, Newfoundland VII and Lake Hopatcong VII. It therefore occurs throughout the State. Belongs to the little series of “grouse locusts.” N. carinatus Scudd. Occurs with and is sometimes: considered a long- winged form of the preceding. N. sinuifrons Hancock. Lakehurst V (Rehn). ACRYDIUM Geoff. (TETTIX Fischer.) A. granulatum Kirby. Newfoundland V, VII, Staten Island IV, X (Ds); Camden County (Ss). The form ‘“triangularis’” Scudd. occurs with the type. A. obscurum Hancock. “New Jersey’ (PAS); Belvidere IX (Long); Riverton V (Dke); Clementon VI, Malaga VIII (GG); Stafford’s Forge IX (Hebard). A. arenosum Burm. Husted V, Ocean Co. V (Coll); Staten Island IV—VII, X (Ds). NEOTETTIX Hancock. N. femoratus Scudd. Staten Island VI, VIII, Brookville VII, Jamesburg VII, Lakehurst VII (Ds) PARATETTIX Bolivar. P. cucullatus Burm. Delaware Water Gap VII (div); Boonton I, 10, nymphs (Greene); Glassboro IX, 19 (Jn); Iona V, 26 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 179 TETTIGIDEA Scudd. . parvipennis Harr. From all points south of the Piedmont Plain, in every month from March to October. It is reported by all contribu- tors, the only northern records being Great Notch V, Palisades VIII, and Staten Island IV-VII and X (Ds). Mr. Rehn says that “the range of this species overlaps that of the next (lateralis) of which it appears to be a northern representative.” The “polymorpha” Burm. of the last edition referred to this species. . lateralis Say. Covers the same territory as the preceding, but the records are not so numerous and there are none north of Staten Island. . pennata Morse. Greenwood Lake V, Newfoundland V, Staten Island IV—-VI, IX, Lakehurst V, VI (Ds); Chester III, Newark III, Princeton III, Lahaway V, IX, Anglesea V, IX (Coll). . acuta Morse. Staten Island IV (Ds). .» armata form depressa Morse. “New Jersey” (PAS) fide Rehn. - davisi Morse. Staten Island IV, VI, VIII, Perth Amboy V, 31, James- burg VIII, 31 (Ds). - prorsa Scudd. Beach Haven, spring (Long); not previously known north of Georgia. Ends the series of grouse-locusts. TRUXALIS Fabr. . brevicornis Johann. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Delair IX, Anglesea IX (Coll); Lucaston IX (Dke); Cold Spring IX (Long); West Creek TX (Rehn); Almonessen IX (W); Dennisville IX (Ds). Is an in- habitant of both fresh and salt marsh areas, but more abundant in the latter. MERMIRA Stal. . Vigilans Scudd. Anglesea, Cape May, Ocean City in September; re- corded by several collectors and sometimes common. Mr. Rehn says that this name must replace “bivittata” Serv., which represents a species that does not occur in New Jersey. SYRBULA Stal. . admirabilis Uhl. Throughout the pine barrens, especially at the edge of the maritime, extending a little into the Delaware Valley region, VIlI-X. “A species found in low scrubby growth such as in over- grown clearings and occasionally on cranberry bogs.” ERITETTIX Bruner. . carinatus Scudd. “No evidence yet of its occurrence, but no doubt will be found from the red shale belt north” (Rehn). Mr. Rehn does not believe that “Amblytropidia occidentalis” Sauss. will occur in New Jersey. He says that it is restricted to the Georgia pine regions 180 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. (P. palustris), and that the Canadian record for the species is almost certainly based on a misidentification. ORPHULELLA Giglio—Tos. O. speciosa Scudd. Sparta,. Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); Orange Mts. © VII, VIII, Bound Brook VIII, Sandy Hook, Jamesburg on cranberry bogs, Lakehurst VIII (Coll); Ft. Lee (Bt); Anglesea IX, 4 (Rehn). The names ‘“zqualis’” Scudd., and ‘“bilineata’ Scudd., refer to this same species according to Rehn. O. olivacea Morse. From Sandy Hook to Cape May along the seashore. Occurs on the salt marsh chiefly, rarely extending inland a little to old fields near the marshes, VIII and IX. O. pelidna Burm. Extends along the coast from Staten Island to Cape May, through the pine barrens where it is common on cranberry bogs, is rarer and less generally distributed in the Delaware. Valley region and extends along the Hudson to Fort Lee. I have no records from the Piedmont Plain and northward. Mr. Rehn says it occurs usually on wet meadows, but occasionally in scrub land, dry woods and grassy waste fields from July until frost. As far as known not found in salt marshes, but occasionally taken on the beaches. Mr. Rehn also says that ‘“‘maculipennis” Scudd. is undoubtedly this same thing. CLINOCEPHALUS Morse. C. elegans Morse. Ocean County on cranberry bogs, rare (Sm); West Creek IX, 3 (Rehn); Ocean View VIII, 11 (Fox); Anglesea IX, 5 (W); Cape May IX (div). Generally found in salt meadows on grassy places in the salt marsh (Rehn). DICHROMORPHA Morse. D. viridis Scudd. Occurs throughout the State, but much more generally south of the Piedmont Plain, from July until frost. Occurs in dry grassy fields, meadows and hillsides, and also on the dams and dry cranberry bogs in Ocean and Monmouth Counties. The variety “punctulata”’ Scudd. occurs with this type. CHLOEALTIS Harr. C. conspersa Harr. Lake Hopatcong, Culvers Lake, Newfoundland, Sparta, Staten Island, Lakehurst, Tuckerton (Ds); Ft. Lee (Bt); Browns Mills Jn. (Dke); Speedwell, Atsion (Rehn), July until frost. Mr. Rehn adds that this is a very scarce species in South Jersey, and there found in boggy spots and on wet ground. CHORTHIPPUS Fieb. - (STENOBOTHRUS Fischer.) C. curtipennis Harr. Lake Hopatcong, Sparta, Little Falls, Staten Island VII-X (Ds); Orange Mts., Jamesburg, Ocean Co. VIII (Sm); Cald- THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 181 well (Cr); Anglesea IX (Rehn). A northern species, which appa- rently works south along the coast (Rehn). MECOSTETHUS Fieb. . lineatus Scudd. Ft. Lee VII, 31 (Bt); Hammonton VII, Anglesea IX, Ocean County on cranberry bog IX (Coll); Lakehurst VII (Ds). A very pretty and rare species, taken only in single specimens. The “M. gracilis” of the-previous edition is based on an erroneous deter- mination. ARPHIA Stal. . sulphurea Fabr. Occurs throughout the State, but more common south of the Piedmont Plain IV—VII. Found in waste places along the edge of woods (Rehn), and also about cranberry bogs. . xanthoptera Burm. Common south of Piedmont Plain VIII-X, “on waste, grassy and sandy fields, woodland roads and along the edges of woods (Rehn). North of that point it occurs more rarely at Fort Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. and Middlesex Co. (Coll); Staten Island VIII-X (Ds). CHORTOPHAGA Sauss. . viridifasciata De G. Throughout the State, generally common, and throughout the season. The nymphs winter as such and often become active and noticeable during warm periods and in early spring. Adults are recorded in every month from May to October. The varieties “virginiana” Fabr., “radiata” Harr., and “infuscata”’ Harr., occur with the type form. ENCOPTOLOPHUS Scudd. . sordidus Burm. Newfoundland IX, Staten Island IX—XI (Ds); Cald- well (Cr); Newark, New Brunswick, Ocean Co. X (Coll); Speed- well VIII, 31 (Stone). HIPPISCUS Sauss. . phoenicopterus Germ. Throughout the pine barrens VI-VIII and ex- tends a little into the Delaware Valley area. Also recorded from Little Falls (Dke); Caldwell (Cr) and New Brunswick (Coll), but rarely. “Found in sandy, over-grown fields and oak scrub barrens” (Rehn). : - rugosus Scudd. Caldwell (Cr);) Bound Brook VIII, Lahaway VII, Lakewood, Anglesea VI (Coll); Cedar Grove VII, South Seaville VIII, Dennisville VIII, Ocean View VIII (Fox); old fields edges of woods and woodland roads (Rehn). - compactus Scudd. Orange Mts., Bound Brook, New Brunswick, all VIII (Coll). Mr. Rehn thinks these may be specimens of “rugosus”’; they were named by Prof. Bruner. 182 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. H. tuberculatus Beauv. Hewitt VI, Newfoundland VII, Great Notch V, Staten Island V—VII (Ds); High Bridge V (Ss); Farmingdale VII, 15 (Jn). DISSOSTEIRA Scudd. D. carolina Linn. Common throughout the State VII-XI; the most abundant and conspicuous of the larger species. SPHARAGEMON Scudd. S. bolii Scudd. (balteatum Scudd.) Throughout the State VII-X, but much the most abundant in the pine barrens. Found in “sandy fields, edges of woods, woodland roads and beneath undergrowth in oak and pine woods and in scrubby clearings” (Rehn). S. saxatile Morse. Newfoundland VII-IX, on rocky ridges (Ds). S. collare-wyomingianum Thos. — cequale Scudd.=collare Scudd. of the last edition. Staten Island VII-XI (Ds), and throughout the pine bar- rens. Occurs at Jamesburg and elsewhere on cranberry bogs and is locally abundant. SCIRTETTICA Sauss. S. marmorata Harr. Throughout the pine barrens and extending into the adjacent regions a short distance VII-X, and locally common. “A species found on exposed sandy spots, roads or fields, in low, open scrub, woodland paths and roads and in dry oak, pine and hickory woods” (Rehn). PSINIDIA Stal. P. fenestralis Serv. Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); extends southward through the pine region to Cape May and into the Delaware Valley region to Westville and Riverton. Occurs on sandy meadows and scrub land near beaches and in open places in pine woods; recorded by all collectors and as late as X, 11. TRIMEROTROPIS Stal. T. maritima Harr. Along the shore from Staten Island and Sandy Hook to Cape May and up the Delaware Bay to Bayside VI-X. Almost ex- clusively a beach species, rarely found in sand-pits marking old beaches, some distance inland: e. g., Sea Isle Junction IX (Fox); Lakehurst VII-IX (Ds); Mt. Pleasant IX on sandy road (Fox). CIRCOTETTIX Scudd. C. verruculatus Kirby. Del. Water Gap VII-IX (div); Dover VII, 15 (Jn). PSEUDOPOMALA Morse. P. brachyptera Scudd. New Jersey (Ss); Ft. Lee VII (Bt). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 183 SCHISTOCERCA Stal. S. alutacea Harr. Extends throughout the State south of the Piedmont Plain; inost common in the pine barrens VII-IX; also Staten Island VIli-X (Ds); Middlesex Co. VIII (Sm). According to Rehn this species occurs in two color-phases, which in- clude the “obscura” Burm. and “rubiginosa”’ Harr. of the previous list. It is found in dry oak scrub, the undergrowth of pine woods, on bogs and near swamp land. It is sometimes abundant about and on weedy cran- berry bogs and is occasionally accused of feeding on berries. S. americana Dru. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Ang); Staten Island V, VI, VIII, X—XII (Ds); Lahaway VII, Lakewood VIII, Anglesea VIII (Coll); Seaside Park IX (Long); Cape May VII, VIII (div). Our largest grasshopper, with very long wings and powerful flight, whence it is termed the “bird locust.” S. damnifica Sauss. Westville V (Sk); Woodbury VIII (Vk); Clementon IV, V (div); Florence IV (C); Lucaston X, Hammonton IX, Manu- muskin VI (Dke); Medford IX (Stone); Speedwell VI, Staffords Forge XI (Rehn); Lakehurst IV, V, Lakewood XI, Manasquan IX (Ds). “One of our earliest and also one of our latest grasshoppers, appearing IV—XI, frequenting pine woods undergrowth and dry grass lands” (Rehn). HESPEROTETTIX Scudd. H. brevipennis Thos. Lakehurst VIII (Ds); Stafford’s Forge VIII-X (Rehn); Mt. Pleasant IX (Fox); Anglesea VIII (Coll). “Not uncom- mon in the cranberry fields of Atlantic County” (Uhler). DENDROTETTIX Riley. D. quercus Riley. Bamber VIII, 17 (Dke). This is the only record of the species in the eastern United States (Rehn). MELANOPLUS Stal. Fig. 77.—The stages of a grasshopper: a, young nymph; b, nymph further advanced; c, pupa; d, winged adult. M. atlanis Riley. More or less common throughout the State in grassy areas and along roads, VII to frost. 184 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. M. M = = = M. M. mancus Sm. Lake Hopatcong (Ds. Sleight). impudicus Scudd. Jamesburg, East Plain, Lakehurst, all VII (Ds); Atsion IX, White Horse VIII, near Harris VIII (Rehn); Stafford’s Forge IX (Hebard). A southern species found only in the under- growth of pine woods (Rehn). scudderi Uhler. Hopatcong VIII, Newfoundland IX, Staten Island VIII-XII, Lakehurst [X, X (Ds); Middlesex Co., Atlantic Co. (Coll); Riverton IX (Jn); Almonessen IX (W); Medford VIII Atsion IX, X, DaCosta VII, Stafford’s Forge IX, XI (Rehn); Lucaston IX (Dke); Mt. Pleasant IX (H. Fox). . fasciatus Wlk. Jamesburg, on cranberry bogs VII, VIII (Bt); White Horse VIII, Stafford’s Forge VIII, IX, Speedwell VIII, Cedar Grove IX, Whitings IX (Rehn); DaCosta VII, Manumuskin (Dke). This species is usually encountered in the undergrowth of pine wood (Rehn). femur-rubrum De G. The commonest of our field grasshoppers, occurring throughout the State and practically throughout the season. Mr. Rehn adds, however, that in the pine barrens it is only found in cultivated areas and abandoned fields. . tribulus Morse. Staten Island VII, IX (Ds); Stafford’s Forge VIII (Rehn). . stonei Rehn. Between Harris and White Horse VIII (Stone & Rehn); Atsion IX, 2, Stafford’s Forge VIII, 26 (Rehn). This striking species has been taken in the low scrub under mixed pine and oak and on bare sand near pine woods. minor Scudd. Along the Palisades in dry, grassy places VI, VII (Bt); Jamesburg VI, Lakehurst VI (Ds); Westville VI (Jn); Atco (Ss); Speedwell VI, 20 (Rehn); Clementon VI, 6 (Long). . luridus Dodge. (collinus Scudd.) From all sections of the State ex- cept the maritime, VII-IX. It is one of those species occurring on and around cranberry bogs. Mr. Beutenmuller marks it from dry, grassy places, and Mr. Rehn says it is found in dry woods on bare spots, sandy fields, in huckleberry barrens or in undergrowth. keeleri Thos. Stafford’s Forge VIII, White Horse VIII (Rehn); Sum- ner X, 15 (Long). A southern species found in the undergrowth in pine woods. “Only known as a New Jersey species on the basis of females. When compared with females from Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, they are identical. According to Morse, ‘M. luridus’ and this species run into one another, at least in portions of their ranges. This may be the case, but in New Jersey ‘luridus’ appears to be a smaller form than the southern type called ‘keeleri’’”’ (Rehn). differentialis Thos. Camden (div); Riverton X, 11 (Rehn); West- ville IX, 12 (Jn); Dennisville IX (Ds). femoratus Burm. (bivittatus Say.) Common throughout most sec- tions of the State VII-X. The clumsiest species of this genus, and sometimes abundant on grassy cranberry bogs. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 185 M. punctulatus Scudd. Newfoundland IX, Staten Island VIII, IX, Lake- hurst VIII-X (Ds); Stafford’s Forge IX (Hebard); Brown’s Mills X (Dke); Ocean County, about cranberry bogs (Sm). PAROXYA Scudd. P. floridiana Scudd. Throughout the pine barrens, extending along the shore into the coastal strip, and on the west into the Delaware Valley fauna. Have no records from the Piedmont Plain, but Mr. Davis finds it on Staten Island VIII-IX. It is one of the species on and near cranberry bogs, and the records under “atlantica’’? Scudd. in the pre- vious edition belong here. P. scudderi Blatchley. Jamesburg VIII-IX, Lakehurst VII-X (Ds); Atsion X (Hebard); Speedwell VIII, Stafford’s Forge VIII, IX (div); Bear Swamp VIII (Rehn). More of a strictly pine barren species than the preceding, and also sometimes on cranberry bogs (Rehn). . - Panitly BOCUS TIDAL. These are the long-horned or meadow grasshoppers and the katydids, which are generally more or less obviously green in color. The antenne are thread-like, always as long, and often two or three times as long, as the body. The hind legs, also formed for leaping, are much longer and proportionately more slender than in the Acridiide, the entire insects . indeed being less robust in build. In the females the ovipositor is pro- longed into a blade made up of six flat pieces, the whole sometimes straight, sometimes curved or sickle-shaped. In the males the wing-covers overlap at the base and are modified into a sound-producing organ, by means of which they produce either a shrill continuous call, or a chirping or rasping, which is characteristic for each species, so that, after some experience, they may be recognized by this character alone. Although only the males are musicians, both sexes are provided with ears in the tibiz of the anterior legs. The head in most of the species is pointed, and the mouth parts are well developed, the mandibles being especially long and sharp pointed. This makes it possible for them to dig into tissue or to eat seeds, aS many do, of grases and other plants. Several species occur on cranberry bogs, and some eat into the berries to get at the seeds, species of “Scudderia” being the principal offenders. Fig. 78.—A species of Microcentrum. 186 REPORT OF NEW. JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. The members of this family winter chiefly in the egg stage, the eggs being laid in grasses, reeds, stems of plants, bark of trees, and even in the leaves between the upper and lower layers, the blade or sword-like ovipositor being especially adapted for this purpose. In one group the eggs are laid externally on edge, in a series partly overlapping each other. This habit makes it possible to control the species feeding on the cran- berry bogs, because these lay their eggs in certain grasses on the dams and around the edges. If these dams and edges be burnt off in the winter to destroy all grasses, the insects will not appear in troublesome numbers the season following. We have a few forms that are wingless and live in cellars, caves and dark places generally, but these are usually rare. SCUDDERIA Stal. S. texensis S & P. Hewitt VII, Little Rock VIII, IX, Staten Island VIII, IX, Jamesburg VIII (Ds) and throughout South Jersey, especially in the pine barrens. This is the species referred to as “furculata”’ in the last edition, which is so troublesome on cranberry bogs, and does such serious injury to the fruits. It occurs to the very edge of the maritime, but gets very little into the Delaware Valley region. S. pistillata Bruner. Chester VIII, 7 (Coll); Lucaston IX (Dke); “New Jersey” (Ss); occurs with the other species VIII, IX (Bt). S. curvicauda De G. (angustifolia Harr.) Caldwell (Cr); Riverton VIII (Vk) and throughout the pine barrens; less abundant than “texensis.” S. furcata Bruner. (fasciata Beut.) More widely distributed than any other species, extending into the highlands and Piedmont Plain, but less abundant there than in the pine barrens or even the Delaware Valley region. The specimens are found on cranberry bogs, and also in oak barrens and the undergrowth of pine woods. S. septentrionalis Serv. Ramsey VIII, 9, Lake Hopatcong VII, VIII (Sleight); Vineland, Hy. Edwards (Bt). S. truncata Beut. Vineland (Bt). AMBLYCORYPHA Stal. A. oblongifolia De G. From the Orange Mts., southward through the Piedmont Plain, the Delaware Valley and the pine barren region VII to frost. This species tends to the production of pink or brownish individuals. A. rotundifolia Scudd. Sparta, Newfoundland IX, Ft. Lee VIII, Staten Island VII-frost, Morgan X, Lakehurst VII (Ds); Chester VIII, IX Ocean Co. (Coll); Manumuskin X, Weymouth VII (Dke); Stafford’s Forge VIII (Rehn); Sea Isle Jn. (H. Fox); found in oak scrub and old fields (Rehn). A. uhleri Bruner. Atsion X (Hebard); Lucaston IX (Dke); Sea Isle Jn. IX (H. Fox); in shrubby fields. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 187 MICROCENTRUM Scudd. M. rhombifolium Saus. Staten Island VIII to frost; Dennisville [X, Tuck- M. Pe erton VIII, [IX (Ds); Delair, Lucaston IX (Dke); Stafford’s Forge VIII, IX (div); Malaga IX (G@ G). This name replaces “laurifolium”’ Linn. of the last edition. Common at New Brunswick IX and X, and occurs throughout the State. This is the species whose eggs are sent in so frequently and which are shown at Fig. 80. retinerve Burm. Mt. Holly VIII, 18 (Haim); Manumuskin X (Dke); Bayside X, 21, Cape May IX, 28 (Coll). This is the more southern form, and the remarks under this species in the last edition refer to the preceding. PTEROPHYLLA Kirby. perspicillata Linn. Reptaces “Cyrtophyllus concavus” Harr. of the pre- vious list for the common katydid, which occurs throughout the State from late July until frost. Mr. Davis has noted July 22, 28, 29 for three separate years as the date of the first katydid call. The species is much more abundant in the northern than in the southern portion of the State, and its loud song forms a distinct feature of the August nights in some wooded regions. CONOCEPHALOIDES Perkins. robustus Scudd. Hackensack Meadows (Bt); Staten Island VIII until frost. Along the coast from Barnegat Bay southward, taken in the sedgy areas at the edges of the salt marsh. Also found in swampy areas at Jamesburg and throughout the pine barrens late VIII-X. . triops Linn. (dissimilis Serv.) Ft. Lee VIII, IX (Bt); Staten Island Vill-frost, Lakehurst IX, Cape May IX (Ds); New Brunswick IX (Gr); Trenton X, Lahaway X (Coll); Riverton IX (Vk); Westville IX (Jn); Merchantville X, Lucaston IX (Dke); Sewell X, 6 (Dn); Sea Isle City IX (Haim). . ensiger Harr. Greenwood Lake VII, Staten Island VII-frost, James- burg IX (Ds); Ft. Lee VII-frost (Bt); New Brunswick VIII (Coll); Manumuskin VIII (Dke). . retusus Scudd. Caldwell (Cr). Not satisfactorily recognized in our collections. . atlanticus Bruner. Staten Island IX, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Westville IX (Jn); Delair VIII, Anglesea IX (Dke); Atsion X (Hebard). . exiliscanorus Davis. Staten Island VII-frost; in salt meadows-on “Spartina,” Farmingdale VIII, Dennisville IX, Freneau VIII, 21, (Ds); Hackensack Meadows (Bt). . lyristes Rehn. & Hebard. Snake Hill VIII, Staten Island VIII, Lake- hurst IX, Dennisville IX, Tuckerton IX (Ds); Barnegat Bay Dist. X (Coll); Stafford’s Forge IX (Hebard); Speedwell VIII (Stone); Cape May VII, IX (div). . caudellianus Davis. Jamesburg IX, Lakehurst IX, Tuckerton VIII, IX (Ds). 188 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 709. Fig. 83. Fig. 79.—The true Katydid, showing the stridulating area at base of forewings. Fig. 80.—Eggs of Microcentrum; a, from the front; b, from side. Fig. 81.—Field cricket, male and female. Fig. 82.—Tree cricket, male, from above. Fig. 83.—Tree cricket, female, from side. Fig. 84.—Eggs of tree cricket in raspberry cane; a, appearance of the punctures from without; b, cane split to show eggs in position; c, individual egg greatly enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY: 189 . nebrascensis Bruner. Lakehurst IX, 20 (Ds); Sea Isle City IX, 19 (Haim); Cold Spring, Cape May Co. IX, 14 (Long). . palustris Blatchley. New Brunswick IX (Coll); Dennisville IX (Ds). The “C. gladiator Redt.” of the previous edition has not been verified and is omitted. ORCHELIMUM Serv. . agile DeG. Westville VIII (Vk); Delair X, Lucaston IX (Dke); Sea Isle City IX (Haim); Dennisville [IX (Ds); Anglesea VIII, IX (Coll); Cape May IX (div). . glaberrimum Burm. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Anglesea IX, 5 (W). . vulgare Harr. (gracile Harr.) Throughout the State from all points south of the highlands, late July until frost. Occurs in low, swampy meadows and in marshes, salt and fresh, to the edge of the seashore. Common on grassy cranberry bogs. . erythrocephalum Davis. Helmetta IX, Jamesburg IX, Lakehurst VII- X, Toms River VIII, Tuckerton IX (Ds); New Lisbon IX, Lahaway IX (Sm); Browns Mills Jn. VIII (Dke); Great Cedar Swamps VIII (H. Fox). . herbaceum Sery. (concinnum Scudd.) Staten Island VII-X, Brook- ville VII, Dennisville IX (Ds); DaCosta VII (Dke); Speedwell VIII (Stone); Spray Beach IX (Long); Atlantic City IX (Rehn); Anglesea IX (W). . validum WI1k. (nigripes Scudd.) Riverton IX (div); Lucaston IX, Belleplain IX (Dke); Gloucester X (Hardenberg); Clementon IX (G G); West Creek IX (Rehn); Sea Isle City IX (Haim). . pulchellum Davis. Helmetta IX, Dennisville [IX (Ds); Trenton IX, X (Gr); Clementon X (Rehn); found in swamps. . campestre Blatchley. Tuckerton VIII, Cape May VIII (Dke). . minor Bruner. Helmetta IX, Jamesburg IX, Lakehurst VII—X, on pine, often in tops of the trees (Ds); Browns Mills Jn. X (Dke); Atsion X, Staffords Forge IX (Hebard); Delair IX (Coll). . indianense Blatchley. Sea Isle City IX, 12 (Haim); Ocean View VII, 30, VIII (H. Fox); a salt marsh species in New Jersey (Rehn). . fidicinium Rehn & Heb. Staten Island VIII, Tuckerton VIII, IX (Ds); Ocean View VIII, Townsends Inlet VIII (H. Fox); Anglesea IX, 9 (Rehn). Apparently restricted to salt marsh areas. CONOCEPHALUS Thunb. (XIPHIDIUM.) . fasciatus De G. South of the Piedmont Plain, common in fresh-water swamps from July until frost. Extends northward along the Hudsuu and along the Hackensack Valley, and taken in the swamps near Trenton, else there are no records from the Piedmont Plain or north- ward. This is one of the cranberry bog species. 190 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. C. brevipenne Scudd. Occurs with the preceding, quite as common and more widely distributed; extends north to Hopatcong (Ds) and is recorded throughout the Delaware Valley region. Also occurs on eranberry bogs. C. ensiferus Scudd. Staten Island VIII; may be a large form of “brevi- penne” (Ds). C. saltans Scudd. Riverton IX, 8 (Vk); Atsion X (Hebard); Browns Mills Jn. X (Dke). C. strictum Scudd. Staten Island IX, X (Ds); Taunton IX (Stone); Atsion X (Hebard). C. nemorale Scudd. Along the eastern slope of the Palisades VIII, IX (B62 ATLANTICUS Scudd. A. dorsalis Burm. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island VIII- X, Dennisville IX, Tuckerton VIII (Ds); Lahaway IX, X (Coll); Lakes hurst VII-IX (div); Browns Mills Jn. X (Dke). A. pachymerus Burm. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); Newfoundland VII, Staten Island VI, IX, Woodbridge (Ds); Staffords Forge VIII (Holman). CAMPTONOTUS Uhler. C. carolinensis Gerst. Riverton (Jn); Point Pleasant (Brown). CEUTHOPHILUS Scudd. C. gracilipes Hald. In dark cellars and barns, under stones and in hol- low trees (Bt). All the species of this genus are wingless and rare, occurring in single examples only. Boonton VII, 23 (GG); Little Falls (Dke). C. heros Scudd. Chester (Coll). C. lapidicolus Scudd. Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (Ss); a specimen without definite label is in the collection. C. uhleri Scudd. Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island IX (Ds). C. neglectus Scudd. Ft. Lee (Bt). C. maculatus Harr. Morris Plains (Jn); Ft. Lee (Bt); “New Jersey” (Ss). C. grandis Scudd., terrestris Scudd., blatchleyi Scudd. and latens Scudd. have not yet been taken, and are better omitted from the list, although their occurrence is highly probable. Family GRYLLIDA, The “crickets,” as the members of this family are popularly termed, are distinguished by the somewhat flattened form, the fore-wings lying flat on the back but bent down so as to cover also the sides. In the males the flattened surface of the wing-covers is modified into a stridu- lating organ with strong veins and glassy transparent cells. In the female THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Ig! the ovipositor is long, cylindrical, like a stout bristle, and this makes the family easily distinguishable from the “Locustid®” in which the ovi- positor is always blade-like. The field crickets are usually black or brown, live in damp places in fields or meadows and jump readily if some- what erratically. They are often common on cranberry bogs and are believed to eat into berries, but I have never found them doing this until after the berries were on the ground. . The shrill music of the male cricket is well known and the “song” is characteristic for each species. The eggs are usually laid in dry, sandy soil late in fall, but some forms live as adults throughout the winter and a few come into houses. As a rule they are omnivorous and occasionally cannibalistic. The “tree crickets” are white or greenish as a rule, tending to yellowish or light brown, and they occur on trees and shrubs as their popular name implies. They are predatory in habit, feed largely on plant-lice and are therefore beneficial. Their eggs are laid in the soft shoots of trees and shrubs and some injury is occasionally done on fruit trees and berry bushes, but this is slight as compared with the benefits derived from them. GRYLLOTALPA Latr. G. borealis Burm. Recorded from all sections of the State VII until frost. The “mole cricket,’ so odd in its appearance that it attracts fre- quent attention and is often sent in with requests for information. Lives in burrows underground, in dams and along ditches, and has been recorded as injuring potatoes. Columbia Scudd. is a long-winged form of the preceding and occurs with it. TRIDACTYLUS Oliv. T. terminalis Scudd. Atlantic Highlands (Bt); Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Lucaston (GG); Bridgeport V, 20 (Haim); Ocean Co. (Sm); Laval- lette V (Vk); Anglesea IX (Dke). T. apicalis Say. Staten Island VI, IX, on damp ground (Ds). ELLIPES Scudd. E. minuta Scudd. Ocean City (Jn). CYCLOPTILUS Scudd. C. squamosus Scudd. Lakehurst X, 3 (Ds). NEMOBIUS Serv. N. fasciatus De G. Throughout the State VII to frost. More common in the pine barrens, but recorded as well from the hilly sections of the north as along the beach strip to Cape May. N. vittatus Harr. This is a form of the preceding, in which the wings are aborted. It is as widely distributed and has more northern records; it also occurs commonly on cranberry bogs. 192 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. N. affinis Beut. Occurs with “fasciatus” from late July until frost (Bt). N. carolinus Scudd. Mahwah X, Ft. Lee VIII, Cranford VIII, Brookside VUI, Staten Island VIII-XI, Lakehurst VIII-X (Ds); Jamesburg X (Coll); Atsion X, Stafford’s Forge IX (Hebard); West Creek IX (Rehn). N. canus Scudd. Sumner X, 15, Whitings IX, 28 (Long). N. palustris Blatchley. Lake Hopatcong VIII, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Staf- ford’s Forge IX (Hebard). N. janus Kirby. National Park X (Dke). N. maculatus Blatchley. Mt. Pleasant IX, 7, in oak-pine woods (H. Fox). GRYLLUS Linn. G. luctuosus Serv. (abbreviatus Serv.) Occurs throughout the State in late summer and fall, and perhaps our most common field cricket. Some adults winter and are found again in May. The name “abbre- viatus” refers to the short-winged form. Occurs on salt marshes and upland fields and one of the common species on cranberry bogs. G. pennsylvanicus Burm. As widely distributed as the preceding, but much less abundant. Records come from all faunal regions in late fall and early spring. G. neglectus Scudd. Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (Bt); Ocean Co., on cranberry bogs (Sm). May be a variety of the preceding—a point on which the authorities are not agreed. G. domesticus Linn. New Brunswick V (Gr); the “cricket on the hearth” or house cricket; introduced from Europe. MIOGRYLLUS Sauss. M. saussurei Scudd. Staten Island V, Lakehurst VI-VII (Ds). Matures in June. CECANTHUS Serv. CE. angustipennis Fitch. Ft. Lee IX, Staten Island IX, X (Ds); New Brunswick VIII (Coll); common throughout the pine barrens and ex- tends into the Delaware Valley region—Riverton VIII, IX (Jn). CE. exclamationis Davis. Cranford VIII, Staten Island VIII, IX, Morgan X, Manasquan IX, Farmingdale VIII (Ds); Riverton IX, 10 (Rehn); Clementon VIII, 13 (Vk). CE. niveus De G. The “snowy tree-cricket.” All the species of this genus are tree crickets and lay their eggs in twigs, sometimes causing injury, but not all species lay them in close series, nor do they equally produce injury. Boonton IX (GG); Ft. Lee IX, Staten Island VIII, IX, Lakehurst, in village gardens only (Ds); Jamesburg, Angle- sea (Coll); Riverton VIII, Glassboro (Jn). CE. latipennis Riley. Staten Island VIIIJ-X; Jamesburg IX, Farmingdale VIII, Lakehurst VIII, IX, common (Ds); Riverton VIII (Jn); Delair VIII, Lucaston IX (Dke); Medford VIII, Stafford’s Forge IX (Rehn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 193 C=. fasciatus Fitch. (nigricornis Wlk.) Throughout the State VII-x, and locally the most common species; perhaps more abundant north- wardly in the State. CE. 4-punctatus Beut. Also occurs throughout the State, records extend- ing from Greenwood Lake to Cape May and to the Delaware. C=. pini Beut. Riverton (Jn); Lakehurst VII-IX (Ds); Anglesea IX (Dke). XABEA Walker. X. bipunctatus De G. Chester IX, Monmouth Co. X (Coll); Ft. Lee IX, Staten Island VIII, Atlantic Highland VIII, Farmingdale VIII, Mana- squan, Tuckerton IX (Ds); Riverton VIII (Jn). ' ANAXIPHA Sauss. A. exigua Say. Palisades IX, Cranford VIII, Staten Island VIII-X, James- burg VIII, Helmetta IX, Dennisville IX, Lakehurst IX (Ds); Riverton (Jn); Medford VIII (div); Stafford’s Forge VIII, IX (Rehn). Beaten from shrubbery, low trees, ete. The “pulicarius’” Sauss. is not likely to occur in New Jersey, the “Del.” and “Pa.” records really referring to “exigua” (Rehn). PHYLLOSCIRTUS Guer. P. pulchellus Uhl. Ft. Lee VIII, [IX (Bt); Elizabeth, Ocean Co. IX (Coll); Staten Island VIII-X, Jamesburg VIII, Farmingdale VIII, Dennisville IX (Ds); Clementon VIII (GG); Stafford’s Forge VIII (Rehn). Found on bushes and trees. HAPITHUS Uhl. H. agitator Uhl. Staten Island IX, 21, one 2 only; Dennisville IX, Tuck- erton IX (Ds); Riverton IX (div); Ocean View IX, Sea Isle City IX (Fox); Anglesea IX (div); Bayside IX (Sm); on low bushes and weeds. OROCHARIS Uhl. O. saltator Uhl. Matawan IX, Dennisville IX (Ds); Riverton VIII, Cum- berland Co. IX (Jn); Bridgeton X, 15; Lahaway X, Bayside IX (Sm); on bushes and low trees. “Myrmecophilus pergandei’’ Bruner has not yet been taken by collectors, and is therefore omitted. 13 IN lige <— Pritt a Order COLEOPTERA. The Coleoptera or beetles are recognizable by their hard or leathery Wing covers, which are laid over the abdomen so that they meet in a straight line down the back, the hind wings being transversely folded beneath them. They have mandibulate or chewing mouth parts and feed on a great range of substances, animal and vegetable, as well in the larval as in the adult stages. There is no part of plants that is not attacked by some species, hence many are seriously injurious; but, on the other hand, predatory forms occur also in great abundance, and some of these are markedly beneficial. The larve vary much in shape, but never have more than six functional legs, and their habits are as diverse as those of the adults. The pupal stage is inactive, and the metamorphosis is therefore complete. The characters upon which classification is based are found in the num- ber of joints on the feet and in shape of the antenne or feelers, the snout beetles being first separated off by the mouth parts, which are set at the end of a longer or shorter beak. It is not usually difficult to determine whether a beetle is probably in- jurious, harmful or beneficial, if a few points of structure are carefully observed. First.—Practically all weevils or snout beetles are plant feeders and may be or become injurious; none are beneficial. Second.—All beetles that have only four apparent joints to the feet or tarsi, the third joint lobed or split, are to be looked upon with suspicion, for they are likely to be either leaf beetles, like the potato or asparagus beetle, or wood-borers of the family “Cerambycide,” like the round-headed apple borer. Third.—Beetles with five-jointed tarsi or feet, and feelers that have a large leaf-like club at tip are likely to be leaf chafers, like the “May- beetle” or “rose-bug,” and their larve are “white grubs,’ many of which are injurious. A few of these beetles are scavengers and at least harm- less, but none are to be accounted really beneficial. Fourth.—Beetles with five-jointed tarsi and antenne that are somewhat flattened and have the joints marked like the teeth of a saw are likely to be injurious. If the prothorax is loosely jointed to the rest of the body, they are snapping or click beetles, whose larve are wire-worms, and this series contains also the Buprestide or flat-headed borers. Fifth.—If the antenne are gradually enlarged toward the tip, forming a club, the insects are likely to be scavengers or feeders upon dead or dry animal or vegetable matter; but this is subject to many exceptions, and it is only safe to say that such species are not likely to be feeders upon growing vegetation. Sixth.—Beetles in which the hind tarsi or feet are 4-jointed, while the others have five joints, are likely to prove feeders in dead or dying wood (195) 196 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. or other vegetable tissue; but this is by no means uniform, a few species being distinctly beneficial, while others are as decidedly harmful. Seventh.—Beetles with 5-jointed feet and slender, filiform or thread-like antenne are probably predatory and beneficial. There are only a few exceptions to this. The list in this order has been very materially added to in many fami- lies, and may be considered fairly accurate and complete. It has been critically looked over by a number of our best Coleopterists, and every questionable record has been verified, so far as it was possible to do so. Credit is given in all cases for work done in the various families, and in most instances the most recent American work has been followed. There has been no recent comprehensive work on this order in the United States, and the studies in other countries, which indicate a very radical change in the arrangement of the series, have not been generally understood and accepted here. Under the circumstances, I have deemed it best to attempt no change in the arrangement, a faunal list being no proper place to introduce a mooted or new classification. Family CICINDELID. Commonly known as “tiger-beetles.” They are long-legged, rather slender, active beetles, predatory in habit, living usually in open, sandy places, and flying readily when disturbed. The larve are uncouth creatures, with large head and prominent jaws, that live in vertical bur- rows in sandy soil, watching at the mouth for such unwary creatures as may come in their way. They are of no economic importance. Fig. 85.—Tiger beetles: a, Cicindela repanda; b, C. generosa; c, C. sexguttata; d, C. purpurea; e, a larva. CICINDELA Linn. C. unipunctata Fabr. Plainfield, on the mountain road VII, 4 (div); Lake- hurst VI (div); Malaga IX, 15 (GG); Atco, Woodstown (Li); DaCosta VII (W). Usually rare and always local; partly nocturnal in habit; “found running in pine woods along roads before dark” (W). THE. INSECTS! OF NEW JERSEY. 197 C. scutellaris Say. var. modesta Dej. Local throughout the State south of the red shale, August to October and again in spring; the adult hibernates. var. rugifrons Dej. Lakehurst IV, V, IX, X (div); Bamber IX, 9 (Dke). The immaculate forms “nigrior’ Schaupp (all black), and “unicolor” Dej. (all green or blue), are liable at any time to occur with the more normal types. C. sexguttata Fab. Throughout the State, April to July, in open woods or along shaded roads; not rare anywhere and locally common. C. patruela Dej. Lakehurst V, 18 (Gr); Lakewood (Coll); rare. var. consantanea Dej. Local and sometimes not rare in the pine bar- rens on old roads. Lakehurst IV—VII, IX, X (div); Brookville (Lg); Atco VIII, IX (div); DaCosta VI, 18 (Brn); Brown’s Mills (Dke); Brigantine, Mainland IX (Hn). C. purpurea Oliv. Throughout the State [V—-VII and again IX, locally not rare. Of the named varieties “transversa”’’ Leng. and “limbalis” Klug. have been found in New Jersey, the latter near Boonton IV, 28 (GG), and in Great Bear Swamp IX, 6 (Sleight). C. generosa Dej. Throughout the State, but somewhat local and rarely in numbers; April to October. C. tranquebarica Hbst. (vulgaris Say). Generally distributed and locally common throughout the southern counties during the entire season, hibernating as an adult. It is much less frequent and more local north of the red shale line. C. 12-guttata Dej. Caldwell (Cr); Hackensack Meadows (Bf); Newark (Soc); Staten Island V, VI, IX, X Lakehurst IV, VII (Ds); Gloucester (Li); Ateo IX, 8 (Brn); on mud banks, near water (W). C. repanda Dej. Common from April to October throughout the State, hibernating as an adult. It is the most abundant and generally dis- tributed of all our species. C. hirticollis Say. Common along the coast from Staten’Island to Cape May, April to September. Extends also along the shores of the Dela- ware and is local in the sandy districts of South Jersey, especially near swamps. C. punctulata Oliv. Common throughout the State, July to September; found even in cities along side streets or in sandy lots, and is at- tracted to electric light. C. trifasciata Fab. (tortuosa Dej.) Atlantic City VI, three specimens in the wash-up (Li). C. dorsalis Say. Common along the seashore from Staten Island to Cape May, July and August. It is also taken inland, very locally, on white sand flats, specimens having been taken at Lahaway in August. The insect varies locally, and at some places the majority of specimens are almost immaculate. 198 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. marginata Fab. Common along the coast on salt meadows, July and August. Reported all the way from South Amboy to Anglesea. C. lepida Dej. Seashore, from Sandy Hook to Cape May, locally, VII-IX, sometimes in numbers. Also occurs in limited areas inland; one is at and another near Jamesburg, one at Lahaway, another at Clemen- ton, and no doubt there are yet others to be discovered. Lives in holes made beneath little tufts of grass (W). Cc. marginipennis Dej. Essex Co. and along the Delaware in North Jersey (W). C. abdominalis Fab. East Plains VII, 27 (Lg); Lakehurst VII-IX (div); DaCosta in late June (Li) and early July (W). C. rufiventris Fab. Upper pine barrens (Lg); Hast Plains, near Barne- gat, in considerable numbers VII, 27 (Ds). Family CARABIDAE. The ‘ground beetles,’ as the members of this family are popularly known, are usually black or dull brown in color, sometimes bronzed or metallic, and, exceptionally, usually on flower-loving forms bright blue, green and yellow. Many of the species hide during the day under stones or bark, among roots of plants, in grass at the base of trees, in burrows under ground or in other places of concealment. They fiy at night, are often attracted to electric light, and in general are predatory in habit. The larve are more or less fusiform, somewhat flattened above, gray or dusky in color, and they live in similar localities though even more concealed. They also are predatory and of decided - - economic importance, feed- ing upon many of the leaf- ie feeders that go under- J (bees) ground to hibernate or to Fig. 86.—Larva of a ground beetle, feeding on a pupate. Those that in the Curculio larva. adult stage live on plants, feed on eggs, caterpillars and slugs of herbivorous forms. All the species have slender, filiform antennse, 5-jointed tarsi on all feet and are somewhat depressed or flattened; those that live under bark sometimes very much so. OMOPHRON Latr. O. labiatum Fab. Along the Delaware, Camden to Woodbury V, VI (div); ° Anglesea (W); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); usually rare. O. americanum Dej. Boonton VI, 11, Glassboro IX, 7 (GG); W. Bergen V, and can be washed out along most streams in my district (Bf); Caldwell (Cr); Greenville VI, IX (Sp); Gloucester (Li); Atlantic Co. (W). O. tessellatum Say. Mountain View VIII, 11 (GG); Anglesea V, Atlantic Co. (W). THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 199 SPHAZERODERUS Dej. (CYCHRUS Fab.) S. stenostomus Web. Palisades V, VI, under stones (Sp); Snake Hill, all year (Bf); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton X, 21, Merchantville III, 13 (G G); Gloucester, Clementon XII, 17, sifting (W). var. lecontei Dej. With the type; also Boonton III, 9, X, 11 (GG); Chester VI, 28 (Dn); Summit II, 22 (Bf); Westville (Li). “S. nitidicollis’” Chev. is a boreal species and the record from Lake Ho- patcong is an error. SCAPHINOTUS Dej. S. elevatus Fabr. Englewood VII, 1 (Bt); Orange Mts., Newark Dist. (Bf); Newtonville III, 26 (Brn); Egg Harbor, Anglesea IV (div); rare. ‘ ‘ S. unicolor Oliv. Five-mile beach V, 30 (W). This is the “violaceous” of the previous edition. S. viduus Dej. Hopatcong VI, 3 (W); Orange Mts. (Bf); Ft. Lee IV, VI, VIII (Bt); Mays Landing (W., Li). Always rare. CARABUS Linn. C. sylvosus Say. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Greenville VI (Sp); Atlantic High- lands (Bt); Gloucester, Camden (div); Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke); Anglesea VI, 20 (Coll). var. finitimus Hald. Wenonah X, 21 (Dke). C. serratus Say. Throughout the State VI, VIII, IX, often at sugar in fall. C. limbatus Say. Throughout the State, not rare IV, V, VIII, IX. C. vinctus Web. With the preceding, under stones and logs; the most abundant representative of the genus in the State. C. nemoralis Mull. Newark IV, 6, 12 (Dn). This is an introduced species, and a number of examples have been taken near New York. Mr. Dickerson took 1 ¢ 1 9 in a city back yard, and the species is probably g. d. in the district, though rare. A specimen was taken by Mr. Clarence Riker, at Maplewood, about 20 years ago. CALOSMA Weber. Cc. externum Say. Woodside (Bf); Green- ville, under stones VI, IX (Sp); New- ark at light (Dn); Staten Island VII, 9 (Ds); Gloucester (Li); Camden, Atlan- tic, Cape May Cos. (W); not common. Mr. Davis’s specimen was “found under an electric light and squirted its acrid fluid into my face at a distance of about a foot.” Fig. SADC ocohid calidum C. scrutator Fabr. Throughout the State, and larva. locally common, often washed up along 200 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. shore in large numbers VII-IX. Isa tree climber, a caterpillar hunter and our largest representative of this family. C. willcoxi Lec. Newark at light (div); Atlantic. City (div); Ocean City (G G); Cape May Co. (div). Similar in habit to the preceding, but much smaller and less abundant. C. frigidum Kirby. Newfoundland V (Ds); Newark at light (Bf); Wood- bury V, 18, Sea Isle City VI, 26 (Brn). C. sayi Dej. Staten Island (Ds); Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Cape May Cos. (W); Atlantic City (Li); always rare. C. calidum Fabr. Throughout the State, under stones, &c., in fields. The most abundant and generally distributed species. ELAPHRUS Fabr. E. fuliginosus Say. Ft. Lee IV (Sf); Snake Hill IV (div). The record of “cicatricosus” in last edition was based on an example of this species. E. ruscarius Say. Throughout the State along dry ditches and on mud flats IV—VII, IX; usually not rare where it occurs. BLETHISA Bon. B. quadricollis Hald. Caldwell, rare (Cr). NOTIOPHILUS Dum. N. zneus Hbst. Ft. Lee, among leaves X (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc); Camden and Gloucester Co. V, IX, at various points near the Delaware (div). N. semistriatus Say. (sibiricus Mots.) Durham’s Pond VIII, 18, Orange Mts. V, 30 (Dn); Madison (Pr); Newark, about roots of trees and under damp leaves (Bf). The true “sibiricus’” does not occur in the Us: atvall: N. novemstriatus Say. (semistriatus Say.) Boonton VIII, 17, Orange Mts. (GG); Newark (Bf); Staten Island (Lg), among leaves at base of trees (Bt); New Lisbon VII, 14 Anglesea VI, 21 (Brn). This is the species listed as “hardyi’” in the last edition, and so the species stands in most collections. NEBRIA Latr. N. pallipes Say. Throughout the State V, VIII, IX, along rocky streams, under stones just at edge of water. More common north of Piedmont Plain. PASIMACHUS Bon. P. sublevis Beauv. Staten Island (Ds); Monmouth Co. VIII, 10 (Coll); Sandy Hook VIII (Bt); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Avalon VII, 4 (Brn); Anglesea VII-X (div); always along shore. THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 201 P. punctulatus Hald. DaCosta VII (div); Clementon, Egg Harbor (Li); Brown's Mills VII, 4 (Dke). P. depressus Fab. Lakehurst (Lg); Staten Island (div). Mr. Leng be- lieves that the references to the previous species also belong here, and that “punctulatus” does not occur in New Jersey. SCARITES Fabr. S. subterraneus Fab. Throughout the State, under stones, at all seasons. var. substriatus Hald. Anglesea, very rare VI (W, Brn). DYSCHIRIUS Bon. D. nigripes Lec. Newark (Bf). All the species are found near water or under leaves or burrowing in sandy banks. D. globulosus Say. Throughout the State VI, VII. D. terminatus Lec. Atlantic City (div); Brigantine VII, Sea Isle City VI, VII (Brn); Anglesea V, 31-VII, 11 (Brn). D. sphericollis Say. Boonton to Anglesea VI-IX, sometimes abundant at light; taken largely on or near the shore. D. erythrocerus Lec. Newark (Bf); Anglesea VII, 23 (Sm). D. sellatus Lec. Atlantic City (W, Li); Sea Isle City VI, 10 (Brn); Angle- sea VII (div); strictly a maritime species (Sz). D. pallipennis Say. With the preceding, and also a maritime form. Brigantine [X, Avalon V, 23 (Brn). D. filiformis Lec. Orange VI, common at light (Ch); Brigantine Beach IX on salt marshes (Hn). D. pumilus Dej. Orange VI, at light (Ch); Newark Dist (Bf); Brigan- tine marshes IX (Hn). The “hispidus” of last edition belongs here. CLIVINA Latr. C. dentipes Dej. Collingswood VII, 22 (GG); Woodbury VII, 7 (Brn). C. impressifrons Lec. Orange VI (Ch); Newark (Bf), at light; Wood- bury VII (GG); g. d. (Li); Anglesea (W); Cape May VI, 3 (Brn). C. rubicunda Lec. Atlantic City, rare (Li). C. rufa Lec. Irvington VIII, 4, one specimen (Bf). C. americana Dej. Throughout the State IV—VII, IX, on bogs, marshes, ete. C. striatopunctata Dej. Arlington VI (Sf); Newark district, rare, along streams (Bf); Brigantine salt marsh IX (Hn). C. ferrea Lec. Gloucester, not common (W). ce) . convexa Lec. Atlantic City, 1 specimen; Rockaway (Sf). C. bipustulata Fabr. Throughout the State, at light V, VI, and under stones, throughout the season. 202 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SCHIZOGENIUS Putz. S. lineolatus Say. Throughout the State, at light and under stones, all season. S. ferrugineus Putz. Staten Island, under logs at South Beach (Bf); Cramer Hill V (GG); Westville VI (div); Brigantine salt marshes IX, Anglesea V, 30 (W). S. amphibius Hald. Irvington, rare, washing stream banks (Bf); West- ville (Li); along the Delaware, near Camden, Anglesea V, 30 (W). ARDISTOMIS Putz. A. obliquata Putz. Atlantic City, two or three by Dr. Castle (Li). A. viridis Say. Clifton VI (Sp); So. Orange V, 30 (Dn); Newark (Soc); Cranford, Irvington, common (Bf); Camden and Gloucester Counties, along muddy streams (W); g. d. (Li). PANAGAZUS Latr. P. crucigerus Say. Snake Hill, under stones V, VI (Sp); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Anglesea V, 28 (W); always in single specimens. P. fasciatus Say. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Newark, at light (Bf); Springfield III, 3 (Stortz); Ft. Lee, in ant nests IV (Bt); Snake Hill, under stones V, VI (Sp); Atlantic City, wash-up (W); Sea Isle V, VI (Brn); also rare. NOMIUS Lap. N. pygmzeus Dej. Newark, one specimen (Bf); Atlantic City VI, 24 (Brn); Avalon, Anglesea (W); extremely rare in this State. BEMBIDIUM Latr. B. inzequale Say. Banks of Passaic V, IX (Sp); Elizabeth IV, 8 (GG); Westville (Li); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Union Co., not rare (Sm). B. punctatostriatum Say. Banks of Passaic, spring and fall (Sp). B. confusum Hayw. Banks of Passaic V, IX (Sp); New Jersey (Hayw). B. americanum Dej. Throughout the State, along river banks, spring and fall. B. honestum Say. Along the Passaic V, IX (Sp), Irvington (Bf); Cam- den and Gloucester Co. (W); Cramer Hill V, VI (GG). B. chalceum Dej. Boonton VIII, Mt. View IX (GG); banks of Passaic V, IX (Sp); Irvington, washing stream banks (Bf). B. nigrum Say. Boonton VIII (GG); along the banks of Passaic, spring and fall (Sp); So. Orange V, 30 (Dn); Irvington, Rahway (Bf); Camden and Gloucester Cos. (W). B. grandiceps Hayw. “New Jersey” (Hayw). This and the next two fol- lowing species occur along larger streams that have gravelly banks. 4Hadq4 THE, INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 203 . guexi Chd. Hemlock Falls, rare (Bf); “New Jersey” (Hayw). . fugax Lec. Boonton VI, 11, VIII 15 (GG); “New Jersey” (Hayw). . ustulatum Linn. Boonton IV, Glassboro VII, IX (GG); Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill IV (Lv); Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden Co. (W); Glouces- ter Co. (div). . Viridicolle Laf. Newark, salt meadows V, 8 (Bf). . variegatum Say. Throughout the State, spring and fall, along river banks, on salt marshes, cranberry bogs and similar situations. . versicolor Lec. Banks of Passaic V, IX (Sp); Orange Mts. VII, New- ark salt meadows (Bf); Camden and Gloucester Cos. (W). . contractum Say. Along the seashore and on salt meadows; strictly maritime, practically all season. . constrictum Lee. With the preceding, but a distinct species. . pedicellatum Lec. Generally distributed, rare (W). . 4maculatum Linn. Common throughout the State all season. . affine Say. Newark salt meadows (Bf); New Brunswick VI (Coll); Camden (Li); Westville I, 28 (GG); g. d. (W); Lahaway V, on cran- berry bogs. . anguliferum Lec. “New Jersey” (Hayw). . assimile Gyll. Newark, salt meadows, rare (Bf). . semistriatum Hald. Banks of the Passaic, spring and fall (Sp). TACHYS Schaum. . nanus Gyll. Throughout the State under bark of trees. . flavicauda Say. -As common and distributed as the preceding. . granarius Dej. Staten Island (Lg), and sure to be found elsewhere. . fuscicornis Chd. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . incurvus Say. Along Passaic V, IX (Sp); Orange Mts. (Bf) and Ft. Lee (Bt) in ant hills; g. d. (W); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . xanthopus Dej. Newark, Woodside (Bf); Orange VI (Ch); Westville I, IV (GG); Ocean Co., on cranberry bogs V (Sm); Anglesea (W). - capax Lec. Chester VII, 4, Arlington III, 1 (Dn); Newark, Ocean Co., cranberry bogs V, Anglesea VII, X (Coll); Anglesea I and II, sifting (W). - vivax Lec. Along the Delaware River, So. Camden V, 17 (W). . tripunctatus Say. Summit, along river (Bf); banks of Passaic V, IX (Sp); Highlands V (Bt); Westville V, 31 (GG). . frontalis Hayw. Chester (Dn). . lavus Say. Throughout the State IX, V, VI, and in winter siftings. - pallidus Chd. Sea Isle City VIII (W); Avalon VI, Anglesea VI (Brn); a salt meadow species. . occultator Casey. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Avalon VI, 23 (Brn); Sea Isle City, Anglesea VIII, also on the salt meadows (W). 204 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. T. proximus Say. Passaic banks V, IX (Sp); Orange VI, light (Ch); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); g. d. (Li); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs (Coll). T. scitulus Lec. Banks of Passaic V,.IX (Sp); Newark, Snake Hill, salt meadows V (Bf); Orange, Long Branch V, VI (C); Woodbury VII, 30 (GG). T. corruscus Lec. Westville, throughout the winter, sifting (W). It is reasonably certain that, in addition to the above, “dolosus’”’ Lec. and “ferrugineus” Dej. also occur in New Jersey. PERICOMPSUS Lec. P. ephippiatus Say. Orange VI, at light (Ch); salt meadows, 1 spec. (Bf). , PATROBUS Dej. P. longicornis Say. Locally not rare throughout the State V-VIII. POGONUS Dej. P. lecontei Horn. Atlantic City (Castle); Corsons Inlet VII, 20 (Li); Sea Isle City, Anglesea, common on mud flats under the dry and thick- ened upper crust on salt marshes (W). MYAS Dej. M. coracinus Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); South Jersey (W), very rare. M. cyanescens Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, Clifton VI, VII (Sp); Staten Island (Sf). TRECHUS Clairv. T. chalybeus Mann. Milltown VII, VIII; common under dead leaves along a stony brook in accidental association with the ant, ‘“Lasius mixtus” Nyl. (div); Westville (Brn). PTEROSTICHUS Bon. P. adoxus Say. Throughout the State spring and fall; under bark or in rotten wood (Bf); locally common. P. rostratus Newn. Palisades (Sp); New Jersey (W); single specimens only. P. diligendus Chd. Palisades V (Sp); Newark, on salt meadows (Bf). P. honestus Say. Palisades above Hoboken in early spring (Sp, Sm). P. lacrymosus Newn. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester VII, 4 (Dn); Orange Mts. VII (Bt); Newark (Soc), along Palisades in spring (div). P. coracinus Newn. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester VII, 4 (Dn); Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 205 P. stygicus Say. Throughout the State, locally common, spring and fall. P. moestus Say. Throughout the Appalachian and Highland regions, spring and fall; always in rotten logs (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); New Brunswick (Coll). The “superciliosus”’ of previous list is really this species. P. sayi Brulle. Throughout the State, fall and spring; not rare. P. lucublandus Say. Throughout the State, under stones and shelter of all kinds; one of the few species that has adapted itself to live in tilled fields. P. ebeninus Dej. Ft. Lee (Sf); Atlantic City (Li); Westville (W); Sea Isle City V (Brn); Anglesea IV, V (div); single specimens only. P. caudicalis Say. Snake Hill (Bt); g. d. (Li); Camden IV, 18, West- ville V, 29; Avalon VII, 18 (Brn); Anglesea (W). P. luctuosus Dej. Snake Hill (Bt); Newark, salt meadows (Bf); Arling- ton (Dn); Westville II (W); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs (Sm); Avalon VIII, 18 (Brn). P. corvinus Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill V, 26 (Lv); Palisades in spring (Sp); Newark (Bf); Arlington (Dn); g. d. (Li). P. gravis Lec. Highlands V (Sf); Westville V, 28, 1 specimen (Brn). P. purpuratus Lec. Staten Island, 1 specimen (Lg). P. tartaricus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Hoboken (Li); Cranford V, 17, Sea Girt (Bf); Sea Isle VI, 15 (Brn); single specimens only. . mutus Say. Throughout the State and everywhere abundant. . erythropus Dej. Also occurs everywhere and is locally common. . patruele Dej. With the preceding, though less abundant. . femoralis Kirby. Orange Mts., Westville IV, 23 (GG); Staten Island (Lg). The records for “P. haldemanni Lec.” were based on errors. 0 cUF <0) =U EVARTHRUS Lec. E. sigillatus Say. Greenwood Lake VI (Sf); Hopatcong (Pm); Chester VII, 30, VIII, 24 (Dn); Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Irvington, New- ark, Sea Girt (Bf); Atlantic City (Li); always rare. The “sodalis” of the last edition belongs here. AMARA Bon. A. avida Say. Palisades V (Sp), VII (Bt); Snake Hill (Sf); salt meadows (Bf); Camden V, IX (div); Westville, Gloucester (Li); Mauricetown VI, 20, injuring strawberries (Sm); Cape May VI, 3 (Brn). A. fulvipes Putz. Chester IX, 16 (Dn); Newark (Bf); Camden IX, 1 (GG); Atlantic City, Anglesea (Li); Brigantine VII, Avalon VII, Sea Isle VI (Brn); common in wash-up in spring (W). 206 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. > > >>r>rPr>r>prPp> > > > D. exarata Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell (Cr); salt meadows (Bf); Camden II, IX, Woodbury VI (GG); Atlantic City VI (Brn); Anglesea in wash-up (W). . latior Kirby. Woodside, salt meadows, rare (Bf); New Brunswick VII (Coll). . septentrionalis Lec. Highlands, 1 specimen (Ch); Woodside (Sf). . apricaria Payk. Atlantic City, VI, 24 (Brn); New Jersey (Li); rare. . angustata Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Palisades V (Sp); Newark district in spring (Bf); Cramer Hill V, VI (GG); g. d. (Li). : pallipes Kirby. Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic Counties (W). . impuncticollis Say. Throughout the State, fall and spring; common. . basillaris Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill IV (Sf); salt meadows (Bf). . cupreolata Putz. Snake Hill IV (Sf); “New Jersey” (Hw). . fallax Lec. Lake Hopatcong (Pm); upper Montclair (Bf). . polita Lec. Orange Mts., one specimen (Bf). . interstitialis Dej. Palisades V (Sp); Newark (Bf); Camden and Gloucester Counties, g. d. IV (Li). . obesa Say. Throughout the State, locally common V-—VII. . terrestris Lec. Staten Island (Lg); Brigantine VI, 11 (Brn). . chalcea Dej. Ramapo, Eagle Rock I, 31, salt meadows (Bf); Palisades V (Sp); Woodbury (Li). . gibba Lec. “New Jersey” (Hw). . rubrica Hald. Ft.. Lee (Sf); Palisades IX, 27 (Lv); Newark (Soc); Westville, Woodbury (Li); So. Jersey, in sandy places under boards (W); Sea Isle V, VI, Anglesea V, Cape May V (Brn). . subzenea Lec. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . musculus Say. Throughout the State, spring and fall; often abundant on weeds and other herbage in September. LOXANDRUS Lec. . minor Chd. Westville IV, 30, Anglesea VI, 15 (Brn). DIPLOCHILA Brullé. . laticollis Lec. Palisades V, VI (Sp); Snake Hill IV, 26 (Liv); salt meadows (Bf); Hoboken (Bt); Orange, at light VI (Ch); Arlington III (Dn); meadows along Delaware V (W); Atlantic City (Li); Cape May VI, 23 (Brn). var. major Lec. Palisades, more rare than the type (Sm); Snake Hill V, 22 (Bf); Lahaway III, 14 (Coll). impressicollis Dej. Snake Hill, one specimen (Sf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 207 DICAELUS Bon. . dilatatus Say. Throughout the State VI, IX, locally not rare. . purpuratus Bon. Also generally distributed V, VI, IX; not common. . ovalis Lec. Snake Hill (Bt); Westville (Li); Collingswood IV, 2 (Brn); Gloucester, Camden, Atlantic Co. (W); not common. . elongatus Bon. Throughout the State, spring and fall; under stones and logs; the most abundant of our species. . ambiguus Laf. Hopatcong (Pm); V, 31 (W). . teter Bon. Chester VI, 19, VII, 4 (Dn); Ft. Lee; Snake Hill (Bt); Palisade woods V (Sp). . politus Dej. Throughout the State, spring and fall. a BADISTER Clairv. . hotatus Hald. Hopatcong (Pm); Arlington, Millburn, Orange Mts. (Bf); Camden XI (Brn); Gloucester (Li); Woodbury VII, XI (div); the species occur rarely, in most places under old leaves. . pulchellus Lec. Suffern V (Bt); Newark (Coll); Arlington, salt meadows, spring (Bf); Staten Island V; Orange VI (Ch); Woodbury (div); Sea Isle City VI, 10 (Brn). . maculatus Lec. Woodbury VI (div); four recorders. . elegans Lec. Woodbury VII, 30, at light (Brn). . micans Lee. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark, salt meadows (Bf); Snake Hill (Sf); Orange (Ch); Westville (Li); Woodbury VIII, 7 (W). . reflexus Lec. Orange, one specimen VI (Ch). CALATHUS Bon. . gregarius Say. Throughout the State, common nearly all season. . opaculus Lec. G. d. (W); Camden IV, Gloucester IV, DaCosta VI, 3 Brigantine VII, 5, Sea Isle VII, Anglesea IX, 12 (Brn); Atco (Li). . impunctatus Say. Ft. Lee (Sp); Sandy Hook VII (Bt); Atco (W); and along the seashore at all points from Atlantic City to Cape May V-VII (div). PLATYNUS Bon. . angustatus Dej. Ft. Lee (div); Lahaway V, cranberry bogs (Sm); Anglesea (W). . decens Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, Palisades (div); Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc); Anglesea VII (Sz). . Sinuatus Dej. Ft. Lee, Palisades (div); Paterson III, 30, Hemlock Falls V, 30 (Dn); Newark, Woodside V, VI (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); g. d. (Li); Newtonville III, 20 (Brn); Lahaway V, on -cran- berry bogs (Sm); Brown’s Mills V, 19 (Dke). 208 REPORT OF NEW, JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. Pe Pe P. as} ‘yup ef ye] opaculus Lee. Ft. Lee, rare (Sp); may be an erroneous determination (Sf). tenuicollis Lec. New Jersey (Bt); Atlantic City (Castle). cincticollis Say. Throughout the State V, VI, EX; locally common. reflexus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester VII, 4 (Dn); Ft. Lee (div); Palisades VII (Lv); Staten Island IV (Bt); Newark (Coll); g. d. (Li); Merchantville VI (Brn); Anglesea IV, VII (Coll). . extensicollis Say. Throughout the State V, VI, IX; the variety “viridis” Lec. rarely from northern localities. . decorus Say. Throughout the State, not common; taken in winter, sifting; also at all points along the seashore. t SbReU RES Hbst. (pusillus Lec.) Staten Island (Lg). . moerens Dej. New Jersey (GG). . tenuis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City (Coll); salt meadows (Bf). . atratus Lec. Caldwell (Cr); Orange V, at light (Ch); Snake Hill IV (Bt); Westville I, 28 (W). . melanarius Dej. Throughout the State in spring; locally common. . propinquus G & H. New Jersey, one specimen (W). . affinis Kirby. Ft. Lee (Bt); Palisades V (Sp); Caldwell (Cr); New- ark (Bf); Jamesburg V, 10, Camden I, 28, Lahaway V, 28 (Coll). . metallescens Lec. Palisades V (Sp); Hoboken, Snake Hill V (Bt); Orange Mts., Newark, salt meadows (Bf). . cupripennis Say. Throughout the State, under stones, ete., in fields; our most brilliant species and usually somewhat rare. . excavatus Dej. Palisades (Sp); Snake Hill (Sf); Orange Mts., New- ark (Bf); g. d. (Li); Westville I, 28, common everywhere (W). . ferreus Hald. Occurs with the preceding at the same dates. . basalis Lec. Hoboken, rare (Ll). nutans Say. Palisades (Sp); salt meadows (Bf); Sea Isle VI, VII in single specimens only (Brn). . albicrus Dej. Westville VI, 6, one specimen (Brn). . octopunctatus Fabr. Throughout the State, late fall and early spring, mostly rare; sometimes taken in winter sifting. . placidus Say. Throughout the State, locally common, fall and spring. . bogemanni Gyll. Palisades (Sp); Snake Hill (Bt); Orange VI (Ch); Newark, salt meadows (Bf); New Brunswick VI, 4 (Dn); Gloucester VI (Brn); seashore to Anglesea V, VI (div). . quadripunctatus De G. Newark, at light (Bf); Highlands VI (Ch). . zruginosus Dej. Delaware Valley formation and northward, under bark and at light III-VI; more common northwardly. . crenistriatus Lec. Throughout the State, spring and fall; rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 209 P. rubripes Zimm. Palisades V (Sp); Ft. Lee (Bt); Plainfield IV, 20 (Bf); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); and along the seashore to Angle- sea V, VI (div). P. punctiformis Say. Throughout the State, spring and fall; not usually common; cranberry bogs V, 28 (Sm). P. sordens Kirby. Palisades V (Sp); Arlington I, IV (Bf); Orange VI (Ch); Woodbury VIII (W). P. picicornis Lec. Orange VI, one specimen (Ch). P. ruficornis Lec. Palisades V, Ft. Lee (div); Westville I, 28 (W); Red Bank, Gloucester Co. IV, 20 (Brn); g. d. (W Li). P. picipennis Kirby. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester VI, 28 (Dn); Hoboken IV, V (div); Arlington III, 18 (Coll); Collingswood IV, 2 (GQG). P. lutulentus Lec. Throughout the State, and in every month save July on cranberry bogs, salt marshes and along shore; usually rare. ‘ “P, bembidiodes” De G. of the last edition was an error of determina- tion. OLISTHOPUS Dej. O. parmatus Say. Throughout the State, always rare IV—VI. O. micans Lec. Ft. Lee IV, 17, sifting (Sf); Westville I, 28, VIII, 20, under old leaves, sifting (W); Atlantic City (Li). PERIGONA Lap. P. pallipennis Lec. Arlington meadows, rare (Bf); Highland V (Sf). ATRANUS Lec. A. pubescens Dej. Palisades VI (Sp); Ft. Lee, in brooks (Ll); Orange Mts. VI, in rotten wood (Bf); Westville (Li); Camden, Gloucester (W). LEPTOTRACHELUS Lair. L. dorsalis Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Arlington IV; Snake Hill III, IV (Sf), in crevices of sand-stone between the layers (Bf); Newark III, IV, between bottom leaves of cat-tails (Bf); Orange VI (Ch). CASNONIA Latr. C. pennsylvanica Linn. Throughout the State, practically all season. C. ludoviciana Sallé. Camden, in the marsh along Delaware River, found by sifting (div). GALERITA Fabr. G. janus Fab. Throughout the State; not uncommon. G. bicolor Dru. With the preceding, but more rare. 14 IN 210 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TETRAGONODERUS Dej. T. fasciatus Hald. Seems to be locally common in Camden and Glou- cester Counties, but not reported from any other localities by any collector. LEBIA Latr. L. grandis Hentz. Throughout the State, sometimes not uncommon; feeds among other things on the eggs and young larve of potato beetles, but never occurs in numbers sufficient to be of any practical benefit from the economic standpoint. L. atriventris Say. A similar but much smaller species; also occurring throughout the State and locally com-_ Fig. 88.—Lebia mon. grandis. L. tricolor Say. Salt meadows II, IV (Bf); Woodbury VI, very rare (EH. A. Klages); Atlantic City, one specimen only (Li). L. pulchella Dej. Throughout the State, spring and fall; often on flowers and locally not uncommon. L. marginicollis Dej. DaCosta (Li). L. viridis Say. Throughout the State, most of the season, sometimes abundant. The variety “moesta” Lec. is reported as rare at Atco (Li). L. pumila Dej. Delaware Valley region and northward, V—VIII; locally common on flowers and in sweeping. L. pleuritica Lec. Ft. Lee (Sp); Snake Hill (Sf). L. viridipennis Dej. Throughout the State, not usually common; mostly in low swampy areas, on salt marshes and along shore. L. lobulata Lec. Chester VII, 5 (Dn); Snake Hill (Sf); Westville VII, 2, Laurel Spring V, 10, sifting (Brn). L. ornata Say. Throughout the State III-IX, locally common. L. analis Dej. Ft. Lee (Sp); Snake Hill (Sf); Orange VI, at light (Ch); Newark (Coll); Westville (Li); Woodbury VIII, 7, at light (Brn); eid: (CW). L. fuscata Dej. Chester VII, 19 (Dn) ; Passaic, Ridgewood, Greenville VI, VII (Sp); Snake Hill V (div); Irvington (Bf); Arlington VI, Sea Isle City VI (Brn); Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). L. scapularis Dej. Throughout the State VI-VIII, at light and on flowers. L. furcata Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Snake Hill IV (Bf); Woodbury VI (EK. A. Klages); Sea Isle V, 24, Anglesea VI, 15 (Brn). L. pectita Horn. Throughout the State V—VII, IX, generally rare. This is the species listed as “vittata” in the last edition, Mr. Schwarz proving correct in his surmise as there recorded. L. bivittata Fabr. Boonton VI, 10 (GG); seashore, rare (div). THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 211 COPTODERA Dej. C. zrata Dej. Newark, one specimen (Bf); Lakewood V, 18 (Coll); An- glesea VII (W); seashore (Li). DROMIUS Bon. D. piceus Dej. Hoboken (Sp); Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); g. d. (Li); Anglesea VI (Sm); under bark, sometimes (Bt) on flowers. D. atriceps Lec. Anglesea V (W, Coll). APRISTUS Chd. A. cordicollis Lec. Gloucester (Li); Clementon (Lt); DaCosta VI, New- tonville VI (Brn); Anglesea (Sm); on sand banks along streams like Bembidiids. A. subsulcatus Dej. Snake Hill (Sf); Woodside in spring (Bf); Newark salt meadows VII, 24 (Coll); Avalon VIII, 3 (Brn). BLECHRUS Mots. B. glabratus Duft. (nigrinus Mann.) Hoboken (Sp); Ft. Lee (Bt), un- der bark; also among roots of grasses in dry meadows. METABLETUS Schm.—Goeb. M. americanus Dej. Throughout the State, locally common. AXINOPALPUS Lec. A. biplagiatus Dej. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hoboken (Sp); Anglesea VII (div); usually under bark of trees. CALLIDA Dej. C. punctata Lec. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Caldwell (Cr); Newark Wall it (CBi): C. purpurea Say. Throughout the State V-IX; at Lakehurst quite abund- ant at times on oaks (Ds); often common in wash-up along shore. The “decora” of last edition was an error of record. PLOCHIONUS Dej. P. timidus Hald. Hoboken (Sp); Westville (Li); Berlin, Clementon IV, Sea Isle V (Brn); g. d. (W); generally under bark of trees. PINACODERA Schaum. P. limbata Dej. Palisades and Ft. Lee south to Cape May along the coast; Camden and Gloucester Co., Riverton III-VII, IX. P. platicollis Say. Throughout the State, usually with the preceding, but extends to the northern boundaries of the State. 212 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. ee CYMINDIS Latr. . elegans Lec. Atco, two specimens (Li). » americana Dej. Throughout the State, under stones in dry localities, nowhere common; also along shore in the wash-up. . pilosa Say. From the Highlands southward, inland and along shore; locally common in late fall under dry cow-dung (Bf). . neglecta Hald. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark district (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Atlantic City VI, 24 (Brn). APENES Lec. . lucidula Dej. Throughout the State, usually rare except along the shore, where it is sometimes common in the wash-up. . sinuata Say. With the preceding, usually more rare. PENTAGONICA Schm.—Goeb. . flavipes Lec. Merchantville V, Sea Isle VI, very rare (Brn). HELLUOMORPHA Lap. . nigripennis Dej. Atco (Li); DaCosta VII, Cape May C. H. V (W); Lakehurst (Sf); Iona VI, 8 (Brn); Bamber V, 14 (Dke); always very rare. . bicolor Harr. Ft. Lee under stones (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); Camden Co. (W); Woodbury VI (EB. A. Klages); Sea Isle V, 24 (Brn); single specimens only. . ferruginea Lec. Greenville, under logs, rare (Sp). The record for “texana’’ in last edition is a misidentification. BRACHINUS Web. . janthinipennis Dej. Orange Mts., in stump (Bf); Vineland (U S Ag). . viridipennis Dej. ‘New Jersey” (Sp); Newark (Bf). minutus Harr. Along the Palisades in spring (Sp). . perplexus Dej. Palisades V (Sp); Orange Mts., Woodbury V, 22 (GG). medius Harr. Orange Mts. (GG); along the Palisades (Sp). . quadripennis Dej. Along the Palisades in spring, (Sp). conformis Dej. Along the Palisades in spring (Sp). . cyanipennis Say. Palisades V (Sp); Snake Hill V, 22 (Bf). alternans Dej. Along the Palisades in spring (Sp). . tormentarius Lec. Salt meadows (Bf); Snake Hill. . fumans Fab. Throughout the State and usually common. . similis Lee. Newark (Bf); Brigantine beach IX (Hn). . cordicollis Dej. Split Rock Lake IV, 28 (GG); Palisades (Sp); Cald- well (Cr); Orange Mts. (Bf); g. d. (Li). This genus stands as it did in the last edition; the species still need THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Big revision and the list is tentative merely. It is quite certain that some of the species do not occur in New Jersy and that other names must event- ually be substituted. Cc. Cc. Cc. (ey (@) (2) (e) (ele (2) CHLAENIUS Bon. erythropus Germ. Snake Hill (Bf); Atlantic Co., Anglesea in wash- up (W). sericeus Forst. Delaware Valley region and northward in spring, sometimes not uncommon. laticollis Say. Throughout the State; common in spring in the Ft. Lee, Snake Hill and Newark districts; more rare southwardly. . diffinis Chd. Along the Palisades in early spring (Sp). . estivus Say. Throughout the State, spring and fall; more common north. . augustus Newn. Anglesea VII, 20, 1 specimen in wash-up (Brn). . prasinus Dej. Trenton (Hk). . leucoscelis Say. Throughout the State, under stones, common. - nemoralis Say. Throughout the State, common. . tricolor Dej. Throughout the State, common. . pennsylvanicus Say. Throughout the State; more common in the northern districts in spring. . impunctifrons Say. Palisades in spring (Sm); Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Cald- well (Cr); Camden V, Westville IX (Brn); g. d. (W, Li). C. niger Rand. Throughout the State in spring; usually rare. . purpuricollis Rand. “New Jersey’ (Horn). . tomentosus Say. Throughout the State all summer, under shelter of all sorts, and usually the most common species near cities. ANOMOGLOSSUS Chd. . emarginatus Say. ‘Throughout the State V—VII, locally common. . pusillus Say. Also generally distributed in spring and fall; but more rare than the preceding. BRACHYLOBUS Chd. y; . lithophilus Say. Hopatcong VI (Bt); Palisades III (Sp); Snake Hill (Sf); salt meadows (Bf); Westville, Anglesea in meadows and under drift -(W). LACHNOCREPIS Lec. . parallelus Say. Throughout the State in spring, locally not rare; on meadows and marshes under drift; also under stones. OODES Bon. . amaroides Dej. Palisades V (Sp); Snake Hill (Sf); Camden IV (GG); Westville, Woodbury VI (W); Atco (Li); Lawnside VI, Petersburg VI (Brn). 214 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. O. americanus Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Palisades (Sp); Hoboken IV (Bt); Snake Hill (Sf); Westville (Li); in damp places under stones, ete. . fluvialis Lec. Newark (Coll); salt meadows (Bf); Camden, Glouces- ter Co. under drift in meadows in spring (div); Anglesea I, 20, Cape May VI-(Brn). . 12-striatus Chevr. (lecontei Chd.) Camden, Gloucester Counties (W); Anglesea VII (div); always rare. GEOPINUS Lec. . incrassatus Dej. Piedmont Plain and southward, in sandy districts along water-courses V—VII, usually rare. CRATACANTHUS Dej. . dubius Beauv. Woodside, Newark IV (Bf); New Brunswick VI (Sm); Cramer Hill VI (GG); Westville V, Brigantine VII (Brn); g. d. (Li); in sandy districts (W). AGONODERUS Dej. . lineola Fab. Throughout the State, often at light, spring and fall. . infuscatus.Dej. Anglesea (Li); Brigantine IX (Hn); g. d. (W). . pallipes Fab. Throughout the State, common at light in spring and early summer, and again in fall. . partiarius Say. With the preceding, but not so abundant. . pauperculus Lec. Salt meadows (Bf); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs. . indistinctus Dej. Along the Palisades in spring, rare (Sp). . testaceus Dej. Lakewood V (Bt); Atlantic City (Castle); Sea Isle City VI, 4 (Brn); Anglesea (W). DISCODERUS Lec. . parallelus Hald. Salt meadows (Bf); Atlantic City (Li); Anglesea and the seashore generally (W). \ GYNANDROPUS Dej. . hylacis Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Clifton (Ch); Caldwell (Cr); Hobo- ken under bark (Sp); Trenton (Coll); Atco VI (Brn); Atlantic City (Li); Anglesea VI (Sm). HARPALUS Latr. . dichrous Dej. Caldwell (Cr); Snake Hill (Sf); South River VII, Lahaway VII (Coll); Westville (Li); Atlantic City VI, Brigantine VII (Brn); se. (W)y rare: . vulpeculus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Snake Hill (Bf); Newark Dist. (Bf); Riverton V, Brigantine VII (Brn) g. d. (W Li). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. ars . autumnalis Say. G. d. under leaves (W); seashore V, VI (div). . erraticus Say. Throughout the State VII, VIII, locally not rare. . Viridizsneus Beauv. Throughout the State, locally common, especially in city vacant lots, and in meadows, under stones. . caliginosus Fabr. Throughout the State; at- tracted to light in early summer, and in fall often common on seeds of rag-weed. . faunus Say. G. d., locally common (div). . convivus Lec. New Brunswick, one specimen. . vagans Lec. Throughout the State V—VII, local- ly common. - pennsylvanicus DeG. Common throughout the State, readily attracted to light and sometimes a nuisance. The varieties “compar” lLec., and “erythropus” Dej., occurs with the type. Fig. 89.—Har- palus caliginosus . spadiceus Dej. Madison (Pr); Palisades (Sp). . fallax Lec. Orange VI, Highlands (Ch); ‘New Jersey” (Hw). . pleuriticus Kirby. Along the Palisades V (Sp); Newark V (Coll); Cape May VI, 3 (Brn); not common. . foveicollis Lec. Anglesea V, 14 (Brn); two examples which seem to agree most nearly with this and are certainly unlike any species rep- resented in accessible collections. Mr. Schwarz makes this doubtful reference. . herbivagus Say. Throughout the State, most of the season, common. . nitidulus Chd. Clifton, Highlands, rare (Ch); Gloucester V, 1 (Brn); seashore (Li); not common. . viduus Lec. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). SELENOPHORUS Dej. . pedicularius Dej. Along shore, Brigantine to Cape May, VI-IX (div); Westville III, 5 (W); Atco VI (Brn). . iripennis Say. Anglesea (W). . gagatinus Dej. Snake Hill (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). . opalinus Lec. Throughout the State, fall to spring and extending into the summer; under leaves and along shore under rubbish. . ovalis Dej. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . ellipticus Dej. Orange Mts. IV, and thence southward along the shore to Cape May V, VI, IX; Hainesport V (Dke). STENOLOPHUS Dej. . carbonarius Brullé. Ocean Beach (Pr); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Atlantic City, Anglesea (Li); Sea Isle City VI, 15 (Brn). . spretus Dej. Sea Isle City V, Cape May VI (Brn); Anglesea (div). . fuliginosus Dej. Throughout the State V—VII, IX, X, locally common. 216 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Ss. DnNANnDN NH plebeius Dej. Irvington, salt meadows (Bf); Collingswood IV (GG); Westville I, 28 sifting (W); Gloucester V (Brn); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs; Brigantine beach IX (Hn); locally common. - conjunctus Say. Throughout the State, not rare, spring and fall. : humidus Hamilton. Madison (Pr). . ochropezus Say. Common throughout the State fall to spring. . dissimilis Dej. Atlantic City, Anglesea, 1 specimen in wash-up (W). . alternans Lec. So. Camden, in sandy wet places (Brn). ee ’ S. anceps Lec.,” of the last list, is based on an error. ACUPALPUS Lec. : hydropicus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark salt meadow III (Bf); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs, and probably throughout the State. - carus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); salt meadow I, 11 (Bf); Westville I, ude OW > BRADYCELLUS Er. . linearis Lec. Orange VI, one example (Ch). . rupestris Say. Throughout the State, fall to spring; not rare. . tantillus Chd. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange VI (Ch); So. Camden, An- glesea (W); rare everywhere. TACHYCELLUS Moraw. . atrimedius Say. Staten Island (Lg). . kirbyi Horn. Fort Lee (Sf). . badiipennis Hald. Wocdside (Bf); Snake Hill (Sf); Westville I, 11 (W); Camden XI, Gloucester V, Anglesea V; always rare. ANISODACTYLUS Dej. . dulcicollis Laf. Lahaway IX, 6 (Sm); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). rusticus Say. Throughout the State, fall to spring; common. . carbonarius Say. G. d. (W); Atlantic City (Li); Anglesea V (Coll). . interpunctatus Kirby. Newark (Soc); New Jersey VII (Bt); g. d. (W). . harrisii Lec. Ft. Lee IV, V (Bt); Newark (Soc); seashore (Li). . agricola Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City V, New Brunswick, Lahaway V (Coll); g. d. (W); locally not rare. - melanopus Hald. Salt meadows (Bf); Westville X, 4 (GG); g. d. (Li). . nigerrimus Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee IV (Bt); Brigantine IX (Hn). . nigrita Dej. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee IV (Bt); Riverton V (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 217 A. discoideus Dej. Throughout the State in spring, on swampy ground; never common in my experience. A. baltimorensis Say. Throughout the State; common at all seasons. A. verticalis Lec. Anglesea VIII (Sm). A. piceus Lec. Newark at light (Bf); Woodbury VII (GG); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Sea Isle City VI, 15 (Brn); Anglesea (W). A. terminatus Say. Throughout the State, fall to spring. A. latus Dej. Woodbury VII (W); Brigantine IX (Hn); Anglesea VI, VII (div). A. coenus Say. Newark (Bf); Woodbury VII, 30 (W); Atlantic City (Li); Anglesea VI, 21 (Brn); rare at all points. A. lugubris Dej. Woodside III, 5 (Bf); Newark (Soc); Gloucester (Li); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (W); g. d. (W). A. sericeus Harr. Throughout the State, in spring; locally not rare and sometimes common at light. A. interstitialis Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison (Pr); Orange (Ch); Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Bt); salt meadows (Bf); Newark, New Bruns- wick (Coll). Family HALIPLID/A. Small, oval water beetles, pointed at each end, the greatest breadth at or a little behind the shoulders of the wing covers. Live in stagnant ponds and ditches in all stages, and are of no economic importance. In this and the following “Dytiscidze”’ all our material has been de- termined by Mr. Chris. H. Roberts, of New York City, who has also added materially to our records from his own experience. HALIPLUS Latr. . fasciatus Aubé. Throughout the State V-IX; recorded by all col- lectors, from Garret Mt. to Anglesea, and west to the Delaware. . punctatus Aubé. “New Jersey” (U M). . triopsis Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); Spotswood, Ocean Co. (Rob). . ruficollis DeG. Throughout the State, common, VI-IX. . longulus Lec. Paterson VIII, 3 (Coll); Monmouth Co. (Rob). ae Sm dat ae ae CNEMIDOTUS Er. C. 12—punctatus Say. Common throughout the State in spring and fall. C. edentulus Lec. Paterson VI, VII, Great Piece Meadow IX, 3 (Coll); Monmouth Co. (Rob), X; 4 (Coll). C. n. sp. Camden Co., VI, 11, X, 4 (Coll). C. n. sp. Paterson IV, 23 (Coll). C. n. sp. New Brunswick VIII, 9 (Coll). 218 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. Family DY TISCIDAK. These are the “diving beetles,’ and their larve are known as “water tigers” from their predatory habits, voracity in feeding and powerful mandibles. The adults are also predatory, oval and somewhat flattened, with rather short, stout swimming legs; the posterior longest and oar- Nike. They live in water of all kinds and may often be seen in clear springs rising to the surface, discharging a bubble of tainted air from the anal extremity and then swimming again to the bottom. They are interesting in structure and habits, but not of economic importance. CANTHYDRUS Sharp. ~ C. puncticollis Cr. Staten Island V, 20 (Lg); Ocean Co. (Rob); Cape May C. H. (W). C. punctipennis Sharp. Linwood (Rob); Clementon IV, 16, Petersburg Vv. 19 (Brn); Anglesea IV, V (Coll): Mr. Roberts says thatec. bicolor’ Say does not occur in New Jersey, and that the records under that name in the last edition refer to this species. HYDROCANTHUS Say. H. iricolor Say. Recorded from Newark to the Delaware, and south to Cape May V, VIII, IX; taken by all collectors. H. oblongus Sharp. Ocean Co. 1 spec.; it is common in Florida (Rob). LACCOPHILUS Leach. L. maculosus Germ. Common throughout the State in early spring and again in fall; hibernates as an adult. L. proximus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Monmouth and Ocean Co. (Rob); De- lair (Coll); Anglesea V (div). _L. fasciatus Aubé. Throughout the State in spring and fall; common. L. undatus Aubé. Summit V, 1, Paterson IV, 2, Millburn IV, 30, West- ville VI, 11 (Coll); Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee district (Bt); Monmouth, Ocean Co. (Rob); Merchantville IV, 24 (Brn). HYDROVATUS Mots. H. cuspidatus Germ. Ft. Lee district, Staten Island (Bt); Camden (Li); Atco V, 29, Brigantine VII, 25, Anglesea V, 28 (Brn); in stagnant water. H. pustulatus Mels. Staten Island (Bt); Monmouth and Ocean Cos. (Rob); New Brunswick VI, 11, Anglesea V, 28 (Coll). H. compressus Sharp. Anglesea V, 28 (Coll). DESMOPACHRIA Bab. D. convexa Aubé. Great Piece Meadows V, 2, VIII, 22, Delair, Anglesea IV, 12 (Coll); Madison VII, 28 (Pr); Orange VI, 5, at light (Ch); Camden (Li); in stagnant water. DoW DW THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 219 BIDESSUS Sharp. . flavicollis Lec. Spotswood (Rob). . pulicarius Aubé. Staten Island (Coll); Ocean Co. (Rob). . affinis Say. Throughout the State; common all the year. . lacustris Say. Staten Island (Coll); Monmouth and Ocean Co. (Rob). . fuscatus Cr. Great Piece Meadow VIII, 22, Orange Mts. III, 20, Sum- mit V, 9, Arlington III, 11, Lakehurst IX, 2, Anglesea IV, 12 (Coll); Staten Island (Lg); Ocean and Monmouth Co. (Rob). . granarius Aubé. Great Piece Meadow V, 2, Summit V, 9, S. Orange V, 27 (Coll); Madison (Pr); Ocean and Monmouth Co. (Rob); Da- Costa VII, 30 (Brn). CELINA Aubé. . angustata Aubé. Staten Island (Lg); Newark (Bf); Ocean Co. (Rob); Sea Isle City VI, 10, Anglesea VI, 15 (Brn). . grossula Lec. Sea Isle VI, 15, Brigantine VII, 5 (Brn); Anglesea VI, VII (div). Mr. Roberts is in doubt as to whether this is the true “grossula,” and considers it probably a new species. CCELAMBUS Thom. . inzequalis Fab. Represented in our collection from all sections of the State in spring and fall. . punctatus Say. Generally distributed; not rare; spring and fall. . farctus Lec. Lakehurst V, 24 (Rob). . laccophilinus Lec. Millburn IV, 30, Paterson VII, 3 (Gr); Staten Island (Lg); Ocean Co. (Rob). . turbidus Lec. Staten Island (Lg). . nubilus Lee. Paterson V, 12 (Coll); Ft. Lee (Bt); Bloomfield (Bf); Ocean Co. (Rob); Woodbury VIII, 7, Atlantic City VI, 24 (Brn); g. de (an) . dispar G. & H. (dissimilis Harr.) Woodside (Bf); Camden VII, 20 (Brn); Monmouth Co. (Rob). . impressopunctatus Sch. Common in the salt meadows along shore from Hoboken to Cape May from early spring to late fall. DERONECTES Sharp. . catascopium Say. Lakehurst (Rob); “New Jersey” (U M). HYDROPORUS Clairv. . concinnus Lec. Monmouth Co. (Rob). All the species of this genus occur in brooks and springs; not in stagnant water. . pulcher Lec. Newark (Bf); New Brunswick VIII, 9, Staten Island IX (Coll); Spotswood (Rob); Westville VII, 15 (W); Merchantville Vile (Brn): . integer Sharp. Ocean and Monmouth Co. (Rob). 220 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. H . cimicoides Sharp. Lakehurst V, 29 (Rob). H. undulatus Say. Throughout the State; locally common. H. H. H. a, ae jek SE a8 spurius Lec. Ocean and Monmouth Cos. (Rob). clypealis Sharp. Millburn IV, 30, Camden VI, 11, Atco IX, 3 (Coll) ; Ocean and Monmouth Cos. (Rob). proximus Aubé. Millburn IV, 30, Newark VII, Waverly VI, 27, Am- boy Meadow VI, 27 (Coll); Ft. Lee Dist., Ocean and Monmouth Cos. (Rob). . vitiosus Lec. Fort Lee Dist. (Rob). . Striatopunctatus Mels. Ft. Lee Dist. (Rob); Staten Island (Lg). . solitarius Sharp. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee Dist. (Rob); Newark, Wood-— side (Bf); Delair (Coll). - obscurus Sturm. Clementon III, 18, Sea Isle V, 24, Anglesea VI, 15, Cape May VI, 3 (Brn); g. d., not rare (Li). . tenebrosus Lec. Hemlock Falls X, 2 (Coll); Monmouth Co. (Rob). . Signatus Mann. Millburn IV, 29 (Coll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Monmouth Co. (Rob); Lahaway III, 26 (Coll). . tristis Payk. Millburn IV, 30, Orange Mts. III, 20, Lahaway III, 26 (Coll); Staten Island (Lg); Ft. Lee Dist., Ocean and Monmouth Cos. (Rob). . americanus Aubé. Great Piece Meadow V, 2, VIII, 22, IX, 3 (Coll). : dichrous Mels. Spotswood (Rob); New Jersey. (U M). . inornatus Sharp. Lahaway III, 26 (Coll). . higer Say. Newark (Bf); Lahaway V, 28 (Coll). - modestus Aubé. In the Collection from Chester to Anglesea, spring and fall, and recorded from all parts of the State. . Stagnalis G. & H. Lakehurst (Rob). . oblitus Aubé. Fort Lee Dist. (Rob). . vilis Lee. Sea Isle City V, 10, 2 examples (Brn). . difformis Lec. Great Piece Meadow XI, 24, Millburn IX, 30 (Coll); Staten Island VI (Lg). . sp. indet. Summit V, 11, Atco IX, 20, Lahaway (Coll). Of the spe- cies recorded in the previous edition, “H. alpinus” is omitted as based on an erroneous determination; and “H. consimilis’” because Mr. Roberts questions the occurrence of the true species in New Jersey. There is a species that can be easily mistaken for it, and the New Jersey “consimilis’ is probably one of the species described by Sharp and not yet identified in our collections. ILYBIUS Er. biguttulus Germ. Throughout the State; locally not rare. confusus Aubé. Newark IX, 19, Westville IX, X (Coll); Monmouth Co. (Rob). “T. ater’ Lec. and “I. 4-maculatus” Aubé., of the previous edition, are omitted. Mr. Roberts questions whether the former species is North LHe, INSECTS OF (NEW: JERSEY. 221 American at all, and says of the latter that it seems to be a strictly boreal species. COPTOTOMUS Say. C. interrogatus Fab. Locally common throughout the State in late fall and early spring. ILYBIOSOMA Cr. l. bifarium Kirby. Woodside, common (Bf). COPELATUS Er. C. chevrolatii Aubé. Staten Island (lg). C. glyphicus Say. Throughout the State, taken in almost every month of the year; locally common. MATUS Aubé. M. bicarinatus Say. Orange Mts. IV, V, Westville X, 4 (Coll); Ft. Lee VIII (Bt); Woodbury VIII, 7 (GG); Ocean Co. (Rob). AGABETES Cr. A. acuductus Harr. Millburn IV, 30 (Coll); Woodside (Bf); Staten Island in Woodland pools, VI (Lg); Woodbury VII, 7 (Brn). AGABUS Leach. A. parallelus Lec. Staten Island (Lg). . seriatus Say. Great Piece Meadow V, 21 (Coll); Ocean and Mon- mouth Cos. (Rob); Brigantine Beach VII, 5 (Brn); all the species of this genus live in spring and creeks. . obtusatus Say. Woodside (Bf); Monmouth Co. (Rob). . punctatus Mels. Ft. Lee VI (div); DaCosta V, 30, Anglesea V (Coll). . semipunctatus Kirby. Paterson VII, 3 (Coll); Newark (Dn). > . zruginosus Aubé. Ocean Co. (Rob); “New Jersey” (Coll). . tzeeniolatus Harr. Common at Lakehurst (div). . disintegratus Cr. Throughout the State, locally common V-—VII. . congener Payk. Great Piece Meadow V, 2, Vailsburg VI, 2 (Coll). . reticulatus Kirby. Monmouth Co. (Rob); Woodbury VI, 8, Anglesea We Vile (Brim): A. erythropterus Say. Fort Lee, New Brunswick (Rob). A. gagates Aubé. Throughout the State VI, VII. The “A. discors” Lec. of the previous edition was not well determined. PS > bee > > > It is a west coast species. RHANTUS Esch. R. binotatus Harr. Newark (Soc); Paterson VI, 27, Delair VII, 16 (Coll); Ocean Co. (Rob). 222 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. R. calidus Fab. Staten Island V (Ds); Camden and Gloucester Cos. (W); Lakehurst IX, 2 (Rob). R. sinuatus Lec. “New Jersey” (Bf); Newark (Dn). R. tostus Lec. Fort Lee (Rob). The ‘“R. flavogriseus” Cr. of the last edition was based on a misidentifi- cation; the species does not occur east of the Mississippi. COLYMBETES Clairv. C. sculptilis Harr. Orange Mt. Dist. (div); Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill (Sf); Monmouth Co. (Rob); Waverly VI, 27, Jamesburg V, 7 (Coll); Sea Isle V, 24 (Brn). HYDATICUS Leach. H. stagnalis Fab. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Newark IV, 14 (Coll); Staten Island V (Lg); Monmouth Co. (Rob). H. piceus Lec. Caldwell (Cr). H. bimarginatus Say. Woodside (Bf); Newark, Delair, Westville X, 4 (Coll); Ocean Co. (Rob); Anglesea (Rob). DYTISCUS Linn. D. fasciventris Say. Hopat- cong (2m); Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Westville VII, 8 (Coll); Camden, Gloucester, At- lantic Co. (W). D. hybridus Aubé. Newark (Coll); Staten Island III, IV, X (Ds); Spotswood (Rob); Brigantine VII, 5 (Brn). D. verticalis Say. Newark f (Coll); Staten Island III ! (Ds); Monmouth Co. XS (Rob). ihe \ D. harrisii Kirby. Caldwell Fig. 90.—A water-tiger, Dytiscus marginalis: a, (Cr) larva, devouring an Agrion larva; b, pupa; c, male beetle, eleytrum of female at D. vexatus Sharp. DaCosta side; d, anterior tarsus of male; (GG) e, tarsus of female: a, b, c, about natural size. ACILIUS Leach. A. semisulcatus Aubé. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee, in quarry holes (Bt); Grantwood VIII, 9 (Bno); Newark (Coll); Riverton IX, 11 (GG). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 223 A. fraternus Harr. Paterson X, 13, Newark marsh VIII (Coll); Madison (Pr); Staten Island (Lg); Ft. Lee VII, Monmouth, Ocean Co. (Rob); DaCosta VII, 30, Brigantine VII, 5, Sea Isle V, 31 (Brn). A. mediatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, in quarry holes (div); Sum- mit V, 9, Delair VIII (Coll); Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic County (W); Lucaston VIII (Dke); seashore (Li). THERMONECTES Esch. T. ornaticollis Aubé. Riverton V, 1, Woodbury VI, 8 (GG). T. basillaris Harr. Ft. Lee district (Bt); Staten Island IX, X (Ds); Delair IX, 30, Westville V, 4, X, 14 (Coll); Woodbury VIII, 7; Brigan- tine VII, 5; Anglesea VI, 15 (Brn); g. d. (li); the variety ‘inter- medius” Cr. occurs at Newark (Bf). GRAPHODERES Esch. G. liberus Say. Recorded from all sections of the State, IV-IX. G. fasciaticollis Harr. Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island IV, VIII (Ds); New- ark (Coll); Monmouth, Ocean Co. (Rob). CYBISTER Curt. C. fimbriolatus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (div); Monmouth Co. (Rob); Anglesea (Sm). Family GYRINIDA. These are the “Whirligig beetles,” so named because of their habit of swimming about in groups or swarms on the surface of ponds or quiet streams and ditches, the individuals often whirling round and round without apparent aim. They are black or a little bronzed, convex above, flattened below, with short, paddle-like swimming legs, the anterior pair long and arm-like. When handled many of them emit a milky white fluid which has a fruity odor, that gives them the local name “Apple-bugs.” They are predatory in the larval as well as the adult stage. and among others feed on the larve of “Anopheles,” which are never found where these beetles occur in numbers. Mr. Roberts has been good enough to verify the list in this family also. GYRINUS Linn. G. minutus Fab. Atco (Rob). . rockinghamensis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Atco (Li); Atlantic Co. (W); Lakehurst (Rob); Lakewood IX, 2; Ocean Co. VIII (Coll); everywhere common. Q . fraternus Coup. Spotswood (Rob). * . zeneolus Lec. “New Jersey,’ without specific locality (Rob). . limbatus Say. Spotswood (Rob); Atco, Egg Harbor (Li). . dichrous Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Lakehurst (Rob); “New Jersey” (U M). . ventralis Kirby. Orange (Ch); Spotswood (Rob); g. d. (Li). - aquiris Lec. Spotswood (Rob). QO 9 OD Qa © 224 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. G. affinis Aubé. Anglesea (Rob); Staten Island (Coll); “New Jersey” (U M). ; G. pernitidus Lec. Lakehurst (Rob). . analis Say. Spring Lake (Ch); Hammonton VIII (Dke); Atlantic Co. (div); Lahaway V, 28, (Coll); Clementon VII, 26, Atco IX, 2, 27 (GG). . marinus Gyll. Anglesea (Rob). . opacus Sahlb. Spotswood (Rob). . gibber Lec. Spotswood (Rob). . borealis Aubé. Madison (Pr); Hammonton VIII (Dke); Atlantic Co. (div); Lahaway V, 28, Jamesburg (Coll). G. lugens Lec. Boonton VI, 12 pre (py (@) m ie THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 2AI . lomatus Er. Common throughout the State all season. cunctans Horn. Orange Mts. Westville IV, 27 (Rk). . brunneus Grav. Common throughout the State. cyanipennis Fab. Throughout the State VII-IX, in gilled fungi. . blandus Grav. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark (Soc); West- ville VI (Brn); Brigantine, Mainland IX (Hn). sordidus Grav. Hudson Co. (L1); Longport VI, 12 (Rk). cephalotes Grav. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (LI). nigritulus Grav. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (LI); Gloucester V, Merchantville III (Brn). . micropthalmus Horn. Throughout the State V-IX; not common. . baltimorensis Grav. Throughout the State V-IX; not common. . apicalis Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Highlands VII (Sf); Cam- den, Gloucester Counties (W); Weymouth VIII (Dke); always rare. “P. fuscipennis”’ Mann., “politus’ Fab. is not really an American species. ACTOBIUS Steph. . cincerascens Grav. Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville V (Rk). . nanus Horn. Hudson Co. (1); Arlington IV, sweeping (Sf); Camden III, Woodbury IV, Merchantville IX (Brn); DaCosta (W). . patruelis Horn. Anglesea VII (Sz). . sobrinus Er. Throughout the State ITII-VII. . parcus Horn. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee VI, sifting (Sf); Lahaway V, 28. . peederoides Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Gloucester, Westviiie V (Brn); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Brigantine Beach VI, IX (div); Anglesea (W). CAFIUS Steph. . bistriatus Er. Seashore, from Sandy Hook to Anglesea V-IX. . sericeus Holme. Highlands Beach V, 30, under an old log with the preceding (Sf); Westville V, 4 (Brn). EULISSUS Mann. . fulgidus Fabr. (Xantholinus) “New Jersey,’ several records without definite localities or date. NUDOBIUS Thoms. . cephalus Say. (Xantholinus) Throughout the State; usually common. GRYOHYPNUS Steph. (XANTHOLINUS Serv.) . obsidianus Mels. Ft. Lee (Bt); Eagle Rock VI, 5 (Rk); g. d. (W); under rubbish in gardens (Ch), and probably throughout the State. 16 IN 242 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. G. emmesus Grav. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Spring Lake, in fungus (Ch); Lakewood (Sm); Riverton V (Dke); Camden, Clemen- ton IV, Iona VI (Brn). G. fuscosus Casey. “New Jersey,’ rare on sea beaches (Casey). G. hamatus Say. (obscurus Er.) Throughout the State; found all winter sifting and most of the summer. G. sanguinipennis Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); seashore from Barnegat to _ Cape May VII (div). G. pusillus Sachse. Hudson Co. (LI). LEPTACINODES Casey. L. flavipes Lec. (batychrus Gyll.) Snake Hill, Arlington, common (Sf). LEPTOLINUS Kraatz. L. rubripennis Lec. Westville IV, V (Rk); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs. DIOCHUS Er. D. schaumii Kraatz. Staten Island (Lg). DIANOUS Sam. D. czerulescens Gyll. (chalybeus Lec.) Staten Island, on stones at foot of a waterfall, IV, XI, abundant (Lg). STENUS Latr. S. bipunctatus Er. “New Jersey’ (U SN M). S. juno Fabr. Throughout the State, found sifting all winter. S. femoratus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); “New Jersey” (US N M). S. strangulatus Casey. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). S. intrusus Casey. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). Ss . erythropus Mels. Westville III, 22, Woodbury V, 19 (Rk); Lahaway V, 28 on cranberry bogs (Sm). . convictor Casey. South Camden XII, 12 (GG). . inornatus Casey. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). pluto Casey. Woodbury VI, 7 (Rk). . pumilio Er. (atomarius Casey.) Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs. . colonus Er. Westville V, 19, Longport VI, 12 (Rk); New Jersey (U M). . stygicus Say. “New Jersey” (US N M); Philadelphia Neck III (Rk). . egenus Er. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). . sectilifer Casey. Anglesea VII (Sz). NDNANRDD . pudicus Casey. Camden III (W); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs. . humilis Er. So. Camden XII (GG); Lahaway V, 28 on cranberry bogs. NnaAaNnNn DN r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 243 HEMISTENUS Mots. (AREUS Casey.) . flavicornis Er. Weehawken V, 2 (Bt); Palisades, Snake Hill V, abund- ant (L1); Merchantville V, 30 (Rk). . annularis Er. With the preceding, not rare. . reconditus Casey. “New Jersey” (U SN M). . arculus Er. Woodbury VI, 7 (Rk); Anglesea VII (Sz). punctatus Er. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville V, VI (Rk); Camden III, Anglesea (W). EUAZESTETHUS Grav. . americanus Er. Snake Hill (Sf); Weehawken IV, 2 (Bt); Westville I, 28, and g. d. (W); occurs in fungi; not rare. GASTROLOBIUM Casey. . floridanum Lec. “New Jersey” (Casey). . convergens Casey. ‘New Jersey” (Casey). . carolinum Hr. (Cryptobium) Camden III, Westville V (Rk), Angle. sea (W). . bicolor Gray. Madison (Pr); Hudson Co. (Ll); Spring Lake (Ch); Lahaway on cranberry bogs V (Sm); Anglesea (W). This and fol- lowing—‘“Cryptobium.” . badium Grav. Snake Hill (L1); “New. Jersey” (USN M). . parallelum Casey. “New Jersey” (Casey). . lugubre Lec. Brigantine Beach [X, occasional (Hn). HESPEROBIUM Casey. . pallipes Grav. (Cryptobium) Common throughout the State. . cinctum Say. (latebricola Nord.) Camden III, Westville V, Wood- bury V, VI (Rk); Lahaway V, on cranberry bogs (Sm); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . cribratum Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton III, IV (GG); Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll), Philadelphia Neck III (Rk). PAZEDERILLUS Casey. . littorarius Grav. (Pederus) Throughout the State, spring and fall, under stones, under rubbish along shore, rarely in fungi. . obliteratus Lec. (Pzederus) Brigantine Beach IX, not common (Hn). LATHROBIUM Grav. . preelongum Casey. “New Jersey, J. B. S.” (Casey). . nigrolucens Casey. “Orange, N. J.” (Casey). . armatum Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Montclair IV, sifting (Sf); Newark (Soc). 244 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E L. simile Lec. Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (1); Westville VI (RK); Anglesea (W). seriatum Lec. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). LITHOLATHRA Casey. . cruralis Casey. New Jersey (Casey). . confusa Lec. (Lathrobium) Camden II (W); Collingswood III (GG). LATHROBIOMA Casey. . othioides Lec. New Jersey (Casey). TETARTOPEUS Czwi. . terminatum Grav. (Lathrobium punctulatum) Throughout the State, winter and early spring. The ‘“puncticeps” of last edition belongs here. DERATOPEUS Casey. . nitidulus Lec. (Lathrobium) Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). EULATHROBIUM Casey. . grande Lec. Westviile I, 28 (W); New Jersey (US N M). LATHROTAXIS Casey. . longiuscula Gravy. (Lathrobium) Hoboken V (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Arlington IV (Sf); Newark (Soc); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). LINOLATHRA Casey. . filitarsis Casey. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Anglesea II (W). This is the “Lathrobium dimidiatum” of the previous edition. LATHROBIELLA Casey. . ventralis Lec. New Jersey (Casey). . collaris Er. (Lathrobium) Westville VI (GG); Woodbury V, VI, Longport (Rk); Anglesea (W). MICROLATHRA Casey. . pallidula Lec. Staten Island (Casey). DACNOCHILUS Lec. . lztus Lec. (angularis Er.) Anglesea (W). ‘ADEROCHARIS Sharp. . corticina Grav. Throughout the State, under bark. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 245 LITHOCHARIS Lac. . ochracea Grav. Cosmopolitan; extends from Atlantic to Pacific. TRACHYSECTUS Casey. . confluens Say. (Lithocharis) Throughout the State; common. PSEUDOMEDON Rey. . ruficolle Casey. New Jersey (Casey). . thoracicum Casey. (Lithocharis obsoletus) Anglesea (W). SCOPAEUS Er. S. picipes Casey. Sea beaches of New Jersey (Casey). S. exiguus Er. Madison (Pr). nnn mn SCOPAEOPSIS Casey. . Opaca Lec. New Jersey (Dn); Camden III, 5 (W). STILICUS Latr. . Oopaculus Lec. New Jersey (U S N M). . biarmatus Lec. Newark (Soc). . angularis Er. Throughout the State IV, VII. . dentatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). MEGASTILICUS Casey. . formicarius Casey. Alpine III, 10, in nest of a red ant (Bt); near Newark, in ant hills; not rare (Soc). SUNIUS Er. . prolixus Hr. Newark (Soc); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . binotatus Say. Chester (Dn); Ft. Lee (Bt); Collingswood III (GG); Westville IV, V (Rk); Anglesea (W). . brevipennis Aust. Staten Island V (Ds). . longiusculus Mann. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, under stones in spring (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Westville V (Rk). STILICOPSIS Sachse. . monstrosa Lec. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill IV, IX, sifting (Sf); Westville I (W). PINOPHILUS Grav. . latipes Grav. Ft. Lee (Jl); Woodbury V, 22 (Rk); Anglesea (W). 246 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. dAaAaAG PALAMINUS Er. . normalis Lec. Anglesea VII (Sz). . testaceus Er. Snake Hill (Sf); Eagle Rock VI (Rk); Westville I, sifting (W). TACHINUS Grav. » memnonius Gray. Ft. Lee, on mushrooms (Bt); Riverton V, 1, West- ville VI, 6 (Brn); Merchantville XI, 16 (Dke). . repandus Horn. Camden XII, 12, Anglesea (W). . flavipennis Dej. Eagle Rock VI, 5 (Rk); New Jersey (US N M). . fimbriatus Gray. Throughout the State VI-X, common. . picipes Hr. Collingswood (W). . limbatus Mels. Staten Island VI (Ds); Gloucester V (Brn); Anglesea (W). . fumipennis Say. Staten Island V (Ds). . pallipes Grav. New Jersey III, 27 (Rk), on mushrooms (Bt); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W). TACHYPORUS Grav. . elegans Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester (Dn); Madison (Pr). This and the other species in the series mostly in fungi or fermenting sap. . jocosus Say. Madison (Pr); Camden and Gloucester Counties (W). . chrysomelinus Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt); West Jersey (U0 SN M); Brigan- tine Beach IX (Hn). . nitidulus Fab. (brunneus Er.) Ft. Lee, Weehawken IV, 2 (Bt); Cam- den and Gloucester Co. (W); New Jersey (US N M). CILEA Duval. . silphoides Linn. Hemlock Falls VII, 4 (Rk). ERCHOMUS Mots. . ventriculus Say. Common everywhere in fungi and soft decay. . levis Lec. Anglesea, sifting, all winter (W). CONOSOMA Kraatz. . littoreum Linn. Spring Lake (Ch). . knoxii Lec. Staten Island (Lg). . crassum Grav. Throughout the State, common in fungi on trees, under old leaves and bark, winter and spring. . pubescens Payk. Common throughout the State. . basale Er. Spring Lake (Ch); Merchantville VI, X° (div); National Park V (Dke). . opicum Say. Ocean Co., under bark (Sm). nnn nDnooOD Ow 0000 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 247 BOLETOBIUS Leach. . niger Grav. New Jersey, in Jiilich Coll. (Lg). . dimidiatus Er. Lakehurst (Lg). . cingulatus Mann. Madison (Pr); Newark (Soc). . intrusus Horn. Spring Lake (Ch); Brigantine mainland IX (Hn). . cincticollis Say. Spring Lake (Ch); New Jersey (US N M). . anticus Horn. Ft. Lee (Bt); New Jersey (U SN M). pygmzeus Fab. Brigantine mainland IX (Hn). . trinotatus Er. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Highlands (Ch); Westville, DaCosta (W); Brigantine IX (Hn); Anglesea VII (Sz). . cinctus Grav. Common throughout the State. var. gentilis Lec. Brigantine mainland IX (Hn). BRYOPORUS Kraatz. . rufescens Lec. New Jersey (U SN M). MYCETOPORUS Mann. . americanus Er. Madison (Pr); Spring Lake (Ch); Merchantville V, 30 (Rk); Anglesea VII (Sz); under old leaves, ete. . humidus Say. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). PSEUDOPSIS Newn. . sulcatus Newn. Lake Pleasant, on dead fish (Lv fide Sf). OXYPORUS Fabr. . femoralis Grav. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (div); Ft. Lee (Sf); Camden and Gloucester Co. (W); all the species in fungi. . austrinus Horn. Madison IX, 12 (Pr). . major Grav. Ft. Lee VIII (Bt); Camden and Gloucester Co. (W). . rufipennis Lec. Fort Lee (Jl). . vittatus Grav. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee VIII (Bt); Riverton X (GG); DaCosta (W); Atco IX, 1 (Brn). . bicolor Fauv. DaCosta (W); Brown’s Mills IX, Manumuskin X (Dke). . lateralis Grav. Ft. Lee VIII (div); Orange Mts. (Rk); Riverton X (GG); Camden and Gloucester Co. (W); Atco X (Brn). BLEDIUS Leach. . pallipennis Er. Newark (Soc). The species of this genus live in sandy shores of streams or ponds and may be obtained by flooding their burrows; they are also attracted to light, and most of the specimens collected are taken in that way. . mandibularis Er. Brigantine and southward along shore to Cape May; adults in September. 248 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. + 4Hiaddq - brevidens Lec. Atlantic City (W). . politus Er. Brigantine, salt marshes IX (Hn); Anglesea (W). . semiferrugineus Lec. Woodbury V, 22 (Rk); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). . rubiginosus Er. Woodbury VII, 30 (W). . tau Lec. Rockaway Beach, L. I., and sure to occur on the Jersey shore. . basalis Lec. Brigantine, salt meadow IX (Hn); Sea Isle VI, VII (Brn); Anglesea VII, not rare (Sz). . cordatus Say. Brigantine, salt marshes, common (Hn); Sea Isle V, VI (Brn); Anglesea (W). . neglectus Casey. New Jersey (Rk). PLATYSTETHUS Mann., - americanus Er. Common throughout the State in half dry cow-dung. OXYTELUS Grav. . himius Casey. Point Pleasant (Ly, fide Sf). . sculptus Grav. Woodbury V, 22 (Rk); on decaying vegetation. . rugosus Grav. Hopatcong (Pm); New Jersey (U S N M). pennsylvanicus Er. New Jersey (U M); Mosholu VII, on human ex- crement (Sf). 2 . insignitus Grav. Common throughout the State on cow-dung. . suspectus Casey. (nitidulus Grav.) New Jersey (U M). . tetracarinatus Block. (depressus Grav). Madison (Pr). . exiguus Hr. Orange Mts. VII, sifting (Sf); Ft. Lee (Bt); Anglesea VII (Sz). TROGOPHLCEUS Mann. . arcifer Lec. New Jersey (U SN M). . 4-punctatus Say. Camden and Gloucester Co. (W); the species on mud banks or among decaying leaves in muddy swamps. . hanulus Casey. Cape May (Casey). . pudicus Casey. Cape May (Casey). . convexulus Lec. Longport VI, 12 (Rk). . simplarius Lec. Eagle Rock VII, 5 (Rk); Anglesea VII (Sz). . providus Casey. Atlantic City, Cape May (Casey). . confusus Casey. Cape May (Casey). APOCELLUS Er. . sphzericollis Say. Snake Hill, So. Orange (Brn); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). THE ANSE CTS: OF NEW, JERSEY: 249 GEODROMICUS Redt. G. brunneus Say. (ceesus Er.) Staten Island (Sf); Gloucester and Camden Co. (W); Cramer Hill V, 30 (Rk). G. stictus Casey. Staten Island (Sf); is probably the species referred to as “stictus’’ Mill. in the last edition. LESTEVA Latr. L. pallipes Lec. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). OLOPHRUM Er. O. obtectum Er. Madison (Pr); Snake Hill (Sf); Newark (Sf); Mer- chantville III, IX (div); Collingswood IV (Brn). HOMALIUM Grav. H. repandum Hr. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). H. floralis Payk. (rufipes Grav.) New Jersey (US N M). MEGARTHRUS Steph. M. sinuaticollis Lac. Lake Pleasant on dead fish (Ly, fide Sf). LISPINUS Er. L. exiguus Er. Fort Lee (Bt). L. prolixus Lec. Mosholu (Sf). GLYPTOMA Er. G. costale Er. Ft. Lee (Bt); not rare under bark of trees, g. d. TRIGA Fauv. T. picipennis Lec. Snake Hill, Highlands (Sf); Philadelphia VII (Rk). ELEUSIS Lap. E. pallidus Lec. Snake Hill, sweeping at dusk (Sf). MICROPEPLUS Latr. M. cribratus Lec. New Jersey (B); Greenwood Lake V, 26 (QGr). Family TRICHOPTERYGID/. These are extremely minute species, living in decaying vegetable mat- ter, often in excrement and occasionally in fungi. They are often some- what flattened, have the hind wings slender, with long fringes, and are of no economic importance. PTILIUM Er. P. hornianum Matth. Anglesea VII (Sz). 250 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PTENIDIUM Er. . evanescens Marsh. Staten Island (Lg), and will probably be found throughout the State. . ulkei Matth. Cape May VII (Sz). . atomaroides Mots. Cape May VII, strictly maritime (Sz). LIMULODES Matth. . paradoxus Matth. “New Jersey” (Lg). TRICHOPTERYX Kirby. » moerens Matth. Camden III, 4, Gloucester II, 7, sifting (W). - haldemanni Lec. Anglesea VII (Sz); g. d., common (W). NEPHANES Thom. . leviusculus Matth. Camden, Gloucester, sifting (W). Family SCAPHIDIIDA. A small group of generally black shining beetles, sometimes marked with red or yellow spots, living in rotten wood, fungi, and the like; there- fore not of economic importance. They are most abundantly found in winter under leaves, in rubbish and in dead wood. n SCAPHIDIUM Oliv. . quadriguttatum Say. Throughout the State mostly before VI, but isolated examples in late VIII. The varieties “obliteratum’” Lec., “piceum” Mots., and “4-pustulatum” Say occur with the type; some- times replacing it, or aS exceptions. BAZOCERA Er. . speculifer Casey. Westville I, 28 (W). . apicalis Lec. Camden, winter, sifting (W); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm). SCAPHISOMA Leach. . convexum Say. Throughout the State; winter and early spring. . punctulatum Lec. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). . rufulum Lec. Newark district (Bf). TOXIDIUM Lec. . gammaroides Lec. Orange Mts., Woodside, Newark III, IV (Bf); Snake Hill, Arlington, Highland (Sf); Jamesburg VII (Sm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 251 Family PHALACRIDA. Small, black, shining beetles of very convex form, living on flowers or under bark, and of no economic importance. PHALACRUS Payk. P. politus Mels. Boonton VI, Split Rock Lake IX (GG); Ft. Lee, Snake Hill, Newark VII (Sf); Arlington (Bf); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Iona VI, 16 (Dke). It is probable that the “pumilio” of the last edition is this same species. OLIBRUS Er. . semistriatus Lec. New Jersey (Sf). 3 neglectus Casey. New Jersey (Sf). . lecontei Casey. Clementon (Li); “Atlantic States” (Casey). . pallipes Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway V, VI (Sm). The “O. rufipes” Lec. of the previous list is an error. 0000 EUSTILBUS Sharp. E. apicalis Mels. (consimilis Marsh.) Throughout the State, almost every month in the year. E. nitidus Mels. Throughout the State, in excrement, on dead wood and vegetable decay. E. subalutaceus Casey. Cape May (Casey). LITOCHRUS Er. L. pulchellus Lec. Woodbury VIII, 7, sifting (W). L. immaculatus Casey. “New Jersey” (Casey). Family CORYLOPHID:. Very small species, varying in shape, black or brown, marked with yel- low, among fermenting sap, in rotting fruits or in decaying vegetation. May also be beaten from dead branches or found hiding under bark and are not of economic importance. SACIUM Lec. S. amabile Lee. Fort Lee (Sf); Anglesea VII (Sz). S. fasciatum Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark (Soc); Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Anglesea VII (Sz). S. lunatum Lec. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII (Sz). The record for “splendens” Sz. is an error in determination. 52 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ARTHROLIPS Woll. A. misellus Lec. Palisades (Sf); Eagle Rock (Bf). CORYLOPHODES Matth. C. truncatus Lec. Anglesea (W). C. marginicollis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Sm). SERICODERUS Steph. S. flavidus Lec. Fort Lee (Sf). RHYPOBIUS Lec. R. marinus Lec. Snake Hill, Arlington, sweeping VI (Sf); along shore, Brigantine to Cape May V-IX, sifting drift on beach. ORTHOPERUS Steph. QO. glaber Lec. Camden and Gloucester Co. (W); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm); Anglesea VII (Sz). Q. scutellaris Lec. Anglesea VII (Sz). Family COCCINELLIDAS. These are the “lady bugs” or “lady birds” or “lady bird beetles,” which are among nature’s most effective checks to scale and plant lice increase. They are more or less hemispherical in shape, sometimes a little more oval in outline, and then usually less convex. In color they are as a rule red or yellow with black spots, or black with red and yellow spots. In a very general way, and subject to many exceptions, those of the first type are feeders on plant lice, while those of the second type feed on scale insects; the smaller, black species are usually scale destroyers. The larve are rather slender, more or less fusiform in outline, sometimes with lateral processes, often prettily marked with black, blue or orange. In its predatory habits the family is somewhat exceptional among the “Clavicorns,” and one of our species departs from the usual habits and is a vegetable feeder. Most of the species are widely distributed, their occurrence being chiefly determined by the presence of the insects Fig. f= upon which they feed. Coccinellid larva. ANISOSTICTA Dup. A. strigata Thunb. Chester (Dn); Snake Hill V, 17 (Bf); Hudson Co. (L1); Arlington VI (Sf); Westville (Li); Merchantville IV, 24 (Brn); Camden Co. IV, 14 (GQ). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 253 A. seriata Mels. (Nzmia) Snake Hill V, 17 (Bf); Newark (GG); found in numbers during spring, in swamps, Merchantville and Westville (W,); Anglesea VI, Beach Haven VI, VII (Coll); often found in the wash-up along the shore, and locally common on aphid-infested golden rod all along our Southern Coast line. MEGILLA Muls. Fig. 96.—Megilla fuscilabris: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult; enlarged. M. fuscilabris Muls. (maculata DeG.) Throughout the State and more or less generally throughout the season. Hibernates as an adult, sometimes in great masses, and has rather a wide range of food, in- cluding pollen and fungus spores, as well as plant lice and other soft insects. HIPPODAMIA Muls. H. glacialis Fabr. Throughout the State, locally and seasonably abund: ant. This is one of the most effective enemies of plant lice in gen- eral, and is always present when there is any abnormal increase of destructive species, as, for example, the melon louse. H. convergens Guer. Occurs with the preceding; is locally even more abundant, and has the same general habits. H. 13-punctata Linn. Split Rock Lake IV, Clifton VII (GG); Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Newark DIStEUVE, Vil-eExXa(Sf):. H. parenthesis Say. Throughout the State, all sea- sons, with much the habits of “glacialis.” Fig. 97.—Hippodamia ADALIA Muls. convergens, larva, : A pupa and adult. A. bipuncta Linn. The commonest and most wide- ly distributed of our species; will even get into greenhouses and on house plants to feed on the aphids there found. It is not infrequently considered the author of the injury caused by plant lice. A. humeralis Say. Masonville VI, 16 (Castle). 254 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. 9-notata Hbst. COCCINELLA Linn. on plant lice of all kinds. C. trifasciata Linn. Boonton VII (GG); Newark Dist. (Bf); Jamesburg V, 15 (Coll); Toms River (Bt). Not a common species in New Jersey; more abundant northwardly. C. sanguinea Linn. Common throughout the State and a general feeder Madison (Pr); Hoboken (Sf); CYCLONEDA Crotch. Throughout the State; more or less common every- where. A general feeder on plant lice. NEOHARMONIA Casey. N. venusta Mels. Atlantic City, in wash-up (Sherman); a southern H. picta Rand. species. HARMONIA Muls. Throughout the State V—VIII, but local; on pine trees, end of April (W); abundant in its season (Lg). ANATIS Muls. A. 15-punctata Oliv. Reported from all parts of the State and locally and seasonally common. Feeds on plant- lice generally and on many other soft-bodied insects; especially im- portant as a check to the plant- louse that often infests Norway Maples in early summer. NEOMYSIA Casey. N. pullata Say. Hopatcong (Pm); P. 20-—maculata Say. E. borealis Fabr. The “Squash lady-bird’’; Orange Mts. (div); Clifton VIII, Riverton V, Clementon V (GG); Westville (Li); Lahaway IX (Coll); on pine trees IV, V (W). ft 7 Fig. 98.—15-spotted “‘lady-bird’’: a, larva devouring slug of potato beetle; b, pupa; d to g, variations of adult. PSYLLOBORA Chev. Common locally throughout the State. EPILACHNE Chev. feeds in all its stages on cucurbs, but preferably on squash, and occasionally causes notice- able injury. It is the one exception in our State to the predatory habit of the family, and is readily recognizable by its large size and large black spots on a yellow ground. arsenites. It succumbs readily to the A. w w THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Bsc AXION Muls. tripustulatum.DeG. Woodside (Bf); Riverton VI, IX, feeding on San José Seale (Sm); DaCosta on pines IV, V, VIII (div); Atlantic City (Li); sometimes very plentiful at Lakehurst on post oaks infested by “Kermes pubescens” Bogue, VIII, IX (Ds). This is a scale feeder and locally and seasonally common; but while I have found it feed- ing on the San José Scale, this seems to be an accidental and occa- sional habit, and it has not manifested any intention of adding this species to its regular diet. CHILOCORUS Leach. bivulnerus Muls. Throughout the State, locally common; is a scale feeder and has devoted itself especially to the San José Scale, of which it destroys great numbers. Unfortunately it is a slow breeder, with only a single annual generation, and hence does not suffice to keep the scale in check. . similis Rossi. This is the “Chinese or Asiatic lady-bird” introduced to supplement the preceding as a check to the San José Scale. It was maintained for part of two years at New Brunswick, and a con- siderable number was liberated at various points in South Jersey; but there is no evidence that the insect has really established itself. The name is introduced here chiefly to record the attempted intro- duction. EXOCHOMUS Redt. . marginipennis Redt. Milltown V (Coll); Clementon V (GG); Da- Costa (lui); 2g. d., rare (W). . 4-pustulata Linn. Rutherford VIII, 10, found while inspecting conifers in a nursery, one example only. It is a European species and prob- ably a recent introduction (Sm). BRUMUS Muls. . septentrionis Weise. var. davisi Leng. Milltown IV, 22 (Coll); Jamesburg, Lakehurst, common in spring on pines infested with plant lice. DELPHASTUS Casey. . pusillus Lec. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Orange Mt. Dist. V (Bf); Buena Vista (Li). BRACHYACANTHA Chev. . ursina Fabr. Common throughout the State VI-VIII. . 10-pustulata Mels. With the preceding; but less common. . basalis Mels. “New Jersey” (Li); Mr. Leng suggests that this record may refer to the next species. . 4-punctata Mels. Lakehurst IX, 4 (Lg). . dentipes Fab. Woodbury (Li); Anglesea (W). . indubitalis Cr. Hewitt, Plainfield (Lg). 256 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. HYPERASPIS Chevr. H. bigeminata Rand. Jamesburg IV, 18 (Coll); Atco (Li); Lakehurst Xen bee Cla) H. pratensis Lec. Hopatcong, in Dietz Coll. (Sf). H. signata Oliv. Common throughout the State. Feeds on the cottony maple scale, and is the most effective check to that species. Also feeds on ““Pseudococcus” and probably other soft scales. H. binotata Say. Atlantic Co., rare (W); found on pine trees in spring, on willow in summer; not rare (Lg). H. proba Say. Throughout the State, locally not rare. H. lewisi Cr. “New Jersey,” one example only (W). H. fimbriolata Mels. Throughout the State, Jersey City to Cape May V-VII. H. undulata Say. Jersey City to Camden and Cape May IV-—VIII. SMILIA Weise. Fig. 99.—Similia misella: a, adult; b, larva; c, pupa; d, larva and adult feeding on the pernicious scale in calyx cup of pear; all much enlarged. S. misella Lec. Throughout the State, locally common on trees infested by the pernicious scale. It is one of the important controls of the scale, but has never been sufficiently abundant anywhere to get the better of it. S. Ss. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 257 STETHORUS Weise. . punctum Lec. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll); Spring Lake (Ch); Iona VI, 16 (Dke); g. d. (Li). This is the smallest of our species, and will probably be found to occur throughout the State. : SCYMNUS Kug. . fraternus Lec. Hlizabeth XI, 27 (GG); g.d., rare (Li). . brullei Muls. Fort Lee (Sf). . hemorrhous Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Cape May Court House (W); Lakehurst IX, 5 (Lg). . chromopyga Casey. Lakehurst IX, 5 (Lg). . cervicalis Muls. Ft. Lee (Sf); Spring Lake (Ch); “New Jersey” (Li). . caudalis Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway (Coll). . collaris Mels. Ft. Lee (Sf); South River VII, 2 (Coll); Jamesburg (Lg); Iona VI, 8 (Dke); DaCosta, Anglesea (W); g. d. (Li). indutus Casey. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Ly). . puncticollis Lec. Still only a probable inhabitant of the State. . lacustris Lee. South River VII, 5 (Coll). . tenebrosus Muls. Spring Lake (Ch); Jamesburg V, 17, Lahaway, on cranberry bogs V, 28, X, 14, Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Coll); DaCosta V (Dke). . punctatus Mels. Ft. Lee, the black form (Sf); g. d., in Newark dis- trict (Bf); Buena Vista (Li). . nanus Lec. Fort Lee (Sf); South Orange VII, 4 (Lv). . punctum Lec. Boonton VI, 18 (GG). . americanus Muls. Boonton VI (GG); Fort Lee (Sf); Orange Mt. Dist. (div); Jamesburg VII, IX (Coll); Atco (Li); DaCosta, Cape May C. H. (W). . flavifrons Mels. var. bioculatus Muls. Much like the preceding in distribution. . intrusus Horn. Newark VIII, 30 (Bf). . myrmedon Muls. Pennsylvania, and probably New Jersey. . liebecki Horn. Buena Vista (Li); DaCosta VII, 20 (Brn); Lakehurst (Lg). terminatus Say. Fort Lee (Sf); Newark district III, V (Bf); Camden to Seaville III, IV, VI, VII, XII (Brn); g. d. (W). xanthaspis Muls. Newark Dist. III, 7, VII, 26 (Bf). “S_ paludicola” Sz. is a Floridian species, and the name is not sanctioned by description. The species of this genus are very small, convex, hairy black beetles, with obscure orange, yellowish or brown markings, and most of them are feeders on scale insects. They do not occur in suffi- cient numbers, however, to be of any decisive service. I7 IN 258 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CEPHALOSCYMNUS Cr. C. zimmermanni Cr. Orange Mts., Woodside (Bf); Anglesea VII (W); feeds on the scurfy scale (Sz). COCCIDULA Kug. C. lepida Lec. Gloucester and Camden Cos., locally common in winter swamp collections (div); hibernates as adult, and occurs until June or July. Family ENDOMYCHIDAE. Somewhat resemble the Coccinellids, but are as a rule longer and less convex. They are almost exclusively feeders on fungi in both larval and adult stages, and not of importance from the economic standpoint. MYCETAA Steph. M. hirta Marsh. Ft. Lee IX, 9, under bark (Jl); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island III, in decaying, fungus-covered stumps (Ds). _ RHANIS Lec. R. unicolor Ziegl. Throughout the State, locally common IV-VII, under old bark. PHYMAPHORA Newn. P. pulchella Newn. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Sf); Pali- sades IV, 29 (Bno); Newark (Soc). LYCOPERDINA Latr. ' L. ferruginea Lec. Throughout the State V, VI, breeds in puff-balls, and also found on fungus under bark. APHORISTA Gorh. A. vittata Fab. Throughout the State in spring, on mold and other fungi under bark and in decaying logs. MYCETINA Muls. M. perpulchra Newn. Palisades, Orange Mts., Newark (Bf). M. testacea Ziegl. Hewitt VI, 2 (Jl); Millburn (Bf); DaCosta (W); Sea- shore (Li); always rare; beaten from dead branches. STENOTARSUS Perty. S. hispidus Hbst. Throughout the State, spring and fall, on dead branches of pine and other trees. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 259 EPIPOCUS Germ. E. bivittatus Gerst. Newark, rare (Bf). ENDOMYCHUS Panz. E. biguttatus Say. Throughout the State, spring and fall, locally com- mon, under bark on fungus. Family EROTYLIDA. As the family stands in our lists at present, it comprises species of two quite different types. The ‘“Languriine,’ which are long, slender and somewhat cylindrical, and the ‘“‘Hrotyline,’’ which are shorter, more robust, tapering to the end of the wing-covers. The former are feeders in the stems of living plants, the latter are found in fungus and under the bark of trees. These are sometimes regarded as representing dis- tinct families, while others include under the one. heading also the “Cryptophagine” and “Atomariine.” It has not been deemed advisable to advocate either proposition here, and therefore the list has been left essentially a& in the last edition. LANGURIA Latr. L. bicolor Fab. Newark (Soc); Camden (W); Westville (Li); Brigan- tine Beach, IX. L. mozardi Lec. Throughout the State, locally not rare; the. larva is a borer in “Composite,” and sometimes injurious as a clover stem borer. L. discoidea Lec. “New Jersey,” probably Chester (Dn). L. tedata Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); seashore from Brig- antine to Cape May VI, VII (div). L. angustata Beauv. ‘Throughout the State in spring. var. trifasciata Say. Arlington IV, VI, sweeping and under stones (Sf); salt meadows in spring under stones (Bf); Camden XII-— III sifting (div); g. d. in wet places, sweeping (W). ACRAPTERYX Gorh. A. gracilis Newn. Throughout the State VI-VIII, not common; larva in stems of “Composite” (Ch). DACNE Latr. D. 4maculata Say. “New Jersey” (Li); on white fungi on old logs (Ch). MEGALODACNE Cr. M. fasciata Fab. Throughout the State, under old bark infested with fungi. 260 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ISCHYRUS. Lac. I. 4-punctatus Oliv. Caldwell (Cr); Westville IV, 29 (Brn). MYCOTRETUS Lac. M. sanguinipennis Say. Staten Island (Lg); Plainfield on beech fungus (Sf). M. pulchra Say. Hudson Co. (L1); Woodside, once common (Bf). M. dissimulator Cr. Newfoundland (Lg). TRITOMA Fab. T. humeralis Fab. Throughout the State VIII, IX, on fungi. T. biguttata Say. With the preceding, VII-IX. T. angulata Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Woodside, Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Clementon VII, 26, VIII, 6 (G@). T. unicolor Say. Throughout the State; common on fungi. T. thoracica Say. Throughout the State V-IX; not common. T. flavicollis Lac. With the preceding, but common. Family COLYDIIDA. Usually brown in color, slender or somewhat flattened, often with ridged wing-covers. Live largely on dead or dying trees, and some of them, devour the larve of woodboring beetles. SYNCHITA Hellw. S. obscura Horn. Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea V, VII (div); on red oak. S. fuliginosa Mels. Ft. Lee, common (Jl); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); under bark of dead branches. CICONES Curt. C. marginalis Mels. Newark at lights (Bf). DITOMA III. D. quadriguttata Say. Throughout the State IV, V, under bark; rare. D. pinicola Schaef. Lakehurst IX (Sf); the type locality. D. quadricollis Horn. Woodbury V, 22 (GG); Anglesea V, 30 (W). COXELUS Latr. G. guttulatus Lec. Ft. Lee in spring (Jl); Westville (Li); Clementon III, 18 (Brn); Waretown III, 3 (W); on fungus under bark and on dead branches; rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 261 AULONIUM Er. . parallelopipedum Say. Hudson Co. (L1); Westville V, 23 (Brn); un- der bark and in twigs of coniferous and deciduous trees. . tuberculatum Lec. Newark (Bf); Malaga VI, 1 (GG); Iona X, 14 (W). COLYDIUM Fab. . lineola Say. Throughout the State III-VIII, under bark; rare. OXYLAEMUS Er. » americanus Er. Fort Lee VI, 8-19 (Jl). PENTHELISPA Pasc. . heematodes Fab. Ft. Lee (Jl); Malaga VI, VII (GG); Anglesea (W); under moist bark of dead pines. . reflexa Say. Lakehurst V, 22 (Jl). PYCNOMERUS Er. . sulcicollis Lee. Woodside IV, 3, rare (Bf). BOTHRIDERES Er. . geminatus Say. Boonton III, 138 (GG); Ft. Lee III, 14, under dead hickory bark (Jl); g. d. (Li); also occurs under dry oak bark. CERYLON Latr. . castaneum Say. Highlands, Snake Hill (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); salt meadows (Bf); Riverton IV, V (GG); Gloucester IV, 20 (Brn); Lake- wood (Coll); g. d. (W); rare at all points. PHILOTHERMUS Aubé. . glabriculus Lec. Throughout the State IV—VII, in decayed wood. Family RHYSSODID. CLINIDIUM Kirby. . sculptile Newn. New Brunswick, Lahaway (Sm); Camden, Glouces- ter Co. (W); g. d. (Li); long slender brown species with ridged prothorax, found under bark and of no economic importance. Family CUCUJID/.. Small or moderate sized species, narrow, flat, fitted to live under bark, where most of them are found. Some of them are carnivorous in habit, 262 REPORT OF NEW. JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. others occur in granaries and among stored products of various kinds. None of them attack living plants, and cleanliness, assisted by carbon disulphide, intelligently applied, will usually prevent loss on the dried stock. SILVANUS Latr. Fig. 100.—Silvanus surinamensis: a, adult; b, pupa; c, larva; enlarged. S. surinamensis Linn. Throughout the State, in stored grains, dried fruits, etc.; common in mangers in stables and in bakeries. S. bidentatus Fab. Throughout the State; under bark; not rare; taken most of the season. S. planatus Germ. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange, under pine bark (Ch); Newark Dist., g. d. (Bf); Brigantine IX (Hn). S. imbellis Lec. G. d., not rare (Li); Anglesea (Sm). CATHARTUS Reich. C. advena Walth. Throughout the State; rare under bark; more common in stored grain, fruit, nuts, etc., particularly such as are spoiled. NAUSIBIUS Redt. N. clavicornis Kug. (dentatus Marsh.) Ft. Lee (Jl); Newark (Bf); eg. d. (Li); under bark, and also occasionally in store-houses. CATOGENUS Westw. C. rufus Fab. Throughout the State, under bark of trees, but local and not usually common. PEDIACUS Shuck. P. depressus Hbst. Newark, rare (Bf). THE, INSECTS OF NEW) JERSEY. 263 CUCUJUS Fab. clavipes Fab. Throughout the State, under bark; the larva predatory. 2 LAEMOPHLCEUS Lap. L. biguttatus Say. Throughout the State, under bark; fall to mid-sum- mer. L. fasciatus Mels. Newark, rare (Sf); Anglesea VII (Sz). L. modestus Say. Jamesburg V, under bark (Sm); Westville I, sifting (W). L. convexulus Lec. Clifton V, 24 (GG); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark (Bf). L. adustus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark (Bf); Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Collingswood IV, 17 (Brn). L. testaceus Fab. Hudson Co. (L1); Newark (Bf). L. alternans Er. Cosmopolitan, found everywhere (Casey). L. ferrugineus Steph. Merchantville V, 7 (Brn); also cosmopolitan. All of these species really occur throughout the State, although there are no specific records for some of them, and the greater number may be found under somewhat moist, rather closely adherent bark. LATHROPUS Er. L. vernalis Lec. (not ventralis) Throughout the State V-—VII, beating dead oak branches. DYSMERUS Casey. D. basalis Casey. Red Bank, in Gioucester Co., I (W). BRONTES Fab. B. dubius Fab. Throughout the State III-VI. B. debilis Lec.. Hudson Co. (L1); English Creek IX (Bland). These species probably occur throughout the State, and are not well separated in collections. “Debilis’” is said to be more northern in its range, while “dubius” is more southern. TELEPHANUS Er. T. velox Hald. Throughout the State, under stones and old leaves; rarely under bark; may be sifted out from fall to late spring. Family CRYPTOPHAGIDA:. Small clavicorn beetles, living in fungi and decomposing vegetable mat- ter, yellow to blackish in color, sometimes banded, flattened below, and not very convex above. They are of no economic importance, and are not well known. 264 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. [@) >>> > TELMATOPHILUS Heer. . americanus Lec. Throughout the State IV—-VI, locally common, sweep- ing in low meadows or marsh land. LOBERUS Lec. . impressus Lec. Throughout the State, all summer, sweeping in damp or Swampy meadow land at dusk. TOMARUS Lec. . pulchellus Lec. Throughout the State; not rare; taken by sifting in winter; spring and fall under leaves, chips, ete., in marsh or low meadows. ANTHEROPHAGUS Latr. . ochraceus Mels. Orange Mts. VII (div); Bloomfield (Bf); Hudson Co. (L1); Westville (Li); on flowers; is an inquiline in nests of bumble- bees. CRYPTOPHAGUS Hbst. . cellaris Scop. Spring Lake, in cellars (Ch). . croceus Zimm. Newark, rare (Bf). . 4-dentatus Mann. New Brunswick (Coll). CROSIMUS Casey. . obesulus Casey. Greenwood Lake VI, sifting rotten leaves (Sf). ATOMARIA Steph. . vespertina Makl. Snake Hill (Sf). . latula Lec. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill, Arlington, sweeping at dusk (Sf). . ochracea Zimm. Snake Hill, common (Sf). . ephippiata Zimm. Common throughout the State all season. EPHISTEMUS Steph. . apicalis Lec. Snake Hill XI, Arlington VI, sweeping at dusk (Sf). Family MYCETOPHAGID/. Oblong or oval beetles of small or moderate size, brown or black, with obscure yellow mottlings or markings, more or less coated with silky hair. They are found under bark and in fungus growths, and are neither beneficial nor harmful to the agriculturist. MYCETOPHAGUS Hellw. M. punctatus Say. -Throughout the State, locally common, in fungus on oak and elsewhere under bark. M. flexuosus Say. With the preceding and similar in habit. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. i) OV on M. bipustulatus Mels. Eagle Rock, 1 specimen (Bf). M. pluriguttatus Lec. Newark district in fungus (Bf). M. melsheimeri Lec. Camden, rare (Li). M. pluripunctatus Lec. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Westville (Li). M. pini Ziegl. Westville rare (Li), under pine bark. M. obsoletus Mels. Avalon (Li); Sea Isle City VI, 11 (Brn). LITARGUS Er. L. 6-punctatus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., Newark IX, 20 (Bf); Anglesea VII (Sz); under decomposing vegetable matter and bark. L. tetraspilotus Lec. Boonton III, 17 (GG); Orange Mts., Newark V, 30 (Bf). L. didesmus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); DaCosta VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Anglesea VII and probably throughout the State. The record of ‘LL. balteatus’ was based on a misidentification. TYPHCEA Steph. T. fumata Linn. Common everywhere in stables and sweepings from granaries and feed stores (Ch); bred in numbers from dry-rotting potatoes at New Brunswick. Family DERMESTID/Z. Stout, heavily built beetles, with short, weak legs that may be very closely folded to the body. Clothed with flattened hair or scales, usually black and white mottled; but sometimes marked with red, brown or yellow. The larve are elongate, hairy creatures, with tufts of bristles at the end of the abdomen and sometimes along the sides; or with bunches of hair that may be erected or spread out. They feed (with one excep- tion) on stored or dry ani- mal and sometimes vegeta- ble products, and include such pests as the “larder beetles,” “museum beetles,” “carpet beetles,” etce., and are therefore decidedly in- jurious. Protection is gained by the use of repellants like camphor and naphthaline, and by cleanliness or making access impossible to larve or adults. As a rule a combination of both methods is employed, and occa- sionally bisulphide of carbon can be used to advantage. ; Fig. 101.—Dermestes vulpinus: a, larva from above and side; h, pupa; k, adult; enlarged: other figures refer to structural details of larva. 266 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. B. D. D. D. D. A. slic ali. BYTURUS Latr. unicolor Say. Throughout the State, adult in flowers; larva a whit- ish maggot in fruits, chiefly of raspberry; the one exception in our fauna to the feeding habits detailed in the opening paragraph. Sometimes this genus is made the type of a distinct family. DERMESTES Linn. caninus Germ. Throughout the State V, VII, IX, under dead animals, sometimes rather common; not usually in houses. lardarius Linn. The “larder beetle,’ common throughout the State, often on stored provisions. Kill the beetles and larve whenever seen, keep provisions in tight or screened receptacles, and, where the insects are abundant, trap them on easily accessible scraps. vulpinus Fab. Throughout the State under old bones and dried car- casses; also in skins and leather, hence known to manufacturers as the “leather beetle’; gasoline and carbon disulphide may be used. frischii Kug. Riverton IV, Burlington Co. VI (GG); seashore (Li); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); locally not rare; but not a troublesome form. ATTAGENUS Latr. piceus Oliv. Throughout the State, common; the “black carpet beetle.” Also said to attack cereals and other seeds. Gasoline and carbon disulphide are used. for their destruction, and naphthaline may be used as a repellant. TROGODERMA Latr. ornatum Say. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. VI, 9, on flowers (Bf). tarsale Mels. Throughout the State. ‘“‘Sometimes injurious to cere- als and other seeds, to cayenne pepper, and very troublesome in collections of insects or other objects of natural history’’ (Ch). ANTHRENUS Geoffr. Fig. 102.—The carpet beetle, Anthrenus scrophularie: a, larva; b, pupa formed in larval skin; c, pupa; d, adult; all much enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW: JERSEY: 267 ” A. scrophularize Linn. The “carpet beetle,” Known in the larval stage as the “Buffalo moth.” Adults hibernate and are common on flowers in spring; the larve infest woolens chiefly. From stored clothing they can usually be kept with naphthaline; infested carpets should be removed and cleaned if possible and the floors thoroughly scrubbed. If removal is not possible, drench with gasoline twice at intervals of ten days, or press the infested areas with a very hot flat- iron over a wet cloth so as to drive a steam through the texture. A. verbasci Linn. The common Museum pest, injuring dried animal and vegetable products of all kinds. In collections naphthaline is used as a repellant. A. muszeorum Linn. Less common than the preceding and not injurious in this country. CRYPTORHOPALUM Guer. Cc. ruficorne Lec. Common on flowers in Ocean County. Cc. triste Lec. Throughout the State on flowers, spring and fall. ORPHILUS Er. O. niger Rossi. (glabratus Fab.) Not rare on flowers, g. d. » Family HISTERIDA. This family is recognizable by the usually short, chunky form, shining black color, the elytra squarely cut off behind so as to leave the end of the abdomen exposed. The legs are short, the tibize broad and flat and fitted for digging. When disturbed, the beetles fold these legs so close to the body that they are practically invisible. The antennal club is short and rounded or capitate. The adult beetles are found in or under decaying Fig. 103.—Hister arcuatus and H. bimaculatus; much enlarged. animal or vegetable matter, in excrement or in fungi. A few of them are more oblong and flattened, and these live under bark and generally in moist places. The larve as a rule occur in similar situations. 268 REPORT OF NEW. JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Although the circumstances under which the insects occur suggest that they are scavengers, it is certain that some and perhaps most of them are really predatory, feeding upon other genuine scavengers that occur in such situations. HOLOLEPTA Payk. H. lucida Lee. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee, under bark of chestnut (Bt); also under freshly loosened bark of other trees. H. fossularis Say. Throughout the State, under bark or in bark layers. HISTER Linn. H. planipes Lec. Ft. Lee IV (Bt); Belleville III, Woodside IV (Bf); New- ark (Dn); found in ant nests and probably preys upon their larve. H. arcuatus Say. Madison (Pr); Newark (Bf); along shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May among drift and in the sand. H. biplagiatus Lec. West Bergen V (Bf); Westville V (div); g. d. (W); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Anglesea VII; not common. H. harrisii Kirby. Fort Lee (Bt). H. virginiz Casey. “New Jersey” (Sf). H. merdarius Hoffm. Hopatcong (Pm); New Brunswick, Anglesea (Coll). H. interruptus Beauv. Throughout the State, common. H. stygicus Lec. Staten Island V (Sf). H. immunis Er. Fort Lee (Bt); Staten Island (Lg). H. marginicollis Lec. Madison (Pr). H. unicus Casey. Hewitt, Staten Island, in toad-stools (Sf). H. cognatus Lec. Palisades IV (Sf); Camden V (GG). H. umbilicatus Casey. “New Jersey” (Sf). H. abbreviatus Fab. Common throughout the State under cow-droppings. The “foedatus” of the previous list belongs here. = civilis Lec. Camden, Gloucester Co., Cape May C. H. V (W); Brigan- tine Beach IX (Hn); seashore (Li); not so common. H. furtivus Lec. Madison (Pr). . depurator Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Newark Dist. (Bf); DaCosta VII (W); Winslow VIII, Brown’s Mills IX (Dke); locally common. ae . Gefectus Lec. Jamesburg (Ds); Lakehurst IX, in mushrooms (Sf). . servus Er. Lakehurst IX (Sf). . bimaculatus Linn. Throughout the State V, VII, IX, not common. . sedecemstriatus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Hudson Co. (11). . americanus Payk. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Brown’s Mills VII (Dke); g. d. (W Li). . davisi Schaef. Jamesburg VIII, IX, Lakehurst IX (div); Brookville (lige 96 85 a5 ar Ae a5 ge abe Jo Ie ae ae, THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 269 . perplexus Lec. Newark III, 30, g. d. (Bf). . relictus Mars. New Jersey (Sf). . exaratus Lec. Brigantine Beach IX, rare (Hn). . venustus Lec. Newtonville III, 21, sifting, 1 specimen (Brn). . subrotundus Say. Throughout the State, under bark and _ stones; locally not rare. . vernus Say. Orange Mts. V, Newark IX (Bf); 5-mile beach V, and Soh (AW )c A species taken at Trenton, VI, 2, is probably undescribed, according to Mr. Schaeffer. QO PLATYSOMA Er. . saunieri Mars. Silver Lake, Staten Island (Sf). . carolinus Payk. Throughout the State, under bark; like most of the others of this series. . lecontei Mars. With the preceding, but more common. . aurelianus Horn. Newark (Bf). . parallelus Say. Throughout the State, in spring, under bark; pre- datory upon Scolytids. . equus Lec. Snake Hill (Sf). CYLISTIX Lewis. . coarctatus Lec. Staten Island (Lg); Lakewood (Ll). . cylindricus Payk. Lakewood VII (div); Jamesburg V,°17 (Coll). . attenuatus Lec. Cape May C. H. V, 28, under pine bark, always asso- ciated with “Tomicus” (W); Brown’s Mills VI, 23 (Dke). EPIERUS Er. . pulicarius Er. Camden, Gloucester Co., under bark (W); Merchant- ville VI, 15 (GG); found also in decaying wood. HETAERIUS Er. . brunneipennis Rand. Hopatcong (Pm); Alpine III (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark (GG); always in ant nests, and sometimes common. ONTHOPHILUS Leach. . alternatus Say. Staten Island (Lg). DENDROPHILUS Leach. . punctulatus Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark V, in rotten elms, rare (Bf); Anglesea V, 14, 1 specimen (Brn). 270 REPORT OF NEW:JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CARCINOPS Mars. ‘ . conjunctus Say. Snake Hill V, 22, Arlington, Woodside, under stones (Bf); Lakehurst V, 24 (Ds). . geminatus Lec. Staten Island III (Sf); Brigantine Beach IX, rare (Hn). . 14-striatus Steph. Snake Hill (1); Newark Dist., g. d. (Bf); Brigan- tine Beach IX (Hn); Cape May C. H. V, 28, under king-crabs (W). PAROMALUS Er. . zequalis Say. Snake Hill (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Woodbury III (Brn); Anglesea; under bark like most other members of this genus. . estriatus Lec. Snake Hill (Ll). . bistriatus Er. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill (Ll); New- ark, g. d., common (Bf). . seminulum Er. Snake Hill, under bark of freshly cut stumps (LI). SAPRINUS Er. . rotundatus Kug. Anglesea (W). . pennsylvanicus Payk. Along the seashore and sandy river banks, under carrion and in dung, very common; all season. . oregonensis Lec. var. sejunctus Mars. Paterson V, 28 (Coll). . assimils Payk. Throughout the State; usually in excrement. . conformis Lee. Newark (Bf); Iona V, 26 (Dke); Anglesea (W). . placidus Er: Highlands (Ch); Sandy Hook VII (Coll). . minutus Lec. 5-—mile beach VII, 4—VIII, 1 (W). . sphzeroides Lec. Westville VII (W); DaCosta VI, 3, Anglesea VI (Brn); Brigantine Beach IX, rare (Hn). . fraternus Say. Throughout the State; our commonest inland species. . patruelis Lec. Sandy Hook to Cape May, along shore VII-IX. . dimidiatipennis Lec. Highlands (Ch) and Sandy Hook to Cape May. Most of the species of this genus are more common along shore, where they are found in the sand beneath dead fish and other animal matter. There are probably other species, and Mr. Schaeffer has determined that one form, found at Lakehurst, VII, 4, is undescribed. P. P. PLEGADERUS Er. transversus Say. Atlantic City (Castle); g. d. (W); found in Scolytid galleries under pine bark. barbelini Mars. Newark (Bf); Atco IV, 2 (W). BACANIUS Lec. B. misellus Lec. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 271 ACRITUS Lec. A. exiguus Er. Newark Dist., g. d., in rotten wood (Bf); Anglesea IV, 11 (Coll). AELETES Horn. ~. politus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm); under decaying vegetable matter generally. Family NI'TIDULIDZ. Sap beetles as a rule, although some live in fungi and others in or on dry animal or vegetable matter. In a general way they may be classed as scavengers, and have the short, chunky antennal club usual to such species. The majority are more or less flattened, usually broad in pro- portion to their length and some of them with somewhat abbreviated elytra, exposing the end of the abdomen. Sap beetles are most abundant in late fall on tree stumps cut in spring or on over-ripe and decaying fruits. BRACHYPTERUS Er. B. urtice Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Hoboken (Coll); g. d. (W); com- monly occurs on nettle (Ch). CERCUS Latr. C. abdominalis Er. Throughout the State IV—VIII, on flowers of pussy willows, elder, etc. CARPOPHILUS Steph. C. hemipterus Linn. Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Westville; an introduced spécies, common in grocers’ and bakers’ stocks. C. niger Say. Throughout the State under bark, in blossoms or on sap, spring and fall. C. corticinus Er. Orange Mts. (Bf); Palisades (Sm); Camden (Li); Grenloch V, 3 DaCosta VI, 10 (W). C. marginatus Er. Hemlock Falls (Bf). : “ C. brachypterus Say. Hudson Co. (div); Orange Fig. 104.—Carpo- Mts. (Bf); Newtonville VII, Seaville Iv (Sf); 9 Ms hemibrerus; Grenloch V, 3, on pine sap (W). a C. antiquus Mels. Hudson Co. (div); Clementon VIII, 10, on the black fungus on outside of ears of corn (W). “C. dimidiatus” and “C. pallipennis’” of the previous edition are mis- identifications. COLASTUS Er. C. morio Er. Bloomfield (Bf); Iona IV, 30 (W); under pine bark. C. maculatus Er. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (L1); also under bark. 272 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM C. semitectus Say. Throughout the State under bark of pine stumps and other trees on flowing sap, often in large numbers. C. unicolor Say. Newark (Bf); Petersburg VI (Brn); Westville, Iona V, 7, in great numbers in stumps of pine (W). C. truncatus Rand. Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Westville (W); Mer- chantville V, 17 (Brn). : var. obliquus Lec. Iona V, 7, on pine stumps (W). CONOTELUS Er. C. obscurus Er. Throughout the State VIII, [X, in ‘“Convolvulus” and other flowers; very like a rove-beetle in appearance. EPURAZA Er. E. helvola Er. Hudson Co. (Ll); Brigantine IX (Hn); Anglesea VII (SZ) secrmdanGVae E. rufa Say. Throughout the State, locally common; sifting in winter, on fungi in fall and spring. E. erichsonii Reitt. Lahaway VI, 12 (Sm); Sea Isle VI, 10 (Brn); g. d. in decaying bloom (W). . corticina Er. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . avara Rand. Hudson Co. (L1); Lahaway V (Sm). . planulata Er. Grenloch V, 3, Iona IV, 30, on pine stumps (W). . truncatella Mann. Newtonville III, 26, 1 specimen (Brn). ovata Horn. Arlington VI, in dead fungus (Sf); Newark (Bf). . peltoides Horn. Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts. V, 5 (Bf); on sap. . labilis Er. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf). mmmmmmm HAPTONCUS Murr. H. luteolus Er. Hopatcong (Pm). NITIDULA Fab. N. bipunctata Linn. (bipustulata) Ft. Lee (Sf); West Bergen IV, 24, common in dead fishes (Bf) ; Camden V, 14; Merchantville IX, 30 (Brn). N. rufipes Linn. Throughout the State from fall to spring, under dry animal matter; sometimes common. N. zic-zac Say. Common throughout the State. STELIDOTA Er. S. geminata Say. Throughout the State, on sap and under dry leaves. S. 8maculata Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark, g. d. (Bf); Spring Lake (Ch); Westville (W); Anglesea VII (Sz). S. strigosa Gyll. Malaga, under pine bark (W); Brigantine IX (Hn). Fig. 105.—WNitidula bi- punctata; enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 273 PROMETOPIA Er. P. 6—-maculata Say. Throughout the State under pine and other bark in spring and until VII, 30. PHENOLIA Er. P. grossa Fab. Throughout the State, more or less common in gilled fungi. OMOSITA Er. - ©. colon Linn. Throughout the State on dry carrion or in fungi. The “O. discoidea”’ of previous edition is an error. SORONIA Er. S. guttulata Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Iona V, 7, on pine roots in scolytid galleries (W). S. undulata Say. Throughout the State, g. d., not rare. S. ulkei Lec. Newark (Bf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Brn); Westville V, 4 (GG); seashore (Li); single specimens only. F S. grisea Linn. Clementon, Malaga VI (W); an introduced species. POCADIUS Er. P. helvolus Er. Ft. Lee in Lycoperdium (Bt); Camden VII, 25 (GG); Collingswood VII, 28 (Brn); Lacy V, 27 (DkKe); g. d. (W). P. infuscatus Reitt. “New Jersey” (Horn Coll). MELIGETHES Steph. . M. mutatus Harr. Paterson V, 3 (Jl). OXYCNEMUS Er. ©. histrinus Lec. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); seashore (Li); g. d. (W); always rare and “peculiar to the genus ‘Phallus’” (Sz). O. nigripennis Lec. Brookville IX, 20 (Lg); Sea Isle City IX, 8 (W). AMPHICROSSUS Er. A. ciliatus Oliv. Hudson Co. (Ll); West Bergen, Orange Mts., on sap (Bf); Woodbury V, 22, VII, 30 (div); g. d. (W). PALLODES Er. P. pallidus Beauv. Throughout the State V-—VII, in gilled and other fungi. ; : CYLLODES Er. C. biplagiatus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf). 18 IN 274 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CYCHRAMUS Kug. C. adustus Er. Hoboken (Sm); Orange Mts. in fungus (Bf); Westville (W); Atco IX, 4 (Brn); in puff-balls, never common. CYBOCEPHALUS Er. C. nigritulus Lec. Snake Hill (Sf). CRYPTARCHA Schuck. C. ampla Er. Throughout the State; a general sap feeder V-VII. C. strigata Fabr. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange (Ch); g. d., on sap at all times (W); usually not common. C. concinna Mels. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); g. d., not rare (Bf); Lahaway II, 8 (Sm). IPS Fabr. l. obtusus Say. Throughout the State; rare; on sap. 1. quadriguttatus Fabr. (fasciatus) Throughout the State; common under bark, on sap and sometimes in fruits. Il. sanguinolentus Oliv. Throughout the State, though somewhat local and rarely common. RHIZOPHAGUS Hbst. Fig. 106.—Ips A. scalpturatus Mann. Orange Mts., salt meadows (Bf). quadriguttatus R. cybindricus Lec. Lahaway III, VI, VII (div); Gren- GN ES enlarged. loch XI, 26 (W); g. d., not rare (Li). R. cylindricus Lec. Lahaway III, VI, VII (div); Grenloch XI, 26 (W); 2d NOu Tare: inal): R. brunneus Horn. Grenloch XI, 26, Iona IV, 30, live deep underground around roots of pine (W). R. bipunctatus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Woodside, once plentiful (Bf). R. minutus Mann. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). Family LATRIDUHD/. : Very small, oval, convex insects with the thorax usually narrower than the elytra. They are very commonly brown in color, often striated, occa- sionally banded, and found commonly under bark, under decayed leaves and in sweeping among vegetation in early evening. The larve are oval, soft, very hairy, and live in vegetable refuse, fungi, etc. Occasionally they are found:in granaries, but never in really troublesome numbers. The arrangement here follows the revision of Prof. H. C. Fall in the THE INSECTS OF NEW: JERSEY. 275 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. for 1899 in all essentials, and all the species collected and recorded by Mr. Boerner were determined by Prof. Fall. ig) (el fel (9) LATRIDIUS Hbst. breviclavus Fall. L. I. to Michigan, and almost certainly New Jersey. . liratus Lec. (Stephostethus) Snake Hill, Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark V, New Brunswick (Coll); g. d., local, not rare (W). ENICMUS Thom. . minutus Linn. Arlington VI, sweeping at dusk (Brn). . aterrimus Mots. (Latridius opaculus). Fort Lee (Sf); Arlington meadows (Bf). CARTODERE Thom. . ruficollis Marsh. Mass. to Va., and certain to occur in New Jersey. CORTICARIA Marsh. . fulva Com. A cosmopolitan species found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Mass. to Va.; certain to occur in New Jersey. . serrata Payk. Also cosmopolitan, as with the preceding. . dentigera Lec. Spring Lake (Ch). . elongata Gyll. Orange (Ch); Malaga VII (GG); Newtonville III (Brn). . ferruginea Marsh. (deleta) Orange (Ch) and g. d. in dried products. This is also probably the “ferruginosa”’ Mots. of the last edition, and occurs throughout the State. MELANOPHTHALMA Mots. . picta Lec. (Corticaria) Snake Hill (Sf); Westville V, 28, Merchant- ville III, 30, Anglesea VII, 12 (Brn). . simplex Lec. (Corticaria) Anglesea V, VII (div). . villosa Zimm. Newark VII, Gloucester V, DaCosta VII, Sea Isle VI, Anglesea VII (Brn). . distinguenda Com. Newark VII, Gloucester to Anglesea, g. d., IV—VII (Brn). . pumila Lec. Ft. Lee, Staten Island (Jl). . gibbosa Hbst. Newtonville VII, 9 (Brn). similata Gyll. Merchantville VII, Westville V, Gloucester V, DaCosta VII, Anglesea VI (Brn). . regularis Lec. “New Jersey’’—type locality. . longipennis Lec. (Corticaria) Arlington III, 19 (Bf); Newark, New Brunswick (Coll). . americana Mann. (Corticaria) Hudson Co. (Ll). . cavicollis Mann. Hudson Co. (Ll); Sea Isle City VIII (Brn). 276 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family TROGOSITID/L. Usually oblong, flat species, the prothorax as wide as the thorax and often well separated from it. Generally they live under bark, but a few live in granaries, where they sometimes become rather numerous, and more rarely specimens are found on fungus. Some of them are predatory or semi-parasitic in the larval stage, and very few are at all injurious. THYMALUS Duft. lie fulgidus Er. Throughout the State V, VI. Looks like a bronze lady- bird beetle and is usually found on a white birch fungus. Mr. Daecke has actually bred it from ‘‘Polyphorus betula-alba.” NEMOSOMA Latr. N. parallelum Mels. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark (GG); Orange Mts. VII (Bf); Anglesea (Li); feeds on Scolytids. ALLINDRIA Er. A. cylindrica Serv. Ft. Lee IV, 27 (Jl); Anglesea (W). TROGOSITA Oliv. T. virescens Fabr. Throughout the State, under bark IV—VIII, locally not rare. TENEBRIOIDES Pall. T. mauretanica Linn. Throughout the State and throughout most of the world as well, in granaries, warehouses and stores; known as_ the “Cadelle.” T. corticalis Mels. Occurs with the preceding and sometimes replaces it; but is more general un- fig. 107.—The “Cadelle” > a, larva; b, adultsie der bark, throughout the to j, structural details; all enlarged. State. T. collaris Sturm. Staten Island (Lg); Clementon V (Brn); Lakehurst VI, IX (Jl); Brown’s Mills VI (Dke); Anglesea (W). T. marginata Beauv. Anglesea (W). T. americana Kirby. (castanea Mels.) Boonton VI (GG); Hudson Co. (L1); Camden (Li); Anglesea and g. d. (W). var. laticollis Horn. Anglesea (W). T. bimaculata Mels. Ft. Lee VI, VIL (div); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange (Ch); Jamesburg VI (Jl); Malaga VII (GG); Anglesea (W). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 27 N Family MONOTOMID. MONOTOMA Hbst. M. producta Lec. Brigantine Beach IX, Sea Isle City, Avalon VII, An- glesea VII (div); a strictly maritime species. M. picipes Hbst. Hudson Co. (Ll); under decaying vegetation. EUROPS Wall. E. pallipennis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, on gummy excretions of hickory (Sf). BACTRIDIUM Lec. B. ephippigerum Guer. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Merchantville V, 7 (Brn). B. striolatum Reit. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts. (Bf). B. cavicolle Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf), Hudson Co. (L1), in galleries of and feeding on Scolytid larve. Family DERODONTID. Oblong, rather convex species, the thorax rounded and toothed at the edge, elytra yellowish with obscure blackish markings. Very little is known of the adults and less of the larve. DERODONTUS Lec. D. maculatus Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). Family BYRRHID/. These are usually known as “pill beetles,” small in size and generally black with silky iridescent pubescence, which makes the species easily recognizable. The legs and antennze may be so closely folded to the body as to be practically invisible. They live at the roots of grasses or in water, and are of no economic importance. CYTILUS Er. C. sericeus Forst. (trivittatus Mels.) Greenwood Lake V (Lv); Madi- son V (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark district (Bf); Sea Isle City V (Brn); and probably throughout the State. BYRRHUS Linn. B. americanus Lec. Newfoundland IX (Jl); Paterson V (Soc); Green- wood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Bf); along the shore, Brigantine to Cape May VI, VII (div); not common. 278 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LIMNICHUS Latr. L. punctatus Lec. Newark, rare (Bf); Burlington County (Sm). L. ovatus Lec. Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm); Anglesea II, 22 (W). FORCINOLUS Muls. & Rey. F. minimus Fabr. Lakehurst (Brb, Jl). Family NOSODENDRID. Very similar to the “Byrrhide; more bronzed, less silky and feeders on the sap of trees. NOSODENDRON Latr. N. unicolor Say. Ft. Lee (div); Snake Hill, Orange Mts., g. d., rare (Bf); Atlantic City (W). Family PARNIDA. These are aquatic beetles, with long legs not fitted for swimming. They are usually gray or black, sometimes striped with yellow, and may be found clinging to the under side of stones or wood debris in streams and ponds. They are oblong or elongate, convex, and the division between thorax and abdomen is unusually well marked. The larve are aquatic, flattened, and resemble crustaceans in appearance. PSEPHENUS Hald. P. lecontei Lec. Hemlock Falls, not rare (Bf); Newark (Coll); Millburn, on stones in streams (Bt); Echo Lake, on stones and lily pads (Ds); Lake Macopin, abundant, walking on large submerged stones (Lg); Spotswood (Rob). DRYOPS Oliv. D. lithophilus Germ. Throughout the State, not rare, V—VIII. D. fastigiatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mt. and Newark district (div); Jamesburg, Lakehurst (Rob). D. striatus Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg, Lakehurst (Rob). ELMIS Latr. =5 bivittatus Lec. Jamesburg (Rob); “New Jersey” (Lg). E. 4-notatus Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Clifton (Ll); Jamesburg, Spotswood, Lakehurst (Rob); Atco (W). E. elegans Lec. Newark (Bf); Westfield Conn. (Sf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. ae E. fastiditus Lec. Jamesburg (Rob). . ovalis Lec. Lakehurst (Rob). E. nitidulus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); Spotswood (Rob); Ateo (W). E. pusilius Lec. Ft. Lee Dist. (Rob);. Clifton (L1). m STENELMIS Dup. S. sinuatus Lec. Lakehurst (Rob). S. crenatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Clifton (Ll); Newark, at light (Bf); Spotswood, Lakehurst (Rob); Clementon VIII, 5 (Brn). S. bicarinatus Lec. Newark, at light (Bf); Jamesburg, Spotswood (Rob). . 4maculatus Horn. Newark (Bf); Jamesburg (Rob). S. vittipennis Zimm. Clifton (Ll). n MACRONYCHUS Mill. M. glabratus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Clifton (L1); Orange Mts. (div); New Brunswick VIII, 29 (Coll); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); Woodbury (Brn); under logs in running water. ANCYRONYX Er. A. variegatus Germ. Orange Mts. (div); Clifton (L1); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Bf); Spotswood (Rob); Atco VI, 18, Clementon VIII, 5, Newton- ville VII, 9 (Brn); g. d. (W). F Family HETEROCERIDAE. These beetles are oblong, convex, densely clothed with short silken pubescence. The thorax is almost square, the angles rounded, head small, with the mandibles projecting prominently. They are yellowish in color, mottled with black spots or bands, and live in galleries in sand or mud along the banks of ponds, streams or ditches. They fly at night and are often attracted to light in large numbers. HETEROCERUS Fabr. H. tristis Mann. Seashore, rare (Ll). H. undatus Mels. (fatuus Kies.) Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Woodbury VII (GG); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Anglesea V (W). H. ventralis Mels. Atlantic City (W). . auromicans Kies. Anglesea V, 30 (W). ae H. pusillus Say. Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Orange, abundant at light (Ch); Sea Isle V, Anglesea VI (Brn). The record of “‘brunneus” Mels. is an error of identification. 280 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family DASCYLLID/. Small, oval, convex species with rather soft elytra, head concealed and bent down, antenne usually slender, but often serrated toward the tip. The legs are slender, and when disturbed the insects usually draw up so as to seem almost hunched, the broadest part of the body coming a lit- tle before the middle. They are beaten from trees or swept from shrubs, and some species are very common, though none are known to be in- jurious. EURYPOGON Mots. E. niger Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, 2 (Bf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Chew’s Landing VI, 9 (W); DaCosta VI, 4 (Dke). ODONTONYX Guer. O. trivittis Germ. Orange Mts. (Bf); Montclair (Sm); very rare. PTILODACTYLA Latr. P. serricollis Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Wood- bury VII, Sea Isle VI, Anglesea VI (Brn); g. d. (W). EUCINETUS Germ. E. terminalis Lec. Hudson Co. (Li); Newark (Bf); Merchantville X (GG); Chew’s Landing, Anglesea VI, 9 (W); among decaying leaves. E. strigosus Lec. Merchantville X, Woodbury XII, Gloucester XI, Clemen- ton IX (W). ECTOPRIA Lec. E. nervosa Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton VI (GG); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., Woodside VI (Bf); Anglesea (W). The record of ‘“Pla- conycha edwardsii’ Lec. was based on a specimen of this species. DICRANOPSELAPHUS Guer. D. variegatus Horn. “N. Y. City and vicinity,” in the Jtilich Coll. (Lg). PRIONOCYPHON Redt. P. limbatus Lec. East Jersey (Dietz); Staten Island (Lg); DaCosta (W). > HELODES Latr. H. pulchella Guer. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., Woodside (Bf); Haddonfield V, 13 (GG); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm); DaCosta VII, Chew’s Landing VI (W). H. thoracica Guer. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., Woodside (Bf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 281 SCIRTES Ill. S. orbiculatus Fab. Hudson Co. (L1); Clementon V, VIII (div). S. tibialis Guer. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare. CYPHON Payk. -C. robustus Lec. Merchantville V, 23, Anglesea, in Swamps among Sphagnum (W); Atco V (div); Buena Vista (Li); Sea Isle V (Brn). C. ruficollis Say. Orange Mts., Clementon VI, 3 (GG); Westville VI, 6 (Brn); Anglesea (W). f C. obscurus Guer. Newark (div); Waverly III (Bf); Jamesburg VII, Camden, Westville !V, 22, DaCosta VI, Anglesea V (Brn). C. collaris Guer. Hudson Co. (Ll); g. d. (Bf). = C. variabilis Thunb. Common throughout the State. C. padi Linn. Anglesea (W). Family RHIPICERIDZE. Elongate, very convex black or brown species, somewhat resembling “Elateride”’; but without the power of leaping; thorax shorter, head more prominent, with large calliper-like mandibles and flabellate antennz in the males. They are very rare and usually found on or near dead trees. SANDALUS Knoch. S. petrophya Knoch. North Jersey (Li); Plainfield, Lakehurst IX (Sf); Newark (Bf); Staten Island on beech (Lg); Anglesea in wash-up (W). Family EUCNEMID/E. Resemble in general the following ‘‘Elateride”’ and sometimes united with them; but the prothorax is more closely joined to the mesothorax, and the “‘snapping” habit is not developed. None of the species are in- jurious, and several of them are distinctly rare. MELASIS Oliv. M. pectinicornis Mels. Palisades (Lv); Alpine (Bt); Ft. Lee (Sf); New- ark (Soc); Orange Mts. (Bf); Clementon V, 2 (CG); Atlantic City (Castle); Avalon VI (Brn); Anglesea VII and South Jersey (W); bores in dead oaks and is always rare. ° THAROPS Lap. T. ruficornis Say. Throughout the State VI, VII; local and always rare; bores in felled trees. 282 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. DELTOMETOPUS Bonv. ameenicornis Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee (Sf); Hemlock Falls, Chester (Bf); Iona VI, Avalon VI (Brn); Anglesea V, VI (div); and probably throughout the State, though never common. . rufipes Mels. Fort Lee (Sf). DROM/ZOLUS Kies. . cylindricollis Say. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Ft. Lee, on bull thistle, at the junction of leaf and stem; hard to pick off (Bt); breeds in dead or dying branches (Sz). . . striatus Lec. Jamesburg VII, 4, Petersburg VI, 8, DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn); Buena Vista (Li). FORNAX Lap. . calceatus Say. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . orchesides Newn. Ft. Lee, larve by the thousands in dead gum tree (Jl); Avalon (W). ENTOMOPHTHALMUS Bonv. . rufiolus Lee. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf); Hemlock Falls (Stortz); Petersburg VI, 18, under bark (Brn). MICRORRHAGUS Esch. . subsinuatus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . triangularis Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); on dead branches like all of this genus. . pectinatus Lec. Orange Mts., Hemlock Falls, rare (Bf). . bonvouloirii Horn. Fort Lee (Sf). The “humeralis” and “imperfectus” of the previous edition are based on errors of determination. HYPOCCELUS Esch. . frontosus Say. Fort Lee VII, 10 (Jl). . terminalis Lec. Orange Mts., Hemlock Falls (Bf). SCHIZOPHILUS Bonv. . subrutus Rand. Plainfield (Sf); South Jersey (Li). SARPEDON Bonv. . scabrosus Bony. Palisades, bred (Liv); Boonton VIII, 3 (GG); Orange Mts. (Bf). PEROTHOPS Er. . mucida Gyll. Camden (Li); Anglesea (W); rare; breeds in dead beech. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 283 CEROPHYTUM Latr. Cc. pulsator Hald. Fort Lee, 1 specimen (Sf). Family KLATERID/A‘. The species belonging to this family are commonly known as “click,” “snapping” or “spring beetles,’ because of their power of springing into the air when laid on their back and turning right-side-up in the process. The prothorax is long, loosely jointed to the meso-thorax, prolonged back- ward on the under side into a curved process, which fits into a groove or cavity in the meso-thorax. When placed on its back the beetle elevates the body until it rests on the head and tip of elytra, and the end of the spine rests at the edge of the cavity. * The tension is then suddenly removed and the curvature reversed, the shoulders of the wing-covers striking the surface hard enough to elevate the beetle for quite a distance. In general the insects are at least three times as long as wide, broadest at the shoulders and tapering posteriorly. The prevailing colors are brown, black or yellowish, and few of Your species are spotted or banded. As adults they rarely do much feeding and are not injurious. The larve are long, slender, a little flattened, yellowish or whitish, and very tough or leathery in texture, whence they are termed “wire- worms.” Some of these live in decaying wood and are practically harmless, but others live in the soil, feeding on the roots of growing plants, chiefly grasses. Corn, potatoes and other crops following sod are chiefly injured, and when the pests are very abundant little can be done to stop them. Ordinary insecticide applications are entirely useless, because it is practically im- possible to reach the insects where they are feeding. Systematic fall plow- ing of sod land is useful, because it destroys the pupze and recently de- veloped beetles, and this, combined with short periods in sod, serves to lessen the evil. Chickens eat the insects when turned up by the plow, and hogs take them greedily when they can get at them. In the garden they can be attracted to cut pieces of potato, which may be gathered and destroyed when filled with the insects. They have also been baited. with little masses of poisoned sweet dough placed underground, but that is only attractive while fresh. Fig. 108.—A click-beetle, or snap- ping beetle; enlarged. 284 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. Fig. 109.—Wire worm from above and side; enlarged. AGRYPNUS Esch. A. sallei Lec. Manumuskin V, 12 (Dke); Anglesea VI, VII, IX (div). ADELOCERA Latr. A. impressicollis Say. Lakehurst VII (Ds). A. marmorata Fab. Gloucester and Camden Co. (W); Westville (Li); Manumuskin V, 5 (DkKe). A. discoidea Web. Throughout the State IV-— VI, local, not common. A. aurorata Lec. Chester (Dn); Livingston Park V, 8 (Gr). A. maculata Lec. New Jersey, exact locality unknown (Li). A. obtecta Say. Ft. Lee VI (Jl); So. Amboy X (Bt). A. brevicornis Lec. Palisades (Jl); all the species under dead bark. CHALCOLEPIDIUS Esch. C. viridipilis Say. Camden and Gloucester Counties, rare (div). ALAUS Esch. A. oculatus Linn. Throughout the State, not rare; our largest and most conspicuous species; larva in decaying wood. myops Fab. Throughout the State where pine occurs; always rare; larva under pine bark IV-VI, adults VI-VIII. HEMIRHIPUS Latr. ti fascicularis Fab. G.d., but local and very rare (W). CARDIOPHORUS Esch. . convexus Say. Throughout the State V—VII. . cardisce Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Woodside (Bf); Highlands (Ch); Anglesea V (div); g. d. (W), and probably throughout the State. . fenestratus Lec. Anglesea V, 30, 1 specimen (W). . convexulus Lec. Greenville, in early spring, under stones (Bf). . gagates Er. (lzvicollis Er.) Throughout the State IV—VI, locally not rare. . robustus Lec. Greenville, rare (Bf); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). Ah ae a 3c mmm m THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY 285 HORISTONOTUS Cand. . curiatus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Sm); Camden, Gloucester Co. (div) National Park VI, 10 (Dke). CRYPTOHYPNUS Esch. . abbreviatus Say. Snake Hill IV (Sf); Newark Dist., salt meadow (Bf); Orange (Lg). HYPNOIDUS Schioerite. . exiguus Rand. Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Camden, Westville V (div); Sea Isle V, 10 (Brn). . choris Say. Chester (Dn); So. Camden IV, V (div); Gloucester Co. (Li); Merchantville IV, 24, Westville V, 28 (Brn). . obliquatulus Meéls. Irvington, Orange Mts., salt meadow (Bf); Staten Island (Jl); Camden (Li); Woodbury V, 22 (GG); Ocean Co. V, 28 (Sm); Peermont VI, 28 (Brn). . perplexus Horn. New Jersey (Lg). . pectoralis Say. Salt meadows, Springfield, Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . delumbis Horn. Staten Island (Lg). . melsheimeri Horn. Springfield, washed out with ‘“Bembidium” (Bf). MONOCREPIDIUS Esch. . lividus DeG. Throughout the State VI, VII, not rare. . vespertinus Fab. Throughout the State VII-IX, locally common; more abundant along shore; injurious to beans at DaCosta VII. . auritus Hbst. Common throughout the State VI, VII. . bellus Say. Throughout the State, not rare VI, VII, sweeping; breeds at the roots of millet—“‘Panicum” sp. (Ch). ELATER Linn. . hepaticus Mels. Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W). . manipularis Cand. Newtonville III, 24, IV, 16 (Brn). . carbonicolor Esch. Clementon V, 30 (GG). . pedalis Germ. Throughout the State VI, locally common on flowers, especially on magnolias in South Jersey. . higrinus Payk. Staten Island V, on flowers (Ds). . mixtus Hbst. Throughout the State IV—VI, on flowers; rare. . nigricollis Hbst. Throughout the State II-V, under bark and on flow- ers; locally not rare. . linteus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Riverton IV, 10 (GG); Gloucester IV, 20, Seaville ITV, 29 (Brn); g. d. (Li, W). 286 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. discoideus Fab. Palisades, bred from beech (Ly); Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island under hickory bark II, Lakehurst IV (Ds);°Riverton V, 28 (GG). . sayi Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee under oak bark (Bt); Staten Island V (Ds); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); always rare. m socer Lec. Lahaway VI, 16 (Sm). rubricollis Hbst. Throughout the State IV—VI under bark and on flowers. E. semicinctus Rand. Newfoundland VII (Ds); Hemlock Falls in early spring, rare (Bf); New Jersey (Jil). E. militaris Harr. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Anglesea (W); rare. luctuosus Lec. Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island (Lg). nigricans Germ. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Staten Island V (Ds); on flowers. E. rubricus Say. Throughout the State V, VI, on flowers; common on magnolias in the swamps of South Jersey. . collaris Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee V (Bt); Staten Island V (div); Lakehurst V (Ds); Camden (Li); on flowers and not common. E. sanguinipennis Say. Throughout the State IV, V, VIII, IX, locally common. E. xanthomus Germ. Newark Dist. (Bf); Riverton IV, Malaga VI (GG); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Clementon III, Petersburg VI (Brn); Lahaway III (Coll). E. obliquus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co, (Ll); Newark (Soc); Orange Mts. (Bf); Ocean Co. (Coll); g. d. (W Li); not common. pusio Germ. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII, 4 (Ly). mm m ml m m DRASTERIUS Esch. D. elegans Fab. Throughout the State IV—-VII; usually common. D. amabilis Lec. Throughout the State IV-VII; hardly less common. MEGAPENTHES Kies. M. limbalis Hbst. Throughout the State in July; not common. M. rufilabris Germ. With the preceding, but even more rare. LUDIUS Latr. L. attenuatus Say. Chester (Dn); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Cald- well (Cr); Newark (Soc); Camden (Li); Lahaway VII, 12 (Sm); Manumuskin VI, 21, bred from decaying red cedar (Dke); not com- mon. . abruptus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Westville (Li); Woodbury VII (Brn); Weymouth VII, 20 (Dke). r >>> Pr D> > we find our most common forms; their larve are nearly all root-feeders, and the common wire-worms infesting cultivated crops. M. decumanus Er. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. . secretus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Wood- . ignobilis Mels. New Jersey (Coll. Horn). . depressus Mels. Generally distributed; not THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 287 ~ORTHOSTETHUS Lac. . Infuscatus Germ. Avalon, rare (W). AGRIOTES Esch. » mancus Say. Weehawken (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., Newark Dist. (Bf); Hudson Co. (Li); Staten Island III (Ds); not rare. . Stabilis Lec. Madison (Pr). . insanus Cand. Hudson Co. (Ll); Staten Island V, VI (Ds). . fucosus Lec. Fort Lee (Bt). . pubescens Mels. Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); g. d. (Li). . limosus Lec. Palisades (Jl). . oblongicollis Mels. Throughout the State IV, V; locally common. \ DOLOPIUS Esch. . lateralis Esch. Throughout the State IV—-VI; locally common. BETARMON Kies. . bigeminatus Rand. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf). GLYPHONYX Cand. . recticollis Say. Throughout the State V, VI; locally common. . testaceus Mels. With the preceding and equally common. MELANOTUS Esch. It is among the species of this genus that (LI); Orange VI (Ch); Ocean City VII, 12 (Vk); g. d. (W); not common. bury V, 22 (GG); Atco (Li); Anglesea and South Jersey (W). . rare (W). Fig. 110.—Melanotus . angustatus Er. With the preceding (W). species and its larva; 2 enlarged. . trapezoideus Lec. G. d., rare (W). . teenicollis Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark Dist., on willow, not rare (Bf); Staten Island VI (Ds); Westville, rare (W). . leonardi Lec. Grenwood Lake V (Lv); Ft. Lee VII (Jl); So. Amboy under pine bark (Bt); Malaga VI (GG). 288 REPORT OF NEW. JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ete ee er. Sea at SS ee Set gee lenale ol Pe > >> . castanipes Payk. (scrobicollis Lec.) Newark (Bf). . glandicolor Mels. Hudson Co. (Ll). . fissilis Say. Common throughout the State V—VIII. communis Gyll. With the preceding and equally common. . exuberans Lec. New Jersey (Horn Coll). . parumpunctatus Mels. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll). . cribulosus Lec. DaCosta, on pine V, VI (W). | . pertinax Say. Orange (Lg); Newark (div); New Brunswick VII (Coll); Anglesea (W); rare. . dubius Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); South River VII (Coll); g. d., not rare (W). . tenax Say. New Jersey (Horn Coll). . americanus Hbst. Throughout the State V; locally common. . insipiens Say. DaCosta V, on pine (W); g. d. (i). variolatus Lec. Newark Dist., g. d. (Bf), rare. The “sagittarius” of the previous edition is a misidentification. LIMONIUS Esch. . auripilis Say. Atco (Li); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); rare. . stigma Hbst. New Jersey (Horn Coll). : griseus Beauy. Throughout the State V, VI; common. . interstitialis Mels. Camden, Anglesea (W). . confusus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark Dist. (Bf); g. d. (Li); rare. . plebejus Say. Throughout the State V; locally common. zeger Lec. Staten Island V (Ds); Ocean Co., not rare (Sm). : quercinus Say. Throughout the State, common V—VII. . basillaris Say. East Jersey (Dietz); South River V, 26, VII, 8 (Coll); 5h (Ole (QDal, NS NRE@ WYLIE 8) (CERES) ye . agonus Say. Newark V (0c); Atlantic City (Castle). . definitus Zieg]. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark Dist. (Bf); Atco, rare (Li). . nimbatus Say. Hudson Co. (L1); Newark Dist., common (Bf); West- ville (Li); g. d. (W). e PITYOBIUS Lec. . anguinus Lec.- South River VII, 8 (Coll); DaCosta (Castle); Atlantic City (div); Sea Isle City VII, 12 (Brn). ATHOUS Esch. . brightwellii Kirby. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Anglesea (W). . acanthus Say. Throughout the State V-VII; common. . cucullatus Say. Throughout the State V—-VII; locally common. . scapularis Say. _ Pasilsades, Ft. Lee VI, 18 (Jl). . equestris Lec. New Jersey (Coll Horn). ’ n THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 289 OESTODES Lec. . tenuicollis Rand. Lahaway (Sm). PARANOMUS Kies. . estriatus Lec. Fort Lee VI, 27 (Jl). SERICOSOMUS Steph. . viridanus Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); DaCosta (W); seashore (Li). . silaceus Say. Throughout the State V, VI; common. . debilis Lec. Landisville, 1 specimen (Li). Mr. Schwarz points out that this is a Californian species. Mr. Liebeck claims that he has compared it carefully with authentic examples and description and can find no difference. He made the capture’ himself, but admits the possibility of an accidental introduction. CORYMBITES Latr. . tessellatus Linn. Throughout the Highlands and northward V, VII, rare; Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Lakehurst V, 29 (Jl). . cylindriformis Hbst. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Caldwell (Cr); Newark Dist. (Bf); New Brunswick VI (Coll); g. d. (W, Li). - pyrrhos Hbst. Throughout the State, locally common VI, VII. . tarsalis Mels. Throughout the State V, VI, on willow (Bf), on pine (W); not recorded from the true pine barrens nor the sea coast. . sulcicollis Say. Ft. Lee V, 18 (Jl); New Jersey (W). . ethiops Hbst. Piedmont Plain and northward V, VI, and Delaware Valley V; locally not rare. . medianus Germ. New Jersey VII, VIII (Bt). . hamatus Say. Ramapo Mts. V, 27 (Brn); Ft. Lee V, 29 (Jl); New Jersey (W). . hieroglyphicus Say. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Cald- well (Cr); Newark Dist., Orange Mts. (Bf); g. d. (Li); locally com- mon. . inflatus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Gloucester (Li); Newtonville VI, 19 (Brn); Manumuskin IV, 28 (DKe); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). . rotundicollis Say. New Jersey (Joutel). HEMICREPIDIUS Germ. (ASAPHES Kirby.) . decoloratus Say. Throughout the State V—VII; not rare. . memnonius Hbst. With the preceding and more common. . bilobatus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Caldwell (Cr); So. Camden (W). IQ IN 290 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. MELANACTES Lec. M. piceus DeG. Throughout the State VI, VII; sometimes common. M. morio Fab. With the preceding, but more rare. Family CEBRIONIDA. Represented by a single species only in our fauna. Resembles the “Elateridz”’ in general appearance and united with them in the last edition. CEBRIO Oliv. C. bicolor Fabr. New Jersey V (Bt); Camden and Gloucester Co.; rare (W). Family THROSCID/. Resembles the “Elateride’’; but the prothorax is firmly articulated to the mesothorax, and the species have no power of leaping. They are usually found on dead wood or on flowers, and are inconspicuous as well as small. None are of economic importance. DRAPETES Redt. D. geminatus Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Westville, Buena Vista (Li); Petersburg VI, Iona VI, Avalon VII (Brn); Iona VI (Dke): under bark and on dead branches (Ch). AULONOTHROSCUS Horn. A. constrictor Say. Newark (Bf); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm). THROSCUS Latr. T. chevrolati Bonv. Throughout the State V—VII. T. bonvouloeri Blanch. Snake Hill (Sf). The “T. convergens” of the last edition is based on a misidentification. Family, BUPRESTIDA:. These are elongate, usually stout but sometimes cylindrical beetles, with broad thorax and elytra tapering back from the shoulders, the prothorax closely united to the mesothorax. A large proportion of them are bronzed or metallic in color or reflection, and others are gaudily marked with red or yellow bands or. spots. Many of them have the upper surface deeply grooved or pitted, and altogether they are very character- istic in appearance. Most of them are very active and fly readily, so that they are not often recognized except by collectors. THE AINSECTS “OF NEW) JERSEY. 291 The larve are wood-borers, living under bark and making broad, rather shallow furrows, galleries or chambers, going into the solid wood only to pupate, except in those cases where the species live in dead, dying or decaying wood. In shape they are very much elongated, some- what flattened, the body segments well defined, head small, the anterior segments much enlarged, so as, apparently, to form part of the head, giving rise to the common names “hammer head” or “flat-head”’ borers. A number of these are of economic importance because they infest orchard trees. The larger species usually favor plants that are low in vitality from injury or other causes; hence such trees may be protected by keeping them in healthy growing condition. Others, like those be- longing to the genus “Agrilus,’ attack plants and trees in full vigor. As against these our methods of defense must be adapted to the history of the insects. CHALCOPHORA Sol. C. virginiensis Dru. Recorded from all sections of the State V and VI, breeding in pines; not common at any point. C. liberta Germ. Newark, Orange Mts. (Bf); Westville, Egg Harbor (Li); Lahaway V, 18 (Sm); Atlantic Co. (W); also breeds in pine. TEXANIA Casey. T. campestris Say. West Hoboken on tulip trees (Ch); breeds also in sycamore, beech, maple, etc. BUPRESTIS Linn. B. lineata Fab. Newark (Bf); Lakehurst VI, 30 (Jl); Malaga VIII, 4 (GG); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke); Brigantine Beach in drifted wood (Hn); Sea Isle IV, VI (div); Anglesea VI, 14 (Brn); g. d. IV, V, (W, Li); breeds in pine. B. consularis Gory. Lahaway VII, 5 (Sm); g. d., rare (W); seashore, rare (Li). B. rufipes Fab. Seashore (Li); Anglesea VII, on oak and flying around dead wood, Cape May (W); breeds in oak and beech (Ch). fasciata Fab. Gloucester Co., rare (W). B. striata Fab. Ft. Lee in hemlock (Jl); Newark (Soc); Westville (Li); DaCosta V, 30 (W); always rare; bred from pine (Ch). . decora Fab. Gloucester Co., one specimen (W). B. ultramarina Say. Westville IV, 19, Atlantic City as late as VI, 28 (W); Lakehurst (Ds); DaCosta IV, 28-V, 30 (div); Clementon V, 7 (GG); Sea Isle V, 24 (Brn); breeds in pine. B. apricans Hbst. Boonton I, 31 (GG). The records for “nuttalli’” of the previous edition should be referred to “consularis.” : w 292° REPORT ‘OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM DICERCA Esch. D. obscura Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, the larva in hickory. D. lurida Fab. With the preceding, of which it has been considered a variety. D. pugionata Germ. Ft. Lee VII (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Gloucester Co. (div); on black alder (W), and also breeds in “Spirea”’ (Hn). D. divaricata Say. Throughout the State; breeds in apple, beech, ma- ple and a great variety of other deciduous trees; but has not been injurious thus far in New Jersey. It is likely that a number of the forms recently described by Casey at the expense of this species will also be found in New Jersey. The “D. prolongata”’ of the previous edition belongs here. D. punctulata Sch. Throughout the pine barrens V—VIII and along the seashore; Ft. Lee (Bt); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); breeds in pine. D. americana Hbst. (asperata L. & G.) Snake Hill IV, 30, from oak (Jl); Orange Mts. (GG); Newark Dist., at roots of hickory in spring (Bf); New Jersey (Li); probably breeds in oak (Ch). D. scobina Chev. (spreta Gory.) Newark (Soc); Camden, Gloucester Co., Anglesea (W); always rare. D. mutica Lee. Brooklyn, N. Y., and sure to occur in New Jersey. PCECILONOTA Esch. P. cyanipes Say. Newark (Soc); seashore, rare (Li). P. thureura Say. Gloucester Co. (Li); Atlantic Co. (W); rare. CINYRA Lap. & Gory. C. gracilipes Mels. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville (Li); Gloucester Co. (W); breeds in oak (Ch). MELANOPHILA Esch. M. notata Lap. & Gory. Sea Isle VI, 15 (Brn). M. acuminata DeG. (longipes Say.) Newark, Orange Mts. (Bf); Da- Costa V (W); g. d. (Li); breeds in conifers. M. fulvoguttata Harr. Orange Mts. on spruce (W) and hemlock (Bf). M. zneola Mels. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jl); Lakehurst VII (div); DaCosta V (W); Malaga VIII, 4, IX, 15 (GG); Landisville (Li); Atlantic City (Castle); Newtonville VI, Iona VI, Anglesea VII, 12 (Brn); on pine. ANTHAXIA Esch. A. zneogaster Lap. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). A. viridifrons Lap. Throughout the State; bred from hickory and prob- ably also attacks elm. A. viridicornis Say. Madison VI (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). A. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 293 quercata Fab. (cyanella Gory.) Throughout the State V—VII; larva in grape and chestnut (Ch). A. flavimana Gory. Riverton V, 20 (GG); g. d. (W ,Li). X. Cc. Cc. .@) @) 2 2 XENORHIPIS Lec. brendeli Lec. Fort Lee, 1 specimen, bred from wood (Jl). CHRYSOBOTHRIS Esch. femorata Fab. Common throughout’ the State V—VII, in many local varieties. The larva is the ‘‘flat-head apple-borer,’ which attacks also fruit and many forest trees, sometimes becoming injurious. It favors trees low in vitality, hence keeping trees in good condition is protective. When they actually get into the wood they can be cut out, their location being usually- discernible by a slight discoloration of the bark. floricola Gory. Hudson Co. (Ll); Landis- ville, DaCosta (Li); Cape May C. H. V, 28 and g. d. (W); breeds in pine. dentipes Germ. With the preceding and also breeds in pine. Fig. 111.—Chrysobothris femorata: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult. . pusilla Lap. & Gory. Newark (Bf); Landisville, DaCosta (Li); New- tonville VI, Iona VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Lakehurst V, VII (J1); At- lantic Co., Cape May C. H., Anglesea V, 28 (W); breeds on pine. . sexsignata Say. Ft. Lee VII, 10, Jamesburg VI, 29 (Jl); Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts. (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); on beech, birch and chestnut. azurea Lec. Throughout the State in June; bred from white birch (J1), has been taken on sumac (Bf), and once abundant on ‘Cornus paniculata” (Lg). scitula Gory. Landisville, DaCosta (Li); g. d. (W); rare; said to breed in deciduous trees. ACTENODES Lac. acornis Say. Newark, Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Atlantic Co., on pine (W); common in the wash-up, Brigantine to Cape May V-IX. ACM/ZODERA Esch. ornata Fab. Generally distributed, on flowers (W). . pulchella Hbst. Newtonville, DaCosta VII, 9-30 (Brn); Atco (Li); Atlantic Co. (W); resting on wild sun-flower VII, 19 (Dke). . culta Web. Throughout the State V, VI, locally not rare. 294 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PTOSIMA Sol. P. gibbicollis Say. Seashore (Li); Anglesea (W), rare; bred from red- bud, “Cercis canadensis” (Ch), and also found on black locust (Sz). MASTOGENIUS Sol. M. subcyaneus Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII, on oak and willow. EUPRISTOCERUS Deyr. E. cogitans Web. Boonton VII, 4 (GG); Palisades V, 7 (Lv); Hudson Co. (11); Newark Dist. (Bf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Brn); Westville (Li); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); breeds in Fic. 1x2-—Blaceneee alder and is locally not rare. gall maker: b, larva; c, adult; all enlarged. AGRILUS Steph. Fig. 113.—Blackberry gall: a, swellings just begun over recent borings; c, section through an old stem to show appearance of gall. A. ruficollis Fab. Common throughout the State in June. The larva bores in stems of blackberry and raspberry, forming galls on some varieties and becoming more or less injurious. Cutting out the galls and burning the cuttings in winter destroys the brood. As the eggs are all laid by July 1st, cutting out all shoots made at that time and depending upon those starting after that date will secure exemption for the year next following. A. lateralis Say. Eagle Rock (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); West Berlin VI, 25 (Brn); Buena Vista (Li); Brown’s Mills VII, 4, Lacy VII, 14 (Dke); always rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 295 . otiosus Say. Throughout the State, sometimes common; breeds in hickory, oak, locust, etc. The variety “defectus” Lec. occurs with the type. . arcuatus Say. Westville (Li); DaCosta VII, 28, Lacy VII, 14 (Dke); So. Jersey (W); not common; found on and probably breeds in hazel. . vittaticollis Rand. Hewitt VI, Newfoundland VII, Lakehurst VII (Jl), Buena Vista (li); Clementon V, 30 (GG); Sea Isle VI (Brn); breeds in Kalmia and chestnut. . bilineatus Web. Throughout the State VI, 1—-VII, 10, not rare; the larva is injurious to chestnuts and also attacks oaks (Ch). . granulatus Say. Boonton VII, 4 (GG); Staten Island (Lg); Cramer Hill VI, 19, Gloucester VII, 1 (Brn); So. Jersey (W); never common. . anxius Gory. The bronze birch borer; appeared as an injurious spe- cies on cut-leafed birch in Essex County cities and towns in 1908-09. Up to that time recorded as “rare in So. Jersey” (W). - acutipennis Mann. Newfoundland VII, 6, Hewitt VI, 12, Lakehurst VII, 12 (J1); Woodside (Bf); Woodbury, Malaga, Brown’s Mills VI (Dke), Atco, DaCosta VI (Brn). . politus Say. Boonton VII, 4 (GG); Madison VI, 10 (Pr); Hudson Co. (L1); Newark (Soc); So. Jersey (W); breeds in willow and oak. . sinuatus Oliv. Local in Essex, Union and Middlesex Counties; breeds in the sap wood of pear. An introduced species that is being grad- ually worked out and now occurs only in a very few trees so far as known. It also breeds in “Cratzegus,” and a few specimens are found on such stock annually. . fallax Say. Camden and Gloucester Co., several localities V, 20—VI, 15, always rare (div). . obsoletoguttatus Gory. Throughout the State V, VI, on oak. . subcinctus Gory. Madison (Pr); Camden III, 22 (Brn); Westville (Li); So. Jersey (W); not common. . lecontei Saund. Hudson Co. (Ll); South Jersey (W). . imbellis Cr. West Berlin VI, 25, Atco VI, 17, DaCosta VII, 5 (Brn). . egenus Gory. Throughout the State late May and all June; found on and probably breeds in willow and locust. . pusillus Say. South Jersey, not common (W). RHAEBOSCELIS Chev. . tenuis Lec. Greenwood Lake V, 17, Lakehurst V, 29, VII, 12, IX, 3 (J1); Gloucester VII, 1 (Brn); Anglesea VII, on low plants in swampy glades (W). TAPHROCERUS Sol. . gracilis Say. Throughout the State IV-VIII, locally not rare; found beating in swampy meadows. 296 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BRACHYS Sol. B. ovata Web. Common throughout the State VI-VIII, on oak. The variety “tessellata” Fab. occurs with the type. B. zrosa Mels. Throughout the State V, VI; not rare, on oak. B. zruginosa Gory. Woodbury V, 24, Iona V, 28, VI, 8, Lucaston V, 30 (DKe). PACHYSCELIS Sol. P. purpureus Say. Madison X, 15 (Pr); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, 4 (Bf); Hemlock Falls V, 28 (W); larva mines leaves of “Lespedeza” (Sz). P. levigatus Say. Throughout the State late V and all VI. Family LAMPYRID/. This family contains the “fireflies” and “soldier beetles.” They are long, narrow, somewhat flattened species, with soft, leathery wing-covers and a flexible abdomen. The antenne are usually long, the joints more or less obviously serrated and -sometimes even flabellate in the male. The interesting feature in a number of the species is the power of emit- ting a phosphorescent light from the tip of the abdomen. This light is entirely in the control of the insects, and varies in color and intensity in the different species. ‘The “glow-worms” that are sometimes seen in the grass or under stones are larve or wingless females, and these may have luminous points along the sides of the body as well as at the tip. In the larval stage they feed on snails or on other soft-bodied insects. The “soldier beetles” have a more prominent head and narrower tho- rax; but are of the same soft body texture. The larve are fusiform, flat- tened above and also predatory in habit, feeding upon soft-bodied larve or grubs when they enter the earth to pupate. They are distinctly useful as checks to a large series of injurious species, including such pests as the plum curculio. LYCOSTOMUS Mots. L. lateralis Mels. Eastern New Jersey (Dietz). CALOPTERON Guer. C. terminale Say. Boonton VI, VIII, Riverton VI, Merchantville VI, Westville VI, Clementon VIII, IX, Pemberton IX (GG); Great Notch VII, Laurel Sp. VI, Lucaston VIII, IX (Dke); Plainfield VII (Dow); Hudson Co. (Ll). C. reticulatum Fabr. Throughout the State VII-IX; not rare. CELETES Newn. C. basalis Lec. Hudson Co. (L1); Lahaway VI (Sm); Malaga VIII (GG); Iona VI (Brn); seashore from Sandy Hook to Cape May VI, VII, in wash-up (div). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 207 CAENIELLA CkIil. (C/AENIA Newn.) . dimidiata Fab. Caldwell (Cr); Atco (W); Sea Isle V, 24, Anglesea VI, 15 (Brn); not common. LOPHEROS Lec. . fraternus Rand. Paterson (Sm). EROS Newn. . thoracicus Rand. Westville, rare (Li). . aurora Hbst. Throughout the Delaware Valley, pine barren and mar- itime faunas IV, V, and sometimes locally common. . humeralis Fab. Jamesburg VI, 16 (Sm); Seaville VI, 11 (Brn). . trilineatus Mels. Hudson Co. (L1); Middlesex Co., Jamesburg, Laha- way, all VII (Coll); Lucaston VI, 27 (Dke); Westville (Li); South Jersey (W). PLATEROS Bourg. . timidus Lec. Hudson Co. (L1); Woodside VI, 27 (Bi). - modestus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Middlesex Co., VII, So. Jersey VII (Sm); Iona VI, 8, Brown’s Mills VI (Dke); Atco (Li); g. d. (W). . Canaliculatus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Jamesburg VII, VIII, Sandy Hook VII (Sm); Iona VI, 16 (Dke); g. d. (Li). . floralis Mels. Middlesex Co. VII, Jamesburg VII (Sm); Spring Lake IX (Ch); Lakehurst VII (Bf); Atco (Li); DaCosta VII, 20 (Dke). CALOCHROMUS Guer. . perfacetus Say. Orange Mts. (Sm); Malaga VII, VIII (GG); rare. POLYCLASIS Newn. = . bifaria Say. New Jersey, in Dietz coll (Sf). LUCIDOTA Lap. . atra Say. Throughout the State, nearly all season. . punctata Lec. DaCosta (Li). ELLYCHNIA Lec. - corrusca Linn. Throughout the State all season; the variety “autum- nalis” Mels. with the type and equally common. PYROPYGA Mots. . nigricans Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Irvington VI, 30, Jamesburg IV (Coll). . decipiens Harr. Throughout the State VI, VII. 298 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PYRACTOMENA Lec. P. angulata Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, nowhere common; per- haps the most brilliant of our fire-flies. P. ecostata Lec. Anglesea VII, in salt meadows; the larve in the marsh- es among snails (div). P. lucifera Mels. Throughout the State south of the Piedmont plain from mid-May through June. PHOTINUS Lap. P. consanguineus Lec. Hud- son) Co, (E))s sOrange Mts. and Newark Dist. (div); Anglesea (W); g. d, Ci). P. lineellus Lec. Orange (Ch); Atco (li); rare. P. pyralis Linn. Piedmont plain and northward, in Fig. 114.—Fire-fly, Photinus pyralis: a, larva; June; a moderate-sized b, pupa in underground cell; c, adult; d to species with quite a f, enlarged details of larva. bright light. P. marginellus Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII; locally the most common form; flies low and has a yellow light. The female is half- winged and does not fly. P. scintillans Say. Throughout the State, usually the most common form; flies VI, lingers until VIII; habits and light as in preceding. % PHOTURIS Lec. P. pennsylvanica DeG. Throughout the State VI to VII, 15; the largest and most bril- liant of our common species; flies high and shines with a greenish light; locally absent. P. frontalis Lec. Riverton VI, 17, VII, 3 (GG); Anglesea VII (div). Smaller than the pre- ceding, but with a similar light. PHENGODES Ill. Fig. 115.—Photuris penn- sylvanica: a, larva; D, its leg; c, adult: a and b enlarged. P. longicornis Barber. (plumosa Oliv.) Ches- ter V, 29 (Marsh); Palisades VI, 22 (Dke); Staten Island (Ds). The males of these species are not luminous; but the larve and wingless females which are found under stones are the most brilliant of all our forms, giving off light from lateral points along the body. They are extremely rare. Mr. Joutel records a larva Newfoundland VII, 4. P. laticollis Lec. Orange VI, 20 (Ch); Lahaway V, 15, VI, 24 (Coll). gol ae} eh ae] . pennsylvanicus De G. Through- . marginatus Fabr. A very simi- THE INSECTS OF NEW: JERSEY. 299 TYTTHONYX Lec. . erythrocephalus Fab. Newark VII (Brn) and south of Piedmont Plain throughout the State in VII; not common. OMETHES Lec. . marginatus Lec. Atco, rare (Li); New Jersey (Sf). CHAULIOGNATHUS Hentz. out the State VIII, IX, often on golden rod. One of the “soldier (# beetles,’ which, in the larval & f stage, devours larve and pups SS eae of the plum curculio, ete. g e lar species occurring in spring Fig. 116.—Soldier beetle, Chauliognathus Petrie Guminicr: al Ee pennsylvanicus: a, larva; 1, beetle; , y er; a es BGs other letters refer to structural and with the same habits. details. PODABRUS Westw. . tricostatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton VI, 5 (GG); Orange (Ch); Hudson Co. (L1); Montclair, Lahaway VI (Sm). . rugulosus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); g. d. (W, Li); Lucaston V, 30 (Dke). . frater Lee. Hopatcong (Pm); New Brunswick, Burlington Co. VII, Lahaway V, 12, VII (Coll); Westville (Li); Lucaston VI, 27 (Dke). . basilaris Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, not rare. . diadema Fab. Gloucester (Li); Anglesea VI, 26 (Sm). . modestus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell (Cr); Atco (Li); Atlantic Co. V, 25 (Sm). . comes Lec. Orange Mts., rare. . tomentosus Say. Generally distributed, rare (Li). . protensus Lec. Hudson Co. (L1); Newark (Bf). . brunnicollis Lec. Atco, rare (Li). SILIS Latr. . percomis Say. Clementon V, 6 (GG). TELEPHORUS Schaff. . dentiger Lec. Boonton V, VI (GG); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark V (Soe); Highlands (Ch). . excavatus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Montclair VI (Bf); Rocky Hill VI (Dn); Spring Lake (Ch); Clementon VI (GG); DaCosta (Li); Laha- way V, VI, Anglesea V (Coll). 300 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ale . carolinus Fab. Throughout the State V—VIJ, common. + - fraxini Say. Cramer Hill V,.30 (GG); Atco (Li); g. d. (W). . lineola Fab. Also common throughout the State. . rectus Mels. South River VII (Coll); Atco VI, Clementon VI (GG); g.d. (W). . flavipes Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc); Glassboro VII, 7 (GG). . scitulus Say. Throughout the State, very common until midsummer. All our species occur on flowers or on foliage. . pusillus Lec. Lakehurst VII (Bf); Atco (Li); Lucaston VIII (Dke). . rotundicollis Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton VI (GG); Hudson Co. Ll); Newark (Soc); New Brunswick (Coll); Westville (Li); Wood- bury VI (Dke). . tuberculatus Lec. Throughout the State IV—-VII; locally common. : bilineatus Say. Throughout the State IV-VI; not common. . marginellus Lec. Pitman Grove VII, 21, Clementon VII, 13 (GG). POLEMIUS Lec. . laticornis Say. Jamesburg VII (Lg); New Jersey (Dietz). . undulatus Lec. Anglesea VI, 20 (Coll). DITEMNUS Lec. . bidentatus Say. Throughout the State V—VIII; locally not rare. — TRYPHERUS Lec. . latipennis Germ. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton VI (GG); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark VII, 4 (Brn); Atco (Li); Anglesea (W). MALTHINUS Latr. . occipitalis Lec. Woodside VI, 27 (Bf); Westville (W); Atco (Li); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); rare. MALTHODES Kies. . concavus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll). . spado Lec. Hastern New Jersey (Dietz). THELYDRIAS Mots. . contractus Mots. This odd little species, described in our fauna as “Tenotus wnigmaticus” is a recent introduction, and as yet found only in entomological collections in and near New York City, where it functions as a museum pest of the first order. Its systematic posi- tion is in doubt, and its reference here is due to its relation to the “Drilini,’ of which we have no representatives. The possibilities of injury to stored products should this insect spread cannot yet be esti- mated. DHEVINSECTS OF NEW JERSEY: 301 Family MALAICHID/L. The members of this family resemble the “Lampyride” in the generally soft wing-covers and body, but they are shorter and broader, the elytra not nearly so long and often a little truncated posteriorly, the broadest part of the body near the end of the wing covers. In the species of “Collops” there are orange-colored protrusible vesicles at the sides of the thorax, which are supposed to be defensive in character. The antennze are short, a little enlarged at the tip and often curiously knotted in the male. All of them are found on flowers or herbage, some only in moist or low places, where they are said to feed on insect eggs, larve and smaller insects generally. The larve, so far as known, are predaceous. COLLOPS Er. . tricolor Say. Sea Girt (Bf). . eximius Er. Throughout the State VI-VIII; not rare. . nigriceps Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); g. d. (W). . 4maculatus Fab. Our most common species throughout the State. o20a90 0 TEMNOPSOPHUS Horn. T. bimaculatus Horn. Lakehurst VI, VII (div); 5-mile beach VII, 5 (W). ANTHOCOMUS Er. A. flavilabris Say. Hudson Co. (Ll). PSEUDEB/EUS Horn. P. bicolor Lec. Anglesea (W). P. oblitus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (L1); Woodside (Bf); Orange Mts., New Brunswick VII, 20 (Coll). ATTALUS Er. A. nigrellus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm). A. terminalis Lee. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Jamesburg VII, 15, Ocean Co. (Coll); Glassboro VII, 30 (GG); Atco VII, 14, Anglesea Vi, 30) @Birm): . varians Horn. Anglesea (W). - morulus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., Lahaway VI, 1 (Coll). . granularis Er. DaCosta (W); Anglesea VII (Sz). . otiosus Say. Anglesea (W). . circumscriptus Say. Atco (Li). > > > >} > . scincetus Say. Throughout the State V, VI; not rare. The records of ‘‘Pristoscelis” in the last edition were based on erroneous identifications. 302 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family CLERIDA. The flower beetles are firmer in texture than those of the last preceding families, yet not so hard-shelled as are the click beetles. The antennze are usually more or less serrated or saw-toothed, but may also have a distinct club or comb at tip. The head is of good size with rather prom- inent eyes, the thorax being usually narrower than either head or elytra. The latter completely cover the elytra and are often clothed with hair. In color they vary but are usually bright, sometimes shining and often prettily banded. The beetles may be found on flowers or running on the trunks of trees, where they somewhat resemble ants in their motions. The spcies of “Necrobia”’ live in all stages on carrion and form the exception in a family in which most of the larve thus far known are predatory. These larve are usually red or brown in color and are found under bark or in the burrows of wood-borers, upon which they feed. Their work in this direction is done under cover and is rarely noticed, hence the extent of the benefit derived from them) is not appreciated. MACROTELUS Klug. (ELASMOCERUS Lec.) M. terminatus Say. Boonton VI, 14 (GG); Ft. Lee (Jl); Orange Mts. (Bf); Cape May VI, 3 (Brn); larve in burrows of “Scolytids’” and “Bostrichids” in hemlock, oak and grape-vines. CYMATODERA Gray. C. bicolor Say. Ft. Lee V (div); Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg VII, 2 (Jl); Lahaway VII, 5 (Coll); Westville (Li); g. d. (W); not common. C. inornata Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Lakehurst VII, 19 (Jl); Bamber VI, 3 (W); Atlantic City VI, 24 (Brn). C. balteata Lec. Palisades, Spotswood (Jl); Highlands (Dietz); Bor- dentown VII, Lahaway IX (Coll); Riverton VIII (Jn); Camden (LI); DaCosta VII (W). PRIOCERA Lec. P. castanea Newn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Palisades VIII, 2 (Jl); Lakehurst VII (div); on pine. *TRICHODES Hbst. T. apivorus Germ. Normanock VII (Ds); Lakewood VII (Jl); Malaga VIII (GG); Newtonville VI (Brn); Da- Costa VI, VII (W); on flowers of “Spirea.” CLERUS Geoff. C. 4-signatus Say. Boonton IV, 29, Riv- erton IV, 20, Malaga VII, VIII (GG). C. 4-guttatus Oliv. Throughout North Jersey IV—VI, on pine; Glassboro Ill, 28 (CG). This is the form with red Fig. 117.—Trichodes apivorus: a, u larva; b, pupa; adult beetle abdomen, and extends rarely into Sey eet eT South Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 303 C. nigrifrons Say. This is the common South Jersey form, is more slen- der and has a black abdomen (Jl). The two are mixed in collections. C. rosmarus Say. Throughout the State VI, VII; common. C. lunatus Spin. Throughout the pine barrens and maritime, and ex- tends a little into the Delaware River region; VI, VII. C. ichneumoneus Fab. Lakehurst VII, 15, on pine (Jl); Riverton V, 20, Woodbury V, 22, Clementon V, 30 (GG). C. thoracicus Oliv. Throughout the State V—VIII, locally common; on deciduous trees and flowers. THANASIMUS Latr. T. dubius Fab. Throughout the State, local, not common, III, IV, VIII, X. THANEROCLERUS Spin. T. sanguineus Say. Rare under bark throughout the State. HYDNOCERA Newn. H. unifasciata Say. Madison VII, 28 (Pr); Ft. Lee VI, VII (Jl); Orange Mts., Woodside (Bf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Atco (Li); Clementon V (GG); g. d. (W); rare. H. subzenea Spin. Orange Mts., Newark VI, VII, Ocean Beach (Bf). H. humeralis Say. Throughout the State V-—VII, common; the var. “eyanescens” Lec. everywhere with the type; the var. “difficilis” Lec. more rarely and local. H. pallipennis Say. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare. H. verticalis Say. With the preceding and more common. H. tabida Lec. Staten Island VI (Ds); DaCosta (Li); Sea Isle, Avalon, Anglesea VI (Brn); rare. H. longicollis Ziegl. Madison (Pr); E. Jersey (Dietz), Atco VII (div); Gloucester, Newtonville, DaCosta, all VII, Sea Isle VI, 26 (Brn); 2- mile beach VII (Dke). The record of “pedalis” Lec. is an error of identification. ICHNEA Lap. ]. laticornis Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Palisades VI, 19, bred from hickory infested by ‘“‘Scolytus” (Lv); Newark Dist., g. d. (Bf). PHYLLOBAENUS Spin. P. dislocatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Camden (Li); DaCosta (W); on dead branches and in sweeping. CHARIESSA Perty. C. pilosa Forst. Throughout the State V-VIII; locally not rare. The larva occurs in burrows of wood borers, and it is probable that this 304 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. species is responsible for the gradual destruction of the sinuate. pear borer, which needs two years to attain full growth, and is long in the helpless pupal stage. The variety “onusta” Say. is less frequent than the type. The records of “C. vestita” Spin. and “C. dichroa”’ Lec. are based on erroneous data. CREGYA Lec. C. vetusta Spin. Highlands (Dietz); Westville (Li); g. d. (W); rare. C. oculata Say. Throughout the State VI-VIII; locally not rare. ORTHOPLEURA Spin. O. damicornis Fabr. Hopatcong (Pm); Palisades, Staten Island III, 16 (J1); Boonton VII, 17, Malaga VII, 20 (GG); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Woodbury VII, 30, Collingswood VIII, 2 (Brn); not common. LARICOBIUS Rosen. L. erichsoni Rosen. Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). NECROBIA Latr. N. rufipes Fabr. The “red- legged ham beetle’; occurs throughout the State, is cos- mopolitan and found on dry- ing meats, carrion, bones, fish, cheese, etc. (Ch). N. ruficollis Fabr. With the preceding, and much more Fig. 118.—Red-legged ham beetle, Necrobia common. rufipes: a, larva; b, pupa; c, cocoon; d, e, beetle; natural size and enlarged; N. violacea Linn. Same habits f to j, structural details. and distribution as before and easily recognized by the uniform blue coloration. Family PTINID. A very interesting group of beetles, varying so greatly in form that no superficial description is sufficiently comprehensive to include all. They are hard in texture, and the elytra, which may be smooth, striate, shining, hairy or scaly, are not abbreviated, but cover the abdomen. The head is usually bent under, the antenne are slender, sometimes evenly serrate, but more usually with a prominent serrate, lamellate or pectinated club. They live on dry animal and vegetable products, and some of them bore into the furniture and woodwork of houses, to their material injury. All sorts of things from Belladonna roots to cigars and gunwads are attacked and serve as food. The larve occur with the adults, and are soft, white, grub-like creatures resembling miniature white-grubs, but covered with short stiff hair or bristles. Fig. 121. Fig. 120. Fig. 119.—Sitodrepa panicea: a, larva; b, pupa; c, d, adult beetles. Fig. 121.—Cigars eaten by larva of Lasioderma. Fig. 120.—The cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne: a, larva; b, pupa; c, d, adults; all enlarged. m THESINSECTS: OF (NEW JERSEY. 305 GIBBIUM Scop. . psylloides Czemp. Breeds in dried animal matter and excrement in houses; occurs in the New York Produce Exchange and in store- houses in New Jersey. MEZIUM Curt. » americanum Lap. Occurs with the preceding in city store-houses. PTINUS Linn. . brunneus Duft. Camden, rare (Li); lives in store-rooms, cellars, granaries and old houses, developes in dried organic matter. . fur Linn. With the preceding, but more common, and recorded from all sections of the State. Mr. Bischoff finds it on old rags. EUCRADA Lec. . humeralis Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, 9 (Bf); New Brunswick (Coll); not common. OZOGNATHUS Lec. . floridanus Lec. Anglesea VII, 1, Cape May VII, 7, on dead oak twigs (W); a South Atlantic Coast form. ERNOBIUS Thoms. . mollis Linn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, Newark (Bf); Lahaway (Sm); Pitman Grove VII (GG); probably throughout the State on old wood. A comnion European species. . filicornis Lec. Atlantic Coast region, Mass. to Virginia, rare (Fall). . granulatus Lec. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); New Jersey (Fall). . luteipennis Lec. Westville V (div); Gloucester Co. IV, V (div); Malaga V, 15 (W); Clementon V, 6 (GG). OLIGOMERUS Redt. . sericans Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway VI (Sm); Anglesea VII (div). . obtusus Lec. Staten Island, New Jersey (Fall). . alternatus Lec. Anglesea VI, 18, South Jersey (W). SITODREPA Thoms. . panicea Linn. Throughout the State; breeds in dry roots and stored vegetable products of all kinds; also in rattan, willow and wood- work, in paper, paste-board and similar stores. Liberal applications of gasoline, where practical, or exposure to the fumes of the bisulphide of carbon may be resorted to to destroy the pests. 20. IN 306 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TRICHODESMA Lec. T. klagesi Fall. Occurs with and is usually mixed with “gibbosa”’ in col- lections (Fall). T. gibbosa Say. Newark, Orange Mts. VI (Bf); Westville (Li); Glouces- ter (W); Burlington Co. VI (GG); always rare. ANOBIUM Fabr. A. striatum Oliv. (Hadrobregmus pumilis Lec.) Orange Mts., rare (Bf); DaCosta (Brn). An introduced species. HADROBREGMUS Thoms. H. carinatus Say. (errans Mels.) Orange Mts., Union, Newark V (Bf); Westville (Li); Anglesea VII (div); on dead branches; not common. CCELOSTETHUS Lec. C. notatus Say. (Anobium) Madison V, 14 (Pr); So. Jersey (W); An- glesea VI, 2 (Sm). “Quadrulus” Lec. is a Pacific Coast species. TRYPOPITYS Redt. T. sericeus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison (Pr); Millburn, Hudson Co. VI (Bf); Palisades, Lahaway (Sm); Anglesea VII (W); on dead branches. XYLETINUS Latr. X. peltatus Harr. Orange Mts., on hickory (Bf); Farmingdale VII, 17 (GG@); Anglesea (W); g. d. (Li); always rare. X. harrisii Fall. New Jersey (Fall); Anglesea (W). X. fuscatus Lec. Caldwell (Cr). X. lugubris Lec. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). LASIODERMA Steph. L. serricorne Fabr. Throughout the State; the “tobacco” or “cigarette beetle.” Attacks tobacco in all forms and breeds also in dry vegetable products, like “Sitodrepa.” Its general habits and the measures to be adopted against it are similar. L. semirufum Fall. Anglesea VII, 4; one of the type localities. L. hemiptychoides Fall. Anglesea VII, 4, 11 (div); one of the type local- ities. PETALIUM Lec. P. seriatum Fall. Iona VI, 8, Sea Isle VI, Anglesea VI, 21 (Brn). P. bistriatum Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); So. Jersey (W); Anglesea VII (Sz); g. d. (Li); locally common. EUPACTUS Lec. E. nitidus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII, 1 (W). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 307 CATORAMA Guer. C. sectans Lec. Anglesea (W); a Texan form and the identification may prove incorrect; Fall records a “New York” specimen. . dichroum Fall. Anglesea VII, 1 (W). nigritulum Lec. Woodbury VII, 7 (Brn). Cc. vexatum Fall. Camden VI, Woodbury VII, DaCosta VI (Brn); Clem- enton VII, 15, Bamber VI, 3, Anglesea VII, 1 (W). . grave Lec. (Hemiptychus) Bamber VI, 3, Anglesea VII (W); on dead wood. 20 c) “H. similis“ Lec. is strictly southern and does not occur in New Jersey. C. indistinctum Fall. Bamber VI, 8, Anglesea VII, 1 (W). CRYPTORAMA Fall. C. holosericeum Lec. Anglesea (W). PROTHECA Lec. - hispida Lec. Fort Lee (Sf), Anglesea (W). . puberula Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); So. Jersey (W); rare. v0 U DORCATOMA Hbst. D. dresdensis Hbst. A common European species, found throughout the eastern U. S., south to Virginia (Fall). D. setulosum Lec. Anglesea VII, 1 (W); on dead branches. EUTYLISTUS Fall. E. intermedius Fall. Anglesea (W). E. incomptus Lec. DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn); Anglesea VII, 1 (W). CAZNOCARA Thoms. scymnoides Lec. New Jersey (Fall). oculata Say. Common throughout the State. . bicolor Germ. Orange, New Jersey (Fall). . tenuipalpa Fall. Anglesea VI, 26 (Brn). Sy iteh ts) (9) inepta Fall. New Jersey (Fall). PTILINUS Geoff. P. ruficornis Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf); Landisville (Li); always rare. Family BOSTRYCHIDA. Separated from the “Ptinide” by the generally more elongated cylin- drical form and other less obvious structural characters. I have retained our genera and species as in the old list. 308 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . ENDECATOMUS Mell. E. reticulatus Hbst. G. d. (Bf, Li); in fungus under bark; not rare. The record of ““E. rugosus’”’ Rand. is an error. SINOXYLON Duft. S. basilare Says Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. VI, at light (div); Woodbury VII (div); Camden VI, Peermont VI (Brn); g. d. (W); boring in dead twigs. S. bidentatum Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Cam- den VI, 18 (Brn). Fig. 122.—Sinoxylon basilare: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult; enlarged. AMPHICERUS Lec. A. bicaudatus Say. The “apple-twig borer,’ found throughout the State more or less commonly. The adult bores into apple twigs in spring, at a bud, and makes galleries varying in length for food and shelter only. The larve live in roots of the green or “cat-brier’ and in dead grape vines. such breeding places. Remedial measures, therefore, look to getting rid of BOSTRYCHUS Geoff. CLMARLATE Fig. 123.—The ‘‘apple twig borer’: a, beetle from above; b, same in outline from side; c, e, f, structural details; d, larva; g, pupa; h, same in larval burrow; all save h enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 309 B. bicornis Web. Throughout the State V—VII, often at light; bores into dead twigs and branches. B. truncaticollis Lec. Orange Mts., Newark VI, 16 (Bf). B. capucinus Linn. Newark and vicinity; an imported species introduced originally in sweet-wood at a licorice factory; has established itself and spread slowly, one specimen being recorded by Mr. Joutel from Bronx Park. DINODERUS Steph. D. porcatus Lec. Newark at light (Bf); seashore (Li). D. hispidulus Casey. New Jersey (Casey). D. cribratus Lec. Newark Dist. (Bf); Boonton V, Woodbury VII, Avalon VII (GG); Atlantic City VI (Brn); g. d. (Li). LYCTUS Fabr. L. striatus Mels. Hudson Co. (L1); Newark (Soc.) and probably through- out the State; bores into dry wood of furniture and trimmings and often does a great deal of mischief that is hard to avoid. L. opaculus Lec. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts., common (Bf); larva breeds in grape stems and adults attack wood used in manufacturing implements and furniture (Ch). Family) CUPESLDZs, Contains only two species of very long, somewhat flattened and roughly sculptured beetles. The head and thorax are narrower than the wing covers and the eyes are prominent. The general color is brown, and the elytra is very beautifully sculptured in impressed rows separated by elevated ridges. They are found on dead wood or under bark, and are of no economic importance. CUPES Fabr. C. concolor Westw. Madison VIII (Pr); Palisade district, in oak stumps VI (div); Orange Mts. (Bf); New Brunswick VII (Gr); Gloucester (W); never common. . C. capitatus Fabr. Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (LI). Family LYMEXYLID/.. Only a single species occurs in our fauna, and that is very rare. It is brown in color, very long, slender, cylindrical, tapering posteriorly and covered with a very fine silky pubescence. The larva is a borer, whitish and very slender, and its very small irregular galleries in old oak wood are not infrequently seen. The European “L. navale” is very destructive 310 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . to ship timber, and in our Southern States an allied species is injurious, but in New Jersey no notable harm is occasioned by them. LYMEXYLON Fabr. L. sericeum Harr. Newark (Bf); Gloucester (W); Sea Isle VII, 4 (Brn); Lakehurst VII, 4; single specimens only. Family CIOID/A. Small, oblong beetles, brown or black in color, convex above, with short, clubbed antenne, the head retracted, though not concealed. They live in fungi or decaying wood, and are not of economic importance. The larve occur with the adults, and are grub-like in form. CIS Latr. C. fuscipes Mell. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (div); New Brunswick (Coll). C. creberrima Mell. Snake Hill (Sf). C. horridula Casey. Snake Hill (Sf). ORTHOCIS Casey. O. punctata Mell. Anglesea VII (Sz); g. d. (W); probably throughout the State. XESTOCIS Casey. X. levettei Casey. New Jersey (Casey). There are three other species so distributed that their occurrence in New Jersey is almost certain. BRACHYCIS Casey. B. brevicollis Casey. Sure to occur in New Jersey (Sf). ENNEARTHRON Mell. E. thoracicorne Ziegl. Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Anglesea VII (Sz); and I have taken it generally in small numbers throughout the State. CERACIS Mell. C. sallei Mell. East Jersey (Dietz); Chester, Arlington (Dn). OCTOTEMNUS Mell. O. levis Casey. Snake Hill (Sf). RHIPIDANDRUS Lec. R. paradoxus Beauv. Ft. Lee (Sf); on hard fungus in old trees (Brn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 3rl Family SPHINDID~. Very similar to the “Cioide’”’ in appearance and live in fungi. Our only species is SPHINDUS Chev. S. americanus Lec. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Newark (Bf); Anglesea (W); probably throughout the State; local and not common. Family LUCANID/. These are the “stag beetles,’ so called because in some species the male has the mandibles very large, branched, resembling stag antlers. Our common species, however, are better known as “pinching bugs,” the mandibles being of moderate size and not branched. The antenne have a leaf-like club at tip, the blades of which cannot be closely opposed or folded. The larve are white-grubs and live in decaying wood. LUCANUS Linn. L. elaphus Fabr. Anglesea, one male (W). L. dama Thunb. Throughout the State VI, VII, sometimes locally com- mon at electric light; but usually in small numbers only. DORCUS MacL. D. parallelus Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, in white-rotten wood; locally common. D. brevis Say. DaCosta (Say); Weymouth (Dke). The rank of this species is in doubt, and the general belief is that it is only an aber- ration of the above; but that is disputed, and the species is left here as good. PLATYCERUS Geoff. P. quercus Web. Recorded from all sections of the State; cut out of rotten wood in March, and found occasionally in branches until July. CERUCHUS MacL. C. piceus Web. Throughout the State; common in rotten beech all the year around (Bf). NICAGUS Lec. N. obscurus Lec. Gloucester, not common (W, Li). PASSALUS Fabr. P. cornutus Fabr. Common throughout the State in rotten wood; hun- dreds of them are sometimes found in an old stump, and on an abandoned branch of R. R., on 5-mile beach, they ate up all the old ties. The larve are peculiar in having four legs only. 312 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family SCARABAIDA. These are the “lamellicorn” beetles in which the antenna has an oval club composed of from three to seven leaves or lamelle at the tip, and this is usually much longer in the male. The leaves are closely opposable, so that, when at rest, the club seems solid. The species vary much in appearance, and range irom small to very large; in habit from feeders on leaves to burrowers in excrement. In all of them the legs are formed for digging, the fore-tibize being almost always flattened and toothed at the outer edge. The tarsi are generally long except on the fore-legs, and always 5-jointed, so that the species are easily recognizable. The larve are white-grubs and live in decaying wood, in excrement, in decaying vegetation gener- ally or in the ground on the roots of plants. They are white or yellowish in color, with a brown, horny head bearing prominent mandibles, and are much wrinkled and enlarged toward the posterior extrem- ity, where they end in a smooth, obtusely rounded, often discolored sac. Their position is partly coiled up, the tip of the abdomen usually about touching the long spiny legs. Fig. 124.—Antenna The feeders in decaying and excrementitious mat- of a Lamellicorn ter are useful or harmless; but so much cannot be eee said for those that feed under ground on the roots asta of plants. Grass lands are very apt to become in- fested, and sometimes lawns are completely destroyed by grubs which shear off every root, leaving the tops to wither. Field crops after grass often suffer severely, and in this State strawberries are among those most injured. Remedial measures are unsatisfactory where once the grubs have established themselves, and methods in avoidance are usually recom- mended. Fall plowing old sod is good practice, and if chickens follow the plow or hogs are allowed to run in the infested field they will dis- pose of large numbers of them. In rare cases, e. g. the rose-chafer, it is the adult and not the larva that becomes injurious, and the method of treatment must be modified accordingly. So “May beetles” or “June bugs’ sometimes attack fruit blossoms by eating into the ae and in such cases wae arsenites are of use. CANTHON Hoffm. C. ebenus Say. Seashore, rare (Li). The species of this genus are “tumble bugs,” making large pellets of dung, in which they lay their eggs and which they afterward bury. C. lecontei Harold. Lakehurst VII (Bf); DaCosta VII (W); Clementon — V, 22, Lucaston VIII, 27 (Brn); along shore Brigantine to Cape May VI, VII (div). TE INSECTS IOF INEW! JERSEY: Pale C. probus Germ. Lakehurst V, IX (div); some of the records for “lecontei” probably refer to this species; Mr. Schaeffer thinks all do. C. vigilans Lec. Weehawken VI (Bt); Atlantic Co. (W); seashore (Li); rare. C. levis Dru. Common throughout the State. C. chalcites Hald. New Jersey (Lg), and probably g. d.; rare. C. viridis Beauv. Staten Island IV, VIII (div); Atlantic City (Li). CHCERIDIUM Lap. C. histeroides Web. Lakehurst VII, IX (div); Woodbury VII (W); Da- Costa VI, VII (div); Atco (Li); Petersburg VII, 4 (Brn); in excre- ment and fungi. C. lecontei Harold. DaCosta VI, 2 (GG). COPRIS Geoff. C. minutus Dru. Throughout the State IV—-IX; locally common in cow- dung; all the species with the habit of digging under droppings. C. anaglypticus Say. Throughout the State; common, spring and fall. C. carolina Linn. Our largest species; less common, but as widely dis- tributed as the preceding. —A “tumble-bug,’’ Copris carolina: a, larva; b, the cell in which it lived; c, pupa; d, female beetle. Fig. 125. PHANAZUS MacL. P. carnifex Linn. Throughout the State; locally common; spring and fall; one of the few species attracted to human excrement. 314 REPORT OF NEW: JERSEY STATE: MUSEUM. ONTHOPHAGUS Latr. O. nuchicornis Linn. Greenville IX, 6, rare (Bf); throughout Camden and g. d. in Gloucester Counties IV—-VI; an introduced species, spread- ing slowly. O. hecate Panz. Throughout the State V-IX; common. O. janus Panz. Common throughout the State in toad-stools, decaying fungi and under excrement. The varieties “orpheus” Panz. and “striatulus” Beauv. with the type, but much more rare. O. subzeneus Beauv. Lakehurst, spring and fall; under horse-droppings; listed as a variety of the preceding, but is probably a good species. O. tuberculifrons Harold. West Bergen (Bf); Jamesburg VII (Jl); Atco (Li); Clementon VIII (W); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). O. pennsylvanicus Harold. Common throughout the State. PSAMMODIUS Heer. P. nanus De G. Greenville, West Bergen IV, V (Bf); lives in chicken excrement and is cosmopolitan (Sz). PLEUROPHORUS Muls. P. ceesus Panz. G. d. rare (Bf); always at light (W). RHYSSEMUS Muls. R. scaber Hald. Along the shore, Brigantine to Anglesea VI-IX; on the beach and in the marshes. ATAENIUS Harold. A. cognatus Lec. Westville I, 28 (W); Brigantine (Hn); Beesley’s Point VI, 30, Anglesea (GG). A. wenzeli Horn. Brigantine IX (Hn); Atlantic Co., Anglesea (W); Cape May VI, 3 (Brn); mostly at light. A. strigatus Horn. Westville V (GG); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). A. gracilis Mels. Irvington (Bf); Westville VIII, 1 (div); Woodbury VII, 30 (W); Gloucester V, 27, Sea Isle VI, 10 (Brn); Brigantine IX (Hn). A. imbricatus Mels. G. d. (Bf); Atlantic City VI, 24, Anglesea VII, 11, under drift (W); Sea Isle V, VI (Brn). A. socialis Horn. Atlantic City, rare (W). A. abditus Hald. Collingswood VII, 27 (GG). DIALYTES Harold. D. truncatus Mels. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). OXYOMUS Lap. | O. sylvestris Scop. (porcatus Fabr.) Snake Hill IV, 20 (Jl); Newark Dist. V (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); common in cow droppings. > >>> > > > > > > PP > THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 315 APHODIUS III. . fossor Linn. Piedmont Plain and northward; an imported species, which is now common about Newark and in Hudson County. . fimetarius Linn. Common throughout the State. . ruricola Mels. Westville IV, 26, Atco (W); Atlantic City VI (GG). . granarius Linn. Throughout the State; common. . vittatus Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); DaCosta V, Anglesea VII (W); local and common throughout the State. . inqguinatus Hbst. Common throughout the State. . rubeolus Beauv. Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden, Landisville (Li); Wood- bury VII, DaCosta V, Clementon VIII (W). . stercorosus Mels. Throughout the State; usually common. . bicolor Say. Newark (Bf); Westville (Li). . phalerioides Horn. Sandy Hook to Cape May, along the coast VII-IX. . femoralis Say. Generally distributed, not rare (W, Li). . oblongus Say. Ft. Lee III, 24, in a rotten stump (Bt). . parcus Horn. Anglesea VII, 11, at light (W). BOLBOCEROSOMA Schaef. . farctum Fab. Throughout the State; local and rare. BOLBOCERAS Kirby. . lazarus Fab. Woodbury VII (div); Sea Isle VII, Brigantine VII (Brn); Anglesea VI, VII (div); never common. ODONTZEZUS KI. . filicornis Say. Ocean Beach (Pr); Atlantic City (Li); Sea Isle VI (Brn). . cornigerus Mels. Spotswood (Jl); New Jersey (Ll). GEOTRUPES Latr. . splendidus Fab. Throughout the State; local, not common. . semiopacus Jek. Madison (Pr); Newark (Soc); Riverton X, 24 (GG); Atlantic City (Li); Anglesea VIII, 8 (W). . egeriei Germ. Shark River VII (GG); Camden (Li); Woodbury IV, 21, Clementon III, 18, under fungus (W). . blackburnii Fab. Throughout the State III-X, common, in excrement. . balyi Jek. Ft. Lee (Sf); Lakehurst IX, 3, in underground stem of toadstools (J1); Gloucester VIII, [IX (W); Westville (Li). . hornii Blanch. Hopatcong, Highlands (Sf); Staten Island (Bt); Somer’s Point (Hn); under or near decaying toadstools. The record of “‘G. inutilis’” Horn is an error. 316 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. i TROX Fab. T. scabrosus Beauv. Throughout the State VI-IX; not rare. All the species in or under dried carcasses, hides, bones, etc. Te asper Lec. Sandy Hook (Bt); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). T. suberosus Fab. Sandy Hook VII (Bt); Lahaway (Sm); Woodbury IX, Atlantic City (GG); Anglesea V, 31, g. d. (W). T. tuberculatus De G. Caldwell (Cr); Newark, rare at light (div). T..erinaceus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Staten Island II, 25, and later in Owl pellets (Ds); Woodbury VI (W); g. d. (Li). T. capillaris Say. Staten Island (Lg); Newark, at light, rare (Bf). T. unistriatus Beauv. Throughout the State; not rare. T. sordidus Lec. Madison (Pr); Staten Island IV (Ds); Westville (Li). T. insularis Chev. (foveicollis Harr.) Newark (Bf); Staten Island VIII (Ds); g. d. rare (Li). T. terrestris Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Staten Island VII (Ds). T. cequalis Say. Staten Island (Lg). T. scaber Linn. Throughout the State VI, VII; not common. T. atrox Lec. New Jersey (Henshaw). AMPHICOMA Latr. A. lupina Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island (Sf); Jamesburg VII (W); Sandy Hook (Loeffler); seashore (Li). } A. vulpina Hentz. Newark (Soc); Jamesburg VII, 4, one female (Li). HOPLIA Ill. H. trifasciata Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. (GG); West Bergen (Bf); seashore (Li); g. d. (W); flies very early in April as soon as vegeta- tion starts. H. trivialis Harold. Paterson, Lakehurst (Jl); Gloucester, seashore (Li); Lucaston and g. d. (W); in IV and V, very local but not rare where it occurs. H. modesta Hald. Throughout the State IV—VI; our most common spe- cies. H. equina Lec. Staten Island (Lg). DICHELONYCHA Kirby. D. elongata Fab. Throughout the State V, VI; locally not rare. D. subvittata Lec. Hopatcong (Pm). D. testacea Kirby. Hewitt VI, 5, Spotswood (Jl); Orange Mts. (GG); Staten Island (Lg). D. fuscula Lec. Gloucester (Li); Anglesea V (div). D. albicollis Burm. Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Riverton VI, 6 (Castle); Burling- ton Co. (W); Westville (Li); Newtonville VI, 11 (Brn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 317 SERICA MacL. S. vespertina Gyll. Throughout the State V, VI; common. S. iricolor Say. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Ocean Co., on scrub oak VI (Sm); DaCosta, Atco (Li); Atlantic Co. (W); local. S. sericea Ill. Throughout the State V, VI; common. S. trociformis Burm. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); throughout the pine barrens all V and early VI, getting only a little into the Delaware Valley region. MACRODACTYLUS Latr. ey, Sal oN Fig. 126.—The “‘rose-bug,”’ Macrodactylus subspinosus: a, adult beetle; b, larva; e, pupa; c, d, structural details, all enlarged; f, grape leaf showing injury and beetles at work—natural size. M. subspinosus Fab. The “Rose-bug” or “Rose chafer’; common throughout the State, often coming in such hordes as to destroy the blossoms of roses and other plants blooming in June, and in vine- yards in some sections utterly destroying the grape crop by eating the blossoms. They also eat into a variety of fruits, including apples and do great mischief in that way. The larve feed on the roots of grasses and other vegetation in waste land and are beyond reach of destructive measures. Practically, spraying plants to be protected with heavy doses of arsenate of lead or collecting the adult beetles as they come on, by collectors adapted to the special work, are our only resorts. M. angustatus Beauv. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Bt); Riverton V, 28 (GG); Anglesea VI, VII, on oak (div). 318 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DIPLOTAXIS Kirby. D. sordida Say. West Bergen (Bf); Woodbury VII, 30, at light, Lucas- ton IV, 25, Anglesea V (W); Brigantine VII, Sea Isle VII (Brn). D. atlantis Fall. Orange, Staten Island (Fall); some specimens of this ; species are undoubtedly in collections as “sordida.” D. tristis Kirby. Included by Fall in the list of New Jersey species; but I have no definite records. Mr. Wenzel has it from Arcola, Pa. D. liberta Germ. Throughout the State V—VII; our most common spe- cies. . subcostata Blanch. DaCosta VI, 12 (Brn); Woodbury VI, 10 (W). . excavata Lec. Newark district (Bf); determined by Fall. . frondicola Say. New Jersey (Li, Fall). 00 0 U0 . bidentata Lec. Atco (Li, Fall); Anglesea, sweeping at night (W); this is the “truncatula” of last edition. D. harperi Blanch. New Jersey (Fall); Snake Hill IV, 14, V, 1 (Har- beck); Newark district (Bf). Fig. 127.—May beetle: rz, pupa in earthen cell; 2, larva or “white grub”; 3, adult from side; 4, same from top. LACHNOSTERNA Hope. These are the “May beetles” or “June bugs,” the larve of which are the ordinary ‘‘white grubs” of pasture and garden land. Fall plowing and the use of chickens and hogs are the most available methods of control. L. glaberrima Blanch. DaCosta VII, 19 (Dke); Brigantine IX, 10 (Hn); Anglesea VII (Sz). L. ephilida Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); Orange, Highlands VI (Bt); g. d. (W, Li). L. longitarsus Say. New Jersey (GG). ie - ra reo. Relea THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 319 clemens Horn. New Jersey (U SN M). - dispar Burm. Camden, Gloucester Co. (W). gracilis Burm. New Brunswick (Coll); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Laurel Springs VII, 21 (Dke); Sea Isle VI, 4 (Brn). gibbosa Burm. Throughout the State; locally common. . subpruinosa Casey. Sure to occur in New Jersey. inversa Horn. New Brunswick, Lakewood, Lahaway rare (Coll). micans Knoch. Throughout the State, VI, VII; locally common. - arcuata Smith. Locally and seasonally throughout the State V—VII. The common species is not the same each year, in the same locality, and a species swarming at light one season may be totally absent the next. . insperata Smith. Snake Hill; rare. dubia Smith. Throughout the State, locally and seasonally common. fusca Freehl. The commonest of all our species V—VII. - grandis Sm. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City (Coll); Camden, Glouces- ter Co (W); Forked River Mts. V, 26 (Dke). . barda Horn. New Jersey, two specimens (Sf). - marginalis Lec. Lake Hopatcong (Pm, Sf). fraterna Harr. This, with its varieties ‘‘cognata’’ Burm., and “fors- teri’ Burm., is locally common throughout the State. - nova Smith. New Brunswick (Coll); and probably g. d., rare. luctuosa Horn. Buena Vista, one specimen (Li). - knochii Sch. & Cyll. Riverton (Castle); in roads through pine woods, dead specimens only (W). . rugosa Mels. New Brunswick (Sm); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Merchantville III, 15 (Dke); probably g. d., local and rare. hirsuta Knoch. Throughout the State V—VII; locally common. balia Say. New Jersey, without definite locality. hirticula Knoch. Common everywhere V-—VIII. . emula Horn. DaCosta VI, 4 (Dke). . crenulata Freehl. Throughout the State; local, never very abundant. parvidens Lec. Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). . ilicis Knoch. Throughout the State; not rarely. quercus Knoch. Rare, isolated specimens from various localities. tristis Fab. Throughout the State; our commonest small species. PHYTALUS Er. georgianus Horn. Hammonton VIII, 15, one specimen (Sz). POLYPHYLLA Harr. . variolosa Hentz. Hopatcong (Pm); Highlands (Sf); Riverside, West- ville VII, 9 (W), and all along shore in the wash-up VI-VII. 320 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ANOMALA Keeppe. A. binotata Gyll. Throughout the Delaware Valley, the pine barrens and maritime regions III—V, locally not rare. A. innuba Fab. (minuta Burm.) Anglesea (div). A. undulata Mels. Throughout the State IV, VI, locally not rare. A. lucicola Fab. Throughout the State, common on grape and “Ampe- lopsis” VI, VII; the most abundant form of the genus, and quite variable. A. oblivia Horn. Pine barrens V—VII, locally not rare; extending into the maritime and a little into the Delaware Valley region. A. marginata Fabr. Plainfield VI, 20 (Sf); g. d., on hickory (W); sea- shore (Li); locally not rare. The record of “lurida” Fab. is an error, based on an abnormal form of “binotata.” STRIGODERMA Burm. S. pygmza Fab. Throughout South Jersey V-—VII, locally common on sweet potato and other “Convolvulacee.”’ S. arboricola Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, more common south- wardly on flowers of “Rubus” and “Rosacee”’ generally. At Angle- sea on “Opuntia.” PELIDNOTA MacL. P. punctata Linn. Common throughout the State on grape; larva in hickory and oak stumps (Bt). COTALPA Burm. C. lanigera Linn. Throughout the State VI, VII, on wil- low or poplar, occasionally on oak; never very abundant. CYCLOCEPHALA Latr. C. immaculata Oliv. Sandy Hook (Bt); Camden VI, 10, Sea Isle VII, 4 (Brn); seashore (Li); g. d. (W). Fig. 128.— DYSCINETUS Harold. (CHALEPUS MacL.) Cotaly ademagents D. trachypygus Burm. Throughout the State, but much more common along shore; attracted to light VIII, IX. LIGYRUS Burm. L. gibbosus De G. Common throughout the State, at light, VIII, IX; more abundant along shore. L. relictus Say. As before, but much more abundant; so plentiful at times as to be a veritable nuisance. DHE INSECTS OF NEW! JERSEY. 321 APHONUS Lec. A. castaneus Mels. Madison (Pr); along shore VI, VII (div); not com- mon; larva in decaying stumps. XYLORYCTES Hope. X. satyrus Fabr. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Bf); throughout South Jersey VII, VIJ, never common; larva in roots of ash. Is known as the “Rhinocerus beetle,” because of the great horn on its head. STRAT/AEGUS Hope. S. antzeeus Fabr. Newark (Soc); Long Branch (Bt); throughout the pine barrens VII, VIII, extending rarely into the Delaware Valley region. Larva in rotting wood. The beetle is very stout and broad, with three thoracic processes, which are sometimes long and horn-like, -giving rise to the local name ‘“‘Ox-beetle.”’ DYNASTES Kirby. D. tityus Linn. Wildwood (Satterthwaite); Cape May (W); one speci- men each. This species is really southern, and its occurrence at that point on our coast is accidental. Fig. 129.—Allorhina nitida: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult; d-g, larval details. ALLORHINA Burm. A. nitida Linn. Throughout the State; locally common in sandy districts; flies like a bumble bee on bright, hot days in July, occasionally in swarms; the larva is sometimes injurious in sod, eating off the roots so that the top can be rolled up like a carpet. EUPHORIA Burm. E. areata Fab. Throughout the State; very local and seasonal IV, V and IX; sometimes abundant. E. sepulchralis Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Del. Water Gap (Bt); through- out South Jersey in June (div); rare and local. 21 IN 322 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. fulgida Fab. Throughout the State V, VI; locally and seasonally not rare. E. herbacea Oliv. Plainfield VII (Lv); Staten Island V (Bt); Westville (Li); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm); g. d. (W). E. inda Linn. Throughcut the State, spring and fall; beetles occasionally injurious to growing ears of corn, peaches and other fruits; larva not injurious, living in manure and rich earth (Ch). The locality for “melancholica” Gory. is so doubtful that Mr. Schwarz recommends dropping the name. CREMASTOCHILUS Knoch. The species of this genus are associated with ants, living in their colonies, but hardly in friendly relations with them. They are not often found unless especially sought for, and may be in general accounted rare. C. variolosus Kirby. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); Madison (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Gloucester Co. (div); Glassboro VII, 27 (GG). C. canaliculatus Kirby. Paterson V (Gr); Woodside V, 1 (Bf). C. castanez Knoch. Hewitt V, 20, VI, 15 (Jl). C. harrisii Kirby. Hopatcong (Pm); Morristown (Ds); Woodbury (Li); Clementon V, 10, locally common on sandy flats (W). OSMODERMA Lep. O. eremicola Knoch. Throughout the State, locally not rare; the larva often abundant in rotting trees. O. scabra Beauv. With the preceding, usually more common; larva as before. GNORIMUS Lep. G. maculosus Knoch. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Hewitt V, 29 (Jl); Ft. Lee (div); Staten Island (Lg); seashore (Li); g. d. (W). TRICHIUS Fabr. T. piger Fab. Throughout the State VII, on flowers; often in great num- bers on roses; larvz in old oak stumps (Jl). T. affinis Gory. With the preceding; usually more common. T. bibens Fab. Hewitt V, 30 (Ji); on flowers of “Viburnum pubescens” (Ds). T. delta Forst. Williamstown, DaCosta VII, 4, 16 (W). VALGUS Scriba. V. squamiger Beauv. Common throughout the State IV-VI; the larve sometimes abundant in decaying stumps. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 323 V. canaliculatus Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island (Lg); Vineland (U S Ag); never in large numbers. Family SPONDYLIDZ. Oblong, brown, somewhat flattened beetles, with rather short an- tenne; the tarsi 5-jointed, the 4th short and the 38rd somewhat lobed. The thorax is almost square, the head horizontal and the mandibles are rather prominent. PARANDRA Latr. P. brunnea Fabr. Throughout the State, locally not rare V—VII; breeds in decaying deciduous and coniferous trees. Family CERAMBYCIDAE. These are the “long-horned beetles,’ so called because the antenne or feelers are as long or longer than the body. The body is usually more or less cylindrical, although many species are somewhat fiattened. In all cases the thorax is without a sharp lateral margin or suture and earries out the idea of a cylinder, even if the form does not. The front is more or less obviously vertical, and the mandibles are usually stout and sharp-pointed. The tarsi are apparently four-jointed only, the third being deeply lobed. The larve are borers, generally in woody tissue, although a few bore into herbaceous plants. They are more or less cylindrical, the joints well marked, those of the thorax enlarged, the head chitinous, with pow- erful mandibles. They resemble the larve of the “Buprestide”’ in a general way, but are not flattened, especially toward the head, so they are called “round-headed” borers. Most of the species live in the solid or heart wood of dead or dying trees; but some of them work in the sap-wood or under bark, and nota few attack healthy, sound trees, paving the way for other species that prefer less vitality. Only a few species are economically important in New Jersey, and these are usually dealt with by mechanical barriers or other direct means. ORTHOSOMA Serv. O. brunneum Forst. Throughout the State in July, not rare; larve in oak stumps and logs. TRAGOSOMA Serv. T. harrisii Lec. Newark, rare (Bf); along shore in wash-up, occasional. 324 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 130.—Prionus laticollis, larva, pupa and adult. PRIONUS Geoff. P. laticollis Dru. Throughout the State, July and August. The larva lives in the roots of many trees and shrubs, including orchard trees and small fruits. On grape and blackberry it is sometimes injurious, causing less damage to the former than the latter. The larva re- quires three years to reach its full growth; and when it works in the crown of the blackberry causes so much injury that the removal of the affected portion and the destruction of the borer is the only remedy. P. pocularis Dalm. Throughout the pine barrens in July and August; the larva often common in decaying pine logs. SPHENOSTETHUS Hald. S. taslei Bug. Snake Hill, coll. Bkln. Inst. Mus. (Sf); “New Jersey” (Horn); rare in New Jersey (Li). There are no recent records. ASEMUM Esch. A. moestum Hald. Throvghout the State, May and June; the larva on pine. CRIOCEPHALUS Muls. C. agrestis Kirby. Chester (Dn); Newark (div); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Lahaway VII, Anglesea (Coll). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 325 obsoletus Rand. Newark (Bf); Woodbury, Atlantic City (W); Sea Isle VII (Brn). ? SMODICUM Hald. S. cucujiforme Say. Short Hills VII (Bt); Orange, not rare at light (Ch); Newark (Bf): Camden, Gloucester Co., under oak bark (W); Collingswood, Glassboro VII (GG); Lahaway VI (Sm); g. d. (Li). PHYSOCNEMUM Hald. P. brevilineum Say. Ft. Lee VII (Sf); Weehawken VI (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); seashore, Atlantic City to Cape May VI, VII (div); feeds on elm. HYLOTRUPES Serv. H. bajulus Linn. Throughout the State in June, on pine. H. ligneus Fabr. Throughout the State on cedar; begins to emerge as early as March and continues until late June. PHYMATODES Muls. P. variabilis Fabr. Throughout the State on oak, VI, VII; the larva is one of the “bark slippers” often found in great numbers on cord wood. P. infuscatus Lec. Staten Island (Lg). P. lengi Joutel. Fort Lee in May; type locality (Jl). P. lividus Rossi. An introduced species, found in Staten Island and New Jersey (Jl). P. amcenus Say. Throughout the State IV, V, the larva breeding in dead grape stems; lecally not rare. P. ater Lec. Anglesea V, on oak (W); Sea Isle V, 29 (Brn). . dimidiatus Kirby. Staten Island (Lg); Long Branch (Bf). P. varius Say. Not uncommon throughout the State, V, VI; the larva, with that of ‘“variabilis,’” in oak; I have bred both species from one stick. The record of “P. blandus” in last edition was based on a misidentifi- cation. vU MERIUM Kirby. M. proteus Kirby. Newfoundland, 1 example collected by Leng (Jl). This is essentially a boreal species; but the record of its capture by Mr. Leng is clear in all details. The example was taken alive on a log near a local sawmill, the log cut in the nearby woods. CALLIDIUM Fabr. C. antennatum Newn. Throughout the State IV—VIII on pine and cedar; usually common and most abundant in May. C. janthinum Lec. South Amboy IV, on pine boughs (Ds); Irvington on cut cedar IV (Bf); it is possible that both of these records may eventually prove to refer to the preceding; but the determinations seem correct. 326 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. zreum Newn. Clifton V, 30, bred from chestnut (Ch); Orange Mts., Newark, at light (Bf); New Brunswick (Sm). OEME Newn. O. rigida Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, not common; breeds in cedar and is sometimes found in the wash-up along shore. O. gracilis Lec. Orange VI (Ch). CHION Newn. C. cinctus Dru. Throughout the State V, VI, not common; the larva in hickory, oak and plum (Ch). EBURIA Serv. E. 4-geminata Say. Throughout the State VII, rarely; on oak and hick- ory (W). ROMALEUM White. R. simplicicolle Hald. Lahaway (Sm); Atlantic County in pine woods VIII, IX (W); not rare in wash-up along shore VIII (div). R. atomarium Dru. DaCosta (Li); Bridgeton (GG); along shore in wash-up, under bark and at sugar VI, VIII, IX (div). R. rufulum Hald. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. IV, VII, VIII on oak (W); Glassboro VIII, 17 (GG). ELAPHIDON Serv. E. mucronatum Fab. Throughout the State on trees of various kinds; also on grape; does not amputate twigs like “E. villosum.” E. incertum Newn. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). E. villosum Fab. (parallelum Newn.) Throughout the State IV—VII, more or less common. The larva is the common “oak-pruner”; but attacks also hickory, apple and other trees. It developes in the heart of a small shoot, and when full grown, girdles the shoot from within, so that it falls in the first high wind. Gather these fallen Fig. 131.—The “oak pruner”: a, larva; branches and burn them where wes ee Cee shade or orchard trees are in- gee oped Reece é fested. E. subpubescens Lec. East Plains VII, 27 (Lg); 2. d. rare (11). E. aculeatum Lec. Brown’s Mills VIII, 4 (Dke); g. d. rare (W). E. unicolor Rand. Short Hills (Bt); Woodside (Bf); Westville (Li); Berlin VI, 25, Woodbury VII, 30, Anglesea VII, common on serub oak (W); bred from red-bud (Lec) and plum (Ch). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 327 E. cinerascens Lec. Chester (Dn); Ft. Lee (Jl); Woodbury VII, 7 (GG); Lucaston VI, 14 (Dke). The records for “inerme” and “pumilum” rest upon misidentification. TYLONOTUS Hald. . bimaculatus Hald. Ft. Lee VII, 26 (Jl); Newark, New Brunswick (Sm); Westville (Li); Camden, Gloucester Co., under bark of ash CW). HETERACHTHES Newn. . 4—maculatus Newn. Palisades VI (Lv); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts. (Bf); Gloucester, Camden Co., g. d. (div); on hickory. . ebenus Newn. Boonton VII, 15 (GG); Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark at light (Bf); New Brunswick VI (Sm); Camden, Gloucester Co., VI, VII (div); along shore Atlantic City to Cape May in wash-up (div). CURIUS Newn. . dentatus Newn. Anglesea, rare, on oak (W). OBRIUM Serv. . rufulum Gahan. (rubrum Newn.) Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange VI (Ch), Newark on oak (Bf); Woodbury VIII, 7 on ash (W). . rubidum Lec. Orange Mts., on ash (Bf); Philadelphia Neck (W). PHYTON Newn. . pallidum Say. Ft. Lee, Highland VII (Sf); Orange Mts. VII (Bf); Rocky Hill VI (Coll); Woodbury VII (GG); Camden VII, Anglesea (W); breeds in hickory and red-bud (Ch). MOLORCHUS Fab. . bimaculatus Say. Palisades (Lv); Newark Dist. (Bf); Orange Mts VII, Riverton V (GG); Clementon V, Woodbury VI (W); Brown’s Mills V (Dke); Anglesea V, 30; Lahaway V (Sm); develcpes in dead ash, dog-wood, red-oud, hickory, walnut and maple (Ch). RHOPALOPHORA Serv. . longipes Say. Seashore (Li); breeds in red-bud (Ch). TRAGIDION Serv. . coquus Lec. Caldwell (Cr); Malaga VIII, IX (GG); Lakehurst VII, IX, on oak (div); Lahaway IX, Cumberland Co., Mt. Holly VIII, Lucaston IX (Dke); g. d., more common southwardly (W); in wash-up along shore (div). . fulvipenne Say. Several specimens, in June, near Westville (Bland). 328 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PURPURICENUS Serv. P. humeralis Fab. Ft. Lee, on oak VI (Bt); Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden VII, DaCosta VI (W); Merchantville VI (Dke); common in wash-up along shore, Sandy Hook to Cape May. P. axillaris Hald. Ft. Lee (Sf); DaCosta VII, 3, on oak (W); several in different localities (Li); always rare. BATYLE Thom. B. suturalis Say. Throughout the State VII and VIII. STENOSPHENUS Hald. S. notatus Oliv. Throughout the State, but local; breeds in hickory. CYLLENE Newn. C. caryze Gahan. (picta Dru.) Throughout the State IV—-VI; breeds in hickory and is sometimes injurious in shade trees. C. robiniz Forst. Throughout the State VIII-X; breeds in locust, making it practically impossible to raise decent trees in most localities. PLAGIONOTUS Muls. P. speciosus Say. Madison (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); top of Palisades at Ft. Lee (Jl); Snake Hill on oak (L1); breeds in sugar maples, and is often injurious. CALLOIDES Lec. C. nobilis Say. Local throughout the State VI; on oak stumps (Bt); sometimes common in wash-up all along shore. Fig. 132.—Plagio- notus speciosus. ARHOPALUS Serv. A. fulminans Fabr. Throughout the State VI, VII, sometimes not uncom- mon; breeds in chestnut (Ch). XYLOTRECHUS Chev. X. colonus Fab. Common throughout the State V—VIII; lives in oak, maple, hickory, chestnut and other trees. X. sagittatus Germ. Lakehurst, common in dead pine IX (div); Anglesea VII, 25, in the wash-up, g. d., rare (W). X. 4maculatus Hald. Ft. Lee VI, 18 (Jl); Irvington (Bf); Staten Island (Sf); Jamesburg (div); So. Camden on black alder (W); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). ee THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 320 . undulatus Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); Palisades, Lakehurst VIII, 2 (Jl); the variety “lunulatus” Kirby has also been taken in the Orange Mts.; breeds in spruce and hemlock (Ch). . nitidus Horn. Gloucester County, one specimen (Bland). NEOCLYTUS Thom. . scutellaris Oliv. Spring Lake VIII (Ch); g. d. (W); Malaga VIII, 4 (CG); Lakehurst (Ds). . jouteli Davis. Rahway VIII, 2 (Bf Gr); Lakehurst VII (Bf Ds). . luscus Fab. Generally distributed; rare (W). . conjunctus Lec. Palisades, bred (Jl). . capree Say. Boonton IV, 28, common on freshly cut chestnut (GG); Newfoundland on wood piles VII, 5 (Sf); Newark (Soc); g. d., rare (W); breeds in ash, elm and hickory (Ch). . erythrocephalus Fabr. Throughout the State V—VII; breeds in forest, shade and fruit trees in great variety, and also in grape canes (Ch). CLYTANTHUS Thom. . ruricola Oliv. Hopatcong (Pm); Newfoundland VII (Ds); Palisades, on dead oak (Lv); Orange Mts. (Bf); Clementon V, 24 (GQG). . albofasciatus Lap. Palisades, on dead oak (Lv); Ft. Lee (Jl); Cam- den VI, VII (div). MICROCLYTUS Lec. . gazellula Hald. Newark (Bf); South Jersey, rare (W). CYRTOPHORUS Lec. . verrucosus Oliv. Throughout the State; not rare; lives on chestnut, beech, linden and a variety of other trees (Ch). TILLOMORPHA Blanch. » geminata Hald. Throughout North Jersey V—VII (div); South Jersey (W); bred from sumac (Ulke). EUDERCES Lec. : picipes Fab. ‘Throughout the State VI, VII; lives on linden, beech, chestnut, ete., (Ch). . pini Oliv. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Bf); on scrub oak, near Timber Creek VI, rare (Bland). ATIMIA Hald. . confusa Say. Pleasant Mills (Say); Eagle Rock, all summer, on cut cedar (Bf); Atco (Li); g. d., rare, in Juniper (W); Anglesea V, 31. (Brn). 330 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DISTENIA Serv. D. undata Oliv. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., on hickory VII (Bf); Westville (Li); Anglesea VII, 22 (Sm). DESMOCERUS Serv. D. palliatus Forst. Throughout the State on elder in July; seems to be absent from Staten Island; no records coming thence. ENCYCLOPS Newn. E. coeruleus Say. Hewitt VI, 2, on flowers of dogwood (Jl); Orange Mts.; sometimes common near Newark (Bf); Gloucester (Li). RHAGIUM Fabr. R. lineatum Oliv. Throughout the State on pine III-VII; larva under pine bark. CENTRODERA Lec. C. decolorata Harr. ‘“‘New Jersey” (Sm). C. picta Hald. Chester (Dn); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts., Woodside V, 3, rare on dry hickory (Bf); DaCosta, Anglesea (W). TOXOTUS Serv. T. vittiger Rand. Ramapo, N. Y. (Jl); just across the New Jersey line, and doubtless occurs also on our side of the fence. T. cylindricollis Say. Ft. Lee VI, 23 (Jl); “New Jersey” (Horn). ACM/EOPS Lec. A. thoracica Hald. Ramapo, N. Y., V, 31, in some numbers, just north of the line (Ds); certain to occur also in New Jersey. A. bivittata Say. Fort Lee VI (Bt); Newark (Soc); g. d. (Li). A. directa Newn. Del. Water Gap VII, 12- (Jn); Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf); Riverton (GG); Westville (Li). A. discoidea Hald. Throughout the State, V, VI, local and not common. GAUROTES Lec. G. cyanipennis Say. Throughout the Appalachian and Highlands re- gions, not rare VI; marked g. d. (W, Li); but local and not common. STRANGALIA Serv. S. famelica Newn. Throughout the State, VII, on flowers. S. acuminata Oliv. Hopatcong (Pm); Hewitt VI, 18, common on flowers (Ds); Orange Mts. (div); Newark (Soc); Riverton V-—VII (GG); Westville (Li); Brown’s Mills I, 27 (Dke). S. luteicornis Fabr. Common throughout the State, on flowers VI, VII. S. bicolor Swed. Throughout the State VI, VII, local and not common. ell aM Cas a! | Gea er r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 331 BELLAMIRA Lec. . scalaris Say. “Point Breeze,” the type locality. Newfoundland VII, 5, in dead ash (Jl, Ds); Ft. Lee VI, 14, larve and pupe in ash (Jl); Manumuskin VI, 21 (DkKe). TYPOCERUS Lec. . zebratus Fab. Sea Girt VIII (Bf); Landisville (Li); DaCosta (W); Atco VI (div); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke); Lahaway V, VI (Sm). . velutinus Oliv. Common throughout the State on flowers in July. . lugubris Say. Fort Lee VI (div); “New Jersey” (Hw). LEPTURA Serv. . emarginate Fab. Boonton VIII, 5, 2 ovipositing (GG); Palisades in dead oak and maple (Lv); Ft. Lee, larva in any decayed wood, lives i three years (Jl); Irvington VII (Bf); Gloucester VII, 10 (G@). . deleta Lec. “New Jersey” (Li). . plebeja Rand. Caldwell (Cr); “New Jersey” (Horn). subhamata Rand. Newfoundland VII, 4 (Jl); “New Jersey” (Lg). . abdominalis Hald. Atlantic City (Castle) seashore, one 2 (Li). . lineola Say. Throughout the State in June; locally common. . cruentata Hald. Hewitt VI, 2 (Jl); DaCosta 1 dead specimen (Li). . americana Hald. Ft. Lee, Hewitt VI, 18-25 (Jl); Eagle Rock, V (Bf). . nana Newn. var. hzmatites Newn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts., on dog-wood blossoms (Bf); Westville (Li). . nitens Forst. Throughout the State, V, VI. on chestnut, oak and beech. . cordifera Oliv. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., once common (Bf). . rubrica Say. Throughout the State V—VII; on dead beech (Lv). . circumdata Oliv. Hewitt VI, 25 (Jl); Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., on pussy willow (Bf); Atco (Li); Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); Lahaway VI on magnolia flowers (Sm); Anglesea V, 28 (W). . vagans Oliv. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); Hewitt VI, Lakehurst VI (Jl); Sea Girt VIII (Bf); Clementon VI (GG); Atco, DaCosta VI, Anglesea (W); bred from butternut, hickory and birch (Ch). . proxima Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 14 (Jn); Hopatcong VI (Bt); Hewitt VI, 18 (Jl); Newfoundland VI (Ds); Palisades VI, 5 (Dke); Westville (Li). . octonotata Say. Hewitt VI (div); Hopatcong VI, Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island VI (Ds). . vittata Germ. Throughout the State VI, VII, on flowers; more abund- ant in the northern sections. . pubera Say. Del. Water Gap VII (Coll); Hewitt VI, 18, Ft. Lee V, 24 (J1); Madison VI, 6 (Pr); Orange Mts. VI, VII, on “Spirza’” (Bf). 332 REPORT’ OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ES L. . supernotatus Say. Throughout the State V, VI,. mutabilis Newn. Palisades IV, V, larvee in dead iron-wood (Jl); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). quadricollis Lec. Staten Island (Lg). CYRTINUS Lec. . pygmzeus Hald. Throughout the State, locally common, V, VI; lives on oak, hickory, locust and box elder (Ch). PSENOCERUS Lec. breeding in currant stems; locally common but rarely injurious. MONOHAMMUS Serv. . titillator Fab. Throughout the State on pine, VI, Fig. 133.—Pseno- VII; often common in the wash-up along shore; a cerus supernota- small form at Anglesea. tus; currant tip borer. . scutellatus Say. Chester (Dn); Newark (Bf). . notatus Dru. (confusor Kirby). Ft. Lee (Bt); Eagle Rock VII, 5 (GG); Newark, Orange Mts. (Bf); Camden (Li); Atlantic, Cape May Cos., not rare (W). DORCASCHEMA Lec. . alternatum Say. Staten Island VI-VIII, common on Osage Orange and Mulberry (Ds); Camden, Merchantville VI, 7, on Mulberry (W); eo ly, (ODal)e . nigrum Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison VII, 24 (Pr); Orange Mts. VII (Bf); Caldwell (Cr); Westville (Li); g. d. on hickory (W). . wildii Uhler. Common on Osage Orange near Philadelphia and kills all the black mulberry near that city; not yet found in New Jersey. HETCEMIS Hald. . cinerea Oliv. Hewitt VI, 18, bred from hickory (Jl); Plainfield VII, 4 (Ds); Orange Mts. VII, on Mulberry (Bf); Newark (GG); Collings- wood VI, 7 (W); 2. d. (Li). CACOPLIA Lec. . pullata Hald. Madison VII, 19 (Pr); Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Lakehurst VI, VII on scrub-oak (div); Gloucester, Atlantic Cos., on oak (W); An- glesea VII, 12 (Coll). GOES Lec. . tigrina DeG. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Snake Hill (Sf); Cald- well (Cr); New Brunswick VIII (Coll); on oak in July (W); Glass- boro VII, 27, under pine tree (GG). . pulchra Hald. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare; on hickory. THE INSECTS: OF NEW’ JERSEY. 333 . debilis Lec. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Madison VIII, 12 (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Ft. Lee (Bt); Merchantville VI, VII, on oak (W); DaCosta (Li); Lakehurst VII (div). . tessellata Hald. Orange Mts. VII (Bf); Ft. Lee (Sf); DaCosta, Atco VII, 13, on oak (W); Lahaway, larve at base of oak saplings in June (Sm); Lakehurst VII, 5 (Bf). . pulverulentus Hald. Montclair VII, on oak, iron-wood, hornbeam (Sf) ; Orange Mts. VII (Bf); Ft. Lee VI, VII, larva in iron-wood (G); New Brunswick VII (Sm); Camden (Li); Gloucester, Atlantic Co. VI, VII, on beech (W); Lakehurst V—VII, larva in scrub oak (div). . oculata Lec. Newfoundland VII, 6 (Watson). ACANTHODERES Serv. . quadrigibbus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester (Dn); Orange Mts. VIII (Bf); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Jl); breeds in a variety of forest trees (Ch). . decipiens Hald. Chester (Dn); Palisades, on dead hickory V (Lv); Ft. Lee, So. Orange (Sf); Eagle Rock VII, 5 (GG); Gloucester, Cam- den Co. (W); Anglesea VII (Coll). LEPTOSTYLUS Lec. . aculiferus Say. Orange Mts. I, at base of hickory; Newark VII, on tulip tree (Bf); Madison VIII (Pr); Woodbury VII, g. d. (W); sea- shore (Li). . parvus Lec. Hemlock Falls VII, 6, Hagle Rock VII, 9, Camden VII (GG). ; . sexguttulus Say. (commixtus Hald.) Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); along shore, Atlantic City to Anglesea VI, VII (div); reared from “Pinus inops” (Ch). . biustus Lec, Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII (Sz). . collaris Hald. Hopatcong (Pm); Highlands on chestnut (Ch); Hud- son Co. (Ll); Paterson V (Bf). . macula Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester (Dn); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Clifton VII, breeds in many kinds of deciduous trees (Ch); Newark, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Coll); g. d. (W, Li). LIOPUS Serv. . crassulus Lec. Madison (Pr). . variegatus Hald. Highlands, bred from huckleberry and box-elder (Ch); Palisades VI (Lv); Newark, Eagle Rock on locust, Sea Girt (Bf); Ateo (Li); Sea Isle VII, 4 (Brn); 2g. d. (W). . fascicularis Harr. Newark (Soc). . alpha Say. (cinereus Lec.) Throughout the State VI-VIII, more or less common on sumac, in which it breeds. . punctatus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); EHagle Rock VI, 26 (Bf); reared from dog-wood, “C. florida” (Ch), and also infests plum (Hopkins). 334 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DECTES Lec. D. spinosus Say. Throughout the State all season; occurs on and breeds in the stems of rag-weeds. LEPTURGES Bates. L. symmetricus Hald. Palisades VII, 2 (Lv); Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Li); g. d. (Bf); Ocean Co. V (Coll); bred from hackberry (Ch). var. angulatus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); g. d., not common (W, Li). var. pictus Lec. Orange Mountains (GG). L. signatus Lec. Palisades VII (Lv); Ft. Lee (Sf); Caldwell (Cr); New- ark Dist., g. d. (Bf); infests red-bud (Ch) and beech (Hpk). L. quercus Fitch. Throughout the State VI-VIII, more or less common; breeds in oak, hickory and red-bud. L. facetus Say. Throughout the State, with the preceding; the two possibly only forms of one species. HYPERPLATYS Hald. H. aspersus Say. (maculatus Hald.) Throughout the State, more or less common, V—VII, on oak. var. nigrellus Hald. Staten Island (Lg); Brown’s Mills V (Dke). GRAPHISURUS Kirby. G. fasciatus DeG. Throughout the State V—VIII, not uncommonly; reared from chestnut, oak and maple (Ch). ACANTHOCINUS Steph. A. pusilius Kirby. Newark (Bf); New York City (Sf); from Dietz Coll., rare; under bark of “Pinus inops” (Ch). A. obsoletus Oliv. Atlantic City (GG); Sea Isle VI, 11, Anglesea VI, 26 (Brn); g. d., but very rare; breeds in pine (Ch). A. nodosus Fab. Egg Harbor IX, Anglesea (W), very rare; breeds in pine (Ch). POGONOCHERUS Latr. P. mixtus Hald. Hopatcong (Bt); Newark Dist., on dead swamp willow, Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); Atlantic City VI (div); Newtonville VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Anglesea VI (W); seashore (Li). The record for “penicellatus” Lec. was based on a misidentification. ECYRUS Lec. E. dasycerus Say. Throughout the State VI, VII; found on oak (Sf); breeds in red-bud (Ch), and hickory (LeConte). EUPOGONIUS Lec. E. tomentosus Hald. ‘Throughout the State VI-IX; bred from apple twigs, but not commonly, and does no injury. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 335 E. subarmatus Lec. Nyack on linden, and surely in New Jersey (Leg). E. vestitus Say. Throughout the State, rarely; infests ‘Cornus florida” (Ch); hickory (Riley) and walnut (Hopkins). ONCIDERES Serv. O. cingulatus Say. Throughout the State VI-IX, but rare and local; girdles twigs of oak, hickory, persimmon, apple and other trees. HIPPOPSIS Serv. H. lemniscata Fabr. Madison VI (Pr); Bloomfield VIII (Bf); Camden VII, Merchantville VI (W); Westville (Li); Lahaway VII (Coll); Anglesea VII, 4 (Ly). SAPERDA Fab. S. obliqua Say. Throughout the State, rarely; breeds in black alder. S. calcarata Say. Occasional throughout the State, the larva in trunks of poplar and cottonwood, attacking live trees. S. mutica Say. Caldwell (Cr); Gloucester on willow (W). a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult. Fig. 135.—Saperda candida: a, puncture in which egg is laid; b, same in section; e, hole from which beetle has emerged; f, same in section; g, pupa in its cell. 336 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. candida Fabr. Throughout the State, late May to August, locally common. The larva is the “round-headed apple borer,’ which some- times does great injury in apple orchards, though it is even more destructive in quince, and breeds also in “Crataegus” and ‘“Amelan- chier.” The larva can be cut out when first noticed or reached with a soft wire in the later stages; but the best practice is to protect the base of the tree with some mechanical covering that will prevent the parent beetle from laying eggs or the young from getting into the trunk. Wire netting, paper, and other coverings serve the first purpose; whitewash, cement, soap mixtures and similar compounds the second. S. fayi Bland. Del. Water Gap, Greenwood Lake (Bt); larve live in galls in stems of “Crategus” (Jl). S. vestita Say. Throughout the State in July; larva bores in base of trunk and exposed roots of linden (Jl) and often causes serious in- jury. S. discoidea Fab. Throughout the State, locally not rare on hickory, on which the larva feeds; adult until IX, 1 (Ds). S. tridentata Oliv. Boonton VI, VII (GG); Palisades IV (Lv); Ft. Lee, Weehawken VI (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Newark Dist. (Bf); larva in standing and recently felled elm. S. imitans Joutel. Palisades, Ft. Lee (Joutel). S. lateralis Fabr. Throughout the State V, VI; larva in hickory. var. connecta Joutel. Top of Palisades, in base of hickory (Jl). S. puncticollis Say. Throughout the State, very rare, VI; the larva in stems of “Ampelopsis quinquefolia”; not in “Rhus” (Jl). S. concolor Lec. Hewitt, Palisades, Ft. Lee, makes galls in poplar and willow stems (Jl); Newark Dist., wherever swamp willow occurs (Bf). “S. moesta”’ Lec. is based on a misidentification. OBERA Muls. O. bimaculata Oliv. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (L1); taken only on “Rubus” (Ch); Westfield VII, 9 (Bno). var. tripunctata Fab. Throughout the State; not rare. var. basalis Lec. Chester, Orange Mts., Irvington, rare (Bf); Mer- chantville VI, DaCosta VI (Brn); Laurel Springs V, 28 (DKe). O. schaumii Lec. Newark (Soc.) O. ocellata Hald. Throughout the State in July. var. discoidea Lec. DaCosta VII, 5, Iona VI, 22 (Brn). O. tripunctata Swed. ‘Throughout the State V—VII. var. myops Hald. Orange Mts., Newark (div); Anglesea (W). var. mandarina Fabr. Hopatcong (Pm); So. Jersey (W); on “Cornus alternifolia,’ and said by Riley to breed in poplar (Ch). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 337 O. gracilis Fab. Jamesburg VII (div); Lakehurst (Jl); DaCosta VII (div); Manumuskin VI, Brown’s Mills VIII (Dke); Atco, Anglesea (W). O. ruficollis Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, on sumac and sassafras. TETROPS Steph. T. canescens Lec. Gloucester County, one specimen on alder (W). TETRAOPES Serv. T. canteriator Drap. Throughout the State; local; on milkweed. T. tetraophthalmus Forst. Common everywhere VII-IX, on milkweed. One of the commonest species of the family. AMPHIONYCHA Lec. A. flammata Newn. Orange Mts., rare (Bf); “New Jersey” (Lg). DYSPHAGA Lec. D. tenuipes Hald. Westville, two specimens (W); bred from red-bud (Ch), and recorded also from hickory and walnut. Family CHRYSOMELID. These are the “leaf-beetles,’ having the same tarsal structure as in the “Cerambycide’?; but with antenne rarely as long as the body, the joints comparatively stouter and larger toward the tip. The species are rarely cylindrical and the thorax has usually either a lateral margin or a distinct suture. The larve are “slugs” or “grubs,” often stout and chunky like those of the potato beetle and feeding on leaves, or they may be long and slen- der, mining in root or leaf tissue. They vary much in habit, although always feeders on vegetable tissue, and many of them rank among the first-class pests. As against those that feed openly, the arsenites are usually available; but there are some that must be dealt with in other ways, depending on their habits. DONACIA Fabr. D. harrisii Lec. Newfoundland in a damp meadow (Lg). D. floridze Leng. Quick Pond VII, 30 (Lg); Hammonton, Tuckerton, Bamber VIII, 23, 24 (Dke); very local but common where it occurs. All the species of this genus live on or in water plants, and are usually found on lily pads or other pond vegetation. D. cincticornis Newn. Staten Island (lig); Clementon VIII, Atco VI, DaCosta VII (W); Tuckerton VIII, 24 (Dke); Sea Isle V, 24, Anglesea Wall (Wei). var. proxima Kirby. Throughout State, more common and widely distributed than the type form. D. palmata Oliv. Throughout the State V, VIII; usually common. D. hypoleuca Lac. Hopatcong (Pm); Spring Lake VIII (Ch); New Brunswick (Coll); Clementon VII, 6 (Horn). 22 IN 338 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. var. rufescens Lac. Tuckerton VIII, 24 (Dke); Clementon VIII, 6 (W); Anglesea V, VII (div). D. piscatrix Lec. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Staten Island (Lg); Westville VII, Clementon VIII (W); Woodbury V, 31, Sea Isle V, 24 (Brn); Lucaston VI (Dke); Durham Pond VIII, 18, Cramer Hill V, VII (GG). D. subtilis Kunze. Throughout the State III, VI, VII, VIII, XII. The “hirticollis” of previous edition belongs here. var. rugosa Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island (Lg); Spring Lake IX (Ch); Riverton VII, 16 (GG). D. zequalis Say. Throughout the State, fall and spring, common. D. tuberculata Lac. Throughout the State, VI, VII, local, not common. D. distincta Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark (Bf); Merchantville IV, 2, Westville V, 27 (W). var. torosa Lec. Camden, Gloucester Co. (W); Manumuskin IV, 28 (Dke). D. pusilla Say. New Jersey (Horn, Li); Boonton VI, 12, Clementon V, 16 (GG). D. femoralis Kirby. Greenwood Lake (Bt). D. emarginata Kirby. Snake Hill V, 17 (Bf); Camden, Gloucester Co. (W). D. metallica Ahrens. Lake Hopatcong (Pm); Westville V, Clementon V (GG). , D. flavipes Kirby. Newfoundland V (Ds); Westville VI, Gloucester VI (W); Cramer Hill VI, 11 (GG); Anglesea V, VII (Brn). D. rufa Say. Newfoundland V (Ds); Greenwood Lake (Sf); Westville V, Atco VI (W). D. kirbyi Lac. Camden IV, 24, Collingswood IV, 20, Atco VI, 13 (GG). HAEMONIA Latr. H. nigricornis Kirby. Westville (W); g. d. (hi); in low meadows. ORSODACHNA Latr. O. atra Ahr. Greenwood Lake (Jl); Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark Dist. (Bf); from mid IV—VI on early blossoms of all kinds; very local. ZEUGOPHORA Kunze. Z. consanguinea Cr. Hewitt (Jl); Madison VIII (Pr); Newark (Bf). Z. varians Cr. Palisades (Jl); Orange Mts. (Bf); rare; on poplar VI (Hn). SYNETA Esch. S. ferruginea Germ. Throughout the State V, VI, local, not common. LEMA Fabr. L. brunnicollis Lac. Palisades VI, 7 (Liv); Ft. Lee on thistle (Bt); Hud- son Co. (Ll); Newark (Bf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 330 L. collaris Say. Newark, g. d., rare on thistle (Bt). L. solani Fabr. Anglesea, one specimen (W). L. trilineata Oliv. The “old-fashioned potato beetle,” throughout the State, V-—VIII sometimes locally common; usually checked by the applications against the “Colorado beetle,’’ and in most places almost exterminated. Fig. 136.—The common asparagus beetle: a, adult; b, egg; c, young larva; d, full grown slug or larva; e, pupa; all enlarged. a CRIOCERIS Geoff. C. asparagi Linn. Throughout the State wherever asparagus grows, from early spring to late fall, in some stage; hibernates as an adult. An imported species, often very injurious. On young plants brush the slugs from the shoots to the ground on the middle of a hot sunny day. On larger plants apply dry hydrate of lime with a powder gun very early when the plants and slugs are a little moist. Destroy all volun- teer asparagus; in bearing fields let trap shoots grow until covered with eggs, then cut and destroy them. C. 12-punctata Linn. Also an introduced asparagus feeder, more recently arrived, not so common and not so widely distributed in the northern half of the State as the preceding. Fig. 137.—The 12-spotted asparagus beetle: a, adult; b, larva; c, d, segments of same; all enlarged. 340 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ANOMCEA Lac. A. laticlavia Forst. Delaware Valley region and northward V-—VII on “Desmodium” and “Robinia,” somewhat local, and not common. COSCINOPTERA Lac. C. dominicana Fab. Throughout the State V, VI, not common; adults on sumae (Ch); cocoons found under stone with ‘Formica shaufussi,” Newfoundland IV, 27, adults V, 15 (Ds). BABIA Chevr. B. quadriguttata Oliv. Throughout the State VI-VII, not rare; on “Ceano- thus americanus” (Ch). SAXINIS Lac. S. omogera Lac. Throughout the State V—-VII; not common. CHLAMYS Knoch. C. plicata Fab. Throughout the State, nowhere common V, VI; on hazel, blackberry, alder, huckleberry, oak, ete. var. polycocca Lac. With the type and even more rare. C. foveolata Knoch. Atco, DaCosta (W). EXEMA Lac. E. conspersa Mann. Throughout the State V, VI; not rare. E. gibber Oliv. With the preceding and once considered identical. BASSAREUS Hald. B. congestus Hald. Ft. Lee and southward throughout the State VI-VIII, on ‘“‘Alnus” and “Clethra”’; at Anglesea a small variety occurs (Li). B. formosus Mels. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. VI (div); Merchant- ville VI, VII (div); Atco VI, Newtonville VI (Brn); DaCosta (W); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm); on “Sambucus” (Hn). var. sulfuripennis Mels. Sparta VII (Ds). B. detritus Oliv. Clifton V, on “Ceanothus americanus” (Ch). B. mammifer Newn. Throughout the State VI, VII on hickory, hazel (Hn), and “Ceanothus americanus” (Ch). var. sellatus Suffr. Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII (div). var. luteipennis Mels. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Anglesea (W). var. pretiosus Mels. Woodside, Orange Mts. (Bf). B. lituralis Fab. Throughout the State V—VII; locally common. var. recurvus Say. Westville VII, Atco, DaCosta VI (W); g. d., rare (Bf). var. lativittis Germ. With the type, but more rare. fe) Cc. Cc. a) ae) as) aed ae} ae] U UU U THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 341 CRYPTOCEPHALUS Geoff. . notatus Fab. Throughout the State V, VI; locally common; on oak, blackberry, “Ceanothus.” The variety ‘“4-maculatus” Say. is more common than the type. . quadruplex Newn. Throughout the State V—VII; the variety “4-gut- tulus” Suffr., with the type and locally the more common. . guttulatus Oliv. Orange Mts. to Cape May V—VII, on oak. . leucomelas Suffr. South Camden on poplar (W). . venustus Fab. Common throughout the State VI-VIII, on “Ceano- thus,” potato and other garden plants. The varieties ‘“ornatus” Fab., “cinctipes” Rand. and “simplex” Hald. occur with the type more or less abundantly. . insertus Hald. Newark (Bf); throughout South Jersey VI, VII (W). . calidus Suffr. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts., West Bergen, rare (Bf), W. Berlin VI, Anglesea VII (Brn). . gibbicollis Hald. Lakehurst VI, VII, in low huckleberry (Jl); Iona, Atco VI (Brn); Brown’s Mills VI, Malaga VII (Dke); DaCosta VII, Anglesea (W). . trivittatus Oliv. Ft. Lee (Bt); DaCosta VII, Atco VIII, [IX (W). . incertus Oliv. Atco IX, 11 (Brn). . mutabilis Mels. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. and Newark Dist. VII (div); Anglesea (W); on “Ceanothus,” “Viburnum,” hazel, oak, etc. . badius Suffr. Caldwell (Cr). . schreibersii Suffr. Newfoundland IX, 2 (Jl); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts., Woodside (Bf); New Brunswick (Coll); Malaga IX, 15 (GG); always on pine. tinctus Lec. Staten Island, beaten from hickory (Lg). striatulus Lec. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf). C. pumilus Hald. is an error of determination. PACHYBRACHYS Chevr. . morosus Hald. Newtonville VI (Brn); Clementon V, 21 (GG); Da- Costa, Atco VI, 2, Cape May C. H. (W). . litigiosus Suffr. W. Berlin VI, 28, DaCosta VI, 3, Anglesea (W). . abdominalis Say. New Jersey (W). . othonus Say. Piedmont Plain and northward VI, VII; common. . pubescens Oliv. (viduatus Fab.) New Jersey (W). . picturatus Germ. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jl). . trinotatus Mels. Throughout the State, not rare, VI, VII, on “Bap- tisia”’ and “Ceanothus.” . intricatus Suffr. Throughout the State V—VII; not uncommon. . tridens Mels. Boonton VI, 6 (GG); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Clementon, Atco VI, 2 (W); Anglesea VI, 20 (Sm); on sumac, poison ivy when in bloom and on “Ceanothus.” 342 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Ee P. U0) Og) od D. D. carbonarius Hald. Woodside, Snake Hill V, 31 (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); throughout South Jersey V, VI (W). luridus Fab. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Clifton V (Ch); Mer- chantville V, 28, Atco VI, 13 (GG). . atomarius Mels. Throughout the State V—VIII, on “Ceanothus.” . femoratus Oliv. Newark (Soc); Anglesea (W). infaustus Hald. Throughout the State V, VI; locally common. hepaticus Mels. Woodside, rare (Bf); Anglesea VII, 12 (Bf). subfasciatus Hald. Throughout the State V, VI; not rare. . dilatatus Suffr. Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); New Jersey (Horn). MONACHUS Chevr. . ater Hald. Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg V—VIII (Sm); Lakehurst VII, IX (Jl); Merchantville VI, Westville VII (GG). . Saponatus Fab. Staten Island (Lg); throughout the Delaware Val- ley region VI, VII (div); Anglesea VII, 12 (Brn). DIACHUS Lec. auratus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; common. squalens Suff. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). The “D. levis” Hald. of the previous list is an error. TRIACHUS Lec. . atomus Suffr. Throughout the State V—VII on huckleberry, “‘Myrica,” ete. . cerinus Lec. Snake Hill (Sf); Sandy Hook (Bt); g. d. (Li). . postremus Lec. Jamesburg VII, 4, DaCosta, Atco VI, 4 (W); Newton- ville VI, 5 (Brn). ADOXUS Kirby. . obscurus Linn. (vitis Fab.) Madison (Pr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. V, 30 (W). FIDIA Baly. . viticida Walsh. Throughout the State on grape, not rare; but not thus far in harmful numbers. . longipes Mels. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick; also feeds on grape and “Ampelopsis’” and is sometimes abundant. XANTHONIA Baly. . 10-notata Say. Common throughout the State V—VIII, on oak. . villosula Mels. Throughout the State VI-VIII, on oak and hazel; common. GLYPTOSCELIS Lec. . pubescens Fab. Throughout the State IV-VII, on spruce and pine. . barbata Say. Madison (Pr); Newark Dist. (Bf); Ft. Lee (Sf); West- ville V, 9, Lucaston IV, 29, DaCosta (W); found on hickory; not common. THE UNSECTS OF NEW fERSEY: 343 GRAPHOPS Lec. G. pubescens Mels. Throughout the State V—VIII; at roots of evening primrose (Ch); common. G. curtipennis Mels. Delaware Valley and pine barrens V, VI. G. marcassita Cr. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Newark (Bf). G. simplex Lec. Salt meadows, rare (Bf). G. nebulosus Lec. Newark Dist. (Bf); Ocean Co. (Sm); g. d. (W); larva in the roots of strawberries and sometimes injurious. TYPOPHORUS Er. T. viridicyanea Cr. North Jersey (Dietz); Plainfield VII, on wild morn- ing glory (Rummel); Jamesburg IX (Lg); Camden II, 20 (GG). T. canellus Fab. Throughout the State V—X on a great variety or trees and plants; larve sometimes injurious on strawberry, raspberry, etc. Many varieties are listed, and their relation to each other is by no means established. It is almost certain that several of them will be found to be good species. , var. aterrimus Oliv. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Bf); Cramer Hill, Merchantville VI (GG); along shore, Atlantic City to Anglesea VI, VII (div). var. gilvipes Horn. Delaware Valley and pine barrens VI-IX (div); New Brunswick VII (Coll); Newark (Bf). var. thoracicus Mels. Newark (Bf); throughout Camden and Glouces- ter Counties, fall to spring (div). var. 4-notatus Say. Newark (Bf); Delaware Valley and pine barrens V-VII (div). var. sellatus Horn. With the preceding, sometimes very common. var. vittatus Horn. Atco V, Longport VI (W); Somers Pt. VI, Angle- sea VI (Brn). var. 4-guttatus Lec. Ocean Co. V, VI (Sm). var. sex-notatus Say. Atco V, DaCosta, Cape May C. H. (W); Bayside IX (Sm). var. pumilus Lec. Newark (Bf); Delaware Valley and pine barrens V-VIII (div). METACHROMA Lec. M. quercata Fabr. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (div); throughout ‘South Jersey on scrub oak V—VII; sometimes common. M. pallida Say. Pine barrens and maritime, extending a little into the Delaware Valley; on scrub oak. M. lzevicollis Cr. Sandy Hook (Bt); Jamesburg, Anglesea VII (Sm); DaCosta VI, VII (Brn); Buena Vista VII (Li). M. luridum Oliv. DaCosta VII, 4, on scrub oak (W). 344 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CHRYSOCHUS Redt. C. auratus Fab. Locally common throughout the State V—VII, on milk- weed and dog-bane; the larve feeding about the roots. TYMNES Chap. T. tricolor Fab. Throughout the State, local and sometimes common VI, VII, on chestnut, hickory, etc. T. metasternalis Cr. Staten Island (Lg); Anglesea VII, 23 (div); on “Crategus” (Hn). COLASPIS Fab. C. favosa Say. DaCosta VII, Sea Isle VI (Brn); g. d. (Li). C. brunnea Fab. Throughout the State, locally common VI, VII; feeds on foliage of grape, strawberry, potatoes, beans, ete.; the larva on roots of grape; but not injurious with us. var. flavida Say. Distributed as above and is the common form. var. costipennis Cr. Jamesburg VI, VII on “Clethra alnifolia” (Sm); Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); DaCosta VI (W); Clementon V, VI (div); Newtonville VI, 19 (Brn). RHABDOPTERUS Lef. R. picipes Oliv. Throughout the State south of the Piedmont Plain VI, VII, feeds on myrtle, grape and basswood. NODONOTA Lef. N. tristis Oliv. Throughout the State VII; attacks plum, cherry and other fruit trees (Ch), “Lespedeza” and ‘‘Ceanothus” (Hn). N. clypealis Horn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark (Bf); Atlantic Highlands VII, 11 (Liv); South Jersey VI, 2 (Sm); Westville (W). N. convexa Say. Westville (W); on “Ambrosia trifida’’ VII, VIII (Hn). N. puncticollis Say. Throughout the State VII, common; on roses (Hn), blackberry, raspberry and red clover (Ch). CHRYSODINA Baly. C. globosa Say. Throughout the State IV—VI, locally not rare. PRASOCURIS Latr. P. vittata Oliv. Throughout the State IV—VII; locally common. P. phellandri Linn. Hopatcong (Pm). LABIDOMERA Chevr. L. clivicollis Kirby. Throughout the State VI, VII, on milkweed, but local and by no means very common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 345 LEPTINOTARSA Stal. Fig. 138.—The t1o-lined potato beetle: a, egg patches; b, larve in different stages of growth; c, pupa; d, beetle—all natural size; e, elytrum of beetle enlarged. . 10-lineata Say. The common “potato-bug” or beetle; occurs through- out the State on potatoes, tomatoes, egg-plants and other “Solanaces”’ from early spring to late fall. Persistent treatment with arsenates is indicated and arsenate of lead is now the most usual material, at the rate of 10 pounds to 100 gallons of water. ZYGOGRAMMA Chevr. . suturalis Fab. Throughout the State IV—VIII, on ragweed, etc., by no means common and always local. The var. “‘casta’”’ Rogers is re- ported from Staten Island (Lg). CALLIGRAPHA Er. . lunata Fab. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Caldwell (Cr); Newark Dist., rare (Bf); on “Rosa’”’ (Bt). . similis Rog. Throughout the State V—VIII, on ragweed, locally com- mon. . elegans Oliv. Throughout the State, V—-VIII, on “Bidens” and “Am- brosia,” local and hardly common. . scalaris Lec. Greenwood Lake V, 20 (Liv); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark Dist. (Bf); Gloucester VIII, 16 (W); feeds on elm; not common. - rowena Knab. Chester VII, 4 (div); food plant unknown. . rhoda Knab. Newark district (Bf); feeds only on hazel ‘“Corylus” (Knab). 346 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. amelia Knab. Chester, Newark Dist. (Bf); feeds on alder only (Knab). C. philadelphica Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. VI (Bf); Riverton V, 30 (GG); throughout Camden and Gloucester Co. IV-VI (div); Lahaway V—VII on “Cornus” only (Sm). var. spirzeze Say. With the type and locally replacing it. C. bigsbyana Kirby. Throughout the State, more common northwardly V, VI on maple, willow and alder. The records credited to ‘multi- punctata”’ Say. in the last edition really belong here. It is quite likely that some of the records credited to “scalaris’” and “philadelphica’’ belong to Mr. Knab’s species, and that these are of wider distribution than here indicated. PHAEDON Latr. (PLAGIODERA Redt.) P. viridis Mels. Orange Mts. (Soc); g. d. not rare (Bf); Camden (¢W). P. cochlearize Gyll. Hopatcong (Pm). GASTROIDEA Hope. G. polygoni Linn. Throughout the State VI-IX, common; occasionally even on house plants in cities and towns. G. cyanea Mels. Throughout the State VII, common; on “Rumex” (Hn). MELASOMA Steph. (LINA Megerle.) L. lapponica Linn. Hewitt VI, 18, Newfoundland VII, 6 (Jl); Orange Mts. (Bf); g. d. (W); on alder and willow. L. tremulz Fab. Anglesea VI, 12, one example (Brn). L. scripta Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, on willow and poplar; often common, and sometimes locally injurious. L. obsoleta Say. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Liv); Newark (Bf). PHYLLODECTA Kirby. P. vulgatissima Linn. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee VIII, IX (Bt); Madison (Pr); Orange Mts. (div); on willow and poplar. TRIRRHABDA Lec. T. tomentosa Linn. Maritime strip V—IX, common on “Solidago.” . virgata Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Sandy Hook VIII, IX (Bt). T. canadensis Kirby. Local throughout the State on “Solidago,” common along shore in July. | T. luteicincta Lee. New Jersey coast, near Long Branch (Horn). Mr. Schwarz insists that this is an error in the locality label, and that the species does not belong to New Jersey. Fig. aatips aclu THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 347 , GALERUCELLA Cr. larve feeding; c, adult; all 139.—The elm-leaf beetle: a, egg patches on leaves; b natural size: e, egg mass; f, surface of egg; g, larva; h, 7, larval details; j, pupa; k, beetle; J, surface of elytra: all enlarged. ’ americana Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, on “Solidago.” sexvittata Lec. Jamesburg VII, 6 (Jl); Anglesea VII, 23 (Sm). cavicollis Lec. East Jersey (Dietz); Atco VI, 4, Anglesea (W); Sea Isle V, 22 (Brn); feeds on peach, plum and cherry. rufosanguinea Say. Throughout the State V—VIII, locally common; feeds on “Azalea” (Hn). integra Lec. Caldwell (Cr); Anglesea VIII, 13 (W). notulata Fab. Throughout the State V—VIII; more common in South Jersey; larva on “Ambrosia” (Hn). notata Fab. Throughout the State VI-IX; often common; in all stages on “Hupatorium perfoliatum’” (Ch). nymphzee Linn. Throughout the State, on water lilies; larve defacing leaves and sometimes flowers as well. tuberculata Say. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); New Jersey (Bt); on willow (Hn). decora Say. Anglesea VII, common (Sz); in all stages on willow. 348 REPORT’ OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. G. luteola Miill. The elm-leaf beetle; common throughout the State, and usually more or less injurious to city shade trees. There is only a single brood in most of the State, and thorough spraying with arsenate of lead, 1 lb. in 20 gallons of water, will prevent injury. One spraying should be made when the beetles first begin to feed, the second when the eggs begin to hatch, and the effort should then be to hit the underside of the leaves. MONOXIA Lec. M. puncticollis Say. On salt meadows, from the Passaic to Cape May VI, VII; usually not rare; strictly maritime. DIABROTICA Chev. (se Fig. 140.—Spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica 12—punctata: a, egg; b, larva; c, holes drilled in corn stalks; d, pupa; e, adult: all enlarged. D. 12-punctata Oliv. Common throughout the State IV-X on a great variety of plants and sometimes injuring cucurbs; larva in roots of corn and grasses. D. vittata Fab. The ‘striped cucumber beetle’; throughout the State; common and often seriously injurious to cucurbs. The beetle eats into the stem at the surface, the larva mines in it a little under- ground. Most of the injury is done by the beetles, which attack the plants soon after they are up, and a great variety of methods are employed to prevent it. Sometimes carbolized lime or lime and tur- pentine are applied in the hill, or a dead fish, or freshly ground bone, THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 349 or sand and kerosene. Ground tobacco is a favorite repellant, and land plasters often replace lime. On small fields netting covers are used to protect the plants, & and occasionally only an excess of seed is planted so that some plants may escape in- jury. D. atripennis Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (L1); Caldwell (Cr). PHYLLOBROTICA Redt. P. discoidea Fab. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Newark, Orange Fig. 141.—The striped cucumber beetle, Diabrotica Mts. (Bf); Woodbury, vittata: a, adult; b, larva; c, pupa; d, side Brigantine, Orange view of anal segment of same. Mts. VI-VII (W). P. decorata Say. Arlington VI, on “Scutellaria” (Sf). P. vittata Horn. Fort Lee (Sf). LUPERODES Mots. L. meraca Say. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Ft. Lee, Orange Mts. VI, 10 (Bt); Newark (Bf); on wild rose (Hn) and many other plants (Ch). L. cyanellus Lec. Staten Island (Lg); occurs with the preceding, and may be confused with it in collections. CERATOMA Chev. C. trifurcata Forst. Throughout the State VI, VII; common on peas, beans and leguminous plants generally. BLEPHARIDA Rog. With this species begins the series of forms characterized by enlarged hind femora and a well-developed power of leaping, which gives them the common and general term “flea-beetles.” B. rhois Forst. Throughout the State VII; more common in the southern districts; the larva, covered by excrement, feeds on sumac. HYPOLAMPSIS Clark. H. pilosa Ill. Madison VIII (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg VI (Jl); Merchantville III, Westville VII (W); Newtonville VII (Brn); along shore, Brigantine to Cape May V—VII (div). PACHYONYCHUS Chev. P. paradoxus Mels. Atlantic City (Castle); lives on “Smilax” sp. (Sz). 350 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CEDIONYCHIS Latr. . gibbitarsa Say. Newark, salt meadows (Bf); Cramer Hill VI (GG); Woodbury VI, Anglesea VI (W); g. d. (Li); Brigantine IX (Hn). . thoracica Fab. Throughout the State IV—VII; not common. f . vians Ill. Throughout the State III-V; not common. . fimbriata Forst. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf). . petaurista Fab. DaCosta VII, 5 (W); seahore (LI). . . miniata Fab. Woodside, Orange Mts. IV, VIII (Bf); Atco V, 29 (W); Sea Isle V, Avalon VI (Brn); Anglesea (Li). . limbalis Mels. Throughout the State IV-IX; never common. var. subvittata Horn. Madison VII (Pr); DaCosta (W); Lahaway V (Sm). . sexmaculata [ll]. Greenwood Lake V, 22 (Lv); Madison VII (Pr); Newark, common on ash (Bf); g. d. (W, Li). CE. suturalis Fab. Newark (Coll); Atco IX, Clementon V, 15 (W); Egg Harbor, Cape May Co. V, 24 (Sm). CE. quercata Fab. Throughout the State V, VI, [X; not rare. CE. scalaris Mels. Egg Harbor (Li); Anglesea (W). RAR AR fi fa DISONYCHA Chev. D. pennsylvanica.Ill. Newark Dist. (Bf); Westville V, DaCosta V, An- glesea V (W); Clementon V, VII (div); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm). The varieties “limbicollis” Lec. and ‘“‘pallipes” Cr. occur with the type; but more rarely. On “Polygonum” (Bt) and “Sagittaria” (Ch). D. quinquevittata Say. Fort Lee VIII (Bt); very rare; on willow (Ch). D. crenicollis Say. Hudson Co. (L1); Delaware Valley and pine barrens IV—-VIII, not rare. t D. caroliniana Fab. Throughout the State IV—VII, not rare; bred from larva feeding on “Portulacca oleracea” (Ch). D. glabrata Fab. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); salt meadows (Bf); DaCosta VII, 29 (W); Sea Isle V, Anglesea (Brn); larva on “Ama- ranthus” (Ch). D. triangularis Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (1); Madison (Pr); salt meadows (Bf); larva on ‘Chenopodium’ and “Amaranthus,” the adult exceptionally injurious to beets and spinach (Ch). Fig. 142.—Grape flea-beetle, Haltica chalybea in all stages on a grape shoot. Fig. 143.—Grape flea-beetle, Haltica chalybea: larva, adult and jumping hind leg, en- larged. Fig. 144.—Striped flea-beetle, Phyllotreta vittata: a, larva; b, adult beetle. Fig. 145.—-Striped sweet potato beetle, Cassida bivittata: 1, larve or “peddlers” on leaf; 2, larva; 3, pupa; 4, adult: all save r enlarged. Fig. 146.—Black-legged tortoise beetle, Cassida nigripes: a, “peddlers” on leaf; b, larva; c, pupa; d, adult: all save a enlarged. THE INSECTS 352 REPORT’ OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. xanthomelzena Dalm. Throughout the State, VII, VIII; the “Spinach flea beetle,” which has not yet been injurious with us. Natural food plants are “Chenopodium,” “Stellaria” and perhaps ‘Amaranthus” (Ch). D. collata Fab. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Anglesea (W); g.-d. (Li). D. mellicollis Say. Hudson Co. (L1); Clementon V, 30 (GG)); Sea Isle V, VI (Brn); Anglesea VII, and g. d. (W). The record of “cervicalis’’ Lee. is an error. HALTICA Geoffr. H. bimarginata Say. New Jersey (Horn). H. chalybea Ill. The “grape flea-beetle’; occurs throughout the State V-VII and is sometimes locally injurious. Can be readily controlled by the use of arsenites when the larve are feeding. H. ignita Ill. Throughout the State V—VIII; attacks strawberry (Ch), and is common on “Azalea,” “Rosaceae,” etc. (Hn). At Anglesea a small, southern, green form occurs (W). H. kalmize Mels. With the preceding and is a cupreous form, feeding on “Kalmia latifolia” (Ch). H. marevagans Horn. Throughout the State VI-IX on evening prim- rose; more common in South Jersey, and especially along shore. H. fuscozenea Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Atl. Highlands VII, 11 (Lv); throughout South Jersey V-IX; especially common along shore on evening primrose, the foliage of which is sometimes completely riddled. H. rufa Ill. Greenwood Lake VI (Sf); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Spots- wood (Jl). The ‘punctipennis” Lec. of last edition is an error. ORTHALTICA Cr. O. copalina Fab. Throughout the State VII; on sumac (Ch). CREPIDODERA Chev. C. rufipes Linn. Throughout the State VI, VII; common. On honey locust (Bf), and sometimes injurious to grape, peach, apple and other fruit trees. C. helexinus Linn. Throughout the State V-IX, common on willow and poplar; exceptionally attacks leaves of fruit trees (Ch). C. modeeri Linn. South Orange (Leg). C. atriventris Mels. Throughout the State in July. EPITRIX Foudr. E. fuscula Cr. Throughout the State, not common, on “Solanacea.”’ E. cucumeris Harr. The “cucumber flea-beetle’; found everywhere throughout the summer on potatoes and other ‘‘Solanacea” as well THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 353 as on cucurbs and many other garden crops. Make little round holes in the leaves and are usually controlled by using bordeaux mixture and Paris green. E. parvula Fab. The “tobacco flea-beetle”; rare in New Jersey; found Westville I, 28, in hibernating quarters (W). MANTURA Steph. M. floridana Cr. Arlington, under stones in early spring (Bf); through- out South Jersey V—VII; hibernates as an adult. CHAZTOCNEMA Steph. C. subcylindrica Lec. Newark, under stones III, 14 (Bf); Westville (Li); Camden I, Collingswood IV, Merchantville V, 8 (Brn); rare. C. denticulata Ill. Throughout the State V—VII; on corn and millet (Ch). Cc. minuta Mels. Newark (Bf). C. alutacea Cr. Anglesea VI (Coll). C. obesula Lec. Newark (Bf); a South Atlantic form. C. parcepunctata Cr. irvington III (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). C. pulicaria Mels. Throughout the State III, V, VII, locally common; sometimes injurious to corn and millet (Ch). C. confinis Cr. Throughout the State all winter until VI, 25, again VIII until frost. The “sweet potato flea beetle,” found on “Convolvulacea”’ in general. In South Jersey often injures sweet potato plants soon after they are set out; larva feeds on roots of bind-weeds. Plants may be protected dy dipping tops before they are set out in arsenate of lead 1 pound in 10 gallons of water. “C. pinguis” Lec. is omitted as an error of record. SYSTENA Clark. S. hudsonias Forst. Throughout the State VII, VIII; common on many plants. S. frontalis Fab. With the preceding VI, VII; feeds on “Polygonum” and “Chenopodium,” and sometimes on cultivated crops) (Chi); e 2., cranberries (Sm). S. elongata Fab. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). S. tzniata Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, sometimes abundant on carrots, parsley, ete. The var “blanda”’ Mels. is as common as the type, on ragweed. Arsenites are indicated whenever they can be safely employed; otherwise a strong tobacco decoction will answer almost as well. S. marginalis Ill. Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. (Bf); Spring Lake (Ch); Clementon VIII, 6 (W); sometimes abundant on oak (Hn). 23 IN 354 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LUPERALTICA Cr. L. fuscula Lec. Newark Dist. (Bf); Jamesburg (Coll); Merchantville IX, 6 (GG); DaCosta VIII, Lucaston IX (Dke); not common. L. senilis Say. Newark (Bf); Riverton 1X, Glassboro VII, IX (GG); DaCosta VIII, Atco IX (W); not common. GLYPTINA Lec. Q . bicolor Horn. Anglesea (W). 7) - spuria Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); g. d. rare (Li); on “Monarda punc- tata” (Hn). PHYLLOTRETA Foudr. . sinuata Steph. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison VIII (Pr); Hudson Co. (L1); Camden I (GG); Burlington Co., Westville I, VII, 2 (W). . vittata Fab. Common all summer on cabbage and other “Crucifere.” P. bipustulata Fab. Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts. V, 30 (Bf); Camden III, 38, Anglesea VI, 26 (W); g. d. (Li). . chalybeipennis Cr. Sandy Hook to Cape May, along shore VII, VIII; a maritime form on ‘“‘Cakile americana” (Ch). P. picta Say. Throughout the State IV—VII, not rare; on hickory sprouts (Ein): U U U LONGITARSUS Latr. L. testaceus Mels. Newark, under stones, early spring (Bf); Westville VII, 2, So. Jersey g. d. (W); Sea Isle VII, 12 (Brn). . turbatus Horn. Staten Island (Lg). melanurus Mels. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Newark III, 5 (Bf). L. insolens Horn. Newark (Bf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lg); Anglesea (W); g. d. (Li); New Jersey (Horn). “Alternatus” Ziegl. in the last edition is an error. ie | DIBOLIA Latr. D. borealis Chev. Throughout the State VI, VII; lives on plantain, but exceptionally attacks turnip (Ch). PSYLLIODES Latr. P. punctulata Mels. Throughout the State, late fall and until’next July; often common; adult devours leaves of rhubarb (Ch). P. convexior Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Anglesea (W); g. d. rare (Li). This ends the flea beetle series. MICRORHOPALA Baly. M. vittata Fab. Throughout the State V—VII, IX; not rare; larva mines the leaves of goldenrod. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 355 . xerene Newn. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Camden, g. d., in wet places (W); Westville (Li); Burlington Co. VI (GG); larva in gol- denrod leaves. . erebus Newn. Jamesburg VI, rare (Sm). . excavata Oliv. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hemlock Falls VII, 4 (W); Jamesburg VI, 24 (Jl); Newtonville (Brn); DaCosta VI, Atco IX (W). : . porcata Mels. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (Li); Wenonah (Li); very rare. ODONTATA Chev. . scapularis Oliv. Throughout the State V, 30—VIII, 6, not rare. . notata Oliv. DaCosta V, 12 (W); g. d. (Li); on “Tephrosia virgin- ica.” . bicolor Oliv. Throughout the State V—VIII: locally common. . hornii Sm. Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); Atco (Li); DaCosta VII, 5 (W); on “Tephrosia virginica.” . dorsalis Thunb. Throughout the State V, VI, VIII, common on locust, the iarve making blotch-mines in the leaves; exceptionally attacks red clover, hog-peanut, some fruit trees, and larva has been reared on Soy beans (Ch). . rubra Web. Throughout the State with the preceding V, VII, IX; also common on “Robinia” and sometimes on basswood. . nervosa Panz. Throughout the State nearly all year, on locust; com- mon. CHARISTENA Baly. . nigrita Oliv. Irvington, Newark (Bf); DaCosta VII, 30 (W). . ariadne Newn. DaCosta VII, 30 (W); Atco (Li). STENISPA Bally. . metallica Fabr. Ft. Lee (Sf); Snake Hill (Bt); Newark Dist. (Bf); Westville IV—-VI (div); Merchantville III and g. d., throughout So. Jersey (W); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm); in swampy areas. PHYSONOTA Boh. . unipunctata Say. Boonton III, VI, VII (GG). CASSIDA Linn. . nigripes Oliv. Throughout South Jersey on sweet potato vines in May; not very abundant. . . bivittata Say. Very common and often injurious to sweet potato vines throughout South Jersey. Mr. Schwarz says this is not orig- inally a native of the State, but has spread northward with the culti- vation of the sweet potato. It is one of the “gold-bugs,” the larve 356 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. of which are known as “peddlers.” They attack the plants soon after they are set out and injure them severely before they can get a start, especially in dry weather. Plants should be dipped when set in arsenate of lead, 1 pound in 10 gallons of water; but do not dip the roots. COPTOCYCLA Chev. C. bicolor Fab. (aurichalcea Fab.) Throughout the State on ‘“Convol- vulus” V, VI; common and destructive on sweet potatoes in South Jersey. A gold-bug like the preceding and amenable to the same remedies. C. signifer Hbst. (guttata Oliv.) Throughout the State V, VI, more common southwardly, where it also attacks sweet potatoes. C. purpurata Boh. Cramer Hill V, Woodbury VI, VIII, 29 (GG); West- ville I, 28, in hibernating quarters (W). C. clavata Fab. Throughout the State, usually not common; sometimes locally abundant on potatoes, etc., and causes injury. CHELYMORPHA Chev. C. argus Licht. Throughout the State, common; on “Convolvulus” and “Asclepias,” and sometimes attack raspberries (Ch). Family BRUCHID. These are the pea and bean weevils, the larve of which live in the seeds of leguminous and other plants. The beetles are short and chunky, the wing covers cut off square behind so as to expose the tip of the obese abdomen; head small, posterior legs long, the thighs swollen, but not fitted for jump- ing. In color they are usually gray, mottled with black and white, the markings formed of scales and hair covering the surface, so that when these are rubbed off the beetles are mostly uniform black. The injury is done chiefly to the stored product, peas, beans, lentils, and the like, Fig. 147.—The “bean weevil,” and several larve are often found in the much enlarged: b, an in- larger seeds. Fumigating with bisulphide fested bean. of carbon kills these insects without injuring the germinating quality of the seeds, provided they are not exposed to the fumes more than twenty- four hours. SPERMOPHAGUS Sch. S. robiniz Sch. Throughout the State IV—VIII, the larve in seeds of the honey locust “Gleditschia,”’ but local and by no means common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 357 BRUCHUS Linn. B. rufimanus Sch. Newark (Bf), in stored lentils. B. pisorum Linn. The common “pea-weevil,” which occurs abundantly throughout the State. ’ B. mimus Say. Atco (Li). B. chinensis Linn. (scutellaris Fab.) Ft. Lee (Jl); an introduced species which will probably be found elsewhere in the State. B. 4—maculatus Fab. Orange Mts. VII, 12 (Bf); New Jersey (Li). B. discoideus Say. Anglesea V, 30, IX, 4 (div). B. bivulneratus Horn. Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville (W) in seeds of “Cassia.” B. cruentatus Horn. Plainfield, about cultivated peas (Sf); Riverton V, Lucaston V (GG); Atco'V, VI (div). B. nigrinus Horn. Newark V, 29 (Bf); Highlands (Sf); DaCosta (W); throughout South Jersey (Li). B. alboscutellatus Horn. Throughout the State V-—VII, breeds in seed capsules of “Ludwigia alternifolia.” B. calvus Horn. Delaware Valley region V-IX, extending a little into the pine barrens and the maritime. B. obtectus Say. (obscletus Say., fabze Riley.) The “bean-weevil’; throughout the State; common and often seriously injurious. B. hibisci Oliv. Woodbury (Li); Westville V—VIII (div); Clementon VI, Big Timber Creek VIII (GG); Anglesea V, 28-IX, 20 (div); very common in mallow swamps, breeding in the seed pods. B. longistilus Horn. Atco VI, 2, Anglesea V, 30 (W); also breeds in seeds of mallow. B. musculus Say. Throughout the State VII-IX; locally very common. B. macrocerus Horn. Anglesea (W); New Jersey (Li). The “B. floridee’”’ of the last, edition was an error. ZABROTES Horn. Z. subnitens Horn. Westville V, 27 (Brn); Clementon V, 30 (GG); Atco, DaCosta, Buena Vista (Li); Manumuskin V, 5, on strawberry blos- soms (Dke); Anglesea (W). Family TENEBRIONIDAE. The “darkling beetles” are usually black or dark brown in color, oblong or oval in shape, with a peculiar, somewhat loosely-jointed appearance, and long, rather clumsy and awkward legs. The anterior and middle feet or tarsi are 5—jointed, while the posterior are 4—jointed only, and this is a character easily seen in these insects, which are usually of moderate or large size. In addition, the antenne are moniliform or bead-like, and the 358 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. mouth parts comparatively small, not prominent. As a rule, they are feeders on fungi or on dead or dry wood or other vegetable products; hence scavengers rather than anything else. The larve are long, slender, often a little flattened like a wire worm, and they live in dead or decaying wood, dry vegetable products or fungi. A few are of economic importance. as granary pests, but none attack growing crops. EPITRAGUS Lat. E. arundinis Lec. Common along the coast, Sandy Hook to Cape May, VII-IX, on reeds and grasses. The “E. canaliculatus” Say. and “E. tomentosus” Lec. of the last edi- tion were based on misidentifications. SCHCENICUS Lec. S. puberulus Lec. Lakehurst VII, 4-6 (Bf). PHELLOPSIS Lec. P. obcordata Kirby. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee (div); on dry fungus growths on trees; local and not common. POLYPLEURUS Esch. P. geminatus Sol. Lakehurst IX, 30 (Jl); on pine logs (Lg). P. perforatus Germ. Manumuskin IV, 24 (Dke); it may be that this record really refers to the preceding. BLAPS Newn. B. similis Latr. Merchantville IV, 1 (Dke). B. mortisaga Linn. Newark (Bf). NYCTOBATES Guer. ON, pennsylvanica De G. Common throughout the State IV—VIII, under bark. The variety “‘barbata’” Knoch, with the type. MERINUS Lec. M. levis Oliv. Throughout the State IV—VII; not rare under bark. UPIS Fabr. U. ceramboides Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Soc). HAPLANDRUS Lec. H. femoratus Fabr. Throughout the State, under stones and bark, usually the latter; [V—VII. H. ater Lec. With the preceding, but more rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 359 SCOTOBATES Horn. S. calearatus Fabr. Throughout the State V—VII; not rare. XYLOPINUS Lec. X. saperdoides Oliv. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare. X. rufipes Say. Caldwell (Cr); So. Amboy (Bt); Malaga VII (GG); g. d. (W, Li). X. znescens Lec. Caldwell (Cr); So. Amboy (Bt); DaCosta VII, 27 (DKe). TENEBRIO Linn. T. obscurus Fabr. Throughout the State. Fig. 148.—The yellow meal worm, Tenebrio moliter: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult; d, egg; about twice natural size: e, antenna of adult, more enlarged. T. molitor Linn. With the preceding. Both of these species are intro- duced and live in granaries, stables, store-houses and the like. The larve are the meal-worms, which occur wherever there is a neglected heap of grain refuse. Occasionally they are troublesome, but usually strict cleanliness, removing their breeding places, serves to keep them in check. When its use is practical, bisulphide of carbon will kill both adults and larve. T. castanea Knoch. Lakehurst V (Jl); DaCosta (Li); Malaga V, 19, un- der pine bark (W); Manumuskin V (DkKe). T. tenebrioides Beauv. Throughout the State IV—VIII, under bark of trees, among rubbish in barns and outbuildings; not rare. 360 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Ww OPATRINUS Latr. . hotus Say. Common throughout the State under bark and stones. - aciculatus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Woodside (Bf); Jersey City; rare. BLAPSTINUS Latr. moestus Mels. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). The “pratensis” Lec. of last edition was based on an example of this species. - pulverulentus Mann. New Jersey (GG). . interruptus Say. Brigantine IX (Hn). Anglesea VII (Sz); rare. . metallicus Fab. Throughout the State, all season, common; under stones, boards or chips in sandy places. AMMODONUS Mus. . fossor Lec. West Bergen, rare (Bf). EPHALUS Lec. . latimanus Lec. Along the shore, very rare in the sand. TRIBOLIUM MacL. . ferrugineus Fab. Throughout the State; common. . confusum Duval. With the preceding and usually mixed with it. Both are introduced species, occurring in meal, farina and other cereals in stores and granaries. They eat also the eggs and larve of other meal insects and the dead of their own kind; but not the cast skins of their own larve. Remedial measures where such are needed are as for other of the granary insects already dealt with. DICEDES Lec. . punctatus Lec. Ramapo XII, 6, Ft. Lee IV, 17, Highlands V, 30 (Sf). GNATHOCERUS Thunb. . cornutus Fab. Also an imported species, on cereals with “Tribolium”; where the two occur together in a confined space the ‘“Tribolium” eventually destroys the ‘‘Gnathocerus.” ALPHITOBIUS Steph. . piceus Oliv. (diaperinus Panz.) Commonly found in_ storehouses, ete., among refuse; also an introduced species. ULOMA Lap. . impressa Mels. Throughout the State VI-IX, under bark and in rot- ten wood; locally not rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 361 . imberbis Lec. Ft. Lee (Bt); Brigantine IX (Hn); g. d., common (W). . punctulata Lec. Spring Lake (Ch); Lucaston IV, 14, Manumuskin VY, 5 (Dke); g. d., less common than the preceding (W). EUTOCHIA Lec. . picea Mels. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Weehawken IV, 11 (Bt); At- lantic City (Castle); g. d. (div); found under stones and on moss. ANAZDUS Blanch. . brunneus Ziegl. Common under old leaves throughout the State and found at almost all times in sifting. PARATENETUS Spin. . fuscus Lec. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Sf); Camden XI, 3, sifting (W); Atco VIII, 26 (Brn); Anglesea VII (Sz). . punctatus Sol. Throughout the State VI-VIII; locally common. PHALERIA Latr. . testacea Say. Common along shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May, all season, in the sand under washup of all kinds and in logs. DIAPERIS Geoff. . maculata Oliv. (hydni Fab.) Throughout the State, locally com- mon; feeding on fungi. ARRHENOPLITA Kirby. . Viridipennis Fab. Ft. Lee on oak fungus (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville XI, 4 (GG); g. d., common (W). . bicornis Oliv. Common throughout the State on fungus on trees. PLATYDEMA Lap. . excavatum Say. Common throughout the State under bark of trees infested with fungi; where also all our other species occur. . ruficorne Sturm. Throughout the State; locally common. . ellipticum Fabr. Merchantville III, IV, Westville IV (GG); g. d., locally common (W). . subcostatum Lec. Merchantville IX, Sea Isle VI, Anglesea VI (Brn). . americanum Lap. Fi. Lee (Bt); g. d., common (W). It is not un- likely that the records for this and the preceding really refer to one species. CAENOCORSE Thom. . ratzeburgi Wissm. Iona, in an abandoned barn (W); an introduced species feeding in stored grain products which has just established itself. 362 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ALPHITOPHAGUS Steph. (PHYLETHUS Meg.) A. bifasciatus Say. Throughout the State. Another introduced species commonly found in stables, granaries, etc., among refuse. HYPOPHLCEUS Fab. H. cavus Lec. G. d., rare (W); predaceous in “Xyleborus” galleries. H. parallelus Mels. Throughout the State II-VI, IX, in galleries of “Tomicus” under pine bark. H. thoracicus Mels. Palisades VI, 28 (Lv); Boonton III, 3, Big Timber Creek XI, 19 (GG); g. d. rare (W); in Scolytid galleries in pine and cedar. BOLETOTHERUS Cand. B. bifurcus Fab. Common throughout the State on tree fungus (Bole- tus). ; BOLETOPHAGUS III. B. corticola Say. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Riverton IV, 10 (GG); Seaville IV, 29, VI, 11 (Brn). B. depressus Rand. Hudson Co. (LI); g. d. (W). HELOPS Fab. . micans Fab. Locally common throughout the State under bark. » americanus Beauv. G. d., rare (W). . venustus Say. Atlantic City (Castle); g. d., rare (W); on dead oak. . gracilis Bland. Woodbury IV, Newtonville VI (Brn); Clementon IV, V (div); Lakewood and Lakehurst V—VII (div); Da Costa V, Atlantic and Cape May Cos., rare on pines (W). H. zreus Germ. Throughout the State, fall to spring; locally common. Se Ege! Ge el MERACANTHA Kirby. M. contracta Beauv. Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake (Bt); Staten Island VII (Ds); g. d., rare (div); on old, dead trees. STRONGYLIUM Kirby. S. tenuicolle Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co. (L1); Newark Dist. (Bf); Woodbury VII, Merchantville V (Brn). S. terminatum Say. New Jersey, probably Plainfield (Sf). Family CISTELIDA. In general structure iike the preceding, but with longer, more slender antenne and generally smooth, pubescent surface. They are usually brown in color with none or only confused maculation, very convex up- per surface, often tapering to a point posteriorly. They are found on leaves, flowers and under bark, the larvee so far as in THE INSECTS: OF “NEW JERSEY. 363 known living in rotten wood and somewhat resembling wire-worms shape. None are of economic importance. LOBOPODA Sol. . punctulata Mels. DaCosta VII, 30 (Dke); Clementon V, Atlantic City VI, Seaville VI (Brn); Anglesea VII (Sz); g. d., rare (W); on dry twigs. . atra Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Atco (Li); Glassboro VII, DaCosta VI, VII, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Iona VII (DKe). HYMENORUS Muls. . niger Mels. Eagle Rock VII, Merchantville VI (GG); Woodbury VIII (Brn); Anglesea (W); g. d. (Li). . pilosus Mels. Merchantville VI, 15 (Brn); Anglesea (W). . obscurus Say. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Collingswood VI, 10 (GG); Anglesea, g. d. (W); all the species on dead branches. . discretus Casey. Fort Lee (Sf). . rufipes Lec. Caldwell (Cr). MYCETOCHARA Berth. . haldemani Lec. Snake Hill, rare (Bf). . fraterna Say. Orange Mt. Dist. V, VI (div); New Jersey (Horn); all the species on dead wood. . binotata Say. Ft. Lee VII (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, 17 (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Avalon VI, 23 (Brn). . analis Lec. New Jersey (Casey). ISOMIRA Muls. . quadristriata Coup. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., common.on dog- wood (Bf); g. d. common (W). . valida Sz. Anglesea, on dead holly branches (W). . ruficollis Hamilton. 5-mile beach V, 30 (W). CAPNOCHROA Lec. . fuliginosa Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark (Soc); Highlands VII (Sf); g. d. (W). « CISTELA Fab. . brevis Say. G.d., rare (W); the species generally on flowers. . sericea Say. Common, VI, VII, throughout the State. ANDROCHIRUS Lec. . erythropus Kirby. (fuscipes Mels.) Hopatcong (Pm); g. d., not common (W). 364 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family LAGRIIDAS. Represented in our fauna by only two economically unimportant spe- cies. Head and thorax narrow, of about equal width, nearly cylindrical, the elytra abruptly broader so as to form distinct shoulders. The colors are black or bronzed and the texture of the wing covers is decidedly thin and somewhat flexible. The adults are found on flowers, leaves or under bark of trees, never common, while the larve are credited with predatory tendencies. ARTHROMACRA Kirby. A. znea Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Hopatcong (Pm); Green- wood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Orange Mts. (GG); Atlantic, Cape May Cos. (div). ‘STATIRA Latr. S. gagatina Mels. Throughout the State, on flowers or under bark; usually rare. S. resplendens Mels. Staten Island (Lg). Replaces ‘croceicollis” of the last edition. Family MELANDRYIDA. The beetles of this family also are economically unimportant, and have the same general habits as in the immediately preceding families. They are very diverse in form but usually slender, often elliptical in outline, in general densely clothed with fine silky hair or pubescence, the an- tennz moderate in length, palpi often very long. The head is hidden as far as the eyes, and the prothorax is nearly or quite as broad at base as the elytra. They are ieeders in wood, fungi and dry vegetable matter generally. The larve are of the usual slender cylindrical form, the head thorax and tail segments chitinized. TETRATOMA Fab. T. truncorum Lec. Westville (Li); in old fungus (W). T. tessellata Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co., Wood- side (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); 5-mile beach (W); on fungus on dead branches V-—VIII. PENTHE Newn. P. obliquata Fab. Throughout the State under bark, sometimes common. P. pimelia Fab. With the preceding, usuaily more rare. SYNCHROA Newn. S. punctata Newn. Throughout the State V, VI, under bark of decid- uous trees and on dry limbs; locally common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 365 PROTHALPIA Lec. P. undata Lec. Greenwood Lake VI, 22 (Lv); Hemlock Falls V, 31 (W); Newark and Orange Mt. Dist. (div); in fungus on dead branches. MELANDRYA Fab. M. striata Say. Throughout the State, locally common, V, VI; under bark and on fungus in rotten trees. EMMESA Newn. E. labiata Say. Ft. Lee (Sm); Woodside (Bf); Highlands V, 30 (Sf); rare. AMBLYCTIS Lec. A. przeses Lec. “Have a specimen of this very rare species from Mo- sholu, N. Y., and should also occur in New Jersey” (Sf). “Xylita levigata” is an error of determination. ZILORA Muls. Z. nuda Prov. Eagle Rock VII, rare (Bf). CAREBARA Lec. C. longula Lec. Jamesburg VI, 24, Lakehurst V, 29 (Jl); Woodbury VII, 7 (Brn); Bamber VI, 3 (W). SPILOTUS Lec. S. quadripustulosus Mels. Orange Mts. VI (Bf); Staten Island, on sour gum (Thompson); Anglesea V, 30 (W). SCOTOCHROA Lec. S. atra Lec. Newark, on dry branches, rare, all summer (Bf). SERROPALPUS Hellw. S. barbatus Schall. Orange Mt. Dist., at light and from dry fungus V1 (div); Anglesea V, 30 (W). HYPULUS Payk. H. voudoueri Mels. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). PHLCEOTRYA Steph. P. simulator Newn. Newark, Orange Mts., rare (Bf). P. liturata Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII, on dead, fungus-covered branches; sometimes rather common. P. voudoueri Muls. Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt). 366 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. (e) (ele) (e) SYMPHORA Lec. . flavicollis Hald. Greenwood Lake VII (Sf); Orange Mts. V, 30, New- ark (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Highlands VI (Ch); Atco, Anglesea (W). . rugosa Hald. With the preceding; neither species rare. ANISOXYA Muls. . glaucula Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark (Soc); Atco (W); Angle- sea VII (Sz). HOLOSTROPHUS Horn. . bifasciatus Say. (Eustrophus) Throughout the State IV, VI, IX; found in rotten wood. EUSTROPHUS Ill. - bicolor Say. Throughout the State IX until next VI; not rare. . tomentosus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Westville (Li). HALLOMENUS Panz. . scapularis Mels. Orange Mts., Newark (div). ORCHESIA Lat. . castanea Mels. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark (Bf); Iona VI, 22 (Brn); An- glesea VII (Sz); g. d. (W); in hard fungi on trees. . gracilis Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). MICROSCAPHA Lec. . clavicornis Lec. Ft. Lee VII (Sf); Highlands VI, VII (div). SCRAPTIA Lat. . sericea Mels. Newark (Soc); DaCosta, Buena Vista (Li); on blos- soms. ALLOPODA Lec. . lutea Hald. East Jersey (Dietz); DaCosta, Buena Vista (Li); Berlin VI, Newtonville VI, Iona VI, Sea Isle VII (Brn); Anglesea (W). CANIFA Lec. . plagiata Mels. Buena Vista (Li). . pusilla Hald. Orange Mts. V, 30, Newark (Bf); Atco (W). . pallipennis Lec. Atco (W); all species on fiowers. . pallipes Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Loeffler); Westville to Brigantine, g. d., V, 27—VII, 25 (Brn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 367 NOTHUS Oliv. N. varians Lec. Anglesea (W). MYCTERUS Clairv. M. scaber Hald. Hudson Co. (Ll); Westville VI, Malaga VII (GG); Iona VI (Brn); Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke); not rare. Panty PY TED As: Generally resemble the ‘‘Melandryide” in habits and structure, but have the prothorax narrowed behind, the elytra forming distinct shoul- ders, and there may be either a deep central or lateral depressions on the upper side. In form they are long and narrow, very much flattened or only a little convex. Only four innoxious species occur with us. BOROS Hbst. B. unicolor Say. Riverton IV (div); Malaga V, VI (div); Palmyra V (Jn); Gloucester IV, Iona VI (Brn); Lakehurst IV (Ds); under pine bark. PYTHO Latr. P. planus Oliv. (americanus Kirby) Palisades, under pine bark (div); Palmyra III (Jn). SALPINGUS Gyll. S. virescens Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mt. Dist., at light (div); Sea Isle VI, 10 (Brn). RHINOSIMUS Latr. R. viridizaneus Rand. Highlands, beating oak (Sf) Family © DEMERID. Long, slender, cylindrical or semi-cylindrical beetles, rarely a little flat- tened, the head and thorax narrower throughout than the elytra, the latter soft in texture or with fine punctures and silky hair. The antenne are long and slender, and the feet have the penultimate joint deeply bilobed or cleft. They are found on flowers, foliage and sometimes in crevices of logs, trees or stumps. The larve have the slender form gen- eral in this series, but the head is broader than usual. None of them are in any way harmful. MICROTONUS Lec. M. sericans Lec. Throughout the State V-VII; not common. NACERDES Schm. N. melanura Linn. Throughout the State V-—VII; not rare in cities in woodsheds or about cellars; more common along the coast. The species is an imported one and cosmopolitan. 368 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. XANTHOCHROA Schm. X. lateralis Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc). Not recently taken. ALLOXACIS Horn. A. dorsalis Mels. Common along shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May V-VIII, in or under wet boards, timbers, etc. COPIDITA Lec. C. notoxoides Fab. Buena Vista (Li); Atco DaCosta (W); Lahaway VI, 1, on flowers (Sm); Newtonville, VI, Brigantine VII, Ocean City VII (Brn). C. thoracica Fab. With the preceding, more common and somewhat more widely distributed, but in the same general regions. C. suturalis Horn. Anglesea (W). ASCLERA Schm. A. ruficollis Say. Throughout the State; common on willow catkins. A. puncticollis Say. Staten Island (Lg); Clementon IV, V (div); Sea- ville IV (Brn). OXACIS Lec. O. teeniata Lec. Anglesea (Li). Family CKPHALOID/. The single species that occurs in the State resembles at first sight the longicorn genus “Leptura,”’ but is more slightly built, with more slender legs and antenne. It occurs on dry branches and is rare. CEPHALOON Newn. C. lepturoides Newn. Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake VI (Bt); Boon- ton VI (GG); Orange Mt. Dist., g. d. VI (div). Family MORDELLIDA. Small, usually wedge-shaped beetles, covered with fine silky hair, which, on the black species, sometimes forms lines, bands or spots on the upper side. The hind legs are usually long and stout, fitted for leaping. The abdomen is produced into a more or less obvious style or pointed process, the antenne are long and slender, and the thorax is as wide at base as the elytra. They are found on flowers or on dead trees, and are some- times brightly colored and banded. Most of them are locally common, and dozens of them may often be taken from a single cluster of “Spire” blossoms. The larve are long and slender, and live in dead wood or the pith of plants. None are of economic importance. Sy Es es ese Ss & = ete THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 369 PENTARIA Muls. . trifasciata Mels. Gloucester V, 10, g. d. (W); Westville VII, 7 (Brn). ANASPIS Geoffr. . flavipennis Hald. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Riverton V, 14 (GG); Seayille IV, 29 (Brn). . rufa Say. Throughout the State V—VII : locally very common. TOMOXIA Costa. . bidentata Say. Snake Hill (Sf); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. V, 26 (Bf); on dead trees; nowhere common. . lineella Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Boonton VIII, 16 (GG); Millburn (Bf); Middlesex Co. VII, 20 (Sm); Atco V, 28 (W); on dead trees; rare. . inclusa Lec. Snake Hill (Sf). MORDELLA Linn. . melzena Germ. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., New Brunswick VII, Jamesburg VII (Sm); Glassboro VII, 30 (GG). . scutellaris Fab. Common throughout the State VI-VIII. . octopunctata Fab. Snake Hill (Sf); Newark Dist., rare (Bf); James- burg VII, 4 (Dke); Collingswood VII (GG); Gloucester, Camden Co., rare, Anglesea VI, common (W). . lunulata Helm. New Brunswick VII, 20, So. Amboy VI, 8 (Coll). . marginata Mels. Throughout the State VI-VIII; common. . serval Say. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). . triloba Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); Atco VII, 15 (W). . discoidea Mels. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Sm); Gloucester VII, 2 (W); Westville VII, 7 (Brn); Glassboro VII, 19 (GG); always rare. MORDELLISTENA Costa. : arida Lec. Atco V, 14 (W). . trifasciata Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Gloucester VII, VIII (W); W. Berlin VI, 25 (Brn). . lepidula Lec. Orange Mts., New Brunswick VII (Sm); Westville, Atco VI, Iona VI (Brn); not common. . limbalis Mels. Orange Mts., rare (Sm). . vapida Lec. Orange Mts. (div). . fulvicollis Mels. Orange Mts. (Sm). . ornata Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); New Jersey (Sf). . militaris Lec. Orange Mts. VI, 26, VII (div). . scapularis Say. Orange Mts. VI, VII (div). . comata Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII; locally common. 24 IN 370 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. See a Se = 3 = a ee cee = = = . aspersa Mels. The most universally common species of the genus. . amica Lec. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . picilabris Helm. Atlantic City VI, 24 (Brn). . infima Lec. Westville VI, Atco V, 29, DaCosta VIL, 5 (Brn). . andreze Lec. Anglesea V, 27 (Sm). . ancilla Lec. DaCosta VI, 12 (Brn); g. d., not common (W). . varians Lec. Orange Mts., common (Sm); Westville VI, VII (div); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . ustulata Lec. Newark, Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Anglesea VII, 11 (Brn). . impatiens Lec. Orange Mts., Newark VI, VII (div); DaCosta VI, 24, Anglesea V, 31 (Brn). - nigricans Mels. Throughout the State V—VII; locally common. . ruficeps Lec. DaCosta VII, 5 (Brn); New Jersey (Sm). . splendens Sm. Sea Isle VIII, 14 (Brn); Anglesea VIII, IX (div). - pustulata Mels. Throughout the State V—VII; common. . fuscipennis Mels. Near Hoboken (Sm). . morula Lec. Staten Island (Lg); New Brunswick VII (Sm); West- ville, DaCosta VII, 2-30 (Brn). . ambusta Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway VI, 1 (Sm). . unicolor Lec. Orange Mts. VII (Sm); Woodbury VI, 13 (GG); Da- Costa VI, 3 (Brn); Anglesea and g. d. VII (W). . marginalis Say. Newark, Orange Mts. VI, VII (div); Gloucester VI, 17, Anglesea VII, 6 (W). - pubescens Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare. . bihamata Mels. Newark (Soc). . liturata Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway VI (Sm); Anglesea VII (Sz). . fuscata Mels. Orange Mts., VII, rare (Sm). . cinereofasciata Sm. Westville VII, 2, Atco VII, 17 (Brn). Family ANTHICIDAE. Small or moderate sized species, varying much in form, often brightly or contrastingly colored or banded, the thorax narrower than the elytra and sometimes peculiarly modified, the antenne long and slender. They live under varying conditions, some of them in sand, often resembling ants in appearance and running rapidly when turned out of their burrows. None of them are injurious to cultivated plants. 0000 CORPHYRA Say. . funebris Horn. Newark (Bf); along shore in wash-up, rare (W). . elegans Hentz. Suffern, V, 30, common (Sf); Caldwell (Cr). . terminalis Say. Newark, V, 29, rare (Bf). newmani Lec. Orange Mts. VI, common (Ch). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 371 lugubris Say. Suffern V, 30, common; sure to occur in New Jersey (Sf). . collaris Say. Boonton VI, 11 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Orange VI (Ch); along shore in wash-up, not rare (W). MACRATRIA Newn. M. murina Fab. Clifton VII, 3, Burlington Co. VI, 4, Merchantville VI (GG); Westville VII, 4 (Brn); Ocean Co., common (Sm); g. d. on willow (W). TOMODERUS Laf. T. interruptus Laf. Newark, edge of meadows in early spring; Mer- chantville IX, 26, DaCosta VI, 3 (Brn). T. constrictus Say. Newark (Dn); salt meadows (Bf); Gloucester, Westville, Laurel Springs V, 10-28 (Brn). MALPORUS Casey. . formicarius Laf. (Anthicus) Merchantville IV (Brn); _ seashore, Brigantine to Cape May V, VII, IX (div). . cinctus Say. (Anthicus) Arlington (Bf); Staten Island XI, 16 (Jl); Anglesea VII (Sz). LAPPUS Casey. . obscurus Laf. Arlington VI, 21 (Sf). THICANUS Casey. rejectus Lec. (Anthicus) Brigantine IX (Hn); Anglesea VII, 11 (Brn). HEMANTUS Casey. . floralis Linn. (Anthicus) Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Soc); Gloucester V, 27 (Brn); Anglesea VII (div); and probably throughout the State. ANTHICUS Payk. . ephippium Laf. (difficilis Lec., confusus Lec.) Throughout the State all winter and until VII, 10. . scabriceps Lec. Newark (Bf). . cervinus Laf. Union, early spring at base of trees (Bf); Woodbury V-VII (div); Westville V, Sea Isle VI, Avalon VII (Brn); seashore (W); not rare. . haldemani Lec. Orange VI, at light (Ch). melancholicus Laf. (spretus Lec.) Westville V, 28, DaCosta VII, 5, Sea Isle V, 10 (Brn); Anglesea VI, VII (div). 372 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Zz SAPINTUS Casey. pubescens Lec. (Anthicus) Collingswood III, 12 (GG); New Jersey (Dn). . fulvipes Laf. Newark II, 12, Arlington, salt meadows, common (Bf); Anglesea IV, 28 (Brn). AMBLYDERUS Laf. . pallens Lec. Brigantine IX (Hn); Anglesea V, VII (div); seashore, not rare (W). NOTOXUS Geoffr. . bicolor Say. Throughout the State IX until following VI; common. . bifasciatus Lec. Orange VI (Ch); Newark Dist. (Bf); Clifton, Dunel- len (Coll); Newtonville VI, 19 (Brn); Atco (div); locally common. . anchora Hentz. Honatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee, Dunellen (Dietz); New- ark at light (Bf); Ocean Co. (Sm); not common anywhere. . monodon Fabr. Common throughout the State, all season. . delicatus Casey. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn). . planicornis Laf. Sea Isle VI (Brn); Anglesea throughout the season, most abundant sweeping in the early evening. MECYNOTARSUS Laf. . candidus Lec. Westfield (Jl). . flavicans Casey. Hackensack V (Bf); Westville (Li); Merchantville V (Brn); g. d. near Delaware River in white sand (W); nocturnal. ELONUS Casey. . basalis Lec. Widely distributed and should occur in New Jersey (Sf). . nebulosus Lec. Madison VII, 16 (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf). EMELINUS Casey. . melsheimeri Lec. Ft. Lee (Jl); Highlands VII, on hickory (Sf). ZONANTES Casey. . signatus Hald. Newtonville III, 26, one example (Brn). . subfasciatus Lec. Highlands IV, V, VII, under stones (Sf); James- burg VII (Bf). . fasciatus Mels. (Xylophilus) Orange Mts. VIII (Bf); Highlands VII, 8, beating (Sf); Lakehurst VII, 12 (Jl); not rare. tricuspis Casey. Orange Mts. VII (Sf). The “Xylophilus quercicola” of the last edition is an error. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 373 Family PYROCHROIDA. Rather large, flattened beetles, bright blue, black or orange in contrast, thorax narrower than the elytra, the latter, rather soft in texture, widen- ing posteriorly. The antenne are either serrate or, in the males, with long comb-like processes. The beetles are usually rare, found about dead or decaying trees, and in these live the larve, which have a broad head, stout legs and two spines on the last abdominal segment. None are of economic importance. ISCHALIA Pasc. ‘I. costata Lec. Woodbury XII, Merchantville (W); Lakehurst V (Jl); in each case by sifting moss or old leaves in a swamp. PYROCHROA Geoff. P. flabellata Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Greenwood Lake VI, Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., g. d. (Bf); Sea Isle VII, 4 (Brn). P. femoralis Lec. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee (Bt); g. d., rare (W). DENDROIDES Latr. D. canadensis Latr. Hopatcong (Pm); Palisades VII, bred (Lv); Cald- well (Cr); Orange Mts., West Bergen, under bark (Bf). D. concolor Newn. Snake Hill V (Wintersteiner). ‘ Family MELOIDZ. Contains the “oil beetles” and “blister beetles.” They are soft in tex- ture, usually slender and cylindrical, the thorax narrower than head or elytra, the antenne sometimes curiously knotted or otherwise modified in the male, the insects as a whole loose-jointed and sprawly in appear- ance. They vary in color, are often striped and spotted and sometimes metallic. In the adult stage they feed on plant tissue and are sometimes distinctly injurious. One of them, known as the “old-fashioned striped potato beetle,” frequently comes in late summer, sometimes with, some- times replaced by an ally, and it or they sweep through a field or garden before the grower realizes the nature of the attack. They attack not only potatoes, but beets and a great variety of other plants and flowers, and as a rule disappear almost as suddenly as they come. Some species re- main for a day or two only; others stay for a week or two, and these, when they attack cultivated plants, should be collected in kerosene pans or driven by means, of lime or other repellants, as may be indicated. Arsenites kill them slowly and will not be effective until they have done nearly or quite all the injury that they would have caused without treat- ment. Curiously enough, quite a number of the species are markedly beneficial in the larval stage, being among the most important checks to grass- 374 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. hopper increase. Others are semi-parasitic in the nests of bees, and are at least not beneficial, even if not directly harmful. In New Jersey they are not as important as they are in some of the Western States, and the injuries caused by them warrant active measures for their destruction. MELOE Linn. M. angusticollis Say. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); g. d., in late fall on wild turnip (Bf); Riverton XI, 5 (Dke). M. americanus Leach. Orange Mts., Irvington XII, 30, under stones (Bf); Newark (Soc). NEMOGNATHA III. N. nemorensis Hentz. Dunellen (Dietz); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). ZONITIS Fab. Z. bilineata Say. Snake Hill (Sf); Madison VIII, 4 (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). MACROBASIS Lec. M. unicolor Kirby. Throughout the State VI, VII, often common on “Bap- tisia tinctorum”’; sometimes on potatoes. EPICAUTA Redt. E. trichrus Pall. East Jersey (Dietz); Merchantville VII, 19, Glassboro VII, 17; on sweet potato, ‘“‘Convolvulus” sp., and “Maruta cotula.” E. strigosa Gyll. Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). E. batesii Horn. Lakehurst VII, VIII (div). E. vittata Fab. Throughout the State, often destructive in late summer to potatoes and other garden crops and to flowers; is the “old- fashioned striped potato beetle.” E. marginata Fab. With “cinerea,’ and usually regarded as a variety. E. cinerea Forst. Throughout the State VIII; habits of ‘‘vittata,’” but not so abundant nor so often injurious. E. pennsylvanica De G. Throughout the State VIII, IX; common on Soli- dago. POMPHOPCEA Lec. P. znea Say. Woodside (Bf); Merchantville VIII (Brn); Westville (Li); Anglesea (W); in early spring; isolated specimens only. P. sayi Lec. Greenwood Lake VI (Beyer). Fig. 149.—The ‘‘Spanish fly,” Lytta vesicatoria: not a native of this country. Fig. 150.—The “‘striped blister beetle,’ Epicauta vittata. Fig. 151.—Early stages of blister beetles: a, grasshopper egg-pod with triungulin at f; b, grasshopper eggs, enlarged; c, triungulin; d, carabidoid stage of larva; e, scarabidoid stage of larva, enlarged. Fig. 152.—Striped blister beetle: a, scarabidoid larva; c, d, coarctate larva, enlarged. Fig. 153.—Striped blister beetle: a, b, true pupa from side and beneath, enlarged. Fig. 154.—Margined blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea. Fig. 155.—Ash gray blister beetle, Macrobasis unicolor at a; black blister beetle, Epi- cauta pennsylvanica at b, enlarged. THE INSECTS. OF NEW JERSEY. '. 375 : fH vale i i ine SS “a 376 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family RHIPIPHORIDZ. Contains wedge-shaped or clumsy, almost shapeless, forms, with short, sometimes pointed wing-covers, beyond which the hind wings often pro- ject so as to cover the abdomen. The head is bent down, the antennze are serrated in the female, flabellate in the male. The adults occur on flowers, rarely, the larve are semi-parasitic in nests of wasps or on cockroaches. PELECOTOMA Fisch. P. flavipes Mels. New Jersey (Sf). RHIPIPHORUS Fab. . flavipennis Lec. Glassboro VII (GG); Anglesea VII (Brn); g. d., rare (W), Iona VII, 13 (Dke). =) R. dimidiatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, rare. R. octomaculatus Gerst. Malaga VIII, 4 (G@). R. pectinatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; rare. R. timbatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; rare. R. limbatus Fab. Palisades VII, 26 (Lv); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Merchantville VII, 17, Farmingdale VII, 18 (GG); g. d., rare (W). R. linearis Lec. Madison VII, 17 (Pr). MYODITES Latr. M. fasciatus Say. Orange Mts. (Bf); East Jersey, rare (Dietz). Fannly Sil ¥UOPIDA:. This family is represented in our State by a single minute species only, so far as our collections go. It is a representative of a very curious Stylops and its development: a, female in body of bee; b, same in outline; c, d, male from above and side. Fig. 156. little group, which is given ordinal rank by some who have studied it most closely, and I believe that conclusion to be warranted. As matter THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. BW: of convenience, however, and because the change has not been generally adopted in our lists, I have preferred to leave the species here. The male only is winged, the female lives in the abdomen of some of our paper-making wasps. XENOS Rossi. X. peckii Kirby. Occurs very rarely throughout the State in the abdo- men of the species of “Polistes.” Series RHYNCHOPHORA. The remaining families of the order belong to the so-called ‘‘snout- beetles” or weevils, sometimes classed as a sub-order. The chief obvious character of a great majority of the species is the elongated head or snout, at the end of which the minute mouth parts are situated. In some cases this snout is very much reduced; but in such types the tend- ency is to a cylindrical form, and the pro-thorax has no lateral margin or suture. Practically all the species are feeders upon vegetable tissue, and many of them are injurious or even destructive to cultivated crops. The families of this series are not easily distinguished except by the use of rather obscure structural characters, and no definitions will be at- tempted except in special instances—e. g., the “Scolytide.” The larve are white, very much wrinkled, stout, fleshy grubs, usually without legs, with a yellowish head and a tendency to curl or assume the position of a “white-grub.” They also are vegetable feeders, attacking plants in all parts, and many of them rank as first-class pests. Family RHINOMACERID/. RHINOMACER Fab. R. pilosus Lec. Gloucester, rare on dying pine (W); Westville IV, New- tonville III, 26 (Brn); Clementon V, 5, (GG); Iona V, 16 (CG). R. elongatus Lec. Morristown on pine (Jul); Gloucester (W); West- ville (Li); Merchantville IV, 27 (Brn); Clementon V, 5 (GG); Iona V, 16 (CG). Family RHYNCHITID. AULETES Sch. A. ater Lec. Ramapo Mts. V, 27, on ‘‘Myrica”’ (Sf); Ft. Lee on sweet fern (Jul); Landisville, DaCosta (Li); Newtonville VI, Sea Isle V (Brn); Anglesea (W). A. subcrzeuleus Lec. Newark, one specimen (Bf). A. cassandrz Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Atco, DaCosta VII (Brn); Buena Vista (Li); Anglesea V, 28 (W). 378 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Deo ww EUGNAMPTUS Sch. . angustatus Hbst. Throughout the State V—VII on oak, hickory, but- ternut, chestnut, sycamore, etc.; not rare. . collaris Fab. Also throughout the State on oak, more local than the preceding, and locally no less abundant. RHYNCHITES Hbst. . bicolor Fab. Common throughout the State VI-VIII on rose. zeneus Boh. Lake Hopatcong (Sf). . hirtus Fab. Throughout the State V—VII, on oak; not common. . fossifrons Lec. Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . cyanellus Lec. Highlands, abundant (Ch). . zratus Say. Throughout the State V—VII, on oak; not rare. PTEROCOLUS Sch. . ovatus Fab. Throughout the State, V, VI, on oak, locally and sea- sonally common; more abundant on the scrub oaks of South Jersey. Family ATTELABID/A.. ATTELABUS Linn. . analis Ill. Throughout the State VI, VII on sumac; makes little cases in which the eggs are deposited. . nigripes Lec. Throughout the State V—VIII; on oak; more common in So. Jersey on scrub oak. . bipustulatus Fab. With the preceding and hardly less common. . rhois Boh. Chester, Newark (Bf); Orange Mt. Dist. (div); New Bruns- wick VII, Jamesburg VII, Anglesea V, VII (Sm); on hazel and sumac. Family OTIORHYNCHID. EPICERUS Sch. . imbricatus Say. Throughout the State, rare; in some localities this imbricated snout beetle has been known as injurious, but I have never found it so in New Jersey. HORMORUS Horn. . undulatus Uhler. Hoboken (Jtil); Newark Dist., g. d., under stones in early spring, always rare (Bf). ANAMETIS Horn. . granulatus Say. (grisea Horn.) Newark (Soc); lives under bark of apple and pear (Riley). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 379 PANSCOPUS Sch. . erinaceus Say. Salt meadows III, 19 (Bf); Woodbury III, 25, sifting old leaves (W); on wild grape VI, VII (Sm). PHYXELIS Sch. . rigidus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison (Pr); Weehawken (Bt); New- ark Dist. (Bf); Camden (Li); Collingswood VII (Brn); g. d. (W). AGRAPHUS Sch. . bellicus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc); Sandy Hook (Bf); Shrewsbury (Jul); Anglesea (W); always rare. OTIORHYNCHUS Germ. . sulcatus Fab. North of Piedmont Plain, not rare; South Jersey, under hemlock bark (W). . ovatus Linn. Throughout the State, locally common: larva is the “strawberry crown girdler”’; beetle is a general feeder. . rugifrons Gyll. East Jersey (Dietz); Ft. Lee V, under stones (Bf). CERCOPEUS Sch. . chrysorrhoceus Say. Delaware Valley and northward in early spring, under bark of chestnut and other trees and stumps. PACHNZUS Sch. . distans Horn. Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). TANYMECUS Sch. . confertus Gyll. Throughout the State, under stones in spring and until VII, feeding on a great variety of plants. PANDELETEJUS Sch. . hilaris Hbst. Throughout the State, common, in white oak and beech. BRACHYSTYLUS Sch. . acutus Say. Newark (Soc); South Jersey (W); only on persimmon. ARAMIGUS Horn. - fulleri Horn. “Fuller’s rose beetle.’”’ An imported species, which was for a time a serious pest in rose-houses in Union County and else- where. It was never abundant outdoors and is rarely found now even in green-houses, where they have learned how to deal with it. APHRASTUS Sch. . tzeniatus Gyll. Common throughout the State on hazel, alder and other bushes in July. 380 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. The “Plinthodes teniatus’” of the last edition really refers to this species. 2h >>> DP > > > >>> D> POLYDROSUS Sch. dorsalis Horn. (Cyphomimus) Ft. Lee, on wild cherry (Jil); Hudsoh Co. (Ll); rare. SCIAPHILUS Steph. - asperatus Bonsd. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. VIII, not rare (Bf). BARYPITHES Duval. . pellucidalis Boh. Orange Mts., early spring, not rare (Bf). STROPHOSOMUS Steph. . coryli Fab. Orange Mts., on birch, “Betula lenta” (Jiil). Family CURCULIONID/A:. SITONES Sch. . hispidulus Germ. Throughout the State V—X, the larva on roots of clover. While this is sometimes locally common, it has never occurred in such numbers as to make it actually injurious. . flavescens Marsh. Hudson Co. (Ll); salt meadows, in early spring (Bf); g. d. (W); and probably throughout the State, locally. . crinitus Oliv. New Jersey (Jul). ITHYCERUS Sch. . nova-boracensis Forst. Throughout the State, not common; breeds in twigs of oak; also found on hickory and beech. APION Hbst. . impeditum Fall. Newark district (Bf). . impunctistriatum Sm. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Anglesea (W); rare. . atripes Sm. South Camden (W). . finitimum Fall. Newark (Li); So. Camden (W). melanarium Gerst. Hemlock Falls (Bf); New Brunswick VII (Sm); Camden VII, XII (div); Anglesea V (div). - minutum Sm. Gloucester (W). . pennsylvanicum Boh. Anglesea (Li), Newark Dist. (Bf), and prob-- ably throughout the State. . perminutum Sm. Camden and So. Camden X (div). . reclusum Fall. Anglesea (Li); one of the type localities. . coxale Fall. Snake Hill (Bf). . patruele Sm. Arlington meadows in early spring under stones (div); Anglesea V (div); in pods of climbing Legume (Ch). >> > > b> > THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 381 . walshii Sm. Jamesburg (W). . perforicolle Fall. DaCosta (W); Atco, Buena Vista (Li). . turbulentum Sm. Hopatcong (Pm); Arlington (Bf); New Jersey (Li); on “Vaccinium stramineum” (Hn); breeds in seeds of “Mei- bomia”’ (Ch), . griseum Sm. Throughout the State V—VII on “Phaseolus.” . fraternum Sm. With the preceding; closely resembling but distinct from it; on the leaves of “Lespedeza”’ (Ch). . porcatum Boh. Newark Dist., rare in early spring on locust (Bf). . rostrum Say. Throughout the State south of the Highlands V—VII, on wild indigo, in the seeds of which it breeds. . nigrum Hbst. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Clifton, Orange V, VI (Ch); breeds in the seeds of the common locust, ‘Robinia pseudacacia.” . oblitum Sm. Salt meadows (Bf); Camden XII, sifting (GG). . segnipes Say. Gloucester Co. (W); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); probably throughout So. Jersey, in seeds of “Tephrosia virginiana.” : decoloratum Sm. Camden, Gloucester Co., Cape May C. H. (W); South Jersey (Sm); breeds in seed pods of ‘“Meibomia” (Ch). . emaceipes Fall. Probably confused with the preceding in collections. . carinatum Sm. Sure to occur in New Jersey. . spinipes Fall. DaCosta (W); Anglesea VII, 23 (div). . parallelum Sm. Buena Vista (Li); So. Jersey (Ww); not common. . puritanum Fall. Riverton V, Westville V, Clementon V (GG). umboniferum Fall. South Jersey, probably. . herculanum Sm. South Jersey in “Viburnum” and “Cornus” Sp. The last named three species are so closely allied that they are prob- ably confused in collections. P. . punctatus Fab. The ‘“clover-leaf beetle,’ common PODAPION Riley. gallicola Riley. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Bf); makes galls on “Pinus inops” and ‘“P. rigida’”’; never common in this State. PHYTONOMUS Sch. throughout the State VI-VII, but rarely injurious. The larva becomes full grown in May, but in ordinary sea- sons is nearly wiped out early in that month by a disease that prevents injury. . comptus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); Westville IV, Gloucester Co. (div); on “Polygonum.” Fig. 157.—Dis- . castor Lec. Mt. View (Bf); Lake Hopatcong (Gr). eased larva of clover leaf . nigrirostris Fab. Throughout the State IV—VII, locally beetle, en- not rare; common during the winter, sifting (W). larged. 382 REPORT. OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 158.—Clover leaf beetle, Phytonomus punctatus: a, egg, enlarged; b, b, larve feeding; c, larva, enlarged; d, e, head and mandible yet more en- larged; f, cocoon; g, same, enlarged to show its net-like character; h, pupa; i, beetle on clover stalk; 7, beetle in outline from side; k, beetle, enlarged; J, m, foot and antenne of beetle, yet more magnified. LISTRONOTUS Jek. L. sordidus Gyll. New Jersey, without definite locality. All the species whose habits are known feed on aquatic plants (Ch). . tuberosus Lec. Camden III, 8 (GG); Gloucester Co. (W.) . squamiger Say. Orange VI (Ch); Newark Dist. (Bf); Gloucester (W). . callosus Lec. Hudson Co. (L1); Arlington meadows IV, 9 (Bf). . inzgqualipennis Boh. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Arlington, Newark, Waverly salt meadows III (Bf); Cramer Hill V, 30 (GG). L. caudatus Say. Newark (Dn); Arlington meadows III, t7 (Bf). L. appendiculatus Boh. Newark Dist. (Bf); Riverside VI, 20 (Brn); Camden IX, III (GG); Atco, Westville, common in winter, sifting (W). L. nebulosus Lec. Eastern New Jersey (Dietz). L. frontalis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark g. d. (Bf). L. latiusculus Boh. Throughout the State; breeds in stalks and seed heads of “Sagittaria variabilis’ (Ch). The “setosus” of last edition belongs here. L. teretirostris Lec. New Jersey (Jil). Wig ellos Ce lee P. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 383 MACROPS Kirby. . solutus Boh. Newark, common on “Sagittaria’ (Bf); Collingswood VII, 27 (GG); Camden, Gloucester Cos., in winter, sifting (W); g. d. (Li). . indistinctus Dietz. Irvington VI, 21, Newark (Bf); New Jersey (Dietz). . delumbis Gyll. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark Dist, VII, VIII (Bf). . rotundicollis Dietz. Irvington VI, 19 (Bf). sparsus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Bloomfield VIII, Newark Dist. (Bf); Camden I, 15 (GG). . obscurellus Dietz. Brooklyn, N. Y., and sure to occur in New Jersey. - humulis Gyll. Salt meadows III (Bf); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Brigantine IX (Hn). The “porcellus” Say. of last edition is an error. PISSODES Germ. strobi Peck. The ‘white pine weevil’; throughout the State, more or less common, some- times injurious to pine and spruce. No practical remedy is known except to cut out and destroy infested shoots as soon as noticed. Fig. 159.—White pine weevil, Pissodes strobi: a, larva; b, pupa: enlarged. PACHYLOBIUS Lec. - picivorus Germ. Woodbury V, Avalon VIII, Atlantic City VI (Brn); Lahaway X (Sm); Brigantine IX (Hn); Brown’s Mills VI, 23 (Dke); g. d. in South Jersey (W, Li); on pine, not rare. HYLOBIUS Germ. : pales Hbst. Throughout the State IV, V; breeds under pine bark. - confusus Kirby. Newark, on blackberry blossoms VI (Bf). EUDOCIMUS Sch. » mannerheimi Boh. Snake Hill (Dietz); Hoboken, once abundant (Ch); Hackensack Meadows (Bt); Sea Isle V, 24 (Brn); Anglesea (W); one example only in each of the last two records. > LIXUS Fab. : marginatus Say. (sylvius Boh.) Ft. Lee (div); Arlington meadows Ti ¢Bf)F 384 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. L. terminalis Lec. Throughout the State V—VII; not rare. L. concavus Say. Throughout the State V—VIII, breeds in stalks of dock, rhubarb, sunflower, thistle, etc. The “rectus” of last edition belongs here. L. julichi Casey. Newark Dist., Arlington IV—V (div). L. musculus Say. Throughout the State IV, V; not common. DORYTOMUS Steph. D. mucidus Say. New Jersey (Jul). D. laticollis Lec. Guttenberg, on poplar (Jiil). D. brevicollis Lec. Hudson. Co. (L1); Orange Mts. V, 30 (W); on pussy willows (Bf). : ERYCUS Tourn. E. puncticollis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (div); Snake Hill Ill, IV (Sf); Newark, salt meadows, early in spring (Bf). PACHYPHANES Dietz. P. amcenus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark Dist. VII, VIII (Bf); Angle- sea (W); on ragweed (Hn). DESMORIS Lec. D. constrictus Say. East Jersey (Dietz); Anglesea (Bf). D. flavicans Lec. Clementon VIII, 6 (W). SMICRONYX Sch. S. sculpticollis Casey. Clementon VIII, 9, Sea Isle VI, 11 (Brn). S. nebulosus Dietz. New Jersey (Dietz). S. corniculatus Fab. Chester VII, 4, Hemlock Falls, Newark V, 30 (Bf); Ocean Co. (Lg). S. tychoides Lec. Orange Mts. VI, 10, Irvington (Bf). S. griseus Lec. Ft. Lee on ragweed (Bt); Hudson Co. (Ll); Snake Hill, Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Spring Lake VIII (Ch). S. squamulatus Lee. Woodbury VII, Atco VIII (Brn); Anglesea VI (div). PHYLLOTROX Sch. P. ferrugineus Lec. Highlands VI (Ch); Anglesea VII (Sz). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 385 BRACHYBAMUS Germ. . electus Germ. Hopatcong (Pm); salt meadows V, 17 (Bf); Clemen- ton VIII, 6 (Brn). ONYCHYLIS Lec. . nigrirostris Boh. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark on “Sagittaria’ V, 30 (Bf); Camden XII, 12 (GG). ENDALUS Lap. . limatulus Gyll. Hoboken, salt meadow (Jul); Newark, Snake Hill V, Irvington, sweeping on fern (Bf); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). . ovalis Lec. Salt meadow, under stones, Irvington, on fern V (Bf). TANYSPHYRUS Sch. . lemnz Fab. Hudson Co. V, salt meadows (div); Orange VI (Ch); Newark meadows V, 30 (Bf); adhering to boards in water (W). ANCHODEMUS Lec. . angustus Lec. Hoboken salt meadows (Jiil); Camden and Gloucester marshes along Delaware VI (W); breeds in “Sagittaria.” LISSORHOPTRUS Lec. . apiculatus Gyll. Jamesburg IV, 18 (Sm); Camden, Gloucester Co., in swamps (W); g. d. (Li). . simplex Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Hoboken salt meadows (Jil); Irving- ton (Bf); breeds in roots of wild rice (Riley). BAGOUS Germ. . obliquus Lec. Hudson Co. (Ll); Arlington III, 17 (Bf); New Jersey (Jil). . americanus Lec. Collingswood VII 27 (GG); Beesley’s Pt. VI, 30 (W). . magister Lec. Ft. Lee, lily pond (Sf); Hudson Co. (L1); Newark (Bf); Sea Isle VI, Anglesea V, Cape May VI (Brn). . cavifrons Lec. Irvington VII, 12 (Bf). OTIDOCEPHALUS Chevr. . myrmex Hbst. Hudson Co. (Ll); New Jersey (Jil); g. d. (div); the species are inquilinous in Cynipid galls. . scrobicollis Boh. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Hudson Co. (L1); Cape May Court House V, 26, and g. d. (W). 25. IN 386 REPORT’ OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. O. O. = chevrolatii Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (div); Jamesburg VIL (Lv); Cape May C. H. and g. d. V (W); on elm and hickory. lzevicollis Horn. Hudson Co. (div); Orange Mts. (Bf); bred from Cynipid galls in oak (Riley). MAGDALIS Germ. . perforata Horn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Lakehurst VII (Bf); g. d. (W); on pine. . lecontei Horn. Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); New Jersey (div). . barbita Hbst. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Bf); Malaga V, 17 (W); Ber- lin VI, Sea Isle V, Anglesea VI (Brn); sometimes destructive on young hickory. . olyra Hbst. Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Atlantic City, Angle- sea (Sm); g. d. (W); breeds under bark of hickory (Ch). . inconspicua Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell, rare (Bf). . pandura Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); Westville (Li); shore counties (W). . armicollis Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); New Brunswick VII (Sm); At: lantic City (Castle); g. d. (div); breeds in elm. TACHYPTERUS Dietz. . quadrigibbus Say. Throughout the State on fruit trees; larva feeds: around the core of apple and pear, but is rarely injurious. ANTHONOMUS Germ, . scutellaris Lec. New Jersey, without definite locality. . hamiltoni Dietz. Hemlock Falls (Bf); Gloucester V, DaCosta VIII (W); Atco VIII, Iona VI, Sea Isle VIII (Brn); Buena Vista (Li). . pusillus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Hemlock Falls (Bf); Buena Vista (Li); Atco, Clementon V, 30 (W). . profundus Lec. Newark VI, 9, on huckleberry blossoms (Bf); West- ville, Buena Vista (Li); Lucaston IV, Newtonville VI (Brn); lives. in buds of “Crataegus” (Sz). . sycophanta Walsh. Newark Dist. (Bf); Clementon V, 10 (Brn); South Jersey (W); breeds in galls made by a saw-fly on willow. . suturalis Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea VII and g. d. (W); said to feed on cranberry and plum in the larval stage. . flavicornis Boh. DaCosta, Anglesea VII, 11 (W). . morulus Lec. Anglesea VII, 11 (W). . corvulus Lec. Hemlock Falls, Orange Mts. (Bf); Cape May C. H., Anglesea V, 26 (W). ° THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 387 Fig. 160.—Strawberry weevil and its work: a, shoot of strawberry plant bearing punctured buds; b, enlarged eggs at c; at d, larva; e, its head, much enlarged; f, pupa, enlarged; g, open straw- berry flower showing work of beetles. . Signatus Say. Throughout the State; much more common in the southern counties. This is the strawberry weevil which always does some and occasionally serious injury in Atlantic, Cumberland, Bur- lington, Ocean and Cape May Counties. It feeds also on black, dew and raspberry and occasionally on other plants. The remedial meas- ures are cultural in most part. - musculus Say. Throughout the State, not rare VII, on huckleberry. . nigrinus Boh. Staten Island (Lg); DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn); New Jer- sey, on horse nettle, “Solanum virginiensis” (W). . scutellatus Gyll. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell III, 15 (Bf); Orange Mts. (GG); Newark Dist. (div); DaCosta (Li); Anglesea (W). . juniperinus Sanb. Anglesea (Li); Bayside IX, 22, on juniper (W), feeding in a fungus growth. . rufipes Lec. Buena Vista (Li). . disjunctus Lec. Gloucester Co. (W); DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn); Atlantic City (Castle); Bamber IX, 1 (Dke); Chews Landing IX, 6 (W). 388 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. latiusculus Dietz. 5-mile beach, on holly, IV (div). | A. robustulus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Jamesburg VII, 4-15 (div). A. ungularis Lec. New Jersey (Jul); in “Cassia mary- landica.”’ A. nubilus Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf); Anglesea (W); New Jersey (Li). A. elongatus Lec. Snake Hill V, VI (div); Arlington V, VI (Sf); Newark (div); Anglesea (W). The A. “helvolus,” “nebulosus” and “elegans” of last edition are errors of determination. Fig. 161. — Straw- berry weevil, An- ANTHONOMOPSIS Dietz. thonomus stgnatus ; enlarged. A. mixtus Lec. Generally distributed, rare (W). PSEUDANTHONOMUS Dietz. P. cratzgi Walsh. Westville VII, 20, Anglesea V, 30 (W). . incipiens Dietz. Passaic, Staten Island (Bf). P. longulus Dietz. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Bf). U NEOMASTIX Dietz. N. solidaginis Dietz. Atco, Clementon (W); Buena Vista (Li); on deflorescent heads of ‘“‘Solidago” species (Dietz). NANOPS Dietz. N. schwarzi Dietz. Buena Vista (Li); South Jersey (W). ELLESCHUS Steph. E. scanicus Payk. Plainfield, rare (Bf). m . bipunctatus Linn. New Jersey (Jil); a circumpolar species. E. ephippiatus Say. Bloomfield, Newark (Bf); Westville, common (W); Lahaway V, 28, on cranberry bogs (Sm); occurs also on willow. ORCHESTES Ill. O. ephippiatus Say. Bloomfield (Bf); Westville (W), on “Salix fragilis” (Bt); all the species are leaf miners on willow. O. salicis Linn. Newark (Bf); a circumpolar species. O. niger Horn. Newark Dist. (Bf); New Jersey (Jiil), on low willows VII (Ch). O. pallicornis Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke); So. Jersey (W); on low willows VII (Ch). The record of “O. canus” Horn, was an error. U THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 389 XANTHUS Dietz. - pygmzeus Dietz. Anglesea V, 28 (div); on juniper (U). ACALYPTUS Sch. . carpini Hbst. Hopatcong (Pm), Chester VII, 4, Orange Mts. V (Bf). ~ PRIONOMERUS Sch. . calceatus Say. Throughout the State V-—VII, locally not rare; the larva mines in leaves of sassafras. PIAZORHINUS Sch. . scutellaris Say. Hudson Co. (div); Anglesea V (div); g. d. (Li). . pictus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Shrewsbury Chub)e DaCosta, Anglesea (W); always rare. THYSANOCNEMIS Lec. . fraxini Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII, on ash, in the seeds of which it breeds. . helvolus Lec. Bloomsbury IX, 3 (Bf); South Jersey (W); rare. PLOCETES Lec. . ulmi Lec. Throughout the State VI, VII; nowhere common. TYCHIUS Sch. . sordidus Lec. Anglesea, one specimen (W). GYMNETRON Sch. . teter Fab. Common throughout the State V, VI, on mullein. MIARUS Steph. . hispidulus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark (Soc); Plainfield (Sf); in seed capsules of “Lobelia” sp. LAZMOSACCUS Sch. . plagiatus Fab. Throughout the State V—VIII, locally common, usually on oak; sometimes on hickory. CONOTRACHELUS Sch. . juglandis Lec. Throughout the State V-VII; breeds in green fruit of walnut and butternut; not rare. 390 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. (2) (eo) (e) (2) nenuphar Hbst. The Plum Curew lio; throughout the State, common V-VII and again VIII. Breeds in plum, peach, cherry and apple, often in destructive numbers, and is one of the most serious enemies to fruit growing in New Jersey. May be con- trolled by persistent. spraying with arsen- Fig. 162.—The plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenu- ate of lead, 1 pound phar: a, larva; b, adult; c, pupa: enlarged. in 20 gallons of water. . seniculus Lee. Woodbury VII, VIII (div); Westville VII, Merchant- ville X, Sea Isle VI, Peermont VI, Anglesea V, 31 (Brn). . elegans Say. Throughout the State V, VI and again VIII, IX; larve feeding on underground stems of “Amaranthus retroflexus” (Ch). . aratus Germ. Atlantic Co., rare (W). . cratzegi Walsh. Throughout the State on quince, and sometimes locally injurious; VI-—VIII. . naso Lec. Atlantic Co. (W); Anglesea V, VIII (Brn); on “Cratzgus,” rare. . posticatus Boh. Throughout the State V-IX; not rare. . geminatus Lec. Throughout the State VIII until next VII; locally common. . cribricollis Say. Westville I, 28, sifting (W). . anaglypticus Say. Throughout the State VI. . leucophzatus Fab. New Jersey IX, 23 (Bland). . fissunguis Lec. Along the river front near Camden, and everywhere along shore in Mallow swamps; breeds in seed pods of “Hibiscus” sp. RHYSSEMATUS Chev. . palmacollis Say. Hemlock Falls VII (Bf). . lineaticollis Say. Boonton VI, VII (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee, in seed pods of milkweed (Bt); Snake Hill (Sf); Madison VII (Pr); Newark Dist. (div); Anglesea VI (Brn). CHALCODERMUS Sch. . collaris Horn. Iona VI, 8 (Dke); Atlantic City (Castle); Sea Isle VI, Cape May VI (Brn); Anglesea V, 31, VI, 28 (W). . Spinifer Boh. Newark, one specimen on cherry blossoms (Bf). + (a) (e) (@) (Q) THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 391 ZAGLYPTUS Lec. . sulcatus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Staten Island (Lg). . striatus Lec. Anglesea (W). ACALLES Sch. . carinatus Lec. Berkeley Hts. VII, 6 (Bf). TYLODERMA Say. . foveolatum Say. Throughout the State V, VI; breeds in stems of “(inothera biennis” (Ch), and in “Epilobium.” . fragariz Riley. Arlington, Maplewood, under stones (Jwl); breeds in strawberry. . ereum Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, not rare. . nigra Casey. Irvington VI, 30, Arlington I-III (Bf). lc punctulata Casey. Irvington VI, 21 (Bf). The record of ‘‘T. baridium” Lec. is an error of locality. PHYRDENUS Lec. . undatus Lec. New Jersey, in swamps (Jul); lives on “Solanum” (Sz). CRYPTORHYNCHUS III. ‘ parochus Hbst. Chester (Dn); Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark Dist. (Bf), in butternut (Jil). . bisignatus Say. Throughout the State V—VII, on chestnut, beech and birch, probably lives under the bark. . pumilus Boh. Hopatcong (Pm); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Bf); New Jersey (Jiil); may be a color variety of the preceding. . fuscatus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., Newark, rare (Bf); Merchantville VI, 28 (Dke); Clementon XII, sifting old leaves in a swamp (W). . obliquus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Lakehurst V, 30 (Sf); g. d. rare (W). . obtentus Hbst. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI (div). . fallax Lee. Throughout the State VI, VII; not rare. . minutissimus Lec. Hudson Co. (L1); Atco, Anglesea V, 30, on dead oak twigs (W). . tristis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Snake Hill, Arlington (Sf); Newark, Orange Mts. VI, 7, rare (Bf). . ferratus Say. Throughout the State V—VII; not common. . oblongus Lec. Dunellen, 1 specimen (Coll. Dietz). . lapathi Linn. Throughout northern New Jersey, on willow; an intro- duced species not yet found south of the Piedmont Plain, but recently taken near Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. 392 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BAROPSIS Lec. B. cribratus Lec. New Jersey (Coll. Horn). The locality label is open to question, and the source of the specimen is unknown. LECHRIOPS Sch. (PIAZURUS Sch.) P. oculatus Say. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark Dist. V (Bf); Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Westville (Li). CYLINDROCOPTURUS Heller. C. binotatus Lec. (Copturodes) Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Snake Hill, Ft. Lee (Jul); Orange Mts. (Bf); on dry sumac and locust. C. quercus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); Newark Dist. (Bf); g. d. (W); Wood- bury VI, 17 (DkKe); common on oak. C. longuius Lec. Atco, Egg Harbor, on oak (W); in galls of “Podapion” (U). EULECHRIOPS Faust. E. minutus Lec. (Zygomicros) Orange Mts., Jamesburg VII (Bf); High- lands VII (Sf); Anglesea on oak VII (div). ACOPTUS Lec. A. suturalis Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Palisades III (Lv); Hudson Co. (L1); Orange (Jtil); Newark Dist. (Bf); Highlands VII, in dead beech (Ch). PSOMUS Casey. P. politus Casey. Hemlock Falls, Jamesburg VII (Bf). TACHYGONUS Sch. T., lecontei Gyll. Caldwell (Cr); Lakehurst VII, IX (div); Gloucester, Atco, on oak, rare (W). T. spinipes Casey. English Creek (Bland); Iona VI (div); Landisville (Li); DaCosta VI (Dke); Seaville VI (Brn). MONONYCHUS Germ. M. vulpeculus Fab. Throughout the State V, VI, IX on blue flag and other flowers; breeds in the seed pods of “Iris versicolor.” CRAPONIUS Lec. C. inzequalis Say. Hoboken (Jil); Orange Mts. (Bf); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke); Anglesea V, 30 (W); feeds on grape; but not injurious with us. ; ACANTHOSCELIS Dietz. A. curtus Gyll. Orange Mts., in swamps (Bf); Anglesea (Li). A. acephalus Say. Common all along shore V-VII, on evening primrose. > ae aoa" a THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 39 OW AULEUTES Dietz. . tenuipes Lec. Orange Mts. (W). . epilobii Payk. Hudson Co. (L1); Orange Mts. in swamps (Bf). . nebulosus Lec. Throughout the State IX—III, VII, VIII; not common. ACALLODES Lec. . ventricosus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts., Newark (Bf); Westville I, sifting (W); Lahaway V, 28 (Sm). CCELIODES Sch. . flavicaudis Boh. (apicalis Dietz.) Shrewsbury on nettle (Jul). CEUTORHYNCHUS Germ. . rapze Gyll. Throughcut the State V—VII; feeds on cabbage, rape and allied plants, often abundantly, and is known as the “cabbage cur- culio.” . bolteri Dietz. Millburn V, 30, Irvington, rare (Bf). . sulcipennis Lec. Throughout the State V—VII. . decipiens Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf). pusio Mann. Chester, Hemlock Falls (Bf). semirufus Lec. New Jersey (Jil). . septentrionis Gyll. Throughout the State, fall to spring on wild mus- tard; often common. . puberulus Lec. With the preceding and probably confused with it. » zimmermanni Gyll. New Jersey (Li). CKELOGASTER Sch. . zZimmermanni Gyll. So. Orange on beggar nits (Jtil); Newark (Soc). PERIGASTER Dietz. . cretura Hbst. Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (Jul). PELENOMUS Thom. . sulcicollis Fab. Throughout the State, not rare on “Polygonum.” . squamosus Lec. Irvington (Bf). MECOPELTUS Dietz. . fuliginosus Dietz. Newark (Dietz); occurs with and is often con- founded with “P. sulcicollis.”’ . scandens Dietz. Anglesea VII, 12 (W). RHINONCUS Sch. . occidentalis Dietz. Staten Island (Lg); Jamesburg VII, 11 (Sm). . pyrrhopus Boh. Throughout the State V—VII feeding on “Rumex.” . longulus Lec. Orange Mts., rare (Bf); South Jersey. 394 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DU Ww WD G. BARIS Germ. . Umbilicata Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Hudson Co. (Ll); Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark VI, 12, Lahaway V, 28 (Sm) ; Sea Isle VI, 11 (Brn). . callida Casey. Orange Mts., Newark Dist. (Bf); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke); Anglesea VII (div). . subzenea Lec. Throughout the State V—VII; not rare. . transversa Say. Anglesea V, 30 (W), on yarrow (Jil). . confinis Lec. Ocean Co. V, 28 (Sm). . aerea Boh. Cramer Hill V, VI (GG); Manumuskin IV, 23 (Dke); At- lantic City (Castle). : . scolopacea Germ. Throughout the State V-—VII, locally common on ragweed. PLESIOBARIS Casey. . t-signum Boh. New Jersey (W). . albilatus Lec. Buena Vista, on yellow daisies. GLYPTOBARIS Casey. rugicollis Lec. Dunellen VI (Dietz Coll); Atco, rare (W); on milk- weed. The “‘Onychobaris pectorosa” of last edition was an error. MADARELLUS Casey. M. undulatus Say. Throughout the State, not rare; occurs on grape and A. Virginia creeper (Ch). AULOBARIS Lec. ibis Lec. Orange Mts. (Bf). TRICHOBARIS Lec. Fig. 163.—Potato stalk borer, Trichobaris trinotata larva, pupa and adult, enlarged. Coo oD foil i ole THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 395 . trinotata Say. Throughout the State, locally common and sometimes injurious. The larva is the ‘potato stalk borer,’ which eats out the stalk of the plant and prevents the crop from maturing. The beetles remain in the stalks all winter, and if these stalks are raked up and burned when the crop is harvested the entire brood will be destroyed. The native food is nettle. AMPELOGLYPTER Lec. . ater Lec. Cape May Court House V, 26 (W). PSEUDOBARIS Lec. - augusta Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Snake Hill (Bf). . nhigrina Say. Throughout the State V, VI; not common. CENTRINUS Sch. . calvus Lec. DaCosta VI, 3 (Brn). picumnus Hbst. Common throughout the State on flowers VI-VIII. . albotectus Casey. Anglesea VII (Bf). - perscitus Hbst. New Jersey (Casey). - penicellus Hbst. Riverton IX, Woodbury VI, 7, Glassboro VII, 27, IX (GG); Atco VII, Anglesea VII (W). . scutellum-album Say. Common throughout the State VII. NICENTRUS Casey. . lineicollis Boh. Throughout the State locally and seasonally common. LIMNOBARIS Bedel. . confusa Boh. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., rare (Bf). . confinis Lec. Montclair (U S Ag); New Jersey (Jiil). . concinnus Lec. So. Jersey (W). . rectirostris Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); So. Orange (Jil); Newark VII (Bf). OLIGOLOCHUS Casey. . robustus Casey. “New Jersey”; type locality (Li). IDIOSTETHUS Casey. : . tubulatus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. (Bf). BARILEPTON Lec. . filiforme Lec: Salt meadows V (Bf); Masonville VI, 16 (W). . albescens Lec. Westville VII, 2, one example (Brn). . quadricolle Lec. West Hoboken, one specimen (Jil). PLOCAMUS Lec. . hispidulus Lec. New Brunswick (Sm); Lakehurst VII, 4 (Bf); Atcc VIII, 21 (W); breeds in dead twigs of locust (W). 396 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. BALANINUS Germ. Fig. 164.—Chestnut weevil and its work; a, beetle from above; b same in outline from side; larva: all enlarged. ? B. obtusus Blanch. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark Dist. (Bf); New Bruns- wick. B. baculi Chitt. (uniformis Lec.) Throughout the State; larva in acorns. B. nasicus Say. Throughout the State; larva in acorns. B. pardalis Chitt. Sandy Hook; larva breeds in acorns (Coll). B. carye Horn. Throughout the State VI-VIII, the larva in hickory. B. rectus Say. Common everywhere; the larva in chestnut. B. quercus Horn. Brigantine IX (Hn); New Jersey (Jil); larva in acorns. B. proboscoideus Fab. Woodside, Orange Mts. (Bf); Newark, Lahaway IX (Sm); Mocrestown (U S Ag); larva in chestnuts and chinquapins. Is the same as the “‘caryatrypes” of the last edition. B. confusor Hamilton. Hopatcong (Pm); Anglesea (Sm); larve on acorns. The species of this genus are all nut-weevils, and those that feed in hickory and chestnut are often seriously injurious. The chestnut weevils in New Jersey are especially troublesome where the European and Jap- anese varieties are grown. There is no insecticide that is available to reach the insect in any stage, and the only methods of control are to collect the nuts as soon as they fall and market them, or to store them in tight barrels, from which the larve cannot escape when they emerge from the nuts. Family BRENTHID/:. Contains only a single very curious species, in which the males have prominent mandibles at the ends of the short robust snout, and the females have long, cylindrical beaks, by means of which they bore into the wood to lay their eggs. When these beaks become wedged, as they sometimes do, the males use their forceps-like jaws to pull them out. EUPSALIS Lec. E. minuta Dru. Throughout the State on chestnut, oak and maple; hardly commen anywhere. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 397 Family CALANDRID/. Stoutly built, very rigid weevils, with deeply striate wing-covers and characteristically marked thoracic sculpture. The beak is usually mod- erate in length and stout. The family contains the ‘corn bill-bugs,”’ the “grain weevils” and “rice weevil,” and a considerable proportion is therefore of economic importance. In the principal genus “‘Sphenophor- us,’ Mr. F. H. Chittenden has been good enough to assist in the arrange- ment of species. Al! the members of that genus breed in reeds and grasses, and preferably such as have large or bulbous roots. RHODOBAENUS Lec. R. tredecimpunctatus Ill. Throughout the State VII, not really com- mon; breeds in the stems of a variety of weeds—Ambrosia,” ‘Heli- anthus,” “Cnothera,” “Xanthium,” etc. SPHENOPHORUS Sch. S. inzequalis Say. Gloucester IV, 24, on sandy fields in wagon ruts (W); Woodbury VI, Brigantine VII, Atlantic City VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Anglesea V, VI (div). S. zqualis Gyll. (ochreus Lec.) Orange Mts. (Hess); Arlington meadows (Bf); Snake Hill (Jl); Atlantic City VII, 25, Sea Isle VI, Anglesea VI (div); breeds in roots of “Scirpus” sp. S. pertinax Oliv. Throughout the State V, VI, in swampy meadows and marshes along shore; breeds in roots of “Calamus.” S. setiger Chttn. Highland, a type locality (Ch); Lahaway VI, 22, Anglesea V (div). villosiventris Chttn. New Brunswick (Coll); Woodbury, Westville, Gloucester IV, V, Anglesea V (div). S. costipennis Horn. Caldwell (Cr); Snake : : Hill IV, 26 (Lv); Brigantine Beach IX i8- 165-—Bill-bug, Spheno- phorus sp., from side. (Hn); seashore (W). S. cariosus Oliv. Newark Dist. (Bf); Lucaston IX, 24 (Dke); Lahaway VI, 22 (Sm); Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); Anglesea V, 30, VII, 12 (div). S. callosus Oliv. Jamesburg VII, 11 (Coll). S. zeze Walsh. (sculptilis Uhl). Throughout the State, common in the southern counties, where it is the “corn bill-bug.” The larve live in timothy roots, and where corn follows this sod it is apt to be badly eaten by the adults when they mature in late June or early July. Remedy, fall-plow old sod land intended for corn. Y 398 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. destructor Chttn. Anglesea VI, VII (div); the type locality. S. melanocephalus Fab. Hudson Co. (L1); Newark Dist. (Bf); Lahaway (Sm); Westville V (div); Anglesea Vin (divs) S. pontederize. Chttn. Gloucester V, 27 (Brn); breeds in roots of pick- erel weed (Ch). Fig. 166.—Bill-bug, Sphenophorus S. sayi Gyll. Anglesea VII (Sz). : Shia FeOnt site S. venatus Say. (placidus Say.) Throughout the State, common, V— VII, most abundant along the seashore. S. apicalis Lec. Gloucester IV, 24 (W); Avalon VI, 23 (Brn). S. parvulus Gyll. Throughout the State, locally not rare V—VII; breeds in roots of blue grass (Ch). S. minimus Chttn. Atlantic City, Anglesea, in wash-up (W). S. marinus Chttn. Ocean Co., on cranberry bogs (Sm); Westfield VI, Sea Isle VI; 10 (Brn), type locality; Atlantic City (W); Mr. Chitten- den notes “evidently maritime and probably local.” S. retusus Gyll. Throughout the State; not common IV and IX. S. gagatinus Gyll. “New Jersey” (Coll); probably Newark Dist. “Simplex,” Mr. Chittenden says, is a strictly Pacific Coast form. CALANDRA Clairv. C. oryze Linn. The “rice-weevil’; infests stored grain and is g. d. C. granaria Linn. The “grain” or “granary weevil,’ often injurious in Calandra granaria.—a, adult ; 6, larva; c, pupa; d@, C. oryza, adult. Fig. 167. spinosus. Scolytus 4 beetle, kory bark k of hic g. 168.—Wor Fi THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 399 stored grain. Closed bins to keep out the insects and bisulphide of carbon to destroy them are the usual measures. DRYOPHTHORUS Sch. - americanus Bedel. (corticalis Say.) Throughout the State, winter and early spring, in very old logs, under bark of pine and in sifting. HIMATIUM Woll. . errans Lec. Newark district, Berkeley Hts. VII, 6 (Bf). COSSONUS Clairv. . platalea Say. Palisades V (Lv); Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark Dist (Bf); g. d. (W); under bark of trees. . concinnus Boh. Chester (Dn); Brown’s Mills V, 12, VII, 1 (Dke). . corticola Say. Newark Dist. (Bf); Staten Island IV, 23 (Lg); Spring Lake (Ch); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Bf); Anglesea (W); under pine bark. . impressifrons Boh. Brigantine, beach and mainland IX (Hn). MESITES Sch. : subcylindricus Horn. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Bf); Cape May VII (Sz); under bark of washed-up pine logs, Anglesea (W). PHLCEOPHAGUS Sch. . minor Horn. New Jersey (J1); Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark (Bf); Anglesea VII (Sz); breeds in dead birch, elm, ash, willow, ete. . spadix Hbst. West Bergen, rare (Bf); Brigantine Beach VI, 23 (Brn); an imported species not yet commonly found. AMAURORHINUS Fairm. . parvicollis Casey. New Jersey, in dead wood of various trees (Ch). WOLLASTONIELLA CkIl. . quercicola Boh. lLandisville (Li); Anglesea VII, 14 (W); breeds in dead wood of various trees. HEXARTHRUM Woll. . ulkei Horn. Newark (Bf). RHYNCHOLUS Germ. . brunneus Mann. New Jersey (Jl); under bark of wild cherry (Ch). . oregonensis Horn. Anglesea (W). STENOSCELIS Woll. . brevis Boh. Hudson Co. (Ll); Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark Dist. (Bf); Ocean Co. V (Sm); breeds in dead wood of most deciduous forest trees. 400 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ) Family SCOLYTID.. Commonly known as “bark beetles.” They are usually cylindrical, or nearly so, often with the end of the elytra truncate or armed with teeth in the male; the head bent down, often retracted and overshadowed by the prothorax, which may be roughened or rugose, and the mouth parts forming none or only a very short snout. The legs are generally short, | often broad and somewhat flattened, capable of being very closely folded to the body. They are all borers in bark, bast or heart-wood, and almost every species is aS well characterized by its work as by its structure. In the common type of which the “fruit bark beetle’ is an example, the adult beetle makes a central gallery on each side of which eggs are laid in little recesses. From these eggs hatch grub-like larve, which bore between bark and wood, diverging as they increase in size. When these larve are full grown they pupate at the end of the boring, and in due time the adult emerges through a little round hole. Species of this type usually attack trees not quite healthy or badly injured, and when once they have secured a footing in an orchard tree it might as well be cut out and burned. Other species bore into the solid wood, and as readily into healthy as sickly trees. Here the galleries are often blackened and serve for the propagation of ‘“‘Ambrosia,” a peculiar fungus upon which both larve and adult beetles feed. Some of these forms are of extreme interest, and their injury is not only direct as affecting the life of the tree, but indirect as affecting the value of the wood for timber. The classification of the family is in an unsatisfactory condition at present. There are many undescribed species and many that are undeter- mined in collections. Dr. A. D. Hopkins, of the U. S. Department of Agri- culture, has been studying the group for some years, but has not yet pub- lished the results of his labors except in “Dendroctonus.”’ The present list, therefore, merely adds a few species, some new localities and a little additional information concerning food habits. PLATYPUS Hbst. P. flavicornis Fab. Sea Isle VII, 4 (Brn); Anglesea V, 21 (div). CORTHYLUS Er. C. punctatissimus Zimm. Eagle Rock (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); Cape May C. H. X, 22, cut out of roots of huckleberry, readily noted by yellow dust on surface of ground (W); boring in green sassafras (Hpk). C. columbianus Hopk. 5-mile beach, cut out of toad stomachs VII, 4; bores into healthy oak and other hardwood trees (W). M M. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 401 MONARTHRUM Kirsch, . fasciatum Say. Throughout the State V—VIII; bores into healthy and sick trees in great variety; deciduous and coniferous. mali Fitch. With the preceding, but more rare and with an even larger range of food plants, including apple; Anglesea IV, 23, brood found emerging from oak and other trees (W). GNATHOTRICHUS Eich. - materarius Fitch. Grenloch, Iona V, 17, entering dying white pine (W); probably occurs wherever this tree grows in the State. PITYOPHTHORUS Eich. . bellus Hich. Iona IV, 30, entering pine (W). . minutissimus Zimm. Throughout the State in oak twigs, doing little or no damage. Aduits may be cut out any time during the winter. . pullus Zimm. New Jersey (Jul); Atco, rare on pine (W). . fagi Hopk. New Brunswick, boring in oak twigs (Coll). - Sparsus Lec. Orange Mts., rare (Bf); mines in green bark of injured or dying pine trunks or branches and hastens death (Hpk). . pulicarius Zimm. Bamber VI, 3 (W); Cape May C. H. VIII on pine (Sz); breeds in pine twigs (Hpk). . puberulus Lec. New Brunswick (Coll); Bamber VI, 3, Anglesea IV, 27 (W); Cape May C. H. VII (Sz); infests dying terminal twigs of pine. . querciperda Sch. Hemlock Falls, rare (Bf). . frontalis Hopk. Eagle Rock, rare (Bf); New Brunswick in oak twigs (Sm). There are at least four other undetermined and probably new species in collections. H. H. HYPOTHENEMUS Westw. . ruficollis Hopk. Gloucester V, 13, Grenloch X, 15, Lahaway III, 26, cut out of peach, cherry, etc. (W). . atomus Hopk. Westville II, 5, cut out of oak bark (W). . eruditus Westw. Orange Mts. (Bf); New Brunswick (Sm); Anglesea VII (Sz); breeds in pith and wood of dead vines and twigs in great variety. hispidulus Lec. New Brunswick from hickory and oak (Sm); cut out of sumac (W). erectus Lec. New Brunswick from hickory and oak (Sm). The species are unsaiisfactorily distinguished, and the last three may be partly confused or may represent more distinct forms. 26 IN 402 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. STEPHANODERUS Eich. S. dissimilis Zimm. Orange Mts. V, 19 (Bf); New Brunswick (Sm); Anglesea (W); bred from grape and oak. There are other unnamed species in collections. XYLOTERES Er. X. politus Say. (unicolor Hich.) Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Lakewood (Ll); enters into green wood of dying beech, pine, etc. X. scabricollis Lec. Jamesburg V, 10 (Sm); Grenloch IV, 8, Iona V, 7, entering dying white pine (W); Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). X. lineatus Oliv. On hemlocks VI, 11 on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River and sure to occur in North Jersey on the opposite bank (W). XYLEBORUS Eich. X. dispar Fab. Orange Mts., rare (Bf); Jamesburg V, cut from birch shoots (Sm); Anglesea (W); infests also hemlock, apple, beech, oak. X. pyri Peck. With the preceding and perhaps identical with it. X. obesus Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Lakewood (L1); in black oak, beech and hemlock timber, causing large black pinholes (Hpk). X. affinis Hich. Maurer V, 16, in dead chestnut (Gr). X. inermis Hich. Maurer V, 16, in dead chestnut, associated with the preceding (Gr). X. celsus Hich. Orange Mts. VI (div); at light (Ch); DaCosta (W); breeds in hickory. X. fuscatus Eich. Orange Mts. (Bf); Ocean Co. (Sm); Woodbury IV, 5-mile beach IV, 23, in roots and stumps of oak, as a rule in same galleries with “pubescens” (W); breeds also in hickory, chestnut and pine (Hpk). X. xylographus Say. DaCosta, Cape May C. H. V, 26 (W); Anglesea VII (Sz); on apple, ironwood and other deciduous trees. X., pubescens Zimm. Occurs with and has the same habits as “fus- catus’; breeds also on cherry, magnolia, etc. (Hpk). X. ceelatus Eich. Camden II, 7 (GQ). Mr. Wenzel has an undescribed species from maple, taken in Gloucester Co., and on 5-mile beach, in winter and early spring. DRYOCCETES Eich. D. autggraphus Ratz. Orange Mts. (Bf); mines under green bark of logs, stumps, etc., of spruce (Hpk). D. granicollis Lec. New Jersey (Jtil); habits as above (Hpk), and also found under bark of chestnut, near roots (Ch). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 403 TOMICUS Latr. T. calligraphus Germ. Throughout the State; mines under green bark of dead or dying pines (Hpk). T. cacographus Lec. With the preceding on pine and spruce. T. pini Say. Newark (Bf); DaCosta VI, 2, and still in the wood VII, 7 (W); Avalon VIII, 2 (GG); infests pine and spruce (Hpk). MICRACIS Lec. M. asperula Lec. New Jersey (Jil). M. opacicollis Lec. Throughout the State, winter and spring, in small oak twigs; common. M. suturalis Lec. Newark (Bf). THYSANOES Lec. T. quercus Hopk. Eagle Rock (Bf); infests the bark of dead oak and chestnut twigs (Hp). T. fimbricornis Lec. Westville VI, 16, Chews Landing VI, 9, on hickory and just leaving the wood (W). SCOLYTUS Geoff. S. quadrispinosus Say. Throughout the State in July; bores under bark of feeble or dying hickories and often kills shade trees that would otherwise have reccvered under stimulating treatment. S. muticus Say. Newark (GG). S. rugulosus Ratz. The fruit bark beetle; common throughout the State, often hast- ening the death of all sorts of fruit trees. A tree once thoroughly infested should be cut down and destroyed; one just attacked may sometimes be saved by stimulating treatment. CHRAMESUS Lec. C. icoriz Lec. Throughout the State V & VI, boring under bark of cut or dying hickory branches. Fig. 169.—Fruit bark-beetle, PHLCEOTRIBUS Latr. Scolytus rugulosus; enlarged. P. liminaris Harr. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. V, 19 (Bf); attacks living peach, plum, cherry (Ch), mining under green bark (Hpk). P. frontalis Oliv. New Jersey (Jtil); under green bark of Mulberry (Hpk). 404 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . strigicollis Lec. Orange Mts., g. d. (Bf); . dentatus Say. Throughout the _ State, . pusillus Gyll. New Jersey (Jiil); infeSts . alutaceus Sz. Lahaway III, 26 (W). CARPHOBORUS Eich. . bifurcus Hich. New Jersey (Jul); said to infest pine. . bicristatus Chap. Anglesea (W); normally a floridian species. DENDROCTONUS Er. . terebrans Oliv. Throughout the State, locally common; mines in green bark and turpentine on pine (Hpk), and enters trees late IV and early V (W). . rufipennis Kirby. Riverton IV, 22 (GG); Lakewood (Ll). . valens Lec. Occurs with “terebrans,”’ usually in felled trees within two feet from base (W). HYLESINUS Fab. . aculeatus Say. Throughout the State; common on cut ash (Bf); en- ters trees late IV, early V (W); mines under the green bark (Hpk). . fasciatus Lec. Clementon V, 20, infests young shoots of healthy white ash (W). . opaculus Lec. New Jersey (Jil); 5-mile beach IV, 23 (W), mines under green bark of elm (Hpk). . trifolii Mill. The clover-root borer; g. d., but not injurious. CNESINUS Lec. Westville X, 6, Woodbury VI, 22, Cape May C. H. V, 26, cut out of terminal twigs of oak (W). PHLCGEOSINUS Chap. on cedar; entering in June. CRYPTURGUS Er. pine and spruce, boring in and under bark. HYLASTES Er. porculus Er. Newark (Bf); g. d. (W); A “ Fig. 3170.— Clover root-borer, in bark of pine (Hpk). Hylesinus trifolti: a, work of the larva in stem and roots. of HYLURGOPS Lec. clover plant; natural size; b, larva; c, pupa; d, adult beetle; . glabratus Zett. New Jersey (Sm); Da- enlarged. Costa (GG). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 405 H. pinifex Fitch. New Jersey (Jtil); Newark (Soc); attacks pine, mining in the green bark of dying trees. The relation between these two species is not yet settled. Family ANTHRIBID. In these insects the mouth parts are more distinct, the snout broad, obtuse, and the labrum is present. The antenne are not elbowed, but are sometimes very long, with an obvious cylindrical club at tip. The colors are usually gray or brown, mottled with black, and the insects are rather pretty, resembling closely the surfaces on which they are found. Little is known of their life history. The beetles are usually found on dead wood or on tree fungi; but the larva of at least one of our species is believed to be a feeder on scale insects, although most of those known develop in dry rot decay or in fungi. EURYMYCTER Lec. E. fasciatus Oliv. Orange Mts. (Bf); Orange, Snake Hill (Jl); Penbryn VIII, 2 (Dke); sea coast, always rare (W); Avalon VIII, 2 (GG); Sea Isle VI, 26, Seaville VI, 11, Anglesea V, 31 (Brn); on dead twigs. TROPIDERES Sch. T. bimaculatus Oliv. Newark (Bf). T. rectus Lec. Sea coast, rare (W); on dead twigs. ALLANDRUS Lec. A. bifasciatus Lec. New Jersey, on linden (Jil). HORMISCUS Waterh. ‘ ‘H. saltator Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Bf); Gloucester (W); Da- Costa VI, 12, Iona VI, 22, Newtonville VI, 19 (Brn); Anglesea VII (Sz); always rare; breeds in dead wood of deciduous trees( Ch). H. sp. nov. Schwarz. Anglesea VII (Sz). TOXOTROPIS Lec. T. pusillus Lec. Anglesea (W). EUSPHYRUS Lec. E. walshii Lec. Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts., Newark Dist. (Bf); Highlands (Ch); Gloucester (W); Westville VII, 2 (GG); Avalon VI, 23 (Brn); breeds in dead wood of deciduous trees (Ch). PIEZOCORYNUS Sch. P. mixtus Lec. Seashore (W); Avalon VI, VIII (div); Ocean City VII, Sea Isle VI (Brn); Anglesea (Li); on old logs and under bark. P. moestus Lec. Brigantine Beach IX, rare (Hn). 406 REPORT) OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ANTHRIBUS Geoff. A. cornutus Say. Jamesburg VII (Bf); DaCosta VI, 8 (Brn); Atco V, 10, Cape May C. H. V, 26 (W). CRATOPARIS Sch. Cc. lunatus Fab. Throughout the State, V, VII, VIII, on tree fungus and dead trees; develops in fungus-attacked logs and stumps (Ch). BRACHYTARSUS Sch. B. alternatus Say. “New Jersey” (Jl); Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (Ll). B. tomentosus Say. Hudson Co. (Ll); common throughout So. Jersey (W). B. plumbeus Lec. Highlands (Ch). B. variegatus Say. Salt meadows (Bf); throughout the State south of the Piedmont Plain V—VII; breeds in smut of corn (Ch). ANTHRIBULUS Lec. A. rotundatus Lec. Ft. Lee (Sf); Newark, Orange Mts. (Bf); Atco V, 21, Newtonville VII, 9 (Brn); DaCosta VIII, 14, Anglesea (W). ARAZCOCERUS Sch. A. fasciculatus DeG. On dried fruits and similar stores (Ch). CHORAGUS Kirby. Cc. sayi Lec. Orange Mts., Jamesburg (Bf). Cc. zimmermani Lec. Fort Lee (Sf); Hemlock Falls (Bf). Order LEPIDOPTERA. This order contains the butterflies and moths or “millers,” characterized by the scaly covering or clothing which, except in rare instances, covers both body and wings. The wings are usu- ally of good size, and both pairs are used in flight. In the butterflies the primaries or forewings are as large or larger in area than the secondaries, in the moths the opposite is the case; but there are excep- tions to both rules, and in some groups the females tend to lose the wings altogether. The head is connected with the thorax by a distinct neck, and the mouth parts are developed into a long, tube-like tongue Fig, 171-__Wing ‘scales “of coiled between the palpi when at rest and Lepidoptera. used only for sucking up liquid food. In the adult stage the insects are therefore harmless, and the day fliers or butterflies add much to the beauty of the fields and roads by their bright coloring, when flitting from flower to flower in the sunshine. In the early or larval stages the insects are caterpillars, with mouth parts formed for chewing, feeding mostly upon foliage or growing vegeta- tion, and therefore injurious. Whenever they feed openly, arsenical or other stomach poisons are available against them, and indeed only in exceptional cases can any others be satisfactorily used. Little has been added to the list in the “Macrolepidoptera” since the previous edition was published. A comparatively few species have been found whose presence was previously suspected or whose range has been somewhat extended by col- lections, but in the “micro- lepidoptera” there have been great changes. Since 1899 Dietz, Busck, Kear- fott and others have de- scribed numerous species and have written revisions of genera that have changed the appearance of our lists. The work of these students has been incorporated and used, as appears under the special families to which they have contributed. While there will probably be many more species added in some of these families, they are in very much better shape than they were in the previous list, and include the species more likely to be found by the ordinary collector. (407 ) Fig. 172.—Section through a butterfly tongue, show: ing how it is made up and how the two halves are locked. 408 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. No important change in general arrangement has been made in this edition, and such changes as have been necessary are connected with the previous work in the usual way. Super-family PAPILIONOIDEA. Includes the day-fliers or butterflies, characterized by having the an- tenne enlarged into a club at tip, whence they have also been called “Rhopalocera” or club-horned. They are usually of moderate or large size, brightly colored and marked, and the wings, when at rest, are held upright or vertical, the faces opposing each other, except in the skippers or “Hesperide,’ where the fore-wings are held vertically and the hind wings are held horizontally. Dr. Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia, has been good enough to look over the manuscript in this super-family and to verify such determinations as seemed questionable. He has also added a number of records and notes from his own experience. Family NYMPHALID. These are the four-footed butterflies, in which the anterior feet are so much aborted as to be useless for any purpose. The pupz are suspended by the tail alone and are frequently ornamented by metallic gold and silver spots. DANAIS Latr. D. plexippus Linn. Occurs throughout the State, May to November; sparingly before midsummer, commonly until late September. The larva feeds on milkweeds, and there are three broods. The chrysalis is bright green with golden spots, and forms a conspicuous. object. This butterfly migrates in late fall and winters as an adult in the Southwest. In May, scattering females return and provide for the first brood of larve, the butterflies from which remain here, lay eggs and provide for the second brood of larve. These develop in the same way, the adults also remain at home and provide for the third and largest brood of the season. The adults that hatch from this brood of larve have the migrating instinct developed, make no at- tempt to reproduce their kind and leave in great swarms in late September and early October for their winter home. They do not reproduce there, and only the females return to their place of birth in the spring following. AGRAULIS Bd.—Lec. A. vanilla Linn. Cape May; 7-mile beach; Camden County; an occa- sional visitor only, and may not breed in the State at all; the larva feeds on “Passifiora.” E; 2 > A iy M. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 409 EUPTOIETA Doubl. 5 claudia Cram. From Cape May to Jersey City and south of the red- shale line to the Delaware, June to October. There are three broods, and the larva feeds on violets, mandrake, passion “flower, Portulacea, Sedum and Desmodium. Mr. Davis reports it extremely rare on Staten Island; but other collectors report it as locally and season- ally common. ARGYNNIS Fab. idalia Dru. Throughout the State and locally common, from late June into September, favoring swampy meadows. The form “ashtaroth”’ Fisher has been taken by Mr. Angelman at Schooley’s Mountain. The larve of all the species of this genus feed on violets. . cybele Fab. Throughout the State from early June to late Septem- ber; less numerous in the northern areas than in the south, where it is the most abundant of the larger species. aphrodite Fab. Occurs with “cybele” north of the red shale line and more abundant in the hills of the extreme north. Mr. Davis records a single example from Staten Island, VI, 29. Records south of these points are Camden, Moorestown, Westville (Carney), but these may need verification. . myrina Cram. Common throughout the State, May to September and probably 3-brooded. . bellona Fab. Throughout the State, June to September; more com- mon northwardly. PHYCIODES Doubl. nycteis Db—Hew. Recorded from Hopatcong and Greenwood Lake to Mount Holly, all dates in June and July. Not usually a common species. Larva on aster, sunflower and “Actinomeris.” tharos Dru. Common throughout the State and throughout the sea- son, probably three-brooded. The form “marcia” Edw. appears in May and June and produces the form “morpheus” Edw., from which, in turn, “marcia” again appears. The larva feeds on asters. batesii Reak. Recorded only from Gloucester, in the original descrip- tion and apparently not found since. MELITAEZA Fab. . pheton Dru. Throughout the State, in swampy meadows, sometimes locally abundant. The larva hibernates, becomes full grown in May or early June, and the adult is on the wing until early July. Food plants are “Lonicera,” “Chelone,”’ “Viburnum,” ‘Mimulus,”’ ‘“Plan- tago,” “Gerardia,” etc. harrisii Scudd. Orange Mts. (Soc); Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron); Hewitt VI, 19 (Ds). The larva on asters. 410 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. , 7 GRAPTA Kirby. G. interrogationis Fab. Occurs throughout the State and throughout the season; not uncommon. The adult hibernates, begins to oviposit in May and there are three broods. It occurs in two forms, “‘fabricii”’ and “umbrosa,” which are not seasonal, but may and do occur to- gether in midsummer. The larve feed on “Celtis,” elm, hop, nettle, basswood and other trees. Fig. 173.—Grapta comma: a, egg chain; b, larva; c, chry- salis; d, adult: all natural size except a. G. comma Harr. Also recorded from all sections of the State and throughout the season; but less abundant and more local. Also hibernates and occurs in two forms, “harrisii” (winter) and “dryas” (summer). Food plants are much as before, save that hop is the favorite. Mr. Grossbeck records it on false nettle near Paterson in September. G. faunus W. H. Edw. Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron), Westwood IX, 10 (Mit- chell), and locally in the hilly sections of northern Jersey. The larva on birch, willow, currant and gooseberry. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. AII G. progne Cram. Local throughout the northern half of the State; but a single ¢ has been recorded at Camden IV, 24, by Carney. Hiber- nated specimens occur in March and April and fresh examples in midsummer. The larva is recorded from currant and gooseberry. G. j-album Bd.—Lec. Local throughout the State, though much more frequent northwardly. Lakehurst IX, 17 (Ds), and Barnegat City VIII, 16 (Br), are the most southern localities given, and as with the others there are two broods. Mr. Davis records that about one- half the specimens taken on Staten Island have been found in dwell- ings, and it is more apt to come within doors than any other of our native butterflies. The larva is recorded from birch. VANESSA Fabr. V. antiopa Linn. Common throughout the State and almost throughout the year, the hibernating examples being sometimes seen during mild days even in mid-winter. The spiny caterpillar feeds in colonies on willow, poplar, elm and celtis, and sometimes in numbers sufficient to attract attention. It is easily controlled by arsenites. The aber- ration “lintneri” has been taken at Camden VIII, 4, by Mr. Carney. V. milberti Gdt. Orange Mts. and northward VI, VII and IX; one ex- ample only, recorded at Camden XI, 9 (Carney). Mr. Davis records two examples on Staten Island, both in October. Other specific local- ities are Lyons Farms VII (Bz); Swartswood Lake, VII, 25 (Ds); Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron); Paterson, VII, 20, VIII, 13 (Gr). Larva on nettle. PYRAMEIS Doubl. P. atalanta Linn. Throughout the State and all seasons; locally com- mon. Becomes most abundant in September and hibernates as an adult. Two-brooded, the larva on hop and nettle. P. huntera Fab. Throughout the State, common, May to November and hibernating exampies occasionally in other months. There are two broods, and the larva feeds on nettle, thistle, burdock, sunflower, everlasting, etc. P. cardui Linn. Throughout the State, May to October, usually most abundant in September. T'wo-brooded, adult hibernates, food plants thistle, burdock, sunflower, hollyhock and others. JUNONIA Doubl. P. coenia Hbn. More or less generally distributed south of the red shale and sometimes common in late summer in Cape May and other southern shore counties. Occasional in the Orange Mts. (div); Ft. Lee (Bt); Paterson VIII, 22 (Gr), Westwood (Mitchell) and Somer- set County. It is two-brooded; flies from May to November, and the larva feeds on plantain, snapdragon and Gerardia. 412 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LIMENITIS Fabr. L. ursula Gdt. More or less common throughout the State, May to Sep- tember. The larva hibernates, becomes full grown early in May and produces adults late May and June. Second brood adults appear in late July and continue to September. Food plants are apple, plum, cherry, willow, poplar, oak, thorn, huckleberry, etc. var. albofascia Newe. Staten Island VIII, 25 (Ds); East Brunswick VII, 29 (Dow); Hoboken (Wr); Chester VIII (Dn). This variety has probably been mistaken for “arthemis” in times past, and by its com- plete white fascia it resembles that species quite strongly. L. arthemis Dru. Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron); Andover VIII (Kr). It is probable that this is occasionally found among the hills in the ex- treme northern parts of the State; the larva on willow and thorn. L. proserpina W. H. Edw. An occasional companion of the preceding and generally believed to be a variety of it. Others believe it to be a distinct species, feeding on apple, and so I have listed it here. L. archippus Cram. More or less common throughout the State VI-X. Hibernates as larva, which becomes full grown in May and produces adults in June; second brood from late July on. Larva on apple, plum, thorn, willow, poplar, oak, gooseberry, huckleberry, ete. APATURA Fabr. A. clyton Bd.—Lec. Larva numerous on “Celtis” at Maplewood (Doll). Family SATYRID/. These are the woodland butterflies—modest gray or blackish species with eye-spots above and below and the veins at the base of the wings inflated. They are brush-footed as completely as the previous family, and the chrysalis is suspended by the tail alone. There are no injurious: species. DEBIS Westw. D. portlandia Fab. Local throughout the State; not rare. Newfound- land VII, 27 (Ds); Paterson VII, 16, VIII, 17 (Gr); Elizabeth VII (Bz); 5-mile beach VII (Haim). There is only a single brood (Bt) and the larva feeds on grasses. Mr. Davis says the species is not. found on Staten Island. NEONYMPHA Westw. N. canthus Bd. Lec. Oceurs throughout the State, June to September, but hardly common. Specific records extend from Hopatcong to Cape May and in every summer month. The larva feeds on grasses, and Mr. Beutenmuller gives one brood only. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 413 N. phocion Fab. 5-mile beach VI (Haim); 7-mile beach, Atlantic City (Aaron); DaCosta VII, 17, common (Lt); Toms River VII, 27, Brown’s Mills Je. VII, 12 (Dke); Jones Mill VI, 21 (Stone); Morristown (Ed- wards). The larva is said to feed on grasses. N. eurytus Fab. Throughout the State in and around open woodland. It is the most common of our species and on the wing from late May to early September. Mr. Beutenmuller says there is one brood only, the larva feeding on grasses. N. mitchelli French. Dover, VI (Jn), and no other more recent cap- tures. N. sosybius Fab. Mount Holly (Aaron), and occasional in southern New Jersey. The larva on grasses. SATYRUS Westw. S. alope Fab. Common throughout the State from June to September. The typical form occurs sparingly in the northern section—is the more common in the centre of the State and along the Delaware, and becomes less common in the sandy coastal plain. var. maritima W. H. Edw. This is the common form in Cape May County, VIJ-IX, is at least as common as the type at Jamesburg, but is rare in the Orange Mountains and wanting in the north. var. nephele Kirby. Tends to replace the typical form in the north and is common in Sussex, Warren and Morris Counties. All forms from typical “alope” to typical ‘‘nephele’” occur at Chester. The larve are grass feeders. Family LIBYTHEID. Includes only a single species, which differs from all the rest of our butterflies by the long palpi, projected straight forward so as to give the appearance of a snout or beak. LIBYTHEA Fab. L. bachmani Kirtl. Local and sometimes common. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee VII and VIII (div); Newark (Soc); Staten Island VIII, 11, IX, 15, three specimens only (Ds); Gloucester (Aaron); Camden VII, 9 (Carney); Avalon VII, 4 (Kp); Lakehurst VII, 21 (Ds). The larva feeds on hackberry. Family ERYCINIDA. The forelegs in the male are aborted, in the female complete. The family is a small one at best, and has only a single representative in the State. It was called ‘“Lemoniide” in the last edition. 414 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CALEPHELIS Grt. & Rob. C. borealis Grt. & Rob. Del. Water Gap (Aaron); Newton, VII, 18 (Wright); Springdale VII, 10 (Gr). More specimens of this species occurred in 1907 than were ever before taken in the State. Family LYCASNIDZ. These are the blues, coppers and hair-streaks, so named from the colors. of the upper surface or the markings of the underside. They are small in size, with slender bodies and somewhat fragile wings. In the male the anterior tarsi are more or less aborted, but in the female they are complete. The caterpillars are often slug-like in form, the chrysalis is somewhat constricted centrally, and is girthed by a silken thread at the middle as well as fastened by the tail. THECLA Fab. T. halesus Cram. Cape May, Gloucester, Westville (Aaron); Newark (Soc); a southern species of very occasional occurrence. The larva on oaks. T. m-album Bd.—Lec. Atlantic City (Aaron); Orange Mts. IV, 28 (Br); Lake Hopatcong VII, 5 (Franck); also a southern species. The larva on oak and “Astragalus.” T. favonius Sm. Abb. Anglesea (Sm), IX, 1 (Haim). Teeemie linus. Lt bm: Locally, throughout the State, V—IX. Paterson VIII, 3-17 (Gr); Orange Mts. VII (Wat); Staten Island V-IX (Ds); Elizabeth VII, VIII (Bz); Camden VI, 17, IX, 17 (Car- ney); 5-mile beach, VII, 4-20 (Haim); Cape May, IX (Sk). The larva feeds on hop and bean and is two- brooded (Bt). Si, rey) Fig. 174.—Thecla melinus; c, adult from above; T. acadica W. H. Edw. Hewitt dd, same with wings closed showing under VI (Jtl); Greenwood Lake surface; a, larva; b, pupa: all some- VI (Bt) The jJarva on what enlarged; e, egg, greatly en- ; . larged. willow. — T. edwardsii Saund. Newark VII, 4, abundant (Br); Newfoundland VII, 3 (Ds); Hewitt VI (Jtl); Jamesburg VII, 4. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. AI5 T. calanus Hbn. Throughout the State. Hopatcong VII, 4, abundant about hickory; Paterson VI, 24, VII, 4 (Gr); Newark V-—VIII: (div); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Sk); Camden VIII, 1 (Carney); 5-mile beach VII, 3 (Haim). Single brooded (Bt), the larva on oak, hickory, chestnut, walnut. T. liparops Bd.—Lece. Westmont VII (Mitchell); Newark (Soc); Eliza- beth (Bwl); Jamesburg VII, 4; Lakehurst VII, 21 (Ds); 5-mile beach VII, 17-26 (Haim). The larva on oak, holly, thorn, plum and apple. The variety “strigosa” occurs with the type. T. damon Cram. Throughout the State, locally common. Westmont V, 19, 20 (Mitchell); Plainfield, Passaic Valley, Greenwood Lake, Lake Hopatcong, Del. Water Gap, only where red cedar grows, V, VI and VIII (Bt); Orange Mts. IV, 25-VIII, 1 (div); Paterson V, 11—-VII, 27 (Gr); Morris Plains (Jn); Staten Island V, 8 (Ds); Laurel Springs IV, 29 (Hoyer); 5-mile beach VII (div). Food plants for larva are cedar and “Smilax rotundifolia.” var. patersonia Brehme. Type locality Paterson VII, 25 (Gr). T. cecrops Fab. Manasquan VI, 29 (Brehme); 1 ¢ only. T. augustus Kirby. Paterson IV, 8, 22; Milltown IV, 29, abundant (Gr); Hemlock Falls IV, 30, V, 30 (Bz); Staten Island, IV and V, formerly abundant, but of late years more rare (Ds); South Amboy (Bt); Jamesburg V (Sm); Gloucester, Westville IV, 25 (Sk); Mt. Holly (Aaron); Clementon V, 10 (div); Laurel Springs IV, 29 (Hoyer). T. irus Gdt. Orange Mts. IV and V, not rare (div); Staten Island IV and V (Ds); Gloucester, in pine woods IV, V (Aaron); Westville V (Sk); Clementon V, 16 (Jn); Anglesea, common V, 1 (Lt); 5-mile beach IV, 26-VI (Haim); Jamesburg V (Sm). The larva feeds on wild plum and huckleberry. T. polios Cook & Watson. Type locality Lakewood IV, 21 and 27; also taken at Lakehurst in April and May by Davis and Grossbeck; Mill- town IV, 22 (Gr); Brown’s Mills V, 12, Manumuskin IV, 29, Lucaston IV, 10 (Dke). Larva on bear-berry “Arctostaphylos uva-ursi’ (Cook). T. henrici Grt. & Rob. Staten Island V, 23 (Br); South Amboy (Bt); Jamesburg V (Sm); Westville (Aaron). The larva feeds on plum and cherry. T. niphon Hbn. In pine woods IV and V (Bt); common in May, 1881, along a sandy road and none have been seen since, Staten Island (Ds); Jamesburg V (Sm); Gloucester, Mount Holly (Aaron); West- ville IV, 29, Camden VI, 18 (Sk); Riverton (Jn); Clementon V, 9 (Lt); 5-mile beach V, 7 (Haim). The larva feeds on pine. T. titus Fab. Westmont VII, 8-29 (Mitchell); Dover VII, 16 (Jn); Lake Hopatcong (Pm, Bt); Paterson VII, 17 (Gr); Snake Hill (Bt), James- burg VII, 4 (div); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds). The larva feeds on plum and wild cherry. 416 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. FENISECA Grt. F. tarquinius Fab. Occurs throughout the State, but is local and nowhere common. The larva is one of the few predatory caterpillars and feeds on “Schizoneura tessellata,” one of the woolly lice on alder. It is found throughout the summer and Mr. Beutenmuller records three broods. ; CHRYSOPHANUS Doubl. C. thoe Bd.—Lee. Local and not common in the northern part of the State; Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron); Paterson VI, 12, VIII, 3 (Gr); Newark district IX (div); Secaucus, on salt meadows (Sb); Elizabeth IX (Bz); Staten Island VI, 20, IX, 12 (Ds). Mr. Beutenmuller records two broods, VI and VII and VIII and IX. The larva on “Polygonum” and “‘Rumex.” C. epixanthe Bd—Lec. Newark 1 specimen (Erb); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); DaCosta (Aaron); Brown’s Mills Je. VI, 17 (Dke); Lakehurst, common in swamps where there are cranberry plants (Ds). C. hypophlzeeus Bdv. Common throughout the State from May to October. This is the common little copper butterfly that flutters about in fields everywhere; the larve on sorrel and clover, but never in injurious numbers. LYCAENA Fab. L. ladon Cram. (pseudargiolus Bd.—Lec.) Common throughout the State, but somewhat local. The forms “lucia” Kirby, ‘marginata” Edw., and “violacea” Edw., occur in April and May; the forms ‘neglecta” Edw., and “pseudargiolus Bd.—Lec., are found throughout the summer and until September. According to Beutenmuller the winter form lays eggs in the flower of dog-wood, ‘Cornus florida;”’ the following brood oviposits on the flower stem of black snake-root “Cimicifuga racemosa’; the fall brood occurs on ‘“Actinomeris.” Other recorded food plants are wild bean, “Apios tuberosa,” “Spirzea,” “Ceanothus americana” and “Ilex.” L. comyntas Gdt. The commonest of our little blues, occuring every- where from May to September. There are three broods during the season, the larva on clover, “Lespedeza,”’ “Desmodium” and “Pha- seolus.” The two species, ‘‘couperii” Grt., and “scudderii’ W. H. Edw., recorded in the last edition as probably occuring in New Jersey, have not been actually taken in the thorough collecting that has been done in the State and are therefore omitted. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. AI7 Family PIERID/A. This family includes the “cabbage butterflies,’ and among them are the most serious pests of this series. The butterflies are white or yellow, of good size, the wings generally more or less black-bordered and with black discal spots. The fore tarsi are complete in both sexes, hence these, in common with the following families, are six-footed butterflies. The chrysalis is angulated and’ girthed at its middle as well as fastened at the tail. : The caterpillars are cylindrical, usually green, often velvety in ap- pearance, without spines or other processes. Some feed on cabbages and cruciferous plants generally, others on clovers and leguminous plants. When these caterpillars occur on cabbage and similar cultivated plants they may be dealt with by arsenites, applied early in the season. If Paris green is used there should be one pound of resin soap to each 100 gal- lons of water to give better adhesion. If arsenate of lead is used it should be applied with force in a fine spray; but even here the soap will be an advantage. PIERIS Schranck. P. protodice Bdv. Occurs through- out the State south of the red shale line and sometimes a lit- tle to the north of it. Lake Hopatcong (Pm) and Pater- son VII, 22-80 (Gr), are the only records from the north- ern part of the State. Some seasons it is very common throughout its range, and then for several years in succession only isolated examples are Fig. 175.—Pieris protodice: female adult; seen, or it may be entirely natural size. absent. The variety ‘“vernalis’” W. H. Edw., has been taken at Paterson VII, 26 (Gr); Riverton IV, 16 (Jn); Camden V (Carney) and 5-mile beach V (Haim). ' Eggs were found on pepper plants by Mr. Grossbeck VIII, 28, and crucifere generally are known as food plants of the species. P. oleracea Badv. Paterson V, 5 (Gr); Camden (Carney); occurs occa- sionally throughout the State, but more frequently in the northern portion. It is our native cabbage butterfly, which has been almost exterminated and driven out by the imported species. Only occa- sional examples are now found by collectors; in some years none at all. P. rapz Linn. March to November, throughout the State. This is the common cabbage butterfly, introduced from Europe, and which has 27 IN 418 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. replaced the native species. The larva is always abundant on and sometimes very injurious to cabbage, cauliflower and other crucifer- ous plants. It is kept in check by applications of arsenical poisons. G ZY \ SY N hy, ft se SESS Fig. 176.—The cabbage butterfly, Pieris rape: a, female adult; b, egg from top and side; c, larva; d, chry- salis: a, c and d slightly enlarged; b, greatly enlarged. var. immaculata Sk. & Aaron. Riverton IV, 16 (Jn); Paterson V, 2 (Gr). This is a spring form in which the spots are much reduced or wanting, and which has been mistaken for “oleracea.” ANTHOCHARIS Bdv. A. genutia Fab. Local, throughout the State in April and May. Del. Water Gap, Ramapo Mts. (Bt); Great Notch V, 7, Little Falls Vv, 14 (Ds); Paterson IV, 27-V, 20, eggs on “Arabis lyrata” V, 11-18, larve V, 19-VI, 26 (Gr); Orange Mt. Dist. (div); Westville, Mt. Holly, 7-mile beach (Aaron); Timber Creek, Riverton (Jn); Laurel Springs IV, 29 (Hoyer). The larva feeds on “Arabis” and “Sisym- brium.” CATOPSILIA Hbn. C. eubule Linn. Occasionally common in September in the southern sea- shore counties and flies northward for long distances. It is recorded from Chester (Dn), Ft. Lee (Bt), Newark (div), Staten Island (Ds), and many points to the southward. It is our most conspicuous and largest butterfly of this family, and the larva feeds on “Cassia,” which is very abundant in Cape May County. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 419 COLIAS Fab. ceesonia Stoll. The ‘‘dog’s head butterfly.” Taken on Staten Island in June and July, 1896, and not since recorded. It is common further south and west, and the larve feed on clover and “Amorpha.”’ C. euytheme Bdv. Mt. Holly (Aaron); Camden (Carney); Long Island (Bt); Staten Island X, 20, 1900 (Ds). Very occasional and hardly a regular inhabitant of the State. It is common in the Central States, and the larve feed on clover and allied plants. C. philodice Gdt. The common sulphur yellow butterfly, which occurs throughout the State from early spring to late fall. The larva feeds on leguminous plants, preferably clover, and while quite abundant, has never yet become injurious. 9 TERIAS Swains. T. nicippe Cram. Local throughout the State, rarely common, in May and June and again in September and October. Specific records are Orange Mt. Dist. (div); Waverly (Br); Elizabeth IX, 14 (Gr); Staten Island VI (Ds); Mt. Holly, Westville, Atlantic City (Aaron); Cam- den (Carney); 5-mile beach (Haim). The larva feeds on clover and “Cassia.” T. lisa Bdv.—Lee. Throughout the State; but rather local and rarely common north of the red shale. It is the most common butterfly at Anglesea and along the shore in Cape May County in September, occurring generally where its food plant, ‘Cassia,’ is plentiful. The early butterflies in June, the later broods in August and September. Belated examples have been taken in October, and there is no time during the summer when it is not likely to be met with along shore. Family PAPILIONIDAS. These are the swallow-tail butterflies; all of them of large size, con- spicuously marked, the hind wings with a tail-like extension, which gives them their common name. The legs are all complete, fitted for walking, and the antenne are situated close together on the vertex. The cater- pillars are unique in the possession of a protrusible fleshy process be- tween the thoracic segments which, when extended, gives off an intense- ly disagreeable odor. These processes are called ‘“‘osmateria,’ and are supposed to be defensive in character. The chrysalids are girthed at the middle as well as fastened at the tail. PAPILIO Linn. P. ajax Linn. Local throughout the State, but usually only single ex- amples at long intervals. The larva feeds on paw-paw, and wher- ever this food plant does not occur the butterfly is a visitor merely. Specific records are from Newfoundland VII (Ds); Hemlock Falls VII, 1 (Br); Newark district (div); Staten Island VI, VII, VIII (Ds); Anglesea (W). 420 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE: MUSEUM. P. philenor Linn. Throughout the State, sometimes common; the larva on the “Dutchman’s pipe,” “Aristolochia sipho,’”’ which it sometimes defoliates completely. There are three broods and specimens occur from May to October; one record, by Mr. Davis, as late as Novem- ber 2. P. polyxenus Fab. Throughout the State, April to October, and the most common of our swallow-tail butterflies. The larve feed on carrot, parsley, celery and similar plants, and are sometimes abund- ant enough in gardens to be injurious. Hand-picking is usually the most satisfactory method of control, though arsenate of lead is effective where it can be safely used. P. palamedes Dru. Fairview, fide Wrms. A ragged specimen, visitor rather than native. P. troilus Linn. Not rare throughout the State, April to October, wher- ever the food plants occur. Feeds on sassafras, spice-bush and “Laurus.” P. turnus Linn. Throughout the State, sometimes common, May to Sep- tember. It is the largest of our common butterflies, conspicuous by its yellow color and black transverse bands. There is a black variety of the female, known as “glaucus,’ which is rare in New Jersey, but more abundant to the south and west. The larva feeds on a great variety of orchard and other trees, but is never plentiful enough to cause injury. P. thoas Linn. Very occasional throughout the State and even larger than the “turnus.” Records of actual captures are from Paterson VIII, 12 (Gr); Ft. Lee (Bt), Newark and Orange Mts. (div); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); New Brunswick (Sm); Trenton (Aaron). The larva feeds on orange, prickley ash and hop-tree (Ptella); in Florida it is known as the “Orange dog.” Family HESPERID. These are the “skippers,” so called because of their low, jerky flight. They are usually small, stout butterflies, with tawny, black or smoky wings, which may or may not be spotted or marked with black or white. The head is broad between the eyes, the antenne are widely separated at the point of insertion, their club gradual and pointed, usually a little recurved at tip. All the legs are fully developed. At rest these butter- flies have the forewings vertical as in the preceding families, but the hind wings are held horizontally. The larve have large heads, separated by a distinct neck from the rest of the body, and they feed mostly on grasses, none of them being of economic importance. The pupe are rounded, usually more or less incased in a slight cocoon and thus somewhat resembling the moths. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 421 ANCYLOXYPHA Feld. A. numitor Fab. Common throughout the State, May to September; the larva three brooded, feeding on grasses. PAMPHILA Fab. P. massasoit Scudd. Westmont VII, 8—VIII, 7 (Mitchell); Paterson VII, 7 (Gr); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth VII, in fresh water swamps (Bz); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); Camden (Carney); Gloucester VII, VIII (Aaron); swamp near Westville VII, 3-10 (Sk, Lt). var. suffusa Laurent. Westville VII, 4. P. zabulon Bd.—Lec. Quite generally distributed, but seems local and not common. Westmont VIII, 28 (Mitchell); Paterson VI, 8, 14 (Gr); Newark and Orange Mts. V, 29-VI, 10, VIII, IX, 10 (div); Staten Island V, VI, VIII, IX, X (Ds); Cape May V, 30 (Sk); 5-mile beach VI, 19-VIII, 21 (Haim). P. hobomok Harr. Westmont V, 28-VII, 5 (Mitchell); Paterson, V, 11 (Gr); Staten Island V, VI, VII (Ds); Newark V, 15—VI, 15 (Bz); and probably local throughout the State. var. pocahontas Scudd. Sometimes common in the hilly portions of the State in May and June. P. sassacus Harr. Hopatcong (div); Westmont VI (Mitchell); New- foundland V, 29; Staten Island V, VI (Ds); Newark and Orange Mts. V, VI (div); Plainfield (Sk); Trenton (Ds). P. metea Scudd. Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron); Westmont V, 19 (Mitchell); Hemlock Falls V, 15 (Sb, Bz); Staten Island VI, Newfoundland V, 19-27, Lakehurst V, 20-27 (Ds); Clementon V, 10, on sand myrtle (div). P. attalus W. H. Edw. Lakehurst VII, 17 (Bz); Clementon VIII, 3 (Fox); DaCosta VII, 19 (W); Manumuskin (Dke). P. leonardus Harr. Quite generally distributed, but not common, in August and September. Records are from every section of the State. P. campestris Bdv. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc); Camden VIII, IX (Carney); Mt. Holly (Aaron); Cape May IX (Sk); 5-mile beach VII, 26, IX, 20 (Haim); locally common. | ‘ P. phylzeus Dru. Hopatcong VIII, 29 (Ds); Bayonne X (Bt); Atlantic City (Aaron); 5-mile beach VIII, 20 (Haim); not common. P. brettus Lec. Camden 1 ? VIII, 10, 2 ¢ IX, 7 (Carney). P. otho Sm. Abb. and its var. “egeremet” Scudd. Quite general through- out the State and locally common. Hopatcong (Pm); Newfoundland VII, 5, Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Newark Dist. (div); Camden, Mer- chantville VII (Carney); Gloucester (Aaron); Lakehurst VII, 29 (Ds); 5-mile beach VI, 3, VIII, 27 (Haim). P. peckius Kirby. Common throughout the State from May to Septem- ber; two brooded. 422 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. mystic Scudd. G. d. throughout the northern part of the State, V, VI, and again VIII, [IX (Bt); Orange Mts. and Newark Dist. (div); Eliza- beth VI (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); Trenton, Schooley’s Mt. (Aaron). P. cernes Bd. Lec. Common throughout the State V-IX; two brooded. P. manataaqua Scudd. Westmont VII (Mitchell); Newark (Soc); Staten Island V, VI, VII (Ds); Elizabeth VI, 20—-VII, 30 (Bz); Camden, Mer- chantville VII, VIII (Carney); Gloucester (Aaron). Local and no- where common. P. verna W.H. Edw. Hopatcong, Ft. Lee Dist. VI, VII in meadows (Pm); Westmont VII, 8 (Mitchell); Orange Mts. V, VII (Wdt); Elizabeth VI, 20-VII, 30 (Bz); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); 5-mile beach, VI, 23, VIII, 12 (Haim). P. metacomet Harr. Throughout the State from June to August, records ranging from Hopatcong to Cape May. P. accius Sm.—Abb. June and July (Bt); Salem (Aaron). P. maculata W. H. Edw. Camden VII, 15, 1 ¢ and 1 2 (Carney). P. panoquin Scudd. Common on the salt marshes from Tuckerton, south to Cape May, June to September; taken by all collectors. P. ocola W. H. Edw. Staten Island IX, 1896, once only (Ds); Salem (Aaron) ; Camden IX, 1899, common; never seen before (Carney). P. bimacula Grt. & Rob. Oak Ridge VI, 26, VII, 3 (Shoemaker); Lake- hurst VI, 27 (Ds). P. pontiac W. H. Edw. Hopatcong, Snake Hill VI, VII (Bt); Westmont VII, 4-28 (Mitchell); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lt); Camden, Merchantville (Carney) ; Westville VII, 4 (Sk); Gloucester IX (Lt). P. dion. W. H. Edw. Brookville VII, Lakehurst VII, 29 (Ds); Brown’s Mills IX, 15 (Dke); Anglesea VII (div). P. vitellius Fab. Rare near New York (Bt); Jamesburg VII, 30 (Ds); Westville VII, 10 (Lt); east bank of Delaware Bay near Maurice River (Aaron). P. aaroni Sk. - Common on the salt marshes from Tuckerton south to Cape May, on Convolvulus VI and VIII; recorded by all collectors. P. arogos Bd. Lec. Brookville VII, Lakehurst VIII, 30 (Ds); Brown’s Mills VII, 21 (Dke). : P. fusca Grt. & Rob. Orange Mts. IX (Wdt); Elizabeth VI (Bz); Staten Island VI, Sandy Hook, Tuckerton IX, 2 (Ds); Jamesburg VI, 22 (Ds), VII, 4 (Sk); Camden VI, 18 (Sk); 5-mile beach VI, 9, VIII, IX (div). P. hianna Scudd. Iona, Brown’s Mills V, 27 (Dke). P. viator W. H. Edw. Hopatcong (Pm); Snake Hill, Newark VII (Bt); Homestead VII (Kr); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island, VII, 17-31, not uncommon at the edge of salt meadow (Ds); Middlesex Co. (Hulst); Cape May (Aaron). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 423 AMBLYSCIRTES Speyer. A. vialis W. H. Edw. Newfoundland V, 29, Lakehurst V, 20, VI, 4 (Ds); Westville V (Sk); Clementon V, 16 (div). A. samoset Scudd. Not yet actually taken; but almost sure to be found. PYRGUS Westw. P. tessellata Scudd. Throughout the State, seasonally common, VIII and IX. The larva on mallow, “Althea,” “Abutilon” and “Sidus.” P. centaureze Ramb. Westmont IV, 30-V, 19 (Mitchell); Paterson IV, 25-V, 14 (Gr); Little Falls throughout May (div); Iona IV, 30 (Sk). NISONIADES Speyer. N. brizo Bd.—Lec. More or less common throughout the State, April to June, recorded by all collectors. There is one record at Clenienton X, 5 (Sk), and Mr. Davis adds that the species occurs on the more barren hills and sandy districts. Larve on oak and “Cynoglossum.” N. icelus Lint. Del. Water Gap (Aaron); Ft. Lee, Plainfield V, VI (Bt); Orange Mts. V, 1-VI, 15 (Bz); Jersey City VII (Kr); Staten Island V (Ds). The larva on aspen, willow and witch hazel. N. lucilius Lint. Greenwood Lake, Orange Mts. V, VI (Bt); Paterson IV, 19-V, 7 (Gr). The larva on ‘“Aquilegia,”’ “Chenopodium” (Bt), willow and poplar (Dyar). N. persius Scudd. Westmont VIII, 6 (Mitchell); Greenwood Lake and elsewhere in N. J., V, VI (Bt); Orange Mts. V-—VII (Bz); Staten Island V-IX (Ds); So. Orange, Camden VII (Bwl); Westville IV, 9 (Sk). The larva on willow and poplar. N. martialis Scudd. Westmont VII, 4 (Mitchell); Sparta, Normannock VII, Staten Island V, 3 (Ds); Paterson VII, 27 (Gr); Eagle Rock VI (Bz); Laurel Springs IV, 29 (Hoyer); Woodbury IX, 5 (Sk); New Jersey V, VI and VII, VIII, two broods (Bt). The larva on red-root and wild indigo. The “ausonius” Lint. of the last edition is an un- dersized example of this species. N. juvenalis Fab. Throughout the State, more or less commonly, May to September. Two broods; larva on wild beans and other legumes as well as on oak. N. petronius Lint. Orange Mts. VII, VIII (Bz); Woodbury IV, V, James- burg VII, 4, Atco IX, 4 (Sk). “N. horatius’” Scudd. and ‘‘N. terentius’” Scudd, included on published faunal maps, have not been actually taken and are of doubtful occurrence. PHOLISORA Speyer. P. catullus Fab. Common throughout the State, May to September. -It is two-brooded, the larva on “Amaranthus” and “Chenopodium.” 424 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. EUDAMUS Swains. E. pylades Scudd. Quite generally distributed, from late May to mid- August; the larva on clover and “‘Lespedeza.” E. bathyllus Sm. Abb. Common locally throughout the State, May to September; the larva on “Lespedeza,’ wild bean and other legumes. E. lycidas Sm. Abb. Throughout the State, locally common, May to July. Larva on “Desmodium” and legumes in general. E. cellus Bd. Lec. Taken rarely near Newark; the larva on Convolvyu- lus. E. tityrus Fab. Throughout the State, May to September, not rarely. The larva on locust and other legumes. E. proteus Linn. Newark (Soc); 5-mile beach (Haim); Cape May (Aaron); occasional specimens only. The larva on wild bean and other legumes. @ Super-family SPHINGOIDEA. These are the “hawk-moths,” so called from their rapid darting flight, and habit of remaining poised in the air for a time, in front of a flower. They are usually crepuscular, flying in the early twilight, hovering over deep flowers like petunia or evening primrose, into which they extend their long flexible tongue to reach the nectar at the base; but some species fly in the bright sun of mid-day. They are of moderate or large size, robust build, with usually pointed wings, conic abdomen, and an- tenne that are fusiform, prismatic and with a short, recurved tip. In some species the tongue is nearly six inches in length when fully un- coiled, but in others it disappears completely. The larve are as characteristic as the adults, and most of them have a curved horn on the dorsal segment of the end segment, or, in place of it, a polished, eye-like spot. They look formidable, but are actually harmless, and it is from their habit of sometimes resting with head and anterior segments elevated, that they get their “sphinx” appellation. A few of the species are of economic importance, but as a rule they are kept in check by their parasites and other natural enemies. All of the caterpillars are susceptible to arsenical poisoning. Family SPHINGIDAR. Sub-family MAcROGLOSSIN &. These are the “humming-bird’” hawk-moths, in which the wings are partly transparent, the colors are metallic bronze or brown and yellow, and the abdomen has lateral and terminal flattened tuftings. They fly in the bright sunlight about flowers, favoring lilacs while these are in bloom, and are often mistaken for true humming birds. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 425 HEMARIS Dalm. H. diffinis Bdv. Throughout the State, not rare; the larva on “Apocy- num” and “Symphoricarpus.” The forms listed as “tenuis” QGrt., and “axillaris” Grt. & Rob., are now generally regarded as varieties of this species. They seem rather more, frequently met with in the northern half of the State. E H. gracilis Grt. & Rob. Hopatcong (Pm); Lakewood (Bt); Brown’s Mills V, 27 (Dke). H. thysbe Fab. Generally distributed and not uncommon from May to August; the larva on “Viburnum,” sheepberry, honeysuckle and snow- berry. The varieties “ruficaudis” Kirby (which replaces ‘“uniformis” Grt. & Rob.) and “floridensis” Grt. & Rob., are somewhat less abund- ant than the type form; but equally widespread. Mr. Beutenmuller records that he has never raised the “thysbe”’ form from ‘“uniformis” larva, and Mr. Davis records “uniformis’” in May and June only, while “‘thysbe” is taken in July and August only. Sub-family CH@ROCAMPIN&. A considerable proportion of the members of this sub-family feed in the caterpillar stage upon the vine or plants allied to it, and some are more or less injurious. AELLOPOS Hbn. A. tantalus Linn. A southern species, which sometimes occurs along the coast. TRIPTOGON Men. T. lugubris Linn. (Enyo) Also a visitor from the South; Bergen Point, IX, 24 (Wrms), and has been taken at electric lights at Long Branch and Asbury Park. AMPHION Hbn. A. nessus Cram. Throughout the State in May and June and locally common on flowers; at Anglesea on blue flag (Lt). The larva feeds on grape, Virginia creeper, “Fuchsia” and “Epilobium.” SPHECODINA Blanch. S. abbotii Swains. Not uncommon, locally, May to July, throughout the State. Mr. Brehme records eggs from May 5, larve to July 5. Food plants are grape and Virginia creeper, and the ugly dull brown larva is quite familiar to collectors wherever these plants occur. DEIDAMIA Clem. D. inscripta Clem. Generally distributed; but rarely abundant. The adult is seldom taken; but larve may be locally plentiful on grape and Virginia creeper. Flies in June. DELLEPHILA Ochs. D. gallii Rott. Newark (Soc); Hudson Co. VIII (Kr); Caldwell (Cr); Passaic Co. VIII, 2 (Wrms); seems to be confined to the northern sections of the State and not really common anywhere. The larva on grape and Epilobium. 426 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. lineata Fab. Common throughout the State, July to November about flowers in the early dusk. The larva feeds on a great variety of plants, including many of economic importance; but is most usually found on purslane; yet never in sufficient numbers to do the slightest injury to the crop of that omnipresent weed. THERETRA Hbn. T. tersa Linn. (Choerocampa) Staten Island on Petunias, V, VI, VIII, IX (Ds); Newark, V to IX (div); Hudson Co. VIII, on Phlox (Kr); Caldwell (Cr). Is locally common but is not widely distributed. The larva on “Bouvardia” and buttonwood. ARGEUS Hbn. A. labruscze Linn. An occasional visitor from the south. PHOLUS Hbn. (PHILAMPELUS Harr.) P. linnei Grt. & Rob. Greenwood Lake, VIII, 31 (Wrms); occasional along the coast. P. vitis Linn. Has been taken by Newark collectors and occurs occa- sionally along the coast. P. pandorus Hbn. Throughout the State, June to September, and Mr. Davis records an example from Staten Island in early November. The larve feed on grape and Ampelopsis from June to October, eggs being recorded by Brehme in June and July. P. achemon Dru. Occurs with the preceding and on the same food plants. The moths are occasionally attracted to light and the larve of both species are easily recognizable by the absence of the horn, its place occupied by an eye-spot, and the retractile head and anterior segments. These characters are shared with the larve of the next genus; but the latter are much smaller. AMPELOPHAGUS Brem. & Gray. A. choerilus Cram. Common throughout the State from May to August, two broods being noted. Eggs may be found from May to August according to Brehme, and the larva feeds from 20 to 30 days on “Azalea,” “Viburnum,” sheep-berry, sour gum and other plants. A. myron Cram. Common throughout the State May to August, and sometimes attracted to light. Eggs are found during the same period and larve occur on grape and Ampelopsis until early September. The variety “cnotus’”’ Hbn. has been taken on 5-mile beach VIII, 2 (Hmb) and occurs in the more southern sections. A. versicolor Harr. Local, but generally distributed and never common, May to August. There are two broods, the larva on buttonball (Cepha- lanthus) and “Nese#a verticillata.”’ Mr. Grossbeck records it at Pat- erson as late as September 10. 427 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Fig. 177.—The potato hawk-moth, Phlegethontius celeus, larva, pupa and adult: about natural size. 428 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family SpHINcInz&. This includes the more typical, gray-powdered hawk-moths, the cater- pillars of which are all provided with anal horns and often have lateral oblique stripes. The head and anterior segments of the body are not re- tractile and none of them occur on grape or “Ampelopsis.” 0 DILOPHONOTA Burm. - ello Linn. A visitor from the South, occasionally taken in some num- bers by the Newark collectors; Elizabeth VII, 20 (Bz). The larva, according to Dyar, feeds on “Euphorbia.” . alope Dru. Elizabeth IX, 27 (Bz); also a visitor. PHLEGETHONTIUS Hbn. . celeus Hbn. (Protoparce) Throughout the State, VI-IX, rarely com- mon; this and the following are potato or tomato “worms” in the larval stage. carolina Linn. With the preceding, but more common. These “horn- worms,” as the larve of these two species are often called, feed on “Solanaceee” of all kinds and are sometimes decidedly troublesome, less so on potatoes, which are generally sprayed with Paris green or bordeaux mixture, than on tomatoes, where these poisons cannot be satisfactorily or safely applied. In these cases hand picking is quite generally resorted to with good results, as the insects are quite readily seen with a little practice, and they are not so very numerous. The large size of the individual accounts for the amount of injury rather than the number of examples. . rustica Fab. A single specimen taken by myself at Union Hill and another recorded by Mr. Davis for Staten Island at electric light. The species is an inhabitant of the State, but extremely rare. The larva feeds on “Chionanthus” and “Jasminium.” . cingulata Sm. & Abb. Generally distributed but nowhere abundant. The larva feeds on morning-glory, Ssweet-potato and other ‘“Ipomea”’ and “Convolvulus” species until late in fall. Mr. Brehme records a full-grown example on morning-glory, October 10. SPHINX Linn. . kalmize Sm. & Abb. Newark Dist. V-VII; Paterson (Gr); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Palisades, Elizabeth, VI, VIII, IX (Bz); throughout the- State in all probability. Eggs have been found from late June to early August and larve from June to early September. It feeds on ash, lilac, laurel and “Chionanthus.” . drupiferarum Sm. & Abb. Essex Co., May to August (div); Lake Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island VI (Ds); and probably generally dis- tributed. Eggs are recorded in V and VI (Br) and larve until VIII. Food plants are lilac, cherry, apple, plum, &c., plum being a favorite- food and sometimes slightly injured. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 420 . gordius Cram. Essex and Union Co. V—VII (div); Hopatcong (Pm) ; probably throughout the State and locally not rare. Mr. Brehme reports eggs V—VII and larve until frost on huckleberry, bayberry and birch. Other recorded food plants are ash, apple, privet, &ce. . luscitiosa Clem. Essex Co. V, 20-VI; 20 (div); Passaic VII, 29 (Wrms); Elizabeth V, 20—-VI, 25, second hatch about VIII, 1, no eggs or larve from these (Bz). Hggs are recorded on willow from V, 16 (Br) to VI, 21 (Wrms); larve until late July. . chersis Hbn. G. d., V—VIII, local and nowhere common. Eggs are found VII, 22—-VIII, 11 and larve from VII, 15-—X, 2. (Wrms). Food plants are lilac and ash. . eremitus Hbn. G. d., and occasionally not rare; the larva in August on pepper, mountain mint (Br), wild bergamot and Salvia. . plebeius Fab. Essex Co. VI (div); Hoboken VIII (Kr); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island V—VII; and probably g.d. The larve feed on the trumpet vine (Tecoma radicans), “Bignonia”’ and “Passiflora.” DOLBA WIk. . hylzus Dru. Throughout the State, but local. Essex Co. VI-VIII (div); Woodbridge VI (Wrms); Paterson (Gr); Lakehurst VI, 16 (Ds). Eggs VI, VII, larve up to VIII, 17 (div). Feeds on black alder, sweet fern and “Prinos’’; larva feeds very fast and reaches its full growth in * 20 days (Br). CHLAZNOGRAMMA Sm. . jasminearum Bdv. Hasbrouck Hts. (Wrms); Hewitt VII (Ds); Essex; Co. (div). CERATOMIA Harr. . amyntor Hbn. Throughout the State VI and VII. Mr. Brehme reports eggs VI and VII and larve until October on elm, linden and birch. The caterpillars differ from all the other Sphinges by having four little thoracic horns. . undulosa Wlk. Generally distributed and not rare. Essex Co. V—VIII (div); Elizabeth VI-VIII (Bz); Staten Island V-—VIII (Ds); Lake Hopatcong (Pm); Gloucester (Lt); 5-mile beach VI (Haim). Eggs VI and VII, larve until VIII (Br), on lilac, privet, ash and locust. . catalpze Bdv. Throughout the State, wherever the Catalpa occurs. Since 1900 this species has invaded the State from the South, spread- ing first along the Delaware and gradually extending until it has reached all parts of the State. The larve are gaudy black and yellow and feed in colonies, sometimes sufficient to defoliate a large tree in a few days. In nurseries great injury has been done, and active measures are necessary to kill them off. There are two broods, and larve occur from July until September. Adults are found in May 430 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. and June and again in July and August. Arsenites promptly applied are entirely effective. LAPARA WIk. (ELLEMA Clem.) L. bombycoides Wlk. (harrisii Clem.) Rare, but g. d., the larva on pine. Lakehurst VIi, 23 (Ds); Brown’s Mills, Jn (Dke). L. coniferarum Sm. & Abb. Equally rare, g. d., and also a pine feeder. Lakehurst VII, 17 (Bz). Family SMERINTHIDA. In this family the tongue is short or entirely absent, the head is small, the antenne are more tufted and sometimes pectinated, the wings an- gulated, dentate or scalloped and the entire habitus more Bombycid. MARUMBA Moore. (TRIPTOGON Brem.) M. modesta Harr. Quite generally distributed, but rare; the larva on poplar and willow. Essex County VI (div); Hackensack (Gr), larve VIII, 22, IX, 3, Staten Island VII (Ds). The moth sometimes comes to light, as do others of this family. SMERINTHUS Latr. S. jamaicensis Dru. Elizabeth (Bz). var. geminatus Say. Essex Co. V—VIII (div); Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds), and g. d. throughout the State. Mr. Brehme finds eggs V and VI and larve until VIII on willow and poplar; other food plants are elm, apple, cherry, plum and ash. PAONIAS Hbn. P. exczecatus Sm. & Abb. Throughout the State, quite commonly, June to September; larve, which grow very slowly, until October. Food plants include the “Rosacee” and a large number of shade and forest trees. : P. myops Sm. & Abb. Hopatcong (Pm); Essex Co. VII (div); Staten Island VI. Apparently local, but probably found throughout the State. Larve on wild and cultivated cherry until November (Br). P. astylus Dru. Hopatcong (Pm); Essex Co. V, VI, VII (div); Ft. Lee (Dyar); Newfoundland VII, Jamesburg VII, 1 (Jl), probably through- out the State where the food plant occurs. Eggs VI-VIII on huckle- berry and dangleberry (Br); larve until frost. CRESSONIA Grt. & Rob. C. juglandis Sm. & Abb. G. d. and sometimes rather abundant. Essex Co. V, VI (div); Staten Island VI (Ds); Ft. Lee, Hopatcong (Bt). Beggs V-VIII, larve until X (Br) on hickory and walnut. Other food plants are ironwood and wild cherry. The larva is known as the “squeaking Sphinx” (Dyar). 8 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 431 Super-family SATURNOIDEA. These are all large moths, and among them are our American silk spinners. They are heavy-bodied, clumsy species as a rule, with small retracted heads, mouth parts so aborted as to be unfit for feeding and body densely clothed with scales and hair. There are three families: The “Saturniide” are the largest of the species, expanding up to six inches or more, the wings are large and broad, with usually a transparent discal spot, and the antenne are pectinated to the tip, with two long branches on each side of each joint. The caterpillars are all silk spinners and form a large, dense cocoon, in which the pupal stage is passed. The “Ceratocampide” are quite different in appearance. They have narrower wings, pointed at the apex, there are no hyaline spots, and -the antenne have the pectinations shorter, confined to the basal half; but still two branches on each side of each joint. The caterpillars are fur- nished with horns or other processes, and some of them are very large and formidable in appearance. None of them are silk spinners, and the pupe are formed under ground. The “Hemileucide” are represented by a single species only, black with a partly transparent central band on the wings, the antennz pec- tinated, with very short joints and single branches on each side of each joint. The caterpillars are set with bristly spines and form a cocoon. Several of the larve of this series feed on cultivated plants and orchard trees, but none are really injurious. Their large size makes them easily visible, and hand-picking is usually the best method of get- ting rid of them. The species of “Anisota’”’ sometimes become tempo- rarily abundant in oak woods and may strip considerable areas, but they do no permanent harm. Family SATURNIID. There has been some shifting of generic names in this family, but the species are unchanged, and the changes are so obvious that the syno- nyms are not given. PHILOSAMIA Grt. P. cynthia Dru. Common near Jersey City and for some distance in its vicinity. Also taken at Paterson, at Trenton and near Philadelphia, but has not reached New Brunswick nor any of the cities or towns remote from the larger centres of population. Mr. Davis records it from Staten Island, and it is quite possible that it has a foothold at other points near the coast. It is an importation from China, and has never really established itself in the country at large. The caterpillar feeds chiefly upon the “Ailanthus,” or ‘tree of heaven,” sometimes known as “tallow-tree”’ from its odor when in bloom, and there are two annual broods, the winter being passed in the pupal stage. 432 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SAMIA Hbn. S. cecropia Linn. Occurs throughout the State June to August, and is by no means rare, although the adult is not often seen. The larve feed on most orchard and shade trees, and also on grape and other small fruits, sometimes devouring considerable foliage, and yet never abundant enough to do any material injury. The cocoons pass the winter attached to twigs or some other support, and there is only one brood. CALLOSAMIA Pack. © promethea Dru. Common throughout the State June to August, and has two broods. The larva feeds chiefly on sassafras, but also on a large variety of other shrubs as well as fruit and shade trees. The cocoon is fastened to the twigs and remains suspended during the winter. ie) . angulifera Wlk. Also quite generally distributed and two-brooded; but decidedly rare. Has been recorded from May to August, the larva feeding on tulip (Liriodendron), sassafras and wild cherry. The cocoons are not attached to the twigs and are found on the ground beneath the trees upon which the caterpillars have fed. ACTIAS Leach. A. luna Linn. Throughout the State, and locally not rare. It occurs from June to September, is two-brooded, and the caterpillars feed on walnut, sweet gum, birch and other forest trees. The cocoons are not fastened to the trees and winter on the ground. TELEA Hbn. = . polyphemus Cram. Throughout the State, June to August, the larva on most forest and shade trees. This is known as “the American silkworm,” and while by no means rare, is never plentiful enough to do conspicuous injury. The cocoons drop to the ground and spend the winter on the surface; there is also a midsummer brood. HYPERCHIRIA Hbn. H. io Fab. Common throughout the State, June to August, the larve on a large list of food plants. The caterpillar is a very spiny affair, and if carelessly handled produces nettling. There is only one brood. Family CERATOCAMPID/. EACLES Hbn. E. imperialis Dru. Throughout the State VI-VIII, sometimes not un- commonly. The variety “didyma’’ DeB., less frequently, and speci- fically reported from Mt. Holly and 5-mile beach. The caterpillars THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 433 feed on a large variety of forest trees, including many conifers, and are sometimes found as late as mid-September. CITHERONIA Hbn. C. regalis Fab. Generally distributed, usually rare, June to August. The formidable looking larva, which has been called the “hickory horned devil,’ feeds on hickory, walnut, butternut, ash, persimmon, sweet gum and other trees; examples occurring until late Septem- ber. ADELOCEPHALA H. S. A. bicolor Harr. Lake Hopatcong (Pm); a single example on the beach near Sandy Hook, some years ago. The fact that it has not been taken since by the many collectors who have scoured the State raises a doubt as to the correctness of the identifications. The larva is reported as feeding on ‘‘Gleditschia.”’ ANISOTA Hbn. A, stigma Fab. Reported from all sections of the State in July and August and sometimes rather common. The caterpillar feeds on oak, hazel and chestnut, and is found until mid-September. A. senatoria Sm. & Abb. Occurs from June to August throughout the State. The larva is the common “oak-worm,” which is sometimes locally abundant and destructive. I have seen acres of oak scrub almost defoliated in South Jersey, and occasionally larger trees are badly eaten; but no permanent injury is caused, and the natural enemies of the species speedily regain control. ; A. virginiensis Dru. Also quite generally dis- tributed but much less common than the pre- ceding. Flies in June and July, and _ the larva is also an oak feeder. DRYOCAMPA Harr. D. rubicunda Fab. Occurs throughout the State, but is somewhat local and rarely abundant, from May to July. The caterpillars are sometimes quite num- erous on soft maple, Fig. 178.—Dryocampa rubicunda a, larva: b, pupa; and more rarely feed . c, female adult. on oak. 28 IN 434 REPORT: OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family HEMILEUCID/. HEMILEUCA WIk. H. maia Dru. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Normannock, Lakehurst X, 18, flying in numbers (Ds); Gloucester (Lt); Culver’s Pond, Asbury Park (Coll). The larvee feed on oak in July and August; moths occur in September and October. Super-family BOMBYCOIDEA. Family SYNTOMID.. A small series of rather slightly built moths, small or of moderate size, black and yellow in color, with functional mouth parts, pectinated an- tennz in the male, and rather long, slender abdomen. The structural characters for the family are chiefly found in the venation of the hind wings, and none of the members are at all injurious. LYCOMORPHA Harr. L. pholus Dru. Hopatcong (Pm); Normannock VIII, 27, Staten Island in midsummer (Ds); Plainfield VI, 27 (Gr); locally not rare on golden rod in August, in the northern part of the State. Larve on lichens (Bt), growing on stone fences (Dyar). SCEPSIS WIk. S. fulvicollis Hbn. Paterson VI, 26, VIII, 4 (Gr); Orange Mts. and Newark Dist. VII-IX (div); Staten Island VI-IX (Ds); Camden Co. IX (Lt); 5-mile beach (Haim); quite generally distributed and locally not rare; the larva on grass. CTENUCHA Kirby. C. virginica Charp. Found on Spirza and other flowers, July to Septem- ber; more common in the northern part of the State. Family LITHOSIIDA. These are small, slender moths with narrow fore and broad hind wings, the antenne and palpi slender, the mouth parts well developed and functional. They differ from the “Arctiidae, which they otherwise resemble in structure, by the lack of ocelli or simple eyes. The larve are covered with tufts of short, stiff hair, feed mostly on lichens and are not injurious. CRAMBIDIA Pack. C. pallida Pack. Rare near New York, VIII (Bt); Newark (Wadt); 5-mile beach VIII, 20-IX, 3 (div); attracted to light. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 435 C. cephalica G. & R. Bamber IX, 1, Lucaston IX, 8, Brown’s Mills VI, 24, VIII, 4, [X, 8 (Dke). HYPOPREPIA Hbn. H. miniata Kirby. Andover VIII (Kr); Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Wdt); 5-mile beach V, 28, VIII-IX, 11 (div). H. fucosa Hbn. Occurs throughout the State in July and August, and specifically reported from Sparta (Ds), Paterson (Gr), Lakehurst (Ds), and 5-mile beach (div). I have beaten it from pines, have stirred it up in mossy meadows, and have taken it at light. Larva on mosses and lichens on trees (Bt) and has been beaten from red cedar at Paterson VI, 28 (Gr). ILLICE Wik. (CISTHENE WIk.) I. subjecta Wlk. Anglesea VII, 15—VIII, 21 (div); the larve on lichens (Bt). CLEMENSIA Pack. Cc. albata Pack. Newark, rare; flies in June. Family NOLID/. Small, rather slight, broad-winged moths, in general resembling the “Lithosians,’ but usually with ashen gray colors and streaky, dentate black markings. The larve also resemble those of the other family, but have the anterior pair of abdominal feet aborted. CELAMA WIk. C. pustulata Wlk. (Argyrophyes) Basking Ridge VI, 8 (Bwl); Elizabeth VII, 26 (Bz); New Brunswick, rare at light, in June. C. cilicoides Grt. (Argyrophyes) “Atlantic States” (Dyar), and I have seen New Jersey specimens. C. triquetrana Fitch. (trinotata Wlk.) Greenwood Lake V (Bt); Boon- ton VIII (Wdt); Newark and Orange Mt. Dist. IV, V, VII, VIII (div), larva on hemlock and witch hazel; Staten Island V, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll); Westville (Lt). NOLA Leach. N. clethrze Dyar. Larva feeds on “Clethra alnifolia’ and the species is quite certain to be found with us. N. ovilla Grt. Preakness Mt. V, 5 (Bwl); Ft. Lee, V, VI, the larva on oak (Bt); Orange Mts. and Newark Dist. V, VI (div); Jersey City Hts. V, 8 (Sb); New Brunswick IV, Jamesburg IV (Coll), VII, 4 (Haim); Lakehurst V, 28 (Gr); Clementon V, 7 (Haim); Brown’s Mills V, 13, 29 (Dke). 436 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. RCESELIA Hbn. R. minuscula Zell. Plainfield VI, 29 (Gr). var. phylla Dyar. Gloucester Co. V, 29 (Haim). = NIGETIA WIk. (NOLA.) N. formosalis Wlk. (melanopa Zell.) Newark, New Brunswick. Family NYCTEOLID/. Obsecurely marked, gray species; in appearance and wing form much like some of the Tortricids or ‘“bell-moths,’ but with the structural char- acters mainly those of the Lithosians. SARROTHRIPA Curt. S. revayana Scop., var. lintneriana Spey. Guttenberg VII, 3 (Wrms); Newark VII (Soc); Elizabeth VII, 30 (Bz); the larva on willow and poplar. The species is not at all rare, and probably occurs through- out the State. Family ARCTIID. The adults are known as “tiger moths” from their bright stripings, the larvee as “woolly bears” from the shaggy clothing of hair with which many of them are covered. The moths are stoutly built, of moderate or small size, with a broad head on which ocelli or simple eyes are always present, rather small palpi and a functional tongue. The antenne vary, but are often pectinated in the male, and most of the species are rather closely sealed. The larve are general feeders in most cases, but as a whole prefer low plants, plantain being an all but universal food. A few species are trouble- some in the garden, but may be controlled by hand picking or a resort to arsenate of lead. Others, like the “fall web-worm,” feed on trees and may become serious pests. Most of them spin a little silk and make a cocoon in which to pass the pupal stage. As the silk is too scant to do this properly, they add to it the hair with which they are covered. This hair, to facilitate such a felting process, is furnished with little spurs and branches which break off readily. The caterpillars should be carefully handled therefore, because these little barbs forced into a sensitive skin may set up an intense irritation resulting in blotches or swellings like a nettle rash. EUBAPHE Hbn. E. leta Guer. Forked River Mt. VII, 8 (Dke); in dry woods in June (Bt). THE INSECTS OF Fig. 179.—The fall web worm, Hyphan- tria cunea: a, b, c, varieties of larva; d, e, pupe; f, moth of the normal white form. Fig. 180.—Varieties in wing markings of Hyphantria cunea. Fig. 181.—Female Hyphantria ovipositing on under side of leaf; b, a little group of eggs, enlarged. NEW JERSEY. 437 438 REPORT’OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. opella Grt. Greenwood Lake, larve hiding by day in the dead leaves of oak woods (Dyar); Lake Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee VI, 20 (Dke); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lt); Lakehurst VII (Ds). The form “nigricans” Reak., is reported from Plainfield in early July (Bz). E. immaculata Reak. Paterson VI, 1-11 (Gr); throughout the northern part of the State; in dry places in overgrown fields (Bt). E. aurantiaca Hbn. Throughout the State VI-IX, in dry, overgrown fields. The larve are general feeders; Mr. Grossbeck has found them under stones in April, at Paterson, fed them on plantain, had pupe V, 20 and adults VI, 1-6. Four varieties, ‘“rubicundaria”’ Hbn., “ferruginosa”’ WIk., “brevicornis” Wlk., and “quinaria”’ Grt., are based on the amount of black margin of secondaries, or the number of white spots on the primaries. They seem to be more or less local, and only one form may occur in one place, but on the other hand two or three of them may be found at the same place on the same day. UTETHEISA Hbn. U. bella Linn. Common, late August to early October in low meadows along the coast, and locally inland, throughout the State. The larva feeds on cherry, elm, ‘‘Myrica,”’ “Crotalaria,” ‘‘Lespedeza,” &c. var. hybrida Butler. Has the bands of primaries incomplete, the sec- ondaries red. Paterson VIII, 7 (Gr) and generally, with the type. var. terminalis N. & D. Secondaries white. Occurs occasionally. var. nova N. & D. The pink is replaced by bright yellow. Little Falls VIII, 7, 3 specimens (Gr). U. ornatrix Linn. Taken at Philadelphia and probably occurs in New Jersey. HAPLOA Hbn. H. clymene Brown. Lake Hopatcong VIII, 15 (Gr); Andover VIII (Kr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Newark (Soc); 5-mile beach VII, 14-22 (Haim). : H. lecontei Guer. Occurs locally throughout the State in one or the other of its forms. ‘“Lecontei’ Guer. is the completely marked form, and that is rare, as.is also the immaculate form “vestalis” Pack. ‘“Con- finis’ Wlk., in which only the oblique band is complete, and ‘mili- taris” Harr., in which even that is broken, are the more abundant types. The larve of all the species are more or less general feeders and hibernate in the partly grown condition. H. confusa Lyman. Fort Lee VII (Erb). H. triangularis Sm. Local, near Newark (Ang), VI, 12-30 (Bz); Has- brouck Heights (Wrms). H. contigua Wlk. Sparta VII (Ds); Plainfield VII, 1-15 (Bz); Newark. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 439 ECPANTHERIA Hbn. E. deflorata Fab. Paterson (Gr); Ft. Lee VI (div); Newark (Soc); Staten Island (Ds); Woodbury VI, 18 (Kp). Quite generally distrib- uted; but not common; the larva on willow, locust, and also plantago and other low plants. This is the ‘‘ocularia-scribonia”’ of the previous edition. ESTIGMENE Hbn. E. acrea Dru. Common throughout the State, but especially so along the coast, May to September. The larva is a general feeder, and from its occasional presence in enormous numbers on salt marshes is known as the salt marsh caterpillar. E. antigone Strck. Lake Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark VI, 24 (Sb); Elizabeth, VII (Bz); Staten Island (Ds). The larva is a gen- eral feeder (Dyar), and often bores into the stems of large mush- rooms. ; HYPHANTRIA Harr. H. cunea Dru. Common throughout the State. The larva is the “fall web-worm,” which in the late summer makes conspicuous nests or webs on a large variety of shade and orchard trees. There are two broods, the first in June and little noticed, the second in September. Spraying the foliage around the nests with arsenites as soon as they are noticed will serve to clean them out. DIACRISIA Hbn. (SPILOSOMA Steph.) Fig. 182.—Spilosoma virginica: a larva; b, pupa; c, adult. D. virginica Fab. Common throughout the State. The larva is the common white, yellow or reddish woolly caterpillar so often seen in gardens and feeding on all kinds of vegetables. There are two broods, and adults occur from May throughout the summer. D. latipennis Stretch. Not rare locally (Wdt); Elizabeth V, 20-VI, 20 (Bz); Staten Island V, VI (Ds). In swampy meadows; the larva on Jack-in-the-pulpit, touch-me-not, plantago, other low plants and wild cherry (Bt). 440 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. > A. A. ISIA WIk. (PYRRHARCTIA Pack.) isabella S. & A. Common throughout the State, April to August... The woolly lar- va is often seen late in fall crawling about, seeking shelter for hibernation, and is readily known by the black extremities and brown middle. There are two broods, and almost anything serves as_ food plant. PHRAGMATOBIA Steph. fuliginosa Linn. Lake Ho- patcong (Pm); Paterson VII, 10 (Gr); Chester VIII, 6 (Dn); Newark Dist. (div): Fig. 183.—Tsia isabella: a, larva; b, pupa in Jersey City VI, at light cocoon; c, female moth. (Kr); Anglesea (div).: The larva feeds on golden rod, skunk cabbage, iron weed and other plants. APANTESIS WIk. (ARCTIA Schr.) . virgo Linn. Hopatcong (div); Chester (Dn); Newark Dist. (div); 5-mile beach VIII, 24 (Haim). Probably throughout the State, but rare; the larva on plantain, lettuce and other low plants. . virguncula Kirby. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc). Probably throughout north Jersey; but everywhere rare. - michabo Grt. New Brunswick, in July, at light. . parthenice Kirby. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc). . oithona Strck., var. rectilinea French. New Jersey, without definite locality (Wrms). . anna Grt. Greenwood Lake (Dyar); Woodbury VII, 18 (Kp). var. persephone Grt. Newark (Wdt); near New York City (Bt). Both species and variety is decidedly rare. arge Dru. Throughout the State from Sussex to Cape May County in every month from April to August. Mr. Grossbeck reports eggs at Paterson V, 4, larva from V, 18—-VI, 20. It feeds on grass, plantago, Chenopodium Polygonum and other low plants. phyllira Dru. Plainfield V, 18 (Gr); Newark Dist. (div); Woodbury VI, 8 (Kp). Not at all common, and, with it, the variety “figurata’’ Dru. is also found. The larva is a general feeder. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 44I A. nais Dru. Throughout the State, May to September. The larva is a A A > general feeder on low plants, and has been taken in Paterson (Gr), May 10-19. . vittata Fabr. Elizabeth VIII, 24 (Bz); 5-mile beach VI, and through- out the State generally with the pfeceding. . phalerata Harr. Plainfield V, 19 (Gr); 5-mile beach VIII, 3 (Haim), and in general with the two preceding. The three species last cited commonly fly together and are almost equally abundant. With flown spécimens there is sometimes a question of identity; with good bred material at hand the differences are obvious. AMMALO WIk. . tenera Hbn. (Cycnia) Paterson VI, 15, VIII, 25 (Gr), to 5-mile beach, VIII. 22 (Haim); and quite common throughout the State. The larva on dog-bane. . eglenensis Clem. (Cycnia) Paterson V, 27, larve VII, 31 and IX, 11 (Gr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Soc); Staten Island VI (Ds). Feeds on milkweed and is two-brooded. EUCHZETIAS Lyman. . egle Dru. (Cycnia) Common all over the State; two-brooded; the curiously tufted larva on milkweed; flies in June and again date July and August. . oregonensis Stretch. Still to be discovered in the State. PYGARCTIA Grt. . abdominalis Grt. Lakehurst, V, 29, VI, 13 (Ds); 2 specimens only. HALISIDOTA Hhn. . tessellaris S. & A. Common throughout the State. The larva is a general feeder, often a nuisance on shade trees in cities, sometimes troublesome in gardens and frequently found on fruit trees, on which it does no serious harm. . maculata Harr. This is said to be rare near New York City (Bt), but becomes more common northwardly. The larva feeds on willow, oak and poplar. . caryze Harr. Throughout the State. The larva occurs with that of “tessellaris’” and has much the same habits; it may be found as late as October. 442 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family AGARISTIDA. Medium sized moths, with black, contrastingly white spotted or red- banded wings, the antenne slender, of equal thickness throughout or somewhat enlarged toward the tip. The caterpillars are curiously banded with red, brown and gray and feed on grape. ALYPIA Hbn. A. octomaculata Fab. Common in cities and large towns in June and July. The larva feeds on grape and is sometimes destruc- tive on garden vines, but rarely occurs in the open country, where it also feeds on Virginia creeper. It succumbs readily to any of the arsenites. There is considerable variation and some of the forms bear a deceptive resemblance to the western “langtonii.” PSYCHOMORPHA Harr. Fig. 184.—Alypia octomaculata; a, larva; b, an enlarged segment; P. epimensis Dru. Hopatcong (Bt); ane Paterson IV, 25 (Gr); Newark (Soc); Elizabeth, Plainfield, IV, larva on wild grape only (Bz); Staten Island IV (Ds). I have found the larva at Irvington, webbing up the leaves of grape in June, but never in numbers sufficient to be injurious. The adults always in June. Family PAN THEID/. The members of this family resemble the owlet moths, but the thorax is shorter, more square, and the head is somewhat retracted. They have similar habits, however, and the larve are not unlike those of some of the “Acronycta” series. The chief characters used in their separation are found in details of the wing venation. None of the species are injurious, and none of them are commonly found even by collectors. PANTHEA Hbn. P. furcilla Pack. Larva IX, 1, at Little Falls (Gr); Lakehurst IX, 3, one specimen (Bz); Brown’s Mills VI, 14 (Dke). Feeds on larch and pine. DEMAS Steph. D. propinquilinea Grt. Ramsey VI, 17 (Sleight). The larva on birch, walnut, maple, oak and beech. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 443 D. flavicornis Sm. Plainfield V, 19 (Gr); Newark in May; Staten Island (Coll); taken rarely. CHARADRA WIk. C. deridens Gn. Plainfield V, 19 (Gr); Newark, V, at light (Wdt), VII, 16 (Bz); the larva makes a nest on leaves of oak (Dyar) and feeds also on birch and elm. RAPHIA Hbn. R. abrupta Grt. Has the same general distribution as “frater’’ and should be found in the State. R. frater Grt. Paterson V, 20 (Gr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Jersey City VII, VIII (Sb); Newark, V, VI (Coll); Elizabeth V, VI, VIII (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); the curious larva on poplar and willow. Family NOCTUIDAE. These are the “owlet moths,’ with plump, robust bodies, short, stiff, triangular primaries and broader secondaries. The antenne are usually about half the length of the forewings or a little longer, simple, bristled, or in the males sometimes pectinated. They are rarely seen during the day and derive their common name from their night-flying habits, the eyes in some species glowing with a phosphorescent light. During the day they hide under bark or stones, in crevices of buildings, or wherever else they can find shelter. Some forms rest openly on tree trunks, stones, or lichen- covered logs, their colors and markings blending so perfectly with their surroundings that they are invisible except to the trained eye, but at night they fly readily and many of them are attracted to light. Others have a sweet tooth and frequent flowers, or are attracted to lures spread by the entomologist, such lures consisting of mixtures of molasses, beer and rum or their equivalents. The caterpillars vary greatly, many of them being of the type known as “cut-worms” and decidedly injurious. These may be controlled by the bran and arsenic bait which is elsewhere described. The ‘“cut-worms” are fond of bran, eating it in preference to their normal food, and succumb to the arsenic it contains. Its use depends on the nature of the crop to be protected; in corn and potato fields it is usually placed a spoonful to a hill in the late afternoon. ACRONYCTA Ochs. The moths of this genus are generally known as “Dagger moths” be- cause on most of them there are short dagger-like marks, more like the greek “psi” on the fore wings. The food plants in this genus, when not specially credited, are given on the authority of Dr. H. G. Dyar. A. rubricoma Gn. Paterson VI, 16, 26, larva IX, 1 (Gr); Newark (Wdt) and probably g. d. Caterpillar feeds on hackberry (Celtis). 444 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. americana Harr. Our largest species; occurs throughout the State and usually common. Paterson VII, 3 (Gr); Hssex Co. V—VII (div); Staten Island VI, VII; Jersey City VII; New Brunswick (Coll). The larva occurs from VIII-X (Gr), and feeds on maple, elm, chestnut, linden, poplar, birch, alder, oak, hickory, ash, sycamore—and prob- ably others. A. hastulifera Sm. & Abb. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc); Palisade Park (Wr); Paterson VII, 17, larva IX, 19 (Gr); Staten Island VI, VII, larva on alder (Ds), and probably occurs elsewhere in the State; larva on alder (div) and maple (Bt). A. dactylina Grt. Chester VII, 30 (Dn); Newark V, VI (div); Elizabeth, V, VI (Bz); Gloucester VI, 2 (Lt); Staten Island V, VII (Ds). The larva on alder, birch and willow. A. leporina Linn. No State records as yet; but I still believe it occurs in New Jersey; the larva on poplar, willow and birch. A. populi Riley. Recorded from Long Island and sure to occur in New Jersey; flies in May and June; larva on poplar. A. lepusculina Gn. Ranges from New Hampshire to Florida and sure to occur in New Jersey. A. innotata Gn. Staten Island, V, VII (Ds); Newark district; Elizabeth VII (Bz); the larva on hickory. A. betulze Riley. Westfield (Keller); Passaic Co., VII, 20—VIII, 10 (Bz); and probably elsewhere in the State on birch. A. morula Grt. & Rob. New Brunswick, VII; Staten Island, V, VII, VIII (Ds); the larva on eim, apple and linden. A. interrupta Gn. (occidentalis Grt. & Rob.) Throughout the State common V-IX; Newark V-VIII (div); Chester VIII, 9 (Dn); Metuch- en V, 11, Plainfield V, 18, Paterson VIII, 1-22 (Gr); 5-mile beach VIII, 2-20 (Haim); Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); the larva on elm, birch, apple, plum, cherry. A. letifica Sm. Plainfield V, 18 (Gr); Crange Mts. VII (Wdt); several specimens marked only ‘“‘New Jersey” without date. A. elisabeta Sm. Elizabeth V, VII, VIII (div); Chester VIII, 6 (Dn); New Brunswick VII, 3 (Gr); larva probably on maple. A. lobelize Gn. Throughout the State IV-VIII. Paterson, Newark, Jer- sey City, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Staten Island, 5-mile beach; the larva on oak. A. furcifera Gn. Paterson VII, 27, New Brunswick V, 15 (Gr); Newark VII (Wat); Elizabeth, V—VIII (Bz); 5-mile beach, V, 20 (Haim); the larva on wild, fire and choke-cherry. A. hasta Gn. Paterson V, 30, VII, 26, Metuchen V, 11 (Gr); Westside, Greenville VIII, 5 (Wrms); Elizabeth V—VIII (div); Staten Island IV, V, VII, VIII (Ds); larva on cherry VI, 26, IX, 19 (Gr). A. spinigera Gn. Elizabeth IV-VI (Bz); Staten Island (Ds), and un- doubtedly elsewhere in the State. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. A45 . Clarescens Gn. (pruni Harr.) Throughout the State VI to IX; the larva on apple, Mountain ash, wild and cultivated cherry, plum. . superans Grt. Hopatcong (Pm); Essex Co. (div); Elizabeth IV, 10 (Bz), and probably g. d.; the larva on apple, plum, cherry, birch, mountain ash, etc. . lithospila Grt. Newark VI, VIII (Wdt); Elizabeth V-VIII (div); Staten Island (Ds); the larva on hickory, oak, chestnut. . tritona Hbn. Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Lake- hurst VII, [IX (div); Clementon V, 9 (Lt); larva on cranberry, deer- berry and “Azalea.” . connecta Grt. Paterson IX, 20 (Gr); Jersey City VII (Kr); Elizabeth VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VI—-VIII (Ds); the larva on willow. . funeralis Grt.. Elizabeth V, VI (Bz); Forest Hill VII (Bwl); “the ornate caterpillar of this species was found at New Brighton, S. I., VIII, 6” (Ds); larva on hickory, birch, elm, apple. . fragilis Gn. “New Jersey’ without other information. The larva on birch, mountain ash and apple. . Czesarea Sm. Hssex Co. Park V, 20 (Kf); Woodside VI, 6 (Bwl). . vinnula Grt. Newark VI, VII (div); Elizabeth V, VI, VII (Bz); New Brunswick VI, VII; Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); the larve on elm. . grisea Wlk. Newark (Soc); New Brunswick, rare; the larva on apple, birch, willow, elm and arrow-wood. . hamamelis Gn. (afflicta Grt.) Woodridge VII, 29 (Wrms); Newark IX, 9 (div); Elizabeth V-—VIII (Bz); the larva on oak (Dyar) and Walnut (Bt). . subochrea Grt. Jersey City at sugar VI (Kr); Newark V, VII (div); Staten Island (Ds); the larva on witch hazel. . ovata Grt. Throughout the State from V-VIII; Orange Mts. VI (Wdt); Newark VI, VII (Bwl); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 4, 27 (Haim); Staten Island VII (Ds); the larva on oak, beech and chestnut. » modica WIK. (exilis Grt.) Guttenberg VI, 30 (Wrms); Elizabeth VI (Bz); New Brunswick VI, VII (Sm); Staten Island VI (Ds); the larva on oak. . heesitata Grt. Ramsey VI, 7 (Sleight); Boonton VII (Bwl); Eliza- beth VI (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 4, 27 (Haim); probably throughout the State and mixed with “ovata” and “inclara’’; flies from VI-—VIII. . inclara Smith. (hamamelis) Common throughout the State VI-IX and quite variable. Larva feeds on oak, chestnut, birch. . increta Morr. Plainfield VII, 5, Newark IV, 25 (Bz); Jamesburg VI, Staten Island V, VI (Ds). . retardata Wlk. G. d., and not rare. Essex Co. VIII (div); Paterson VI, 26, VIII, 30 (Gr); Elizabeth, V, VI (Bz); New Brunswick VI, VI- (Coll); Staten Island V—VIII (Ds); Woodbury VI, 8 (Kp); the larva on maple. 446 REPORT’ OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. impleta Wlk. (luteicoma G. & R.) Jersey City VI (Kr); Newark V (Wadt); Elizabeth IV, 20-V, 30 (Bz); New Brunswick IX, 9, larva on sassafras (Gr); Staten Island V, VI (Ds); 5-mile beach VIII, 2 (Haim). The larva is a general feeder on orchard and forest trees. . sperata Grt. Newark Dist. (div), and probably ee the State V-VIII. The larva feeds on poplar and alder. . noctivaga Grt. Essex Co. V (div); Staten Island V (Ds), and probably g. d., though rare; larva on poplar and a variety of low plants. . impressa Wlk. Throughout the State, not rare. Chester (Dn); Hopat- cong (Pm); Jersey City VI (Kr); Elizabeth IV, VII (Bz); Staten Island (Ds). The larva feeds on a wide range of orchard and forest trees and some small fruits, but is not injurious. . distans Grt. Elizabeth VIII, 15 (Bz); Lakehurst IV (Ds). Usually confounded with “impressa’’ and probably occurs with that species. The larva feeds on poplar, willow, birch and alder. . xyliniformis Gn. Throughout the State, not rare. Essex Co. VI, VII (div); Elizabeth IV, VII, VIII (Bz); Chester VII, 8 (Dn); Elizabeth IV, VI, VIII (Coll); 5-mile beach VII, 25, VIII, 2 (Haim); the larva on birch and blackberry. A. oblinita Sm. & Abb. Common throughout the State V—-VIII. The larva is a general feeder on orchard and small fruits and also on a variety of forest trees and other plants, but has never yet been injurious in this State. ARSILONCHE Led. . albovenosa Goeze. Throughout the State, IV-IX, more common along the coast. Larva on cat-tail VI, 26 at Paterson (Gr), and from late September to the middle of October they were on parts of the Hack- ensack meadows in countless numbers. Feeds generally on grasses and on smart-weed and willow. HARRISIMEMNA Grt. H. trisignata Wlk. Hopatcong (Pm); Chester (Dn); Essex Co (div); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds); and rarely found throughout the State. It is a bizarre species in all stages; the larva on lilac, winterberry and huckleberry (Dyar), also on “Cephalanthus occidentalis” (Bz). CERMA Hbn. . cora Hbn. Atco, rare (Lt). POLYGRAMMATA Hbn. . hebraicum Hbn. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll); Ramsey VI, 17 (Sleight); Newark (Ang); Woodbury VI, 18, VII, 20 (Kp); 5-mile beach (Haim). Fig. 185.—Common owlet moths of New Jersey: 1, Agrotis ypsilon; 2, Peridroma saucia; 3, Noctua bicarnea; 4, Feltia subgothica; 5, Noctua c-nigrum; 6, Noctua clandes- tina; 7, Euxoa tessellata; 8, Mamestra trifoli; 9, Xylophasia arctica; Io, Feltia malefida; 11, Euxoa messoria; 12, Xylophasia devastatrix. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 447 MICROCOELIA Gn. . diphtheroides Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Essex Co. VI, VII (div); Eliza- beth V, 20-VII, 30 (Bz); Staten Island V—VIII (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll); 5-mile beach (Haim); and probably throughout the State. The form “obliterata” Grt. occurs with the type and is the more common. BRYOPHILA Tr. . lepidula Grt. Generally distributed, but rare. . teratophora H. S. Newark Dist.; New Brunswick. Not really a rare species, but has not been reported by collectors, and my specimens have no dates. CHYTONYX Grt. . palliatricula Grt. Staten Island VII (Ds); Anglesea VII (Sm), and throughout the State in July, rarely. The form with the white dot in median space is the more common. MOMA Hbn. . fallax H. 8S. Paterson IV, 30 (Gr) V, 10 (Bz); Chester VIII, 19 (Dn); Essex Co. V (div); Staten Island V (Ds); Westville, VIII, 19 (Jn); Lakehurst, VIII, 23 (Gr). The curiously banded larva feeds on “Viburnum” (Dyar) and on poplar. BAILEYA Grt. (LEPTINA Gn.) . dormitans Gn. Newark (Wdt), and probably rare throughout the State. . doubledayi Gn. Suffern, N. Y., VII (Bz), and undobtedly occurs this side of the State line as well. . ophthalmica Gn. Newark (Soc); Staten Island V, VI (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll). CATABENA WIk. . lineolata Wlk. Chester (Dn); Elizabeth VII, VIII (Bz), feeds on Ver- bena (Bt). CRAMBODES Gn. . talidiformis Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (div); Jersey City IX (Sb); Newark VII (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VIII (Ds); and probably throughout the State; the larva on Verbena. PLATYSENTA Grt. . videns Gn. Jersey City to Cape May VI-IX, in swampy and marsh lands along shore and inland, sometimes not uncommon. 448 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SENTA Steph. S. defecta Grt. “New Jersey,’ without definite locality. BALSA WIk. B. malana Fitch. Throughout the State V—VIII and recorded by most collectors. Feeds on apple; “a little green larva dotted with yellow” (Dyar). B. tristrigella Wlk. Newark V (Wdt); Woodside VI, 20 (Bwl); Hem- lock Falls (Sb); Elizabeth VI (Bz), and undoubtedly throughout: the State. B. labecula Grt. Occurs near New York City, and sure to be found in New Jersey. “Triquetrana”’ Fitch referred to this genus in the last edition will be found in the ‘“‘Nolide.” ANORTHODES Sm. A. tarda Gn. (prima Sm.) Newark VIII (Wdt); 5-mile beach VIII, 20 (Haim). CARADRINA Ochs. C. multifera Wlk. Ramsey IX, 30 (Sleight); Woodbridge VIII, 12 (Wrms); “New Jersey” (Coll). C. derosa Morr. Described from ‘New Jersey” and never since found in or out of the State; probably an exotic. C. miranda Grt. Recorded from Newark to 5-mile beach, VI-IX, and surely occurs throughout the State. PERIGEA Gn. P. xanthioides Gn. Throughout the State from June to October. P. vecors,Gn. Recorded from Jersey City to Anglesea, May to Septem- ber, and occurs throughout the State, not rarely. P. epopea Cram. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City at sugar VII (Kr); Elizabeth VIII, 9 (Kp); Staten Island VI, IX, X (Ds); 5-mile beach VIII, 2-27, common (Haim). OLIGIA Hbn. O. festivoides Gn. Throughout the State, IV-VIII; comes readily to light and is recorded by all collectors. O. chalcedonia Hbn. Occurs with the preceding; but less abundantly. O. versicolor Grt. 5-mile beach VIII, 20 (Haim). O. grata Hbn. Sussex Co. to Anglesea V-X; recorded by all collectors. . HILLIA Grt. H. crasis H. S. Hopatcong (Pm). MK KOS BX THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 449 LUPERINA Bav. . passer Gn. Throughout the State V—VIII; recorded by all collectors. . burgessi Morr. Elizabeth IX, 16 (Kp); Lakehurst IX (div); Cape May Co., 1 specimen at light (Lt). XYLOPHASIA Steph. . remissa Hbn. Hopatcong VI, 21 (Sleight); Elizabeth VI, 116) (Bz: “New Jersey” (Coll). . suffusca Morr. Newark (Soc). . vultuosa Grt. Jersey City VI, VII (Kr). . apamiformis Gn. Newark VI, 4-15 (Sb); Elizabeth VIII (div); River- ton VII, 31 (Jn); Camden V, 28, Westville VI, 29 (Kp). . finitima Gn. Jersey City on raspberry bloom in May (Kr). . lateritia Hbn. ‘New Jersey” without definite locality. . cogitata Smith. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll). - dubitans Wilk. Throughout the State VII-IX; more or less common. . impulsa Gn. Ramsey VI, 19 (Sleight); Elizabeth VI, 21, 1 specimen (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds). . devastatrix Brace. Throughout the State commonly, all season. The larva is one of the most destructive of our field cut-worms. . arctica Bdv. Common throughout the State VI-IX; the larva is de- structive to corn, cabbage and garden plants. . verbascoides Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Elizabeth VIII, 6 (Kp); Staten Island IV, VI (Ds). . cariosa Gn. Ramsey VI, 7 (Sleight); Jersey City VI (Kr); Newark VI (Wat); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); 5-mile beach VII, 4 (Weigand). . vulgaris G. & R. “New Jersey” (Coll). . lignicolor Gn. Ramsey VI, 25 (Sleight); Caldwell (Cr); Newark VIII (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); New Bruns- wick VII, 3 (Gr). HADENA Schrank. . bridghami G. & R. Ramsey VII, 25 (Sleight); Seabright, on sunflow- ers, Jersey City at sugar VII (Kr); the type locality is “New Jersey.” . fractilinea Grt. Hopatcong (Pm); Staten Island VIII, 7 (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll); Lakehurst IX (Bz); probably throughout the State. . miseloides Gn. Paterson to 5-mile beach, VI-VIII; not rare through- out the State; larva solitary on “Smilax’—green briar (Dyar). . viridimusca Sm. “New Jersey” without specific locality or date. . mactata Gn. Englewood Cliffs X, 15, at sugar (Dke); Elizabeth IX, 2 (Bz). . turbulenta Hbn. Thrcughout the State, local VI, VII, VIII; larva gregarious on “Smilax’’—green briar—and horse nettle. 29 IN 450 REPORT: OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. H. modica Gn. Andover VIII (Kr); Snake Hill VII (Wdt); Woodside VIII, 18 (Bwl); Newark VII (div); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds); 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Haim). H. hausta Grt. Jersey City Hts. IV, 20, Newark (Sb), Elizabeth VI, 24, 1 specimen (Bz). H. diversicolor Morr. Hdgewater Hts. [xX, 10 (Wrms). MACRONOCTUA Grt. M. onusta Grt. Ramsey IX, 22 (Sleight); Elizabeth IX, 18 (Bz); “New Jersey” (div); the larva bores in the roots of German lily (Dyar) and blue flag (Bird). DRYOBOTA Led. D. illocata Wlk. Hopatcong (Pm); 5-mile beach VIII, 22 (Haim), and probably throughout the State. HYPPA .Dup. H. xylinoides Gn. Throughout the State V-IX; not rare. FERALIA Grt. F. jocosa Gn. Paterson IV, 4-6 (Gr); Newark Dist. III, IV, the larva ‘on hemlock (Soc); is a very local species, but not rare where it occurs. F. major Sm. Occurs in New York just north of the line, and will un- doubtedly be found also in New Jersey. TRACHEA Hbn. T. delicata Grt. Ft. Lee VIII, 18 (Wrms); Jersey City VIII (Kr); Eliz- abeth VIII (Bz). EUPLEXIA Steph. E. lucipara Linn. Throughout the State V-IX, not rare; larva on birch, “Viburnum,” etc. ACTINOTIA Hbn. A. ramosula Gn. Great Notch VIII, 26 (Dke); Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Newark V (Bwl); Elizabeth IV, VII, IX (div); Staten Island V-VIII (Ds). DIPTERYGIA Steph. D. scabriuscula Linn. Throughout the State V—VIII; larva on “Rumex.” PYROPHILA Hbn. P. tragopogonis Linn. Ramsey VIII, 5 (Sleight); ‘““New Jersey” (Coll). P. pyramidoides Gn. Throughout the State, V-IX, sometimes locally common. “One of the commonest larva of early spring” (Dyar), feeding on wild cherry, apple, poplar, chestnut, etc. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 451 HELOTROPHA Led. . reniformis Grt. Throughout the State VI-IX, often common; the variety “atra”’ Grt. occurs with the type and is sometimes the more abundant. PRODENIA Gn. . commelina S. & A. Throughout the State VIII to X; but the rarest of the species belonging to the genus. All the larve feed on grasses. . ornithogalli Gn. Throughout the State VIII-10; locally common. . eudiopta Gn. With the preceding and at the same dates. LAPHYGMA Gn. . frugiperda S. & A. Common throughout the State VIII-X. The larva is the “fall army worm,” which occasionally becomes abundant enough to cause serious injury to late crops; even fruit trees sometimes suffer. The varieties “fulvosa”’ Riley and ‘‘obscura” Riley occur with the type, but not so abundantly. MAGUSA WIk. . divaricata Grt. Newark in August at light (div). HOMOHADENA Grt. : badistriga Grt. Newark district; larva on honeysuckle. ONCOCNEMIS Led. - riparia Morr. Occurs on Long Island and will yet be found along shore in New Jersey. - Saundersii Grt. Ramsey IX, 15 (Sleight). LEPIPOLYS Gn. . perscripta Gn. Ramsey IX, 23 (Sleight), and at other points in New Jersey. ADITA Grt. . chionanthi S. & A. Newark (Soc); single specimens only. COPIPANOLIS Grt. . cubilis Grt. Lakehurst in April (Ds). EUTOLYPE Grt. . rolandi Grt. Forest Hill IV, 22 (Wrms); Staten Island IV. (Ds). - bombyciformis Sm. Larva on shell-bark hickory and is sure to occur in New Jersey. 452 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. U =] NnAN DN PSAPHIDIA WIk. grotei Morr. Staten Island IV, 15 (Ds); New Brunswick IV, 17 (Sm). . resumens Walk. Paterson IV, 24 (Gr); Newark (div), and probably elsewhere in the State. . thaxterianus Grt. Will yet be found in New Jersey. RHYNCHAGROTIS Sm. . rufipectus Morr. Will cccur in the northern part of the State. . brunneicollis Grt. Ramsey VI, 22 (Sleight); Newark VI, 9 (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VI, 21 (Ds); 5-mile beach VII, 1, VIII, 20 (Haim). . anchoceloides Gn. Staten Island IX, X (Ds); Newark VIII, 5 (Sb); Elizabeth, VII, VIII (Bz); Westville VII, 2 (Lt); Lakehurst IX, 27 (Gr); DaCosta VIII, 16 (Dke); 5-mile beach IX (div). The larva is one of the commoner cut worms and feeds on grape (Bt) as well as a variety of low plants. . brunneipennis Grt. Elizabeth VII, 20 (Coll). . placida Grt. Hlizabeth VIII, 4 (Kp); Lakehurst IX, 5 (Bz). . alternata Grt. Sussex Co. VIII, 24, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Coll); Staten Island VIII, IX, X (Ds); Newark VII (div); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Camden (Kp). ADELPHAGROTIS Sm. . prasina Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark VII-IX (div); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth VII, 30 (Coll). PLATAGROTIS Sm. . pressa Grt. Hopatcong (Pm). EUERETAGROTIS Sm. . sigmoides Gn. Hopatcong V, 22 (div); Newark (Soc); Elizabeth VII, on sugar (Bz). . perattenta Gn. Newark (Wdt); Staten Island VI (Ds). . attenta Grt. Occurs rarely near New York (Bt). SEMIOPHORA Steph. . elimata Gn. Staten Island IX (Ds); Lakehurst IX (Ds). . janualis Grt. Lakehurst IX (div). The Lakehurst localities for this and the preceding species may prove to refer to the following. . grisatra Sm. Lakehurst IX, 27, 1 9 type (Gr). . atoma Sm. Lakehurst IX, 27, 109 ¢ type (Gr). . Opacifrons Grt. Rare near New York (Bt). . tenebrifera Wlk. (catherina Grt.) Taken at Philadelphia V, 1, and recorded from ‘New Jersey,” without specific locality. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 453 PACHNOBIA Gn. . monochromatea Morr. Near Newark, very rare (Soc); Brown’s Mills Junction V, 20 (DkKe), 1 specimen. . manifesta Morr. Paterson V, 20, (Gr); Staten Island V (Ds); New- ark, in early spring (div); Mr. Seib has bred it from a larva with curious feeler-like processes found under leaves in a swamp. . fishii Grt. Newark IV (Bz); Silver Lake, Staten Island IV, 29 (Shoe- maker). AGROTIS Tr. . badinodis Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc); Elizabeth IX (Bz); Staten Island IX (Ds); Lakehurst IX, 27 (Gr). . Violaris G. & R. Riverton IX, 20 (Jn); Manumuskin X, 10-21 (Dke). : ypsilon Rott. Common throughout the State, V-IX; the larva is one of the injurious cut-worms. . geniculata G. & R. Ramsey IX, 20 (Sleight); Sussex Co. VIII, 21 (Coll); Caldwell (Cr); Lakehurst IX (div); Lucaston IX, 8 (Dke); Cape May Co.. 1 spec. (Lt). NOCTUA Linn. Fig. 186.—Cut-worms of typical forms; eggs natural size (6) and enlarged (7). 454 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. N. smithii Snell. Throughout the State, VIII & IX, more common in the northern portion. This is the species usually named “baja” in col- lections. N. normaniana Grt. Sussex Co. VIII, 22, New Brunswick VIII, IX (Coll); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Caldwell (Cr). Locally common, but seems confined to the northern part of the State. N. bicarnea Gn. Throughout the State, VII-XI usually common. The larva is a general feeder on low plants; but is not one of the econom- ically important species. N. c-nigrum Linn. Common throughout the State, VII-XI. The larva is one of the injurious species found in fields in the spring. N. phyllophora Grt. Hopatcong (Bt); Newark V-VIII (div); larva in March (Sb). N. plecta Linn. Throughout the State V-IX, sometimes quite numerous. The larva feeds on celery, lettuce and similar plants; but rarely in injurious numbers. N. collaris G. & R.- Ramsey IX, 10 (Sleight). N. haruspica Grt. Hopatcong (Pm), and undoubtedly elsewhere in North Jersey. : N. clandestina Harr. Common throughout the State V-IX. concealed under bark, in crevices and other shelter. The larva is one of the more injurious cut-worms. N. lubricans Gn. Great Notch VIII, 26 (Dke); Boonton VIII, Elizabeth VIII, 13 (Kp); Newark VIII (div). PERIDROMA Hbn. P. occulta Linn. Newark, at light (Wdt); Staten Island VIII (Ds); 5- mile beach VIII, IX (div). P. margaritosa Haw., var. saucia Hbn. Throughout the State VII-XI. The larva is a general feeder and one of the injurious cut-worms. P. incivis Gn. Boonton IX (Bwl); Caldwell (Cr); Jersey City VII, at sugar (Kr); Newark (div); Elizabeth VIII, IX, 16 (div); Staten Island VIII-X (Ds); Stone Harbor VIII, 3 (Dke); 5-mile beach, VIII, 20 (Haim). RHIZAGROTIS Sm. R. acclivis Morr. Rare near New York (Bt). I have seen specimens from Maryland, and there is no reason why it should not occur in New Jersey. FELTIA WIk. F. subgothica Haw. Occtfrs throughout the State, and is the most com- mon of the allied species. The caterpillar is sometimes quite abun- dant, but rarely injurious. F. jaculifera Gn. With the preceding in a general way, but less abundant, and in some localities entirely absent. F. herilis Grt. Also occurs throughout the State with the two preceding, but is more rare than either. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. | gee . gladiaria Morr. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark IX, X (div); Staten Island IX (Ds); New Brunswick IX, 18 (Coll), and probably throughout the State. . venerabilis Wlk. Newark IX, 15 (Wdt); Elizabeth IX (Bz); Staten Island IX (Ds); Lakehurst IX, 27 (Gr). . volubilis Harv. Ft. Lee V, 30 (Wrms); Newark, at light X (Wdt), Chester (Coll), and elsewhere in North Jersey. . annexa Tr. Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); Lakehurst IX, 27 (Gr); 5-mile beach VIII, IX (div); and probably throughout South Jersey; the larva is a general feeder and sometimes rather plentiful. . malefida Gn. Trenton (U S Ag); Anglesea IX (Coll), and probably throughout South Jersey. POROSAGROTIS Sm. . vetusta Wlk. Paterson IX, 30 (Gr); Anglesea IX, 28; and throughout the State on goldenrod in September during the day. . mimallonis Grt. Common near New York (Bt). . tripars Wlk. Staten Island IX, 21 (Ds); Lucaston IX, 20 (Dke); Laha- way IX, seasonally not rare. EUXOA Hbn. (CARNEADES Grt.) . velleripennis Grt. Ramsey IX, 23 (Sleight); Great Notch VIII, 26 (Dke); Guttenberg VIII, 29 (Wrms); Newark (Soc); Elizabeth IX, i (Colle Atco) Vill, 2 (lit): . fumalis Grt. Rare near New York (Bt). . detersa Wlk. Throughout the State in late fall on goldenrod; flying freely in the bright sunshine; especially common near the shore. . bostoniensis Grt. Ramsey IX, 26 (Sleight); Paterson X, 8 (Gr); Newark IX, 2 (Coll); Staten Island IX, X (Ds); probably occurs throughout the more northern part of the State. . messoria Harr. Common throughout the State, June to September. The larva known as the “reaping rustic” is the most injurious and abundant of our early cut-worms and is especially troublesome in South Jersey on sweet-potatoes. The bran-arsenic remedy works per- fectly for this species. . tessellata Harr. Also common throughout the State, and a close ally of the preceding in its destructive work. . albipennis Grt. Newark (Ang). . obeliscoides Gn. Chester VII, New Brunswick VII (Coll); probably occurs throughout the more northern sections of the State. . redimicula Morr. Staten Island VII (Ds). ANYTUS Grt. . privatus Wlk. Ramsey IX, 26 (Sleight); Paterson IX, 10 (Gr); Eliza- beth IX (Bz); and, not commonly, throughout the State VIII & IX. . capax Grt. Ramsey IX, 19 (Sleight). 456 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. UFEUS Grt. U. plicatus Grt. Newark (Sb). MAMESTRA Ochs. M. nimbosa Gn. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc). M. imbrifera Gn. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc). M. purpurissata Grt. Chester VIII, 17, Sussex Co. VIII, 23 (Coll); not common near New York (Bt). M. meditata Grt. Chester VIII to Anglesea VI, VIII, IX; and generally throughout the State, chiefly VIII & IX. M. lustralis Grt. Sure to be found in New Jersey. M. detracta Wlk. Newark VI (Sb); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Dke). M. distincta Hbn. Caldwell (Cr); Newark IV (div); Elizabeth IV (Bz); Staten Island IV, V (Ds); the larva on grape. M. atlantica Grt. “New Jersey,” without definite locality. M. subjuncta G. & R. Throughout the northern half of the State; New Brunswick to Chester V—VIII. The larva is a general feeder on grasses, weeds, and sometimes becomes injurious on cabbage and other cultivated plants. M. grandis Bdv. Newark VI, 20, VIII, 6 (div); Elizabeth VI (Bz); Staten Island VI, Jamesburg VII (Ds), and probably throughout the northern part of the State; larva on burdock and a variety of other low plants. M. trifolii Rott. Throughout the State, V-X, common; larva on cabbage, clover, Cheno- podium, &c., and sometimes injurious. M. rosea Harv. Ramsey V, 28 (Sleight); Paterson VI, 15 (Gr.); Newark, at light VIII (Wdt); Elizabeth VI, 10 (Bz). M. congermana Morr. Ramsey V, 29 (Sleight); Ft. Lee VII, 30 (Wrms); Newark, at light, rare (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island V, WAG (CDE). M. rubefacta Morr. Lakehurst iV, 29 @s).. M. picta Harr. Throughout the = State VI, VIII, locality com- Fig. 187,—Mamestra trifolii: a, larva from mon; the gaudy yellow, above; b, same on cabbage Jeaf; black-striped and _ barred c, pupa; d, adult; wing of j h enl E larve are sometimes found moth enlarged eee os THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 457 abundant on cabbages, though feeding also on other low plants. Prompt applicatign of the arsenites should be resorted to when the species is noticed. . lubens Grt. Hopatcong (Pm); Ramsey V, 28 (Sleight); Newark VI, larva on huckleberry, sumac and birch (Sb); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); Staten Island VII (Ds). . latex Gn. Ramsey V, 21 (Sleight); Orange Mts. VI (Wdt); Mont- clair VI, 5, Elizabeth V, 28 (Bz); Staten Island V-VI (Ds); National Park VI, 10 (Dke); a dirty brown larva on low plants (Dyar). . adjuncta Bdv. Recorded from all parts of the State in August; larva on asparagus, goldenrod and other plants. . repentina Morr. West Hoboken; the type and only example ever taken. . legitima Grt. Boonton VIII (Bwl); Hopatcong (Pm); Sussex Co. VII, New Brunswick VIII, 20 (Coll); Jersey City VII (Kr); Elizabeth VIII, 19 (Kp); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Lucaston VII, 27 (Dke); the larva feeds on asparagus, beans, cabbage and a variety of other garden plants, has two annual broods, and is sometimes injurious. . lilacina Harv. Newark IX (div). . goodelli Grt. Newark (Sb); 5-mile beach VII, 26 (Haim). . ectypa Morr. Morris Plains (Neum). . renigera Steph. Common throughout the State and almost all season; larva a general feeder and sometimes injurious. . olivacea Morr. Throughout the State VI, VIII, IX; recorded by all collectors. . anguina Grt. Ramsey V, 18 (Sleight); Paterson VI, 26 (Gr); Staten Island (Doll). . laudabilis Gn. Andover VIII (Kr); Newark (Soc); Iona IV, Bridge- ton IX, X, 4 (Coll); Lakehurst IX (div). . lorea Gn. Ramsey V, 31 (Sleight); Staten Island VI (Ds); Elizabeth VI, 21 (Bz); New Brunswick VI, 11 (Coll); larva on geranium, straw- berry, etc. (Bt). MORRISONIA Grt. . sectilis Gn. Paterson V, 12, on bark of chestnut (Gr); Newark IV 28-V, 2 on willow bloom (div); Elizabeth IV (Bz); Staten Island IV (Ds); the variety ‘‘vomerina” Grt. occurs with the type. . confusa Hbn. Ramsey V, 13 (Sleight); Paterson V, 5, Plainfield V, 18 (Gr); Caldwell (Cr); Newark V, 1 (Soc); Elizabeth IV (Bz); larva on willow, in webbed-up leaves. ULOLONCHE Sm. . modesta Morr. Great Notch, DaCosta V, 17, Brown’s Mills V, 19 (Dke); Lakehurst V (Ds); and probably throughout the State, rarely. 458 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. NEPHELODES Gn. N. minians Gn. Throughout the State VIII, IX, oftén on golden rod; the larva is sometimes locally injurious as a cut-worm on corn and other grasses. The variety “violans” Gn. is locally more common than the type form. LEUCANIA Ochs. The larve of all the species of this genus feed on grasses and a num- ber of them are injurious. L. pseudargyria Gn. Throughout the State IV-IX; common but not in- jurious. L. luteopallens Sm. (pallens L.) Ramsey IX, 21 (Sleight); Newark VII (Wdt); Elizabeth VIII, 4 (Bz). albilinea Hbn. Common throughout the State V-IX; the larva is known as the “wheat-head” army worm; attacking the grain just as it is ripening and sometimes causing serious trouble in the more northern parts of the State. L. diffusa Wlk. Paterson V, 20 (Gr); Eliz- abeth VII, VIII (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 20 (Haim); has been confused with the Fig. 188—The ‘“‘wheat-head” army preceding and probably has much the worm, Leucania albilinea. same distribution. L. ligata Grt. Manumuskin V, 5 (Dke). L. flabilis Grt. Newark at light, VII (Wdt); Elizabeth IX, 15 (Bz); 5- mile beach VII, 25-VIII, 5 (Haim); always rare. L. insueta Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City VI, common (Kr); prob- ably occurs throughout the State. L. extincta Gn. Newark (Ang); Elizabeth V, VII (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 12 (Haim). L. multilinea Walk. Newark meadows, at sugar (Sb); Elizabeth VI, VIII (Bz); Staten Island VI-IX (Ds); 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Haim). L. commoides Gn. New Brunswick (Coll); Anglesea VIII, IX (div). . phragmatidicola Gn. Throughout the State V, IX; usually common. L r L. unipuncta Haw. Throughout the State from May until frost. The larva is the “army-worm,” which is seasonally and locally destruc- tive. Remedial measures consist of barriers and mechanical meth- ods adapted in each instance to the case in hand. Fig. 189.—Mamestra picta: a, the ‘‘zebra caterpillar;’’ b, moth. Fig. 190.—‘‘Wheat head” army worm: a, a, larve at work on wheat head; b, egg mass; c, d, egg from above and side, enlarged. Fig. 191.—Army worm at work. Fig. r92.—Army worm moth, Lewcania unipuncta and details. Fig. 193.—Heliothis armiger: a, b, egg enlarged, from side and above; c, larva; d, pupa in underground cell; e, adult, wings spread; f, same, wings closed. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 459 Tig. 192 Fig. 193. 460 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 4HiAdaA Ok TSE HON 10S Pad ORTHODES Gn. . crenulata Butl. Hopatcong to Cape May VI-VIII; more or less com- mon throughout the State. . cynica Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City at sugar VI (Kr); Newark V, VI (Wat); Elizabeth VI, VIII (div); Staten Island V, VI (Ds). - imora Strck. Ramsey X, 22, at light (Sleight); this species is un- known to me (Sm). - vecors Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark V-VIII (div); Elizabeth V (Bz); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds). HIMELLA Grt. . contrahens Wlk. “Northern New Jersey.” . intractata Morr. Paterson IV, 20 (Gr); Newark IV (div); Staten Island IV (Ds). CROCIGRAPHA Grt. - normani Grt. Newark IV, on willow catkins (Sb) and probably throughout the northern part of the State. TAENIOCAMPA Ochs. . furfurata Grt. Paterson V, 17 (Gr). . culea Gn. Paterson V, 20, Plainfield V, 19 (Gr); Newark (Ang). . oviduca Gn. Common throughout the State VIII & IX. . rubrescens Wlk. Newark, Elizabeth IV (Bz). . alia Gn. Throughout the State, late in fall and again from March to May; larva a general feeder in early spring (Dyar). - subterminata Sm. With the preceding and probably as widely dis- tributed; Newark and Elizabeth IV on willow blossoms (div). TRICHOLITA Grt. . signata Wlk. Andover VIII (Kr); Newark (Ang), Staten Island VIII, 23 (Fulda); 5-mile beach IX, 4 (Haim). XYLINA Ochs. . bethunei G. & R. Throughout the State, and one of the most common forms. . innominata Sm. With the preceding; but less common and more gen- erally restricted to the northern half of the State. . ferrealis Grt. Hopatcong (Pm); New Brunswick IV (Coll). . Signosa Wlk. Hopatccng (Pm); Caldwell (Cr). . fagina Morr. Chester (Dn); Ramsey X, 22, at light (Sleight). . unimoda Lint. Ramsey II, 13 (Sleight); Newark (Ang); Staten Island (Ds). . laticinerea Grt. Ramsey X, 19 (Sleight); Hopatcong (Pm); Carlstadt VIII, 20 (Wrms); Staten Island II-V and X, XI (Ds); larva on soft maple (Dyar), cherry and other trees. Probably occurs throughout the State. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 461 . grotei Riley. Hopatcong (Pm); Paterson X, 24, New Brunswick III, 23 (Gr); Newark IV (Bz). . antennata Wlk. Throughout the State in late fall and early spring; the commonest of our species. As in all the other species of this genus, the adults occur in late fall and hibernate in that stage, re- appearing for flight and oviposition early next spring. The food plants include ,among others, apple trees, and some injury has been caused by the larve cating into the forming fruit. . thaxteri Grt. Newark (Sb). LITHOLOMIA Grt. . Napee Morr. Forest Hill IV, 20 (Wrms); rare near New York (Bt), and probably throughout northern New Jersey. CALOCAMPA Steph. . nupera Lint. Occasional in northern New Jersey. . cineritia Grt. Newark III and IV, on willow catkins; larve in Sep- tember on low willows (Sb). . curvimacula Morr. Staten Island IV (Ds) and occasional in North Jersey. CUCULLIA Schranck. . convexipennis G. & R. Newark afd northward VI-VIII (div); Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); often on golden rod. . asteroides Gn. Hopatcong to Cape May and elsewhere throughout the State VIL-IX; usually on golden rod. . intermedia Speyer. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark VIII (Wdt). . phil Sm. Taken in Fairmount Park, Phila., and will certainly occur in New Jersey. 7 BELLURA WIk. . gortynides Wlk. Passaic Co. VIII, 29 (Kell); New Durham VIII, 29 (Wrms); Elizabeth VIII, 9 (Bz); Newark district; larva in stems of “Typha,” rare. . obliqua G. & R. Newark V, VII, common; larva in cat-tails; easily taken during the winter when the stems are frozen in ice. NONAGRIA Ochs. . oblonga Grt. Elizabeth VII (Bz). . subflava Grt. Rare near Newark (Soc); seasonally common near Jersey City (Wrms). . lata Morr. Described from “Hoboken.” OMMATOSTOLA Grt. . lintneri Grt. Anglesea in late August and September, sometimes common at light and during the day found at rest in the bath houses. 462 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. FAGITANA WIk. F. littera Grt. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City VII, at sugar (Kr); New- ark (Soc), and probably rare throughout the State. F. u-album Gn. Occurs rarely throughout the State. ACHATODES Gn. A. zez Harr. Throughout the State; the larva boring in corn, wheat and other grasses. It is sometimes rather plentiful in the larval stage, but has never yet been seriously injurious. APAMEA Tr. The two species placed here were among those referred to “Hydreecia”’ in the previous edition. The larve are borers, and not often found ex- cept on special search. The adults are not uncommon and are attracted to light. A. velata Wlk. Throughout the State VI-VIII, sometimes common. A. americana Speyer. (atlantica Sm.) Throughout the State in July and August. The larva bores in the stems of grasses. HYDRCECIA Tr. H. immanis Gn. Local in the northern parts of the State; the larva in the crown roots of hops. Dates of flight are in August and Septem- ber. PAPAIPEMA Sm. The species here referred constitute the bulk of those previously re- ferrd to “Hydroecia.” All of them are borers in the larval state, and most of them are by no means rare if properly sought for; but most of them inhabit plants of no economic importance, and therefore do not be- come obtrusive. The adults are rarely seen, and while they are quite handsome and conspicuous moths, few collections have more than a seattering representation of species. Mr. Henry Bird, of Rye, N. Y., has made a special study of this genus, and to him I owe the information concerning food plants. P. appasionata Harv. Lakehurst (Jtl). The iarva bores in the roots . of pitcher plants, and the species will probably be found wherever this plant occurs. P. marginidens Gn. Staten Island IX (Ds); Elizabeth IX, 15 (Bz), New Brunswick IX, 12 (Gr). Mr. Bird reports that he finds the larva everywhere in “Sicuta maculata.” P. furcata Sm. Hopatcong (Pm); Carlstadt, where the larva has been found boring in the young shoots of ash, by Mr. Doll. P. circumlucens Sm. Newark, and elsewhere in New Jersey. It has been confused with “marginidens,’ and probably occurs wherever its food plant, hop, is found. u P. Ee Pe THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 463 . duovata Bird. The larva bores in the golden rod, “Solidago semper- virens,” and will probably be found where this plant occurs. impecuniosa Grt. Staten Island, the larva in “Aster puniceus” (Ds); aster and helenium are general food plants according to Bird, and the. species probably occurs throughout the State. . inquzsita G. & R. Hopatcong (Pm); Elizabeth IX, 30 (Bz); Staten Island (Ds); August and September. The larva in the roots of sen- sitive fern (Bird). . , . speciosissima G. & R. Ridgewood VIII, 30; Newark (Soc); Elizabeth X, 1 (Bz). A rare species, whose larva has thus far escaped detec- tion. . frigida Sm. The larva lives in the meadow Rue, and no doubt occurs in New Jersey. . sciata Bird. Newark IX, 5 (Sb); Hlizabeth X, 5 (Bz), and probably elsewhere in the State. The larva bores in “Veronica virginica,” and this is the species listed as “limpida” in the previous edition. . cerussata Grt. Newark IX, 28 (Sb); Staten Island (Ds). The larva bores in iron weed and probably occurs wherever that plant grows. nitela Gn. Throughout the State and sometimes common. The normal food plant is the rag- weed, “Ambrosia trifida,” but it may infest dock and other of the weedy plants. Sometimes it be- comes excessively abun- dant and then attacks potato, tomato, aster, dahlia, corn and a great variety of other plants, causing local injury. Gardens and small plant- ings are most generally infested, and as a rule where they adjoin a weedy road or field. Adults occur from late July to September, and a good general measure to prevent trouble is to keep down the rag- weeds by mowing in early July. Fig. 194.—Papaipema nitela: larva and adult. duplicata Bird. The larva breeds in horse balm, “Colensonia cana- densis,’ and will almost certainly be found in the State. imperturbata Bird. Bores into the stems of the wild sunflower, “Heli- anthus divaricatus,’ and should occur in New Jersey. necopina Grt. The larva bores in the stalks of the wild sunflower, “Helianthus giganteus,” and the species will no doubt be found there whenever sought for. An adult is very rarely taken even where the larva is abundant. 464 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. eupatorii Lyman. The larva bores in “EKupatorium purpurea,” and will probably be found in New Jersey. P. pterisii Bird. The larva in brake or high fern, ‘Pterisia aquilina.” This species very closely resembles “harrisii,” and some of the records for that species will without much doubt be found referable here. P. harrisii Grt. Newark (Sb); Hlizabeth IX (Bz). The larva bores in “Heracleum lanatum.” P. purpurifascia G. & R. Elizabeth IX (Bz), Staten Island (Ds), and probably throughout the more northern parts of the State where the wild columbine grows; the larva bores in the roots of that plant. P, baptisiz Bird. The larva bores in the false indigo, “‘Baptisia tinc- torum,”’ and undoubtedly occurs in New Jersey. Mr. Davis has taken it on Staten Island. P. astuta Bird. The larva bores in horse balm, ‘“Colensonia,” and will almost certainly be found in New Jersey. P. cataphracta Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc); Staten Island (Ds); Anglesea (Lt); generally distributed throughout the State. The larva is a general feeder in thistle, burdock, elder, sunflower and other weeds, the adult flying in September. P. rigida Grt. This will probably be found in the northern part of the State as the southerly limit of its distribution; it flies in September. The species recorded as “rutila’’ in the previous edition probably refers to one of the other, similar forms. Mr. Bird has not met with it in his collections and considers it a more northern type. The Canadian col- lectors get it not uncommonly. PYRRHIA Hbn. P. umbra Hbn. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VI (Sb); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); 5-mile beach VII, 28 (Haim); larva on “Desmodium” and blackberry. P. exprimens Wlk. With the preceding, but rarely. XANTHIA Hbn. X. flavago Fab. Recorded as rare near New York by Beutenmuller. IODIA Hbn. l. rufago Hbn. Newark IV, on willow bloom (Sb); Lakehurst IV (Ds). MESOLOMIA Sm. (BROTOLOMIA.) M. iris Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Jersey City (Sb); Newark VI (div). TRIGONOPHORA Hbn. T. periculosa Gn. Chester (Dn); Hopatcong (Pm); Cresskill VIII, 30 (Wrms); Paterson IX, 21 (Gr); Lakehurst IX (Ds). The variety THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 465 “v-brunneum” Grt. occurs with the type, and both are probably found throughout the State. CIRRCEDIA Gn. C. pampina Gn. Newark and Orange Mts. IX (div); Bayonne (Bt); Elizabeth IX, X (div); Staten Island V, IX, X (Ds); New Brunswick IX, 20, Lakehurst IX, 27 (Gr). SCOLIOPTERYX Germ. S. libatrix Linn. Throughout the State. Matures in early fall, hiber- nates aS an adult and lives until well along in summer; larva on willow and poplar. — . COSMIA Ochs. C. paleacea Esp. Chester (Dn). ORTHOSIA Ochs. The species now referred to this genus are only a part of those in the previous edition. Most of them have been separated under the term “Amathes” Hbn., leaving the larger, more robust species under the present term. O. aurantiago Gn. Ramsey IX, 5, at light (Sleight); Elizabeth VIII, 20 (Bz). O. helva Grt. Throughout the State, VII and VIII, recorded by all con- tributors from Hopatcong to 5-mile beach. O. lutosa Andr. Newfoundland VII, 2 (Shoemaker), and also recorded from “New Jersey” without specific locality. O. americana Morr. Described from New Jersey, was based on a Euro- pean example, and “O. conradi”’ Grt., also recorded from the State, was undoubtedly an error of determination or locality. AMATHES Hbn. The species referred here appeared under “‘Orthosia’”’ in the last edition. A. bicolorago Gn. Throughout the State, locally common, September to October; hibernates as an adult and appears again early next spring. The variety ‘ferruginoides” Gn. is really much the most abundant form of the two. : A. decipiens Grt. Elizabeth X, 19 (Kp). . euroa G. & R. Should be found in the northern part of the State. A. ralla G. & R. Recorded from New Hampshire to North Carolina and sure to be found in New Jersey. > PARASTICHTIS Hbn. P. discivaria Wlk. Not yet actually found in the State, but almost cer- tain to occur there. 30 IN 466 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SCOPELOSOMA Curt. S. indirecta Wlk. Caldwell (Cr); Forest Hill III (Wdt); Newark IIi & IV (div). All the species of the genus mature in fall, hibernate as adults and fly again very early in spring. S. moffatiana Grt. Newark district IV, X, XI (div); Staten Island IV « (Ds); larva on witch hazel (Dyar). . pettiti Grt. Occurs near New York (Bt). S. ceromatica Grt. Recorded from “New Jersey,” and Mr. Buchholz has taken it in Bronx Park, N. Y. City; larva on witch hazel. . tristigmata Grt. Newark, New Brunswick IX (Coll), and probably throughout the State. S. walkeri Grt. Newark IV, on willow bloom and at sugar (Sb); Hliza- beth XII, 13 (Bz). S. sidus Gn. Newark district IX (div); Forest Hill IV, 2 (Wrms); Staten Island X, Lakehurst X (Ds), S. morrisoni Grt. Near New York on oak (Bt); Forest Hill IV, 4 (Wrms); Staten Island II, IV (Ds). S. devia Grt. Newark IV (Sb); Elizabeth III, IV (Bz); Staten Island V, 3S (DED) a n ” GLAEA Hbn. . viatica Grt. Ramsey X (Sleight); Staten Island X (Ds); Lakehurst IX, X (div). inulta Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island IX, X (Ds). signata French. Recorded from “New Jersey.” G. sericea Morr. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark Dist. X (div); Staten Island X (Ds); Lakehurst 1X, 27 (Gr). G. carnosa Grt. Lakehurst X, 19 (Ds); a very rare species. o 29 EPIGLAZA Grt. E. pastillicans Morr. Found near New York (Bt). E. apiata Grt. Should be found in New Jersey. E. decliva Grt. Newark (Ang); Elizabeth IX, 13 (Bz). HOMOGLAEA Morr. H. hircina Morr. Lakehurst IX, on huckleberry leaves (Ds). CALYMNIA Hbn. C. orina Gn. Will yet be found in the State, I believe. IPIMORPHA Hbn. I. pleonectusa Grt. Newfoundland VII, 28 (Ds), and recorded from “New- Jersey.” ¢ J i . j a @ “1 2 » we a. i? ’ au ini 44 « 1 O) an! 1 a i x , ‘ - ‘ ae Dr oh "1% . 4 - J 1 t f i Pao : - rd © Pe i > - 7s Fig. 196.—Work of the corn-worm in tomato. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 467 ATETHMIA Hbn. A. rectifascia Grt. Raimsey VIII, 14 (Sleight); Elizabeth VII, 16 (Bz); “New Jersey” (Aucz). ; CHLORIDEA Westw. C. virescens Fab. Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds). HELIOTHIS Ochs. H. armiger Hbn. Throughout the State and throughout the season. There are three broods in the southern half of the State, the earliest larva being the “tomato worm,” which bores into the earliest fruit. while the later broods infest first sweet and then field corn, speci- mens being found in the ears as late as October. Harly in the spring the larva may also bore into pea-pods and attack a variety of other vegetation. They winter as pupe in cornfields, and the best check to their increase is late fall plowing, which exposes and de- stroys them in this helpless stage. ‘The application of insecticides has not been found practical. RHODOPHORA Gn. R. florida Gn. Throughout the State, VII and VIII in the closed flowers of the evening primrose; the larva feeds in the buds and seed cap- sules of the same plant. DERRIMA WIk. D. henrietta Grt. “New Jersey” without date or exact locality. EUPANYCHIS Grt. E. spinosee Grt. (Schinia) Staten Island IX (Ds); Sandy Hook (Bt); Atco IX, 4 (Kp); Clementon IX, 9 (Lt); Lucaston IX, 12, Hammon- ton IX, 6, Brown’s Mills IX, 15 (Dke); Lakehurst IX, 10 (Bz); An- glesea IX, 20 (Coll). SCHINIA Hbn. S. trifascia Gn. Caldwell (Cr); Elizabeth VIII, IX (Bz); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll) and probably throughout the State. S. nundina Dru. Throughout the State VIII and IX; not common, but reported by all collectors from Hopatcong to Anglesea; found during the day on flowers of “Spireza,” ete. S. lynx Gn. Elizabeth VI (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); Atco IX, 1 (Kp); Brown’s Mills VII, 5, DaCosta VIII, 3, Delair VIII, 7, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke); Anglesea VIII, 16 (Lt). S. arcifera Gn. Orange Mts. VIII, IX (div); Elizabeth VIII, TX (div); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, IX (Coll); Ft. Lee VIII, 30, Belleplain IX, 16 (Dke); 5-mile beach VIII, 21-IX, 20 (Haim). 468 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LYGRANTHOECIA G. & R. The species referred to this genus appeared under ‘“Schinia’” in the previous edition. L. thoreaui G. & R. Newark VIII, 25 (Ang); Elizabeth VIII (Bz); New Brunswick VIII, 20 (Gr). L. marginata Haw. Common throughout the State and _ practically throughout the season; usually attracted to light. L. brevis Grt. Ramsey IX, 5 (Sleight); Newark, Orange Mts. VIII, 1X (div); Elizabeth IX, 5-20 (Bz); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); locally common. L. inclara Strck. Paterson (Gr); Woodbury VI, 18 (Kp). XANTHOPASTIS Hbn. X. timais Cram. Staten Island, taken by Mr. Grote (Ds); a southern species which is occasionally taken at light along the shore. EUTHISANOTIA Hbn. The species referred here appear under “Eudryas” in the previous edition, and are there associated with the family “Agaristide,’ which they resemble greatly in the larval stage. The present genus was used for the species just preceding. E. unio Hbn. Throughout the State, locally more or less abundant, VI and VIII; larva on evening primrose and “Epilobium.” E. grata Fab. Also generally distributed and local, VI and VII; the larva on grape and Virginia creeper. PLAGIOMIMICUS Grt. F. pitychromus Grt. Newark (Wdt); Elizabeth VIII (Bz); Staten Island VIII (Ds). STIBADIUM Grt. S. spumosum Grt. Has been found in New Jersey. CIRRHOPHANUS Grt. C. triangulifer Grt. Ft. Lee VIII, 30 (Dke); Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Soc); Elizabeth IX, 15 (Bz); Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Bruns- wick VIII, 2 (Gr). PLUSIODONTA Gn. P. compressipalpis Gn. Paterson VI, 2 (Gr); Newark VII (Wdt); Eliz- abeth VIII, IX (div); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Merchantville VIII, 1 (Dke); the larva resembles bird excrement (Dyar) and is found on “Menispermum canadense.” THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 469 CALPE Tr. Cc. canadensis Beth. Ramsey VI, 7 (Sleight); Paterson VII, 10 (Gr); Ft. Lee (Dyar); Newark VI (Bz); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds); larva on meadow-rue. POLYCHRYSIA Hbn. P. formosa Grt. Hopatcong VII, 4 (Gr); Newfoundland VII, 5 (Ds); Union Hill, Edgewater VIII, 4 (Wrms); Newark (Soc); always rare. PANCHRYSIA Hbn. (DEVA.) P. purpurigera Wlk. Elizabeth VII, 7, 1 spec. (Bz); rare near New York (Bt); larva on meadow rue. : PLUSIA Ochs. P. zrea Hbn. Newark, Orange Mts., Elizabeth VI-IX (div); Staten Island VI-IX (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, 28 (Gr), and probably throughout the State; larva on verbena. P. zroides Grt. Jersey City VII, VIII (Kr). P. balluca Geyer. Newark, rare (Ang); the larva on hop. EUCHALCIA Hbn. E. contexta Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VII, VIII (div); Blizabeth VII-IX (Bz); Staten Island VII (Ds). E. putnami Grt. Recorded from “New Jersey.” E. venusta Wlk. Newark, at light (Ang). EOSPHOROPTERYX Dyar. E. thyatiroides Gn. Hopatcong (Pm); Carlstadt VIII, 11 (Wrms); New- ark (Ang); Staten Island VII (Ds); always rare. AUTOGRAPHA Hbn. This genus contains most of the species referred to “Plusia” in the previous edition; the others are distributed in the four genera immdi- ately preceding. Many of the moths fly during the day, and are recosg- nizable by angular silvery marks or blotches on the fore-wings. The larvee are semi-loopers, and some of them are of economic importance. A. bimaculata Steph. Newark, on petunias (Ang). A. biloba Steph. Newark V, VIII (div); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds); Woodbury VII, 7 (Kp). A. verruca Fabr. Hemlock Falls, Newark V (Sb); Greenville, seasonally common (Sm); Staten Island X (Ds). A. rogationis Gn. Near New York on wandering jew, geranium and “Bupatorium” (Bt); and I have seen specimens taken in New Jersey. A. precationis Gn. Throughout the State V-X, common; it is double- brooded, the larva on a variety of low weedy plants. 470 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. A. ou Gn. Rutherford IX, 3 (Wrms); Newark X, 7 (Kp). brassicz Riley. Throughout the State, all season; the larva a gen- Fig. 197.—The cabbage looper, Autographa brassice; a, larva; b, pupa in its flimsy > cocoon; c, male moth. _ eral feeder on cruciferous plants and seasonally injurious to cabbage. It is known as the “cabbage looper’ because it lacks one pair of abdominal legs, and it becomes most troublesome late in the season. It resists spraying mixtures quite strongly, but the bran and Paris green application is usually successful. . oxygramma Geyer. Rare near New York (Bt); Newark X, 7(Kp); Lakehurst IX, 17 (Ds). rectangula Kirby. (mortuorum Gn.) Newark VII, VIII (div) “New Jersey.” . epigzea Grt. Rare near New York (Bt). . falcifera Kirby, var. simplex Gn. Throughout the State, commonly V-XI; it is double-brooded, the larva feeding on a great variety of eruciferous and other low plants. . basigera Wlk. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark, VI, IX, X (div); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); never common. ABROSTOLA Ochs. ovalis Gn. Newark (Sb). . urentis Gn. New Brunswick; probably rare throughout the State. OGDOCONTA Butl. . cinereola Gn. ‘Throughout the State, all season, common; larva on ragweed. PAECTES Hbn. (INGURA). . delineata Gn. Newark (div); Morris Plains, larva on sweet gum (Dyar). . abrostoloides Gn. Newark (Sb); Elizabeth VIII, IX (div); Staten Island VI-IX (Ds); hardly common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 471 . oculatrix Gn. Ramsey V, 21 (Sleight); Hopatcong (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Newark VII, 1 (Bz); Staten Isiand VIII (Ds); Weymouth VIII, 9 (Dke); 5-mile beach VIII, 5 (Haim). EUTELIA Hbn. . pulcherrima Grt. Newark, at night (Ang); Ramsey, VI, 17 (Sleight) ; always rare. MARASMALUS Grt. . inficita Wlk. Ramsey VI, 12 (Sleight); Caldwell (Cr); Newark VII, 7 (Sb); Elizabeth VIII (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); 5-mile beach VI, 6, VIII, 3 (Haim). . veritilator Grt. Ramsey VI, 5 (Sleight); Newark (Soc), New Bruns- wick VIII, 18 (Coll); 5-mile beach VIII (div); larva on poison ivy. Both of these species occur throughout the State. ALETIA Hbn. . argillacea Hbn. Newark IX, X (Wdt); Elizabeth IX, X (Bz); Staten Island IX, X (Ds); Long Branch (U S Ag); 5-mile beach VIII, X (Haim). This is the famous cotton-moth of the Southern States. It does not breed in New Jersey; but each year adults fly north in considerable numbers after midsummer, and some of these flights reach us, aS a Swarm or in scattering individuals. ANOMIS Hbn. . erosa Hbn. Newark X (Wdt); Elizabeth X, 3 (Bz); Staten Island X (Ds); the larva on cotton and mallow. This is also a Southern species which reaches New Jersey as a visitor only. SCOLECOCAMPA Gn. . liburna Geyer. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark and Orange Mts. VII (div); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Staten Island (Ds); the larva in decaying cherry, hickory, oak and chestnut stumps. EUCALYPTERA Morr. . bipuncta Morr. Suffern VII, Newark, Lakehurst VII, 17 (Bz); Lacey VII, Bamber VII, 11 (Dke); Anglesea in July, on salt marshes and in swamps; the larva probably boring in reeds or grasses. AMOLITA Grt. . fessa Grt. Hopatcong to Cape May VI-VIII; nowhere common. DORYODES Gn. . bistrialis Geyer. Secaucus V, 22 (Gr); Newark at light V (Wdt); Elizabeth VI, IX (Bz); Staten Island V—VIII (Ds) ; Anglesea, common on the salt marshes VI-IX (Sm). + 472 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PHIPROSOPUS Grt. . callitrichoides Gn. Elizabeth VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds); Alloway VI, 3, Lucaston IX, 9, the larva on “Smilax rotundi- folia” (Dke); 5-mile beach VIII (Haim). RIVULA Gn. . propinqualis Gn. Paterson (Gr); Newark VI, [X, Elizabeth VI, VII (div); 5-mile beach VII, 24 (Haim); probably throughout the State. PLEONECTYPTERA Grt. . pyralis Hbn. New Brunswick VII (Coll). . geometralis Grt. Staten Island VII (Ds); Lahaway VIII, 3 (Coll). ERASTRIA Ochs. . malaca Grt. Elizabeth VII, 15 (Bz). . albidula Gn. New Brunswick (Coll). concinnimacula Gn. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island V (Ds). synochitis G. & R. Throughout the State V—VII, locally common. . olivula Gn. Newark (Wdt); common near New York (Bt). . musta G. & R. Newark at light VIII (Wdt); 5-mile beach VIII (Haim). muscosula Gn. Common throughout the State VI-VIII. caduca Grt. Jamesburg VII, larva on “Sagittaria’” (Sm). . apicosa Harv. Throughout the State V-IX, common. . carneola Gn. Common everywhere V-IX; our most abundant species. . aeria Grt. Newark VI (Wdt); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz). GALGULA Gn. . hepara Gn. Throughout the State VI-X, usually not rare; the variety “partita’” Gn. occurs with the type. LITHACODIA Hbn. . bellicula Hbn. Throughout the State V, VII-IX, not rare; reported by all collectors. PROTHYMIA Hbn. . rhodarialis Wlk. Paterson V, 18 (Gr); New Brunswick, Anglesea (Coll), and probably throughout the State. . semipurpurea WIk. Paterson V, 18 (Gr); Elizabeth V, VII, VIII, IX (div); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke). EXYRA Grt. . semicrocea Gn. Lucaston V, 30, Iona V, 26 (Dke); Pleasantville VI, ali (QUi5)) 5 Lahaway V, larva in “‘Sarracenia.” THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 4 XANTHOPTERA Gn. X. nigrofimbria Gn. Lucaston IX, 14, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke); 5-mile beach VIII (div). X. semiflava Gn. 5-mile beach VIII, 19 (Haim), and probably throughout South Jersey. N io) METOPONIA Dup. M. obtusa H. S. Caldwell (Cr); Newark, Elizabeth, VI, VII (Bz); Staten Island V, taken by O. Fulda (Ds). CHAMYRIS Gn. C. cerintha Tr. Throughout the State V-IX, sometimes common, and reported by all collectors; larva on wild cherry, plum, apple and other trees, but never in destructive numbers. ACONTIA Ochs. A. terminimacula Grt. 5-mile beach VII, 26 (Haim). A. delecta Wlk. Little Ferry VIII, 19 (Wrms); Elizabeth V, VII, VIII (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); Stone Harbor VIII, 12 larva, V, 16 adult (Dke); Cape May (Lt); larva on swamp mallow “Hibiscus mos- chatus.” A. biplaga Gn. 5-mile beach IX, 4 (Haim). A. erastrioides Gn. Common throughout the State and actually recorded from all points between Delaware Water Gap and Cape May V-IX; larva on rag-weed, burdock, ete. A. candefacta Hbn. With the preceding and even more common, but not reported later than August; larva as before. SPRAGUEIA Grt. S. onagrus Gn. Chester VIII, 1, New Brunswick VIII, IX, Anglesea V, IX (Coll); Elizabeth VIII (Bz); locally common at light. leo Gn. Chester (Wdt); Staten Island (Ds): New Brunswick (Coll). . dama Gn. Anglesea IX, 8 (Kp). oo METATHORASA Moore. M. monetifera Gn. Hopatcong (Bt); Orange Mts. VI (Wdt); Newark (Soc); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth VII, 24, Glassboro VII, 3 (Kp); Lahaway (Coll). EUHERRICHIA Grt. E. mollissima Gn. Jersey City VIII, seasonally common (Kr); Elizabeth VII, VIII (Bz); Staten Island V (Ds); Brown’s Mills (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, VIII (div). 474 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PHALAENOSTOLA Grt. . larentoides Grt. Newark VIII (Bwl); Elizabeth VI, VIII (Bz); West- ville VI, 6 (Jn); 5-mile beach VI, VII, IX (div). PANGRAPTA Hbn. . decoralis Hbn. Throughout the State V—VII; locally common. HYAMIA WIk. . perditalis Wlk. Elizabeth VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VII (Ds); Anglesea VII, VIII (div). . 6-punctata Grt. Newark (Sb); Hemlock Falls V, Elizabeth VI, VIL (Bz); Staten Island V, taken by Fulda (Ds). MELANOMMA Grt. . auricinctaria Grt. Newark (Bwl); has been bred out of sticks con- taining larve of “Eu. unio,” and probably feeds on “Cephalanthus.” — HOMOPYRALIS Grt. . discalis Grt. Paterson VI-VIII (Gr); Newark (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Camden VI, VIII (Kp); Anglesea IX (div). . contracta Wlk. Caldwell (Cr); Elizabeth VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VI-VIII (Ds); and probably throughcut the State. . tantillus Grt. Near New York, not common (Bt); Anglesea IX, 3 (Coll). ‘ISOGONA Gn. . natatrix Gn. (Eutoreuma tenuis Grt.) Montclair VIII, 11 (Kf); Hliz- abeth VIII, 7, one specimen (Bz). HYPSOROPHA Hbn. . hormos Hbn. Newark (Soc); Elizabeth VIII (div); Camden VI, VII (Kp); 5-mile beach VIII (div). DRASTERIA Hbn. . erechtea Cram. Common throughout the State V-X. The larva feeds on grass, clover, etc., and the moth is the one most usually started up in grassy or weedy lands. . crassiuscula Haw. With the preceding but less abundant. The variety ‘‘ochrea” Grt. occurs occasionally. CAENURGIA WIk. . convalescens Gn. “New Jersey’; Union Co.; single specimens only. EUCLIDIA Hbn. . cuspidea Hbn. Throughout the State V—VIII; locally not uncommon. THE INSECTS (OF NEW JERSEY: 475 MELIPOTIS Hbn. M. limbolaris Geyer. Orange Mts. VI, VII (div); Paterson VI, 28 (Gr); Newfoundland VII, 5, Sandy Hook V, 18 (Ds). M. nigrescens G. & R. Fort Lee VI, 14 (Wrms). M. jucunda Hbn. Hemlock Falls VI, 1 (Sb); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); Staten Island V, 29, Lakehurst V, VI (Ds); Manumuskin, common (Dke); 5-mile beach VIII, 1 (Haim). SYNEDA Gn. S. graphica Hbn. Throughout the pine barrens V—VIII, locally common (div); Staten Island IV—VIII (Ds); Milltown V, 13 (Gr). The variety “media” occurred with the type but less abundantly, at Clementon (Lt). CATOCALA Schranck. C. nubilis Hbn. Throughout the State V—VIII, locally common; larva on locust (Dyar). C. elonympha Hbn. Staten Island VI, VIII (Ds); Caldwell (Cr); 5-mile beach VIII (div); larva on walnut. C. amica Hbn. (lineella Grt.) Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Newark IX (div). The variety “androphila’” Gn. occurs with the type. C. jair Strek. Lakehurst VII, 1-15 (div). C. gracilis Edw. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Newark VIII (Sb); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Anglesea VIII (div). var. sordida Grt. Greenwood Lake (Bt). C. minuta Edw. Rutherford (Wrms); Elizabeth VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick VII, 16 (Gr); 5-mile beach VIII (Haim); the larva on locust. The varieties “parvula”’ Edw. and ‘“mellitula’ Hulst occur with the type (Bt). C. grynea Cram. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Sb); Elizabeth VII (div); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); 5-mile beach VIII (Haim); larva on apple and plum. Mr. Beutenmuller says that “polygama” Gn. is really this species. C. preeclara G. & R. Caldwell (Cr); Hlizabeth VII, 29 (Kp). C. micronympha Gn. Anglesea (Lt). Mr. Beutenmuller says that the varieties ‘“fratercula” G. & R., “hero” Hy. Edw., and “gisela’’ Mayer occur on all sides of New Jersey, and should certainly be found in the State with the type. The species is surely rare with us. C. similis Edw. “New Jersey” without date or exact locality; Lakehurst VII, 8 (Ds). Mr. Beutenmuller has not had the type form, but has had the variety “aholah” Strek. from the State. 476 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Cc. @) cordelia Hy. Edw. Roselle (Peck). Mr. Beutenmuller says that the species usually called ‘“‘amasia’”’ S. & A. is really this form. There is a distinct question as to whether this record can stand. It is prob- ably based on an erroneous identification. . connubialis Gn. Mr. Beutenmuller says that “sancta”’ Hulst is this species. The mix-up in the names relating to this “amasia” series is such that I give all the names, since any or all of them “may be found represented in New Jersey material. . cratzgi Saund. Rare near New York; larva on thorn. . pretiosa Lint. Taken in New Jersey and heretofore cited as a variety of “crategi.” Mr. Beutenmuller, however, thinks them distinct. . blandula Hulst. Caldwell (Cr); larva on “Crategus.” . ultronia Hbn. Throughout the State, VII-X; the larva on apple, plum, wild cherry, dogwood, oak, ete. According to Mr. Beutenmul- ler the true “ultronia” is what has been heretofore termed “mopsa” Hy. Edw., and to the form heretofore labeled “‘ultronia,’ he has given the varietal name “lucinda.’” The varieties “celia” Hy. Hdw., and ‘“‘ariadna’”’ Hy. Edw., are also taken in New Jersey; all occurring together at Holly Beach and elsewhere. . herodias Streck. Lakehurst VII & IX (Ds). . coccinata Grt. Greenwood Lake (Bt); Lakehurst VII, 8 (Ds). . cerogama Grt. Newark VII, VIII (div); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, 21 (Gr). The variety “bunk- eri’ Grt. has been taken at Caldwell (Cr). . ilia Cram. Throughout the State VII-IX, common; the larva on oak. The varieties ‘uxor’ Gn. and “osculata’’ Hulst occur with the type. . marmorata Edw. Bayonne (Doll). . parta Gn. Newark VII, VIII (div); Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); New Brunswick IX, 8 (Gr); larva on willow and poplar. . unijuga Wlk. Newark VIII, IX (Sb); Elizabeth IX (Kp); Staten Island VII-IX (Ds); New Brunswick IX (Gr); Anglesea (Lt). . briseis Edw. Staten Island VII (Ds); “New Jersey.” . cara Gn. Common throughout the State, VII-X; the larva on willow and poplar. The variety “carissima’’ Hulst occurs more rarely. . amatrix Hbn. Throughout the State VII-IX, common; the larva on willow and poplar. The variety “nurus’ Wlk. has been taken at New- ark and on Staten Island. . concumbens Wlk. Throughout the State, VIII & IX, sometimes com- mon; larva on willow and poplar. . consors S. & A. DaCosta VII, 18 (Lt). . antinympha Hbn. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VIII, IX (Soc); Elizabeth, VIII, 14 (Kp); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds). . badia G. & R. Englewood (Bt); Newark (Sb); Hlizabeth VIII (Kp); Anglesea VIII; larva on wax myrtle. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 477 . muliercula Gn. Newark, VIII (Bwl); Elizabeth VIII (div); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); DaCosta VIII (Lt); 5-mile beach VII, VIII (div); larva on wax myrtle. . habilis Grt. Orange VIII, IX (Sb); Elizabeth IX (Kp); Staten Island VIII (Ds); New Brunswick IX (Gr); the larva on hickory. The variety “‘basalis” Grt. occurs with the type, but rarely. . serena Edw. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell (Cr); larva on hickory and walnut. : . innubens Gn. Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth VIII, 12 (Kp); larva on honey locust. The variety “scintillans’ G. & R. occurs with the type. . paleogama Gn. Throughout the State VII-IX (Bt); the larva on hick- ory and walnut. The varieties ‘“annida” Fager and “phalanga” Grt. occur with the type, but are less common; the latter the more abundant of the two. . neogama S. & A. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VII-IX (div); Staten Island VII-X (Ds); Lucaston VIII, Holly Beach VIII (Haim); larva on butter- nut and walnut. The variety “snowiana”’ Grt. is recorded from 5-mile beach VII, 22 (Haim). . subnata Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Passaic Co. VIII, 2 (Wrms); larva on walnut and hickory. . piatrix Grt. Paterson IX, 21 (Gr); Caldwell (Cr); Newark VIII, IX (div); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); larva on walnut, hickory, persimmon. . . nebulosa Edw. Still only a probability. . relicta Wlk. Jersey City, Newark and Elizabeth and vicinity, in VII- IX; recorded by many collectors. The type name, according to Mr. Beutenmuller, refers to the dark form and is the same as “bianca” Hy. Edw. The gray form is ‘“‘phry- nia” Hy. Edw., and the white form is “clara” Beut. All occur in New Jersey. Larva on white birch and silver poplar. . epione Dru. Newark VII, VIII (Wdt); BHlizabeth VII (Kp); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); the larva on oak. . robinsonii Grt. Orange Mts. IX (Sb); Caldwell (Cr); Newark IX (Soc); Elizabeth IX (Bz); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds); New Bruns- wick VIII-X (Gr); larva on hickory. . judith Strek. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Elizabeth VII, 15 (Bz); Staten Island (Fulda); 5-mile beach VII, 22 (Haim); the larva on hickory. . retecta Grt. Caldwell (Cr); Newark IX (Soc); Staten Island VIII (Ds); larva on hickory. The variety “luctuosa’’ Hulst occurs with the type. . flebilis Grt. Occurs with the preceding and listed as a variety in the last edition. 478 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Cc Cc. dejecta Streck. Lake Hopatcong, Elizabeth VII, VIII (Bz); Newark (Ang). vidua S. & A. Hopatcong (Pm); Caldwell (Cr); Elizabeth VIII, IX (Bz); Staten Island [IX (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, IX (Gr); larva on oak, hickory and walnut. . viduata Gn. Orange Mts. IX (Sb); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Pleasant- ville (Lt); larva on walnut. . lacrymosa Gn. Newark IX, 26 (Sb). The var. “ulalume” Strek. is recorded from Morristown (Peck). . agrippina Strck. Rare near New York (Bt). . insolabilis Gn. Caldwell (Cr); larva on hickory. . angusi Grt. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Elizabeth VIII, IX (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 22 (Haim); larva on hickory. Mr. Beutenmuller finds the varieties “edna” Beut. and “lucetta” Hy. Edw. with the type near Fort Lee. . obscura Strek. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); New Brunswick VIII, 25 (Gr); the larva on hickory. The variety “residua’’ Grt. occurs with the type and in addition is re- corded from Hopatcong (Pm); Orange Mts. (Wdt); Elizabeth (Kp). . tristis Edw. Dover (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Lahaway (Sm). HYPOCALA Gn. . andremona Cram. (hillii Lint.) Staten Island IX, 26 (Ds). PHOBERIA Hbn. . atomaris Hbn. Newark IV (div); Staten Island IV, Lakehurst IV CDsie HOMOPHOBERIA Morr. . cristata Morr. Described from ‘Hoboken’ and never since found. PANAPODA Gn. . rufimargo Hbn. Throughout the State V—VIII, the varieties “carnei- costa” Gn. and “roseicosta”’ Gn., with the type and equally abundant. Larvee on upper side of oak leaf (Dyar), and feed also on hickory and willow. PARALLELIA Hbn. . bistriaris Hbn. Throughout the State V—VIII; usually not rare. AGNOMONIA Hbn. . anilis Dru. Newark (Soc); Staten Island VIII (Ds). REMIGIA Gn. - repanda Fabr. (latipes Gn.) Throughout the State, VI and VII-X; sometimes locally not rare. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 470 GRAMMODES Gn. G. smithii Gn. Elizabeth, VII, 18, 1 specimen (Bz). POAPHILA Gan. ‘P. quadrifilaris Hbn. Ozrange Mts. V,. VI (div); Newark (Soc); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Clementon V, 15, Brown’s Mills V, 9, Manumus- kin VI, 4 (Dke). The record for ‘‘deleta’ Gn. was based on a misidentification. CELIPTERA Gn. C. frustulum Gn. Throughout the State V—VIII, and sometimes not rare. PHURYS Gn. P. lima Gn. I have seen this from New Jersey. ANTICARSIA Hbn. A. gemmatilis Hbn. Staten Island 1X (Ds). ANTIBLEMMA Hbn. A. minorata Sm. South Orange V, 28 (Gr). PHAZOCYMA Hbn. Under this term those species referred to in the last edition as “Zale,” “Pheeocyma,” “Ypsia’”’ and “Homoptera” are now grouped. The species have been recently studied and revised, and some of the records as they stand are a little uncertain. I have included all the species that I have reason to believe will occur within our faunal area, and have no doubt they will all be found in due course. P. lunata Dru. Occurrs throughout the State, July to October. It is the most common of all the species, and the larva is a general feeder; maple, willow, rose and ‘wild cherry being included in the list. What has been known as “edusa”’ is the male, and the spring records probably refer to “minerea’” and not to “lunata.”’ P. undularis Dru. Staten Island V-—VIII (Ds); Newark V, VI (Br); Elizabeth V, VII (Bz), and probably throughout the State. “Nigri- cans” Beth., recorded as rare throughout northern New Jersey, is this same species. The variety “umbripennis”’ Grt. occurs with the type, but is much less abundant. P. zruginosa Gn. Probably also throughout the State, but not com- mon. This was referred as a variety of “undularis”’ until recently, and therefore escaped separate record. I have it from Elizabeth, however (Kp), & V, 13 (Bz). P. minerea Gn. Lakwood V, 27 (Ds), not generally identified in collec- tions; I believe that the May and June records for “lunata”’ will be found to refer to this species. 480 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. lunifera Hbn. Paterson VII, 14, Guttenberg X,. 4 (Wrms); Elizabeth V, 17 (Bz); 5-mile beach VIII, 5 (Haim). This is also referred as “penna”’ Morr. in the previous edition. P. lineosa Wlk. Some of the records for “lunifera”’ probably refer to this species, and I have little doubt that both will be found to occur throughout the State, as they are generally mixed in collections. I have seen it from Elizabeth VIII, 6 & 9 (Bwl, Bz). P. unilineata Grt. Staten Island V (Ds); Newark VI (Bwl); not com- mon, and a well-marked species. P. obliqua Gn. Staten Island V, VII, VIII (Ds); Elizabeth (Kp). P. metata Sm. Newark VI, 11 (Bwl); almost undoubtedly confused with the preceding. . curema Sm. Sure to occur in New Jersey. . helata Sm. Quite within our faunal range. » squammularis Dru. Probably confused with ‘obliqua.”’ . benesignata Harv. Lakewood V, 3 (Ds). . cingulifera Wlk. Newfoundland IV, 25 (Ds); Elizabeth V, 29 (Bz). . calycanthata S. & A. Recorded from Elizabeth; but it is very doubt- ful whether the species really occurs in the State. I have seen only Georgia and Florida examples myself, and the records probably refer to “lineosa” or “‘lunifera.” P. horrida Hbn. Paterson V, 12 (Gr); 5-mile beach V, 27, VIII, 21 (Haim); Staten Island VI-VIII, and probably throughout the State, locally common. F qo) ny) qefie as} gel So) EREBUS Latr. E. odora Linn. Staten Island VI, IX, 3 specimens, all females (Ds); Newark IX, 4, IX, 26 (div); a wind visitor, occasionally taken near the coast, generally in fall. : PSEUDANTHRACIA Grt. P. coracias Gn. No actual records, but surely to be found in the State; the Elizabeth record of last edition was an error. TRAMA Harv. T. detrahens Wlk. Laurel Springs VI, 3 (Dke). Family HYPENID/.. These are the “snout-moths,”’ so called because in many of them the palpi are projected straight forward into a beak, though sometimes they are curved sickle-like over the head. They are also known as Deltoids because many of them, when at rest, have the outline of the Greek letter A (delta). They are all obscurely colored moths of small or moderate size, living in woods, among undergrowth or in grassy places. The larve of some species lack one pair of abdominal legs; some live on or among THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 481 dead leaves or decaying wood, some openly on grasses and other vege- tation, and a few have been found in the nests of ants. None of those found in New Jersey are economically important. In this family sexual modification has run wild; antenne, feet, palpi and wings being modified in the species. The antennze of the males have knots, spurs and tufts, often in addition to the more usual pectinations. The legs have a varied assortment of hair pencils and tufts, and some of these are also found on the palpi. In one of our species the fore wings of the male are deeply notched, while in the female they are entire. It is more than likely that all species recorded from the eastern United States will be found in New Jersey. The moths are difficult to secure in good specimens and are not favorites with collectors, hence are not so well represented in cabinets as are those of some other families. Sub-family HELMN&. EPIZEUXIS Hbn. E. lubricalis Geyer. Common throughout the State from June to Septem- ber. The larva on grasses (Bt) and in decayed wood (Dyar). Mr. Grossbeck records finding adults in swarm in a hollow tree VII, 24. Larve in early spring under hemlock chips on which they fed and developed. E. denticulalis Harv. Elizabeth VII (Bz); Roselle VII, 15 from the Kemp collection; Paterson VIII, 15 (Gr). E. rotundalis Wlk. Forest Hill VII (Wdt); Elizabeth VII (Bz); Lake hurst IX, 14 (div); 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Haim). E. forbesii French. Resembles the preceding closely and is probably confused with it in collections. E. scobialis Grt. Near Newark and in eastern N. J. generally. E. americalis Gn. Throughout the State VII-IX. I have it from Lake . Hopatcong and Anglesea, and it is recorded from numerous inter- vening points. Larva on “Hedysarum,” sweet-clover, ete. (Bt), and has also been bred from larve found in ants’ nests. £. zemula Hbn. Locally common throughout the State VI-IX. The larva is said to feed on spruce and also on dead leaves. E. julialis Sm. Oak Ridge (Shoemaker). Sub-family HERMINIINZ. ZANCLOGNATHA Led. Z. lituralis Hbn. Lake Hopatcong VII, 5, New Brunswick VII, rare, at light (Coll); Orange Mts. VII (Wdt); 5-mile beach VIII, 14 (Haim). Z. theralis Wlk. 5-mile beach VII, 9 (Haim). Z. levigata Grt. Delaware Water Gap VII, 1 (Jn) 15 (Coll); Lake Ho- 31 IN 482 REPORT! OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. patcong VII, 20 (Gr); Staten Island VII (Ds), probably local in the northern sections. Z. pedipilalis Gn. Passaic Co. VI, 2 (Coll); Elizabeth and Newark V, VI (Bz). Z. cruralis Gn. Boonton VIII, IX, Orange Mts. VI (Wdt); Paterson V, 12, VIII, 17 (Gr); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Newark VIII (Bwl); Elizabeth VII, VIII (div). Z. obscuripennis Grt. “New Jersey’ specimens are in collections with- out definite locality or date. Z. protumnosalis Wlk. Elizabeth VII, VIII (Bz); New Brunswick, and probably throughout the State, rarely. Z. marcidilinea Grt. Greenwood Lake; Newark, at light VIII (Wdt); Merchantville VI, 29 (Kp). Z. ochreipennis Grt. Lake Hopatcong VII, 5 (Coll); So. Orange VIII (Bwl); Newark VIII, [IX (Wdt); Elizabeth VII, VIII, 19 (div), and probably throughout the State. HORMISA WIk. H. absorptalis Wlk. Paterson VI, 15, Montclair, New Brunswick at light VII, Anglesea IX, 4 (Coll); Newark VII (Wdt); Elizabeth VI, VII, 24 (div); Westville (Lt); 5-mile beach VIII, 2, [X, 4 (Haim). H. litophora Grt. Staten Island VII (Ds); Elizabeth VII, 19, 24 (div); Forest Hill VII (Wdt); New Brunswick VII, 6 (Coll). H. orciferalis Wlk. Elizabeth VI, 5, 1 specimen (Bz); Anglesea at light VI, VIII, [IX (Coll), and also taken VIII, 2-13 at Holly Beach (Haim). PHILOMETRA Grt. P. metonalis Wlk. Staten Island VI (Ds); New Brunswick VII, 3 (Gr); Sussex Co. VIII, 15, Chester VIII, 17, Elizabeth VI, VIII, 6 (Coll). P. eumelusalis Wlk. Chester VIII, 17 (Dn); Jersey City IX (Sb); Hliza- beth VIII, 9 (Bz); New Brunswick VI, 16 (Coll); 5-mile beach VI, 19- 31 (Haim), and probably throughout the State; the larva feeding on the roots of grasses. CHYTOLITA Grt. C. morbidalis Gn. Throughout the State V-—VIII, in deciduous woods, more or less commonly. C. petrealis Grt. Found with the preceding, but rarely. BLEPTINA Gn. B. caradrinalis Gn. Throughout the State, May to September, local and sometimes rather common; attracted to light. B. inferior Grt. Anglesea IX, 12, Burleigh (Sm); a southern species which has not been taken by collectors generally. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 483 TETANOLITA Grt. . mynesalis Wlk. Anglesea, not uncommon at light VI, 10, VIII, 2, IX, 4. - floridana Sm. Paterson VII, 29 (Gr); Orange Mts. VIII, 16 (div); Elizabeth VIII (Bz); 5-mile beach VII, 26 (Haim). RENIA. Gn. . Salusalis Wlk. Staten Island VII (Ds); Elizabeth IX, 1 (Kp); Mon- mouth Co. VII, 8 (Coll); Westville VII, 2 (Lt), and probably local throughout the State. . discoloralis Gn. Orange Mts. VII, VIII (Wédt); Newark VIII (Bwl); Staten Island VII, VIII (Ds); 5-mile beach VII (Haim). . sobrialis Wlk. Staten Island VII, and I have seen New Jersey speci- mens also. . larvalis Grt. Staten Island VII (Ds); Forest Hill VII (Wdt); Eliza- beth IX, 9 (Kp); common near New York (Bt). . Clitosalis Wlk. Forest Hill VII (Wdt); Elizabeth IX, 9 (Kp); 5-mile beach VIII, 6 (Haim); New Brunswick VII, 28; Jamesburg (Coll). . factiosalis Wlk. Elizabeth VII-IX, 2 (Bz); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Jamesburg VII (Coll); 5-mile beach VIII, 12 (Haim). . tilosalis Sm. Chester VIII, 28, Jamesburg (Coll). . flavipunctalis Geyer. Paterson to Anglesea VII & VIII and probably throughout the State; the most common of the species of the genus. . atrimacula Sm. Sussex Co. VIII, 13 (Kemp). . fraternalis Sm. Newark (Bz and Coll). HYPENULA Grt. » cacuminalis Wlk. Cumberland County, 1 specimen only. HETEROGRAMMA Gn. » pyramusalis Wlk. Chester VIII, 17, Newark V, 30 (Coll); Staten Island V, VII, VIIi (Ds); Jersey City IX (Sb); Elizabeth VII, VIII, 4 (div); 5-mile beach VII, 29 (Haim); probably throughout the State. GABERASA WIk. - ambigualis Wlk. Staten Island V, VIII, IX (Ds); Newark IV, V (div); Elizabeth V, 12—-VIII, 22 (div); 5-mile beach VIII, 22 (Kp). DERCETIS Grt. . vitrea Grt. Woodside VI, 17 (Bwl). PALTHIS Hbn. . angulalis Hbn. Andover VI (Kr); Paterson V, 30, VIII, 13 (Gr); Staten Island V-IX (Ds); 5-mile beach VII, 26 (Haim). Occurs throughout the State. . asopialis Gn. Occurs with the preceding, but is not so abundant. 484 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family HyPENINz. CAPIS Grt. C. curvata Grt. Occurs very rarely in the northern parts of the State. SALIA Hbn. S. interpuncta Grt. Hopatcong (Pm). BOMOLOCHA Hbn. B. manalis Wlk. Hopatcong (Pm); Sussex Co. VIII 14, Elizabeth VII, 8 (Coll), VI, IX (Bz); Newark VI-IX (div); Staten Island VI (Ds). B. baltimoralis Gn. Paterson V, 11, VII, 6-20, VIII, 6 (Gr); Staten Island IV-VII (Ds); Newark VI-VIII (div); Elizabeth V, VII, 20, IX, 5 (div); New Brunswick V, VI (Coll); occurs throughout the State without doubt; the larva reported on maple. B. bijugalis Wlk. Anglesea (Lt), and probably local throughout the State. B. scutellaris Grt. Hopatcong (Pm), Newark at light VIII (Wdt). B. abalinealis Wlk. Paterson VI, 9 (Gr); Elizabeth, Newark, VI (Bz); Staten Island V, VIII (Ds); larva on elm (Dyar). B. deceptalis Wlk. Sure to occur; found near New York City (Bt). B. madefactalis Gn. Chester (Dn); Paterson V, 10 (Gr); Hopatcong (Pm); Hemlock Falls V, 7 (Bz); rare near New York City (Bt). B. sordidula Grt. Newark VI (Bz); Forest Hill VII, rare (Wdt); Union Cor Vio .(Coll)r B. toreuta Grt. New Brunswick, at light, VII (Coll). B. edictalis Wlk. Hopatcong (Pm). B. citata Grt. Newark, at light X, 11 (div); New Brunswick VII (Coll). LOMANALTES Grt. L. eductalis Wlk. Bloomfield VIII, 14 (Kp); occasional throughout the State. ; PLATHYPENA Grt. P. scabra Fab. Common throughout the State from May to November, and Mr. Broadwell records a specimen under bark at Boonton, Dec. 24. It is the commonest species of this entire family, and the larva feeds chiefly on clover. HYPENA Schranck. H. humuli Harr. Occurs throughout the State and recorded as common at Caldwell by Mr. Crane. The only dated specimen that I have came from Newark IV, 25. The larva feeds on hop and is a semi- looper. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. A85 Family THYATIRIDA. Medium or rather large moths with soft gray and pink velvety colors, resembling the owlets in appearance, the anal angle of the fore-wings often produced into a tooth or lappet. The family is a small one, and we have only a very few species. EUTHYATIRA Smith. E. pudens Gn. A New Jersey specimen is in the Hulst collection. The larva in spun-up leaves of dogwood, “C. florida’ (Dyar). e PSEUDOTHYATIRA Grt. P. cymatophoroides Gn. Piedmont Plain and northward VI-VIII; the larva on birch (Dyar), maple and oak, looks like a Notodontian. var. expultrix Grt. Occurs with the type and is more common. THYATIRA Ochs. T. scripta Gosse. Bayonne (Bt); Hopatcong (Pm); the larva on black- berry and raspberry; nowhere common. T. rectangula Ottol. New Brunswick VI, 7 (Gr), and probably through- out the northern part of the State. Family NOTODONTIDZ. Moderately sized moths with somewhat retracted head, short palpi, rather short antennze and often short, useless tongue. The thorax is comparatively short, quadrate, while the abdomen is usually long, cylin- drical and obtusely terminated. The legs are moderate in length or short. The wings are long and not very broad, the inner margin often produced into a tooth, lobe or similar process. The larve are naked or have only sparse hair; but often have spines, spurs, humps and other prominences. Sometimes the anal legs are modified into slender pro- cesses resembling a long fork. Most of them are solitary and live ex- posed, feeding on the foliage of trees and shrubs; but some live in large colonies consisting of the members of oné batch of eggs. 5 . V, 26, Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke); moths, wings closed and open. Anglesea V_ (div). Adult on flowers of beach-plum and wild cherry in May and June; larva on grape and Virginia creeper. PYROMORPHA H. S. P. dimidiata H. S. Plainfield VII (Bz); Staten Island VI (Ds); New Brunswick (Coll); Woodbury VI, 17, Wenonah VI, Iona V, 24, DaCosta VI, Manumuskin VI (Dke); Lahaway VI (Sm); never common. The larva feeds on dead oak leaves. HARRISINA Pack. H. americana Harr. Locally common everywhere V-— VIII, and sometimes, as in the Egg Harbor dis- trict, injurious to certain varieties of grape. The yellow, black-dotted lar- ve feed in company throughout most of their life, and are easily de- stroyed by hand-picking or the use of arsenate of lead. Fn Siw SRR aif Fig. 217.—Grape leaf with larve of Harrisina americana feeding in characteristic way. i ; ee yo a dy ¥ ed ae: ei, ay wt Pt , j s ‘ v4 ¥ B yi “ ’ ‘oe ‘ "9 4 ( =) . f ‘ L 1 i 5 i] i> ° 4 r ~ ae o i “ inf 4 ' is) ee : , sy = —~ a4 J iv * me i | ie Vow i as = tte : f i. © a fel ¥ => ~~ t if i = i i . : oe Wy ? many © Z : 4 i OA cas ii Aa? ail w nS ica ny ies . ei y - » \ i ‘ei . ” Ry ee Fig. 218.—Elm twigs bored by the larva of wood Leopard moth, and broken. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. SIs Family THYRIDA. Small but stoutly built species with small, short, more or less angu- lated wings, which are black or brown in color, with white or yellow semi-transparent spots. The antenne are thread-like or a little thick- ened in the middle, and the moths fly about bare or sandy places early in the spring. Little is known of the early stages and none are injurious. THYRIS III. T. maculata Harr. Throughout the State and locally common, V—VIII. T. lugubris Bdy. Also g. d., IV-VII, and sometimes as abundant as the preceding; in fact, it is the more usual in collections. DYSODIA Clem. (PLATYTHYRIS G. & R.) D. oculatana Clem. Delaware Water Gap (Pm); Plainfield VII, 5 (Bz); always rare. Family COSSID/AE. These are large species somewhat resembling “hawk moths” in outline, but with a very small head, weak, short palpi, and an obsolete tongue. The antenne are also short and weak in proportion to the size of the in- sects, though in the male they may be pectinated for at least part of the distance. The legs are comparatively short and weak, and while the in- sects seem robust enough, they yet give the idea of helplessness and weakness, which is borne out by the feeble flight of the female. The larvee are borers, usually in heartwood, and sometimes do serious injury to forest or shade trees. ZEUZERA Latr. ° e . ° Cm WY PE teed See Be = BS Ts, Fig. 219.—The wood leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina: a, b, larva from above and side; c, male; d, female moth; e, gallery made by larva. 516 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Z. pyrina Fab. An introduced species which has spread northward from Hoboken to Paterson, southward across Staten Island and along the coast to Eatcntown and westward to New Brunswick, causing more or less serious local damage to shade and orchard trees. It is strictly confined to cities and their immediate vicinity, where the sparrows dominate and exclude the native birds. The moths fly to electric lights VI and VII, often in large numbers, and the larve attack shade trees of almost any kind, but seem to prefer elm and maple. COSSUS Fab. C. reticulatus Lint. Taken rarely by the Newark collectors. C. centerensis Lint. Guttenberg VI, 30 (Wrms); rare near New York (Bt); the larva in the trunks of poplar. PRIONOXYSTUS Grt. P. robiniz Peck. The most common native species of the family, and occurs throughout the State, VI & VII. The larva bores in the trunks of locust, willow, poplar, chestnut and oak, but in my experience prefers the latter. In the pine barrens thousands of oak trees are “doated” as the results of attacks by this species and useless except for firewood. P. macmurtrei Guer. (querciperda Fitch.) Taken rarely by the Newark collectors in June. The larva in oak and chestnut. Family SESITDAS. Species of moderate or rather small size, with narrow forewings, one or both pairs more or less transparent, and color and habits of flight very generally resembling wasps. Black species with yellow or orange band- ings are common, and sometimes the legs are also long and yellow like those of wasps or hornets. The antenne are usually spindle-shaped and in the male often pectinated or lamellate, with a little tuft of hair on the tip. The larve are borers without exception, and live in the stems, trunks, roots or branches of living trees and plants, often causing serious injury. Mr. Beutenmuller’s general arrangement is still followed, and Mr. George Engelhardt, who has of late studied the early stages, has been good enough to give me further information as to the food habits of a number of species. MELITTIA Hbn. M. satyriniformis Hbn. Common VII-IX throughout the State wherever squashes or other cucurbits are grown; the larva being the well- known squash borer. Where it occurs in destructive numbers the THE, INSECTS OF NEW /JERSEY. 517 Fig. 220.—Melittia satyriniformis: a, male moth; b, female with wings closed; c, eggs on squash stem; d, larva; e, pupa; f, cocoon; all one-third enlarged. larve may be cut out, or bisulphide of carbon may be injected into the stem, and the plants should be covered and rooted at the joints. In some cases Summer squashes can be planted as traps to protect the late varieties. ALCATHOE Hy. Edw. A. caudatum Harr. Orange Mts., rare VIII (div); New Brunswick VII, 26 (Gr); the larva bores into the roots of clematis, and will occur wherever this plant grows. Mr. Engelhardt found it common at Bayonne a few years ago. PODOSESIA Meeschl. P. syringz Harr. Paterson V, VI (Gr); Newark V (Wdt); g. d. and locally not rare. The larva in lilac, ash, mountain ash and pear. In lilac it is not infrequently more or less destructive, and infested shoots when noticed should be cut out and burnt. MEMYTHRUS Newn. M. tricinctus Harr. (Sciapteron) Paterson VI, 5, Little Falls VI, 25, VII, 12 (Gr). The larva bores in willow and poplar, and Mr. Gross- beck has found it in the galls made by “Saperda concolor.” Mr. Engelhardt has seen the workings of the larva in New Jersey and thinks it may be found almost anywhere if properly sought for. M. polistiformis Harr. “New Jersey” (Bt); Lakehurst VIII, 17 (div) Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke); the larva in the roots of wild and cultivated grape. This species is injurious in Virginia, and Mr. Engelhardt has found its work quite plentiful in an old vinyard at Lakehurst. It has not been found harmful with us as yet. M. scepsiformis Hy. Edw. Holly Beach VIII, 2 (Haim). M. simulans Grt. Larve found in swamp oak at Newark by Engelhardt, and pupa shells sticking out of oak trees elsewhere in thte State by Beutenmuller. 518 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. M. palmii Hy. Edw. Probably occurs at Lakehurst and elsewhere in South Jersey in red oak and scrub oak (Engelhardt). M. asilipennis Bdv. (Tarsa denudata Harr.) Morris Plains (Neum); Paterson V, 30, Haledon, pupa found in oak stump, Milltown V, 30, Maurer V, 16 (Gr); Newark V, 18 (Sb); Jamesburg V, 9 (Sm). Larva in red and white oak, mostly in stump cut the previous year. M. dollii Neum. (Sciapteron) Homestead, adults abundant end of May (Wrms); Newark (Ang); the larva bores in the trunks of young Carolina poplar, and the species probably occurs throughout the State. AEGERIA Fab. (TROCHILIUM Scop.) AZ. apiformis Linn. Newark, rare (Soc); the larva bores in the ‘roots and lower part of the trunks of Carolina poplar and willows. Mr. Engelhardt says it is local, but thinks it should be found elsewhere in New Jersey. A. tibialis Harr. Riverton IX, 9, Brown’s Mills IX, 15 (Dke). Bores in the trunks of willow and poplar. BEMBECIA Hbn. B. marginata Harr. Throughout the State, locally and seasonally common, VI, VIII, IX. The larva is the blackberry crown- borer which sometimes causes consider- able injury in the southern section. It can be cut out, if sought for when the shoot first begins to wilt. PARHARMONIA Neum. P. pini Kell. Ft. Lee, abundant in pitch balls on white pine and spruce; at Lakehurst on pitch pine (Engelhardt). SANNINOIDEA Beut. Fig. 221.— Bembecia mar- 540 inata: a, male; b, S. exitiosa Say.*' Common; VI-IX wherever = uae at the peach grows in New Jersey. The larva is the well-known peach borer, which attacks the trees at or just beneath the surface of the ground and often kills young trees. These borers may be cut out in spring and fall, or the trees may be protected by wire-netting, newspaper, or a wash of ce- ment, lime or other mechanical covering that extends two inches be- low and eighteen inches above the surface. The larva has also been found feeding in willow (Bt, Ang). The variety “edwardsii’” Bt. oc- curs at Westville (Jn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 519 ALBUNA Hy. Edw. A. pyramidalis Wlk. Sure to occur in North Jersey (Engelhardt). A. fraxini Hy. Edw. (Parharmonia) “New Jersey,” the larva in ash (Bt). SESIA Fab. S. bassiformis Wlk. Carlstadt, larva very abundant in iron weed (En- gelhardt); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Merchantville VIII, 27 (Kp); Riverton VIII, 17 (Dke). S. tipuliformis Linn. G. d., flies in VI, VII. The larva is the common currant borer, and I have found it or its work in all parts of the State. Where it occurs in harmful numbers, cutting out and destroy- ing the infested canes is the only remedy. S. bolteri Hy. Edw. Paterson, in the stems of willow, “Salix concolor” (Engelhardt). S. pictipes G. & R. Garret Mt., Paterson VI, 2, larva in chestnut (Gr); Staten Island VI, VII (Ds); Elizabeth VII (Bz); New Brunswick, Riverton, Hammonton (Coll); Wenonah V, 30 (Dke). The larva bores in the trunks and branches of plum, cherry, peach and chest- nut, but rately does marked injury. S. albicornis Hy. Edw. Morris Plains (Neum); Ft. Lee, Paterson (En- gelhardt); Newark V, VI (div); the larva in willow galls and some- times in Carolina poplar. S. acerni Clem. Throughout the State; V— VII. The larva bores in the trunks of maples and sometimes ruins the younger shade trees; it is much more common, in my experience, in the more southern sections. S. corni Hy. Edw. Hopatcong VII, 4 (Gr); Staten Island VI (Ds); Elizabeth VI, VII (Bz); the larva in maple. Mr. En- gelhardt finds it quite common locally, on city trees, and says that it affects the branches rather than the trunk. S. pyri Harr. Occurs throughout the State VI and VII. The larva infests apple, pear and mountain ash, and is some- times locally abundant, favoring apple as a food plant. It has never been really harmful in my experience. z S. scitula Harr. Paterson V, 25, Jamesburg ae. VII, 4 (Gr); Wenonah VII, 15 (Haim); Fig: 222—Sesia acerni: a, larve; b, DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke); breeds in and un- cocoons in cavities made by der the bark of oak, chestnut and hick- /@'V®; © moth; d, pupa- ory, and in the galls of ‘““Andricus corni- Se ee eee ’ has emerged. gerus” on oak. 520 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. rubrostigma Kell. Breeds in. galls of ““Andricus davisi’” on “Quercus nana,” often in company with “scitula,” Ft. Lee and Lakehurst (En- gelhardt). S. sigmoidea Beut. Has been bred out of willow, by Mr. Joutel, in Van Cortland Park, New York City, and will almost certainly be found in New Jersey. S. pyralidiformis Wlk. (Carmenta) Staten Island VIII (Ds); Collings- wood VIII, 16 (Kp); Lakehurst, common (Engelhardt); Lucaston VIII, 27, IX, 9 (div); the larva in the roots of boneset and locally abundant. Family PYRALIDA. This consists of a large number of moderate-sized or small moths varying greatly in appearance, and having no one superficial character that makes them always recognizable. Structurally they agree in having the secondaries with three free inner veins the costal and sub-costal united for a short distance. The sub-families are as a rule more easily recognizable and have characters that make the bulk of the species placeable almost at sight. The “Pyraustine”’ have rather thinly scaled wings, the primaries pointed, secondaries never larger and sometimes very small. The colors are predominatingly yellowish and whitish with deeper yellow or almost transparent markings. Sometimes they are contrastingly white and black and a few are red, brown or of other shades. The body is as a rule slender, abdomen very long, head distinct, antenne slender, in the males sometimes knotted or thickened. The larve are nearly always green with pale stripes and spots or without any markings at all. The head, a shield on the dorsum of the first thoracic segment and some- times the tubercles are shining black or yellow. They live usually in webs or tents, and may be solitary, as is the rule, or social. The “Nymphuline” are similar but smaller, more brightly colored species with a tendency to narrower wings and angulated primaries. The larve tend to feed on water plants, and some of them are really semi-aquatic in habit. The “Scopariine” are broader winged, dull ashen gray or blackish species with broader secondaries and raised scales in the primaries, especially in the males. The “Pyraline’ vary more than the preceding in color and in wing form. But as a rule the primaries are trigonate with reddish or brown colors, the secondaries proportionate, tending to continue the markings of the primaries. Some, however, have the fore-wings broad and shoul- dered, almost like the Tortricide. In this family we have the hay worms and other web-worms attacking stored products. It contains proportion- ately more troublesome species than any of the other sub-families, although none are destructive to growing vegetation. The “Chrysaugine” contain gray and blackish species, the primaries more or less shouldered, the secondaries usually without markings and broader than primaries. There are no injurious species. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 521 The “Schcenobiine contain species allied to and not readily separable from the next family by superficial characters. The “Crambine” have very long, straight palpi, narrow primaries which are sometimes drawn to a point, and broad secondaries without markings. The primaries are usually white or yellowish, streaked with silvery and often banded with. golden scales forming beautiful combina- tions. When at rest the wings are wrapped closely around the body, so that the moths look like little cylinders tapering from the tip of the palpi to the end of the squarely truncate wings. The larve live in silken tubes near and sometimes below the surface of the ground, often on grass-roots, and a few of them become destruc- tively injurious on cultivated crops. The “Galleriine’’ or tee-moths are curiously streaked creatures, with a notch at the end of the fore-wing in the typical species, the costa very decidedly arched. Theé larva of the true bee moth lives on wax in bee hives, mining a gallery lined with silk through the centre of the combs out of sight of the bees. There is not much chance for them, however, in modern hives carefully looked after. The “Epipaschiine” are broad-winged gray moths with black and some- times brown markings, and habits similar to the next series. The “Phycitine”’ are ashen gray slight species, with narrow primaries and broad immaculate secondaries. The vestiture has usually a silken or glistening appearance, and sometimes the contrasts in white and black are quite strong. The larve differ greatly in habit, some are borers in stalks or stems of plants, some live in seeds or flower heads, quite a number of them are leaf-crumplers and one species is predatory, feeding on scale insects. In almost all cases they live in silken tubes. A few are of economic importance. Sub-family PyRAUSTIN#. GLAPHYRIA Hbn. G. glaphyralis Gn. (Homophysa) Essex Co. VII (Kf); Waverly VI (Wadt); Westville VII, 2 (Lt); Wenonah VII, 17, 5-mile beach VII, 29 (Haim). G. sesquistrialis Hbn. Westville VII (Lt); Lacy VII (Dke); Holly Beach VII (Haim). G. invisalis Gn. Wenonah VII, 15-28 (div); Holly Beach VII, VIII (Haim). G. psychicalis Hulst. Holly Beach VII, 29-VIII, 6 (Haim); Lucaston VIII, 6, Anglesea VIII, 4 (Dke). G. fulminalis Led. 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Haim). SYMPHYSA Hamps. S. adelalis Kearf. 5-mile beach; the larve make large, whitish, dumb- bell shaped cases of the white lichen, on which they feed on the trunks of oak, holly and other trees. Adults VII, VIII. 22 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LIPOCOSMA Led. L. fuliginosalis Fern. Essex Co. VIII (Kf); 5-mile beach VI, VII (div). L. sicalis Wlk. Jamesburg VII, Westville VII (Lt); Wenonah V (Haim); Iona VI (Dke). HYMENIA Hbn. H. perspectalis Hbn. Newark X, 4, at light (Wdt). H. fascialis Cram. (recurvalis Fabr.) Newark. DESMIA Westw. D. funeralis Hbn. Morristown (U S Ag); Newark VIII, at light (Wdt); Jamesburg VII (Lt); Merchantville V, VIII (Dke); Montclair VI, An- glesea V—VII, common (div); larva on grape and the species is prob- ably g. d. var. subdividalis Grt. Woodside VIII (Wdt); Woodbury VI (Dke). _ “Samea ecclesialis’” Gn. is Floridian and its record in the last‘edition was erroneous. DIASTICTIS Hbn. D. argyralis Hbn. (Pyrausta) Throughout the State V—VIII; the varie- ty “ventralis” Grt. with the type. PILOCROCIS Led. P. ramentalis Led. Newark VI, 9, rare (Wat). “Conchylodes platinalis Gn. has not yet been taken, and as its distri- bution is southern is omitted. BLEPHAROMASTIX Led. B. stenialis Gn. (Hydrocampa) Orange Mts., Montclair, Newark VI, VII, at light, common (div); Jamesburg VII (Lt); Riverton V, 30 (Coll); Wenonah VI, Lucaston VI, Lacy VII (Dke); Anglesea V, 28— VII, 16 (div). B. ranalis Gn. (Pyrausta) Bergen, Hudson and Hssex Co, g. d V—VII (div); Westville VII, 2 (Lt); Jamesburg VII, VIII (Coll); Lucaston V (Dke). B. limata G. & R. (Pantagrapha) Throughout the State, not rare. Larva on oak, between folded leaves (Kf). DIAPHANIA Hbn. (MARGARONIA Hpbn.) D. nitidalis Cram. Newark; ‘New Jersey;” larval habits as in “hya- linata.” THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 523 D. hyalinata Linn. Newark (Wdt); Ocean Co., not rare; larva in stems of Cucurbs, but not injurious in New Jersey. D. quadristigmalis Gn. Jersey City Hts. VII, 20 (Sb); Montclair VI, at light (Kf); Newark VI, VII (Wdt). EVERGESTIS Hbn. E. straminalis Hbn. Throughout the State, common, V-—VII. “HH. rimosalis” Gn. has not been taken as yet and is omitted. CROCIDOPHORA Led. C. serratissimalis Zell. Essex Co., common VI, VIII (div); New Bruns- wick (Coll); Westville VI, 5-mile beach VI, VIII (Haim). C. tuberculalis Led. Orange Mts. VI, VII, common (div); Ft. Lee VII (Kf); 5-mile beach VI, 18 (Haim). NOMOPHILA Hbn. N. noctuella S. V. Common throughout the State, all season. PACHYZANCLA Meyr. P. bipunctalis Fabr. Montclair VIII, at light (Kf); rare. LOXOSTEGE Hbn. L. dasconalis Wlk. Essex Co VII (Kf); Newark (Sm); Brown’s Mills VI, 15, Manumuskin VI, 4 (Dke). L. chortalis Grt. Lahaway V, 20 (Sm); Brown’s Mills V, 30 (Dke). L. obliteralis Wlk. Essex Co. V—VIII (div); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); New Brunswick (Coll); 5-mile beach VII, Cape May VI (Haim). L. mancalis Led. New Brunswick (Coll). L. helvialis Wlk. Jersey City Hts. VII (Sb); Montclair VIII, common (Kf); Lincoln Park VII (Dke); Anglesea V-IX; common (div). L. similalis Gn. Throughout the State, common; the larva is the “garden web-worm,” locally a pest in other States, not injurious in New Jersey. L. commixtalis Wlk. (cereralis Zell.) Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lit); Camden VI (Kp); Westville V, 4 (Lt); Lahaway V, 20 (Sm); Manumuskin V, 12 (Dke). “LL. sticticalis” of the previous list is a misidentification, and “L. allec- talis” has not been actually taken; both are therefore omitted. THOLERIA Hbn. (MECYNA Gn.) T. reversalis Gn. Essex Co. IX, larva on Baptisia tinctoria (Kf); James- burg VII, 28 (Lt); 5-mile beach VI, VII (div). ao} a2) aal ay) 5324 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PERISPASTA Zell. . ceeculalis Zell. Essex Co. VI, g. d. (Kf). PHLYCTAENIA Hbn. . ferrugalis Hbn. Throughout the State, V—XI, not rare. . acutella Wlk. 5-mile beach VI, VIII, rare (div). . terrealis Tr. Orange Mts., Essex Co. V, VI, at light (Kf). . extricalis Gn. Essex Co. VI, at light (Kf); New Brunswick V, James- burg VI, 16, Lahaway V, 20 (Coll); Laurel Springs V, 28 (Dke); Lu- caston IX (Haim). . helvalis Wlk. . (Pyrausta) Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark Dist. g. d. VI, VIII, X (div); Clementon V, 17 (Dke); larva on broad-leaf willow (Kf). . tertialis Gn. Denville (Bwl); Montclair VI, at light (Kf); Newark VI (Wdt); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Wenonah V (Haim); Clementon V (DkKe); Anglesea V, VIII (div). CINDAPHIA Led. . bicoloralis Gn. Throughout the State V, VI, IX, not rare at light. PYRAUSTA Schranck. . pertextalis Led. Essex Co. VI (Kf); Newark (Sb); Jamesburg VII, 5-mile beach VIII (Haim). . fissalis Grt. Essex Co. VII; larva on sassafras and golden rod (Kf). . eglealis Wlk. Essex Co. VII, larva on poke-berry (Kf); Woodland Cemetery VII, 4 (Sb); Newark VIII, rare (Wdt); Wenonah VII, 27 (Dke). . thestealis Wlk. Ft. Lee on “Clethra alnifolia” (Bt); Essex Co. VI, VIII (Kf); Woodside V, VI, VIII, X (Wat). . theseusalis Wlk. Forest Hill (Wdt); New Brunswick VIII, larva webbing up tips of ferns (Coll); Glassboro VII, DaCosta VI, Brown’s Mills VII, Toms River VII (Dke); Holly Beach VIII, 3 (Haim). . langdonalis Grt. New Jersey, probably. . oxydalis Gn. Orange Mts. VII, 19 (Kf); Waverly VII (Wdt); Newark (Soc); Holly Beach VIII, 3(Haim). . elealis Wlk. Stone Harbor VIII, 15 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, 1—VIII, 5 (div). . orphisalis Wlk. (adipaloides G. & R.) Great Notch V, 6 (Dke); Orange Mts. IV, V, VII, common (Kf); Newark X (Wdt); larva on “Monarda fistulosa’” (Bt); Atco IX, 8 (Bwl); Anglesea VIII, 20 (Haim) . submedialis Grt. Occurs near New York (Bt). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 325 P. fumalis Gn. Great Notch VIII, 27 (Dke); Essex Co. VII, VIII (Kf); Newark VIII (Wdt); Anglesea VI, IX (Sm). P. illibalis Hbn. Essex Co. VI (Wdt); Anglesea VI, 10—VII, 21 (div). P. penitalis Grt. (nelumbialis Sm.) Jersey City Hts. V (Sb); Newark VIII (Wdt); Essex Co. V, VI (Kf); New Brunswick VII, Bordentown, Riverton, the larva in stems and flowers of the Egyptian lotus (Sm) and in stems of cat-tail flags, ete. (Kf); 5-mile beach VII (Haim). P. futilalis Led. Montclair VI (Kf); Orange Mts. VI, VIL (Wdt); Holly Beach (Haim); larva on dog-bane. P. unifascialis Pack. Fort Lee (Bt). P. phoenecialis Hbn. (opalizalis Gn.) Orange Mts. V, g. d. (div). P. acrionalis Wlk. Fairmount Cemetery V, 21 (Sb); Holly Beach VIII, 5 (Haim). P. borealis Pack. Recorded as near New York City (Bt). P. insequalis Gn. Fairmount Cemetery IV (Sb); Orange Mts. V-IX (div); Irvington V, Vi (Wdt); Newark, Jamesburg V (Coll); Manu- muskin IV (Dke); larva on thistle. P. laticlavia G. & R. Westville VIII (Kp); Brown’s Mills VII (Dke); Anglesea VI, VIII, IX (div); Mt. Holly VIII, Cape May VI, 30 (Haim). var. cinerosa G. & R. Orange Mts. VII, VIII (div); Cape May Co. (Coll). P. chalybealis Fern. Essex Co. VIII, not rare, g. d.; pupa under bark of hickory, larva probably on nearby weeds; generally mistaken in collections as var. “cinerosa” of the preceding species (Kf). P. unimacula G. & R. Fort Lee district (Dow). P. signatalis Wlk. Elizabeth VIII, 25 (Kp); Mt.. Holly VIII (Haim); Atco (Lt); Hammonton VIII (DkKe); Anglesea III, VII-IX (div). P. octomaculata Linn. Throughout the State; not common. P. niveicilialis Grt. Orange Mts., g. d. VI, VIII (Wat). “P. fodinalis Led.” is omitted as Western. EUSTIXIA Hbn. E. pupula Hbn. Throughout the State and almost all season. Sub-family NyMPHULINA. NYMPHULA Schrank. (HYDROCAMPA.) N. maculalis Clem. Essex Co. VI, VII, at light (Kf); Lahaway V, 20 (Sm); Lucaston V, VI, IX, Brown’s Mills VII, Tuckerton VIII (Dke), Anglesea (Haim). N. allionealis Wlk. Essex Co. VI, at light (Kf); Lucaston IX (Haim); Hammonton VIII, IX, Toms River IX, 22 (Dke). N. obscuralis Grt. Occurs near New York City (Bt). Larva on Vallis- neria spiralis (Hart). 526 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. N. badiusalis Wlk. (albalis Rob.) Essex Co. VIII, 24, at light (Kf); Newark VI, IX (Wdt); Gloucester Co. VI (Haim); Newbold VII, VIII (Dke). N. obliteralis Wlk. Riverion II, the larva living in cases on the leaves of lily and other water plants in greenhouses; rare outdoors in sum- mer. N. gyralis Hulst. Anglesea (Lt). N. icciusalis Wlk. Riverton VIII, DaCosta VII, Lucaston VI, Hammonton IX (Dke); Lahaway V, along ditches (Sm); Anglesea V, VII, VIII (div). N. ekthlipsis Grt. New Brunswick (Coll). ELOPHILA Hbn. (CATACLYSTA Hbn.) E. bifascialis Rob. Montclair, electric light VI, 9, 15 (Kf). E. claudialis Wlk. Lacy, Brown’s Mills VII, 21, 22 (Dke); Anglesea VII, 9 (Haim). E. fulicalis Clem. Boonton VIII (Bwl); Ft. Lee (Dow); Essex Co., com- mon at light VI (Kf); New Brunswick VII, Anglesea (Coll). GESHNA Dyar. G. primordialis Dyar. Very abundant in the woods of North Jersey VI, VII; dozens fly up at every footstep (Kf); Ft. Lee (Dow); Wenonah VII (div); Brown’s Mills VI (Dke). DIATHRAUSTA Led. D. reconditalis Wlk. (pisusalis Wlk.) Caldwéll, Montclair, Newark, g. d. VI-VIII (Kf); Great Notch VIII, 26 (Dke). Sub-family Scopartin az. SCOPARIA Haw. S. centuriella S. V. Hopatcong (Bt); Montclair VI, at light, g. d. (Kf); New Brunswick (Coll). ‘ S. basalis Wlk. (libella Grt.) Orange Mts. VI, Woodside IX, on hem- lock (Wdt); Essex Co. VI-IX, g. d., common in woods and at light (Kf); Wenonah VII, 27 (Dke); Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Haim). Sub-family PyraLIn&. AGLOSSA Latr. A. cuprealis Hbn. Jersey City Hts. VI, 28, Newark (Sb); Montclair VII, 1 at light (Kf); Anglesea VII, 6-24 (div). A. cuprina Zell. Montclair VII, 1, at light (Kf); Denville VI, 14 (Bwl). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 527 PYRALIS Linn. P. farinalis Linn. Throughout the State; the larva in stored products, chiefly grain. Usually occurs only in waste material and corners, so that cleanliness and care only are necessary to get rid of it. P. costiferalis Wlk. From New York and Penn., and will be found in New Jersey. Very close to ‘“cuprealis,’ and no doubt mixed with that species in collections (Kf). P. disciferalis Dyar. Occurs all around New Jersey and will be found within the State (Kf). HYPSOPYGIA Hbn. H. costalis Fabr. (Pyralis) Throughout the State, all season. The larva is the “clover-hay worm,” and sometimes injurious. HERCULIA WIk. H. intermedialis Wlk. Mentclair VI, 138 at light, g. d. (Kf); Plainfield (Mrs. Herring). , H. cohortalis Grt. Montclair VI, 13—-VII, 1, at light, g. d. (Kf). H. olinalis Gn. Throughout the State V—VII, often at light. H. himonialis Zell. Essex Co. VI, at light (Kf); Jamesburg VI, 16 (Coll). Almost without doubt the same as “olinalis” (Kf). All the species were under “‘Pyralis” in last edition, and ‘“‘sodalis” is omitted as unlikely to occur in the State. OMPHALOCERA Led. O. cariosa Led. Near New York on “Anoma triloba” (Bt). O. dentosa Grt. Very close to “cariosa,’ and will be found mixed with it in New Jersey collections (Kf). Sub-family CHRYSAUGIN&. TOSALE Wik. (FABATANA WIk.) T. oviplagalis Wik. Essex Co. VI, VII (Kf); National Park VI (Dke); Gloucester Co. V, 29 (Haim); Ocean Co., not rare (Coll). ARTA Grt. A. statalis Grt. Montclair VII (Kf); Elizabeth VII (Wdt); Anglesea VII (div). CONDYLOLOMIA Grt. C. participalis Grt. Ft. Lee Dist. (Dow); Essex Co. VII, g. d., abundant in open woods (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim). nnnN .?) 8 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. GALASA WIk. . rubidana Wlk. Common everywhere at light (Kf); Newark, New Brunswick (Coll); Anglesea VII (div). Sub-family ScHa@NoBIINA. SCHOENOBIUS Dup. - sordidellus Zinck. Newark VI, VII, Elizabeth VII, at light (Wdt); 5- mile beach (Haim). . Unipunctellus Rob. Anglesea IX, 3 (Lt). . tripunctellus Rob. Montclair VII, 7, at light (Kf). . melinellus Clem. Denville (Bwl); Anglesea (Lt). . forficellus Thumb. Montclair VI, at light (Kf); Anglesea VI-VIII (div). . clemensellus Rob. Montclair VI, 5, VII, 2, at light (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, VIII (Haim); Cape May VI, 7 (DKe). Sub-family CRAMBIN&. PRIONAPTERYX Steph. . hebulifera Steph. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Kf); Lakehurst VII (div); Lu- caston VII, Iona VII, Weymouth VII, VIII, Brown’s Mills VI, Manu- muskin VI, bred from larve constructing tube of silk and sand, at- tached to stalks of sand myrtle and huckleberry and feeding on the leaves (Dke). . achatina Zell. Jamesburg VI, 20 (Sm); Wenonah VII (Haim); Da- Costa (Dke); Anglesea VII, 5-27 (div). RAPHIPTERA Hamps. . minimella Rob. Newark VIII, 19 (Wdt); Lucaston VIII, IX (div); Toms River IX, 22 (Dke). . argillaceella Pack. Will be found in northern part of State (Kf). CRAMBUS Fab. . Satrapellus Zinck. Wenonah VII, 15 (Haim); Lucaston VII-IX (div); Lacy VII, Brown’s Mills VII, VIII (Dke). . hastiferellus Wlk. Elizabeth IX (Kp); Brown’s Mills VI, 16, Stone Harbor VIII, 3 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII-IX (div). . preefectellus Zinck. Newark, Montclair V, VIII (Kf); Jamesburg Vv (Sm); DaCosta VI, Brown’s Mills VI, Stone Harbor VII (Dke); Clem- enton IX, Anglesea V (Lt). . leachellus Zinck. ‘Throughout the State V—-IX; common. . laqueatellus Clem. Throughout the State, V, VI and VIII; not rare. . bidens Zell. Lacy VII, 13 (Kf); Brown’s Mills VII, 21 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 529 Hy Fig. 226. Fig. 225. Fig. 223.—Evergestis rimosalis, allied to E. straminalis: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult. Fig. 224.—Cranberry girdle-worn, Crambus hortuellus: a, egg; b, larva; c, a single seg- ment; d, pupa; e, tube made by larva; f, adult, all much enlarged. Fig. 225.—Corn-root web worm at work. Fig. 226.—Root web worm, Crambus vulvivagellus: a, larva; b, over- c, under-ground tube and cocoon; d, e, f, moths, wings spread and at rest; g, egg very greatly enarged. 34 IN 530 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Cc. C. (e) fe) () @) pascuellus Linn. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Lt); the larva feeds on grasses, and that is true of most of the species in this genus. daeckellus Haim. DaCosta VI, 3, Brown’s Mills V, 27-VI, 17, type locality (Dke); Clementon V, 9 (Lt). . girardellus Clem. Great Notch, Ft. Lee, Brown’s Mills, all VII (Dke), Essex Co. VI, VII, common at light (Kf); Newark VII (Wdt); Eliz- abeth VII (Kp); Jamesburg VII (Lt). - alboclavellus Zell. Throughout the State VI, VII, locally common; one of the cranberry bog species, although not a cranberry feeder. . agitatellus Clem. Throughout the State with the preceding, than which it is less common and of which it is a variety (Kf). . multilineellus Fern. Brown’s Mills VI, 16, VII, 21 (Dke). . elegans Clem. Essex Co. VI-IX, very common in open woods and at light (Kf); New Brunswick VII, IX (Coll); Delair VIII, Wenonah VIL (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, VIII (Haim). . albellus Clem. With the preceding, under the same conditions. . turbatellus Wlk. Waverly V, VI (Wdt). - perlellus Scop. Still only a probability in New Jersey. . hortuellus Hbn. Orange Mts. VI, 27 (Bwl); Newark at light VIII, IX (Wat); Laurel Springs VII, Stone Harbor VII (Dke); Anglesea VIL (Lt); throughout the cranberry region of New Jersey V-—VIII and sometimes common on the bogs. The larva is the “girdle worm,” and does some injury locally, but much less than in Massachusetts; with us it is cranberry feeder incidentally only, its chief food being the bog grasses. . decorellus Zinck. Montclair VI, VIII (Wdt); Wenonah VII, 20 (Haim); Anglesea VIII (div). . ruricolellus Zell. Common everywhere V-IX; larva on grass and sorrel. . vulvivagellus Clem. Throughout the State VII, [X, usually common. The larva is one of the root web-worms and sometimes seriously in- jurious to corn planted on old sod-land in South Jersey. Remedial measures are late fall or early spring plowing of the sod and the free use of the salty mineral fertilizers. . teterellus Zinck. Throughout the State VI-IX, locally common. . mutabilis Clem. Common everywhere (Kf); Newark VII (Wadt); Elizabeth VIII (Kp); Brown’s Mills VII, Stone Harbor VIII (Dke); Anglesea VI-VIII (div); Cape May VI (Haim). . caliginosellus Clem. Throughout the State VI, VII, more or less com- mon; has the same larval habits as ‘‘vulvivagellus” and also injures corn. . zeellus Fern. Essex Co. VI, VII, not uncommon (Kf); Wenonah VII (Dke); also a root web-worm, though not an injurious one in our State. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 531 . luteolellus Clem. Essex Co. VI, VII, common (Kf); Bloomfield VII (Wdt); New Brunswick (Sm); Brown’s Mills VII (Dke); Wenonah VII, 5-mile beach VI, VII (Haim). . trisectus Wlk. Throughout the State VI-IX, locally common. THAUMATOPSIS Morr. . edonis Grt. Newark at light VIII (Wdt); Clementon IX (Lt); Lucas- ton IX, Hammonton IX (Dke). . plexella Zell. Newbold VI, 22 (Dke). . Striatella Fern. (daeckella Kearf.) Lucaston X, 7-15, Brown’s Mills X, 6 (Dke). . fernaldella Kearf. Anglesea VI, IX (Dke). ARGYRIA Hbn. . nivalis Dru. Common throughout the State in low meadows; exces- sively so in late summer along the marshes at Anglesea. .» argentana Martyn. Shark River (Bt); Lucaston VIII, 10, Atlantic City VII, 7 (Dke); Anglesea IX (Sm). . auratella Clem. Throughout the State VII, VIII, not rare. DIATRAZA Guild. . idalis Fern. Newark, Anglesea IX, at light (Sm); Newbold VIII, National Park VII, 13 (Dke). CHILO Zinck. . plejadellus Zinck. National Park VI, 10 (Dke); Gloucester Co. V, 29 (Haim); the larva bores in stems of rice and allied plants. . densellus Zell. Montclair, light V, 23 (Kf); 5-mile beach VI, 18, VIII, 6 (Haim). . squamulellus Zell. Wenonah VII, 28 (Haim); Anglesea VI, VII (div). . forbesellus Fern. Anglesea VII, 10 (Lt). HAIMBACHIA Dyar. : placidellus Haim. Essex Co. VI, 10—-VIII, 1 (Kf); Wenonah VIII, 20 (Haim). CHALCCELA Zell. . iphitalis Wlk. (aurifera Zell.) Single specimens occur in various. parts of the State, but I have no definite records. . principialis Wlk. Montclair, electric light V, 31 (Kf). DICYMOLOMIA Zell. . julianalis Wlk. Woodside VII, Orange Mts. VII, Newbold VII, VIIL (Dke); Anglesea VI, 22 (Kf). 532 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family GALLERIIN A. GALLERIA Fab. G. melonella Linn. ‘The “‘bee-moth,” throughout the State; larva infests bee-hives, running galleries lined with silk through the comb, and sometimes causing serious injury. APHOMIA Hbn. A. sociella Linn. Recorded from “New Jersey.” PARALIPSA Butl. P. terrenella Zell. Montclair [X, 2, at light (Kf). ACHROIA Hbn. A. grisella Fabr. Recorded from ‘New Jersey.” Sub-family EPIpASCHIINA. EPIPASCHIA Clem. E. superatalis Clem. Montclair VI (Kf); larva on sumac. E. zelleri Grt. Manumuskin VI, 4 (Dke); Anglesea VI, 22 (Kf). ONEIDA Hulst. O. lunulalis Hulst. Will be found in the Highland region of N. J. (Kf). BENTA WLK. B. asperatella Clem. Montclair VI, VII (Kf); Newark; larva on locust. LANTHAPE Clem. L. platanella Clem. New Brunswick; the larva makes a web on the under surface of the leaves of sycamore. WANDA Hulst. W..baptisiella Fern. Ft. Lee Dist. (Dow); Union Co. VII, 1 (Kf); Manu- muskin VI, 25 (Dke); the larva on “Baptisia.”’ TETRALOPHA Zell. T. militella Zell. Newark VII, 5(Wdt). Sub-family PHycrrin®. ACROBASIS Zell. A. demotella Grt. Montclair VI, 13, at light (Kf); the larva bores into the ends of twigs of black walnut. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 533 A. angusella Grt. Found near Brooklyn, N. Y., the larva boring into the leaf stems of hickory. A. caryz Grt. Ocean County, not rare; the larva bores into the twigs of hickory. A. rubrifasciella Pack. Near New York City (Bt); Holly Beach VII (Haim); the larva in a case between leaves of sweet fern and alder. A. betulella Hulst. Montclair, the larve in tubes between birch leaves (Kf). . A. comptoniella Hulst. Common near New York City; the larva in a case between terminal leaves of “Comptonia” and “Myrica.” A. hebescella Hulst. Ocean Co. VI, larva in a case on oak. The species in this series have not been well collected in New Jersey, and others will be found. In general, specimens must be bred to be secured in good condition. MINEOLA Hulst. M. amplexella Rag. Newark V (Wdt); Anglesea V, VI (Kf). M. juglandis LeBaron. Burlington and Ocean counties; larva not rare in June, on hickory. M. vaccinii Riley. On cranberry bogs in July. The larva is the “cranberry fruit-worm” and may be found on almost all bogs, its presence being indi- cated by the premature color- ing of the berries. No serious injuries are caused by the species in this State. M. indiginella Zell. Throughout Fig. 227.—Cranberry fruit-worm, Mineola the State. not rare. The larva vaccinu: a, berry, with egg, natural j oo 5 size; b, c, egg, enlarged; d, 1s an apple-leat crumpler, larva; e, pupa; h, adult; all but also feeds on quince, plum, enlarged; g, cocoon nat- cherry, etc. Lies) rarely, ural size. troublesome now-a-days in well-kept orchards, the sprayings made for the codling moth serving to keep it in check. DIORYCTRIA Zell. D. abietella S. V. Anglesea VI, 20, and have also seen the larva on pines, Ocean county in early June. PINIPESTIS Grt. P. zimmermanni Grt. I have seen what I take to be injuries caused by the larva of this insect in Sussex and Warren Counties. It bores in pine, and in some sections of this country is seriously injurious. P. spec. indet. Bred from pine bark, Brown’s Mills VIII, 6-20; a species near “albovittella” (Dke). 534 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY. STATE MUSEUM. TACOMA Hulst. T. nysseecolella Dyar. Anglesea V, VI (Kf). NEPHOPTERYX Hbn. N. ovalis Pack. Newark (Soc). TLASCALA Hulst. T. finitella Wlk. Elizabeth VI, 14 (Haim); New Brunswick, Jamesburg (Coll); Brown’s Mills V, 30 (Dke). T. reductella Wlk. Near New York City on the honey locust; imagoes V, VI (Bt). MEROPTERA Grt. M. pravella Grt. Montclair VI, 18, light (Kf); Anglesea, rare (Bt). SALEBRIA Zell. S. afflictella Hulst. Montclair VIII; larve in frass-lined tubes between leaves of sweet gum in July (Kf); Elizabeth VII, 10 (Haim). S. contatella Grt. Essex Co. VI (Kf); larva on locust (Bt). S. celtidella Hulst. Near New York City; larva on “Celtis occidentalis” (Bt). S. basilaris Zell. Canada to Texas; and sure to occur in New Jersey. LAODAMIA Rag. L. fusca Haw. Essex Co. VI, VIII, Montclair VI, VII, at light (Kf); New- ark, light V, VIII (Soc); Anglesea, common (Lt); larva on “vaccin- ribbed a ELASMOPALPUS Blanch. E. lignosellus Zell. Newark V (Wdt); Montclair IX, 15, and will be found throughout the State (Kf). var. incautellus Zell. Lucaston IX, X (div); Stone Harbor VIII (Dke). var. tartarellus Zell. Lucaston VIII, 5-mile beach VIII (Haim). EPISCHNIA Hbn. —. boisduvaliella Gn. Anglesea V, 30 (Coll). MELITARA WIk. M. prodenialis Wlk. Lahaway, Anglesea; the larva in the leaves of the prickly pear or common cactus, but very local. ZOPHODIA Hbn. Z. grossulariz Pack. Has been recorded from New Jersey without spe- cific locality; larva in gooseberries, causing premature coloring. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY, 535 EUZOPHERA Zell. . semifuneralis Wlk. Throughout the State, locally common IV—VIII; larva bores under bark of plum and Mr. Daecke has bred it from cherry. . ochrifrontella Zell. Montclair IX (Kf); New Brunswick VIII, Angle- sea VIII (div). VITULA Rag. . edmandsii Pack. Anglesea, common at light (Sm). LAETILIA Rag. . coccidivora Comst. Throughout the State, the larva preying upon the tulip soft scale and cottony maple seale, forming an effective check to the former; all stages may be found all season and the insects may winter as either larva or pupa. CANARSIA Hulst. . ulmiarrosorella Clem. Montclair VI, VIII (Kf); New Brunswick VII, VIII; the larva common on elms, and probably throughout the State. HULSTIA Rag. (HONORA Grt.) . undulatella Clem. Newark V, 24 (Kf); Anglesea, VI, VII, common at light (div). . hammondi Riiey. Jamesburg, Anglesea V, 30, the larva on leaves of apple. HOMCEOSOMA Curt. . electellum Hulst. Anglesea VII, VIII, 24 (div). . stypticellum Grt. Anglesea VI, 18—-VII, 26 (div). . mucidellum Rag. Brown’s Mills IX, 6 (Dke); Anglesea VII, 24 (Sm). EPHESTIODES Rag. . infimella Rag. Montciair and Anglesea VI, VIII-IX (Kf). EPHESTIA Gn. . kuehniella Zell. The ‘Mediterranean flour moth’; from scattered localities throughout the State. Infests dried fruits and other prod- ucts, webbing them up with its silken tubes; not yet seriously trouble- some. . elutella Hbn. “Found in all parts of the world, living in old fences, decaying wood and rubbish” (Hulst). PLODIA Gn. . interpunctella Hbn. The “meal moth’; common throughout the State in houses; the larva lives on meal, flour, dried fruits, etc., and the adult is cften mistaken for one of the common clothes moths. 536 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family ANERASTIN A. PEORIA Rag. P. approximella Wlk. (hzematica Zell.) Newark IV and VI (Wat); g. Gk, (UEG8)- Family PTIEROPHORID/. This family contains the species commonly known as “plume moths,” because the wings are split up into from two to five plumes or feathers, which make the species recognizable at a glance. The moths are all small in size, usually with disproportionately long legs and altogether frail in structure. The caterpillars are hairy and at first sight some of them resemble miniature Arctiids, but they spin up leaves or make tubes and differ in other essential characters of structure, The species are not usually common and are best or only obtainable by breeding. They are therefore not well represented in collections as a rule. TRICHOPTILUS Wism. T. lobidactylus Fitch. Essex Co. VII, in fields, not rare (Kf); larva on golden rod, “Solidago canadensis.” T. ochrodactylus Fish. Wenonah V, 30 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, 4 (Haim). OXYPTILUS Zell. O. periscelidactylus Fitch. The “Grape Plume” moth; common throughout the State, the larva webbing up the tips of the vines in early spring. They do no real injury in most cases because as a rule they spin up the tip beyond the blossom cluster. O. delawaricus Zell. Mass. to California. and sure to occur in New Jersey. O. tenuidactylus Fitch. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Essex Co. VI, 20—-VII, 7, not rare in open woods and at light (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, 4 (Haim). PLATYPTILIA Hbn. P. acanthodactyla Hbn. Essex Co. V-— VII and IX, common (Kf). Fig. 228.—The grape plume, Oxry- ptilus periscelidactylus: a, larva Vil, ceva Jer, food plant yar- in web; b, pupa; c, its “breast- row, “Achillea millefolium” (Bt). bone,” enlarged; d, moth; e, segment of larva, enlarged. P. marginidactyla Fitch. Essex Co., VI, THE INSECTS ‘OF NEW JERSEY. 537 PTEROPHORUS Geoff. P. homodactylus Wlk. Jersey City Hts. VI, 7 (Sb); Essex Co. VI (Kf). . elliottii Fern. Newark VII, 2 (Wdt); larva on “Epilobium” (Dyar). P. subochraceus Wlsm. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. VI (Kf); Eliza- beth VI. 4 (Wdt); Anglesea VI, 20 (Sm). P. carduidactylus Riley. Essex Co. VIII (Kf); larva on thistle. . sulphureodactylus Pack. Essex Co. VIII, IX, at light (Kf). U vU P. paleaceus Zell. Very abundant in open woods and at light, Essex Co. and Anglesea V—VII; larva common on leaves of “Eupatorium” (Kf) ; Hemlock Falls, Newark VIII (Wdt); Ft. Lee VII, Riverton VIII, Iona V (Dke); 5-mile beach VI, 18—VIII, 2 (Haim). P. kellicottii Fish. Anglesea V, 28, VII, 29, IX, 5 (div); larva on golden rod. P. monodactylus Linn. Essex Co. VII, 7 (Kf); Hemlock Falls VIII, 27 (Wdt); Anglesea VII, VIII (Haim) ; larva on “Convolvulus,” ‘“Cheno- podium” and “Atriplex.” P. eupatorii Fern. Essex Co. VII, 1-5 (Kf); larva.on “Epilobium”’ and “HEupatorium.” Family TORTRICID/A:. The Tortricids or “bell-moths’”’ are usally small or moderate sized species with broad, squarely-terminated primaries, the costa of which is usually strongly arched toward the base. The moths are variegated in color, but usually brown gray or golden rather than of brighter hues. The secondaries are usually of the body color and without markings. Some of the larve are leaf-rollers, but the majority are stem and root borers, living and feeding in concealment, more or less sheltered from éither contact or stomach poisons, and that makes them difficult to deal with. Some of them feed in seeds and growing fruits, the most notable example being found in the Codling Moth, which infests apple and pear, while other species infest grape and a variety of small fruits. Sub-family OLETHREUTIN#. RHYACIONIA Hbn. (RETINIA Gn.) All the species of this genus feed in the shoots or bark of pine, but seldom in sufficient numbers to be troublesome. The larve all winter in the shoots or in the exuding resin masses and are beyond reach of insecticides. Remedial measures therefore, when such are indicated, are mechanical and mean hand-picking, pruning or similar methods, the cuttings being burnt in all cases. 338 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. R. frustrana Scudd. Jamesburg; larve bore into the terminal shoots of pitch pine, dwarfing the vertical and lateral shoots (Kf); Westville IV (Kp); Riverton IV, Ocean Co. V (Sm); Lacy VII (DKe). R. wenzeli Kearf. Gloucester Co.; larve winter in slender shoots of “Pinus virginianus,”’. the exudation of pitch forming a complete cylinder around the stem; imagoes in early May (Kf). R. comstockiana Fern. Montclair, Anglesea, larvee winter in masses of pitch on young branches of pine, moths VI (Kf); Forked River Mts. V, 27, Brown’s Mills V, 30 (Dke). The “R. turionana” Hbn. is a European species which, it seems now, does not occur in America at all. BACTRA Steph. B. furfurana Haw. 5-mile beach VII, 2 (Haim); has not been bred in America; in Europe the larva lives in stems of grasses, “Juncus” and “Hleocharis.” POLYCHROSIS Rag. (EUDEMIS Hbn.) P. viteana Clem. (botrana Schiff.) The “grape berry moth,’ which sometimes causes trouble locally throughout New Jersey. It occurs on my own grounds at New Brunswick, and I have seen it often in other sections. There are three broods; the first in May, destroying the entire clusters; the second late in July, boring into and webbing up the half-grown berries; the third in late August, destroying the nearly full-grown berries. Spraying with arsenate of lead to kill off the first brood is indicated. U . slingerlandana Kearf. Essex Co. and doubtless all over the State VII, VIII; larva in flower and seed heads of “Eupatorium perfoliatum.” P. vernoniana Kearf. Caldwell VIII, larva on flower and seed heads of “Vernonia noveboracensis,’ and probably abundant where its food plant occurs (Kf). P. liriodendrana Kearf. Fairly abundant wherever the tulip tree is found, July and September; larva in tents on under surface of leaves. P. magnoliana Kearf. Moorestown, Lacy, and will be found wherever the swamp magnolia occurs; larva under silken tents on underside of leaves VII (Kf). CYMOLOMIA Led. (EXARTEMA Clem.) The larvze of these species are all leaf crumplers or tyers occurring in May and June, the adults from mid June to mid July. There is only one brood and the species are g. d., wherever the food plant occurs. C. exoleta Zell.. Montclair (Kf); New Brunswick; larva on gooseberry. C. corylana Fern. Greenwood Lake VI (Kf); larva on hazel. THE -INSECTS'! OF NEW JERSEY. 539 C. inornatana Clem. Hemlock Falls VIII, Woodside VII (Wdt); New Brunswick (Sm); larve crumpling wild cherry leaves V, adults VI (Kf). C. ornatana Kearf. Essex Co., in July (Kf). C. concinnana Clem. Essex Co. VI, VII (Kf); Newbold VII, 4 (Dke); Gloucester Co. VI, 21; 5-mile beach VI, 18 (Haim). Cc. versicolorana Clem. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. VII; larva crumpling leaves of chestnut oak V, and probably common throughout the State. C. fasciatana Clem. More or less common throughout the State IV-VII; larva on “Rumex.” C. zelleriana Fern. Orange Mts. VIII (Wdt); Essex Co. VII, larve crumpling young leaves of birch V (Kf). C. permundana Clem. Jersey City Hts. VI (Sb); Orange Mts. VIII (Kp); Newark, light VII, Jamesburg (Sm); Glassboro VII (DKe). C. gaylussaciana Kearf. Essex Co. VI, larva V, crumpling leaves of huckleberry; abundant (Kf). C. myricana Kearf. Essex Co. VI; larva crumpling leaves of “‘Myrica” (Kf). C. nortana Kearf. Essex Co. VII, 1 (Kf). C. sericorana Wlsm. Cimenton VI, 28, Lacy VII, 8 (Kf). OLETHREUTES Hbn. The species of this genus come freely to light and are abundant during the day in open woods or roads bordered with shrubbery. Larve are leaf folders, twisters or feeders in flower or seed heads and in the stalks of perennial plants. They are under the generic terms “Penthina” and “Sericoris” in last edition. O. coruscana Clem. Essex Co. VI, Lacy VII (Kf); Newark, Jamesburg VI (Coll); Westville V, 23 (Kp); Brown’s Mills VI, VII (Dke); com- mon. O. constellatana Zell. Hemlock Falls VI (Wdt); So. Orange VI (Sb); Jamesburg VI, Riverton V (Coll); Wenonah V, Brown’s Mills VII (Dke). O. niveiguttana Grt. Anglesea V, VII, 29; larva on sassafras and witch- hazel (Dke). O. impudens Wlsm. Hssex Co. VIII (Kf); Clementon V (Coll); Wenonah V, 30 (Haim); Anglesea V, VIII (div). O. nimbatana Clem. Newark, New Brunswick (Coll); 5-mile beach VI, 18 (Haim); the larva on rose. O. separatana Kearf. Essex Co. VI; larva on thorn (Kf). O. bipartitana Clem. Greenwood Lake VI, 10 (Kf); Woodside VI, 3 (Wdt); Wenonah V, 30 (Dke). O. flavofasciana Westw. (instrutana Clem.) Throughout the State V- VII; abundant everywhere, larva on clover and horse chestnut (Kf). O. campestrana Zell. Newark VI (div); Hammonton VI (Sm); Iona VI (Dke); the larva on “Rubus.” 540 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. O. oO. O. fuscalbana Zell. Riverton V, 30 (Coll). agilana Clem. Essex Co., Anglesea V, VI; larva on “Impatiens” (Kf); Holly Beach V, 27, VIII, 2 (Haim.) albiciliana Fern. Merchantville VI, National Park V, Anglesea V, 28 (DKe). . daeckeana Kearf. Brown’s Mills, Toms River, Lacy, Lakehurst, Iona VII; larve VI in stalks and leaf stems of pitcher plant, “Sarracenia” (Dke); Holly Beach VIII, 2 (Haim). . auricapitana Wlsm. Hssex Co., Anglesea VI, VII (Kf). . cyanana Murtf. Greenwood Lake, Caldwell, Montclair, Anglesea V, VI, rare, larva in shoots of rose (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, VIII, 6 (Haim). - hebesana Wik. Common throughout the State VI, VIII, IX; larva in seed stalks of Mullein, on “Gerardia,’ ‘‘Verbena,”’ in seed pods of “Tigridia,” “Iris,’ and doubtless many other plants (Kf). . interruptolineana Fern. Essex Co. VII, VIII; larva binding leaves of huckleberry (Kf). . osmundana Fern. Essex Co. VII, 8, rare, larva on “Osmunda regalis” and in seeds of “‘Ambrosia trifida’” (Kf); Wenonah VI, 14 (DkKe). . hemidesma Zell. Essex Co., larva binding together leaves and mak- ing galleries in flower spikes of ‘‘Spirzea tomentosa” VII, IX (Kf). . chionosema Zell. Essex Co., twisting leaves of apple (Kf); New Brunswick. . albeolana Zell. Essex Co., larva crumpling leaves of birch V, VII (Kf). . nubilana Clem. Will be found in the Appalachian region of New Jersey (Kf). PHAZECASIOPHORA Grt. . confixana Wlk. Caldwell, Montclair V, VII (Kf); National Park VI, 3, Lucaston V, 30 (Dke). PSEUDOGALLERIA Rag. - inimicella Zell. Elizabeth VI, 26, larva in stems of cat-briar, “Smilax” sp. EUCOSMA Hbn. (PAEDISCA Tr.) The species of this genus come freely to light and are easily disturbed during the day. There is probably only a single brood, those that emerge in fall hibernating as adults and becoming evident again in spring. The larvee are internal feeders, principally in shoots, stems and roots, occa- sionally in galls and sometimes in seed and flower heads. E; E. quinquemaculana Rob. Mt. Holly VIII, IX, Lucaston IX (Dke); Angle- sea V (Coll). : robinsoniana Grt. Montclair VII, 1 (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Sm); Brown’s Mills VII, 5 (Dke); 5-mile beach VI-VIII (div). mmmmm mmmmmmm THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 541 . adamantana Gn. Lucaston, Iona, DaCosta IX, 6-19 (Dke). mandana Keart. Montclair, VII, light (Kf). . ridingsana Rob. Wenonah VII, 21 (Haim). . fulminana Wlsm. Anglesea (Coll). . sombreana Kearf. Newark VIII (Bwl); Montclair VIII, 4, at light GK): - albiguttana Zell. Hssex Co. VI-VIII, Lacy VII, 1 (Kf); Wenonah VII, 15-28 (div). . cataclystiana Wlk. Throughout the State VI-IX, common every- where; larva feeds in rag-weed. . circulana Hbn. Essex Co. VIII, 15 (Kf); Brown’s Mills VII, 21 (Dke). . pergandeana Fern. Essex Co. VI, common in swampy meadows just before sunset (Kf); 5-mile beach VI, 28 (Haim). . boxcana Kearf. Caldwell V, 17 (Kf). tomonana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII, IX at light (Kf). . tandana Kearf. Montclair VI, 20 at light (Kf). abruptana Zell. Anglesea VI, 22, VIII, 10 (div). . perplexana Fern. Essex Co., Anglesea VI-VIII (Kf). . constrictana Zell. Essex Co. VI-VIII (Kf); Anglesea VII, VIII (div). . strenuana Wlk. Throughout the State, common V-VIII; larva in stems of “Ambrosia trifida,’ making slender, spindle-shaped galls (Kf). . minutana Kearf. Essex Co. V, Anglesea VI, probably throughout the State; larvee doubtless in stalks of aster or similar plants (Kf). . otiosana Clem. Anglesea VI-IX (div); common everywhere, larva in stems of ‘Bidens frondosa’—beggar ticks. . suffusana Zell. Montclair; an European species only recently ob- served in this country; larva in flower buds and young leaves of cultivated rose, and may become a serious pest. Best preventive in small gardens is to pinch off and crush the tips of all infested shoots (Kf); Newark VI (Bwl). . transmissiana Wlk. Essex Co. VI, VII (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim). . solicitana Wlk. Essex Co. V (Kf). . abbreviatana Wlsm. Common in woods of Northern New Jersey in very early spring (Kf). - gomonana Kearf. Essex and Passaic Co. IV, V (Kf). . zomonana Kearf. Essex Co. V, IX (Kf); Bridgeport V, 20, Anglesea VI (Haim). . juncticiliana Wlsm. Essex Co. VII, VIII; larva in stems of Solidago (Kf). . dorsisignatana Clem. Throughout the State IX; usually common; larva in roots of Solidago. . confluana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII, 24-IX, 5, not common (Kf). 542 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. mmmmm diffusana Kearf. Essex Co. IX, 16, not common (Kf); Newark IX, 19 (Wat). . engelana Kearf. Essex Co. V (Kf). . carolina Wlsm. Montclair VIII, 2, very rare (Kf). giganteana Riley. ‘“‘New Jersey,’ Coll. Hulst. . nisella Clerck. Staten Island, bred from larva in willow catkins (Ds). . illotana Wlsm. This species, described from Oregon, is rapidly work- ing east, has already been recorded from Penn. and Mass., and is cer- tain to occur in New Jersey (Kf). . scudderiana Clem. Throughout the State VI-VIII, not rare; the larva makes a stem gall on goldenrod. . desertana Zell. Essex Co. VI (Kt); Newark VI (Bwl); Anglesea V, VI (div); larva makes galls on stem of goldenrod (Kf). . obfuscana Riley. Ft. Lee district (Dow); larval habit probably like that of the preceding (Kf). . tripartitana Zell. Essex Co. V (Kf); Staten Island (Ds); the larva is an inquiline in Cecidomyid galls on ‘“‘Rudbeckia” (Ds). “A. argentialbana” Wlsm. has not yet been found in New Jersey; “EH. basipunctata’’ Wlsm. of the last edition was wrongly identified, and “E. similana’ Hbn. does not occur in North America at all, so Mr. Kearfott says. i) CYDIA Hbn. (SEMASIA Steph.) . radiatana Wlsm. Essex Co. V (Kf); Wenonah V, 30 (Haim). . essexana Kearf. Caldwell and northern New Jersey V, VI; larva dwarf the main stalk of “Aster patens,’’ by boring into it from the top, living in this cell until early spring, when they drop to the ground to pupate (Kf). . ferruginana Fern. Orange Mts. V, VI, g. d. (Kf); Newark (Sb); Clem- enton V (Kp). . formosana Clem. Hemlock Falls V, Orange Mts. V, VI (Wdt); g. d. (Kf); Jersey City Hts. V, Newark VI (Sb); Lahaway V, 20 (Sm). . kiscana Kearf. Greenwood Lake VI (Kf); Gloucester Co. V (Haim). . raracana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII (Kf). . olivaceana Riley. Essex Co. VI, VII (Kf); Wenonah VII, 28 (Haim); Glassboro VII, 9 (Dke); 5-mile beach VI, VII, [X (div). . striatana Clem. Orange Mts. V (Kp); Newark at light VIII (Wat) ; abundant and generaliy distributed (Kf). _imbridana Fern. Essex Co. VII, VIII, g. d. (Kf); 5-mile beach VIII, IX (div). . ochroterminana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII (Kf). . annetteana Kearf. Hammonton IX, 6 (Kf). . refusana Wlk. Hemlock Falls V, 13 (Wdt); Essex Co. IV, 21, rare (Kf); Manumuskin V, 5 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 543 . Signatana Clem. Abundant in North Jersey VI; larva in tube of frass and silk protected by a web, on underside of red maple leaves VIII, IX (Kf). . timidella Clem. Essex Co., Anglesea V; larva in tube beneath web of silk on underside of oak leaves, VIII, IX (Kf). . perstructana Wlk. Essex Co. V, 10, rare (Kf). EPISIMUS Wlsm. . argutanus Clem. National Park VI, 3 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, 23 (Haim); larva twists leaflets of sumac into a spiral tube; also feeds on hazel, goldenrod and many other plants. g. d. EXENTERA Grt. . apriliana Grt. Clementon V, 7, 5-mile beach VI, 19 (Haim). PROTEOTERAS Riley. . zesculanum Riley. Montclair VII, 18, larva in stems of horse chestnut leaves (Kf). . moffatiana Fern. Montclair VI, 27; larva on maple, boring in leaf stems or feeding on leaves (Kf). . willingana Kearf. Canada and D. C., larva in leaf-stems of box-elder, forming a slight swelling or gall; not yet found in New Jersey (Kf). GYPSONOMA Meyr. . dealbana Froel. Essex Co. VI, 27—VII, 7 (Kf). . fasciolana Clem. (Steganoptycha) Newark VI, 10 (W), and will be found g. d. though not common (Kf). ENARMONIA Hbn. (EPINOTIA, STEGANOPTYCHA.) . crispana Clem. Essex Co. VIII, IX, not rare, g. d.. (Kf). . piceafoliana Kearf. Montclair; larve are miners in spruce needles, moths issue late May and early June, and are common about infested trees (Kf). = . ratzeburgiana Saxl. Larva in spruce needles; not yet reported from New Jersey, but will certainly be found in the northern district (Kf). . wWatchungana Kearf. Abundant in Nerth Jersey, end IV, early V, usually resting on tree trunks; Gloucester Co. IV, 30 (Haim). . septemberana Kearf. Essex Co. Park, not rare locally, end IX (Kf). 544 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . virginiana Clem. Certain to occur in North Jersey III and IV (Kf). . costomaculana Clem. Essex Co. V (Kf): . cressonana Clem. Essex Co., in April, flying with ‘“‘spoliana,”’ of which it may prove to be a variety (Kf). - resuptana Wlk. EHssex Co. V, 1 (Kf). - spoliana Clem. (Proteopteryx) Throughout the State IV, V; very abundant in second growth woods before the leaves have unfolded, sometimes flying in multitudes at every step and settling in the brush or on the bare twigs (Kf). . pyricolana Murtf. Essex Co. V—VII; larva in rosebuds (Kf). . Saliciana Clem. Essex Co., Anglesea VI, VII; larva locally abundant, crumpling leaves of willow in early spring (Kf). . salicicolana Clem. Closely related to the preceding and will be found with it (Kf). EUDEMIS Hbn. . deludana Clem. Essex Co. V, abundant on tree trunks (Kf); Bamber VIII, 3 (Dke). . bolliana Sling. Not uncommon, g. d.; larve in terminal twigs of Pecan and allied trees; moths usually found on tree trunks I[X—XI (Kf). . ilicifoliana Kearf. Essex Co. Park, VI, local; larve crumple young leaves of “Ilex.” . haimbachiana Kearf. Riverton (Dke). ANCYLIS Hbn. (PHOXOPTERIS Tr.) . nubeculana Clem. ‘Throughout the State V—VII, larva on apple. . subzequana Zell. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. VI, not common (Kf); Luecaston VI, 27 (Dke). . semiovana Zell. Orange Mts. VIII (Wdt); Essex Co. VI, 10 (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim); Wenonah VII, 15 (DKe). . spirzefoliana Clem. Anglesea V, 30 (Kf); larva on “Spirea” (Bt). . pulchellana Clem. Essex Co. V, 15—VI, 10, abundant in woods (Kf). . burgessiana Zell. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. V, VI (Kf); Newark VI (Wat); South River V, Clementon VI (Coll); National Park VI, Malaga VI (Dke); Wenonah V (Haim). . dubiana Clem. Essex Co. V, VI (Kf); Lacy V (Dke); Wenonah V (Haim). . laciniana Zell. Ft. Lee Dist. (Dow); flies with ‘“dubiana” and may be a variety or synonym of it (Kf). . amblygona Zell. National Park V, 6 (Dke); Wenonah V, 30, 5-mile beach VII, 23 (Haim). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 545 A. comptana Froehl. Throughout the State, locally common, V and VII, more abundant southwardly. The larva is the strawberry leaf roller Fig. 229.—Strawberry leaf-roller, Ancylis comptana: enlarged. which is seasonally and locally destructive; attacks also blackberry and raspberry, but does no injury on these. Arsenate of lead, thor- oughly applied as soon as the adults are noticed about the plants, serves aS a remedy. A. angulifasciana Zell. 5-mile beach VI, 28 (Haim). kincaidiana Fern. Greenwood Lake VI, 10, Caldwell V, 17 (Kf). A. platanana Clem. New Brunswick V, Jamesburg YI, 10; larva makes tent between two veins on the underside of sycamore leaf. > ANCYLOPERA Steph. (PHOXOPTERIS, part.) A. mediofasciana Clem. Will be found in the Appalachian region V, VI (Kf). A. cornifoliana Riley. (Phoxopteris) New Brunswick, Lakehurst VII; rare. A. muricana Wlsm. Essex Co. V, VIII, larva on blackberry leaves (Kf); Merchantville V, 25 (Dke); 5-mile beach VI, 17 (Haim). A. divisana Wlk. Essex Co. V, VIII, larva on oak (Kf); Malaga VI, 1 (Dke)..... . goodelliana Fern. Hemlock Falls V (Wdt); Essex Co. V (Kf). . diminutana Kearf. Essex Co. V, VII; larva folding leaves of willow (Kf). LASPEYRESIA Hbn. (ENARMONIA, part.) L. caryana Fitch. (Grapholitha) Ocean County, not common; the larva on hulls of hickory and walnut. >> L. prunivora Walsh. Will be found wherever “Crategus” grows; larve in the ‘thorn apples” (Kf). L. shawiana Kearf. Essex Co. Park VII, 1-17 (Kf); Newark VI, 9 (Wdt). L. interstictana Clem. Throughout the State V, VI; larva on leguminous plants. L. angleseana Kearf. Lucaston VI, Brown’s Mills V, 30 (Dke); Anglesea V, VI, VIII, very abundant at times (div). L. fana Kearf. Essex Co. V, 15, larve in flower heads or terminal buds of tick trefoil, “Meibomia” (Kf); Anglesea V, 28, VIII, 5 (div). 35- IN 546 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. | LS L. r r . latiferreana Wlism. Newark . pomonella Linn. The “Codling eclipsana Zell. Brown’s Mills V, 12-21 (Dke). lautana Clem. Essex Co. Park IIE, 23-V, 20; not uncommon, but gen- erally overlooked, as it is one of the first species to appear in spring (Kf). . packardii Zell. Essex Co. V, 17 (Dke). . dana Kearf. Essex Co. V, 17-24 (Kf). . nigricana Steph. Essex Co. VIII, 20; there is also an earlier brood in May; in some parts of the country the larva is a serious pest on cultivated peas, living in the pods and eating the young peas (Kf); Malaga VI, 1 (Dke). . dandana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII, light (Kf). . tristrigana Clem. Throughout the State V-VII; not rare. . walsinghami Kearf. Essex and Passaic Co. IV, V (Kf). HEMIMENE Hbn. . simulana Clem. (Dichrorahpha) Essex Co., g. d. VI, 10—VII, 4, very common in open woods at Anglesea V, VI (Kf); Wenonah V, 30 (Haim). . nigromaculana Kearf. Essex Co. Park VI, 18 (Kf). ECDYTOLOPHA Zell. . insiticiana Zell. Essex Co., g. d. V, VI; larva makes gall-like swell- ings in twigs and young shoots of common locust, remains during winter, pupates in ground in spring; DaCosta VIII, 3 (Dke). GYMNANDROSANA Dyar. . punctidiscanum Dyar. Newark VI, 11 (Wdt); rare but g. d. (Kf) ; Forest Hill IX (Bwl). MELLISOPUS Riley. VIII, light. Larva in fallen acorns (Kf). CARPOCAPSA Tr. moth,” common throughout the State; in May north of Pied- mont Plain, May and August south of that point; the larva is the common apple worm and often seriously injurious. Spray with arsenites. after fruit is fully set, while it is yet upright and while the Fig. 230.—Codling moth, Congo tin sa yy ae. nella: a, injury to apple; b, place where lobes of calyx cup are yet egg is laid; c, larva; d, f, g, adults; open. h, head of larva; %, cocoon. R. Ss. u ES THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 547 RHOPOBOTA Led. vacciniana Pack. Throughout South Jersey on cranberry bogs. The larva is the “vine worm” or “black-head,” which is always injurious and often ruinous; there are two broods, and the winter is passed in the egg stage. Re- flowing is the best method of control; arsenites are useful if applied early; late holding of water answers on a level, shallow bog. Fig. 231.— Rhopobota vaccini- ana enlarged. SPILONOTA Steph. (TMETOCERA Led.) ocellana Schiff. The ‘“bud-moth”; occurs throughout the State. The larva is known as the “bud worm” of apple and other fruit trees, destroying fruit and buds in early spring. var. lariciana Hein. Occasional with the type; differs in having the whitish median fascia almost obscured by the general brown color (Kf). PHTHINOLOPHUS Dyar. indentanus Dyar. Essex Co. VII (Kf); Stone Harbor VIII (Dke); 5- mile beach VI-VIII (div); larva webs leaves of huckleberry and bay- berry (Kf). Sub-family TortTrRIctn®. PERONEA Curt. (TERAS Tr. ACLERIS Hb.) maculidorsana Clem. (hastiana Linn., part.) Throughout the State, fall and spring. Moths hibernate and can be disturbed on mild days of winter and early spring; larva on willow and apple (Kf). . brewsteriana Rob. Essex Co. X, 10 to VI, 2 (Kf). . pulverosana Rob. Essex Co. X, 1 (Kf). . effractana Froel. (scabrana Curt.) Jersey City; Woodside VII (Wat). minuta Rob. Throughout the State and throughout most of the year. Larva on apple in general, and on huckleberry and allied plants. In the cranberry regions it attacks that plant by prefer- ence, and is the “fire-worm”’ or “yellow- head” of the cranberry grower. There are three broods, that issuing in fall being gray and forming the variety “cinderella” Riley. This hibernates and in spring lays eggs for the summer broods, which are orange. The remedial measures are reflowing, when the larve first appear, late holding of water to compel the hibernating moths to oviposit elsewhere, and the use of arsenites. Fig. 232. — Fire-worm, Peronea minuta: enlarged. oxycoccana Pack. Aiso a cranberry feeder and may be a large form of the preceding. 548 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. ferrugana Schiff. Throughout the State; larva on birch, moths issue IX to XI, hibernate and worn specimens occur IV and V (Kf). P. commandrana Fern. Essex Co. VI and XI (Kf). P. viburnana Clem. Abundant, Essex Co., late fall and early spring; larve VIII, [X, crumpling leaves of Viburnum (Kf); Gloucester Co. VI (Haim). P. americana Fern. Woodside VIII (Wdt); Wenonah VII (Haim); Mal- aga VII (DKe). P. trisignana Rob. Essex Co. IX, X, abundant, larva crumpling leaves of birch VIII (Kf). var. placidana Rob. With the type and equally common (Kf). P. defiectana Rob. Anglesea V, 30, larva on oak, adult VI, 15 (Kf). hee permutana” Dup. and “P. subnivana” Wlk. are not yet taken. EPAGOGE Hbn. E. sulphurana Linn. (Dichelia sulfureana Clem.) Throughout the State, all season; larva on grape, willow, strawberry and many other plants. E. demissana Wlsm. Larva folding lower leaves of “Solidago” sp., An- glesea VI, 21, adult VII (Kf); Cape May VI (Haim); Stone Harbor VIII (Dke). CENOPIS Hbn. C. reticulatana Clem. 'Throughout the State VI-IX, common; larva on rose, geranium, oak, persimmon, pear, maple, &c. . pettitana Rob. Brown’s Mills VI, 25, Lacy VII, 22 (Dke). . Saracana Kearf. Essex Co. VII, larva crumpling leaves of sassafras (Kf). C. karacana Kearf. Larve roll oak leaves, V, VI, adults VII, VIII, Essex Co., Lacy, also from Bayberry, Anglesea (Kf); Brown’s Mills VI (Kf). C. diluticostana Wlsm. Essex Co. VII, 8 (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, 26 (Haim). C. testulana Zell. Essex Co. VII, IX, not common; larva sews together leaves of wild cherry (Kf). C. furcatana Wlk. (Capua) Orange VIII, 16 (Kp). “C. cana’ Rob. has not yet been found in the State. Ome CCELOSTATHMA Clem. (AMPHISA Curt.) C. discopunctana Clem. Ft. Lee Dist. (Dow); Essex Co. V-VIII (div); g. d., larva on “Solidago” (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, VII (div). SPARGANOTHIS Hbn. xanthoides Wlk. (CEnectra) Essex Co. VII, g. d. (Kf). inconditana Wlsm. Essex Co. (Kf). oo Ss. >>> D> THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 549 irrorea Rob. Essex Co., g. d. VII (Kf); Holly Beach VIII (Haim). tristriana Kearf. Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). “Gnectra unifasciana” has not yet been found in the State. ARCHIPS Hbn. (CACCECIA Hbn.) . rosaceana Harr. Throughout the State, common; larva on orchard and small fruits and roses; often troublesome in gardens, where it can be controlled by hand-picking or by using arsenites. . purpurana Clem. Throughout the State VII, VIII; larva on oak, huck- leberry, locust, geranium and many other plants. . rosana Linn. Throughout the State, not common, chiefly in gardens; larva on currant and other small fruits, orchard and shade trees. . cerasivorana Fitch. G. d., not rare; larva on cherry and white birch; Lacy VII, 14 (Dke). . parallela Rob. Burlington Co., on cranberry (Sm); 5-mile beach VI (Haim); also occurs on pitcher plant (F. M. Jones). . argyrospila Wlk. Throughout the State VI, VII; a general feeder. . semiferana Wlk. Burlington Co., larva on “Polygonum.” . negundana Dyar. 5-mile beach VI, 28—-VII, 2 (Haim). . fervidana Clem. Throughout the State, locally common VII, VIII; larva makes nests on oak and cherry, sometimes webbing up entire scrub trees or bushes, and containing thousands of larve. . dissitana Grt. Philadelphia (Haim), very rare, but will doubtless be found across the river (Kf). . fractivittana Clem. Essex Co. VI, 3 (Kf). . afflictana Wlk. (Loxotzenia) Essex Co. V, VI (Kf); Ocean Co. (Sm); larva on spruce. . virescana Clem. Essex Co. VI, VII, g. d., not rare (Kf); South River VI (Coll). . clemensiana Fern. Newark at light VI, [IX (Wdt); common every- where (Kf). . persicana Fitch. (Ptycholoma) Plainfield; g. d., larva on straw- berry and peach. . biustulana Steph. (melaleucana WIk.) Essex Co. Park VI, locally abundant (Kf); Wenonah V, 24 (Haim); Lucaston VI, 14 (Dke); larva on “Trillium.” . obsoletana Wlk. Brown’s Mills VII, 1 (DkKe). PLATYNOTA Clem. . flavedana Clem. Throughout the State IV-VI, VIII, IX; general feeder. . idzeusalis Walk. (sentana Clem.) Throughout the State, Ve Wile Vallis and also a general feeder. 550 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PANDEMIS Hbn. P. limitata Rob. Not uncommon in northern part of State, VI; larva on oak, Solidago, birch, rose, hazel and other plants (Kf). P. lamprosana Rob. Essex Co. VI, 14, VIII, 28 (Kf). TORTRIX Linn. T. pallorana Rob. Hopatcong (Bt); Orange Mts. VI-VIII, larva on cherry, verbena and other plants (Kf); Laurel Springs VI (Dke). T. lata Rob. Essex Co. VIII (Kf). T. nervosana Kearf. HEssex Co. VI (Kf). T. houstonana Grt. Anglesea, the larva on cedar (Lt). T. quercifoliana Fitch. Hssex Co. VI (Kf); Newark, larva on oak; Da- Costa VII, Brown’s Mills VI, Lacy VII (Dke). T. platanana Kearf. Essex Co. VI, 17, larva on sycamore (Kf). T. albicomana Clem. Throughout the State V and VII, common; larva on oak, rose, huckleberry, etc.; the three varieties “curvalana” K., “dorsipurpurana” K., and “semipurpurana” K., occur in scarcely less abundance. T. peritana Clem. Abundant everywhere V-X (Kf). T. fumiferana Clem. Orange Mts., Newark; larva on spruce (Sm); Gloucester Co. V, 7 (Haim); Brown’s Mills VII, 21 (Dke). The record of “T. alleniana”’ Fern. is erroneous. EULIA Hbn. (LOPHODERUS Steph.) E. juglandana Fern. Ocean Co., not rare (Sm); VII, VIII, the larva erumpling leaves of hickory and Viburnum. E. qguadrifasciana Fern. Essex Co. VI, 25, VII, 1 (Kf). E. pinatubana Kearf. (politana Haw.) Essex Co. IV, V (Kf); Mon- mouth Co. VI (Sm); larve cement together the needles of white pine, forming a tube, and feeding on the outer ends (Kf). E. triferana Wlk. Common everywhere in early spring, larva on huckle- berry, dogbarne and many other plants. E. velutinana Wlk. Throughout the State IV—VI, VIII, IX; larva on sycamore, Solidago and many other plants (Kf). E. mariana Fern. Ramapo, N. Y., V, 1, and will be found in the Appa- lachian of N. J.; bred from “Vaccinium” (Kf). E. alisellana Rob. (Tortrix) Newark. AMORBIA Clem. A. humerosana Clem. Essex Co. VI (Kf); Newark VI (Wdt); New Brunswick, Jamesburg, larva on pine, maple, “Rhus,” huckleberry, etc. Deus Ol 0 oD ore 0 U0 U UO U U Use vO U THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 551 Sub-family PHALONIIN#. PHALONIA Hbn. (CONCHYLIS Tr.) . biscana Kearf. Essex Co. VII-IX (Kf). . giscana Kearf. Essex Co. VII-IX (Kf). . atomosana Bsk. Essex Co. VIII, IX (Kf). . dorsimaculana Rob. Common throughout the State VI-IX. promptana Rob. Atlantic County. . louisiana Bsk. Will be found in the Appalachian region (Kf). angulatana Rob. Essex Co. VI, 27 to VII, 17 (Kf). rana Bsk. Essex County IX, 18 (Kf). . labeculana Rob. Essex County VI, VII (Kf). . argentilimitana Rob. Montclair VII, Caldwell V, 17 (Kf); Malaga IX, 22 (Dke); Anglesea VII, VIII (div). . lepidiana Clem. 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Kf). . interruptofasciata Rob. Essex Co. Park, locally abundant in early July on leaves of aster in dark places in woods (Kf). . rutilana Hbn. Hunterdon Co., the larva injurious to trailing juniper. . romonana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII, IX, at light (Kf). . maiana Kearf. Great Notch, Passaic Co. V (Kf). gunniana Bsk. Montclair V, 8 (Kf). sublepidana Kearf. Caldwell, Essex Co. VII (Kf). . hospes Wlsm. Essex Co. VII, 10—VIII, 20 (Kf). . straminoides Grt. Essex Co. V, 20, VIII, 22-30 (Kf). . elderana Kearf. Anglesea VI, larva crumpling leaves of swamp elder (Kf). . lavana Bsk. Anglesea VIII, 27 (Kf). P. cenotherana Riley. Essex Co. VII, 25 (Kf); Clementon IV, 30 (Haim) ; U Too 0 0 oo eo u larva on evening primrose. . bunteana Rob. Essex Co. VII, VIII, and probably throughout the State, very common (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, 10-30 (Haim). . viscana Kearf. Essex Co. V, 20 (Kf). . aurorana Kearf. Essex Co. at light VIII, IX (Kf). . hollandana Kearf. Caldwell VIII, 13 (Kf). voxcana Kearf. Montclair IX, 1 (Kf). toxcana Kearf. Essex Co. at light VIII, IX (Kf). marloffiana Bsk. Elizabeth (Kf). . temerana Bsk. Caldwell V, 17 (Kf). . Winniana Kearf. Essex Co. at light V, 20, VII, 18 (Kf). . ednana Kearf. Will be found in New Jersey above 1,000 ft. elevation, VI (Kf). 552 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. HYSTEROSIA Steph. - merrickana Kearf. Essex Co. VII, 18-20 (Kf). - riscana Kearf. Essex Co. VII, 2, at light (Kf). - baracana Bsk. Essex Co. VII, 20—-VIII, 24, abundant at light (Kf). . tiscana Kearf. Essex Co. VIII, at light (Kf). 25 25 25.645 PHARMACIS Hbn. P. bimaculana Rob. Lakehurst VII, 4 (Kf). Family YPONOMEUTIDZ. This is the first of a series of families to which the term micro-lepi- doptera may be applied with strict propriety, and small as the majority are, many of them are veritable gems of beauty, far exceeding in bril- liancy and richness their relatives of larger size. The wings are usually narrow, sometimes lanceolate, with very long fringes, which are espe- cially marked in the secondaries. The antenne are usually of moderate length and slender, but sometimes: very long, the head often set with closely placed upright scales, appearing like a little plush cap. There are some exceptions to this type, notably the little series of shaggy forms allied to ‘““Anophora’’; but as a whole the characterization applies. The distinctive features of the various families are not obvious to any save the special student, and no attempt will be made to define them. The larve are largely miners in leaves and vegetable tissue generally, though a few live in or on animal matter. Many of them make charac- teristic cases or mere tubes, in which they live, and among these the “clothes moths” have a well deserved if not particularly good reputation. There are few collections of these species and our fauna is only im- perfectly known. YPONOMEUTA Latr. Y. multipunctella Clem. 5-mile beach VII (div); larve will probably be found on apple or allied trees, gregarious, in webs; moths at light (Kf). TRACHOMA Walgn. T. falciferella Wlsm. Has been found along the highlands of the Hud- son and will occur in the Appalachian region of New Jersey (Kf). EIDO Cham. E. albapalpella Cham. Will be found in New Jersey (Kf). ATTEVA WIk. A. punctella Cram & Stoll. (aurea Fitch.) National Park VII, 15, VIII, 2 (Dke); larve gregarious in webs on Ailanthus. u THE INSECTS. OF NEW) JERSEY. mo eS PLUTELLA Schranck. e AN Fig. 233.—Cabbage Plutella, P. maculipennis: a, larva; b, c, segments of same; d, pupa; e, same in its cocoon; f, adult; g, wings of a variety: all enlarged. . maculipennis Curt. (cruciferarum Zell.) Common and g. d.; larva on cabbage and other cruciferous plants; but thus far not seriously injurious in New Jersey. . porrectella Linn. Abundant on hills north of Great Notch V, 21, just before sunset; in Europe larva feeds on “‘Hesperis. matronalis” (Kf). ZELLERIA Staint. . celastrusella Kearf. G. d. in North Jersey, end V to mid VI wherever the climbing bitter-sweet occurs; larva webs up young leaves in spring (Kf). PORPE Hbn. (CHOREUTIS Hbn.) inflatella Clem. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. VI, 10—VII, 25, not com- mon (Kf); Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke). . Virginiella Clem. Probably a variety of the preceding (Kf). . gnaphaliella Kearf. Great Notch and in hills above Montclair V, 10-VI, 21, locally common; larva webs leaves of “Gnaphalium.” . carduiella Kearf. 5-mile beach VI, VII (div); larvae very common in stalks of the large yellow-head thistle V & VI (Kf). . Onustana WIlk. Undoubtedly occurs in the Appalachian region (Kf). BRENTHIA Clem. pavonicella Clem. Locally common, Caldwell and near Moorestown in woods V and VII; larva VI on underside of leaves of hog peanut, “Amphicarpa” (Kf); Merchantville VI, 4 (Dke). SETIOSTOMA Zell. . xanthobasis Zell. Abundant in the scrub oak and pine-barren district near Lacy, VII; larva VIII, IX on oak leaves (Kf); Forked River Mts. VII, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). GLYPHIPTERYX Hbn. impigritella Clem. 5-mile beach VII, 3 (Haim). circumscriptella Cham. Essex Co. VII, 1-7 rare (Kf). 554 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. > U ARGYRESTHIA Hbn. . alternatella Kearf. Essex Co. V, 21 (Kf); larva on conifers. . freyella Wlsm. Essex Co. VI, 10 (Kf); larva on arbor-vite. - geedertella Linn. Essex Co. VI, 22, VII, 12; a very dark form (Kf); larve, in Europe, in catkins of birch and alder. - oreasella Clem. (andereggiella F. & B.) Larva in buds of apple and hazel VI, VII (Kf). . apicimaculella Cham. Essex Co. VI, 12-VII, 25 (Kf). . subreticulata Wlsm. Essex Co. VI, not rare at light (Kf). . undulatella Clem. Montclair V, 27-30, very abundant on trunks of elms; larve probably in flower buds of this tree (Kf). . austerella Zell. G. d., Montclair, Anglesea VI, VII, common on trunk of oak, chestnut, holly and other trees (Kf); larva probably on lichens. . thuiella Pack. Essex Co. VII (Kf); larva mine leaves of arbor-vite. ACROLEPIA Curt. . incertella Clem. Essex Co. VIII, 5, one specimen at light (Kf). TANAGMA Zell. . obscurofasciella Cham. Great Notch VII, 10 (Kf). Family GELECHIID/. METZNERIA Zell. lapella Linn. Montclair and northern New Jersey, not common; larva on seeds of burdock, in burs all winter; adults in July (Kf); Ft. Lee (Dow). : PALTODORA Meyer. . anteliella Bsk. Montclair, at light VIII, 28-IX, 12 (Kf). . tripunctella Kearf. Essex Co. VI, 30-VII, 9, at light (Kf). . similiella Cham. Essex Co. VI, 30—-VIII, 18 at light; larve in heads of sunflower (Kf). SITOTROGA Hein. Fig. 234.—Angoumois grain moth, Sitotroga cerealella: a, larva; b, pupa; c, moth; d, wings of a va- riety; e, egg; f, larva feeding in, kernel of corn; all save f, greatly enlarged. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 555 S. cerealella Oliv. Throughout the State. This is the “Angoumois grain =| moth” which infests wheat in shock, in the mow and until it is binned or bulked. Also attacks corn in warm places and in sheltered cribs, causing serious injury and rendering much grain unmillable or useless except as chicken feed. Remedial measures are prompt threshing, bulking in deep bins and the use of bisulphide of carbon where grain is actually infested. GLAUCE Cham. - pectenalzella Cham. Essex Co. IX, 24, light (Kf). TELPHUSA Cham. . longifasciella Clem. Caldwell IV, 29, rare (Kf). - fuscopunctella Clem. Common; larva webbing the young leaves of sweet fern in May; adults in June (Kf). . quinquecristatella Cham. Hssex Co. Park IV, 21, rare (Kf). . latifasciella Cham. Sure to occur in New Jersey; larve web young leaves of huckleberry in May, issue in June (Kf). » quercinigracella Cham. Caldwell VIII; larva between two leaves of oak flatly stitched together in July (Kf). . palliderosacella Cham. Anglesea V, 30, abundant on tree trunks; larva on oak (Kf). . querciella Cham. (Gelechia) Common, larva on oak (Bt). . bifasciella Zell. Essex Co. Park, V, 20, Anglesea VI, 22, rare (Kf). . belangerella Cham. (oronella Wlsm.) Eagle Rock VII (Wdt); not rare; larve are lear rollers on alders. CHRYSOPORA Clem. . lingulacella Clem. Montclair at light VII, 17, rare; larva on “Cheno- podium” and “Atriplex.” LEUCE Cham. fuscocristatella Cham. Montclair, light, VIII (Kf). ARISTOTELIA Hbn. . roseosuffusella Clem. Not rare VI, VII, at light (Dietz); larva mines leaves of red clover, and lives also in fruit panicles of sumac. . pudibundella Zell. (intermediella Cham.) Common at electric light VI, VII; larva on apple (Kf). . rubidella Clem. Montclair, common at light VI-VIII (Kf). . fungivorella Clem. 5-mile beach VI, VII (div); larvee web leaves of bay-berry VI (Kf). . absconditella Wlk. Common at electric light VII, VIII; larve in stems of “Polygonum punctatum” (Kf). 556 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. A. m gilvolinella Clem. Described from Easton, Pa., and will certainly oe: cur also on the east bank of the Delaware (Kf). angustipennella Clem. Hemlock Falls VII (Wat). EVIPPE Cham. - prunifoliella Cham. Mcntclair VIII, 10 at light, not common; larva on peach and cherry (Kf). RECURVARIA Haw. - apicitripunctella Clem. Very abundant, North Jersey in June; larva in hemlock leaves (Kf). - variella Cham. Greenwood Lake, Montclair, light, VI, VII, larva on cypress (Kf). . piceaeila Kearf. Larve mine the needles of black spruce, moths issue in June (Kf). . obliquestrigella Cham. Anglesea VI, larva in juniper (Kf). . juniperella Kearf. Essex Co. VI, larve mine leaflets of juniper (Kf). . thujaella Kearf. Larve mine in arbor-vite and are frequently so abundant that hedges look as if burned; moths in June (Kf). . cratzegella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, VII, larva in “Crategus.”’ . robiniella Fitch. Montclair V, VI, larve sew two leaves of locust flatly together IX and X (Kf). - quercivorella Cham. Abundant on tree trunks in North Jersey IV, V; larve on oak leaves (Kf). . dorsivitella Zell. Essex Co. Park V, 20, rare (Kf); Jamesburg II (Sm). TRYPANISMA Clem. . prudens Clem. Essex Co., larva on the upper side of oak leaves un- der a slight web (Kf). EPITHECTIS Meyr. . attributella Wlk. (Aristotelia) Very abundant on tree trunks V— VIII, flying off in swarms when approached, g. d. (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim). . sylvicolella Bsk. Will be found in New Jersey (Kf). gallzegenitella Clem. (Gelechia) Larve in “Cynipid” galls on oak (Kf), and sure to occur in New Jersey. “Gelechia bicostomaculella’” Cham. is western and does not occur in New Jersey. Ee PARALECHIA Busck. pinifoliella Cham. (Aristotelia) Common, g. d., larva mines needles on “Pinus rigida’” (Kf); at light VI. o99 9 © THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 557 . cristifasciella Cham. (Gelechia inscripta Wlsm.) Throughout the State IV, V, VII, locally common; on tree trunks; larva between spun together leaves of oak (Kf). PHTHORIMAZA Meyr. -. opercuilella Zell. Not yet reported from New Jersey, but sure to occur. Larve are frequently very destructive to stored potatoes by mining galleries through them. GNORIMOSCHEMA Bsk. . gallzesolidaginis Riley. (Gelechia) Throughout the State in local colonies [IX—XI, adults hibernating; larve make fusiform swellings in stems of goldenrod (Kf). . solidaginella Kearf. Long Beach, very common; habits similar to preceding, on “Solidago sempervirens” only (Sm). . busckiella Kearf. Caldwell X; larva make galls in lateral stems of “Aster patens” (Kf). . gallzesteriella Kell. Certain to be found in New Jersey, larve mak- ing galls in stems of asters (Kf). - pedmontella Cham. Essex Co. VI, at light, not common (Kf). : banksiella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, 21—VII, 1, at light, not common (Kf). . batanella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, 24—-VII, 4, rare (Kf). . detersella Clem. Described from Easton, Pa., and sure to occur in New Jersey (Kf). POLYHYMNO Cham. . luteostrigella Cham. Essex Co. VIII, larve spin together leaves of “Cassia chameechrista” (Kf); Anglesea VIII, 21 (Lt). APRO/AEREMA Durr. . palpilineella Cham. Montclair VII-IX, at light, abundant (Kf). . kearfottella Bsk. Essex Co. Park, VII, VIII, rare. Taken in open spots in woods where the most common plants are Leguminosa and huckleberry. . nigratomella Clem. (Anacampsis apicistrigella Cham.) Greenwood Lake, Essex Co., not rare on tree trunks (Kf); Bloomfield VII (Wat); among scrub oak and at electric light VI, VII. . concinusella Cham. Easton, Pa., and certain to occur in New Jersey (Kf). ANACAMPSIS Curt. . innocuella Zell. Essex Co.; larve in curled leaves of poplar, not rare (Kf). . rhoifructella Clem. (Tachyptilia) Essex Co. VI, VII, larva between spun together leaves of “Viburnum” (Kf). 558 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. A. A. 1) OO 2 9 © O Oo nonstrigella Bsk. Essex Co. Park VII, VIII, rare (Kf). levipedella Clem. (Strobisia) Caldwell IX, Essex Co. Park (Kf). lupinella Bsk. Iona VI; larve found abundantly folding together the leaves of ‘Lupinus perennis,” V, 17 (Kf). - agrimoniella Clem. (Tachyptilia). Essex Co. VI, VII, IX (div); in old fields where “Agrimonia”’ is abundant the moths can sometimes be found in myriads (Kf). . tristrigella Wlsm. Sure to occur in New Jersey (Kf). GELECHIA Hbn. - cercerisella Cham. Ft. Lee Dist. (Dow); larve spin together leaves of red-bud (Kf). . coloradensis Bsk. Delair VIII, 7, one specimen (Dke). . trialbamaculella Cham. (epigzeella Cham.) Essex Co. VII, larve abundant in VI, spinning together young leaves of huckleberry. . continuella Zell. Anglesea VI, 22, rare (Kf). . lugubrella Fabr. Will be found in Northern New Jersey (Kf). . hibiscella Bsk. Anglesea V, 30, light, rare (Kf); larve on leaves or in seed capsules of rose mallow (Bsk). . discoocella Cham. Electric light VI, VII; larva on smart-weed (Kf). . ornatifimbriella Clem. Essex Co. VI, not rare at light (Kf). . Unctella Zell. Larve tie together leaves of locust VI, adults VII (Kf). . rileyella Cham. Essex Co. Park VII, 24, at light (Kf). bicostomaculella Cham. Wssex Co. Park VII, 4, rare (Kf). . nigrimaculella Bsk. HEssex Co. VII, VIII, on tree trunks (Kf). . dyariella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, on tree trunks (Kf). - maculimarginella Cham. Caldwell, Essex Co. Park VII, on tree trunks; larve between leaves of oak (Kf); Wenonah V (Haim); Brown’s Mills VI (DkKe). . gilvomaculella Clem. Essex Co. VIII, on tree trunks; larva on oak (Kf). . pseudoacaciella Cham. Larve web leaves of locust; moths V, VIII (Kf); Clementon IX (Haim). . serotinella Isl. Larva sews together the two edges of a wild cherry leaf, living within 2 tube of silk and frass, VII-IX (Kf). . vernella Murtf. Larve abundant in early spring crumpling young oak leaves; adults VI, Essex Co. (Kf). . mediofuscella Clem. (vagella Wlk.) Montclair, light V, g. d. (Kf); Hemlock Falls VIII (Wdt); Gloucester Co. IV, 30 (Haim). . walsinghami Dietz. Anglesea V, 30, larva on leaves of sumac (Kf). . pseudofondella Bsk. Essex Co. VII (Kf). . conclusella Wlk. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co. VI, VII, abundant on tree trunks (Kf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 559 G. branella Bsk. Essex Co. VII, 12—VIII, 22 (Kf). “G. triocella” Cham. does not come within our faunal range. MENESTA Clem. M. tortriciformella Clem. Recorded from New Jersey, larva on hazel (Kf). M. albacilizeella Cham. Essex Co. Park VI, rare (Kf). STROBISIA Clem. S. iridipennella Clem. Caldwell VII, abundant, larva on hog peanut (Kf); Newbold VII (Dke); Wenonah VII (Haim). S. emblemella Clem. Caldwell, Montclair VI, VII (Kf). “Malacotricha bilobelia”’ Zell. has not yet occurred in the State. TRICHOTAPHE Clem. T. flavocostella Clem. Essex Co., common VI, at light, larva on leaves of aster (Kf); Elizabeth VII (Wdt). T. inserrata Wlsm. Anglesea, common at light; larva on “solidago” (Kf). T. serrativittella Zell. Montclair IX, light, not common (Kf); Wenonah VII, VIII (Haim). T. alacella Clem. Essex Co. V, common, larva on aster (Kf). T. juncidella Clem. Hssex Co. V, common, larva on aster (Kf); New Brunswick (Sm). T. setosella Clem. Very common, larva on aster and “Solidago” V, adults VI (Kf). T. levisella Fyles. Essex Co. Park, larva on “Aster macrophyllus” V, adults VI, very rare (Kf). GLYPHIDOCERA Wlsm. G. aberratella Bsk. Essex Co. VIII, 20-IX, 20 (Kf). G. spiratella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, 25-29 (Kf). ANORTHOSIA Clem. A. punctipennella Clem. Rare VII, at light and borders of woodland. DICHOMERIS Hbn. (YPSOLOPHUS Fabr.) D. punctidiscellus Clem. Greenwood Lake, Essex Co., VI, common in woods (Kf); Wenonah V, 30 (Haim). D. vacciniella Kearf. Essex Co. VII; larve folding or crumpling leaves of huckleberry VI (Kf). D. ligulellus Hbn. (pometellus Haw.) Throughout the State, V-IX, locally common, larva on apple, pear and plum. D. bipunctellus Wlsm. Rather rare, April, in scrub-oak. D. marginellus Fab. A recently introduced European species, larve on Junipers. 560 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. ventrellus Fitch. Hemlock Falls VII (Wdt); Essex Co., rare, larva on oak (Kf). D. eupatoriellus Cham. Sure to occur in New Jersey; feeds on “Hupa-- torium” (Kf). D. georgiella Wlk. (roseocostellus Wlsm.) Not common, larva on pop- lar (Dietz). ANARSIA Zell. A. lineatella Zell. Throughout the State; larva has been recorded in woody excrescences of plum, peach and apple and in stems of straw- berry. I have seen it only boring into the tips of peach twigs; but not in destructive numbers. Family XYLORYCTID/A:. PTOCHORYCTIS Meyr. P. tsugensis Kearf. V, 7-23, near Rutherford, larve in cases on Japanese Hemlock. Family STENOMATIDAL. A family of moderate-sized moths, frequently having remarkable mi- metic characters in coloration and position affected when at rest. The larve so far as known are principally leaf folders. STENOMA Zell. S. schlzegeri Zell. Throughout the State V, VI, IX; larva on wax myrtle and oak. This and the other species of the genus when resting on a leaf so closely resemble gray and white bird droppings that it is im- possible to distinguish them until the moth is made to move. S. leucillana Zell. Passaic Co. (Bwl); Essex Co. VIII, at light, rare, larva probably on oak (Kf); Brown’s Mills V, 19 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, VIII (Haim). S. humulis Zell. Essex Co., Anglesea, VIII, g. d. (Kf); larva on oak and chestnut VII. BRACHILOMA Clem. B. unipunctella Clem. Certain to be found in New Jersey (Kf). B. quercicella Bsk. Essex Co., mature larva in mid V, crumpling young oak leaves, moths VIII, larve of second brood IX, X (Kf). B. decorosella Bsk. Lacy and Lakehurst districts VII, VIII; larve very common, tying together flatly small bunches of oak leaves VI, VII. Family G2COPHORID. A family of small or moderate-sized species, the larve on leaves, in flowers, seeds, on decayed wood or other dead material and sometimes as leaf miners. MARTYRINGA Busck. M. latipennis Wlsm. Sure to be found in the Appalachian region (Kf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 561 EUMEYRICKIA Busck. E. trimaculella Fitch. Certain to occur in the northern section; com- mon in spruce stumpage in Wyoming Co., Pa. (Kf). CRYPTOLECHIA Zell. C. tentoriferella Clem. (Machimia) Essex Co. IX, common on tree trunks; larva on many kinds of trees, makes a little tent on under- side of leaves (Kf); Elizabeth IX (Wdt); Merchantville X (Dke). PSILOCORSIS Clem. P’. quercicella Clem. (Cryptolechia) G. d., not rare, larva between spun-together leaves of oak, aspen, chestnut (Kf). P. reflexella Clem. (Cryptolechia) With the preceding and very like it; larva with same habits and often on same leaves, but easily dis- tinguishable (Kf); Manumuskin V, 21 (Dke). AGNOPTERYX Hbn. This is a division of ‘“Depressaria’” Haw.; the moths of both genera hibernate in brush-piles, out-houses, etc., and can be found in such places on warm days throughout the winter. Larve usually in crumpled leaves or stems of ‘“Umbellifere” and “Composite.” A. atrodorsella Clem. New Jersey (Bt); larva in beggar-tick. A. nebulosa Zell. Middle Atlantic States and sure to occur in New Jer- sey (Kf). A. curviliniella Beut. Recorded from near New York (Bt). A. pulvipennella Clem. Denville XI (Bwl); Elizabeth VIII (Kf); on “Solidago” and “Eupatorium” in leaf folded lengthwise (Kf). A. flavicomella Engel. Essex Co. Park VII, not rare at light (Kf). A. robiniella Pack. (Depressaria hillarella) New Jersey (Bt); Jersey City Hts. IV, 27 (Sb); feeds on locust in leaf folded lengthwise. A. lecontella Clem. Not common in New Jersey (Bt); Newark (Sb). DEPRESSARIA Haw. D. heracliana DeG. North of the Piedmont Plain (Sm); common, larva in stems of parsnips and other “Umbellifere” (Bt). D. betulella Bsk. Essex Co., larve in spun-together leaves of black birch; but not bred (Kf). D. grotella Rob. Larve in spun-together leaves of “Corylus americana” (Kf). D. cinereocostella Clem. Larva ties together leaves of water parsnip (Kf). INGA Busck. !. sparsiciliella Clem. (Cryptolechia contrariella.) New Jersey, not common (Bt); 5-mile beach VIII, 6 (Haim). 36 IN 562 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SEMIOSCOPSIS Hbn. S. packardella Clem. (Epigraphia). Montclair V, 18 (Kf); New Jersey (Bt). S. megamicrella Dyar. Essex Co. III, 14 (Kf). . inornata Wlsm. Essex Co. III, 29, V, 15 (Kf). S. allenella Wlsm. Essex Co. VI, 4 (Kf). n EPICALLIMA Dyar. E. argenticinctella Clem. (CQEcophora) Common, g. d., comes freely to light VI, 25-VIII, 10 (Kf); Stone Harbor VIII, 3 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, 12 (Haim). EUCLEMENSIA Grt. E. bassettella Clem. (Hamadryas) Jamesburg VII (Sm); larva in “Kermes” sp. on oak (Kf). FABIOLA Busck. F. shalleriella Cham. Greenwood Lake VI, 10; larva probably on lichens (Kf). CECOPHORA Latr. CE. newmanella Clem. (Dasycera) Greenwood Lake VI, 10 (Kf); New Jersey, rare (Bt); Gloucester Co. VI, 10 (Haim). ENDROSIS Hbn. E. lacteella Schiff. New Brunswick IX, 24 (Sm); in Europe the larva is on leaves of “Epilobium hirsutum” (Kf). BORKHAUSENIA Hbn. B. ascriptella Bsk. Essex Co. VI, at light (Kf). “@egoconia quadripuncta” Haw. is not found in New Jersey. Family BLASTOBASID/. These moths are usually small in size with a peculiar silken sheen to the prevailing gray shade of the forewings. The favorite time for flight is an hour before sundown, when sometimes hundreds can be taken. The larve live in seeds, nuts and buds, as well as Aphid and Kermid galls. PSEUDOPIGRITIA Dietz. P. dorsomaculella Dietz. Essex Co. VII (Kf). PIGRITIA Clem. P. confusella Dietz. Essex Co. VI-VIII (Kf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 563 . laticapitella Clem. Essex Co. VI-VIII (Kf); Anglesea V, VIII (div). mediofasciella Dietz. Montclair VII, 1-10 (Kf). angustipennella Dietz. Essex Co. VI, 17—-VII, 7 at light (Kf). . obscurella Dietz. Essex Co. VI, 17 (Kf). . ochrocomella Clem. Essex Co. Park VIII, 4 (Kf). Uv ED v PLCEOPHORA Dietz. P. fidella Dietz. Essex Co. VII, 7 (Kf). DRYOPE Cham. D. erratella Dietz. Anglesea VIII, 21, not common (Sm). D. ochreella Clem. (Pigrita) Generally distributed. VALENTINIA Wlism. V. glandulella Riley. (Blastobasis) Throughout the State VI-VIII. Al- most every acorn found on the ground in midwinter contains one or more of the larve of this species, often in company with a Tortricid and a Coleopterous larva. HOLCOCERA Clem. H. chalcofrontella Clem. (Blastobasis) Not rare at electric light VI, VI. H. modestella Clem. Essex Co., not uncommon and g. d. at light VII-IX (Kf); Lucaston V, 20—VI, 5. . gilbociliella Clem. Essex Co., at light, with the preceding (Kf). . purpurocomella Clem. Common at electric light V-IX (Dietz). . punctiferella Clem. Essex Co. VII, 25, VIII, 22 (Kf). . elyella Dietz. Essex Co. (Kf); type locality. an 2G, ae ah ae . spoliatella Dietz. Essex Co. (Kf); type locality. Family ELACHISTID/. COLEOPHORA Hbn. No systematic work has been done in this genus, hence it is impossible to present a comprehensive list. It is certain that all species recorded from the eastern States will also occur in New Jersey, as well as many more not yet discovered. Careful breeding through a series of years will lengthen our list to over one hundred. As many of the species in the adult stage are indistinguishable from each other, the only reliable way to identify them is by breeding. The larve are all case-makers, the cases distinctive for each species. In shape they range frem slender flattened cylinders to one made of clusters of flowers. Almost every plant supports one or more species, many are confined to grasses and others live in seed-heads. 564 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. In general the life histories are similar; eggs are laid in summer, the larva makes a small case in which it hibernates in the next to the last stage. In the earliest days of spring it resumes feeding for a few weeks, moths issuing May to July. C. coenosipennella Clem. Described from Pennsylvania. . caryzfoliella Clem. Cylindrical dark brown cases on hickory leaves. . cerasivorella Pack. Described from Massachusetts on cherry. . concolorella Clem. New Jersey in June. (@) (eh feb . corruscipennella Clem. Newark (Dn); Brown’s Mills VII, 4 (Dke); g. d., not rare, larva on wild strawberry (Kf). C. corylifoliella Clem. Larval cases flattened, with serrate edges, on upper side, on hazel. C. cratipennella Clem. Hemlock Falls VIII, 30 (Wdt); very common at electric light V, VI (Kf). C. cretaticostella Clem. Rare at electric light VI, VII (Dietz). Cc. fletcherella Fern. Makes the small dark brown flattened case found in winter on limbs and trunks of apple; in May attaches its case to the upper side of an apple leaf (Kf). C. infuscatella Clem. Described from Pennsylvania. Cc. laricella Hbn. Small dark brown cases on larch (Kf). C. limosipennella Dup. Larva in a flattened case with serrated upper edge, is sometimes injurious to the foliage of elms (Kf). C. leucochrysella Clem. New Jersey in July. ; C. malivorella Riley. Common throughout the State; larva on apple in a black, pistol-shaped case. C. pruniella Clem. Larva in a large black pistol-shaped case on wild cherry (Kf). ‘ C. ostryze Clem. Larva in reddish brown flattened case on ironweed (Kf). Cc. quercieila Clem. A scimiter-shaped case, blackish posteriorly, an- terior two-thirds white, on oak leaves (Kf). C. rosacella Clem. Larva on opening buds of sweet briar, “Rosa rubi- ginosa.” C. roszfoliella Clem. Larva on leaves of garden rose, ““Rosa centifolia.” C. tilizefoliella Clem. Somewhat rare species in a jet black pistol-shaped case on basswood (Kf). C. vagans Wlsm. Larva makes a grayish cylindrical case on grass (Kf); bred, N. Y. City VIII. C. viburnella Clem. Makes a flattened brown case with upper edge ser- rated on “Viburnum” (Kf). BATRACHEDRA Staint. B. salicipomonella Clem. Essex Co. V, 20-VI, 5 (Kf); larva in Cecid- omyid and Tenthredinid galls on willow leaves. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 565 COSMOPTERYX Hbn. Species are small and slender but most elegantly ornamented; there is commonly a middle band of crimson or ocherous red, the rest of the wing having clusters and lines of brightest gold or silver. Larve are leaf miners. Cc. Cc. C. . clandestinella Busck. Will be found in southern New Jersey (Kf); >>r ppp (7) clemensella Steph. Essex Co. g. d. (Kf); Anglesea (Lt). gemmiferella Clem. Essex Co. VI, 15-VII, 15 (Kf); New Jersey, rare (Bt). fernaldella Wlsm. Montclair at light VII, 1-5 (Kf). larve mine the leaves of “Panicum clandestinum.” APHELOSETIA Steph. . brachelytrifoliella Clem. (Elachista) Larva mines the leaves of “Brachelytrum aristatum” early in July. . illectella Clem. Certain to be found in New Jersey. . maculosella Clem. Described from Pennsylvania. . madarella Clem. Sure to occur in New Jersey (Kf). . orichalcella Clem. Will be found in southern New Jersey. . preematurella Clem. New Jersey in early April. LYMNAECIA Staint. . phragmitella Steph. Abundant in marshes everywhere (Kf); larva in stems of cat-tails; Newark; Orange Mts., VII (Wdt); 5-mile beach VII (Haim). SCYTHRIS Hbn. . basilaris Zell. Essex Co. VIII, 15 (Kf); New Brunswick VI, 28 (Sm); Anglesea VII, 24 (Lt). . eboracensis Zell. Common at Greenwood Lake and Anglesea VI (Kf); Jamesburg VI (Sm); Merchantville V, 25, Iona VI, Brown’s Mills VII, 22 (Dke). . impositellus Zell. Common, larva on asters (Bt); Wenonah V, 30 (Haim); 5-mile beach V, VI (div). . fuscicomella Clem. N. Woodbury VI, 17 (Kf). ANTISPILA Hbn. . isabella Clem. Rare, larva mines leaves of Isabella grape IX. . cornifoliella Clem. .Essex Co. VI, 18, larva makes a blotch mine on “Cornus.” . nysszefoliella Clem. _Wenonah V, VI (div); common, larva mines leaves of ‘Nyssa multiflora’ IX (Dietz). . viticordifioliella Clem. Not rare; larva makes an orange colored blotch mine on the ieaves of wild grape, ‘‘Vitis cordifolia” in August (Dietz). 566 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. THEISOA Cham. T. constrictella Zell. Montclair VI, 10, not common; usually found about elms and larve will likely be found on their leaves. STILBOSIS Clem. S. tesquella Clem. North Jersey VII, 1 abundant; larva makes large white blotch mines in leaves of hog peanut (Kf). HELIOZELA H. S. H. zsella Cham. National Park V, 6 *(Dke). CYCLOPLASIS Clem. C. panicifoliella Clem. Larvze mine leaves of “Panicum clandestinum” VII, cutting out a circular piece for cococn; adult mid—VII (Kf). COPTODISCA Wism. C. lucifluella Clem. Larva mines leaves of hickory IX, X; cuts an oval case from skin of leaf, attaches to tree trunk and pupates; imago in July (Kf). C. ostryzfoliella Clem. Lives like the preceding but on ironwood (Kf). C. saliciella Clem. Mines leaves of willow, habits as in preceding (Kf). C. splendoriferella Clem. (Aspidisca) Common; larva mines leaves of “Cratzegus,”’ apple, plum and wild cherry (Kf); National Park V, 29 (Dke). EPERMENIA Hbn. E. ramapoella Kearf. Abundant V, 27, about 1,000 feet elevation on Ramapo Mt.; in thick woods; will be found in similar places in New Jersey. E. cicutaella Kearf. Orange Mts., larva as leaf miners and later in flower and seed heads of water hemlock; adults VIII (Kf). STAGMATOPHORA H. S. S. sexnotella Cham. Essex Co. Park VI, 25—-VIII, 7 at light; larva in stem galls on “Trichostomum dichotoma” (Kf). MOMPHA Hbn. (LAVERNA Curt.) M. brevivittella Clem. Lucaston X, 18 (Dke), and probably g. d.; larva in seed capsules of evening primrose (Kf). M. circumscriptella Zell. Anglesea VIII, 30, rare (Sm); larve in seed capsules of evening primrose (Kf). M. definitella Zell. ‘New Jersey” VIII, 24 (Lt). M. eloisella Clem. Throughout the State; larva in stalks of evening primrose through winter; pupate late V, and issue as adults VI (Kf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 567 M. luciferella Clem. Eastern Pennsylvania, New York and probably New Jersey. M. ruficristatella Cham. Anglesea VII, 30, rare (Sm). SCHRECKENSTEINIA Hbn. S. felicella Wlsm. Essex Co. X, 10 (Kf). S. erythriella Clem. Not rare V and VIII (Kf); larva on fruit racemes of sumac (Clem). WALSHIA Clem. W. amorphella Clem. Essex Co. VII, VIII; larva in a gall on the stem of “‘Amorpha fruticosa” (Kf). Family TINEIDA!. STIGMELLA Schranck. (NEPTICULA von Hdn.) Members of this genus are seldom seen except as bred, and they are among the most minute of all Lepidoptera, some measuring no more than 1% inch in expanse of wings. The larve are all leaf miners, usually deserting the mine to pupate in a tough little cocoon attached to a twig or upon the ground. Mines are found from mid-June until frost, and the distribution of the species is usually co-incident with that of its food plant. S. amelanchieriella Clem. Larva in a broad tract mine in leaves of June or Service-berry (Kf). S. anguinella Clem. Larva on oak leaves in narrow serpentine mine (Kf). S. bifasciella Clem. In August, at light (Clem). S. caryzefoliella Clem. Larva in a very narrow whitish mine on leaves of hickory (Kf). S. corylifoliella Clem. Larva makes a long, winding, narrow tract mine in a hazel leaf (Kf). S. cratzegifoliella Clem. Larva in a rather short tract mine in leaf of thorn (Kf). S. fuscotibiella Clem. At light VIII, larva on willow. S. juglandifoliella Clem. Larve in narrow whitish tract mine on black walnut (Kf). S. nysszfoliella Cham. Larva makes a linear mine on leaves of “Nyssa multiflora”; imago in April. S. platanella Clem. Larva makes large irregular blotch mine on under- side of sycamore leaf (Kf). S. ostryzefoliella Clem. Larva in moderately wide tract mine in leaf of ironwood (Kf). S. obrutella Zell. Essex Co. V, 20 (Kf). 568 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. platea Clem. Larva mine oak leaves in moderately broad winding tract (Gch). S. pomivorella Pack. Essex Co., common (Kf); larva mines leaves of apple. S. prunifoliella Clem. Larve make linear mines in leaves of wild cherry (Kf). S. roszefoliella Clem. Larvyze make serpentine mines in leaves of sweet brier (Kf). S. rubifoliella Clem. Larva makes blotch mine in leaf of blackberry (Kf). S. saginella Clem. Larva makes moderately broad serpentine tract in leaves of oak and chestnut -(Kf). S. villosella Clem. Larva makes very narrow linear mine in blackberry (Kf). S. virginiella Clem. Larva makes a long narrow tract mine in leaf of ironwood (Kf). OPOSTEGA Zell. O. albogaleriella Clem. Essex Co. V, 26 (Kf); 5-mile beach VII, 5 (Haim). O. nonstrigella Cham. Essex Co VIII, 6 (Kf). O. quadristrigella Cham. Essex Co. VII, 10—VIII, 8 (Kf). BUCCULATRIX Zell. Small species that often occur in large numbers on tree trunks in May and June. Larve are leaf miners in early stages, later feeding externally. When mature they spin a slender silken cocoon with longitudinal ribs or ridges, which are characteristic for the genus. Hibernate as pupa. B. agnella Clem. Flies about mid May (Clem). B. coronatella Clem. Wssex Co., abundant, larva on black birch (Kf). B. canadensiella Cham. Essex Co. IX, larvae on leaves of birch (Kf). B. magnella Cham. Essex Co. Park, abundant at light V—VII (Kf). B. pomifoliella Clem. Occurs wherever apples are grown, larva feeding externally, IX, sometimes abundant, but usually rather rare (Kf). B. quinquenotella Cham. Not rare in June (Dietz). . thuiella Pack. The cocoonets have been found on spruce in Essex Co., but the moths have not been bred (Kf). B. trifasciella Clem. Larva on chestnut (Dietz). PHYLLONORYTER Hbn. All the species of this genus = “Lithocolletis” Hbn., are leaf miners, and as their habits throughout are very similar, individual dates and localities are mostly omitted. The earliest mines are found late in July and until frost there are two or more broods, frequently overlapping. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 569 They hibernate as larve or pups, rarely as imagos. With few exceptions the species in the following list have been bred or observed in Hssex County, and examples will be found wherever the food plant occurs. P. P. P: PL oC) Ue 30) a0 P. fitchella Clem. Common, larva on oak, mining underside of leaves. trinotella Braun. One specimen, the type, Essex Co. Park IV, 26. quercialbella Fitch. Larve in tentiform mines on under side of oak leaves, g. d. argentifimbriella Clem. G. d., larva in tentiform mines on underside of oak leaves. . lucidicostella Clem. Larva mines underside of maple, “Acer sacchar- ” inum,” not common but g. d. . obscuriocostella Clem. The larva mines the underside of the leaf of ironwood, “Ostrya virginica.” . ostryzfoliella Clem. As in preceding, but the mine is much more wrinkled and usually near the margin of the leaf. . kearfottella Braun. Larve make narrow mines on underside of chest- nut leaves at Montclair, usually along a vein. - gemmea F. & B. Larva mines upperside of leaves of locust. . Morrisella Fitch. Larva makes whitish mines on underside of leaves of “‘“Amphicarpa.”’ . uhlerella Fitch. Larva mines under surface of leaves of false indigo. . robiniella Clem. Common, larva mines leaf of locust. auronitens F. & B. Larve make rounded, flattened mines on under- side of leaves of alder, “Alnus serrulatus.”’ scudderella F. & B. Mines on the underside of willow leaves. . salicivorella Braun. The type was bred from a mine on the under- side of willow leaf in Essex Co., issued VII, 19. malimalifoliella Braun. Larve make small, teniform, much wrinkled mines on underside of apple leaves at Montclair. . cratzegella Clem. Larva in mines on underside of leaves of black- thorn, apple and wild cherry; Gloucester Co. IV (Haim). . propinquinella Braun. A common underside miner on wild cherry. . populiella Cham. Larva in a very small tentiform mine on underside of aspen leaf. . eriferella Clem. Makes small mines on underside of oak leaves. . obsoleta F. & B. Described from flown specimen taken in Mass.; will be found in New Jersey; nothing known of life history. argentinotella Clem. Larva mines underside of elm leaves. . basistrigella Clem. Larva mines the underside of oak leaves. . lucetiella Clem. Larva mines the underside of leaves of basswood. . ostensackenella Fitch. Larva makes a yellow blotch mine on upper or lower surface of leaf of locust. tritzenianella Cham. Larve make rather large tent mines on upper- side of leaves of ironwood. 570 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. tilieacella Cham. Larve make nearly circular tentiform mines on upperside of leaves of basswood. fragilella F. & B. Larva in underside mines on leaves of ‘‘Lonicera.” salicifoliella Clem. Larve in underside mines on leaves of different species of poplar and willow. caryefoliella Clem. Larva mines upperside of hickory leaves, g. d. lentella Braun. Larve found in community mines on upperside of leaves of black birch and ironwood. ; saccharella Braun. Bred from irregular blotch mine on the upper- side of leaves of sugar and black maple. macrocarpella F. & B. Larve in upperside mines on oak and chest- nut. cincinnatiella Cham. Very abundant some years; larve make large community mines on upperside of oak leaves (Kf); Gloucester Co. V (Haim). hamadryadella Clem. Very common; larve make a large whitish blotch mine on upperside of oak leaf (Kf); Delair VIII (Dke). NICHOLS.ENG> Fig. 235.—Phyllonoryter hamadryadella and the work of its larva on an oak leaf; gq, moth; P; P. P. m, pupa; c, f, g, larve: all enlarged. The other figures are of structural details. conglomeratella Zell. Larve in leathery brown blotch mines on up- perside of oak leaves. ulmella Cham. lLarve form irregular blotch mines on upperside, of elm leaves. quercivorella Cham. Larva makes flat blotch mine on upperside of oak leaves. cervina Wlsm. Described from a single flown specimen taken in New York State (Kf). ¥ THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 571 platanoideiella Braun. Larva in blotch mine on upperside of oak leaves. betulivora Wlsm. Larva in small, nearly circular mine on upperside of birch leaf. bethunella Cham. Larva in oyate blotch mine on upper surface of oak leaf. . guttifinitella Clem. Larve mine upperside of leaves of poison ivy until frost kills them. . obstrictella Clem. Larva mines upperside of oak leaf; common. . corylisella Cham. Larve make blotch mine on upperside of hazel leaf. . ostryarella Cham. Larve form community mines on upperside of leaves of ironwood and hornbeam. ‘aceriella Clem. Larva makes a broad tract mine on upper side of maple leaf; adults V and IX. hamamelis Bsk. Larva in a whitish blotch mine on upper surface of witch-hazel leaf. . tubiferella Clem. Larva makes a long sinuate band-like mine on up- perside of oak leaves, mine gradually increasing in width and fre- quently crossing, so that it cannot be mistaken for any other species. PORPHYROSELA Braun. . desmodiella Clem. (Lithocolletis) Larva mines underside. of leaves of “Desmodium,” “Lespedeza” and “Phaseolus.” CREMASTOBOMBYCIA Braun. solidaginis F. & B. Larve are abundant in late summer in wrinkled mines on under surface of leaves of goldenrod. . ambrosiella Cham. Larve make small mines on underside of leaves of Ambrosia and allied plants. . ignota F. & B. Rather large mines on underside of leaves of “Com- positee.” BEDELLIA Staint. . somnulentella Zell. Larva makes blotch mine on morning-glory IX, at times feeds externally; adult X, probably two-brooded. GRACILARIA Haw. The species are usually brilliant golden yellow, red and brown. Rest on leaf in characteristic pose, fore part of body much raised, the posterior end touching the leaf. Fly freely to light. Larve are all leaf miners in early stages, some leave mine when half grown and form cones by twist- ing and rolling end of a leaf. G. G. aceriella Cham. Larve make cones at ends of maple leaves. blandella Clem. Larve found in their cones on walnut leaves. 572 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. . coroniella Clem. Larva on birch. . violacella Clem. Larva makes cones of leaf ends of ‘“‘Desmodium.” . juglandiella Cham. Larvze make cones on hickory leaves. . negundella Murtf. Montclair [X, larve in cones on “Acer negundo.”’ . Stigmatella Fabr. Larva makes cones of willow leaves. . rhoifoliella Cham. Larva makes cones of leaves of sumac. . Salicifoliella Cham. Larve make large blotch mines on willow leaves. Q9ODADDAAA DA . sassafrasella Cham. Larva on sassafras, in leaf rolled downward (Bt). . alchimiella Scop. -Essex Co. V, VII; larve in cones on oak. . superbifrontella Clem. Essex Co. V, VII; larva on witch-hazel. . packardella Cham. Essex Co. V, 10 (Kf). . ribesella Cham. Essex Co.; several specimens found in mid-winter, under bark of hickory. . burgessiella Zell. Larva on swamp huckleberry; adults V, VI (Dietz). . belfrageiella Cham. Should occur in New Jersey (Sm). G. swederella Thunb. Larva rolls end of red maple leaves into cones. 9979 QD Qo © DIALECTICA Wlsm. D. strigifinitella Clem. Essex Co. VI, 24 (Kf); National Park VI, 10, Hammonton IX, 6 (Dke); larva on oak. D. venustella Clem. Essex Co. VII, [X, at light (Kf). PARECTOPA Clem. P. lespedezzefoliella Clem. Larva mines leaves of bush clover. P. robiniella Clem. Larva makes a digitate blotch mine on the upper surface of the leaves of locust. P. pennsylvaniella Engel. Essex Co. VII, IX, abundant at light. ORNIX Tr. The larve turn over the edge of a leaf, forming a flap, three or four often present on one leaf; the cocoon is spun on the ground and the imago does not issue until the following spring. O. guttea Haw. Larve often very abundant on apple, sometimes nearly every leaf on the lower part of a tree being affected. . solitariella Dietz. Bred from apple leaf, Essex Co. . kalmiella Dietz. Larva on “Kalmia angustifolia,’ sheep laurel. . preciosella Dietz. Larva on swamp huckleberry. . cratzegifoliella Clem. Larva on leaves of black thorn. . conspicuella Dietz. Larva abundant on birch, Essex Co. IX, X. . prunivorella Cham. Larva on wild cherry, Essex Co. VIII—XI; not rare. (s) (@)-(e)- fe} fe) -(o) - quadripunctella Clem. Larve on choke cherry. fe) r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 573 CORISCIUM Zell. paradoxum F. & B. Recorded from the “Atlantic States.” - cuculipenellum Hbn. Larva in conically rolled leaves of “Ligustrum.” - amphicarpzefoliella Clem. (Leucanthiza) Common; larva on _ hog- peanut, “Amphicarpa monoica.”’ MARMARA Clem. - Salictella Clem. The larve have the curious habit of mining the tender inner bark of young willow in long lines, Essex Co. Park. PROLEUCOPTERA Busck. . albella Cham. Essex Co. VI-VIII, not rare at light and in open woods. . smilaciella Bsk. Essex Co. VIII; larva makes blotch mines in leaves of cat-brier; pupa in hammock-like cocoon on underside of leaf. PHILENOME Cham. . clemensella Cham. Essex Co. not rare, VII, on tree trunks. LYONETIA Hbn. speculella Clem. Essex Co. VI, VII. PHYLLOCNISTIS Zell. - ampelopsiella Cham. Essex Co. V, 26; larva in long winding thread- like mines in Virginia creeper. . vitifoliella Cham. Montclair [X; larve VIII, make long winding lines on grape leaves. . vitigenella Clem. Larva makes tract mine in leaves of grape. . liriodendrella Clem. Essex Co. V, 30; larva makes long, winding linear mines in leaves of tulip poplar. . magnoliella Cham. Hssex Co., Moorestown, Lacy, Anglesea; larva makes linear mines on leaves of Swamp and ornamental magnolias. . erechtitisella Cham. Larva makes linear mine in leaves of fireweed, “Hrechtitis,” VIII, adult late VIII and IX, common. TISCHERIA Zell. . citripennella Clem. Common, larva in a trumpet-shaped mine on oak, imago VI and VII. . quercitella Clem. Essex Co., larva makes dentate mines on upper- side of oak leaves. solidaginifoliella Clem. Larva mines leaves of goldenrod. . malifoliella Clem. Throughout the State; larva makes a yellowish brown blotch mine in leaves of apple, several broods overlapping, so that mines and imagos may be found V-X. . zenea F. & B. Common; larva makes funnel-shaped blotch mine in leaves of blackberry; adult VII, VIII, IX. 574 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. = I. COPTOTRICHE Wism. . zelleriella Clem. G. d., larve make tentiform mines upperside oak and chestnut leaves VII, VIII, adults tne following spring. AMADRYA Clem. . effrenatella Clem. Newark VII (Wdt); very common at light VI, VII (Kf); Gloucester Co., VI, 10 (Haim). . dyarella Dietz. Penna. to District of Columbia, at light and sure to occur in New Jersey. . atlantica Kearf. Essex Co. VII, 24, VIII, 14 (Kf). SETOMORPHA Zell. . insectella Fab. Almost cosmopolitan; recorded from all parts of North America, its larve on hair, wool and dried animal products. . anatomella Grt. (Scardia) Lahaway, bred from fungus growths on oak, rare (Sm). . approximatella Dietz. Essex Co. VI, VII, at light (Kf); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim). XYLESTHIA Clem. . pruniramiella Clem. Common, g. d., larva in woody excrescences on plum trees; Orange VII (Wdt); Anglesea V, VIII (div). . kearfottella Dietz. Hssex Co. VII, at light, abundant. MONOPIS Hbn. . rusticella Hbn. G. d., on tree trunks and at light, VI, VII. . biflavimaculella Clem. G. d., not rare, on tree trunks VII-IX. : marginistrigella Cham. Essex Co. VI, IX, less common than preced- ing. . crocicapitella Clem. (Blabophanes ferruginella) G. d., common on tree trunks and at light. Essex Co. VI-IX; Anglesea VII (Lt); Na- tional Park VI (Dke). . dorsistrigella Clem. (Blabophanes) On tree trunks and at light, common, g. d., VI, VII (Kf); Merchantville VIII, Brown’s Mills VI (Dke), 5-mile beach VI (Haim). TRICHOPHAGA Rag. . tapetiella Linn. G. d., but very rare in collections (Kf); Staten Island, bred from larvee in the excreted pellets of barn owls (Ds). INCURVARIA Haw. russatella Clem. Found VI, VII, on tree trunks in dark woods, and should occur in the Appalachian region of New Jersey (Kf). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 575 CYANE Cham. C. visaliella Cham. Essex Co. VI, VII (Kf). P: PARACLEMENSIA Busck. acerifoliella Fitch. (Incurvaria) Larva in blotch mine on maple, cut circular case from leaf when mature, pupate on ground, adults in spring (Kf); South River V, 26 (Coll). ISOCORYPHA Dietz. I. mediostriatella Clem. (Incurvaria) Essex Co. VIII, 14, rare (Kf); Lucaston VIII, 6 (Dke). TINEA Linn. These moths are frequently very abundant, but owing to their secretive habits are rarely found in numbers. The larve, so far as known, feed on dead or refuse material, rotten wood, fungi, dry animal products, etc., often in a case made of the fragments of the material on which they live. T. fuscipunctella Haw. Common, g. d., larva on dry refuse, in cases; Gloucester Co. V, 29 (Haim). T. apicimaculella Cham. Montclair V, at light (Kf). T. bimaculella Cham. Essex Co. VI, rare, at light. T. trimaculella Cham. Essex Co. VI, VII, rare, at light. T. carnarielia Clem. Essex Co., bred from a box of old insects (Kf); not rare in houses. T. defectella Zell. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Haim). T. pellionella Linn. One of the common “clothes moths” found in houses; the larve destructive to furs and woolen fabrics. The use of gasoline on infested carpets or other fabrics is advised where possible; naphthaline is a good repellent; while care, cleanliness and storage of woolen gcods in tight paper bags or boxes during summer are effective means of preventing injury. T. roburella Dietz. Described from an Essex Co. specimen. T. rileyi Dietz. Very common VI, on stumps in land recently deforested; bred by Riley from larve in fungi. T. arcelia Fabr. G. d., larve feed in decayed wood. T. auropuiveila Cham. Abundant at light and on tree trunks VI, VII, g. d. T. acapnopenella Clem. Essex Co., Anglesea VI-VIII, at light (Kf); Wenonah VIII, 20 (Haim). . granelia Linn. Common, larva in grain and corn (Dietz); also bred from Jarve in tulip and crocus bulbs (Kf). nigroatomella Dietz. The type was taken in Montclair (Kf). 576 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE: MUSEUM. TINEOLA H. S. T. biselliella Hum. The most common of our “clothes moths’; in houses every- where, the larva on furs and woolens; remedies as above. vai sss AN SAO TENAGA Clem. _ “nly” FR Mia 6° T. pomiliella Clem. Eastern Pennsylvania VII, and prob- ably New Jersey. HYBROMA Clem. H. servulella Clem. Common in Fig. 236.—Common clothes moth, Tineola bisel- North Jersey VII, VIII in liella: larva; case with empty pupa shell, open woods (Kf); Forest and moth: all enlarged. Hill VII (Wat). EUDARCIA Clem. E. simulatricella Clem. Will be found in the Appalachian region of New Jersey, V, VI on tree trunks. MEA Busck. M. skinnerella Dietz. Essex Co. VII, 18, at light. DIACHORISIA Clem. D. velatella Clem. Essex Co. VI and VII. HOMOSETIA Clem. H. costisignella Clem. Not rare in eastern and northern sections (Kf); Forest Hill VII (Wdt). H. fasciella Cham. Montclair VI, VII. H. miscecristatella Cham. (Tinea aurosuffusella Cham.) Essex Co., at light, g. d. in June. H. tricingulatella Clem. Essex Co. VII. OENC Cham. O. hybromella Cham. issex Co. VII, at light. ADELA Latr. A. bella Cham. Locally abundant, Anglesea V, 26-30, flying in the sun- shine between 10 and 12 A. M, (div). A. purpura WIk. Little Falls IV, 24, on blossoms of pussy willows (Ds). A. ridingsella Clem. Palisades VI, 12 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 307 PRODOXUS Riley. P. intermedius Riley. New Brunswick (Coll); Weymouth VI, 1-8 (Dke); the larve bore in stalks of Yucca in great numbers. PRONUBA Riley. P. yuccasella Riley. Occurs wherever Yucca is grown and seeds, the flowers depending upon this moth for pollination; larve develop in the seed capsules, pupate in cocoon on ground, adults emerge when flowers open. ACROLOPHUS Poey. A. plumifrontellus Clem. Throughout the State, locally not rare VI, VII. ANAPHORA Clem. These are large, robust species with very long curved palpi, the body covered with rough, coarse scales. They are sombre brown in color and altogether unlike in appearance to the forms with which they are asso- ciated. j A. popeanella Clem. Wssex Co. VI, VII, very abundant at light. A. tenuis Wlsm. Anglesea VI, 23 (Kf); this is probably the form listed as “propinqua” in last edition. PSEUDANAPHORA Wilsm. P. arcanella Clem. Throughout the State VII, usually common. P. mora Grt. Newark X, § (Bwl); Riverton XI, Wenonah X (Dke); not uncommon X, g. d.; the flight is at 4 o’clock P. M., and one female in a cage will attract hundreds of males. MICROPTERYGOIDEA. In this series we have a remnant of ancient conditions, the two pairs of wings being held together by a ‘“Jugum,” or fold at the base of the fore-wings, as in the “Trichoptera,”’ from which the “Lepidoptera” are de- rived. The two pairs of wings are similar in size and venation, and are fastened to a loose-jointed body. The “Hepialidz” are iarge or very large, known as “ghost-moths,”’ from their peculiar hovering, silent flight, and they are rare in collections. The larvze are borers, and some of them require several years to come to maturity. The “Micropterygide” are small or very small species. The typical senus ‘“Micropteryx,” whose larve live on wet moss, does not occur with us, its representative being “Epimartyria’ Wlsm. In “Eriocrania” Zell. the larvee in Europe are leaf-miners. So far no North American species have been bred, but the very large blotch mines and larve have been found in abundance in Essex County and Anglesea in May and June on various species of oak, chestnut and birch. The larva is full grown in 37 IN 578 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. two weeks or less, drops to the ground and spins a tough little cocoon, in which it remains as a larva until the following April. The difficulty of keeping them alive for eleven months explains why so little is known of the life history. Family HEPIALIDA. STHENOPIS Pack. S. argenteomaculatus Harr. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Newark VI (Sb); larva in roots of alder, and requires three years to mature (Bt). S. auratus Grt. Very rare near Newark and New York; nothing is Known of its early stages. Besides the above, “S. quadriguttatus” Grt., “Hepialus mustelina” Pack. and “H. gracilis” Grt. are almost certain to occur in New Jersey. Family MICROPTERYGID/. é ERIOCRANIA Zell. E. auricyanea Wlsm. Almost certain to occur in New Jersey. E. griseocapitella Wlsm. Hssex Co. IV, 21, V, 4; very rare, occasional] on tree trunk or fiying in sunshine in open wood. EPIMARTYRIA Wlsm. E. auricrinella Wlsm. Essex Co. VI, 3-8; in some abundance in damp, open wood at 4 P. M., near bank of a brook, resting on stems and leaves of grasses or weeds from 6 to 18 inches above the ground; earlier than this and half an hour later not one was to be found. There is also an undetermined species with Mr. Daecke, taken at Brown’s Mills V, 13. Order HYMENOPTERA. In this order the aduits have four transparent wings with compara- tively few veins and cells, the anterior larger than the posterior, the two pairs hooked together in flight, naked or clothed with fine hair, never with scales. The mouth parts are mandibulate, the tongue often devel- oped into a longer or shorter lapping organ. The ovipositor is quite usually modified into a sting, an auger, a saw or a drill depending upon the habits of the insect. The metamorphosis is complete. This order contains the bees, wasps, ants, saw-flies, ichneumon flies, ete., etc., and is a mixture of beneficial and injurious species, with the former largely in the majority. Since the publication of the previous edition much has been added to our knowledge of this order, and some of the groups have been very thoroughly collected in New Jersey. The general arrangement of the list is by Mr. Henry L. Viereck, of the U. S. National Museum, who has practically reversed the arrangement proposed by the late Dr. Ashmead, placing the saw-flies at the head rather than the foot of the series, and in general modifying the order of the species within the families in accordance with later studies. Mr. Viereck has added not only many new records, but much information as to food habits of parasitic species, and in general he is to be credited with such notes as are not strictly economic or otherwise credited. In the ant families Dr. Wm. Morton Wheeler, of Harvard University, has been good enough to prepare the list, and the information as to these interesting species is unusually full. In the gall-flles Mr. Wm. Beuten- muller, of the American Museum of Natural History, has written the list, and this portion also is exceptionally complete. In the Chalcids Mr. J. C. Crawford, of the U. S. National Museum, has arranged the species to bring the series into accord with his studies. The problem of just what to include in this list among the parasites has been rather a difficult one. Many of the species are small or very small, and some forms are never obtained except by actually breeding them out of their host species. The conclusion finally reached was to include those species that had been bred out of forms occurring not rarely within the State, and in localities that rendered occurrence in New Jersey almost a certainty. A large number of species listed in this way in the last edition have been fully authenticated in the present. It is belived that the addi- tion of these species will stimulate search and study, and I fully expect that nearly all will be actually found within the next decade. A few names in the tast edition will not be found in this, either because the species has proved to be so distributed that its occurrence in New Jersey is not to be expected or because, as in some of Dr. Ashmead’s species, the names were never sanctioned by actual description. A few of the mss. names are included, however, to call attention to the occur- rence of a species and their status is noted. In the saw-flies Prof. Alex. D. MacGillivray has looked over the manu- script and has added information and suggestions. (579) 580 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Altogether the list now presents a very fair picture of our Hymenopter- ous fauna, although even yet far from complete. PHYTOPHAGA. The species of this series have little in common save that, with few exceptions, they feed directly or indirectly on vegetable matter; directly when, as with the saw-flies, the entire tissue is eaten; indirectly when, as in the gall-flies, a distortion of growth is caused, upon the secretions of which the larva is nourished. Super-family TENTHREDINOIDEA. These are the saw-flies, in which the ovipositor of the female is modi- fied into a pair of plates variably serrated at the edges, working between a pair of sheaths. They are usually rather compactly built but not very hard species, head, thorax and abdomen of nearly equal width, abdomen sessile or united to the thorax for its full width, without trace of stalk, the wings folded over the abdomen when at rest, the secondaries with a broad anal lobe, making them wider than the primaries. The flies are sometimes sluggish and may be picked off the plants on which they rest with the fingers. The larvee vary greatly in feeding habits, some forming galls, others living in stems, a few in fruits, many as leaf-miners, some as leaf skele- tonizers, while the majority eat openly upon their food plants. In a general way they resemble caterpillars in form; but have at least five pairs of abdominal pro-legs. Many have the habit of characteristically curling up the hind portion of the body while feeding, and quite a number are viscid and slug-like in appearance. They are usually kept in check with arsenical poisons or with white hellebore, dry or in decoction, to which they are peculiarly susceptible. Against some of the slimy forms dry hydrate of lime or even very fine road-dust is satisfactorily available. Family XYELIDA:. ODONTOPHYES Konow. O. avingrata Dyar. Ft. Lee, Plainfield; on hickory and butternut (Dyar). MACROXYELA Kirby. M. infuscata Nort. (zenea Nort.) Staten Island III (Ds); larva on leaves of elm. “M. ferruginea Say’ will probably not be found in New Jersey, but “bicolor MacG.” and ‘‘distincta MacG.” are likely to occur. XYELA Dalm. X. minor Nort. Riverton IV, 17, Clernenton V, 19 (Jn); larva on pine (Dyar). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 581 Dr. MacGillivray says that ‘““Megaxyela major Cress.” is not likely to occur in New Jersey, and that the record in the last edition was a mis- identification. Family LYDIDZ. In this family collections are very incomplete, and it has been deemed best to omit all species not practically certain to occur in the State. LYDA Fab. L. apicalis West. Will probably be found in New Jersey. L. tessellata Klug. (lItycorsia) Penna., and certainly N. J. as well. CEPHALEIA Panz. C. frontalis West. (Liolyda) Massachusetts to Georgia. .C. fulviceps Rohw. Atlantic Co.,.type locality (Rohwer). C. simidea Cress. Probably occurs in New Jersey. NEUROTOMA Konow. N. fasciata Nort. (Lyda cerasi Riley) Clifton VII, 3 (GG); Trenton VII, 7 (Hk); Newark, Lakehurst VII, 17, Atlantic Co. (Coll); the common web-worm of the wild cherry (Dyar). N. inconspicua Nort. (Pamphilius) Larva on cherry in adjacent States. - PAMPHILIUS Latr. P. ocreatus Say. Larva on hazel, “Coryius’” in a web, solitary (Dyar); sure to be found in New Jersey. P. persicus MacG. Larva feeds on peach leaves, and is almost certain to be found in New Jersey orchards. BACTROCERUS Konow. B. perplexa Cress. Riverton (Vk). B. plagiata Klug. (Lyda) Riverton (Vk); Westville VII, 12 (Jn); Clem- enton VI, 25 (Hk); Anglesea VII, 25 (Sm). B. quebecensis Prov. Delaware Water Gap (Jn). B. rufofasciata Nort. New Brunswick (Bt). B. scripta Say. Riverton (Vk). Family TENTHREDINIDA. Sub-family LopHyrIn#. LOPHYRUS Latr. L. abbottii Leach. Springfield, Jamesburg; locally and seasonally com- mon on pine throughout the State (Sm). 582 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Re he siete ie =] Ee [EE . akhurstii Nort. Described from New Jersey and also a pine feeder. . lecontei Fitch. Jamesburg V, 15 (Coll); feeds on pine. . abietis Harr. Larva on black spruce; sure to occur in New Jersey. . fabricii Leach. Larva on ‘Pinus rigida” (Dyar). . abdominalis Say. Lakehurst VIII, 20, Atlantic Co. VIII (Coll); on pine- Sub-family EMPHYTIN2. HEMITAXONUS Ashm. . dubitatus Nort. Ft. Lee (Dyar); Riverton (Vk); Westville V, 7, Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Jamesburg V, 31, Anglesea VII, 25 (Coll); larva on fern “Onoclea.” TAXONUS Hart. . amicus Nort. Anglesea VII, 25 (Sm). . innominatus MacG. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . higrisoma Nort. Long Island, and sure to be found in New Jersey. PCECILOSTOMA Dahlb. . ignota Nort. (Tetraneura) Larva g. d. on strawberry; occasionally sent in; but not really injurious anywhere in the State. . convexa MacG. New Brunswick (Coll). P. maculata Nort. (Pcecilostomidea) Throughout the State V-—VIII, larva sometimes destructive on strawberry. coryli Dyar. On hazel, Van Cortland Park, N. Y., and sure to occur in New Jersey. evicta MacG. Sandy Hook, no date (MacG.). “P. obscurata Cress.” of last edition was wrongly determined; the species is known only from the Rocky Mountains. mi EMPHYTUS Klug. . apertus Nort. Riverton (VK). . cinctipes Nort. The curled rose saw-fly (Dyar). Fort Lee VII, 4 (Dke). . inornatus Say. Great Notch (GG); New Brunswick IV, 19) kColly Trenton VIII, 15 (Hk); Riverton (Vk). . mellipes Nort. “United States” (Cress). PARATAXONUS MacG. . multicolor Nort. (Aphilodyctium) Greenwood Lake, larva on alder and birch (Dyar); Westville VI, 6, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Lucaston VI, 14 (Dke); Atlantic Co. (Coll). m U no THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 583 ERIOCAMPA Hart. . rotundata Nort. Probably occurs in New Jersey. PSEUDOSIOBLA Ashm. . excavata Nort. Westville (Jn); Ocean Co. V (Sm); larva on button- bush “Cephalanthus,” often defoliating plants in early spring (Dyar). MONOSOMA MacG. . inferentia Nort. Bred in Long Island IV, 26, from larva on alder (Dyar); Clementon V, 2 (Hk). MACREMPHYTUS MacG. . tarsatus Say. (Harpiphorus) Larva on “Cornus” (Dyar) and sure to be found in New Jersey. . varianus Nort. Newark (Coll); larva on “Cornus” (Dyar). . versicolor Nort. Greenwood Lake, on “Cornus” (Dyar); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). STRONGYLOGASTROIDEA Ashm. apicalis Say. Jamesburg VI, VIII, 8 (Coll); Clementon V, 30 (Jn); larva on blackberry (Dyar). epicera Say. “New Jersey” (Coll). mellosus Nort. Clementon V, 30 (Jn). pallidicornis Nort. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke); Clementon (Vk). pallipes Say. (Hypotaxonus) Should occur in New Jersey. rufocinctus Nort. (Parasiobla) New Hampshire to Virginia (Cress) ; Long Island VII, 5 (Dke). terminalis Say. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke); Clementon (Vk). unicinctus Nort. (Taxonus) Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Coll); Merchant- ville V, 26 (Dke). DIMORPHOPTERYX Ashm.. . pinguis Nort. Jamesburg VIII, 8 (Coll); larva on oak, maple, cherry, etc. (Dyar). Sub-family SELANDRIN &. SELANDRIA Leach. . flavipes Nort. Jamesburg V, 31, Lahaway VI, 1 (Coll); Riverton V, 16, Westville VI, 6, Atco (Jn); Clementon V, VI (div); Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Lucaston VI, 16, Laurel Springs V, 23 (DkKe). PARASELANDRIA Ashm. ‘ decolorata Cress. Atco (Jn). 584 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. oz) STRONGYLOGASTER Dahlb. . longulus Nort. Westville (Vk). . luctuosus Prov. New York City, larva on brake (Jl). . tacitus Say. Shark River VII, 19, Clementon (Jn); Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Brown’s Mills V, 31 (Dke). » multicinctus Nort. Clementon V, 30, Atco V, 4 (Jn). Sub-family DoLeRIn&. DOLERUS Jur. . abdominalis Nort. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg V, 31, Lahaway V, 26 (Coll); according to Dyar all larve of this genus are grass feeders. . apicalis Nort. Trenton IV, 29, V, 26 (Hk). . aprilis Nort. Throughout the State IV, V, not rare. . bicolor Beauv. New Brunswick IV, 21, Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll); West- ville IV, 19 (Jn); Merchantville IV, 23 (Dke); Pemberton V, 10 (GG). . collaris Say. Jamesburg VI, 4, common on that one day (Sm). . sericeus Say. Ft. Lee Dist. (Bt); Anglesea V, 30 (Sm). — . similis Nort. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll); Trenton V, 26 (Hk); Clementon V, 10 (Jn). - apricus Nort. Trenton V, 21 (Hk). . unicolor Beauy. (arvensis Say. 2). Paterson IV, 28, found in num- bers at dusk, asleep on tall weeds and small willows (Gr); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick, g. d. IV (Sm); Riverton (Vk). LODERUS Konow. . albifrons Nort. (Dolerus) Caldwell (Cr); Ridgewood V, 28 (Coll); Trenton V, 21 (Hk). Sub-family PHYLLOTOMIN&. ENDELOMYIA Ashm. . ethiops Fab. (rosz Harr). Common wherever roses are grown in New Jersey, and often defaces the foliage seriously. CALIROA Costa. . fasciata Nort. (Eriocampa) Larva on oak (Dyar). . juglandis Fitch. (Eriocampa) Greenwood Lake, on butternut (Dy- ar); larva sometimes locally common (Sm); adult unknown (MacG). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 585 C. quercusalba Nort. (Peri- clistoptera) Mass. to Virginia; larva on white oak (Dyar). C. obsoleta Nort. Burlington Co. (Sm); larva on wild cherry (Dyar). C. quercuscoccinea IDES Mass. and New York, larva on black and scar- let oak (Dyar). C. limacina_ Retz. (cerasi Peck) The common cherry and pear slug which occurs throughout the State, often in harm- ful numbers. Easily con- trolled by the arsenites Fig. 237.—Pear slug, Caliroa limacina: a, adult; b 1 f i - Pei raad) dust heeds , ¢, larva from side and above, all en larged; d, leaf eaten by larva, also on ‘“Amelanchier”’ sehueeeell Ghee, and other plants. - Sub-family TENTHREDININ&. PACHYPROTASIS Hartig. P. rapze Linn. (omega Nort.) Of general distribution in the Unitec States. LAGIUM Konow. L. cinctulum Nort. So. Orange (Bt); Clementon VII, 9 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 19, Iona VII, 13, Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). L. atroviolaceum Nort. (Tenthredopsis) Jamesburg VI, 20, Lahaway VIII, 3 (Sm); Woodbury VIII, 22 (Jn); Clementon VI, VII (div); larva on elder (MacG). TENTHREDOPSIS Costa. T. semilutea Nort. New Jersey (Cress); Trenton V, 31 (Hk). NEOPUS MacG. N. 14-punctatus Nort. Merchantville VI, 4 (Dke); Clementon (Vk). TENTHREDO Linn. T. verticalis Say. (Tenthredopsis) Del. Water Gap VII, 11 (Jn), Glass- boro VII, 19 (Dke). ; 586 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Ue . angulifera Nort. Delaware Water Gap (Jn). . grandis Nort. (Labidia) New York to Virginia (U S N M). . lobata Nort. Delaware Water Gap (Jn). . rufopecta Nort. Del. Water Gap VIII (div); Caldwell (Cr); New Jer- 4444 | = s,= 3.5 SSS Se nigricollis Kirby. Riverton (Vk). sey (Cress). . tincta MacG. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (MacG). MACROPHYA Dahlb. . epinota Say. Westville (Jn). . externa Say. Caldwell (Cr); Bronx Park on hickory (Dyar). . fascialis Nort. Riverton VII, 3 (Jn). . flavicoxze Nort. New Jersey (Cress); larva on elder (Dyar). . formosa Klug. Del. Water Gap VII, 9, 12 (div); New Brunswick (Coll), Ft. Lee VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 26, Lucaston V, 30, Iona VI, 2 (Dke); Trenton VII, 8, Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk); Westville (Vk); Clementon VI (div). . intermedia Nort. Anglesea (Jn). . nigra Nort. Woodbury VI, 27 (Jn). . pulchella Klug. var. alba MacG. Trenton VI, 13 (Hk). . tibiator Nort. Boonton (GG); Trenton V, 24 (Hk); New Jersey (Cress); larva on elder (Dyar). . trisyllaba Nort. Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); New Jersey (Cress); larva on elder (Dyar). . trosula Nort. Atlantic County (Sm). . bilineata MacG. Del. Water Gap (Jn); Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . minuta MacG. - Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . incerta Nort. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll). . crassicornis Prov. Trenton V, 2 (Hk). ALLANTUS Jur. . basilaris Say. New Jersey (Coll). Sub-family CIMBICIN A”. ABIA Leach. . americana Cress. Canada to Missouri, larva on honeysuckle. . inflata Nort. (Zarea) New Brunswick (Sm); Dr. MacGillivray thinks this is the species listed as “kennicotti’” in the last edition. TRICHIOSOMA Leach. . triangulum Kirby. G. d.; larva on willow, wild cherry, ete. (Dyar). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 587 > mu : I) Fig. 238.—Willow saw-fly, Cimbex americana: a, willow leaf showing egg blisters; b, twig with girdlings; c, egg, enlarged; d, newly hatched larva, enlarged; e, larve; ® f, cocoon; g, same cut open to show pupa; h, pupa; i, male adult; j, k, ovipositor and its tip, enlarged. CIMBEX Oliv. C. americana Leach. Throughout the State, the larva common enough on willow, less so on elm, poplar and linden. The adult is rarely seen and the species has several varieties—“laportei” Lep., ‘“nortoni” » MacG., “luctifera’” Kirby, and ‘10—maculata” Nort., most of whick probably occur in the State. 588 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family HopLlocAMPIN~. HOPLOCAMPA Hartig. H. haicyon Nort. Iona IV, 20 (Dke); larva feeds on shad-bush. The “MacGillivrayella nigridorsum” Ashm. of previous list is a mss. name only and was undoubtedly based on a dark colored individual of this species. The specimen appears to be lost. : OPISTHONEURA Ashm. O. albidovaria Nort. (Hemichroa) Bellport, L. I, larva on black oak (Dyar); sure to occur in New Jersey. O. phytophagica Dyar. Larva on white oak in Van Cortland Park, N. Y. City (Dyar). HEMIE€HROA Curtis. H. americana Proy. Larva on alder, gregarious, near N. Y. (Dyar). H. fraternalis Nort. Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. City, larva on white oak (Dyar). Sub-family MonocreNINz#. 2 MONOCTENUS Dahlb. M. fulvus Nort. Great Notch (Dke). Sub-family CLADIIN#. PRIOPHORUS Dahlb. P. zequalis Nort. Probably to be found in New Jersey. P. acericaulis MacG. South Orange V, VI; larva bores into the leaf stem of sugar maple and sometimes causes partial defoliation. Very local. P. solitaris Dyar. Occurs near New York City on alder and wild cherry (Dyar). CLADIUS Ill. C. pectinicornis Fourc. The larva is general on roses in spring (Dyar),. and also feeds on clematis. Sub-family NEMATIN A. GYMNONYCHUS Marlatt. G. appendiculatus Hart. Clementon (Vk); this is the gooseberry saw-fly, which is sometimes locally common and injurious throughout the State. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 589 PACHYNEMATUS Konow. . corniger Nort. New Jersey (Cress); Riverton (Vk); Merchantville V, 26 (Dke); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk). . affinis Marl. Greenwood Lake, larva on grass (Jl). . extensicornis Nort. The larva feeds on wheat “throughout the north- eastern United States” (Marlatt). . subalbatus Nort. Toms-River (Bt). . gregarius Marl. (Micronematus) Englewood, on smooth-leafed willow (Dyar). PRISTIPHORA Latr. . idiota Nort. Orange Mts. VIII, 29, Jamesburg VIII, 8 (Coll); Iona V, 25 (Dke); the larva is said to be an important enemy of cranberry, and this is probably the species that is occasionally found in Atlantic Co: . sycophanta Walsh. Orange V, 24 (Coll); larva on willow, birch, “Vaccinium, ete. (Dyar). . banksi Marl. Del. Water Gap VII, 7, Clementon V, 16, Atco VI, 13 (Jn); Iona IV, 13 (Hk). . tibialis Nort. Long Island, and almost surely New Jersey. EUURA Newn. . nigra Prov. Riverton (Vk); all the species are gall-makers on willow (Dyar). . Salicis-covum Walsh. Makes a stem gall; near N. Y. City (Bt). PONTANIA Costa. . pallicornis Nort. Ft. Lee, folding leaves of smooth-leaved willow (Dyar). . pisum Walsh. Makes a pea-like gall on willow leaves, and surely occurs in New Jersey. . hyalina Nort. New Jersey (U SN M); makes galls on willow leaves. . robusta Marl. Ft. Lee, folding leaves of poplar (Dyar); Clementon Vile 9s (im): » pomum Walsh. A common gall-maker on bush willow (Bt). . gracilis Marl. Makes galls on willow leaves in Van Cortland Park (Dyar). - populi Marl. Ft. Lee (Dyar); makes a slight gall, and is a leaf roller on “‘Populus grandidentata” (Dyar). . terminalis Marl. Makes a slight gall, and is a leaf-roller on smooth willow, Van Cortland Park, N. Y. (Dyar). CRCESUS Leach. . latitarsus Nort. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll); larva gregarious on birch (Dyar). 590 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ae} ge) ast of ae) ae} ny PTERONUS Jur. . ostryze Marl. Ft. Lee, larva on blue beech (Dyar). . pinguidorsum Dyar. Monmouth Co., salt meadows VII, 31 (Coll). . Salicisodoratus Dyar. Trenton VII, 25 (Hk). . carpini Marl. Ft. Lee, larva on hop-hornbeam (Dyar). - longicornis Marl. Flatbush, L. I., and sure to be found in New Jersey. . integer Say. New Jersey (Cress); larva on oak ‘“Q. tinctoria’”’ (Dyar). . trilineatus Nort. Newark VI, 25, Trenton VIII, 16 (Coll); larva on locust. ribesi Scop. The larva is the common “currant worm,” and is found wherever a currant or gooseberry bush grows, often defoliating plan- tations completely. Arsenical sprays or hellebore act promptly and effectively. . erythrogaster Nort. Riverton (Vk). corylus Cress. Chester (Coll); Staten Island VI (Ds); larva gre- garious edge feeders on “Alnus” (Dyar) and “Corylus.” . ventralis Say. New Jersey (Cress); larva on willow and poplar. . cornelli Marl. Staten Island V, VI (Ds). . mendicus Walsh. (Nematus 3--vittatus Nort.) Larva on Willow, New- ark V, New Brunswick V (Coll). hyalinus Marl. Larva on white birch, Riverside Drive, N. Y. (Dyar). . quercus Marl. Larva on white oak, Bellport, L. I. (Dyar). NEMATUS Jur. . chloreus Nort. Larva on “Quercus coccinea,’ Bellport, L. I. (Dyar). sub-family BLENNOCAMPIN &. HYPARGYRICUS MacG. . fumipennis Nort. (Phymatocera) New Jersey (Cress); Del. Water Gap, larva on flowers of ‘“Smilacina’”’ (Young). This is the ““Melanose- landria zabriskei’” Ashm. of the previous list—a mss. name only. MONOPHADNUS Hartig. . tiliz Nort. New Jersey (Cress); Riverton (Vk). ISODYCTIUM Ashm. caryicola Dyar. Fort Lee, on hickory (Dyar). . dilutum Cress. Lucaston V, 9 (Dke). . subgregarius Dyar. Long Island, on rock oak, “Q. prinus’ (Dyar), and certain to be found in New Jersey. . infrequens Dyar. Larva on white oak on Long Island (Dyar). 0 Uno Ol wD THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. SI PERICLISTA Konow. - emarginata MacG. New York City on “Quercus coccinea” (Dyar). subtruncata Dyar. New York City on “Quercus coccinea” (Dyar). media Nort. New Jersey; larva a spring slug on white oak (Dyar). . albicollis Nort. Larva on black oak at Bellport, L. I. (Dyar). . purpuridorsum Dyar. L. I. to D. C.; larva on white oak (Dyar). TOMOSTETHUS Konow. . inhabilis Nort. (Blennocampa) Flatbush, N. Y., VI, 1, larva on pear (USNM). . bardus Say. (Monophadnus) Fort Lee, on ash (Dyar). MONOPHADNOIDES Ashm. . rubi Harr. The “raspberry saw-fly,’ common and locally sometimes very injurious in South Jersey. Arsenites at moderate strength serve as satisfactory remedies. . caryze Nort. The “hickory woolly worm’; quite common in 1897 at New Brunswick, Plainfield and other points. APHANISUS MacG. . nigritus MacG. Riverton (Vk). ERYTHASPIDES Ashm. . pygmzea Say. (Blennocampa) Generally distributed throughout the State; larva on grape; never harmful in my experience (Sm). Sub-family FENUSIN A. KALIOFENUSA MacG. . ulmi Lund. Larva mines the leaves of European elms, and certainly occurs in New Jersey. KALIOSYPHINGA Tischb. . dohrnii Tischb. (melanopoda Cam. — Fenusa curta Nort.) Brooklyn Parks; a leaf miner on alder and oak (Dyar). Sub-family- METALLIN A. METALLUS Forbes. . rubi Forbes. Larva mines in the leaves of “Rubus,” is injurious in Delaware, and almost certainly occurs in New Jersey. 592 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ag al fe Cag Chae n 1?) Sub-family HyLoToMiIn &. HYLOTOMA Latr. - abdominalis Leach. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Lahaway V, 19 (Coll); larva on willow (Dyar). . borealis Kirby. Delaware Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn). . dulcearia Say. Monmouth Co. salt marsh VII, 31 (Coll). . eximia Kirby. Clementon V, 16 (Jn). . humeralis Beauv. Newark, Lahaway V, 28 (Coll); Jamesburg VI, 16, larva on poison ivy (Dyar); Merchantville VII, 18, Atlantic City VII, 14 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Anglesea V, 30—-VI, 28 (div). . macleayi Leach. Del. Water Gap’ VII, 12 (Coll); Manahawkin VII, 5 (Hk); larva on wild cherry (Dyar), and on Chinese honeysuckle (Vk). . rubiginosa Beauv. Wenonah VI, 14 (Dke); Lahaway V, 28, Atlantic Co. (Sm). . scapularis Klug. Boonton (GG); Del. Water Gap VII, 11 (Jn); Cald- well (Cr); Chester VII, 20, Paterson V, 1, Newark V, New Brunswick IV, 21, Jamesburg VII, 4, Anglesea V, 28 (Coll); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); larva on oak (Dyar). . miniata Klug. Staten Island (Ds); Riverton VIII, 17, Iona VI, 2, Cape May VIII, 9 (Dke); Malaga VII, 20 (GG); Anglesea VIII, 5 (Hk). . pectoralis Leach. Laurel Springs V, 23, Manumuskin VI, 25 (Dke); larva on birch (Dyar), and on “Salix nigra” (Sz). ATOMACERA Say. . ruficollis Nort. (Micrarge) Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Riverton (Vk). . cellularis Say. (Schizocerus) Larva on sweet potato and almost cer- tain to be found in the State. Sub-family SCHIZOCERINA. SCHIZOCERUS LePel. . bilineatus Rohw. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . privatus Nort. Riverton, Avalon, the larger sweet potato saw-fly (Vk). . zabriskei Ashm. Bound Brook IX, 7, New Brunswick VIII, 5, Mercer Con Vil 25y(Coll)r « prunivorus Marl. Larva on wild cherry, Long Island (Dyar). . ebenus Nort. The common sweet potato saw-fly; throughout the sweet potato districts; but not injurious. . johnsoni MacG. Riverton IX, 5 (Jn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 593 Sub-family AcoRDULECERIN&. ACORDULECERA Say. A. dorsalis Say. Ft. Lee, larva on young leaves of oak (Dyar); James- burg VI, 16 (Coll); Riverton VIII, 14, Clementon V, 9 (Jn). These records probably represent more than one species (Vk). . biclinia Konow. Ocean County (Sm). . mixta MacG. Orange VI, 22 (Coll). - maura MacG. Merchantville (Dke). . Saginata Prov. Riverton (Dke). >>r> D> Family XIPHYDRID. Moderate-sized species with a cylindrical ovipositor and quite a long neck between the head and thorax. Abdomen sessile as in the preceding family. XIPHYDRIA Latr. X. maculata Say. (abdominalis Say.) Ft. Lee (Zabriskie); New Bruns- wick VI, 15, Milltown V, 27, Lahaway V, 26 (Coll). X. erythrogaster Ashm. Avalon VI, 30 (Jn). . tibialis Say. New Brunswick IV, 19, Atlantic Co. (Coll). X. attenuata Nort. (Konowia:—Brachyxiphus rufiventris Cress). New Jersey (Cress., Bradley). x Family SIRICIDA. These are the boring types in which the ovipositor is prolonged into a stout auger, the head closely applied to the thorax, the body hard and thoroughly chitinized. Abdomen sessile. PAURURUS Konow. P. cyaneus Fab. Lahaway IV, 7 (Coll). P. nigricornis Fab. New Jersey (Cress). SIREX Linn. S. albicornis Fab. Almost sure to occur in New Jersey. . flavicornis Fab. Occurs with the preceding. S. cressoni Nort., var. tricolor Prov. New Jersey (Cress). to?) 38 IN 594 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 239.—The Pigeon Tremex, T. columba: a, larva; b, its head enlarged; c, pupa of female; d, pupa of male; e, female adult. TREMEX Jur. T. columba Linn. The larva bores into the trunks of a variety of shade and orchard trees throughout the State, IX, sometimes causing con- siderable injury. It is popularly known as the “Pigeon Tremex,” and no practical method of dealing with it is known. It is. kept down by parasites, and as it usually attacks only weak or dying trees we can lessen the danger by keeping trees in good condition. “TT sericeus” Say, is now regarded as a variety. Family CEPHID/. These are loose-jointed, slender saw-flies of rather soft texture, with long, slender, peculiarly jointed antenne. The ovipositor is a little pro- duced and the larye live in stems of plants and the tender growth of trees and shrubs. JANUS Steph. J. integer Nort. (Cephus:—flaviventris Fitch.) Is the currant stem girdler, the larva tunnelling the pith of the currant. Its work is not rarely seen, but the insects are not common. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 595 J. abbreviatus Say. (Cephus) Larva bores into stems of willow and sure- ly occurs in New Jersey. TRACHELUS Jur. T. tabidus Fab. (Calamenta johnsoni Ashm.) Riverton V, 29 (Jn). ADIRUS Konow. A. trimaculatus Say. Trenton VII, 7 (Hk); Hammonton IX, Lahaway VI, 29 (Coll); the larva bores in the stems of blackberry canes, entering at the bottom and eating out the center to the tip. CEPHUS Latr. C. pygmzeus) Linn. (Astatus) The “wheat stem-borer,’ an introduced insect which has done considerable Fig. 240.—Wheat stem-borer, Cephus pygmeus: a, larva in outline; b, injury in New York; but has not yet same, enlarged; c, larva in wheat been actually found in New Jersey. stalk; e, adult, enlarged; f, a parasite infesting larva, It may be expected at almost any ; ; : ylso enlarged. time in the northern counties. Family ORYSSIDAE. Species in which the antenne are situated just above the mandibles under a sharp edge; the thorax and abdomen are so closely united as to be almost immobile. ORYSSUS Latr. O. sayi Westw. Ashland, Long Branch (Jn). O. terminalis Newn. Long Branch VI, 11 (Jn). Super-family CYNIPOIDEA. The insects of this series are “gall-wasps” or “gall flies,’ largely par- asitic upon plants, though many of them are true insect parasites. Some also are guests or inquiiines, inhabiting galls originally caused by other species. Hence it is not unusual to breed from a large multicellular gall several species of minute Hymenoptera; the true gall-maker in small numbers, the guests and parasites sometimes in great quantity. The galls are abnormal plant growths produced by the irritation of the minute larve upon the plant tissue, and each species produces its own peculiar gall, so that classification is possible from these abnormal 596 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. growths as from the insects themselves. The grubs do not feed upon the actual gall tissue, but lie in cells, apparently subsisting upon ma- terial secreted from the inner walls. A gall may have only one larval cell and is then unicellular, or it may have a great many, and is then multicellular. The ovipositor in this series is partly coiled within the abdomen, which is usually much dilated and © enlarged posteriorly, closely joined to the thorax, but not sessile. The life cycle is often very curious and complicated, and parthenogenesis is of frequent occurrence. In some species there is reason for believ- eae ing that the males have been com- pletely eliminated, while in others there is an alternation of genera- Fig. 241. tions, one having both sexes nor- mally present, while in the other the females only occur. None of the species are really harmful, nor, in this country, are any of them useful, though in some European countries galls are commercially important. The completeness of the records in this family is due to the pains- taking work of Mr. William Beutenmuller, whose collections in the vicinity of New York City are models of thoroughness. Only those species are included that have been actually found in New Jersey, or whose dis- tribution in connection with the food plant makes it almost certain that careful collection will demonstrate its presence. An oak gall-fly. Family FIGITID. Contains those species that are parasitic in most instances. EUCCELIDIA Ashm. E. canadensis Ashm. (Figites) Long Island, and almost surely New Jer- sey. SOLENASPIS Ashm. S. armatus Say. New Jersey (Ashm). EUCCELA Westw. E. pedata Say. New Jersey district. . stigmata Say. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). E. impatiens Say. (Psilodera) Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). m THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 597 ALLOTRIA Westw. . avenze Fitch. New Jersey district. . tritici Fitch. New Brunswick V, 20 (Sm). . brassiczee Ashm. Parasitic on the common cabbage louse. COTHONASPIS Ashm. . erythropus Ashm. Jamesburg VI (Sm). Family CYNIPID/. Contains those species, the majority of which are true gall makers. Sub-family SyNERGIN&. PERICLISTUS Forst. . sylvestris O. S. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee, Lakehurst, Toms River, from gall of “Diastrophus nebulosus” (Bt); New Brunswick (Sm). . pirata O. S. Staten Island (Bt Ds), from gall of “Rhodites globu- loides” (Bt). CEROPTRES Hart. . petiolicola O. S. Ft. Lee (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); from gall of “An- dricus petiolicola” (Bt). . tuber Fitch. Ft. Lee (Bt); New Brunswick, Monmouth Junction IV, 8, and quite generally throughout the State (Sm). . pisum Fitch. Greenwood Lake, Orange Mts., Ft. Lee, Carlstadt, Lake- hurst; from gall of “Acraspis pezomachoides” (Bt). . ficus Fitch. Ft. Lee, Carlstadt, Lakehurst (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick (Sm); from gall of “Biorhiza forticornis” (Bt). . inermis Walsh. Ft. Lee, from gall of “Cecidomyia pilule” (Bt). SYNERGUS Hart. . campanula O. S. Ft. Lee, from gall of “Holcaspis globulus (Bt). . leviventris O. S. Ft. Lee, from galls of “Amphibolips confluens” and “Holeaspis centricula” (Bt); New - Brunswick (Sm). . lana Fitch. Lakehurst (Ds). . lignicola O. S. Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee, Carlstadt, from galls of “Callirhytus cornigerus” and “C. punctatus” (Bt). . oneratus Harris. Ft. Lee, Lakehurst, from galls of “Holcaspis globu- lus” (Bt); New Brunswick (Sm). 598 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. aa) 2) a} a9) N. N. N. Sub-family CyNnrIpin a. PHILONYX Fitch. B fulvicollis Fitch. New Jersey district (Ashm). . gillettei Bass. New Jersey district; galls on leaves of white oak (Bt). . nigricollis Fitch. New Jersey district (Ashm). . Macrocarpee Bass. New Jersey district (Ashm); makes galls on leaves of “Q. macrocarpa” and “undulata” (Bt). . prinoides Bt. Lakehurst, Toms River, galls on leaves of “Q. prinoides” (Bt). . hirta Bass. Ft. Lee, galls on leaves of “Q. prinus’’ VIII, IX (Bt). » pezomachoides O. S. Throughout the State; galls on leaves of white oak, “Quercus alba,’ VIII-X (Bt). . erinacei Walsh. Common and g. d. throughout the State; galls on leaves of white oak VIII-X (Bt). . nigra Gill. New Jersey, on white, burr and dwarf chestnut oak. ZOPHEROTERAS Ashm. . vaccinii AShm. Canada to Florida (Ashm); galls on leaves of post oak, “Quercus minor” (Bt). BIORHIZA Westw. . forticornis Walsh. (Xanthoteras) Common and g. d. throughout the State; galls on branches of young white oak, “‘Q. alba,’ VIII—-X (Bt). . mellea Ashm. Lakehurst, on post oak. NEUROTERUS Hart. . noxiosus Bass. Ft. Lee; galls on terminal twigs of swamp white oak, “Q. platanoides” (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick (Sm). . verrucarum O.S. Lakehurst, Toms River; galls on leaves of post oak, [Qs minorca(Bt)). . floccosus Bass. (exiguissimus Bass.) Common and g. d. throughout the State: galls on underside of leaves of white and swamp white oak (Bt). . favosus Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee; galls on leaves of swamp oak, “Quercus palustris” (Bt). irregularis O. S. (Dolichostrophus) New Jersey (Ashm); galls on leaves of post oak (Bt). batatus Fitch. Common and g. d. throughout the State; galls on twigs of young white oak shoots (Bt). ‘ umbilicatus Bass. Ft. Lee, Staten Island; galls on underside of leaves of swamp wiite oak “Quercus platanoides” (Bt). N. pallidus Bass. “New Jersey”; galls on clusters at or near end of the aments of swamp white oak, V (Bt). N. exiguus Bass. Lakehurst, galls on flower clusters of post oak (Bt). N. N. N. N. N. D. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 599 minutus Bass. “New Jersey’; galls on petiole of leaf of white oak, Veo (Bt): majalis Bass. “New Jersey”; galls on leaves of white and rock chestnut oak, “Q. alba” and “Q. prinus” V, VI (Bt). vesiculus Bass. (affinis Bass.) “New Jersey’; galls on buds of white oak and scrub chestnut oak IV, V (Bt). . gillettei Bass. Lakehurst, galls on petioles and midribs of leaves of post oak (Bt). . pallipes Bass. “New Jersey’; galls on very young leaves of white oak (Bt). . tectus Bass. “New Jersey”; galls on scrub chestnut oak (Bt). . distortus Bass. “New Jersey’; galls on branchlets of swamp white oak, “Q. platanoides’”’; V (Bt). Fig. 242.—Cynips q-spongifica, gall on oak; a, larva in its cell; b, point of exit. ¢ niger Gillette. (perminimus Bass.) Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on leaves of burr and swamp white oak (Bt). papiliosus Beut. Bronx Park, N. Y., on swamp white oak (Bt), and sure to occur in New Jersey. LOXAULUS Mayr. mammula Bass. New Jersey Dist. (Ashm); galls on branches of white oak, “Q. alba” (Bt). DRYOPHANTA Forst. . lanata Gill. Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on underside of leaves of red and scarlet oak, “Q. rubra” and “‘Q. coccinea” IX, X (Bt). carolina Ashm. Ft. Lee Dist., Lakehurst; galls on under side of leaves of white and scrub chestnut oak VIII, IX (Bt). gemmula, Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on buds and flowers of scrub chestnut oak “Q. prinoides’” V, VI (Bt). \ 600 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. D. . inanis O. S. Del. Water Gap . ilicifolia Bass. Staten Island . celebs O. SB. Staten Island, pedunculata Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on leaves of red and scar- let oak, “‘Q. rubra” and “Q. coccinea” (Bt). ignota Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on underside of leaves of swamp white oak, “Q. platanoides” (Bt). . longicornis Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on tender shoots of post oak “Q. minor” (Bt). . papula Bass. New Jersey Dist.; Toms River; galls on leaves of red, scarlet and black oak, “Q. rubra,’ “coccinea,” “velutina”’ (Bt). . polita Bass. Jamesburg (Ds); Lakehurst, Toms River; galls on leaves of post oak, “Q. minor” VIII, IX (Bt). HOLCASPIS Mayr. . fasciata Bass. Ft. Lee, Lakehurst, galls on twigs of red and scrub oak, “Q. rubra” and “nana,” IX (Bt); Staten Island, on black Jack oak, ‘“Q. marylandica” (Ds). . globulus Fitch. Common and g. d. throughout the State; galls on small twigs of white oak (Bt). . rugosa Bass. Lakehurst, Toms River; galls on twigs of scrub chest- nut oak ‘“‘Q. prinoides” (Bt). . centricola O. S. Lakehurst, Toms River; galls on leaves of post oak VIII, [X (Bt, Ds). . duricoria Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Greenwood Lake, Ft. Lee, Carl- stadt and probably g. d.; galls IX—VI on branches of white oak (Bt). CYNIPS Linn. . strobilana O. S. Del. Water Gap VII (Sm); Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee, galls on terminal twigs of swamp white oak IX (Bt). AMPHIBOLIPS Reinh. . . confluens Harris. Throughout the State V, VI; makes galls on leaves of red, black and scarlet oak (Bt). VII, 9 (Jn); Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee, galls on leaves of scarlet and red oak, “Q. coccinea” and “rubra” V, VI (Bt). (Ds); Vineland, Lakehurst, Toms River V, VI; galls on leaves and petioles of scrub oak (Bt). Farmingdale, Manasquan V, = VI, galls on leaves of scarlet Fig. 243. ampRiwalips inanis: gall showing the rayed structure. oak, “Q. coccinea” (Ds). 7 2 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 601 . cookii Gill. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee, Lakehurst IX; galls on buds of red and black oak (Bt). . tinctoria Ashm. Manasquan ; gall in axils of leaves of scarlet oak (Ds). - globulus Beut. Lakehurst; galls on leaves of black Jack oak (Bt). . nubilipennis Harr. Ft. Lee VI; galls on leaves of red and black oak (Bt). . prunus Walsh. Throughout the State VIII, IX; galls on acorn cups of red and scrub oak, “Q. rubra” and “nana” (Bt). CALLIRHYTIS FoOrst. . clavula Bass. G. d. throughout the State; galls on terminal twigs of white oak (Bt). . cornigera O. S. Ft. Lee, Greenwood Lake, Carlstadt, g. d. (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); galls on branches of pin oak, “Q. palustris” (Bt). . operator O.S. Staten Island (Ds); galls on catkins and terminal twigs of scrub oak V, VI (Bt). . seminator Harr. Throughout the State; galls on twigs of white oak. . futilis O. S. Throughout the State, VI, VII; galls on leaves of white oak. . papillatus O. S. (Andricus) Ft. Lee VI, galls on leaves of rock chest- nut oak (Bt). . punctata Bass. Local throughout the State; galls on branches of black Jack and red oak (Bt). . tubicola O. S. Lakehurst; gall on post oak VIII, IX (Bt). . similis Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Lakehurst, Toms River, galls at ends of twigs of scrub oak (Bt). . palustris O. S. Throughout the State; galls, V, VI, on leaves of red, black and pin oak (Bt). . saccularis Bass. Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on leaves of scarlet oak (Bt). . pulchra Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on aments of red and black oak (Bt). . seminiosa Bass. Ft. Lee Dist., Staten Island; galls on branches of red oak (Bt). . radicis Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on trunk near root of white oak (Bt). . capsula Bass. Lakehurst (Ds); galls on leaves of swamp white oak, “Q. platanoides” V, VI (Bt). . nigre O. S.. Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on underside of leaves of black Jack oak, “Q. marylandica” (Bt). . tumifica O. S. Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on midrib of red and black oak V, Vil CBE): clarkei Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on sterile flowers of scrub oak, [Qo nana EV. Vv Bt): 602 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. tuberosa Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on shoots of scrub oak V, VI (Bt) . scitula Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on branches of black oak (Bt). i?) ANDRICUS Hart. e . piger Bass. Ft. Lee Dist.; galls on midribs of leaves of black oak (Bt). é atropus Ashm. Lakehurst VIII, [X; galls on buds of post oak (Bt). . coronus Beut. Ft. Lee Dist. V; galls on twigs of pin and red oak (Bt). . frondosus Bass. Lakehurst VIII, IX; galls on terminal twigs of scrub: oak (Bt). ' A. davisi Beut. Lakehurst IX, the type locality (Bt Ds); Tuckerton (Ds); Toms River, galls on branches of scrub oak (Bt). A. topiarius Ashm. Lakehurst VIII, IX; galls on buds of post oak (Bt). A. piperoides Bass. Ft. Lee Dist. IX, X; galls on midrib of leaves of red oak (Bt). A. pruinosus Bass. New Jersey Dist. V, VI; galls on leaves or sterile stamens of post oak (Bt). A. exiguus Bass New Jersey Dist. V, VI; galls on the aments of post oak (Bt). A. utriculus Bass. New Jersey Dist.; galls on leaves of white oak (Bt). A. ostensackenii Bass. Ft. Lee, Lakehurst V, VI; galls on leaves of scrub and scarlet oak (Bt). A. singularis Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee V, VI; galls on leaves of red oak “Q. rubra” (Bt). A. chinquapin Fitch. New Jersey Dist. (Ashm); galls on leaves of swamp white oak (Bt). A. fusiformis O. S. New Jersey Dist. (Ashm); galls on leaves of white oak (Bt). A. flocci Walsh. Throughout the State VIII-X; galls common on the underside of the leaves of white oak (Bt). A. petiolicola Bass. Throughout the State; galls on petiole, base of leaf or midrib of “Q. platanoides,” “prinus,”’ “alba” and “minor” (Bt). A. pattoni Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Lakehurst, galls on leaves of post oak (Bt Ds). SOLENOZOPHERIA Ashm. S. vaccinii Ashm. Ft. Lee, Carlstadt, Jamesburg, Lakehurst, Toms River VIII-V; galls on huckleberry sp. (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). GONASPIS Ashm. G. potentille Bass. Common and g. d.; galls in leaf axils of ‘“Potentilla canadensis” (Bt). DIASTROPHUS Hart. D. niger Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee, rare, galls on stems of “Po- tentilla canadensis” (Bt). D. minimus Bass. Ft. Lee, rare, galls on stems of “P. canadensis” (Bt). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 603 D. nebulosus O. S. Common throughout the State; galls VIII-VI, on stalks of blackberry, “Rubus villosus” (Bt). D. cuscutzformis Harr. Lo- cally common throughout the State, galls on stems of blackberry ‘Rubus villosus” (Bt). D. radicum Bass. Through- out the State, locally common; galls at roots of black, raspberry and dewberry (Bt); rarely occurs in cultivated fields, and never as an injurious form. D. bassettii Beut. Ft. Lee Dist., Lakehurst, galls on stem at root of dewberry, “R, canadensis” (Bt); Staten Island (Ds) ; Riverton IV (Dke). AULAX Hart. i HLL A. similis Bass. (Diastro- Fig. 244.—Blackberry knot gall, Diastrophus ne- phus) Alpine VI, not bulosus: a, gall showing exit holes of adult, common; galls on stems natural size; b, section through same showing the cells; c, larva, enlarged; and leaves of ground ivy, plies enlaeed “Nepeta glechoma”’ (Bt). A. podagrz Bass. Staten Island; galls on wild lettuce VII-VI (Bt). A. tumidus Bass. (Aulacidea) Local throughout the State; gall on stalk of wild lettuce, “Lactuca canadensis” (Bt). A. mulgedicola Ashm. (Aulacidea) New Jersey Dist. (Ashm); gall in pith of wild lettuce “Mulgedium acuminatum” (Bt). RHODITES Hart. semipiceus Harr. Ft. Lee; galls on roots of “Rosa lucida,” “carolina” and “rubiginosa”’ (Bt). R. radicum O. S. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee, galls on roots of “R. caro- lina Bt): R. roszefolii Ckll. Ft. Lee Dist., galls on leaves of ‘Rosa lucida” (Bt). R. nebulosus Bass. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee Dist., galls on leaves of “Rosa lucida” and “rubiginosa” (Bt). R. globuloides Beut. Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee Dist., galls on stems of “Rosa carolina” (Bt). a 604 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. R. dichlocerus Harr. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee Dist., gall on stem of “Rosa carolina” (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). R. ignotus O. S. Ft. Lee Dist., galls on leaves and petiole of “Rosa blanda,” “carolina” and “nitida”’ (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). R. rose Linn. Throughout the State, local; gall on “R. rubiginosa” (Bt). . vernus O. S. Staten Island (Ds); gall on stem of “R. lucida” (Bt). R. bicolor Harr. Throughout the State; gall on stem of “R. carolina” (Bt). av Family IBALIID/. IBALIA Latr. l. ensigera Nort. New Jersey district (Ashm). I. maculipennis Hald. Fort Lee district (Bt). HETEROPHAGA. The species of this series vary greatly in their habits and appearance, but none of them have the abdomen sessile or united for its full width to the thorax, and none of them feed openly upon vegetation by devouring plant tissue. There are collectors of plant products, like honey and pollen, and some feeders in stems and seeds, but the latter habit is rather exceptional. Super-family ICHNEUMONOIDEA. Contains moderate sized species on the whole, the wings with a well- arranged series of veins, antennze not elbowed, ovipositor attached before the end of the abdomen and sometimes very long. As a whole, parasitic on other insects. ; In this and the other series of parasitic forms the actual records are not always as full and satisfactory as they might be. Many species are never obtained unless actually bred from their hosts, and by no means all the host species in New Jersey have been bred. It has been deemed advisable, therefore, to include those species of wide distribution bred from host insects which are actually known to occur with us. The rule is that a native parasite has the same distribution as its host, and, while there are many exceptions to this, they will hardly be among such species as are included here. Family STEPHANIDA. STEPHANUS Jur. S. cinctipes Cress. Pennsylvania and New York, and sure to occur in New Jersey. — S. rufipes Say. (Megischus) Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey. >>> D> > >>> PP Y DY THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 605 Family BRACONIDAE. APHIDIUS Nees. . Phorodontis Ashm. Parasite on plum louse, “Phorodon mahaleb.” . higriceps Ashm. New Jersey probably (Ashm). . obscuripes Ashm. New Jersey probably (Ashm). . bicolor Ashm. Riverton V, 13 (Jn). . americanus Ashm. Parasite on the wheat louse, “Siphonophora avene.” . brunneiventris Ashm. Also parasitic on wheat louse. . pterocomee Ashm. Parasite on “Pterocoma salicicola.” . ribis AShm. A parasite on the currant louse. Fig. 245.—Lysiphlebus tritict, parasite of the spring grain-aphis: fe- male adult and antenna of male; greatly enlarged. . ribaphidis Ashm. (Lysiphlebus) A parasite on currant louse. . citraphis Ashm. Bred from rose louse, “Siphonophora rose.” myzi Ashm. Parasitic on “Myzus ribis,’ a currant louse. : persicaphidis Ashm. Bred from cherry louse, New Brunswick VI, 22. . Salicaphis Fitch. (Adialytus) Parasite on a willow plant louse. - populaphis Fitch. Parasitic on a poplar plant louse. . Papee Curt. (Lipolexis) Parasitic on cabbage louse. TRIOXYS Halid. . rhagii Ashm. Ridgewood, reared from “Rhagium lineatum’” XI, 16 (U SNM). Mr. Viereck thinks this host record an error, and that there must have been some plant louse associated with the material from which this specimen was bred. 606 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PRAON Halid. P. avenaphis Fitch. (Aphidius) Throughout South Jersey, parasitic on the common wheat louse (Sm). P. cerasaphis Fitch. Parasite of cherry plant louse. OPIUS Wesm. O. anthomyiz Ashm. (Biosteres) Parasitic on an “Anthomyid,”’ mining leaves of Dock. O. floridanus Ashm. (Desmiostoma) New Brunswick VII (Sm); a mss. name only. O. sanguineus Ashm. Reared from “Trypetids,’ living in galls on “So- lanum carolinense.” ZELE Halid. Z. uniformis Prov. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm); 1 spec. without locality label is in Coll. Z. truncator Say. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). MACROCENTRUS Curt. Fig. 246.—Codling moth parasite, Macrocentrus delicatus: enlarged. M. delicatus Cress. Throughout the State; a parasite on the codling moth, “Caccecia fervidana”’ and other Tortricid larve, “Acronyeta oblinita,” etc. (el te) (e) (@) onow w . gelechiz Ashm. (Orgilomorpha) Bred from “Gelechia prunifoliella. . lithocolletidis Ashm. Bred from “Lithocolletis hamadrya”’ (Ashm). . lactucaphis Fitch. (Pygostolus) Parasite of lettuce plant louse. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 607 . crambi Ashm. (Amicoplus) Philadelphia V, 1 (Jn); parasite on “Crambus zeellus,’ a corn root web-worm, which is common in New Jersey. . Solidaginis Ashm. Reared from “Caccecia fervidana,”’ and from a gall maker in Solidago; a mss. name. .» nuperus Cress. New York (Ashm), and probably New Jersey; a para- site on “Crambus zeellus.” EUMACROCENTRUS Ashm. . americanus Cress. Canada to Virginia (Cress). HELCON Nees. . ligator Say. Camden VI, 17 (Jn). . dentipes Brulle. Parasitic on the longicorn beetles, “Callidium ” zreum,” “Rhopalophora longipes” and “‘Curius dentatus.” GYMNOSCELUS Forst. . pedalis Cress. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). CARDIOCHILES Nees. . abdominalis Say. Long Island and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . tibiator Say. Riverton VIII, 14 (Jn). . apicalis Cress. Del. Water Gap VII, 15 (Jn); Atco VII, 4 (Sz). . populator Say. (Cenoccelius) Common and widely distributed (Ashm). ICHNEUTES Nees. fulvipes Cress. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). CENTISTES Halid. . americanus Riley. Parasitic on lady-bird beetle, ““Megilla maculata.” BLACUS Nees. . orchesiz Ashm. Parasitic on the beetle ‘“Orchesia castanea.”’ ” PYGOSTOLUS Halid. » americanus Ashm. A parasite of the Hessian fly. CALYPTUS Halid. . magdali Cress. (Leiphron) Parasitic on “Magdalis olyra.” » major Cress. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). 608 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. EUBADIZON Nees. E. americanus Cress. Described from New Jersey (Cress). E. phymatodis Ashm. (Leiophron) Bred at New Brunswick from larva of ““‘Phymatodes amcenus” (Sm). METEORUS Halid. M. communis Cress. Del. Water Gap VII, 1, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn). M. dimidiatus Cress. Parasitic on the common cut worm, ‘“‘Agrotis sub- gothica,” and widely distributed. M. vulgaris Cress. New Jersey (Cress. Coll); parasitic on “Omphalo- cera cariosa” and “‘Tetralopha platanella.” M. indigator Riley. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); Jamesburg (Coll); parasitic on ‘“‘Acrobasis juglandis” and. “‘Pionea rimosalis.” Fig. 247.—Meteorus hyphantriae, parasite on fall web- worm, and its cocoon: enlarged. M. hyphantrize Riley. Common parasite of the fall web-worm and white-marked tussock moth. Mi. orchesize Ashm. Reared from ‘“‘Orchesia castanea’”’ and “Myceto- chares binotata.”’ M. palliditarsis Cress. (Zemiotes) Cramer Hill V, 21 (Jn); type local- ity New Jersey. MICROTONUS Wesm. M. americanus Ashm. Jamesburg (Sm); a MSs. species. ‘ PERILITUS Nees. P. americanus Riley. Parasitic on “Megilla maculata.” Sf) See THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 609 . gastrophysze Ashm. Parasitic on “Gastrophysa cyanea.” . hopkinsi Ashm. Reared from “Polygraphus rufipennis.” EUPHORUS Nees. . mellipes Cress. (Persistenus) New Jersey (Cress). . sculptus Cress. (Dinocamptus) New Jersey probably (Ashm). MYIOCEPHALUS Marsh. . laticeps Prov. (Loxocephalus bodps) Long Island and _ probably New Jersey. EARINUS Wesm. . limitaris Say. Staten Island IV (Ds); New York, common (Ashm). MICRODUS Nees. . agilis Cress. Jamesburg VII, 15, also bred from plum curculio and “Caceecia fervidana” (Coll). . annulipes Cress. Jamesburg, Woodbury VI, 27 (Jn). . earinoides Cress. Parasitic on bud-moth, “Coleophora cinderella” and “Eccopsis malana.” . imitatus Cress. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . simillimus Cress. New Jersey (Cress Coll); reared from ‘“Pedisca strenuana”’ and “Lixus scrobicollis.” . johnsoni Ashm. Jamesburg (Jn); a mss. name. . texanus Cress. Cramer Hill VI, 11, Westville VI, 27 (Jn). . solidaginis Ashm. (Mss) Riverton IX, 5, Clementon V, 30 (Jn). . laticinctus Cress. Parasite on bud moth, “Tmetocera ocellana.” . Sanctus Say. Jamesburg, from ‘“Botis feudalis” (Coll); also para- sitie on ‘‘Nisoniades juvenalis” and “Pholisora catullus.” ELASMOSOMA Ruthe. . pergandei Ashm. In nests of “Camponotus melleus.” AGATHIS Latr. . tibiator Prov. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . rubripes Cress. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . perforator Prov. (Microdus) New York, Pennsylvania and surely New Jersey as well. , exorata Cress. Parasitic on the common garden web-worm. . liberator Brullé. (Cremnops) Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). . hagmatodes Brullé. (Cremnops) New Jersey (Cress Coll). . vulgaris Cress. (Cremnops) Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick (Sm). . semirubra Brullé. Clementon V, 30 (Jn); New Jersey (Cress). 39 IN 610 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. M. M. M. M. . carinata Pack. A parasite of the “atalanta”’ butterfly. . mellipes Say. (Orgilus) Atco VI, 18 (Jn). . nephoptericis Pack. Parasitic on “Vitula edmandsii.” Fig. 248.—Micro- . brevicauda Prov. (Dioleogaster) New MICROGASTER Latr. gelechiz Riley. Woodbury VI, 27 (Jn); reared from “Gelechia gallesolidaginis,’ which is locally common in New Jersey. gaster species. . maculipennis Cress. Anglesea IX, 9 (Vk). . zonaria Say. (Hypomicrogaster) New York and probably New Jer- sey (Ashm). . rubricoxa Prov. (Hygroplitis) Long Island and probably New Jer- sey (Ashm). York (Ashm); Philadelphia VIII, 25 (Jn), and surely occurs in New Jersey. MICROPLITIS Forst. Vig. 249. — Caterpillar cov- . gortynz Riley. Reared from stem borers, ered: wit eee ee det Microgaster. “Achatodes” and “Hydreecia. ae ceratomiz Riley. Newark, New Brunswick (Coll); reared from Sphingid larve. bicolor Ashm. Avalon VI, 30 (Jn); a mss. name. mamestree Weed. Parasite on larva of ‘“Mamestra picta.” hyphantriz Ashm. One of the parasites of the fall web-worm. APANTELES Forst. Sub-genus PROTAPANTELES Ashm. Fig. 250.—Apanteles aleti@, parasite of the cotton moth, introduced to show the appearance of the insects. a ee ee ae Poorer St ee Pb eee Se ee > A. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 611 . limenitidis Riley. Philadelphia (Ashm), and probably New Jersey; parasitic on “Limenitis archippus.” The variety ‘“flaviconche”’ Riley is also on the army worm. . lunatus Pack. Parasitic on larva of “Papilio.” scitulus Riley. Parasite on “Spilosoma virginica.” . acronycta Riley. New Jersey; bred from larva of ‘‘Acronycta” sp. (Sm). . smerinthi Riley. New Brunswick (Sm); parasitic on Smerinthid larve. . xylinus Say. New Erunswick, reared from “Smerinthus geminatus” (Sm); also on “Spilosoma virginica” and ‘‘Pionea rimosalis.” . argynnidis Riley. Parasitic on larva of ‘“‘Argynnis cybele.” . carduicola Pack. Parasite on the species of “Pyrameis.”’ . flavicornis Riley. Parasitic on ‘““Nisoniades juvenalis.” . gillettei Baker. Parasitic on “Caccecia argyrospila.”’ . glomeratus Linn. Common throughout the State and parasitic on a great variety of caterpillars, including those of the cabbage butter- flies. . theclz Riley. Parasitic on larva of ‘‘Thecla”’ sp. hyphantrize Riley. Parasitic on the fall web-worm. junoniz Riley. Parasite on the larva of “Junonia ccenia.” militaris Walsh. Parasite on the army worm. orgyiz Ashm. Reared from the larva of the Tussock moth. cassianus Riley. A parasite of “Terias nicippe.”’ crambi Weed. Reared from larva of ‘““Crambus exsiccatus.” cyanidiris Riley. Reared from ‘“Lyczna pseudargiolus.” . ephestize Baker. A parasite of the Mediterranean flour moth. palzeacritz Riley. Parasitic on the spring canker worm. . politus Riley. A parasite of “Scolecocampa liburna.”’ . sarrothripze Weed. Parasite on “Nycteola revayana.”’ . empretize Ashm. New Jersey, bred from larva of ‘“Empretia stimulea”’; a mss. name. . congregatus Say. Throughout the State; one of the commonest para- sites on Sphingid caterpillars. The variety “hemileuce”’ Riley was reared from Saturniids, and the variety “rufocoxalis’” Riley from the army worm. . atalantee Pack. Taken at Philadelphia and parasitic on “Pyrameis atalanta” and “‘Vanessa milberti.” . crassicornis Prov. (Urogaster) Riverton IX, 5 (Jn). . forbesii Vier. (Urogaster) Riverton V, 30 (Jn). . ensiger Say. (Urogaster carpatus Say.) Atco VI, 13 (Jn); a common parasite on many kinds of caterpillars from ‘Papilio’ to ‘Tinea.’ hartii Vier. (Urogaster) Philadelphia VIII, 28 (Jn); a parasite of “Pyrausta nelumbialis.” 612 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. cacoecia Riley. (Urogaster) Parasitic on ‘“Caccecia semiferana.” The species “Pseudapanteles consimilis’ Ashm., “terminalis” Ashm., “gallediploppi’ Ashm. have not been sanctioned by description. NnNDN DH ol (el) (ey ie) (ei (a) @) @)-& SPHAZROPYX III. bicolor Cress. New Brunswick IX, 17 (Coll). PHANEROTOMA Wlsm. . tibialis Hald. New Brunswick V (Coll). Parasitic on “Grapholitha caryana.” MIRAX Halid. . aspidiscze Ashm. Parasitic on “Aspidisca splendoriferella.” . grapholithe Ashm. Parasitic on “Grapholitha prunivora.” lithocolletidis AShm. A parasite of ‘“Lithocolletis ornatella.”’ SIGALPHUS Latr. . tibiator Cress. Type locality in New Jersey. . curculionis Fitch, A parasite of the plum curculio. . rufiscapus Prov. Shark River VII, 12 (Jn). . virginiensis Ashm. Egg Harbor VI, bred from strawberry weevil. UROSIGALPHUS Ashm. . robustus AShm. Lakehurst VII 7 (Coll). CHELONUS Jur. . biannularis Ashm. Cape May VI, 22 (Jn); a mss. name. . basilaris Say. Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . electus Cress. Atlantic City VII (Jn). . lunatus Hald. New Jersey probably (Ashm). . basicinctus Prov. Clementon V, 30 (Jn). . sericeus Say. New Jersey, not common (Bt). . sobrinus Hald. Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . lavernzee Ashm. Parasite on “Laverna eloisella.” parvus Say. A parasite on “Cecidomyia strobiloides.” . fissus Prov. New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg V, 31, Lakehurst VII, 7, Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). ASCOGASTER Wism. . pallidicornis Ashm. Newark VI, 16, Jamesburg (Sm); a mss. name. . provancheri D. T. (rubripes Prov.) New Brunswick V, 20, James- burg (Sm). slike lise wp ee) 0 ois) ewe oo ae, THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 613 RHOGAS Nees. ) . abdominalis Cress. New Jersey (Cress). aciculatus Cress. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . burrus Cress. A parasite on larve of ‘““Acronycta” sp. . intermedius Cress. Westville IV, 19 (Jn); Ocean Co. V (Sm); reared from various species of ‘‘Acronycta.” lectus Cress. New Jersey (Cress). . terminalis Cress. Boonton (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton VII, 3 (Jn); parasitic on the army worm and on “Nephelodes violans.”’ . parasiticus Nort. Ocean Co. (Sm); parasite on “Lophyrus abietis.” . rileyi Cress. Clementon V, 30 (Jn); parasitic on “Acronycta oblinita’”’ and ‘“‘Nephelodes violans.” . stigmator Say. Merchantville III, 13 (Jn). canadensis Cress. Reared from “Ichthyura inclusa.”’ . harrisinzee Ashm. Parasitic on “Harrisina americana.” . melleus Cress. Parasitic on “Ichthyura,”’ “Aplodes,”’ ‘‘Eucrostis,”’ ete. . nolophanz Ashm. Reared from “Nolophana malana.” . platypterygus Ashm. Parasitic on “Platypteryx arcuata.”’ . discoideus Cress. (Pelecystoma) New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm). HETEROGAMUS Wism. . fumipennis Cress. Parasitic on “Sphinx” and “Cressonia” larve. HECABOLUS Curt. . lycti Cress. Pennsylvania (Cress) and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . minimus Cress. Pennsylvania (Cress) and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . utilis Cress. New York (Cress) and probably New Jersey (Ashm). CLINOCENTRUS Halid. . mellipes AShm. New Jersey probably (Ashm). CHREMYLUS Halid. . terminalis Ashm. Widely distributed and sure to occur in New Jersey. CALLIHORMIUS Ashm. . stigmatus Ashm. Camden VIII, 26 (Jn); a mss. name. DORYCTES Halid. . pallipes Prov. Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . exhalans Say. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). 614 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. @) @) GL &) n DnnDD DH ODONTOBRACON Cam. . bicolor Ashm. Camden VI, 30 (Jn); a mss. name. ECPHYLUS Forst. . pallidus Ashm. Parasitic in larva feeding on red-bud (Ashm). . hypothenemi Ashm. Bred from ‘‘Hypothenemus’”’ sp. SACTOPUS Ashm. . schwarzii Ashm. Anglesea VII, 24 (Sz); a mss. name. CCENOPHANES Féorst. . anthaxiz Ashm. Reared from larva of “Anthaxia viridicornis.” . hylotrupides Ashm. Parasitic on “Hylotrupes ligneus.” . languriz Ashm. Parasitic on “Languria.” . pityophthori Ashm. A parasite of “Pityophthorus.” LYSITERMUS Forst. - scolyticida Ashm. A parasite of “‘Scolytus 4-spinosus.” SPATHIUS Nees. . honestor Say. Lahaway IV, 1 (Coll, Ashm). . simillimus Ashm. Widely distributed (Ashm); parasitic on ‘“‘Agrilus bilineatus.” . canadensis Ashm. Widely distributed through the U. S. (Ashm); parasitic on various bark beetles. . claripennis Ashm. Reared from “Polygraphus rufipennis.” . pallidus Ashm. Parasite on “Callidium variabilis.”’ . unifasciatus Ashm. Bred from “Scolytus 4—-spinosus.”’ RHYSSALUS Halid. . atriceps Ashm. Parasitic on ‘“‘Caccecia rosaceana.”’ . loxotzeniz Ashm. Parasitic on “Loxotenia clemensiana.” . selandriz Ashm. Reared from “Eriocampa cerasi.” . trilineatus Ashm. Parasitic on “Coleophora caryefoliella.”’ BRACON Fab. . apicatus Prov. Near Philadelphia V, 17 (Jn); and probably New Jer- sey (Ashm). . scrutator Say. Common in New York and Pennsylvania and probably in New Jersey (Ashm). . euurzee Ashm. Atlantic Co. V, parasitic on raspberry saw fly (Sm). . nNigropectus Prov. Ocean Co. V (Sm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 618 B. dorsator Say. Trenton V, 20 (Hk). B. catochze Ashm. Atlantic Co., a parasite in ““Adirus (Cephus) trimac- ulatus” (Coll). . mellitor Say. (xanthostigmus Cress.) New Brunswick VII, 21 (Sm); Westville VI, 6, Clementon V, 30, VI, 6 (Jn). . cookii AShm. Ocean Co. V (Sm). pygmezeus Prov. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). . bucculatrix Ashm. Bred from “Bucculatrix”’ sp. pomifoliellzae Ashm. Parasitic on “Bucculatrix pomifoliella.”’ . rhyssemati Ashm. A parasite of ‘““Rhyssematus lineaticollis.” oO . gastroidez Ashm. Bred from “Gastroidea cyanea.” . trifolii Ashm. Bred from a tortricid in flower heads of white clover. . rugator Say. (Glyptomorpha) Westville VI, 6, Clementon VIII, 11 (Jn); Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke). . charus Riley. (Melanobracon) Parasite on the flat-head apple-borer. von D oO WD O wow . pectinator Say. (Melanobracon) Parasitic on ‘“Saperda_ vestita,” “Melanophila fulvoguttata’” and “Chrysobothris femorata.”’ . rugosiventris Ashm. Dover VII, 16 (Jn). . simplex Cress. Clementon VIII, 11, Avalon VI, 30 (Jn). . gelechiz Ashm. (Habrobracon) Parasite on “Gelechia cinerella.” . hebetor Say. Cramer Hill V, 21 (Jn). . pissodis Ashm. (Cceliodis) Parasite of the white pine weevil. DOoOwdowys MACRODYCTIUM Ashm. M. flaviventris Ashm. Ocean Grove V (Sm); a mss. name. IPHIAULAX Forst. ]. agrili Ashm. Parasite on “Agrilus fulgens’” and “‘Neoclytus erythro- cephalus.” l. erythrogaster Brullé. Bred from ‘“‘Cyllene picta.” VIPIO Latr. V. schwarzi Ashm. New York to Georgia, and probably New Jersey (Ashm). Family ALYSID/. CCELINIUS Nees. C. meromyzz Forbes. Parasitic on “Meromyza americana.” DACNUSA Halid. D. smithii Ashm. Ocean Grove V (Sm); a mss. name. 616 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. > > > > P. TANYSTROPHA Forst. » americana Ashm, Ocean Grove V (Sm); a mss. name. MESOCRINA Forst. . microrhopalze Ashm. Bred from ‘‘Microrhopala xerene.”’ . pegomyize Brues. A parasite on the common cabbage maggot. APHZERETE Forst. . muscee AShm. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); a parasite of the “horn- fly’ and other Diptera. » auripes Prov. New Jersey, probably (Ashm). . pallipes Say. New Brunswick (Sm). » pegomyize Brues. A parasite of the common cabbage maggot. . oscinidis Ashm. Bred from “Oscinis” sp., mining leaves of “‘Plantago major.” ALYSIA Latr. . ridibunda Say. (Cratospila rubicunda) Westville VI-VIII (div); Woodbury V, 27 (Jn); and probably throughout the State (Vk). GRAMMOSPILA Forst. . triticaphis Fitch. New Jersey, bred from a wheat louse (Sm). Family CAPITONIIDA. CAPITONIUS Brullé. . ashmeadii D. T. (Cenoccelius rubriceps Ratz.) Camden VI, 22 (Jn); Rocky Hill VI (Coli); bred from ‘‘Sternidius alpha,” living in pith of “Rhus glabra.” Family ICHNEUMONID/. EUSTERINX Forst. . neglegere Davis. New Jersey (Davis); the type locality. ATELEUTE Forst. . elongata Davis. Atlantic City (Sm); the type locality. PLECTISCUS Grav. pleuralis Cress. A species of general distribution and sure to be found in New Jersey. THE INSHETS (OF NEW I JERSEY:. 617 ADELOGNATHUS Holm. A. flavopictus Davis. New Jersey probably (Ashm). CREMASTUS Grav. C. cooki Davis. (Temelucha) Camden Co. (Vk); Atlantic Co. VII, bred from the strawberry leaf-roller (Sm). C. retiniz Cress. (Temelucha websteri Ashm.) Staten Island (Ds); Riverton IX, 5, Clementon, Sea Isle VII, 22 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); parasite on “‘Retinia rigidana.” PRISTOMERUS Holm. P. euryptychiz Ashm. Del. Water Gap VII, 6 (Jn); bred from “EKucosma scudderiana.” THERSILOCHUS Holm. Fig. 251.—Thersilochus conotracheli, parasite on plum curculio: male and female adults, larva a, cocoon b, and pupa c: all much enlarged. T. contracheli Riley. New Jersey (Sm); a parasite of the plum curculio. T. pallipes Prov. (Porizon) Long Island and probably New Jersey {Ashm). LEPTOPYGAS Forst. L. orbus Davis. New Jersey district (Ashm). PORIZON Grav. P. facilis Cress. (Temelucha fascialis) Widely distributed in the United States, and sure to occur in New Jersey (Ashm). P. macer Cress. (Temelucha) Clementon V, 30 (Jn). 618 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. oO ow mmm iim ORTHOPELMA Tasch. . diastrophi Ashm. In galls of “Diastrophus radicum,’ Jamesburg (Sm). . minutum Ashm. Occurs in galls of “Rhodites erythrogaster.” MESOCHORUS Grav. . americanus Cress. G. d., throughout the United States (Cress). . luteipes Cress. New Brunswick (Sm); type locality in New Jersey. . melleus Cress. Pennsylvania (Cress), and probably New Jersey. . obliquus Cress. A parasite of ‘““Euchetes egle.” . scitulus Cress. New Brunswick, Ocean Co. V, ex larva of “Smerin- thus geminatus” (Sm); also in “Colias philodice”’ and the army worm. . pieridicola Pack. Parasite on the common cabbage butterfly. . vitreus Walsh. Bred from the army worm. . uniformis Cress. (Astiphromma) Philadelphia (Ashm), and proba- bly New Jersey. AGATHOBRANCHUS Ashm. . zequatus Say. Riverton VIII, 31, IX, 8 (Jn). CERATOGASTRA Ashm. . fasciata Cress. (Ceratosoma) Boonton VIII, 14 (GG); Staten Island VIII (Ds); Trenton IX, 2, Clementon VIII, 15 (Hk); Riverton VIII, 17, Mt. Holly VIII, 19, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). BRANCHUS Fab. . inermis Prov. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . pallescens Prov. (Cidaphurus) Merchantville VI, 4 (Dke). . cressonii Vier. Merchantville V, 26, Clementon IV, 5, DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke); Manumuskin IV, 24 (Coll). EXETASTES Grav. . fascipennis Nort. Riverton X, 21 (Jn). . scutellaris Cress. Chester IX, 16 (Coll); Avon IX, 27 (Hk). . suaveolens Walsh. Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk). . propinquus Cress. Boonton IX, 11, Great Notch IX, 8 (GG). PANISCUS Grav. . geminatus Say. Boonton IX, 5 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island V (Ds); Jamesburg VI, 4, Lahaway VII, 3 (Coll); Westville IX, 12 (Jn); Delair X, 5, Riverton IX, 25, Merchantville V, 26, DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke). . albotarsus Prov. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). . albovariegatus Prov. Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . texanus Ashm. Westville VI, 7 (Jn). OPHELTES Holm. . glaucopterus Linn. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. la ie Por gr re RS Por oer iy Pip ore s THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 619 . LIMNERIUM Ashm. - annulipes Cress, Riverton V, 13 (Jn); parasitic on ‘“Mamestra picta,” “Gelechia pseudacaciella’”’ and ‘‘Acrobasis indiginella.” . distinctum Cress. New Jersey (Cress); the type locality. . flavirictum Cress. Lenola V, 30, Sea Isle VII, 22 (Jn). major Cress. Pennsylvania, Delaware and probably New Jersey. lophyri Riley. Parasitic on “Lophyrus abbottii.” . oxylus Cress. A parasite of the army worm. tibiator Cress. New Jersey (Cress), the type locality. . validum Cress. A species of general distribution in the United States. . vicinum Cress. Type locality is New Jersey. . acronyctze Ashm. Parasitic on “Acronycta oblinita.” . dimidiatum Cress. Parasitic on “Gelechia gallesolidaginis.”’ . mellipes Prov. A parasite of “Depressaria fulvipennella.”’ . nephelodis Ashm. Reared from “Nephelodes violans.”’ . fugitivum Say. (Amelectonus) A common and widely distributed species parasitic on a great variety of Lepidopterous larve. . annulipes Cress. Parasitic on ‘“Mamestra,” “Gelechia” and “Acro- basis.” . clisiocampze Weed. An important parasitic check to the American tent caterpillar “Malacosoma americana.” . argentifrons Cress. (Rhimphoctona) Bred from “Crambus zeellus.” . provancheri D. T. (Meloborus dubitata Cress.) Cramer Hill V, 21 (Jn); bred from the fall army worm “Laphygma frugiperda.” . subrubidum Cress. (Meloborus) New Jersey (Ashm). obscurum Cress. (Meloborus notz Ashm.) Long Island to Texas (Ashm). . canarsiz Ashm. (Sinophorus) Parasite on “Canarsia hammondi.” . johnsoni Ashm. (Sinophorus) Atlantic City (Jn); a mss. name. . orgyize How. Bred from the white-marked tussock moth. . bilineatus Ashm. (Rythmonotus) Clementon V, 16 (Jn); a mass. hame. . rufipes Ashm. (Spudastica) Riverton V, 1 (Jn); a mss. name. limenitidis How. A parasite of “Limenitis archippus.” CAMPOPLEX Grav. . diversus Nort. Staten Island (Ds). genuinus Nort. Bred from “Lophyrus abietis.” villosus Nort. Clementon IX, 7 (Hk). HETEROPELMA Wesm. . flavicorne Brullé. Staten Island (Ds); Newark, from larva of “Sphinx luscitiosa,”’ Jamesburg IX, 4 (Sm). . datanz Riley. A parasite on “‘Datana integerrima,” etc. 620 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PPP > E. . purgatus Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Ches- EXOCHILUM Wesm. e« . acronyctz Ashm. Del. Water Gap VII, 14 (Jn); reared from “Acro- nycta”’ sp. . fuscipenne Nort. New Jersey, Ocean Co. (Coll). . mundum Say. Boonton VII, 10 (GG); Newark, ex larva of “Zerene catenaria” (Sm); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton IX, 8 (Jn); Clemen-. ton VIII, 27 (Vk); DaCosta VII, 20, Iona VIII, 25 (Dke); also reared from “Papilio” and “Pyrameis.”’ . higrovarium Prov. Great Notch VIII, 21, Manumuskin VIII, 5 (Dke); Westville VI, 22 (Jn). . tenuipes Nort. A parasite of “Spilosoma virginica.” ANOMALON Grav. . anale Say. Newark, New Brunswick V (Sm); Atco VI, 18, Westville VII, 4 (Jn). . curtum Nort. Westville IV, 19 (Jn). . laterale Brullé. Of general distribution, and should occur in New Jersey. . metallicum Nort. Delaware Water Gap VII, 11 (Jn). . relictum Fab. United States generally (Cress), and should occur with. us. . semirufum Nort. Westville IV, 19 (Jn). . smithii Davis. New Brunswick (Sm); the type locality. . pseudargioli How. Parasitic on some of our common Lyceenids. . peediscze AsShm. (Agrypon) Parasitic on species of “Eucosma.” EIPHOSOMA Cress. . femorata Cress. Shark River VI, 9 (Jn). NOTOTRACHYS Marsh. . ejuncidus Say. New York (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. ENICOSPILUS Steph. ter VIII, 15 (Coll); Staten Island (Ds); Lucaston IX, 29, DaCosta VII, 19, Brown’s Mills V, 30 (Dke); Lahaway VII, VIII, Anglesea V, 30 (Sm); a parasite on “Ma- mestra trifolii,’ “M. picta,’ “Leucania unipuncta” and “Ccelodasys unicornis.” EREMOTYLUS Forst. Fig. 252.—Enicospilus purgatus. arctize Ashm. Long Island, Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey (Ashm). 2H INSECTS: OF NEW JERSEY. 621 - THYREODON Brullé. . morio Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Boonton VIII, 8 (GG); Great Notch VIII, 21, Weymouth VIII, 16, Manumuskin IX, 5 (Dke); New- ark, Jamesburg VIII, 11, Ocean Grove VI, 1 (Coll); Avalon VII, 19 (CG). OPHION Fab. . bifoveolatum Brullé. New Brunswick (Coll). . bilineatus Say. Chester VII, 20, New Brunswick V, 15 (Coll); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton V, 1 (Jn); Lahaway IV, V (Sm); reared from “Hudamus tityrus” and “Feltia morrisoniana.”’ . glabratus Say. Of general distribution, parasitic on the fall web worm. - geminatus Say. Chester VII, VIII, Essex Co. (Coll). » macrurum Linn. Throughout the State, common; parasitic on the larger silk-worms (Sm). . tityri Pack. New Brunswick (Sm) ; parasite of “EKudamus tityrus.” EXOCHUS Grav. . dorsalis Cress. New Jersey (Cress); the type locality. . pallipes Cress. Reared from ‘Ar- chips rileyana,’ ‘“Caccecia fervi- ddna” and “C. cerasivorana.” METACCELUS Féorst. . levis Cress. New Brunswick VII, 17 (Sm). Fig. 253.—Ophion macrurum. TRICHISTUS Forst. - curvator Fab. New Brunswick (Sm); reared from “Archips rileyana”’ and “Nothris verbascella.” - Pygmzeus Cress. Trenton IX, 7 (Hk). CHORINAEUS Holm. - carinatus Cress. New Jersey probably (Ashm). ALCOCERAS Forst. . trifasciatus Cress. United States generally (Cress), and sure to be found in New Jersey. SYRPHOCTONUS Forst. - agilis Cress. New Jersey (Davis). 622 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. n PROMETHUS Forst. - . costalis Prov. New York and probably New Jersey (Ashm). BASSUS Grav. . letatorius Fab. New Jersey, common (Ashm); Riverton V, 7 (Jn); Atlantic City VII, 21 (Dke). . scutellaris Cress. A parasite of the army worm. MESOLEIUS Holm. . submarginatus Cress. New York (Davis) and probably New Jersey. . mellipes Prov. New York (Davis) and probably New Jersey. BCETHUS Forst. . schizoceri Riley & How. > > p> THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 629 LISSONOTA Grav. . acrobasidis Ashm. Reared from ‘Mineola indiginella.” PHYTODIETUS Grav. . distinctus Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). . vulgaris Cress. Ocean. County V (Sm). ARENETRA Holmg. . nigrita Walsh. G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). LAMPRONOTA Halid. - agilis Cress. New York, Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey. . rubrica Cress. (Lissonota) New Jersey (Cress); Trenton IV, 24 (Hk). . tegularis Cress. (Alloplasta) New Jersey district. . varia Cress. (Alloplasta) Sure to occur in New Jersey. . insita Cress. New Jersey (Cress). . pleuralis Cress. Parasitic on “Tortrix incertana.” parva Cress. (Bathycetes) New Jersey probably. . pulchella Cress. (Alloplasta) New Jersey (Cress), the type locality. . occidentalis Cress. Jamaica, L. I., VI (Coll), and should be found in New Jersey. . relativa Vier. New Jersey (Cress Coll). GROTEA Cress. . anguina Cress. Woodbury VI, 27 (Jn); Ocean Grove VII (Ashm); type locality in New Jersey; reared from “Ceratina dupla,’ of which it is a parasite (Vk) LABENA Cress. . grallator Say. New Brunswick (Coll), Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 20, Manumuskin (Dke). . apicalis Cress. New Brunswick (Sm); reared from ‘“Chrysobothris femorata.” AROTES Grav. . amoenus Cress. New Hope VII, 10 (Hk). . decorus Say. Boonton VIII, 12 (GG). . venustus Cress. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn). . vicinus Cress. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn). 630 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. O.O4.0-0 © © oO .0 6 COLEOCENTRUS Grav. . rufus Prov. Pennsylvania.and probably New Jersey. MESOSTENUS Grav. . arvalis Cress. Parasitic in nest of “Polistes.” . americana Cress. Maine to Virginia (Cress). . gracilis Cress. Sea Isle City VII, 22 (Jn); parasitic on ‘“Dakruma coccidivora” and “Ephestia kuehniella.”’ - Spinarius Brullé. Trenton VIII, 12, Clementon VIII, 30 (Hk). . thoracicus Cress. Atco VI, 4 (Jn). . delawarensis D. T. (albopictus Cress.) Trenton VII, 11, Pemberton VIII, 12 (Hk); Riverton VIII, 4, Westville VII, 21, Atco VI, 18 (Jn). . albomaculatus Cress. Westville VI, 6 (Jn); Ocean Grove VIII (Ashm). CRYPTUS Fab. . alacris Cress. Canada to Delaware (Cress). . contiguus Cress. Canada to Maryland (Cress). . punicus Cress. Glassboro IX, 19 (Jn). subclavatus Say. G. d. in the United States (Cress). . retentor Brullé. Staten Island IX (Ds); Philadelphia (Ashm). . limatus Cress. Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . mundus Proy. Parasitic on “Crambus vulvivagellus.” . nigripennis Ashm. ‘Type locality in New Jersey (Vk). . nuncius Say. (Spilocryptus) Newark V, 380, Jamesburg on “Botis feudalis”’ (Sm); also parasitic on the large “Saturniids,’ “cecropia, promothea,” etc. . extrematis Cress. (Spilocryptus) Jamesburg (Sm); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). . latus D. T. (S. incertus Cress.) Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . persimilis Cress. (Itamoplex) Avalon VI, 30, Sea Isle VII, 22 (Jn). . americanus Cress. (lItamoplex) Great Notch VII, 10 (Dke); New Brunswick (Sm); Clementon VIII, 11 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). . lavogleri D. T. (Itamoplex nigricornis Prov.) Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . linearis Prov. (lIdiolispa leniatus Cress.) Clementon V, 16 (Jn). It is probable that Ashmead intended this by his record in last edition. . similis Cress. (Idiolispa:—Trychosis montivagus Prov.) New York to Delaware (Ashm). ACRORICNUS Ratz. . junceus Cress. (Osprynchotus) Reared from a nest of ‘“Odynerus tigris,” taken, I think, in this State by Mr. V. A. E. Daecke. qe eh eh ay ae Sli eenice tele . thyridopterigis Riley. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 631 PEZOMACHUS Grav. . dimidiatus Cress. New York (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . meabilis Cress. Staten Island (Ds). . obscurus Cress. Type locality in New Jersey (Cress). . uniformis D. T. (unicolor Cress.) Massachusetts to Delaware (Cress) and surely New Jersey. . tantillus Cress. Riverton V, 17 (Jn). . insolitus How. A parasite of the white-marked tussock moth. . minimus Walsh. Parasitic on the army worm. APTESIS Forst. . micropterus Say. A parasite of the currant worm. HEMITELES Grav. . tenellus Say. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . utilis Norton. Jamesburg, parasitic on ‘“Anisota senatoria’”’ (Sm); also on ‘‘Papilio cresphontes” and “‘Lophyrus abietis.” . laticinctus Ashm. Parasitic on the army worm. . lyceenze How. A parasite on “Lyczna pseudargiolus.” nemativorus Walsh. A parasite of the currant worm. (Syneches) Throughout the State, a parasite of the common bag-worm. H. columbiz Vier. Reared from ‘“Pimpla inquisitori- ella”; n. n. for ‘“ameri- cana” How., not Ashm. H. meteow How. (Bathy- terigis: a, male; b, female; c, cut through thrix) Reared from bag to show the cocoons of the para- “Meteorus communis.” site: all enlarged. H. pimple How. Another hyperparasite on “P. inquisitoriella.” H. orgyize Ashm. Reared from the common tussock moth. AENOPLEX Forst. AZ. betulzecola Ashm. (Acnoplix) Jamesburg (Sm); bred from “Acron- ycta betule.” ACROLYTA Forst. A. aletizse Ashm. (lIsodromas) Parasitic on “Apanteles aletiz.” A. empretiz Ashm. A parasite on the saddle-back caterpillar. A. mesochori Ashm. Reared from ‘‘Apanteles congregatus.” A. smerinthi Ashm: Bred from caterpillar of “Smerinthus geminatus” at New Brunswick (Sm); a mss. name. 632 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. U a2) qe} 'ae) a9) PHYGADEUON Grav. - vulgaris Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . subfuscus Cress. With the preceding. - fulvescens Cress. (Plesiognathus flavescens. Cress.) New Jersey (Jn). APSILOPS Forst. . hirtifrons Ashm. Reared from ‘‘Hydrocampa obliteralis.” STILPNUS Grav. .» americanus Cress. Great Notch VIII, 10 (Dke); Staten Island IX (Ds). - compressus Cress. (Asyncrita) New York (Ashm) and _ probably New Jersey. SELEUCUS Holm. . rufiventris AShm. New York (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. PHAZOGENES Wesm. . fungor Nort. Long island, Philadelphia (Ashm); parasite on “Lo- phyrus abietis.” . hebe Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . alter Cress. Parasitic on peach borer and currant stem borer. . gelechize Ashm. Reared from “Gelechia gallesolidaginis.” . hebrus Cress. (Herpestomus) New York (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. CENTETERUS Wesm. tuberculifrons Prov. Long Island (Ashm). and probably New Jersey. COLPOGNATHUS Wesm. . helvus Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. NEOTYPUS Forst. . lapidator Fab. Trenton VIII, 3 (Hk). PLATYLABUS Wesm. . thoracicus Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada. . foxi Davis. Camden County (Davis), the type locality. ICHNEUMON Linn. . bimembris Prov. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . brevicinctor Say. Trenton V, 21, VIII, 22 (Hk). . blandi Cress. Trenton VIII, 12 (Hk). bronteus Cress. With the preceding. caliginosus Cress. A parasite of “Limnitis archippus.” THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 633 . coeruleus Cress. Newark, New Brunswick, Lahaway VIII, X (Sm). . centrator Say. Boonton II, 27 (GG); Staten Island XI (Ds); New Brunswick, bred from ‘“‘Pyrrharctia isabella’ (Sm). . cincticornis Cress. Staten Island IV (Ds); Trenton VIII, 22 (Hk). . citrifrons Cress. New Jersey, without definite locality (Sm). - comes Cress. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Westville VI, 6 (Jn). - comptus Say. Staten Island (Ds); Caldwell (Cr); Westville VI, 6 (Jn). - consignatus Cress. New Jersey probably. . creperus Cress. New Jersey district. . Cevinctor Say. Staten Island II (Ds). . duplicatus Say. Pemberton IX, 11 (Hk); New Jersey (Sm). . extrematatis Cress. Staten Island VI (Ds); Riverton IX, 11 (GG); Trenton V, 138, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . feralis Cress. Should occur in New Jersey. . finitimus Cress. New Jersey district. . flavicornis Cress. Trenton VI, 13 (Hk); New Jersey (Sm). . flavizonatus Cress. Should be found in New Jersey. . funestus Cress. Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk). . fuscifrons Cress. G. d. in the United States (Cress). . galenus Cress. Trenton VII, 1, VIII, 19, Riverton IV, 10, Glassboro V, ity) (Qelts))- - germanus Cress. Massachusetts to Virginia (Cress). - grandis Brullé. Clementon V, 10 (CG). . helvipes Cress. G. d. in the United States (Cress). . insolens Cress. A generally distributed parasite of “Vanessa antiopa.” - instabilis Cress. (Amblyteles innotabilis Cress.) New Jersey (Cress Coll); a parasite of the common ‘Phyciodes tharos.” . jejunus Cress (also in Amblyteles) Trenton V, 24 (Hk). . jucundus Brullé. Long Island (Ashm); Germantown (Hk) and doubt- less in New Jersey; parasitic on ‘“‘“Hadena devastatrix.”’ . lztus Brullé. Staten Island VII (Ds); Newark, New Brunswick, Laha- way (Coll); Trenton VII, 7, VIII, 19 (Hk); Riverton VII, 12 (GG). . leucaniae Fitch. A parasite of the army worm in New York, and sure to be found in New Jersey as well. . leviculus Cress. Ranges from New York to Virginia (Cress). . lewisii Cress. Trenton VII, 25 (Hk). libens Cress. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . lividulus Prov. Newark, bred from “Agrotis e-nigrum” (Sm). . longulus Cress. G.d. im the United States (Cress). . manis Cress. Massachusetts to N. Carolina (Cress). . merus Cress. Trenton VIII, 5 (Hk). 634 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. I. malacus Say. New Brunswick IX, 2, Jamesburg IX (Sm); reared from “Spilosoma virginica” and “Sesia syringe.” . maurus Cress. Staten Island (Ds); Trenton VI, 27 (Hk). . milvus Cress. United States generally (Cress). . mimicus Cress. G. d. in the United States (Cress). . mucronatus Prov. Canada to Virginia (Cress). . nanus Cress. New Brunswick VII, from “Acrobasis rubrifasciella” (Sm). . navus Say. Staten Island IV, V (Ds). . nuncius Cress. Staten Island IV (Ds). . otiosus Say. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . paratus Say. Riverton VI, 13, Glenside VI, 10 (Hk); Philadelphia VI (Fox). . parvus Cress. United States generally (Cress). . pepticus Cress. Recorded from New Jersey by Cresson. . pomilius Prov. G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). . pulcher Brullé. With the preceding (Cress). . purpuripennis Cress. New Brunswick V, 4 from “Noctua c-nigrum”’ (Coll). I. acerbus Cress. New Jersey, probably. I. agnitus Cress. New Jersey district. I. annulatus Prov. Clementon V, 22 (Jn). I. annulipes Cress. Sea Isle City VI, 21 (Jn). l. apertus Cress. Probably occurs in New Jersey. ]. ater Cress. Found in the New Jersey district. I. azotus Cress. Clementon VIII, 23 (Hk). 1. pullatus Cress. Reared from “Spilosoma virginica” and “Nematus ven- tralis.” l. residuus Say. “United States” (Say). |. rubicundus Cress. G. d., a parasite of “Lophyrus abietis.” ]. rufiventris Brullé. Trenton VII, 15, Malaga IX, 15 (Hk); New Jersey (Cress Coll); reared from ‘‘Pyrameis” and “Vanessa.” . scriptifrons Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . scitulus Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). . sagus Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . seminiger Cress. Trenton IX, 7, Riverton IX, 19 (Hk); New Jersey (Cress Coll). l. signatipes Cress. Trenton VIII, 22, Clementon V, X, Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk); bred from ‘“Spilosoma virginica.” ]. soror Cress. Westville VII, 4 (Jn). 1. suadus Cress. Trenton VIII, 19, Clementon V, 30 (Jn). 1]. subcyaneus Cress. Caldwell (Cr); Trenton V, 16 (Hk). —— -_ — cm THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 635 . subdolus Cress. Staten Island (Ds); Long Island (Ashm). . sublatus Cress. (Amblyteles) Staten Island VIII (Ds); Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk); Clementon V (Jn). . Succinctus Brullé (also as Ambiytelus). Throughout the State V-IX, common. . solitus Cress. Camden Co. III (Jn). . unifasciatorius Say. Caldwell, parasite on “Acronycta oblinita” (Cr); New Brunswick, Atlantic Co. (Coll); Trenton VII, 5, Avon IX, 27 (Hk). . ultimus Cress. Cramer Hill V, 21 (Jn). . utilis Cress. G. d., parasitic on the Canker worm. . vittifrons Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . variegatus Cress. G.d. in the United States (Cress). . vitalis Cress. Long Island (Ashm), and sure to occur in New Jersey. . velox Cress. New Jersey (Cress). . versabilis Cress. Widely distributed; reared from “‘Grapta faunus” and “Chrysophanus hypophleas.”’ . vescus Prov. G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). . vinnulus Cress. Jamesburg (Sm); Trenton VIII, 23, Clementon VIII, 23 (Hk). . viola Cress. Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . volens Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada. . w-album Cress. Staten Island VI (Ds); Trenton V, 24, VIII, 19 (Hk). . wilsonii Cress. G. d. in the United States (Cress). . zebratus Cress. Of general distribution in the United States (Cress). . tharotis Pack. Reared from “Phyciodes tharos.” . orpheus Cress. (Chasmodes) Probably occurs in New Jersey. . saucius Cress. (Chasmodes) Trenton VII, 9 (Hk). . nubivagus Cress. (Amblyteles) Long Island (Zabriskie); parasitic on “Cucullia intermedia.” . tetricus Prov. (Probolus) New York (Ashm) and probably New Jer- sey. . brevipennis Cress. (Exephanes) Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . confirmatus Cress. (Exephanes) Occurs with the preceding. . ultus Cress. (Amblyteles) G. d. in the United States and Canada (Cress). . suturalis Say. Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (Cress Coll). . subfuscus Cress. (Amblyteles) Staten Island X (Ds). . semicceruleus Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada. . rufizonatus Cress. (Amblyteles and Probolus) New Jersey (Cress). . ormenus Cress. G. d. in the United States and Canada. 636 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. T. ae T. In this family the abdomen is long, flattened transversely and attached luctus Cress. Newark, bred from a Noctuid larva (Sm). indistinctus Prov. G. d. in the United States and Canada. improvisus Cress. New Jersey (Cress). fraternus Cress. Massachusetts to Virginia (Cress). excultus Cress. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . detritus Brullé. New Jersey (Cress Coll). anceps Cress. Connecticut to Delaware (Cress). . concinnus Say. (Plagiotrypes) New Jersey, probably. . trogiformis Cress. (Trogomorpha) New Jersey (Cress Coll). . cinctitarsis Prov. Trenton V, 24 (Hk). HOPLISMENUS Grav. . morulus Say. Staten Island (Ds); New Jersey III (Jn). Reared from “Grapta interrogationis” and “Vanessa antiopa.” TROGUS Grav. . nubilipennis Hald. Orange Mts., rare (Sm); parasitic on “Papilio asterias” and “Pyrrharctia isabella.” . obsidianator Brullé. Orange Mts., near Montclair(Sm). elegans Cress. Delaware Water Gap VII, 15 (Jn). . brullei Cress. (Automalus) Chester, Newark, New Brunswick from Sphingid larve (Sm); Westville VI, 7 (Jn). copei Cress. Will probably be found in New Jersey. canadensis Prov. Staten Island IX (Ds). vulpinus Grav. (Psilomastix ex- esorius) Throughout the State, common V-IX; parasitic on swallow-tail and other butter- flies. Family EKVANIID. by a narrow base to the top of the Fig. 257.—Trogus vulpinus on chrysalis of thorax. Papilio, from which it has emerged. Ei F. FCENUS Fab. tarsatorius Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 9 (Jn); visits flowers of golden- rod. montanus var. incertus Cress. Visits flowers of parsnip (Vk) and sure to occur in New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 637 HYPTIS Illiger. H. reticulata Say. Caldwell (Cr). EVANIA Fab. E. appendigaster Linn. A cosmopolitan species, parasitic in egg cap- sules of roaches, which I have found at Newark and New Brunswick. E. levigata Oliv. A parasite on the oriental roach or black beetle, and also probably found in New Jersey. PRISTAULACUS Kieff. P. stigmaterus Cress. (Aulacus) New Jersey is the type locality. vU . subfirmus Vier. Riverton VII, 17 (Jn) the type locality. P. fasciatus Say. DaCosta VII, 19 (W). PAMMEGISCHIA Prov. P. lovei Ashm. Palisades V (Lv) the type locality. P. pallipes Cress. (Aulacus) New York (Ashm) and probably New Jer- sey. P. burquei Prov. Reared from ‘“Xiphidria abdominalis.” Super-family CHALCIDOIDEA. A large number of the parasitic ““Hymenoptera” are referable to this series, and they are usually rather stout, with broad head, elbowed an- tenne and frequently metallic colors. The wings have few or no veins, are often clothed with short hairs and are occasionally wanting in one sex or both. The ovipositor is more or less concealed, and usually issues from the underside of the abdomen before the tip. A small number of species are plant-feeders, and some of these, like the “joint-worms,” are occasionally injurious. More of them are hyper- parasites upon species that are themselves parasitic, and these act as checks to the increase of the primary parasites. Family MYMARIDA. ANAPHES Halid. A. gracilis How. Parasitic on the common oyster-shell scale. A. conotracheli Girault. Bred from eggs of the plum curculio. POLYNEMA Halid. P. howardi Ashm. Should be found in New Jersey. P. cecanthi Ashm. New Jersey (Ashm); a mss. name. 638 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family TRICHOGRAMMIDA5. TRICHOGRAMMA Westw. T. odontota How. A parasite on “Odontota suturalis.” Fig. 258.—An insect egg parasite, Trichogramma pretiosa, very much enlarged. T. pretiosa Riley. An egg parasite which surely occurs in New Jersey. T. ceresarum Ashm. Reared from the buffalo tree-hopper. T. intermedium How. Parasitic on “Grapta,”’ ‘Vanessa,’ “Danais” and “Nisoniades.” T. minutum Riley. Parasitic on “Limenitis archippus.”’ Family KULOPHIDAS. CRATOTRECHUS Thoms. C. orgyiz Fitch. New Jersey; a parasite of the tussock moth. SYMPIESIS Forst. S. nigrifemora Ashm. Parasitic on leaf miners of balsam and oak and also of the trumpet leaf-miner of the apple. . uroplatze How. Breeds in “Odontota suturalis.”’ . tischeriz Ashm. Breeds in the trumpet leaf miner of apple. . nigripes Ashm. Has the same habits as the preceding. . quercicola Ashm. South Orange VI, 16; parasitic on petiole borer of maple leaf (Coll). ann nN CIRROSPILUS Westw. C. niger How. Reared from “Pyrameis atalanta.” m m | 44 4aHaqd THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 630 ELACHISTUS Spin. . proteoteratis How. Reared from “Proteoteras esculana.” . caceecize How. Parasitic on “Cac. rosaceana”’ and “Hyph. cunea.” . spilosomatis How. Parasitic on ‘“Spilosoma virginica.” STENOMESIUS Westw. . harrisinee Ashm. Reared from “Harrisina americana.” MIOTROPIS Thoms. . clisiocampzee Ashm. New Brunswick, bred from “Clis. americana” (Sm). LEUCODESMIA How. . typica How. A parasite on “HKuleucanium tulipifera.” EUPLECTRUS Westw. . catocale How. A parasite on Catocala larve. . plathypenze How. Parasitic on ‘“Plathypena scabra.” . frontalis How. Riverton IV, 17 (Jn). ANOZUS Forst. . siphonophorze Ashm. Breeds in species of “Siphonophora.” BARYSCAPUS Forst. . centricole Ashm. Parasitic on “Holcaspis centricola.” TETRASTICHUS Halid. . racemariz Ashm. New Brunswick, parasitic on oak galls “Amphibo- lips cinerea” (Sm). . theclze Pack. A parasite on “Thecla calanus.”’ . banksi How. Breeds in ‘‘Holcopelta nitens.” . chlamytis Ashm. Parasitic on “Chlamys plicata.”’ . encyrti Ashm. A hyperparasite bred from the cottony maple scale, Newark VII, 12 (Coll). . microrhopala Ashm. Breeds in “Microrhopala xerene.” . modestus How. Parasite on “Grapta interrogations” and ‘“P. atalan- lil . productus Riley. A parasite of the Hessian fly. . rose Ashm. Bred from gall of “Rhodites ignota.” . saundersi Pack. Parasite of “Thecla calanus” and “edwardsi.” . scolyti Ashm. Breeds in the fruit bark beetle. SYNTOMOSPHYRUM Forst. . orgyize Ashm. Parasite on the tussock moth. 640 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. MELITTOBIA Westw. M. chalybii Ashm. Parasitic in nest of “Chalybion cceruleum.”’ M. megachilis Pack. Bred from “Megachile” and “Anthophora.” PERISSOPTERUS How. P. pulchellus How. Parasite on “Chionaspis pinifolie”’ and “‘Aspidiotus” sp. : APHELINUS Dalm. A. mali Hald. Parasitic on woolly apple, cabbage and other plant lice. A. mytilaspidis LeB. ‘Throughout the State on oyster shell scale and other scales. Cl ce oo Fig. 259.—Aphelinus fuscipennis: San José Scale parasite. A. fuscipennis How. Throughout the State, parasitic on the San José and other scales, sometimes very abundant. A. abnormis How. A parasite on the oyster shell scale. A. diaspidis How. Breeds in “Aulacaspis rose.” ABLERUS How. A. clisiocampze Ashm. Parasite on the Scurfy and other scales. PHYSCUS How. P. varicornis How. Parasitic on ‘“Aspidiotus” and “Chionaspis” sp. PROSPALTA How. P. aurantii How. Breeds in “Aspidiotus,’ “Mytilaspis” and other scale species. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 641 COCCOPHAGUS Westw. . lecanii Fitch. Bred from Cottony Maple scale, Newark V, VII (Coll), and also parasitic on other soft scales throughout the State. . flavoscutellum Ashm. Bred from Cottony Maple scales VII, 28, and occurs also on other soft scales throughout the State. . fraternus How. A parasite on “Lecanium persice.”’ ERETMOCERUS Hald. . corni Hald. Parasitic on “Aleyrodes corni.” DEROSTENUS Westw. . antiopz Pack. Reared from “Vanessa antiopa.” HORISMENUS WIk. . fraternus Fitch. (Holocopelte) Bred from the tussock moth. EUDERUS Halid. . columbianus Ashm. (Trichoporus) Lives in Cecidomyiid galls and is widely distributed (Ashm). SECODES Forst. . phloeotribi Ashm. Parasitic in “Phloeotribus frontalis.”’ Family ELASMIDA. ELASMUS Wéestw. . nigripes How. Bred from “Lithocolletis gregariella.” . albicoxa How. Reared from “Liminitis archippus.” , tischeriz How. Reared from “Tischeria solidaginifoliella.” Family PTEROMALIDA. SPALANGIA Latr. . drosophilz Ashm. Parasite on the Pommace flies. . hzematobize Ashm. A parasite of the horn-fly. CRATOMUS Dalm. . megacephalus Dalm. New Brunswick VI, 1 (Coll). CYRTOGASTER WIk. . dineutis Ashm. Bred from ‘“Dineutes assimilis.” 4I IN 642 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PACHYNEURON WIk, altiscuta How. New Jersey district. . micans How. A parasite on the wheat louse. . aphidivorum Ashm. Parasitic on the cabbage plant louse. ge) Sef ae) ay . Nigrocyaneum Nort. Bred from “Lophyrus abietis.” ISOCRATUS Forst. I. vulgaris Wlk. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); reared from “Aphis rose,” “Agromyza lutea” and “Curculio pomorum.” HOMOPORUS Thoms. H. chalcidephagus Walsh. Parasitic on “Isosoma hordei.”’ H. subapterus Riley. (Micromelus) A parasite of the Hessian fly. MERISUS WIk. M. destructor Say. (Micromelus) Also lives in the Hessian fly. M. fulvipes Forbes. Also on the Hessian fly. M. isosomatis Riley. Reared from ‘“Isosoma tritici.” ARTHROLYTUS Thom. A. apatela Ashm. Bred from “Acronycia populi.”’ A. pimple Ashm. Parasitic on “Pimpla inquisitoriella.”’ DIBRACHYS Forst. Fig. 260.—Dibrachys boucheanus: female adult and antenna of male: both enlarged. D. boucheanus Ratz. Throughout the State. Bred out of the Americam tent caterpillar and in thousands as a secondary parasite out of Cecropia cocoons parasitized by “Pimpla” and “Spilochalcis.” Breeds. in many other primary parasites. ce) U THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 643 HYPOPTEROMALUS Ashm. . tabacum Fitch. New Jersey (Ashm); bred from “Apanteles congre- gatus.” NEOCATALACCUS Ashm. . tylodermez Ashm. ‘Trenton IX, 7 (Dn); parasitic on “Tyloderma fove- olatum.”’ CATOLACCUS Thoms. . anthomomi Ashm. Egg Harbor (Coll), bred from strawberry weevil. . celiodis Ashm. Reared from “Acanthoscelis acephalus.”’ . incertus Ashm. Parasitic in strawberry weevil and in species of “Apion.” PTEROMALUS Swed. . gelechize Webster. A parasite of the Angoumois grain moth. . fuscipes Prov. New York (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . puparum Linn. Throughout the State; the most common parasite of the cabbage butterfly, also on many other butterfly caterpillars. . vanessz Harris. Parasitic on “Vanessa antiopa’” throughout the State. - archippi How. Breeds in the common milkweed caterpillar. : brassiczee Pack. Another parasite of the cabbage butterfly. . calandree How. (Meraporus) A parasite of the grain weevil “Calandra Oryze.” . forbesi D. T. Parasite on the Hessian fly. . verditer Nort. Bred from “Lophyrus abietis.” DIGLOCHIS Forst. . omnivora Wlk. Bred from ‘‘Pyrameis atalanta” and other caterpillars. EUTELUS Walk. . onerati Fitch. New York and probably New Jersey. RAPHITELUS Walk. . maculatus Walk. New Brunswick IV, VIII, bred from the white pine weevil (Sm); also infests ‘““Hylesinus” and “Scolytus” sp. PSILOCERA Walk. . rufipes Ashm. (Metopon) Bred from “Chlamys plicata.” 644 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. HETEROXYS Westw. H. callidii AShm. Parasitic on “‘Callidium antennatum.” CCELOPISTHUS Thoms. C. smithii Ashm. Jamesburg (Sm); a mss. name. Bred from a larva feeding on “Amelanchier.” Family ENCYRTID. RHOPUS Forst. R. coccois Smith. Parasitic on ‘“‘Phenacoccus aceris.” CHILONEURUS Westw. C. albicornis How. New Jersey, bred from “Huleucanium.” C. diaspidinarum How. Parasitic on the oyster shell scale. APHYCUS Mayr. A. brunneus How. Vineland, parasitic on the rose scale (Treat). A. pulvinariz How. A parasite of the cottony maple scale. HOMALOTYLUS Mayr. H. obscurus How. Parasitic on several of our lady bird beetles; “H. terminalis” Say. is an error. BOTHRIOTHORAX Ratz. B. noveboracensis How. New York, and probably New Jersey. B. peculiaris How. Bred from puparia of Syrphid flies (Ashm). COPIDOSOMA Ratz. C. gelechizs How. Beach Haven IX, 6-24, from larve of “Gelechia galle- solidaginis” or an allied species (Coll). . truncatellum Dalm. Breeds in a great variety of caterpillars. . intermedium How. Recorded from New Jersey. . turni Pack. (Encyrtus) Parasitic on the “turnus” butterfly. Qa00ag0 0 . vagum How. Bred from “Gelechia pseudacaciella.” PSILOPHRYS Mayr. P. pallipes Ashm. Parasitic on “Gelechia gallesolidaginis.” ENCYRTUS Dalm. E. bucculatricis How. A parasite on “Bucculatrix pomifoliella.” mmm m . cyaneiceps Ashm. New . cornigerzee Ashm. Reared THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 645 . aphidiphagus Ashm. Bred from the cabbage louse. . artaceze How. Reared from “Artace punctistriga.” . clisiocampze Ashm. A parasite on “Clisiocampa disstria.” . websteri How. Reared from “Nectarophora granaria.” DINOCARSIS Forst. . thyridopterygis Ashm. A parasite of the bag or drop-worm. ARACHNOPHAGA Ashm. . picea Riley. In egg sacs of spider “Epeira” and “Argiope.”’ ANASTATUS Mots. . mirabilis Walsh. Widely distributed in the United States, from the Atlantie to the Pacific (Ashm). . pearsalli Ashm. Parasite in eggs of “Smerinthus astylus.” EUPELMUS Dalm. allynii French. Common in wheat fields, Clemen- ton V, 22 (Jn); parasitic on the joint worm and Hessian fly. Brunswick (Sm); Cramer Hill VII, 11 (Jn); bred from “Bruchus exiguus.” from ‘“‘Andricus corni- gerus.” Fig. 261.—Eupelmid, parasite on eggs of katydid: . hirtus Ashm. Parasitic on a, eggs from which parasite has issued, natural “Thyanta custator.” size; b, pupa, and c, adult, enlarged. EUSANDALUM Ratz. . hubbardi Ashm. Reared from “‘Leptostylus biustus.” amphicerovora Ashm. Bred from “Amphicerus bicaudatus.” CHARITOPUS Forst. : magnificus Ashm. A parasite on “Amphicerus bicaudatus.” METAPELMA Westw. . spectabile Westw. United State, from Atlantic to Pacific (Ashm). 646 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. Family CLEONYMID. PLATYGERRHUS Thoms. P. scolyti Ashm. Bred from the fruit bark ‘beetle. PTINOBIUS Ashm. P. magnificus Ashm. Probably occurs in New Jersey. CHEIROPACHYS Westw. C. colon Linn. Also parasitic on the fruit bark beetle and species of similar boring habits. EPISTENIA Westw. E. osmiz Ashm. Parasitic on bees of the genus “Osmia”’ (Ashm). Family MISCOGASTERID/. HALTICOPTERA Spin. H. brodiei AShm. Reared from ‘“Biorhiza forticornis.” HEMADAS Crawford. H. nubilipennis Ashm. (Habritus) A parasite of ‘“Solenozopheria vac- einii’; New Brunswick (Sm). SEMIOTELLUS Westw. S. clisiocampze Fitch. Parasitic on “Clisiocampa sylvatica.” TRIDYMUS Ratz. T. metallicus Ashm. In willow galls (Ashm); said to be parasitic on “Cecidomyiids. EUNOTUS Walk. E. lividus Ashm. Bred from Cottony Maple scale, Newark VII, 12 (Coll). Family EUCHARID. METAGEA Kirby. M. schwarzii Ashm. (Pseudometagea) New Jersey district. U =) THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 647 Family PERILAMPID. PERILAMPUS Latr. Fig. 262.—Perilampus hyalinus; adult and cocoon; enlarged. . hyalinus Say. (cyaneus Brullé.) Caldwell (Cr); Westville VII, 21 (Jn); DaCosta VII, 5 (Dke); Atlantic Co. VIII, parasite on pine saw- fly (Coll). . triangularis Say. Atco VI, 13 (Jn). . platygaster Say. Riverton VIII, 11 (Jn). . fulvicornis Ashm. New Jersey (Vk). Family FURYTOMID. DECATOMA Spin. . varians Walsh. New Brunswick (Sm). . nubilistigma Walsh. Bred from “Rhabdophaga batatas.” querci-lanze Fitch. (hyalinipennis Walsh.) New Brunswick (Sm). var. dorsalis Fitch. (Eudecatoma) New Brunswick (Sm); bred from “Philonix erinacei’”’ and “Ceroptres ficus.” EUDECATOMA Ashm. batatoides Ashm. Reared from “Neuroterus batatus.” RILEYA Ashm. . cecidomyiz Ashm. On Cecidomyiid galls (Ashm). . eecanthi Ashm. (Macrorileya) Reared from eggs of tree cricket; type locality in New Jersey. EURYTOMA Illig. . bolteri Riley. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm). . bicolor Walsh. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). . diastrophi Walsh. Newark V, New Brunswick (Sm); bred from galls of ‘“Diastrophus nebulosus.”’ . lanulee Fitch. New York and probably New Jersey. 648 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. studiosa Say. New Brunswick (Coll) in galls of ‘“Euura salicicola.”’ E. auriceps Walsh. New Brunswick (Sm). E. agrili Ashm. Reared from “Agrilus otiosus.” E . crassineura Ashm. A _ parasite of the fruit bark beetle. E. magdalidis Ashm. Parasitic on ‘“Magdalis armicollis.” E. phloeosini Ashm. MReared from “Phlcosinus dentatus.” E. phloeotribi Ashm. Reared from “Phiceotribus frontalis.”’ E. tylodermatis Ashm. Parasitic on “Tyloderma”’ and “Apion.” BRUCHOPHAGUS Ashm. B. funebris How. New Brunswick VII, Ocean Co. V (Sm); reared from “Dasyneura legu- minicola.” EVOXYSTOMA Ashm. Fig. 26g > Reena soma ovipositing in stem of wheat: en- larged. E. vitis Saund. Work of larva in grape seeds noted at New Brunswick (Sm). ISOSOMA Walk. I. hordei Harr. Lives in stalk of grain; one of the joint-worms. . —_— Fig. 264.—Isosoma tritici; a, b, larva; f, female; g, fore wing; h, hind wing; other letters refer to details; all much enlarged. I]. tritici Riley. Also one of the joint worms. Both of these species occur in New Jersey, but have never been abundant enough to be injurious. They can be controlled by using up the straw completely during the winter. nnn nN . marie Riley. Common . braccata Sanb. Throughout . nortoni Cress. Newark, on . odontotze How. A parasite on “Odontota scutellaris.” S. delira Cress. Anglesea IX, 26 (Dke). $ . maculata Fab. New Jersey, probably. ve . microgaster Say. Cape May VI, 22 (Jn). . myrifex Sulz. (nigrifex Wlk). New Jersey probably. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 649 AXIMA Walk. . zabriskei How. A parasite in the nest of “Ceratina dupla” (Ashm). Family CHALCIDID. SPILOCHALCIS Thom. . debilis Say. Parasitic on a variety of primary parasites on lepidop- terous larve known to occur in New Jersey. throughout the State, para- sitic on the bag-worm, the Cecropia, Polyphemus and other ‘‘Saturniid’ moths. the State VIII, IX not rare. Limacodes larva (Sm); Elizabeth VI, 1 (Coll); An- glesea VIII, 13 (Jn). Fig. 265.—Spilochalcis marie; enlarged. . torvina Cress. New Brunswick, Jamesburg VII (Sm); Cramer Hill V (Jn). . albifrons Walsh. Bred from ‘‘Pezomachus minimus.” | * SMICRA Spin. fasfe ewe %\ ; . igneoides Kirby. Sure to be found in New Jersey. ist iRBRARY | CHALCIS Fab. . flavipes Fab. New Jersey (Cress Coll). . ovata Say. New Brunswick VII, 17 (Coll); Clementon VIII, 6 (Jn); parasitic on a variety of lepidopterous larve, large and small. . tachinzee How. New Brunswick VII, 29 (Coll). PHASGONOPHORA Westw. . sulcata Westw. Merchantville VII, 14 (Jn); Clementon VI, 26 (Hk); Malaga VII, 20 (GG); Ocean Co. (Coll); bred from “Papilio” sp. LEUCOSPIS Fab. affinis Say. Caldwell (Cr); Trenton VII, 1 (Coll); Riverton IX, 14 (Jn); Westville (Fox); Lakehurst VIII, 7 (Coll); Clementon VIII, IX (div); Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke); bred from nests of leaf-cutter bee. 650 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Y = 4H4dai44 444d Family TORYMID. ORMYRUS Westw. - vaccinicola Ashm. Bred from ‘‘Solenozopheria vaccinii,’” and almost certainly occurs in New Jersey. . ventricosus Ashm. New Brunswick (Sm); parasitic on “Andricus ventricosus.” » minutus AShm. New Brunswick (Sm); parasitic on ‘“Neuroterus laurifoliee.” . rose AsShm. Bred from “Rhodites ignota.’’ . cyaniceps Ashm. New Brunswick (Coll). MEGASTIGMUS Dalm. . canadensis Ashm. MReared from ‘‘Biorrhiza forticornis.” OLIGOSTHENUS Forst. . stigma Fab. Bred from “Rhodites rose” and “spinosissime.” DIOMORUS Walk. . zabriskei Cress. Parasitic in nests of “Ceratina dupla.” SYNTOMASPIS Forst. . advena Ashm. New Brunswick, in oak galls (Sm). . tubicola O.S. (Torymus) New Jersey, bred from galls of “Andricus flocci” and “A. tubicola.” . Vaccinarize Ashm. Common in various “Cynipid” galls (Ashm); a mss. name only. TORYMUS Dalm. . cceeruleus Ashm. New Brunswick, bred from blackberry galls (Sm), and also from “Cynips cinerea.” . sackeni Ashm. New Brunswick (Sm); out of ‘“Diastrophus nebulosus.” . aea Walk. Will probably be found in New Jersey. . chrysochlorus O. S. Reared from “Rhodites dichlocerus.” . harrisi Fitch. New York and probably New Jersey. . flavicoxa O. S. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); from galls of ‘“Rhodites radicum.” bedeguaris Linn. Reared from “Rhodites rose” and “radicum.” . brevissimicandus Ashm. Bred from “Diastrophus nebulosus.” . ebrius O. S. Reared from “Lasioptera vitis.” . solitarius O. S. Out of galls of “Rhodites radicum.” ‘THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 651 Super-family PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. In this series we have species in which the ovipositor is retractile into and comes from the end of the abdomen. All of them are parasites, and all stages of other insects may be infested. The tendency is to com- pleteness of venation, and the antennze are usually straight. Among them are the smallest of the parasites, and on the other hand some of them are of good size. The late Dr. W. H. Ashmead has added much to our knowledge of this super-family, and some of his results are in- cluded here. Family DIAPRIIDA‘. TRICHOPRIA Ashm. T. carolinensis AShm. Occurs in the New Jersey district. DIAPRIA Latr. D. agromyze Fitch. Reared from “Agromyza tritici.” D. meromyzz Fitch. Parasitic on the wheat-stem maggot. TROPIDOPRIA Ashm. T. conica Fab. Reared from the drone-fly, “Eristalis tenax.” LOXOTROPA Forst. L. pegomyize Brues. A parasite of the cabbage maggot. GALESUS Curtis. G. politus Say. Found in the New Jersey district. PARAMESIUS Westw. P. terminatus Say. New Jersey district. Family BELYTIDA. XENOTOMA Forst. X. xanthopus Ashm. Occurs in the New Jersey district. BELYTA Jur. B. frontalis Ashm. Should be found in New Jersey. LEPTORHAPTUS Férst. L. conicus Ashm. Occurs in the New Jersey district. 652 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 00 U0 DU U Family PROCTOTRYPID&. PROCTOTRYPES Latr. . causatus Say. Philadelphia (Jn) and sure to be found in New Jersey. - linelli Ashm. Long [sland (Ll) and certainly New Jersey. . abruptus Say. Occurs in the New Jersey district. . obsoletus Say. Parasitic on ‘“‘Stelidota strigosa.” Family HELORIDA. HELORUS Latr. - paradoxus Prov. New York (Ashm), and probably New Jersey; reared from cocoons of ‘“Chrysopa.”’ Family PLATYGASTERID. ISOCYBUS Forst. pallipes Say. Ocean Co., Lahaway V (Sm). PLATYGASTER Latr. . caryze Ashm. A parasite on a walnut Cecidomyia. . herricki Pack. Parasitic on the Hessian fly. POLYGNOTUS Forst. . diplosidis Ashm. New Brunswick, reared from the blackberry gall midge (Sm) and also bred from a “‘Cecid” on pine. : pinicola Ashm. Clementon V, 27 (Vk); reared from “Cecid. resinicola.” . hiemalis Forbes. Another parasite on the Hessian fly. » vernonia Ashm. Reared from ‘‘Vernonia noveboracensis.” TRICHACIS Forst. . rufipes AShm. Reared from “Balaninus nasicus” and “Blastobasis glandulella.” AMITUS Hald. . aleurodinis Hald. Pennsylvania to District of Columbia (Ashm); parasitic on the white fly, “Aleurodes corni.” ANOPEDIAS Forst. . error Fitch. A parasite of the wheat midge and sure to occur in New Jersey. ” 'U > 4addH THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 653 Family SCELIONIDA:. SCELIO Latr. . calopteni Ashm. Reared from ‘‘Melanoplus atlanis.”’ . edipodz Ashm. Parasitic on “Gdipoda”’ sp. . ovivora Riley. Reared from eggs of ‘“Ctdipoda carolina.” SPARSION Latr. . famelicum Say. Parasitic on the carolina locust. HADRONOTUS Forst. . anase Ashm. Reared from the common squash bug. . rugosus How. Parasitic on the squash—and other bugs. BARYCONUS Forst. . ecanthi Ashm. Parasitic on tree crickets ‘‘Gcanthus.”’ MACROTELIA Westw. . virginiensis AsShm. Reared from “Orchelimum glaberrimum.” . surfacei Brues. Chester; the type locality; bred from eggs of a locustid found between leaves of pine-cone willow gall (Marsh). CALOTELEIA Westw. . marlatti Ashm. Type iocality in New Jersey. PROSACANTHA Nees. . caraborum Riley. Reared from “Chlzenius impunctifrons.” . linellii AShm. Long island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . marylandica Ashm. Ocean County (Sm). ARADOPHAGUS Ashm. . fasciatus Ashm. Breeds on species of “Pityophthorus.” TRISSOLCUS Ashm. . brochymzenze Ashm. Parasitic on tree bug, “Brochymena arborea.”’ . euchisti Ashm. Reared from “Euchistus servus.” . murgantiz Ashm. Infests the harlequin cabbage bug. . podisi AShm. New Brunswick VII, 20, Ocean Co. V (Sm); in “‘Podisus spinosus.”’ . thyanthee Ashm. Reared from “Thyantha custator’” and “Podisus spinosus.” TELENOMUS Halid. . arzame Riley. Reared from ““Arzama densa.” . bifidus Riley. Parasite of “Hyphantria cunea,”’ the fall web-worm. 654 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. T. a ali : heliothidis Ashm. A parasite of . ichthyurze Ashm. Bred out of . orgyiz Fitch. Bred out of eggs of . podisi Ashm. Parasitic in ‘“Podi- . polyturator Dru. Through- clisiocampz Riley. Reared from the American tent caterpillar. coelodasidis Ashm. Parasitic on ‘“Coelodasys leptinoides.” graptze How. Breeds in species of “Grapta,” “Vanessa,” ‘“Chryso- phanus,” etc. the corn-worm. “Tehthyura inclusa.” the tussock or vaporer moth. sus spinosus” and ‘“P. modestus.” ; i Fig. 266.—Tele us heliothidis; . spilosomatis Ashm. Reared from Sour dete Bai Spilosoma virginica.” PHANURUS Thom. . tabanivorus Ashm. Bred out of eggs of ‘‘Tabanus atratus.”’ Family CERAPHRONID/. CERAPHRON Jur. . destructor Say. A parasite of the Hessian fly. . fuscipes Ashm. New Jersey district. . tertius D. T. (basalis Ashm.) Sure to occur in New Jersey. LYGOCERUS Forst. . stigmatus Say. New Brunswick VI, 29, bred out of cherry aphis (Coll). . niger How. South Jersey, parasitic on wheat louse VI, VII (Sm). . triticum Taylor. Parasitic on wheat louse. Family PELE.CINIDAZ. PELECINUS Latr. AD eS out the State, not rare. A most remarkable spe- cies, the female of which has a body nearly two inches long, made up of a few long slender seg- ments. The male is rare, utterly unlike the female, and resembles a wasp pee nearly than a para- Fig. 267.—Pelecinus polyturator; male and female. site. THE INSECTS: OF ‘NEW JERSEY. 655. Family FORMICIDAL. This includes the ants, so well known to all that description is un- necessary. The structural character that distinguishes them is the possession of one or two nodes or scales at the base of the abdomen, forming segments. Ants are usually social, and form colonies, large or small, in which workers or wingless, undeveloped females predominate... The perfect, sexed individuals are winged, but the female strips off these appendages when she starts a colony. The larve are footless and help- less grubs, which must be fed with food properly prepared by the workers. Nests are found in all sorts of places, including houses, and in feeding habits they are almost omnivorous. None of our species are directly injurious to field crops, but many of them are indirectly harm- ful from their habit of protecting plant lice and storing their eggs during the winter. In spring the young lice are colonized on suitable food- plants which could not be otherwise reached, and the carriers thus be- come injurious, though they do not themselves feed on any cultivated plants. Although many ants eat other insects, yet none of them are specific enemies to any definitely injurious form, hence there is no bene- ficial habit to their credit. Some of the larger colonies are complicated assemblages, containing” not only the species that form it, but slaves, scavengers, messmates and other associates in*great variety. The study of their habits and rela- tions is a fascinating one, and many publications on the general subject are available. The present list has been prepared by Dr. William Morton Wheeler, our leading American authority on the subject, and the determinations can be relied upon. The notes are from the annotated list published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History in 1905. Where ants infest houses they should be attracted to sponges dipped in sugar water, laid near where they run; when a sponge becomes filled with the insects it should be thrown into boiling water and replaced by another. This sort of warfare kept up for a few days so demoralizes the ants that, owing to the inexplicable disappearance of so many of their comrades, they leave the house. Fresh bones or meat scrapings serve as well as sponges, and should be burned when covered. This sort of campaign serves only against those small forms that nest in houses. It is not available against those large forms that come in from outside nests on foraging expeditions. When ants infest lawns they can be cleaned out by pouring bisulphide of carbon into the main entrance or entrances. The heavy fumes follow the galleries and kill larve as well as adults. One application is usually sufficient; but in a very large nest a second may be required. Where a hill is extensive, with many openings, punch three or four holes with a cane at as many points, pour the bisulphide into these and close with the foot. Names in the previous list not found in this are omitted for lack of authentication, and as the insects occur throughout the year dates are: not usually given. 656 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Sub-family PoNERINz. = There is only one segment in the peduncle between thorax and abdo- men, the space between the third and fourth segments is constricted, and the females are furnished with a sting. The species are mostly rare. STIGMATOMMA Roger. S. pallipes Hald. Chester IX, 6 (Coll); Staten Island, Jamesburg (Ds); Short Hills, Palisades, Lakehurst (Wheeler); Gloucester, Westville (Fox). Occurs rarely in rich dark woods under stones, leaf-mould or rotten logs. SYSPHINCTA Roger. S. pergandei Roger. Ft. Lee (Silvestri); Short Hills VIII, 8 (Wheeler) Staten Island (Ds). Found under large stones in damp meadows. Dr. Wheeler suggests that “melina’’ Roger, will also be found in the State. PROCERATIUM Roger. P. crassicorne Emery. Staten Island (Ds); Anglesea (A E 8). Live in rotten wood in damp, shady forests. “P. silaceum” Roger, which has been found in Pennsylvania and on Long Island, will undoubtedly be found in New Jersey as well. s PONERA Latr. P. coarctata pennsylvanica Emery. Recorded from all sections of the State. Occurs in small colonies under stones, mould or rotten wood in open woods. Sub-family MyrMECIN&. MYRMECINA Curtis. M. graminicola americana Emery. Riverton (Vk); Lakehurst, Short Hills VIII, Newfoundland (Wheeler). Usually nests in rotten wood or under stones in damp, shady woods. Rare and local. MONOMORIUM Mayr. M. pharaonis Linn. This is the small red ant usually found in houses throughout the State. It is an introduced species from Hurope, which has spread practically all over the world. M. minutum Mayr., var minimum (Buckley) Emery. Newfoundland, Lakehurst (Wheeler); Staten Island (Ds); Milltown V, 30, Lakehurst IX, 27 (Coll); Westville, Riverton (Vk). Common in Monomorium pharaonis. the pine barrens, making nests in the sand; a Fig. 268. minute black species. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 657 SOLENOPSIS Westw. S. molesta Say. Boonton (Vk); Short Hills VIII, Ft. Lee, Newfoundland (Wheeler); Chester IV, 1, New Brunswick VIII, 21 (Coll). A minute species, which varies greatly in habit, and which may yet prove to be a seriously injurious form. It is sometimes a thief ant in the nest of larger species, but in Illinois has developed a tendency to attack sprouting corn. kegs dh avy Se vy f , Fig. 269. Fig. 269.— Solenopsis xyloni; a, b, worker from above and side; c, its head; d, female; enlarged. Fig. 270.—Cremastogaster lineolata; a, b, large worker; c, its head; d, female; e, its wing; f, small worker; all much enlarged. CREMASTOGASTER Lund. C. lineolata Say. Common throughout the State and reported by all col- lectors. Nest in a great variety of places from under bark to under stones. Makes quite a practice of attending plant lice and scale insects. var. lutescens Hmery. Described from the State. var. cerasi Fitch. Anglesea, Clementon, Riverton (Vk); Medford (A E 8) var. pilosa Pergande. Lakehurst VII (div). This is a common form in the pine barrens. 42 IN 658 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. PHEIDOLE Westw. P. pilifera Roger. Hunterdon Co. IV (Coll); Boonton (Vk); Palisades (Ds); Great Notch, Lakehurst (Wheeler). Nests in sandy or gravelly soil or under stones and is a true harvesting ant, although it also feeds on insect food. P. morrisi Forel. Vineland (Morris); Lakehurst (Wheeler). Common in the pine barrens, making its nest in the pure sand. P. vinelandica Forel. Vineland (Treat), Woodbury (Vk); Camden Co. (U SN M). Not uncommon in the pine barrens, where the sand con- tains an admixture of clay. P. davisi Wheeler. Lakehurst (Wheeler); Lucaston (Dke). Lives in the pine barrens in pure white sand. STENAMMA Mayr. S. brevicorne Mayr. Riverton (Vk). Nests under stones and leaves in rich, shady woods. S. piceum Emery. Short Hills VIII (Wheeler). Sub-genus APH ATNOGASTER Mayr. S. (A.) treatzs Forel. Newfoundland, Overbrook (Ds); Vineland (Treat) Lakehurst (div). Nests in the sand in the shade of oaks and pines. S. (A.) lamellidens Mayr. Lakehurst (Wheeler). Nests much like the preceding. S. (A.) mariz Forel. Jamesburg (Wheeler). d S. (A.) fulvum Roger. Caldwell (Cr); Hunterdon Co. IV, 16, Prosper- town VI, 1 (Coll). In rotten wood in rather dense forests. S. (A.) fulvum aqui (Buckley.) Emery. Hunterdon Co., Prospertown, Lakehurst (Coll); Jamesburg (Ds); Halifax (Wheeler); Westville (A E 8); Anglesea, Clementon (Vk). Under stones in shady woods. S. (A.) fulvum aqui var. piceum Emery. Palisades, Halifax (Wheeler) ; Newfoundland (Ds); Milltown IV 10 (Coll). Common in shady woods. Dr. Wheeler suggests that S. tennesseense Mayr. will also occur in New Jersey, as it is known from Pennsylvania and Connecticut. MYRMICA Latr. M. punctiventris Roger. Fort Lee (Wheeler); Plainfield, Manasquan (Ds); Riverton IV, 14 (Vk); Medford (A E 8S); Camden. Under stones in moist, shady woods. M. punctiventris pinetorum Wheeler. Lakehurst (Wheeler et als.). Nests in pure sand. M. rubra scabrinodis Nyl., var. sabuleti Meinert. Ft. Lee, Newfoundland (Wheeler); Arlington (Coll). Nests in sandy or sunny gravelly places. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 659 M. rubra scabrinodis Nyl., var. schencki Emery. New Brunswick VII, 20, Milltown V, 30, Lahaway V, XII, Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Coll); Dr. Wheeler has also taken this at Lakehurst. M. rubra scabrinodis Nyl., var. fracticornis Emery. Lahaway XII (Brake- ley). Make nests in grass tussocks in Sphagnum swamps. LEPTOTHORAX Mayr. L. longispinosus Roger. Newfoundland, Ft. Lee (Wheeler). Nests in crevices df rocks, in stone fences and similar situations. L. curvispinosus Mayr. Paterson VI, 7, nesting in a golden-rod gall (Gr); Prospertown VI (Coll); Roselle Park (Brb); Ft. Lee (Wheel- er); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton, Clementon VI, 6 (Vk); Lakehurst (div), in oak galls (Wheeler). Nests in hollow twigs and empty galls in shady woods. L. schaumii Roger. Staten Island, running on trunk of dead oak in May (Ds); Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Coll); nests in bark. L. fortinodis Mayr. Lakehurst, nesting in the bark of pitch pine (Wheeler). L. texanus davisi Wheeler. Lakehurst (Wheeler); Manumuskin (Dke). Nests in pure white sand and feeds on small insects. TETRAMORIUM Mayr. T. czespitum Linn. Ft. Lee (Wheeler); Arlington IV, 6, New Brunswick IV, 26 (Coll); Staten Island (Ds); Camden Co. (Dke). This is an importation from Europe and is known as the “lawn ant.” It is spreading slowly, but will probably extend throughout the State be- fore long. At New Brunswick it occurred in a greenhouse, damaging some of the potted plants. There are three species of “Strumigenys” Sm., which almost certainly occur in the State, although they have not been actually found. They are “S. pergandei” Emery, “S. pulchella” Emery and “S. clypeata” Roger. ATTA Fab. A. septentrionalis McCook. Milltown, Manasquan (Ds); Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll); Toms River (div); Lucaston (Dke); Lakehurst (Wheeler); Vineland (Treat). Practically confined to the pine re- gions and is the northern extremity of the range of this “cutting ant.” It is the only one of the fungus growing ants whose range extends into the State, and its life cycle is of extreme interest. Sub-family DoLtcHODERIN&. There is only a single segment in the peduncle between thorax and abdomen. Sting of the female rudimentary. 660 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DOLICHODERUS Lund. D. mariz Forel. Milltown V, 30 (Coll); Lakehurst VIII (div); Clemen- ton V, 22 (Vk); Vineland (Treat); Manumuskin, Bamber, Brown’s Mills Jn: (Dke). Nests in large colonies in pure white sand around the roots of grass and turkey-beard. Attends plant-lice and mealy- bugs on surrounding plants. D. mariz davisi Wheeler. Sayreville (Ds); Jamesburg VII (div); Ocean Co. V (Coll). D. taschenbergi Mayr. var. gagates Wheeler. Jamesburg (Ds); Lake- hurst (div); Clementon VI, 2 (Vk); Iona, Brown’s Mills Jn. (Dke). Nests with “marie.” D. plagiatus Mayr. Jamesburg (Ds); Riverton (Vk); Iona (Dke). Simi- lar in habits to “marie,” but its colonies are very small. D. plagiatus var. inornatus Wheeler. Lakehurst (Wheeler). D. plagiatus pustulatus Mayr. Lakehurst (Wheeler). D. plagiatus pustulatus var. beutenmulleri Wheeler. Lakehurst VII, VIII (div). TAPINOMA FoOrst. T. sessile Say. Throughout the State, common. Nests under stones, dead leaves, logs, etc. T. pruinosum Roger. Milltown (Coll); Halifax, Lakehurst (Wheeler) ; Atco (Vk). A much smaller species, probably more widely distributed than above records show. DORYMYRMEX Mayr. D. pyramicus Roger. Lakehurst (Wheeler) and probably throughout the pine barren region. Nests in white sand. Sub-family CAMPONOTIN&. Contains the most common of our species. There is only one segment in the peduncle between thorax and abdomen, there are no constrictions between the abdominal segments, and the females have no sting. BRACHYMYRMEX Mayr. B. heeri depilis Emery. Great Notch, Newfoundland, Short Hills VIII, Ft. Lee (Wheeler). Nests under stones in shady woods and attends root coccids. PRENOLEPIS Mayr. P. parvula Mayr. Arlington (Coll); Short Hills VIII, Halifax (Wheeler) Camden, Atco, Clementon (Vk); Lakehurst (div); Brown’s Mills Jn. (Dke). Under stones in gravelly and sunny places. P. arenivaga Wheeler. Lakehurst IX, 25 (Wheeler). r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 661 Sub-genus NYLANDERIA Emery. . (N.) imparis Say. Halifax, Newfoundland (Wheeler); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Camden Co. (Fox); Chester III, IV, Jamesburg X, Prospertown VI (Coll). Nests in shady oak woods in soil con- taining more or less clay. A large, very abundant species, which feeds on nectar. . (N.) imparis var. testacea Emery. Staten Island (Ds); Medford, Clementon (Vk); Lakehurst (div); Lahaway (Coll); a pale form that occurs in the sandy districts. LASIUS Fab. . niger Linn. var. americanus Emery. Throughout the State, and per- haps our most abundant species. It harbors and cultivates root-lice and coccids, and nests as readily in cultivated fields as anywhere. It is one of the forms responsible for the distribution of the corn and strawberry root-lice. . niger var. neoniger Emery. Hewitt, Staten Island (Ds); Newfound- land (Wheeler); Milltown, Trenton, VII (Coll); Lakehurst VIII (div); Anglesea (Vk). A rare form of the preceding; also occurring in all regions of the State. . brevicornis Emery. Great Notch, Short Hills VIII, Halifax, Newfound- land, Ft. Lee (Wheeler); Chester VIII, Jamesburg IV (Coll); Lake- hurst IX (div). A strictly subterranean species; also cultivating root- lice. . flavus nearcticus Wheeler. Great Notch, Halifax, Newfoundland (Wheeler). . umbratus mixtus Nyl. var. aphidicola Walsh. Great Notch, New- foundland, Ft. Lee (Wheeler), Caldwell (Hmery); Chester X, James- burg V, (Coll); Woodbury (Vk). umbratus mixtus var. affinis Schenck. “New Jersey” (Mayr). . umbratus mixtus minutus Emery. Described from “New Jersey.” . umbratus speculiventris Emery. Great Notch, Ft. Lee (Wheeler); Caldwell (Emery) the type locality. Under stones or rotten logs in rich, shady woods. ; Sub-genus ACANTOMYOPS Mayr. . (A.) interjectus Mayr. Short Hills VIII, Newoundland (Wheeler); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds);. Lakehurst (div); Lahaway VI (Coll). (A.) claviger Roger. Halifax, Newfoundland, Short Hills VIII, Ft. Lee, Lakehurst (Wheeler); Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton (Vk); Merchantville (Dke). Nests in old logs and stumps in open woods. . (A.) claviger subglaber Emery. Milltown V (Coll); Lacy (Dke). 662 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. L. (A.) latipes Walsh. Newfoundland, Ft. Lee (Wheeler); Camden (Sm); Weymouth (Dke). Nests under large stones in grassy fields. It seems probable that “L. (A.) murphyi” Forel. also occurs in New Jersey, since it has been taken on Long Island and within the present limits of New York City. FORMICA Linn. F. sanguinea rubicunda Emery. Del. Water Gap (Vk); Milltown V (Coll); Woodbury (A ES). Under stones in grassy piaces along the edge of woods. It is a slave maker and kidnaps the young of “F. sub- sericea.” F. sanguinea rubicunda var. subintegra Emery. Grantwood VIII (div); Newfoundland, Lakehurst (Wheeler); Staten Island (Ds). F. sanguinea rubicunda var. integroides Wheeler. New Brunswick VIII, 5 (Coll). F. rufa obscuriventris Mayr. Newfoundland (Ds); Eagle Rock, Orange Mts. (Dn). F. rufa integra Nyl. Staten Island, Jamesburg, Farmingdale (Ds); Lakehurst (Wheeler); Clementon, Sea Isle City (Vk); Brown’s Mills Jn (Dke). Makes large nests in or among stones, old logs or stumps; prefers sunny glades or clearings in the forests. F. difficilis Emery. Halifax, Lakehurst (Wheeler); Jamesburg V (div); Staten Island (Ds). F. exsectoides Forel. Newfoundland, Staten Island (Ds); Palisades, Al- pine (Bt); Halifax, Scotch Plains (Wheeler); Chester IV, Paterson V (Coll). The mound-building ant of the Alleghanies; occurs only in the hilly northern sections of the State. F. pallide-fulva Latr. Cape May (A ES). Probably the northern limit of its distribution (Wheeler). F. pallide-fulva schaufussi Mayr. Occurs throughout the State, com- monly. Makes small nests in a great variety of places. F. pallide-fulva schaufussi var. incerta Emery. Newfoundland (Wheel- er); Staten Island (Ds); Manumuskin (Dke). F. pallide-fulva nitidiventris Emery. Short Hills VIII (Wheeler); Staten Island (Ds); Milltown VI, Lakehurst VIII (Coll). F. pallide-fulva nitidiventris var. fuscata Emery. Newfoundland, Hali- fax (Wheeler); Staten Island (Ds). F. fusca var. subsericea Say. Occurs throughout the State, is a mound builder and sometimes forms very large colonies. Prefers sunny, grassy places, and is an attendant on plant-lice. Dr. Wheeler suggests that the variety “subanescens”’ Emery almost undoubtedly occurs in the hilly portions of the State. F. fusca subpolita Mayr., var. neogagates Emery. Paterson (Wheeler) ; Newfoundland, Staten Island (Ds). P. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 663 POLYERGUS Latr. rufescens lucidus Mayr. Newfoundland (Wheeler); Camden Co. VI, Clementon (Fox); Lakehurst (Ds), Vineland (Treat). Ss oS best known member of which is a parasite of and effective check to the increase of certain white grubs . unicolor Say. (thoracica Blake.) Camden Co. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 665 TIMULLA Ashm. . hexagona Say. Throughout the State V, VII-IX; not rare. . ornativentris Say. Riverton VIII (Jn); Westville (Crn); Camden Co. VI (Fox); Pemberton VII (Hk); ° Lakehurst VIII (Coll); Brown’s Mills VI (CG); Delair VIII, DaCosta VII, Lucaston IX (Dke). . dubitata Smith. Milltown VIII, Lakewood V, Lakehurst VII, VIII, Lahaway VIII, Anglesea VII, IX (Coll); Brown’s Mills VII, 4 (Dke). May be the 9 of the preceding. . promethea Blake. Prospertown IX, Lahaway X (Coll). EPHUTA Say. . scrupea Say. Camdcn Co. (Fox); Clementon VIII, 27 (Vk). . dzeckii Rohw. Lucaston VIII, 25, Bamber IX, 1 (Dke). . vierecki Rohw. Lucaston VIII, 27 (Haim); type locality. . zella Rohw. Wenonah VII, 28 (Haim); type locality. NOMI4SPHAGUS Ashm. . sanborni Blake. Camden Co. VIII, IX (Fox); Lucaston IX (DkKe); Pemberton IX (GG). . simillima Smith. Throughout the State V—-IX; not common. . montivaga Cress. Great Notch IX, 4 (Dke). PSEUDOMETHOCA Ashm. . canadensis Blake. Camden Co. V, VII, [IX (Fox); Clementon V (Vk); Mt. Holly VIII, Iona VI (Dke); Brown’s Mills V, VI (div); Milltown V, Riverton IX, Lakewood V (Coll). DASYMUTILLA Ashm. . occidentalis Linn. Throughout the State VII-X. . ferruginea Fab. Clementon VIII, DaCosta VII, VIII, Iona VII, VIII, Manumuskin VI, IX, X (Dke); Brown’s Mills VI, 21 (GG). Family MYRMOSID/-. MYRMOSA Latr. VI, VIII, IX (Fox); N. Woodbury VI (Vk). Family TIPHIIDA. This contains a small group of digging wasps, the Fig. 271.—A velvet ant, Spherophthalma occidentalis. of the genus “Lachnosterna’”’ or May beetles. 666 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TIPHIA Fab. T. inornata Say. Throughout the State VI-IX, parasitic on white grubs. T. waldenii Vier. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). T. relativa Vier. Chester (Coll); Lucaston V, IX, Stone Harbor VII (Dke). Fig. 272.—White-grub parasite, Tiphia inor- T. punctata Rob. Lucaston IV, 10 ene ee e ae ae ee (DKe). T. clypeata Rob. Lucaston IX, 24 (Dke). e PARATIPHIA Sichel. P. algonquina Vier. Clementon VI, VII (Hk), the type locality; Lake- hurst VII, Lahaway VIII (Coll). Family SCOLIDAL. Stout, very hairy wasps, black, banded or spotted with yellow, legs short and strong, abdomen with a very short pedicel. The species bur- row in the ground in search of white grubs, in which they lay their eggs and on which the larve develop. SCOLIA Fab. S. bicincta Fab. Gloucester Co. VIII, 23 (Fox); Westville (Crn); Weno- nah VII, 27 (Dke); Clementon IX, 8 (CG); Lahaway VI, 21, Prosper- town VI, 1 (Coll). S. dubia Say. Newark, Trenton VIII, 14, Hammonton VIII, 27 (Coll); Westville (Crn); Gloucester VIII, 23 (Fox); Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). S. nobilitata Fab. Jamesburg VII, 18, Ocean Co. (Coll); Camden Co. VI- 29-VIII, 3 (Fox); DaCosta VII, 4-28, Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). ELIS Fab. E. plumipes Dru. Throughout the State in sandy places, more common south of the Piedmont Plain V—VIII. E. quadrimaculata Fab. (quadrinotata Fab.) Monmouth Co. VII, 4 (Fox); Laurel Springs VI, 4, Brown’s Mills V, VII, Manumuskin V, VI (Dke). Family MYZINIDAS. MYZINA Latr. M. interrupta Say: (hamata Say.) Riverton IX (Jn); Newbold VIII, Lucaston VIII, Manumuskin IX, Anglesea IX (Dke); Camden Co. (Ashm); Pemberton VI (Hk); Lakewood, Lahaway VIII (Coll). Res Sg THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 667 - quinquecincta Fab. (namea Fab.) Westville (Crn). . obscura Fab. New Jersey, rare (Bt); Westville (Crn). . sex-cincta Fab. Throughout the State VII-IX, common. . marginata Say. Sure to be found in New Jersey. Family SAPYGID. These are guests in the nests of bees, such as ‘‘Xylocopa” and “Osmia.”’ SAPYGA Latr. S. centrata Say. Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox). S. americana Cress. Will be found in New Jersey. Family TRIGONALID-. TRIGONALYS Westw. T. sulcatus Davis. Anglesea (Sm). T. pulchella Cress. Should occur in New Jersey (Vk). An undetermined species is in Mr. Daecke’s collection from Linden- wold IX, 7. LYCOGASTER Shuck. L. pullatus Shuck. Orange Mts. VII, 4 (Jn). L. costalis Cress. Reared from ‘“Acronycta lobelie” (Vk). Family BETHYLID/. PARASIEROLA Carn. P. cellularis Say. (Goniozus) New Jersey probably (Ashm). GONIOZUS Forst. G. platynotzee Ashm. Reared from “Platynota sentana.” PERISEMUS Forst. P. prolongatus Prov. Reared from “Crambus caliginosellus.” ANOXUS Thoms. A. chittendeni Ashm. Reared from “Cis” sp., and sure to be in New Jersey. EPYRIS Westw. . bifoveolatus Ashm. (Mesitus) New Jersey probably. . rufipes Say. Should be found in New Jersey. 668 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. LAELIUS Ashm. L. trogodermatis Ashm. Reared from “Trogoderma tarsale.” CEPHALONOMIA Westw. C. hyalinipennis Ashm. Reared from “Amphibolips cinerea,” ‘“Holcaspis omnivora”’ and “‘Hypothenemus eruditus.”’ NEOSCLERODERMA Kieff. N. tarsalis Ashm. Reared from “Silvanus surinamensis.” PRISTOCERA Klug. P. armifera Say. Avalon VII, 27 (Hk). Family CHRYSIDID. These are the “cuckoo bees,” so called because they lay their eggs in the cells of other bees and wasps, their larve depriving the rightful owner of food if they do not actually eat it first. They are of a brilliant metallic blue or green, with a very firm chitinous outer surface, which is often deeply punctured or otherwise sculptured. The abdomen has only a few visible segments, the others being in the form of a retractile tube, at the end of which the small sting is formed. Some of the species are said to be true parasites of saw-flies. OMALUS Panz. O. iridescens Nort. Should be found in New Jersey. O. sinuosus Say. Trenton V, 20 (Hk). O. lzeviventris Cress. Manumuskin VI, 11 (Dke). NOTOZUS Forst. N. marginatus Patt. New Jersey probably. N. viridicyaneus Nort. “‘New Jersey” (USN M). HEDYCHRIDIUM Perrin. H. dimidiatum Say. Philadelphia (Jn) and surely in New Jersey. HEDYCHRUM Latr. H. obsoletum Say. Riverton VII, 5 (Jn); Cape May VIII, 9 (Dke). H. violaceum Brullé. Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, 15, Anglesea IX, 4 (Fox); Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). CHRYSIS Linn. C. perpulchra Cress. Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox). C. verticalis Patt. Chester VII, 3 (Coll); Riverton VII, 31 (Jn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 669 Cc. parvula Fab. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. La- haway X, 14 (Coll). C. doriz Grib. Lahaway VII, 18 (Sm). C. ccruleans Fab. New Brunswick, Lahaway VI, 24, VII, 18 (Coll); DaCosta V, 17, VII, 20, Man- umuskin IX, 15 (Dke). C. nitidula Fab. Westville (Fox); Lucaston IX, 19, Brown’s Mills VI, 23 (Dke); reared from Fig. 273.—Chrysis species. nests of “Odynerus” and ‘“Osmia” in Europe. C. nortoni Aaron. Pennsylvania and probably New Jersey. C. smaragdula Fab. Lahaway VII, 12 (Sm); DaCosta VII, 20, Lucaston IX, 2, Brown’s Mills VII, 5, Iona VIII, 25, Manumuskin VI, 22, Belle- plain IX, 8 (Rke). Family KUMENIDAE. These are solitary wasps, with males and females only developed, and the wings are folded lengthwise when at rest. They are predatory and store their cells with insects of various kinds. They may be diggers, borers in pith or wood or may make mud nests of more or less symmetri- cal form. ZETHUS Fah. Z. spinipes Say. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. (Sm). EUMENES Latr. E. agilis Sauss. Philadelphia VIII (Fox) and sure to be found in New Jersey. E. fraternus Say. Throughout the State, V, VII-IX; this is the common “potter wasp” that makes vase-like mud cells attached to low plants. E. globulosus Sauss. New Jer- sey (Cress Coll). E. verticalis Say. Camden VIII, 3 (Fox). MONOBIA Sauss. M. quadridens Linn. Through- Fig. 274.—Fraternal potter-wasp, Eumenes out the State VI-VIII, local- fraternus; a, wasp; b, its mud cell; ly not rare c, same opened to show contents. NORTONIA Sauss. symmorpha Sauss. Caldwell (Cr). Z ODYNERUS Latr. SYMMORPHUS Wesm. O. philadelphize Sauss. Caldwell (Cr). O. debilis Sauss. Lahaway VII, 12 (Sm). 670 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. EUANCISTROCERUS D. T. O. albophaleratus Sauss. Westville (Crn); Camden Co. (Fox). O. birenimaculatus Sauss. Staten Island (Ds); Bloomfield, Woodbury VI, 17, Iona VI, 8, Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Sm). O. campestris Sauss. Staten Island (Ds); Essex Co., New Brunswick VI, Jamesburg VII, Swedesboro VII (Coll); Woodbury VI (Dke); Clem- enton VII, Lucaston IX (Hk). O. capra Sauss. Throughout the State IX, X, not rare. O. tigris Sauss. Throughout the State V—VII, IX, X, not rare. O. uncinatus Say. (unifasciatus Sauss.) Caldwell (Cr); Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Fox); Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). O. quadrisectus Say. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12 (Coll). O. seeccularis Sauss. Gloucester ; Co: Viln 15) (ox) wiames- burg VII, 15, Lahaway VI, ‘ 1, Lakehurst IX, 26 (Coll). O. fulvipes Sauss. Staten Island VII (Ds). ODYNERUS Latr. O. annulatus Say. New Jersey 4 (Bt); Pemberton IX, 1 / (Hk). O. arvensis Sauss. Gloucester Co. VIII, 24 (Fox). O. boscii Lep. New Brunswick VII, 24, Swedesboro VII, 15, Lahaway (Sm); Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke). O. megzra Lep. Caldwell (Cr); Camden VI, 28, VII, 12 (Fox); Clemen- ton VI, 29 (Hk); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); Manumuskin VI, 4, VII, 26 (Dke). O. catskilli Sauss. Staten Island VIII (Ds); Lahaway VI, 2 (Sm). QO. dorsalis Sauss. Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Fox); Westville VI, 6, Black- wood IX, 9, colony near bank of big Timber Creek VIII, 19 (Vk); Toms River IX, 22 (Dke). O. foraminatus Sauss. Throughout the State V—VII, IX. O. hidalgo Sauss. Camden VII, 12, 27 (Fox). O. fundatus Cress. Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). STENODYNERUS Sauss. O. anormis Say. Camden, Gloucester Co. VI, VII (Fox); Lucaston V, IX (div); Iona VII, 13 (Dke); Anglesea IX, 3 (Coll). O. pedestris Sauss. Caldwell (Cr); Westville VI, 6 (Vk); Camden VI, 24, VII, 12, Cape May V, 14 (Fox). O. pennsylvanicus Sauss. Camden V-VII (Fox); Westville (Crn). O. perennis Sauss. Trenton VII, Pemberton VII (Hk); Camden, Glouces- ter Co. VI-VIII (Fox). O. conformis Sauss. Gloucester Co. VII, 22 (Fox). Fig. 275.—Odynerus flavipes and its nest built in a spool. vp he 4 m4 » Aan if 9. Tig. 27 espa maculata, white faced wasp. .—Nest of Vespa maculata just started. Fig. 278.—Polistes pallipes. 6.—/ 27 Fig. 277 gz. 279.—Paper comb of Polistes. Fig. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 671 O. vagus Sauss. Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); Westville VI, 16 (Vk). O. collega Sauss. Lucaston [IX (Dke); Lakehurst VIII, Barnegat Bay Dist. VI (Coll). LEPTOCHILUS Sauss. O. republicanus D. T. (ornatus Sauss.) Dunnfield VII, 12, stores larve of ‘“‘Odontota dorsalis” in pith cells (Sm); Camden VIII, 3 (Fox). Family VESPID/. These are the true social wasps—yellow jackets and hornets, which live in colonies containing males, females and workers, the latter, as with the bees, undevelopd females. All of them build paper cells or nests, some of them in the open like the large gray globular “hornets nest,” some of them in trunks of trees, beneath overhanging eaves and others in holes in the ground. The insects are pugnacious and resent interfer- ence, aS any one who has ever disturbed a yellow jacket nest has dis- covered to his cost. The food consists of honey, pollen and other in- sects, the larve being fed with masticated fragments of insects by the mother or workers. There is no storing of food, and the young are abso- lutely dependent upon the periodical feeding by the adults. Only the impregnated females hibernate, and each of these starts a colony of its Own in spring. The fore wings are folded longitudinally when at rest. POLISTES Latr. Species of this genus make paper combs that are not covered, in sheltered places. P. annularis Linn. Staten Island X (Ds); Jamesburg VII, 21 (Sm); Blackwood IX, 19 (Vk). P. fuscatus Fab. Seems to be rare in New Jersey, the variety “instabilis” Sauss. being the only form recorded (Bt). P. pallipes Lep. (metricus Say.) Throughout the State; is the com- monest of our species and varies greatly. P. perplexus Cress. With the preceding and locally as abundant. P. rubiginosus Lep. New Jersey, rare (Bt). P. variatus Cress. Newark, Camden Co., Lakehurst VIII, Lahaway IX, Anglesea IX, Cape May IX, not so common (Coll). P. canadensis Linn. Staten Island III, 15 (Ds). VESPA Linn. V. borealis Kirby. Caldwell (Cr); this record is open to doubt. V. crabro Linn. A European species introduced into and now spread throughout the State. It is the largest form that occurs with us. V. carolina Dru. (cuneata Fab.) Staten Island VI (Ds); New Bruns- wick VIII, Merchantville V, Ocean Co. VI (Coll); Riverton VI, X (Jn); Clementon IV (GG); Woodbury VI, National Park VI, VII, Lucaston IV, Iona VI, Manumuskin V, VI, X (Dke); Mr. Daecke says that the underground nest of this species always has a papered entrance. 672 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. V. diabolica Sauss. Throughout the State, more or less common all season; makes an underground nest. V. germanica Fab. Throughout the State all season and perhaps the most common of the smaller yellow-jackets; nests in hollow logs, under boards, and more rarely underground. V. infernalis Sauss. New Jersey (Ashm). V. maculata Linn. Common everywhere throughout the State. It is the large white-faced wasp that makes the globular “hornets nests” that are found attached to bushes, trees and sometimes to sheltered places on barns, etc. V. occidentalis Cress. New Jersey (Fox). V. vidua Sauss. Riverton IX (CG); Westville (Cress); New Brunswick IX, Lahaway (Sm); Malaga IX (GG); Lucaston IX, DaCosta VII, Bamber VII, Iona V, VIII, Manumuskin V (Dke). V. vulgaris Linn. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Camden VI (Fox); Jamesburg VI, Lahaway, Lakehurst IX (Coll). ‘ V. consobrina Sauss. New Brunswick VI, 17 (Coll). Family CEROPALIDA. The “Pompilide” of the last edition. Includes rather slender, long- legged solitary wasps with the abdomen united to the thorax by a very short stalk. They are usually velvety black or blue, often with orange bands, wings usually black and kept in constant jerky motion when the insect is moving about. The species prey on spiders and other insects and may be diggers or makers of mud cells under stones, etc. Some are said to be guests in the nests of other diggers. PSEUDAGENIA Kohl. (AGENIA Dahlb.) P. architecta Say. Riverton IX, 29 (Jn); Merchantville V, Manumuskin X, 20 (Dke); Lahaway VII, 3 (Sm). P. bombycina Cress. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island V, VI (Ds); Camden VII (Fox). P. calcarata Cress. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll); Westville VIII, 30 (Vk). P. caliptera Say. Camden Co. VA, 28'"(Hox): P. iridipennis Cress. Camden Co. VI, VIII, Gloucester Co. V (Fox) Fig. 280.—Pseudagenia bombycina and its cell, which is to be filled with spiders. P. mellipes Say. Philadelphia VII, 4 (Fox), and sure to occur in New Jersey. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 673 . coerulescens Dahlb. Staten Island (Ds); Camden Co. VIII, IX (Fox). . subcorticalis Walsh. New Jersey VIII, 31 (Ashm). . varitarsata D. T. (varipes Cress.) Will yet be found in New Jersey. . pulchrina Cress. Riverton VI, 27 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5, Clementon WINE 300 Clik) UW! 30) 60 '=40 CRYPTOCHEILUS Panz. (SALIUS Fab.) C. fascipennis Say. (alienatus Sm.) .Jamesburg (Sm); Riverton VII, 12 (GG); Camden Co. VIII, [X, Gloucester Co. [IX (Fox); Westville (Vk). Cc. conicus Say. New Brunswick, Jamesburg V (Sm); Camden, Glou- cester Co. V, IX (Fox); Clementon VI (Vk); Iona IV, 20 (Dke). . fulvicornis Cress. Gloucester Co. VII-IX (Fox); Ocean Co. (Sm). . germanus Cress. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Stone Harbor VII, 29 (Dke). . nuperus Cress. Gloucester Co. IX, 2 (Fox). . pomilius Cress. Camden and Gloucester Cos. VI, IX (Fox)., . unifasciatus Say. Camden Co. VII, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox). . acceptus Cress. DaCosta VII, 19, Lucaston IX, 28 (Dke). (aie). Cah (eh (ey PEPSIS Fab. P. elegans Lep. Will yet be found in New Jersey. Tig. 281.—Tarantula hawk, Pepsis formosa of the Southwest. ANOPLIUS Lep. (POMPILUS Fab.) A. zthiops Cress. Staten Island IX (Ds); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton. VII, Westville IX (Jn); Manumuskin X, 20 (Dke). 43 IN 674 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. > >rePrD>pDp >>P>rPp> . algidus Smith. Ocean Co. VII, 19 (Fox); Anglesea VIII, 15 (Jn). . americanus Beauv. Caldwell (Cr); Camden and Gloucester Cos. VI, VII, IX (Fox); South Jersey VII (Sm); Lucaston IX (Dke). . argenteus Cress. Camden Co. VI, 15 (Fox). . atrox Dahlb. Throughout the State VI-IX, common. . biguttatus Fab. Del. Water Gap to Manumuskin V-IX, not rare. . cinctipes Cress. Camden Co. VI, 28, Ocean Co. (Fox); Manumuskin VI, 23, Stone Harbor VII, 5 (Dke). . cylindricus Cress. Camden Co. VI, VII (Fox); Swedesboro VII (Sm); DaCosta VII (Dke). . divisus Cress. Camden Co. IX, 7 (Fox); Iona VI, 8 (Dke). . ferrugineus Say. Riverton VIII, 17 (Dke); Malaga IX, 15 (Hk). . maurus Cress. @ (funereus St. Farg. ¢) Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). . fuscipennis Lep. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain VI, VII. - hyacintheus Cress. Gloucester Co. IX, 21 (Fox); Swedesboro VII, 15 (Sm). . ingenuus Cress Camden IX, 7, Gloucester VII, 19 (Fox); Westville VI, 19 (Vk); Iona VI, 16 (Dke); Lahaway IX, 26 (Coll). . interruptus Cress. Camden Co. VII, Gloucester Co. VIII, IX (Fox); Clementon VIII (Vk); Swedesboro VII (Sm); Lucaston VIII (Dke). . marginatus Say. Chester VII, Jamesburg VIII (Coll); Staten Island IX (Ds); Camden VI (Fox); Clementon VIII (Vk); Lahaway VIII (Sm); Iona VI, Manumuskin VI (Dke). . maurus Cress. Riverton VI (Vk); Gloucester Co. VIII (Fox); Ocean Co. (Sm). . posterus Fox. Camden Co. VII (Fnx). . philadelphicus Lep. Throughout the State VII-X, locally common. . relativus Fox. Chester, Lahaway, Anglesea VIII (Coll); Avalon VII (CG). . subviolaceus Cress. Camden Co. VIII, IX, Atlantic Co. VI (Fox); Clementon V, 9 (Vk); Gloucester Co. VII, Ocean Co. (Coll). . tenebrosus Cress. Camden Co. VII, VIII (Fox); Gloucester Co. VII, Labaway IV (Coll); Clementon IV, Lucaston IX, Manumuskin IV, V, X (Dke). . tropicus Fab. Throughout the State VI-IX. . virginiensis Cress. Monmouth Co. VII, 4 (Fox). . marize Cress. Great Notch IV, 8 (GG); Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . pompilus Cress. Recorded from New Jersey (Ashm). . luctuosus Cress. Lake Hopatcong (Fox); Barnegat Bay Dist. VII (Coll). APORUS Spinola. . fasciatus Smith. Camden Co. VIII, 24 (Fox); N. Woodbury VI, 22 (Vk); Lucaston V, 30 (Dke); Atlantic Co. VI, 24 (Coll). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 675 CEROPALES Latr. C. bipunctatus Say. Chester IX, 16 (Coll); Caldwell (Cr); Newark, Ocean Co. (Sm); Riverton IX, 10 (Vk); DaCosta VIII, 3 (Dke). C. fraterna Smith. Trenton V, 24, VIII, 21 (Hk). C. longipes Smith. Trenton VIII, 3 (Hk). Super-family SPHECOIDEA. This includes a large series of digger and other wasps, all of them solitary, most of which provision their nests or cells with other insects. Some are parasitic, and, as a whole, the series is decidedly useful. Family PEMPHREDONID/®. Usually slender, rather small wasps, shining black in color. They bur- row in the pith of dry branches, making very irregular and complicated channels. Quite generally they store their nests with plant lice. PSEN Latr. P. cressoni Pack. Camden Co. IX, 7 (Fox), IX, 22, on flowers of aster . (Vk); Woodbury VI, 17, Lucaston IX, 12 (DkKe). P. denticulatus Pack. Camden Co. [X, 7 (Fox). P. leucopus Say. New Brunswick V, 27 (Coll). P. niger Pack. New Jersey (US N M). P. nigrescens Rohw. Clementon VI, 30 (Hk). P. pauper Pack. Camden Co. VIII, 24 (Fox); Westville (Crn). P. perplexa Rohw. Camden Co. VIII, 6 (Fox). P. striatus Vier. Westville VIII, 30, the type locality: (Vk); Avalon VI, 9 (Jn): P. longicornis Fox. Westville VIII, 30 (Jn). P. johnsoni Vier. Riverton VI, 10 (Jn), the type locality. P. maculipes Fox. North Woodbury VI, 13 (Vk). PEMPHREDON Latr. . concolor Say. Camden Co. VII, 27 (Fox). . bipartior Fox. New Brunswick VI, 20 (Coll); Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke). . angularis Fox. New Brunswick VI, 10 (Coll). . inoratus Say. (Cemonus) New Jersey (Cress Coll). . harbecki Rohw. (Cemonus) Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). SU nO en nO eau), STIGMUS Jur. S. americanus Pack. Camden Co. VI, 28 (Fox). 676 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SPILOMENA Shuck. S. pusilla Say. New Jersey probably. PASSALCECUS Shuck. P. annulatus Say. Camden Co. VII, 28 (Fox). P. mandibularis Cress. Northern New Jersey (Ashm). P. rivertonensis Vier. Riverton VI, 17 (Jn); the type locality. Family AMPULICID. Curious slender wasps, with very long prothorax, a conic head with the base in front, and a clypeus like a beak. They are very rare and are said to prey on cockroaches. RHINOPSIS Westw. R. canaliculata Say. Sure to be found in New Jersey. Family SPHECIDAS. This family is easily recognized by the long slender pedicel or stalk connecting the thorax with the main bulb of the abdomen. Among them are the common mud-daubers that plaster their clay or earthen cells against out-houses and under porches, sometimes inside of shutters or in similar sheltered places. These cells are filled with caterpillars, spiders, grasshoppers or the like, stored by the mother wasp as food for the larva. Some species are true diggers and make underground cells only. All of them may be considered as beneficial. SCELIPHRON Klug. S. cementarium Dru. Throughout the State and the most abundant of our mud-daubers. The variety ‘“architectus” Say. occurs with the type and as commonly, while ‘lunatum Fab. (canadensis Sm)” has been taken on Staten Island (Ds). ‘ CHALYBION Dahlb. C. czeruleum Linn. Throughout the State VI-IX, not rare. SPHEX Linn. (AMMOPHILA Kirby.) S. arvensis Dahlb. Staten Island (Ds); g. d. in New Jersey (Bt). . conditor Smith. Long Island, and sure to occur in New Jersey. S. gracilis Lep. Caldwell (Cr); Chester, Orange Mts., Jamesburg VII, 11, Ocean Co., Swedesboro VII, 16 (Coll); Lucaston VI, 27, IX, 12, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). S. procera Dahlb. (gryphus Sm.) Throughout the State VI-X. 17) THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 677 S. intercepta Lep. Jamesburg VII, Gloucester VII (Coll); Westville (Crm): S. extrematata Cress., var. pictipennis Walsh. Staten Island (Ds); Ches- ter, New Brunswick VII, Jamesburg VII (Coll); Riverton (Jn). S. urnaria Klug. Caldwell (Cr); Camden Co. (Fox); Palisades VIII, 14, DaCosta V, 18, Iona VI, 16 (Dke). S. violaceipennis Lep.. Ocean Co. (Coll). S. vulgaris Cress. Chester, Middlesex Co. VII, Jamesburg VII, Lahaway xX (Coll): S. strenuus Cress. Ocean Co., Lakehurst VII, 4 (Coll). CHLORION Latr. C. cyaneum Dahlb (czruleum Dru). Throughout the State VI-IX. var. “serarium”’ Patton. With the type and really the more common. “C. nearcticus” Rob. is the same. C. abdominalis Cress. (Harpactopus) Ocean Co. (Sm); DaCosta VII, 4, 28, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). C. bifoveolatum Tasch. (Sphex) Newark, New Brunswick VII, 14, Gloucester Co. VII, 15, Ocean Co., Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). C. atratum Lep. (Priononyx = Sphex brunneipes Cress.) Throughout the State VII-IX, locally not rare. C. thomz Fab. Westville (Crn); Delair VIII, DaCosta VII, Lucaston IX (Dke). C. aztecum Sauss. (Isodontia macrocephalus Fox.) Clementon IX, X, 4 (div); Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke); Manahawken IX, 6 (Hk). C. auripes H. T. Fern. (Iso- Y dontia tibialis St. Farg). Throughout the State VI— IX, not rare. C. harrisi H. T. Fern. (lso- dontia_ philadelphica) Caldwell (Cr); Westville (Crn); Lucaston IX, 12 (Dke); Clementon IX, 4 (CG); Ocean Co. (Coll). C. bridewelli H. T. Fern. Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). C.ichneumonea Linn. } me : (Sphex). Common : » throuhgout the State. Fig. 282.—Chlorion ichneumonea. C. pennsylvanicum Linn. (Sphex) Throughout the State, common. Family PHILANTHIDZ. Rather small or medium sized wasps with a broad, thick head, the adbomen constricted at base but not petiolated, males with brushes of 678 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. long hair on each side of the clypeus. They burrow in the ground and store their cells with beetles or with small digger bees. CERCERIS Latr. €. bicornuta Guer. Camden Co. VII, 22 (Fox); Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke); Anglesea VII-IX (div). C. clypeata Dahlb. Chester IX, 16 (Coll); Staten Island (Ds); Ham- monton VIII, 23 (Dke); Toms River (Bt); Anglesea VI, 22 (Sm). C. compacta Cress. Caldwell (Cr); Philadelphia VII, 23 (Fox). C. dentifrons Cress. Philadelphia IX (Fox) and sure to be in New Jer- sey. C. deserta Say. Common throughout the State. C. dufouri Guer. Camden Co. VII, Gloucester Co. VII, IX (Fox); Angle- sea VII (Coll). C. flavofasciata Sm. Lahaway VII, 12 (Coll). C. fumipennis Say. Westville (Crn); Delair VIII, Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke); Farmingdale VII (Jn); Atlantic Co. VI (Fox); Lahaway VII, Lakehurst VIII (Coll). C. venator Cress. Westville VII-IX (div); DaCosta VII (Dke); Glouces- ter Co. VII (Fox); Anglesea VIII, 8 (Vk). C. robertsonii Fox. Lahaway VII, 12 (Sm). C. imitator Cress. Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). C. fulvipes Cress. Trenton IX, 2 (Hk). EUCERCERIS Cress. E. laticeps Cress. Gloucester Co. VII, 27, VIII, 23 (Fox). E. zonatus Say. Sure to occur in New Jersey. PHILANTHUS Fab. P. vertilabris Fab. (Pseudanthophilus) So. Jersey VI, 2 (Sm). P. bilunatus Cress. (Anthophilus) Riverton IX (Vk); Camden Co. VIII, IX (Fox); Merchantville VIII (Dke); Clementon IX (CG); Lahaway (Sm). P. dubius Cress. (Anthophilus) Clementon VI, (Hk); Swedesboro VIII (Sm). P. politus Say. Throughout the State VI-IX, not rare. P. gibbosus Fab. (punctatus Say). Throughout the State VII-X, com- mon. P. solivagus Say. Chester IX, 14 (Coll); Riverton IX, 19 (Hk); Glou- cester Co. VII, 24 (Fox). P. sanborni Cress. Staten Island (Ds); Riverton VIII (Vk); Swedes- boro VII, Ocean Co. (Coll); Pemberton IX (GG); Wenonah VI, Manumuskin VI (Dke). % a Beart i a woe Fig. 284. Fig. 283.—Sphecius speciosus, carrying off a Cicada to its burrow. Fig. 284.—Larva of S. speciosus feeding on the Cicada buried by its parent. Fig. 285.—Sphecius speciosus; a, larva; b, c, pupa; from below and side; e, 7, g, details of structure. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 679 APHILANTHOPS Patt. A. frigidus Smith. Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). Family BEMBECID/.. Handsome, yellow-marked wasps of moderate size, the abdomen broad at base, not stalked. The labrum or upper lip is very long, triangular and pointed. The insects burrow in sandy places and feed their larve with flies. BEMBIDULA Burm. B. quadrifasciata Say. Throughout the sandy areas south of Piedmont Plain, more common in the pines VII-IX. B. ventralis Say. With the preceding and ranges further north; recorded from Clifton IX, 4 (GG). STICTICA Ill. (MONEDULA Latr.) S. carolina Fab. South of Piedmont Plain, g. d. VII-IX; the largest of the family, and not common. BEMBEX Fab. B. pruinosa Fox. Anglesea VIII, 25 (Kemp). B. syinolze Lep. Throughout the sandy areas south of Piedmont Plain; also at Sandy Hook (Bt); taken on a cow in the act of killing a “Tabanus nigrovitiatus” (Dke). B. cinerea Handl. Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll); Cape May (Vk). MICROBEMBEX Patt. M. monodonta Say. Throughout the State in sandy places, not common. Family STIZID/A. SPHECIUS Dahlb. S. speciosus Dru. Throughout the State VII, IX, but local. The largest of all our digger wasps preying upon the Cicadas or harvest flies, which are gathered and stored in underground galleries as food for the larve. Family GORYTIDAS. GORYTES Latr. G. nebulosus Pack. Lahaway VII, 1 (Sm); New Jersey (Pack). G. phaleratus Say. (Hoplisus fulvipennis Sm.) Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Chester VII, 19, Jamesburg VIII, 4, Gloucester VII, 15 (Coll); Staten Island VII (Ds). 686 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. QaO QD . simillimus Sm. New Jersey, latter part of June (Fox). . bipunctatus Say. (Euspongus) Great Notch IX, 8 (GG); Camden Co. VII, 9, IX, 7 (Fox); Clementon VIII, 27 (Vk). . denticulatus Pack. Riverton VI, 20 (Hk). . nigrifrons Smith. Orange Mts. VIII, 29 (Coll). . microcephalus Handl. Camden Co. VI, 28 (Fox). . propinquus Cress. Trenton VIII, 5, 21 (Hk). Family MEI,LINIDA. Abdomen petiolate, smooth and shining; the species prey upon flies, which some species capture by feigning death. ee ee Zz MELLINUS Fab. . bimaculatus Say. Riverton VIII, 11 (Vk); Westville (Fox); Lucaston IX, 17 (Dke); Lahaway X, 14 (Coll). Family ALYSONID/. BOTHYNOSTETHUS Kohl. . distinctus Fox. Camden Co. VII, VIII (Fox), the type locality; At- lantic Co. (Sm). ALYSON Jur. - melleus Say. Camden Co. VII, 6, VII, 10 (Fox). . Oppositus Say. Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); Westville (Crn). Family NYSSONID. NYSSON Latr. . lateralis Pack. Philadelphia VI (Fox), and sure to be found in New Jersey. . plagiatus Cress. Camden Co. VII, 19, 27 (Fox). . equalis Patt. Camden, Gloucester Co. VII (Fox); Westville VIII, 1 =a (VAS) . opulentus Gerst. (Brachystegus) Camden Co. VI, 28 (Fox). . submellipes Vier. Riverton VIII, 7 (Jn); the type locality. . texanus Cress. Pemberton VII, 3 (Hk). . tramosericus Vier. Visits flowers of yarrow, “Achillea millefolium” (Vk). . deeckei Vier. Lucaston V, 30 (Dke); the type locality. THE INSECTS. OF NEW JERSEY. 681 Family CRABRONIDA. Rather small diggers, with an unusually large quadrate head. They are not uniform in habit, but many live in pithy stems, burrow in dead wood or make use of an old cavity. They store their cells with flies, plant-lice, other insects or even spiders. Eno O10O:0 20800 CRABRO Fab. . maculatus Fab. Staten Island VII (Ds); Riverton IV, 31 (Jn); Cam- den IX, 13 (Kp). . trapezoideus Pack. Camden Co. VII, 5 (Fox); Westville (Crn). . interruptulus D. T. (Solenius interruptus) Throughout the State VI, VII. . producticollis Pack. (Solenius) Throughout the State VI, VII. . montanus Cress. (Ectemnius) Philadelphia VIII (Fox), and sure to occur in New Jersey. - corrugatus Pack. (Ectemnius) Camden Co. VIII, 30 (Fox). - obscurus Smith. (Clytochrysus) Throughout the State VI-VIII. . septemptrionalis Pack. Camden Co. VII, 27 (Fox). . nigrifrons Cress. Throughout New Jersey (Vk). paucimaculatus Say. (Xestocrabro) Camden, Gloucester Co. . VI, VIII (Fox). . bisexmaculatus Vier. (Xestocrabro sexmaculatus Say.) Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); Clementon V, 12 (Vk). . trifasciatus Say. Chester VIII, 15 (Coll) ; Staten Island VIII (Ds); Camden Co. VII, VIII (Fox). : bimaculatus Say. Great Notch VIII, 21, Riverton VIII, 17 (Dke); one of the specimens taken with “Lucillia cesar” as its prey. . Stirpicola Pack. (Xylocrabro) Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); Atlantic Co. (Coll). - scaber Lep. Camden Co. VII (Fox); Manumuskin VI, 28 (Dke). . decem-maculatus Say. (Hypocrabro) Riverton IX, 31 (Jn); Camden Co. VII, 27 (Fox); Avalon VI, 9 (Kp). . chrysargyrus Lep. (Pseudocrabro) Jamesburg IX (Coll); Camden Co. VII (Fox). . bigeminus Patt. (Protothyreopus) Camden VIII, 12 (Fox); lLaha- way (Coll). . rufifemur Pack. Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). argus Pack. (Thyreopus) Camden Co. VI, 28, VIII, 24 (Fox). : provancheri Fox. (Thyreopus) Will be found in New Jersey. . cribrellifer Pack. Long Island (Ashm), and probably in New Jersey. . vernalis Fox. (Synothyreopus) Clementon V, 10-28 (div); DaCosta V, 18, Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). 682 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. (e) te) (e) (¢) (@) (&) @ @) te) © oo 2 6 tumidus Pack. (Synothyreopus). Westville (Crn); Avon IX, 27 (Hk); Lahaway X, 14 (Coll); Lucaston VI, 27, Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). - viereckii Rohw. (Synothyreopus) DaCosta V, 17 (Dke). . cingulatus Pack. (Paranothyreus) Camden Co. VIII, IX (Fox). - rugicollis Vier. Riverton VII, 8 (Jn); the type locality. . hilaris Smith. DaCosta V, 18 (Dke). . nitidiventris Fox. (Cuphopterus) Trenton V, 24 (Hk); Camden Co. VII, 5 (Fox), the type locality; Collingswood VII, 17 (GG). . errans Fox. (Lindenius) Gloucester Co. VIII, 16 (Fox). . sulcus Fox. (Crossocerus) Long Island (Ashm) and probably New Jersey. . deckii Rohw. (Crossocerus) Lucaston V, 28 (Dke). . minimus Pack. (Crossocerus) Camden Co. V, 9, VIII, 9 (Fox). . scutellifer D. T. (scutellatus Say.) Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox). - maculiclypeus Fox. N. Woodbury VI, 13, Clementon V, 30, VI, 2 (Vk); Lucaston V, 30 (Dke). . flavitrochantericus Vier. Riverton VI, 6, the type locality (Vk). . impressifrons Smith. (Blepharipus) Riverton VIII, 8 (Jn) IX, 7 (CG). . harringtonii Fox. Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk). . higrior Fox. (Blepharipus) “The unique type is from New Jersey” (Vk). . occidentalis Fox. (Alliognathus) Riverton V, 30 (Vk), VIII, 25 (Jn). . pedicellatus Pack. (Rhopalum) Riverton V, 30, Gloucester Co. IX, 7 (Vk). . rufigaster Pack. (Rhopalum) Riverton VIII, 17 (Jn); New Jersey (Ashm). ANACRABRO Pack. . ocellatus Pack. Staten Island VI, 2 (Ds); Camden Co. VIII, 10 (Fox); Westville (Crn); Farmingdale VII, 14 (Coll); Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). Family OXYBELIDA. NOTOGLOSSA Dahlb. . emarginata Say. Throughout the State V—VII, not rare. OXYBELUS Latr. . quadrinotatus Say. Jamesburg V (Coll); Camden, Gloucester Co. VIII (Fox). . subulatus Rob. (mucronatus Pack.) Throughout the State VI, VII. . cornutus Rob. Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, 28, VIII, 5 (Fox). . packardi Rob. Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox). . lztus Say. Camden Co. VII, 12, VIII, 9 (Fox). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 683 Family LARRID/A. Head broad, closely applied to the thorax, abdomen not stalked, oval; middle tibia with one spur. Make burrows in sandy places and provision them chiefly with grasshoppers, crickets and the like. >>> D> + ASTATA Latr. . bicolor Say. Gloucester Co. VIII, 16 (Fox); New Jersey (Cress Coll). . unicolor Say. Throughout the State in August, not rare. » pygidialis Fox. Camden Co. (Fox). . occidentalis Cress. Philadelphia VIII (Fox) and probably New Jersey. LARRA Latr. - analis Fab. (cressoni Fox, americana Cress.) Camden, Gloucester Cos. VII, VIII (Fox); Swedesboro VII, 15 (Coll); Clementon VIII, 13, 27 (Vk). . pennsylvanica Beauv. Camden, Gloucester Co. VIII, [IX (Fox); West- ville (Crn). NOTOGONIA Costa. - argentata Beauv. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain V—VIII, not rare. ANCISTROMA Fox. . distincta Smith. Throughout the State VIII, IX, not rare. TACHYSPHEX Kohl. . tarsatus Say. Camden, Gloucester Cos. VII, VIII (Fox); Clementon V, 19 (Vk); Anglesea VI, 25 (Sm). . dubiosus D. T. (dubius Fox.) Camden Co. VIII, 24 (Fox), the type locality; N. Woodbury VI (div); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). - punctifrons Fox. Camden Co. IX, 12 (Fox). . minimus Fox. Camden Co. VII (Fox). . terminatus Smith. DaCosta VII, 28, Iona VI, 2, Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke); Anglesea IX, 4 (Sm). . quebecensis Prov. New Jersey VIII, 24, 31 (U S N M). . acutus Patt. IN. Woodbury VI, 13, 22, VIII, 1 (Vk). . tenuipunctus Fox. Clementon V, 14 (Vk); VI, 6 (W. S. Huntington). . obscurus Cress. Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Coll). similis Rohw. Anglesea VIII, 4 (Coll); type locality. TACHYTES Panz. . aurulentus Fab. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain VII, VIII, not rare. . distinctus Smith. (crassus Patt.) Westville VIII, 1 (Vk). 684 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. T: HAA AAAA harpax Patt. Essex Co., Lahaway, Ocean Co. (Coll); Camden (Co, (Fox). : mandibularis Patt. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain VI-VIII. . calcaratus Fox. With the preceding VI-IX, not rare. - parvus Fox. Camden Co. VIII (Fox). mergus Fox. Camden Co. VII (Fox). - pepticus Say. Ocean Co., Lakewood (Coll); Iona VII, 13 (Dke). . breviventris Cress. Clementon VIII, 27 (Vk). . elongatus Cress. Glassboro (GG). LYRODA Say. . Subita Say. Chester VIII, 12, Arlington VIII, 30 (Coll); Camden, Gloucester Cos. VIII (Fox); Westville VIII, IX (div); Lucaston IX, 3 (Dke). . triloba Say. Camden Co. (Fox) Family NITELIDA:. MISCOPHUS Jurine. » americanus Fox. Camden Co. VII, VIII, the type locality, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); N. Woodbury VIII, 1 (Vk). PLENOCULUS Fox. . foxi Vier. N. Woodbury V, 22, VIII, 1, the type locality (Vk). . atlanticus Vier. N. Woodbury VI, 13; the type locality (Vk). . davisi Fox. N. Woodbury VI (Vk). Family TRYPOXYLIDA. Make cells in pithy plants, separating them by mud partitions, or make mud cells against walls, storing them with spiders. The wasps are slender, without yellow bands on abdomen. 4444 44 TRYPOXYLON Latr. . albopilosum Fox. Throughout the State VI, VII, not common. . clavatum Say. With the preceding VII, VIII, more common. . carinatum Say. New Jersey (Ashm). . frigidum Smith. Greenwood Lake V, 30 (Coll); Trenton V, 26, VII, 10 (Hk); Lucaston VI, 13 (Dke). - pennsylvanicum Sauss. Camden Co. VI, 28 (Fox). ; . politum Say. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick VII (Sm); Westville (Crn); Lahaway (Coll). 4HAdd4 = THE INSECTS. OF NEW JERSEY. 685 rubrocinctum Pack. Camden VII, 10 (Vk); Westville, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Crn); Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). . tridentatum Pack. Recorded from New Jersey (Ashm). excavatum Smith. Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick VII (Sm). . bidentatum Fox. New Jersey probably. . albitarse Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 7 (Jn); Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll); Clementon VII, 27 (Vk); Iona VII, 13, Manumuskin VIII, 17 (Dke). johnsoni Fox. Boonton VII (GG); Riverton VII, 15 (Jn), the type locality. projectum Fox. Riverton VIII, 13 (Jn); the type locality. Super-family APOIDEA. This series contains all the bees, social and solitary, long and short- tongued. The adults are more or less hairy, the hair is plumose, feath- ered, twisted or branched; sometimes dense, sometimes very sparse, Fig. 287.—Legs of bees, showing pollen gathering structures; a, the honey bee; b, Melipona; c, bumble bee. 686 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE. MUSEUM. sometimes evenly distributed, sometimes massed at one point; but almost always compound hair indicates a meniber of this super-family. The tongue, besides varying from short to long, may be hinged or straight when at rest, but is always formed for lapping. The hind legs are often modified in the females and workers to serve as pollen carriers, and sometimes the underside of the breast or of the abdomen is modified to serve the same purpose. The larve are apparently legless grubs that live upon pollen or honey or a mixture of the two. Sometimes this is fed as needed as in the hive bee, more usually it is stored in a cell in quantity sufficient to bring the larva from the egg laid in the same cell to maturity. The bees, on the whole, are decidedly useful, serving as pollenizers to fruits and flowers, some of the former and many of the latter being completely dependent upon insect aid for their continued existence. Social bees are those in which workers are developed, and of these we have very few; solitary bees are those in which only males and females exist. q ‘ 1, 7 fh Wy é DY, tdi | we by oo a Fig. 288.—Types of compound hairs found in bees. Za es [shew — TZ ILE ZS Has LZ. LLL LZR LLL SS is MALLY IME Ws L2 a \ w Family HALICTIDA:. These are solitary bees in so far as there are no developed workers, but they may occur in colonies, a large number of specimens building in the same territory. They are usually small in size, have short tongues, THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 687 and their nesting habits are diverse. Some of them are brilliantly blue and green in color. Hoe age ae Ae Be 6a Ga HALICTUS Latr. . ligatus Say. (¢ ornatipes Cress., armaticeps Cress., captiosus Sm.) Throughout the State, everywhere common YV-VIII. - confusus Smith. New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll); Camden X, 20 (USM). . parallelus Say. South Jersey (Fox). - provancheri D. T. (fasciatus Nyl., flavipes Fab.) Throughout the State IV, V, VII-X, not rare. EVYLANUS Rob. . pectoralis Smith. Middlesex Co. VII, Lakehurst VII (Coll); Camden We (Gl ts Wie . helumbonis Rob. Jamesburg VII, 18, Lahaway VI, 28 (Coll); Camden WAI EXS (Hox): . arcuatus Rob. Clementon IV, 27 (Dke). . truncatus Rob. Chester, Newark V (Coll). . quadrimaculatus Rob. Lahaway VII, 12 (Coll). . pectinatus Rob. Chester (Coll). LASIOGLOSSUM Curtis. . fuscipennis Smith. Staten Island VI (Ds); Philadelphia VIII, 29 (Fox). . similis Smith. Burlington Co. V, Lahaway X, 14 (Coll). . coriaceus Smith. Staten Island IV (Ds); Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll). CHLORALICTUS Rob. . albipennis Rob. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Coll). . imitatus Smith. Will probably be found in New Jersey (Ashm). . pilosus Smith. Throughout the State V, VI, X (div).. . inconspicuus Smith. Newark V, Jamesburg VII (Coll); Staten Island VII (Ds); Iona VI, Manumuskin IV, 28 (Dke). . nymphalis Smith. Camden X, 2) (Fox); Prospertown, Ocean Co. VI (Sm). . nymphzarum Rob. (palustris Rob.) Throughout the State IV—VII. . zephyrus Smith. Newark V, New Brunswick IV, Atlantic Co. V (Coll); Riverton IV, 5 (Dke); So. Jersey (Fox). . lzevissimus Smith. Staten Island IX (Ds); New Brunswick V, James- burg VII (Coll). . vierecki Craw. Throughout the Delaware Valley region IV—VIII; also Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). Type from New Jersey. 688 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. H. disparilis Cress. Sandy Hook VIII, Jamesburg (Coll). H. virginicus Ashm. Jamesburg (Coll). A mss. name. H. H. sparsus Rob. Hopatcong VII, Chester VII, IX, New Brunswick VII, marinus Craw. Ocean City VI, 19 (Vk). Burlington Co. V (Coll). . versatus Rob. Lake Hopatcong VII, 6 (Coll). . czeruleus Rob. Riverton IV, Westville IV (GG); National Park V (Dke). . illinoisensis Rob. Lahaway IV, 20 (Coll). . obscurus Rob. Lahaway IV, 20 (Coll). . smilacinze Rob. Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). AUGOCHLORA Smith. . auratus Smith. Staten Island IV, V (Ds); Ocean Grove V, Camden Co. VIII (Fox); Jamesburg, Prospertown VI, Anglesea VII (Coll). . fervidus Smith. Shouid occur in New Jersey (Ashm). . humeralis Patton. iLahaway, common; has formed a great colony at this point, the soil in spots being literally honeycombed with bur- rows (Sm). . viridissimus Vier. (viridula Smith.) Newark VII, Orange Mts. VIII, Clementon V, Lakenurst VII (Coll); Brown’s Mills V, Lucaston X, Iona VIII, Manumuskin VIII (Dke). ; . cupreus Smith. Newark V, Jamesburg: VIII (Coll); Camden Co. VIII (Fox). . sumptuosus Sm. New Jersey (U S N M). OXYSTOGLOSSA Sm. . purus Say. Newark V, New Brunswick X, Riverton V, Lahaway VI, VII (Coll); Riverton V, Merchantville VII (Dke). . persimilis Vier. (similis Rob.) Orange Mts. (Coll). AGAPOSTEMON Smith. . radiatus Say. (pulchra Smith.) Throughout the State V—VII; com- mon. . splendens Lep. DaCcsta V, VII, Penbryn VII, Avalon VII (Dke); Anglesea V, VI (Coll). . texanus Cress. Fort Lee VIII, 30 (Dke). . zruginosus Smith. Camden, Gloucester Co. VIII (Fox). . virescens Fab. (nigricornis Fab.) Chester VIII, Newark IX, Mon- mouth Co. VIII (Coll); Caldwell (Cr). . lerouxi Lep. (parellelus Say.) Chester VII, New Brunswick VII (Coll); Clementon IV (Dke). . emarginata Say. Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). . pilosus Cress. Woodbury VI, Iona IV, Brown’s Mills V, Manumuskin V (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 689 SPHECODES Latr. . arvensis Patt. Camden Co. V, Gloucester Co. VII (Fox); Riverton VIII, Jamesburg V, Lahaway IV, VI, South Jersey VII (Coll). . dichrous Smith. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island VII (Ds); Camden Co. V (Fox). . clematidis Rob. Riverton VI, 11, Clementon V, 12 (Coll); National Park VI, 10 (Dke). . prosphorus Lovell. Lucaston VIII, 19 (Dke). . confertus Say. (falcifer Patt.) Prospertown VII, 11 (Sm); New Jer- sey (US M). . stygica Rob. Laurel Springs VII, 21 (Dke). . mandibularis Cress. Camden Co. VI, 15 (Fox). . ranunculi Rob. Clementon V, 30 (Vk). Family ANDRENID/. These are species of moderate or rather large size, all of them solitary, most of them diggers, and the majority with short tongues. Some of them make burrows of considerable extent, and occasionally there are large colonies in an area particularly adapted to their needs. A. SoS ee > b> ANDRENA Fab. carlini Ckll. (bicolor Fab.) Newark V, Trenton V, Jamesburg V, Lahaway V, VI (Coli); Great Notch V, Merchantville V, Manumuskin V (Dke). . erigeniz Rob. Newark, Jamesburg, Burlington, Atlantic Co. V (Coll). . hirticincta Prov. (americana D. T.) Chester ID. Plainfield IX (Coll); Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds). . flavoclypeata Smith. Chester IV, Newark V, Jamesburg V (Coll); Trenton IV, 29 (Hk); DaCosta V, 18, Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). . fragilis Smith. Lake Hopatcong VII, 6 (Coll); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). . hilaris Smith. Trenton VII, Glassboro V (Hk); visits flowers of rasp- berry (Vk). . integra Smith. Manumuskin (Dke). nuda Rob. Jamesburg, Prospertown, Lahaway VI (Coll). perplexa Smith. Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). placida Smith. Jamesburg V (Coll); Trenton IV, 29 (Dke). . pruni Rob. Burlington Co. V (Sm). . nubecula Smith. Trenton IX, 2 (Hk). . claytoniz Rob. Chester IV, Newark V, New Brunswick IV, James- burg V (Coll); Clementon V (div). . bisalicis Vier. (salicis Rob.) New Jersey (Sm). . vicina Smith. Throughout the State in May, local. 44 IN 690 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. A. A. A. A. A. > >rPrrrr>SP>SP>PDM?>Y PrPrPrPrPPPrprrrppryrpp erythrogastra Ashm. Camden County (Fox). nasoni Rob. Newark, Jamesburg, Burlington Co., all V (Coll). cressoni Rob. Newark, Burlington Co., Lahaway; all V (Coll); Man- umuskin IV, 20 (Dke). hippotes Ckll. Newark V (Coll); Westville V, 8 (Vk). alienoides Vier. Clementon VI, 2 (Vk); Laurel Springs V, 23 (Dke). fulvipennis Smith. Lucaston IX (div); Clementon IV, 7 (Vk); Manu- muskin IX, 15 (Dke). . forbesii Rob. Orange V (Davis); Trenton IV, 26 (Coll); Riverton V, Westville V, Clementon V, VI (Vk). . spireana Rob. Iona VI, 8 (Dke); V, 16 (Hk). . rugosa Rob. Newark V (Coll); Clementon V, 16 (Vk). . deeckii Vier. Clementon V, 6-17 (div); Brown’s Mills V, 18, (Dke). robertsonii D. T. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). . arabis Rob. Trenton V, 21 (Hk). solidaginis Rob. Trenton IX, 2, Clementon X, 4 (Hk). andrenoides Cress. Clementon V, 3 (Hk). . thaspis Gren. Clementon V, 3 (Hk). rehni Vier. Clementon VII, 4 (Hk). . tridens Smith. Milltown IV, 22 (Coll). bradleyi Vier. Clementon V, 6 (Hk). . winkleyi Vier. Newark V (Coll). . canadensis D. T. Monmouth Co. X, 1 (Coll). . bridewellii Ckll. Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). imitatrix Cress. Trenton IV, 26 (Coll). . asteris Rob. Chester IX, 16, Monmouth Co. X, 1 (Coll); Iona IX, 16 (Hk). . cratzegi Rob. Trenton VII, 5, Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). mandibularis Rob. Metuchen V, 15 (Coll). delawarearum Vier. Clementon V, 3, (Hk). . viburnella Gren. Burlington Co. V (Coll). . cockerelli Gren. Chester IV, 4, 20 (Coll). mariz var. concolor Rob. Newark V (Coll). . dunningi Ckll. Newark V (Coll). . miserabilis Cress. Clementon V, 5 (GG). . milwaukiensis Gren. Staten Island IV (Ds). . ovalis Ashm. New Jersey (Ashm); a mss. name. . tuberculata Ashm. New Jersey (Ashm); a mss. name. MELITTA Kirby. . americana Smith. Should occur in New Jersey (Ashm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 691 Family DUFOUREBID/. HALICTOIDES Nyl. H. novzeangliz Rob. Visits flowers of pickerel weed, “Pontederia cor- data,” and certain to be found in New Jersey. Family MACROPID/. MACROPIS Panz. M. ciliata Patt. Linden VI, 16 (Coll); visits flowers of ‘“Lysimachia,” “Aralia,” “Kalmia” and “Solidago.” . patellata Patt. Camden Co. VI, 28—-VIII, 12 (Fox); visits flowers of “Cicuta maculata,” “Rhus glabra’ and “Sterionema ciliata.” = Family PANURGID/. PERDITA Smith. P. octomaculata Say. (Cockerellia) Camden Co. (Fox); Westville (Crn); Clementon IX, 4 (CG); on flowers of golden-rod and aster. P. bradleyi Vier. Clementon V, 24 (Bradley); the type locality. P. monardez Vier. Riverton VIII, 11 (Vk); the type locality; on flowers of ‘“Monarda punctata” (Vk). PANURGINUS Nyl. P. asteris Rob. Chester IX, 14, Riverton IX, 11 (Coll); Westville IX, 22 (Vk). P. pauper Cress. Should occur in New Jersey. CALLIOPSIS Smith. Cc. tricolor Ckll. (Panurginus) Gloucester Co. VIII, 16 (Fox); Pemberton IX, 1 (GG); Winslow VIII, 24, Brown’s Mills IX, 5 (Dke). C. andreniformis Smith. Canada to Virginia (Ashm). PROTANDRENA CKIl. P. cockerelli Dunning. Camden Co. (Fox). Family NOMADIDE. These are rather small, not very hairy bees, somewhat resembling wasps in appearance. They are parasites or guests in the nests of other bees. 692 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. FW aA AOR SIS eA Ze NOMADA Fab. . articulata Smith. Staten Island (Ds); Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox). . bisignata Say. Caldwell. (Cr); Orange Mts., Burlington Co. V, Laha- way IV, 20, Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll). . lepida Cress. Camden Co. IV, 20 (Fox). . modesta Cress. Westville (Fox); Merchantville V, 25, Belleplain IX, 16 (Dke); Gloucester Co. VIII, 16, Sea Isle City VII, 22 (Jn). . pygmzea Cress. Camden Co. IV, 20 (Fox). . festiva Cress. Described from New Jersey; Jamesburg (Coll). . cressoni Rob. Great Notch V, 6 (Dke). . simplex Rob. Hainesport V, 7 (Dke). . denticulata Rob. Great Notch V, 6 (Dke); Jamesburg V, 16 (Coll). . illinoiensis Rob. Burlington Co. V (Coll). . sphzerogaster Ckll. Chester IV, 12, 20 (Coll). GNATHIAS Rob. . cuneatus Rob. Riverton V, 4, National Park V, 6, Wenonah VI, 14 (Dke). . ovata Rob. Chester (Coll). . americanus Kirby. Manumuskin V, 21 (Dke). XANTHIDIUM Rob. . luteola Lep. Jamesburg IV, 8, 18 (Coll); New Jersey (Crn). . dentarize Rob. Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll). . incerta Cress. Burlington Co. V (Coll); Westville IV, 19 (Jn); New Jersey (Crn). HOLONOMADA Rob. . affabilis Cress. Malaga VI, 1 (Dke); Prospertown VI, 1 (Coll). . vincta Say. New Jersey (Cress Coll). TRIEPEOLUS Rob. . concavus Cress. (Epeolus) Newark, Ocean Co. (Sm); Gloucester Co.. VII, 15 (Fox). . . donatus Smith. (Epeolus) Westville (Cress, Fox). . lunatus Say. Newark, Ocean Co. (Coll); Westville (Crn); Merchant- ville VIII, 19 (Jn); So. Jersey (Fox). . mercatus Fab. Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). Mr. Viereck suggests that this. may be the same as ‘‘Nomada cressoni” Rob. . remigatus Fab. Westville (Crn); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). . pectoralis Rob. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk). Fig. 289.—A plate of bees, etc.: a, Melissodes bimaculata; b, Andrena vicina: c, Celioxys 8-dentata; d, Halictus ligatus; e, Tetralonia atriventris; f, Osmia rustica; g, Andrena erigemi@; h, Melissodes nigripes; i, Megachila mendica; k, Xenoglossa pruinosa; l, Tachytes mandibularis; m, Megachila latimanus; more than twice natural size. m THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 693 EPEOLUS Latr. . bifasciatus Cress. (Pyrrhomelecta fumipennis Say.) Westville, Glou- cester Co. VII, 15 (Fox). . pusillus Cress. Westville (Fox); Lucaston IX, 14 (Dke). . autumnalis Rob. Chester IX, 16 (Coll). . scutellaris Say. Lakehurst VII, 18, VIII, 23 (Coll). Family KUCERID/. Long tongued solitary bees of moderate size, resembling honey bees in general appearance and often with dense vestiture. M. = MELISSODES Latr. bimaculata Lep. Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick VII, Jamesburg (Sm); Westville VII (div); Riverton VIII, Merchantville VII (Vk); Collingswood VII (GG); Winslow VIII (Dke). - communis Cress. Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Coll). . compta Cress. Westville (Crn); Philadelphia VII, 23 (Fox). . dentiventris Smith. Gloucester Co. VIII, 10 (Fox); DaCosta VII, 30, VIII, 3 (Dke). . desponsa Smith. Orange Mts. (Coll); Lucaston IX, 9 (Dke); Clem- enton X, 4 (Hk). . nigripes Smith. Newark V, New Brunswick V, Jamesburg V, VI, Lahaway VI, Prospertown VI (Sm); Riverton, Westville (Jn). . obliqua Say. Camden Co. (Fox). . olivacea Cress. Camden Co. (Fox). . pennsylvanica Lep. New Jersey (Bt). . perplexa Cress. Newark (Sm); Riverton VIII, 17, Manumuskin VIII, 17, Belleplain IX, 9 (Dke). . rustica Say. Newark (Sm); Trenton IX, 26 (Hk); Westville (Crn); Mr. Viereck suggests that this may be the same as “simillima” Rob. . fimbriata Cress. Cape May VI, 14 (Fox). . atripes Cress. Camden Co. (Fox). . caliginosa Cress. GJoucester Co. IX, 5 (Fox). . atrifrons Sm. Camden Co. (Fox). . menuacha Cress. Camden Co. (Fox). . trinodis Rob. Chester IX, 10 (Coll). TETRALONIA Spin. . atriventris Smith. (Synhalonia) New Brunswick Jamesburg V, 7 (Sm); Clementon V, 12 (Jn). 694 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. <0 20 Ue XENOGLOSSA Smith. . pruinosa Say. Throughout the State VII-IX; visits flowers of cucur- bits by preference and is one of the most effective agents in their pollination. The bees often spend the night in the closed flowers. Family EMPHORID/. MELITOMA Latr. (ENTECHNIA Patton.) . taurea Say. Ft. Lee rare (Bt); Camden Co. VI, 3 (Fox). EMPHOR Patton. . bombiformis Cress. Arlington VIII, 30, digging shallow burrows in soil (Gr); Gloucester Co. VIII, 16 (Fox); visits flowers of “Ipomea’”’ (Ckll), and of marshmallows (Gr). Family ANTHOPHORID. ANTHOPHORA Latr. - abrupta Say. Caldweil (Cr); Palisades VII, 3 (Dke). . bomboides Kirby. Pennsylvania (Ashm) and sure to occur in New Jersey. . floridana Smith. Orange Mts., Jamesburg V, 4, Lahaway VI, 2 (Coll); Clementon IV, V (div); Manumuskin IV, 11 (Dke). . terminalis Cress. Riverton IX, 9 (Hk). Family PROSOPID. PROSOPIS Fab. . affinis Smith. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VII, 24, Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll). . modesta Say. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Coll); Camden Co. VI, 18 (Fox). This and the preceding are probably the same (Vk). . antennata Cress. Recorded from New Jersey only. . confluens Ckll. Camden Co. (CkI1l). - pygmeea Ckll. Jamesburg V, VI, Lakehurst VII (Coll); Camden Co. (Fox). . Sparsa Cress. New Jersey probably (Ashm). . verticalis Cress. New Jersey probably (Ashm). . zizizs Rob. Jamesburg V, 31 (Coll); Ocean Grove (CkIl). . sayi Rob. Orange Mts. VIII, 29, New Brunswick V, Jamesburg V (Coll). n THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 695 Family COLLETID/. Moderate sized, long-tongued, hairy bees, burrowing in sandy places. COLLETES Latr. . armatus Patt. New Jersey (Ashm); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk); visits flow- ers of “Composite” (Vk). . americanus Cress. Camden Co. VII, 3 (Fox); Clementon X, 4 (Hk); Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke); Anglesea IX, 3 (Coll). . compactus Cress. Chester (Dn); Lahaway III-V (Sm); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Lucaston, DaCosta, Manumuskin, all V (DkKe). . inzequalis Say. (propinqua Cress.) Camden Co., Atco (Fox); Ches- ter IV, 20, Lahaway III, 26-IV, 20 (Coll); Clementon IV, V (div); Manumuskin IV, V (Dke). . inzequalis ferrugineus Swenk. Hainesport III, 26 (Dke); Riverton (Vk). . validus Cress. Staten Island IV (Ds); New Brunswick, Jamesburg IV (Coll); Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox); Riverton IV, 3 (Dke); Clementon We oh (EUR) . brevicornis Rob. North Woodbury (Vk). . nudus Rob. Anglesea VIII, 8, on white umbellifer (Vk). . rufithorax Swenk. Westville VI, Clementon V, VI, Manumuskin JV, Ocean City VI, Avalon VI, Anglesea V (Swenk); Prospertown VI (Coll). . thoracicus Smith. Clementon VI, 6 (Hk); Brown’s Mills V, 21, Cape May VI, 7, large numbers on blossoms of holly (Dke). Family STELIDIDA. STELIS Panz. . foederalis Smith. (Melanostelis nitida Cress.) New Jersey probably (Ashm). . lateralis Cress. (Protostelis) Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox). . australis Cress. Wenonah VII, 22 (Haim). . foxi Ashm. (Melanostelis) Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox); a mss. name and probably the same as “australis” Cress. Family MEGACHILIDAL. MEGACHILE Latr. These are leaf-cutter bees that make their nests in burrows, forming cells of semi-circular pieces of leaves. Thy are solitary, and the pollen carrying structures are on the under side of the abdomen. 696 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. M. addenda Cress. (manumuskin Vier.) Clementon VI, 5, DaCosta VII. Iona VI, 16, Manumuskin VI, 24 (Dke); the type locality is in New Jersey. M. brevis Say. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); New Brunswick VII, Jamesburg V, Ocean Co. (Coll); Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, VIII (Fox); DaCosta VII (Dke). M. exilis Cress. (studiosa Cress.) New Jersey (Cress); Trenton VII, ial (C80). . vidua Smith. (frigida Sm.) Camden Co. VII, Gloucester VIII (Fox); Westville (Crn). .» generosa Cress. Iona VIII, 25 (Dke). . mendica Cress. Throughout the State VI-X, common. mucida Cress. New Brunswick (Sm). . optiva Cress. Gloucester Co. VIII, 10 (Fox). . perbrevis Cress. New Jersey (Cress); Philadelphia IX, 5 (Fox). . petulans Cress. Philadelphia VII, 25 (Fox). . pruina Smith. Lahaway VI, 9, Anglesea VIII, 4 (Coll); New Jersey (Ashm). . gemula Cress. Philadelphia VII, 10 (Fox). a =c= 222 =" = = SAYAPIS Titus. M. pugnata Say. Camden Co. IX, 7 (Fox); New Jersey (Cress Coll). CYPHOPYGA Rob. M. montivaga Cress. Should occur in New Jersey (Ashm). XANTHOSARUS Rob. M. latimanus Say. (femorata Sm.) Throughout the State VIII-X. . . melanophza Smith. Westville (Crn). M. infragilis Cress. New Brunswick VII, 21 (Coll). = GNATHODON Rob. M. georgica Cress. DaCosta VII, 16 (Dke). CCELIOXYS Latr. The species of this genus are parasitic in the cells of ““Megachile”’ and were referred to the family “Stelidid#” in the last edition. C. alternata Say. Should occur in New Jersey (Ashm). C. dubitata Smith. (rufitarsis Sm.) Riverton IX, 9 (Hk); Gloucester Co: IX, 21 (Fox). d Cc. Cc. Cc. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 697 modesta Smith. Philadelphia VIII, 17 (Fox); Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); not common. 8—-dentata Say. Throughout the State VII, VIII. sayi Rob. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); New Jersey (Ash). OSMIA Panz. These are large-headed, chunky bees, usually blue or green in color, somewhat metallic. oO. oO. O. O. (o) (0) (©) 9) atriventris Cress. Riverton V, 4, Iona VI, 2 (Dke); Lahaway V, 3 (Coll). rustica Cress. (Nothosmia) Camden Co. (Fox). chalybea Smith. New Brunswick IV, V (Sm); Laurel Springs V, VI (Dke). simillima Smith. (cognata Cress.) Caldwell (Cr); Monmouth Co. V, 28 (Fox). . vicina Cress. Philadelphia V, 28 (Fox). . lignaria Say. (Ceratosmia) Caldwell (Cr); Lahaway VI, 7, 28 (Coll). . distincta Cress. (Nothosmia) Camden Co., Philadelphia V, 12 (Fox). . albiventris Cress. Caldwell (Cr); New Jersey (Crn). ANDRONICUS Cress. . producta Cress. (Alcidamea) Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VII, 21, Jamesburg VII, 14, Lahaway VI, 1 (Coll); Westville (Fox). HERIADES Spin. . carinatum Cress. (Trypetes) Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox); New Jer- sey (Cress). . variolosum Cress. Should occur in New Jersey (Ashm). DIANTHIDIUM CkIl. . notatum Latr. (Anthidium) Riverton IX, 2, Pemberton IX, 8 (GG); Penbryn VIII, 2, Manumuskin VII, 5 (DKe). . simile Cress. Bamber VII, 13, Lacy VII, 14 (Dke). Family CERATINID/. CERATINA Laitr. . dupla Say. Throughout the State IV, V; a little, naked, blue-green species, makes cells in the pith of briars, etc., storing with thick honey. 698 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family XYLOCOPID. XYLOCOPA Latr. X. virginica Dru. The large carpenter bee; common throughout the State V, VI, making holes half an inch in diameter in boards or beams about porches, sheds, ete. Cells made of leaf cuttings. Family APID/. This contains the true bees, most of them social, with workers or un- developed females in the colonies, and most of them storing honey to a greater or less extent. PSITHRUS Lepel. (APATHUS Newn.) The species of this genus resemble the bumble bees, but are really para- sitic, in so far as they develop as unbidden guests in the nests of the Bombi. The females have no pollen-baskets; the males are not easily distinguished from bumble bees. P. ashtoni Cress. Caldwell (Cr). P. laboriosus Fab. (citrinus Sm.) Caldwell (Cr). P. variabilis Cress. Jamesburg VII, 18 (Coll). P. elatus Fab. Jamesburg, Monmouth Co. X, 1, Anglesea (Coll). BOMBUS Latr. These are the “bumble bees.” They are social, make their nests in cavities in the ground, the female winters and breeds workers only in early summer. They have a very long tongue, and are the almost ex- clusive agents in fertilizing red clover. B. pennsylvanicus DeG. (americanorum Fab.) Throughout the State all season. . affinis Cress. Greenwood Lake (Cr); Westville (Fox). . bimaculatus Cress. Philadelphia VII, 23 (Fox). . borealis Kirby. New Jersey (Ashm). . consimilis Cress. Throughout the State IV—IX. . fervidus Fab. Throughout the State V—IX. . ridingsi Cress. Throughout the State IV—VIII. . ternarius Say. Staten Island VIII (Ds). . vagans Smith. Throughout the State VII-IX. impatiens Harr. (virginicus Oliv.) Throughout the State all season. . perplexus Cress. Brown’s Mills VI, 27 (Dke). noon HnDnooOD Wi Ria Se Se ene Sea, mee ee een RR Ss Jo heetIsT tei pe Popes” 2 tegmental igi sot a Fig. 290.—Tongue of a bumble bee. Oren es Bint eal ee ie Mai Saati | ‘i ’ ee tre he aA RA a) ~ . hpeotean hes ant Auch a An SR ny 4 ; j é 4 “d ; Wire J . _ b@s hi 5 . vs J + : - ‘ ¥ : ' ' y i ’ ° * a ij ‘ va 4 - o . 2 . Y - ir : he * ~ « if { . ~- { . ; mth x 4 ! E x * ‘ 5 . a ‘ oy \ a 5 dl i > a \ { < é 2 “4 P » - fc 7 eas Pies . ) ; Oo ae ae ay pai o 5 wy i ogee (CT ‘ ; ; : } 44@ ty 5 ‘ =e 7 4 . - r ) of i j ? ns ‘a j 7 aa Pe A . : th _ ay 7 ro ee : ae ee ee Pcie - se yeu Ryokan ee ee We Z THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 699 BOMBIAS Rob. . separatus Cress. Caldwell (Cr); Staten Island (Ds); Westville (Fox). . auricomus Rob. Caldwell (Cr); West- ville (Fox). . scutellaris Cress. Lucaston IX, 17, Brown’s Mills IX, 9 (Dke); Anglesea VIII, 8 (Vk). APIS Linn. . mellifera Linn. (mellifica) The com- mon or domesticated honey bee, found throughout the State all sea- son. Fig. 291.—Honey bee worker, Apis mellifera. fel il! a 0 Phin gts AWA Cite 20) wlitaay eas sro TH cet ih! vr Order SIPHONAPTERA. Contains the fleas which are considered as flies, modified to suit a parasitic mode of life. They are usually brown in color, transversely flattened, the edges of the segments set with stiff spines directed back- ward, and the hind legs enormously developed for leaping. They drop their eggs in the sleeping quarters of their host, and from these come slender, white, worm-like larve. These feed on refuse animal or vege- table debris and the pupz hide in crevices, or in houses between the boards of floors. Fig. 292.—The dog flea, Ctenocephalus canis: a, egg; b, larva in cocoon; c, pupa; d, adult; e, f, g, details of mouth and antennal structure; all enlarged. Sometimes a house becomes overrun with fleas, and in such cases the sleeping place of the dog or cat must first be thoroughly cleaned, so as to destroy the source of the trouble. All the adult fleas will get upon the dog or cat at the first opportunity, and these pets, therefore, can be used as traps, then washed with carbolic soap at short intervals until all the fleas have been captured and destroyed. A free use of gasoline in the crevices of the floor will kill all larvee and pupe that may be there, and will at once check breeding. No systematic collections have been made in New Jersey. I have taken fleas from moles, rabbits, muskrats, and have seen them in quantities in nests of field mice. They also occur on rats and on almost every other hairy animal in the State, but no effort has yet been made to determine the species. Those listed here occur practically everywhere. The names are from the list published by C. F. Baker in 1904, and it is remarkable that at that. - (701) 702 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. time the author had practically no material from the middle Atlantic States. Family PULICIDAS. PULEX Linn. P. irritans Linn. The human flea. Not a native of New Jersey, but is almost cosmopolitan, and specimens are occasionally found, brought from more southern States. CTENOCEPHALUS Kol. C. canis Curt. (Pulex serraticeps) The common cat and dog flea. CERATOPHYLLUS Curtis. Cc. wickhami Baker. (Pulex howardi) One of the squirrel fleas. CTENOPHTHALMUS Kol. C. pseudarytes Baker. A parasite on field mice. Order DIPTERA. This order contains the flies, always recognizable by having two wings only, the secondaries being reduced to little knobs or halteres. The head is separated from the thorax by a distinct, very narrow neck, and the antenne are either quite long or very short, often aristate. The mouth parts are formed for scraping or sucking, or both, and never for chewing, in the adult stage. The larve vary greatly, but are usually either very slender and elongate, or maggot-like in form. The metamor- phosis is complete, and the change from larva to adult is more radical than in any other order. Since the publication of the previous list our knowledge of the “Dip- tera” has increased vastly, and collectors are more numerous than ever before. Mr. Charles W. Johnson, now Curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, has again prepared the list as a whole, and has added perhaps the greatest number of species to it. But in the ‘‘Cecidomyiide” Mr. William Beutenmuller has done this work, and while the list in that family is still far from complete, it is a much better picture of our fauna than was the previous one. In the “Culicids” the list is probably almost complete. In no other family have collections been so thorough and systematic, and it is believed that few species will be added in future. Mr. John A. Grossbeck, one of the assistants in the mosquito investiga- tion, has written this part of the list. In the “Tabanide” Mr. V. A. E. Daecke has supplied the mss., and here again his persistent and careful work, supplemented by that of Mr. Henry S. Harbeck, has left little to be done. In addition to these gentlemen, Messrs. G. M. Greene and Chas. T. Greene, of Philadelphia, have added many records, and nearly all the contributors to the previous edition have helped along the work on this. Mr. Johnson estimated that the 1,200 species listed in the last edition were about two-thirds of the actual number to be found in the State. As before, all records not otherwise specifically credited belong to Mr. Johnson. Family TIPULIDA. These are the “Crane-flies,’ which resemble exaggerated mosquitoes in appearance, and derive the common name from their long, ungainly, slender legs. The head is often prolonged into a sort of blunt snout. at the end of which are the prominent palpi, which are sometimes as long as the antenne. The species are most common in low meadows or at the edges of woodland, and their flight is as uncertain and awkward as their appear- ance. It is difficult to preserve these insects, because the legs break off at the least provocation, even when they are alive. (703) 704, REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM: Fig. 293.—A crane fly, Pachyrhina species. The larve of most of these flies are slender, cylindrical, worm-like, and very tough, whence they are known as “wire worms” in England, where they are often injurious on sod land and to root crops. This type lives in the soil, and may feed on either living or dead vegetation. A few feed on ieaves and somewhat resemble caterpillars, but in no case are they injurious in New Jersey, so far as I have had any knowledge of them. GERANOMYIA Haliday. G. rostrata Say. Lenola, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Riverton V, 19, VII,- 3, IX, 11 (div), National Park VI, 3 (Dke). G. canadensis Westw. “New Jersey” (A ES), Cape May IX, 21 (Vk). . diversa O. S. “New Jersey” (A E'S). G. distincta Doane. Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). Q RHIPIDIA Meig. R. maculata Meig. ‘New Jersey” (A E 8). R. domestica O. S. Palisades (O S); Clementon V, 16, bred from larve obtained in fermented sap of “Nyssa sylvatica,’ Riverton VI, 16. B-oUs OD ooo oo ae r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 705 . fidelis O. S. Chester VIII, 9 (Coll). . bryanti Johns. Dover VI, 25. TROCHOBOLA O. S. . argus Say. Palisades V (Ly). DICRANOMYIA Steph. 7 fara Oils. Dover Vi,-23. . liberta O. S. Jamesburg (Sm); Clementon VI, 3. . stulta O. S. “New Jersey” (A E 8). - morioides O. S. “New Jersey” (A EH §8). . pubipennis O. S. “New Jersey” (Bt). simulans WIk. (defuncta O. S.) Caldwell VI, 8 (Cr). hzretica O. S. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg (Sm). badia Walk. Forest Hill X (Wdt). . immodesta O. S. Forest Hill IX (Wdt); Lucaston IX, 28, X, 15 (Dke). . gladiator O. S. Avon IX, 27 (Hk). LIMNOBIA Meig. . immatura O. S. Boonton VII, 18 (GG); Caldwell (Cr). . cinctipes Say. Caldwell (Cr). . triocellata O. S. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, Asbury Park VIII, 16, Westville VI, 6 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 28 (DkKe). . fallax Johns. (solitaria Johns, not O. S.) Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 14. . tristigma O.S. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. . sociabilis O. S. Caldwell (Cr). . indigena O. S. Merchantville VI, 4 (Dke). TOXORRHINA Loew. . magna O. S. Type “New Jersey” VII (A ES); Wildwood VIII, 12. RHAMPHIDIA Meig. . flavipes Macq. Riverton VII, 31, VIII, 25, Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); National Park V, 20 (DkKe). ELEPHANTOMYIA O. S. . westwoodi O. S. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. ATARBA 0. S. . picticornis O. S. Riverton VI, 18. 45 IN 706 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. D. eet oO 9 9 DICRANOPTYCHA O..S. germana O. S. “New Jersey” (A E S). sobrina O. S. New Hope VII, 10 (Hk). TEUCHOLABIS O. S. . complexa O. S. Avalon; larva in considerable number under bark VI, 8; commenced pupating in 4 or 5 days; imagoes VII, 22-27. CLADURA oO. S. . flavoferruginea O. S. Forest Hill IX (Wat). ANTOCHA O. S. . saxicola O. S. (opalizans O. S.) Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 10. RHYPHOLOPHUS Kol. . innocens O. S. Westville IV, 9 (Jn); Riverton IV, 10 (Dke). . nubilus O. S. Newark IV (Wdt). ERIOPTERA Meig. . chlorophylla O. S. Common; Riverton VI, 19, VII, 3, Westville VII, 2. . straminea O. S. Riverton VI, 18. . venusta O. S. Riverton VI, 15, Merchantville V, 26 (Dke); Woodbury VI, 7. . septemtrionalis O. S. Riverton VII, 3. . armata O. S. “New Jersey” (A E S, Bt); Orange Mts. VI. . chrysocoma O. 8S. Riverton VI, 18, Westville VII, 2. . caloptera Say. Boonton IX, 18 (GG); Riverton VII, 3, Avalon VII, 22. . dulcis O. S. Del. Water Gap VII, 13, Riverton VI, 16 (Jn). - parva O. S. Del. Water Gap VII, 13 (Jn); Orange VI (O 8S). . vespertina O. S. “New Jersey” (A ES). MOLOPHILUS Curtis. . forcipula O. S. South Orange (O 8). . hirtipennis O. S. Orange (O S). . ursinus O. S. Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Clementon V, 14 (Jn). . pubipennis O. S. Chester VIII, 1 (Coll); Shark River VII, 12. GONIOMYIA O. S. . manca O. S. South Orange VI, 30, 1868 (O S). . blanda O. S. Long Branch VI, 12. . sulphurella O. S. Riverton V, 28, Asbury Park VIII, 16. . cognatella O. S. Clementon V, 12. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 707 HELOBIA St. Farg. (SYMPLECTA Meig.) . hybrida Meig. (punctipennis Meig.) Riverton IX, 25, Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn); Avon IX, 27, Pemberton V, 20 (Hk). TRIMICRA O. S. - anomala O. S. Anglesea V, 30, VII, 9 (Sm). GNOPHOMYIA O. S. . tristissima O. S. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Westville VI, 6 (Jn); New Hope VII, 10 (Hk). ULOMORPHA oO. S. . pilosella O. S. Shark River VII, 12. TRICHOCERA Meig. . regelationis Linn. Caldwell V, 5 (Cr); Camden II, 21, Westville IV, 9. . bimacula Walk. Riverton IX, 3. . brumalis Fitch. Riverton IX, 3. EPIPHRAGMA oO. S. . fascipennis Say. New Hope VIII, 10 (Hk); Newark VI, 16, Riverton V, 29, Clementon VI, 3, Woodbury VI, 7. LIMNOPHILA Macq. . fuscovaria O. S. Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VI, 6, Clementon VIII, 9. . luteipennis O. S. Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk); Woodbury VI, 7, Westville VII, 2, Lenola V, 30. . tenuipes O. S. Riverton VII, 24. - Macrocera Say. Westville VI, 6, Merchantville V, 26, VI, 4 (Dke). - adusta O. S. “New Jersey” (A ES); Westville V, 18. - recondita ©. S. Long Branch VI, 12, Riverton VII, 24. . rufibasis O. S. Dover VI, 11 (Jn); Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Orange Mts. V (Wat). . imbecilla O. S. “New Jersey” (A E S). . toxoneura O. S. “New Jersey” (A E 8). . lenta O. S. Orange Mts. . contempta O. S. Westville VII, 21 (Jn); Lakehurst VIII, 23 (Coll). . quadrata O. S. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll). . irrorata Johns. Riverton VIII, 5. ERIOCERA Macq. . fuliginosa O. S. Orange Mts. VII, 4. - brachycera O.S. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 14 (Jn); Orange Mts. VI (Wat). 708 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. wilsonii O. S. “New Jersey” (A E 8). E. longicornis Walk. Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Trenton V, 30 (Hk). PENTHOPTERA Schiner. P. albitarsis O. S:. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 12, Shark River VII, 12, Clementon VIII, 7 (Jn); Trenton VII, 12 (Hk). AESHNASOMA Johnson. A. rivertonensis Johns. Riverton VII, 20, 1902. TRICYPHONA Zett. (AMALOPIS Haliday.) T. inconstans O. S. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Woodbury V, 14, Westville VI, 6, Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn); Riverton V, 19, Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk); Lucas- ton IX, 22 (Dke). T. vernalis O. S. Lucaston IV, 14, IX, 28 (Dke); Clementon V, 5 (Hk). PEDICIA Latr. P. albivitta Wlk. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 15 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton IX, 10 (Vk). LIOGMA O. S. L. nodicornis O. S. “New Jersey” (A E 8). BITTACOMORPHA Westwood. B. clavipes Fab. Caldwell (Cr); Westville V, 19, Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Riv- erton IV, 24, X, 9 (div); Jamesburg V, VI, along ditches, Lahaway V, 28 (Sm). B. jonesi Johns. Clementon V, 5 (Hk). PTYCHOPTERA Meig. P. rufocincta O. S. Newark VI, 16, Riverton V, 30, Westville VII, 12 (Jn); Clementon VI, 7 (Li); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk). BRACHYPTEMNA O. S. B. dispellens Walk. Shark River VII, 12, 1897. OROPEZA Needham. (DOLICHOPEZA Curt.) O. albipes Johns. Del. Water Gap VII, 21, Dover VI, 17, Riverton VIII, 3. O. subalbipes Johns. Long Branch VI, 12, Westville VI, 6, Clementon Wilemio: O. obscura Johns. Riverton VIII, 11. O. sayi Johns. (T. annulata Say not Linn.) Westville VI, 6. 0) 0 AU rd THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 709 XIPHURA Brullé. . frontalis O. S. Palisades V (Lv). . fumipennis O. S. (Ctenophora) Palisades VI, 6 (Lv). CTENOPHORA Meig. . nubecula O. S. Caldwell V, 29 (Cr). PACHYRHINA Macq. . ferruginea Fab. Common; Del. Water Gap VII, 11-15, New Bruns- wick, Riverton, Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn); Trenton V, 21 (Hk). . incurva Loew. Newark VI, 14, New Brunswick VII, 1, Westville VI, 6. . collaris Say. Westville IV, 9 (Jn); Lucaston IV, 10-14 (DkKe). . virescens Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 15, Dover VI, 23, Newark VI, 14, Riverton VI, 19, Westville VII, 21. . tenuis Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 10, Newark VI, 14, Westville VI, 6 (Jn); Iona V, 24 (Dke). . eucera Loew. Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Ft. Lee VI, 28 (Dke); Long Branch VI, 12, DaCosta VI, 4. . unifasciata Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 14 (Jn); Trenton Wilds (ELK) . sodalis Loew. Orange Mts. VI, 22, Westville VI, 6 (Jn). . macrocera Say. Newark VI, 14, Westville VI, 27. . xanthostigma Loew. Riverton VII, 3. » punctum Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 1, Riverton VII, 24. . polymera Loew. Riverton VI, 14. STYGEROPIS Loew. . fuscipennis Loew. “Salt meadow” Newark VI (Wat). LONGURIO Loew. . testaceus Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12, 15. TIPULA Linn. . abdominalis Say. Boonton IX, 17 (GG); Morris Plains (Jn); Caldwell (Cr). ; . caloptera Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Dover VI, 17 (Jn); Ocean . County (Sm); Iona V, 24 (Dke). . trivittata Say. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11,'15, Newark VI, 13 (Jn); National Park VI, 13 (Dke). « bella Loew. Clementon V, 10, Westville VIII, 21, Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk); Anglesea IX, 12 (DkKe). . longiventris Loew. Dover VI, 17, Newark VI, 12 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Manumuskin V, 10 (Dke). 7io REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. T. T. T. = HHAdAAGAG fuliginosa Say. Dover VI, 17, Newark VI, 13. hebes Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee VIII, 30 (Dke); Westville IX, 13. fasciata Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Palisades, Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon V, 30, VIII, 11 (Jn); Passaic VI, 8 (Coll). . tricolor Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Jamesburg VII, 21, Clementon VIII, 11, Westvile VIII (Jn); Riverton IV, 21 (Hk). . costalis Say. Caldwell (Cr), Princeton VII, 21, Riverton IX, 9 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 12 (Dke). . cunctans Say. Riverton IX, 25, X, 9. . speciosa Loew. Dover VII, 17, Newark VI, 18. - submaculata Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 15 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Laurel Springs VI, 10 (Dke). . valida Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Dover VI, 23 (Jn); New Bruns- wick VI, 9 (Sm). . dejecta Walk. Orange Mts. (Jn); Riverton IV, 22, Lucaston IV, 10 (Dke); Clementon IV, 15, V, 5 (div). . tephrocephala Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); Ft. Lee VII, 4, Stone Harbor VII, 29 (DkKe). . cincta Loew. Riverton IV, 17 (Jn); National Park V, 6, Manumuskin iV, 2 CD ke): . strepens Loew. Newark VI, 31, Riverton V, 30. . flavicans Fab. Manumuskin X, 21 (Dke). latipennis Loew. New Brunswick VI, 9, Ocean County (Coll). perlongipes Johns. Orange Mts. V, Avalon VI, 30. . pallida Loew. Dover VI, 17. . angustipennis Loew. Culver’s Lake VI, 29 (Coll). . jejuna Johns. Riverton VII, 20. Family DIXIDA. Small, slender mosquito-like species, wings bare, antenne thick at base, other joints hair-like, joints indistinctly marked; larve aquatic. Our species are not of economic importance. DIXA Meigen. . notata Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 15. terna Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. Family PSYCHODID/. PSYCHODA Latr. . alternata Say. Cape May VIII, 20 (Vk); Lucaston IX, 14 (Dke); bred from water. . marginalis Banks. Riverton V, 14; National Park V, 6-20 (Dke). . minuta Banks. Riverton IX, 14. Common on trunk of the button- wood. THE INSECTS ‘OF NEW JERSEY! Fall P. cinerea Banks. Riverton VI, 8. P. superba Banks. Riverton VII, 29. P. albitarsis Banks. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 15. Family STENOXENID/. STENOXENUS Cog. S. johnsoni Coq. Type of the family and genus was collected at Dunn- field, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 1908; very rare, and habits in early stages unknown. Family CHIRONOMID. These flies are indifferently named “gnats,” “midges,” sand-flies” or “punkies,” the latter two names chiefly applied to the few minute forms with piercing mouth parts. They somewhat resemble mosauitoes in appearance, but have naked wings, and the thorax is produced so as to hide the small head from above. The antenne in the male are lengthily plumcse, and in the female are also furnished with lateral hair. The insects occur at all seasons, many of them in spring, and they dance in the early evening in great swarms only a few feet above ground, usually in a damp locality. The larve live in water on living or dead vegetation, or on sap of trees, under fallen leaves or decaying vegetable matter. As a rule, they are harmless, except for the annoyance caused by the biting tribes, but the larva of one species at least mines the leaves of water plants, and thus Lecomes injurious in a very limited and special way. CERATOPOGON Meigen. Fig. 294.—Ceratopogon stellifer; much enlarged. C. exilis Coq. Riverton X, 9. C. fusculus Cog. Riverton IV, 30. 712 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. specularis Coq. Riverton X, 9. C. transiens Walk. Riverton VIII, 21 (Jn); Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). C. piceus Winn. Atlantic Highlands VI, 1 (Lv); Clementon V, 16 (Jn). CULICOIDES Latr. C. variipennis Coq. Westville VI, 6. C. cinctus Coq. Riverton X, 9. BEZZIA Kieffer. . albiventris Loew. Riverton VI, 16. . elegans Coa. Riverton V, 14. . expolita Coq. Riverton VI, 3 (Jn); Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). johnsoni Coa. Riverton VI, 3. media Cog. Riverton VIII, 7. . pulverea Cog. Riverton VII, 3. . setulosa Loew. Riverton VII, 3. vnoOoWwnoOD . smithii Cog. (mundus Coq. not Loew.) Riverton VI, 16. JOHANNSENIELLA Will. . albaria Cog. Del. Water Gap, VII, 12, Westville VII, 12. . argentata Loew. Princeton VII, 21, Westville VII, 29. . bimaculata Loew. Riverton VI, 6, Westville VII, 21. . diversa Coq. Riverton VII, 7. . nebulosa Coq. Riverton VI, 19. . viridis Cog. Riverton VagaIG qjoaaanwa a PALPOMYIA Megerle. . flavipes Meig. Del. Water Gap VIII, 8, Woodbury V, 14. . longipennis Loew. Westville VI, 27. . lineatus Meig. Westville VI, 6. . rufus Loew. Newark VI, 13, Westville VII, 27, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Clemen- ton V, 6 (Hk). P. tibialis Meig. Woodbury VI, 7. P. trivialis Loew. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Sm); Princeton VII, 21, Westville VI, 27, Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5, Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk). u0 U0 OD HETEROMYIA Say. H. fasciata Say. Westville VI, 15, VII, 2, Camden VI, 6, Buena Vista VI, 9 (Li), Riverton VI, 16-20. H. festiva Loew. “New Jersey” (A ES). H. plebeja Loew. Westville VII, 21. H. basalis Walk. Riverton VII, 12. c@) Paro. OO OO Oo ‘THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 713 PROCLADIUS Skuse. . scapularis Loew. Riverton VII, 24. . thoracicus Loew. Riverton VI, 19, Westville VII, 21. TANYPUS Meigen. . dyari Cog. Forest Hill (Wdt); New Brunswick IV, 30 (Sm); Lucaston V, 30 (Dke). . melanops Meig. Riverton V, 14, Westville VI, 6, Clementon VI, 3. . pilosellus Loew. Riverton VI, 30. . johnsoni Cog. Riverton IV, 30, VI, 18. . monilis Linn. (annulatus Say.) Great Piece Meadow V, 7 (Coll); Riverton V, 14, IX, 5. . bifasciatus Coq. Riverton IV, 30. : pallens Cog. Riverton. . baltimoreus Macq. Riverton V, 14, VI, 18. . turpis Zett. Boonton III, 8, 12 (GG). PSILOTANYPUS Kieffer. . occidentalis Coq. Riverton IX, 14. PROTENTHES Johannsen. . culiciformis Linne. Riverton (Jn); Lahaway VI, 10 (Coll). CHASMATONOTUS Loew. . bimaculatus O. S. Westville (Vk). THALASSOMYIA Schiner. . platypus Coq. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8. CHIRONOMUS Meigen. . brunneus Walk. Dover VII, 16. . cristatus Fab. New Brunswick (Sm); Common, Westville VI, 6, Clementon V, 10, Riverton III, 20, Shark River VII, 12 (Jn). . jucundus Walk. Riverton VIII, 21. . lineola Wied. Common, Westville VI, 6, VII, 4, VIII, 13. modestus Say. Westville VFI, 13, Riverton V, 14. pedestris Meig. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 12. . dispar Meig. Clementon VI, 3, VIII, 11. . brachialis Coq. Asbury Park VIII, 16, Westville VI, 21. . pedellus De Geer. Riverton IV, 30, V, 14, Clementon VI, 3. . fascipennis Zett. Clementon VI, 3. . tzeniapennis Cog. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8. 714 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY: STATE. MUSEUM. 2) OO0OF06600006 000 Oo .0 . albipennis Meig. Riverton VI, 7-20, Westville VI, 6. . tendens Fab. Clementon VI, 3, Riverton IV, 30: . Viridicollis V. d. W. Riverton IV, 30. . nitidulus Coq. Riverton V, 14. . tenellus Zett. Del. Water Gap VI, 12. . fascipes Coq. Riverton VIII, 11. . festivus Say. Westville. . ferrugineovittatus Zett. Clementon V, 11 (GG). . aberrans Johans. ‘“‘New Jersey.” . nigricans Johans. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Sm); Riverton. . riparius Meig. “New Jersey.” . prasinus Meig. Cape May IX, 24 (Sm). brunneipennis Johans. New Jersey. . dorsalis Meig. Orange VI, 22 (Coll); Delair VII, 14. - zonopterus Mitchell. Clementon. CAMPTOCLADIUS V. d. Wulp. . byssinus Schrank. Riverton IV, 30. . aterrimus Meig. ‘“‘New Jersey” (Johannsen). ORTHOCLADIUS V. d. Wulp. . nivoriundus Fitch. Riverton IV, 15, Shark River VII, 12. . par Cog. Riverton VII, 3. . politus Cog. Riverton VIII, 17. CRICOTOPUS V. d. Wulp. . sylvestris Fab. Dreer’s water garden, Riverton VI, 9, larve injure leaves of ‘Victoria regia” (Sm); Westville VI, 6 (Jn), Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). - geminatus Say. Riverton VI, 16-18. . tremulus Linn. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8-12, Riverton V, 14. METRIOCNEMUS V. d. Wulp. . par Johans. “New Jersey.” EURYCNEMUS V. d. Wulp. . scitulus Coq. Riverton IV, 30, VI, 4, VIII, 3. Family CULICID/. These are the mosquitoes, for which New Jersey has a well-established reputation. Among the biting flies they are distinguished by their slender body, long slender legs and long slender beak or proboscis. The larve, THE INSECTS ‘OF NEW JERSEY. Anopheles and Malaria: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult; d, the blast introduced into the blood by the mosquito; e to j, stages through which the Plasmodium passes in the red blood-corpuscle; k, the spores which enter new blood-corpuscles; /, m, the microgamete; u, 0, the macrogamete: ?, flagelle forming; g, union of a flagellum with macrogamete; 7, fusion of nuclei; s, the vermicule; ¢ to y, formation of the zygote in the mosquito stomach; the fully developed zygote, y, rupturing to >roduce blasts d. Fig. 295. 715 716 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. known as wrigglers, live in water, and can develop in water only; but the conditions under which the different species live vary greatly. Not all the mosquitoes bite human beings and only a few of them follow him into his habitation, so that the majority of species are indifferent to the great bulk of mankind. But some species are either almost unbearable pests, rendering large areas almost uninhabitable, or are actual carriers of disease organisms. Destructive methods for the pestiferous species are now well understood, and the day of their cOntrol is almost at hand. ANOPHELES Meig. The members of this genus are intermediate hosts for the organism causing malaria in man, though of the species occurring in New Jersey only one—“quadrimaculatus’’—has been actually convicted of that offense. The adults may be known by their method of holding the body at a nearly right angle to the plane of the surface upon which they are at rest. The eges are laid singly on the surface of the water and the larve float on the surface, parallel with it. They inhabit pools of ground-water, the edges of overgrown swamps or ponds, the quiet eddies of sluggish streams and sometimes even lot-pools, pails, buckets or other receptacles containing stagnant water. They are not so abundant in sewage water. The adults winter in barns, cellars, hollow trees and similar sheltered places, only the females living over. A. punctipennis Say. Occurs throughout the State, but more commonly in the southern portions. Larve may be found from May to Novem- ber; but are usually rare until after midsummer; after mid-Septem- ber only stragglers remain. Breeds in almost any waters except on salt marshes. A. quadrimaculatus Say—maculipennis of American authors. This is the species that has been convicted of transmitting malaria. It occurs throughout the State, but is rather more common in the northern counties. The general habits are like those of the preceding, but the larve occur-also in more shaded areas, and occasionally in the brackish waters of the salt marshes. A. crucians Wied. Occurs chiefly along the coast line from Elizabeth to Cape May, more common southwardly, and the larve breed chiefly on the salt marsh or on swampy areas not far inland. The species does not become obvious until mid-summer and remains until late fall. The inland points at which single examples have been taken are Manumuskin X, 21 (Dke), Delair (Seal) and Lahaway X, 8 (Brakeley). A. barberi Cog. Bordentown VIII, 14, 16, adults (Brakeley); Chester IX, 6-11 larve (Dn). This species breeds exclusively in the water in tree holes and never gets far away from its breeding grounds. PSOROPHORA Desv. P. ciliata Fabr. Local throughout the State and rarely common as an adult. This is our largest species and lays its eggs in depressed THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. wi areas likely to be rain-filled. The larve develop in these temporary pools and feed upon other mosquito wrigglers.. They are the giants of their kind, and if there is not sufficient food for all, they eat each other. Larve have been found from June to September 25, and adults from July 2 to September 30. AEDES Meig. The species now referred to this genus are those species of what we have been calling ‘‘Culex,” that do not lay their eggs in rafts or boat- shaped masses. They may be laid singly or in little masses in the mud of depressed areas, or on the surface of the water, sinking to the bottom and usually passing the winter in that stage, covered by water or un- protected in the mud. A. sayi D. & K. (Janthinosoma musica Say.) Locally common, chiefly in the northern sections of the State. The larve breed, as a rule, in heavily shaded woodland pools, and the adults do not leave the vicinity of their place of birth. They are ferocious biters, and some- times in the Great Piece Meadow region are locally almost unbear- able. Larvee have been found only from New Brunswick northward, June to September; adults have been taken also at.Spring Lake VI, 30, and Lakehurst VIII, 16. A. jamaicensis Theob. Locally common, breeding in open lot pools, though isolated examples of the larve have been taken in woodland pools. We have only found it at Millburn, Newark, New Brunswick and Delair in July and August; but undoubtedly it is more generally distributed. The adult has never been found attacking man, and though a breeding place is not far from my house, I have never found examples on my porches. A. discolor Cog. Delair, VI, 18, VII, 24, VIII, 15. Larve have been taken only by Mr. Seal in the one place on the dates mentioned, and we have not found it in any stage elsewhere. It is truly a rare species. A. sollicitans Wlk. This is the common, banded-leg salt marsh mos- quito. It breeds exclusively on the salt marshes in fresh, brackish or salt water and flies inland long distances, forming the predom- inating pest within its range—which means more than half the State—during the entire summer. From Barnegat Bay south larve begin to hatch in March, and adults are on the wing in April or May, and thereafter as many as ten broods may develop before November, when the last stragglers mature. In the more northern marshes larve do not usually appear until June, “cantator” replacing it as the early spring form. The eggs are laid in depressions in the marsh mud and must dry out before they can hatch. It is in this stage that the winter is passed. A. tzniorhynchus Wied. Has the same habits as the preceding, but is not nearly so abundant and does not migrate so far. Occasionally it is quite numerous in the southern part of the State; but in some seasons it is not seen at all on the more northern marshes. 718 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. sylvicola Gross. Larve were taken at Paterson in May, at New Brunswick May and June. Adults were taken also at Westville and Mount Holly, specimens occurring near New Brunswick until VII, 28. This is rather a rare species, breeding only in pools in dense wood- land, whose shelter the adults never leave. There is only a single spring brood, the late captures representing straggling survivors. This species was at first identified with “squamiger,’ which later proved to be different in habits and early stages. A. niveitarsis Coq. Larve were found near Paterson, V, 9, 14, in a rocky, mountain pool, and the adults bred from them are the types of the species, no other examples of which have been since taken. A. cantator Coq. Also a salt marsh breeder, occurring along the entire coast line, but much more abundant in the more northern ranges. It replaces ‘“‘sollicitans’” north of Barnegat Bay as the early spring form, and from larve which hatch in March or April the first brooa comes early in May. After mid-summer it is much less numerous and generally replaced by “‘sollicitans.” It has the same egg-laying and migrating habits as the latter species, and like it breeds until the meadows are frozen—larve being quite generally found under the ice when the pools freeze in early winter. A. subcantans Felt. Occurs throughout the northern parts of the State in woodland pools. There is only a single spring brood, larve ap- pearing in March and maturing in early May; but the adults linger until mid-summer. Larve have been actually found at or near Elizabeth, Newark, Arlington, Cranford, Millburn, Morristown and in the Great Piece Meadows. This species was at first believed to be identical with the European “cantans,’ but has been proved distinct by careful study. A. abfitchii Felt. Has the same range as the preceding and much the same habits. It has been found a little further south, at New Bruns- wick, and the adults occurred as far north as Lake Hopatcong and Swartswood Lake. Mr. Grossbeck notes that, for breeding, both this and the previous species “select swampy woodland areas or hilly regions scattered over with large pools—small isolated pools being rarely inhabited by them.” The adults are hard biters, but do not leave the wcodland. This species was described by Mr. Grossbeck as “siphonalis” at about the same time that Dr. Felt described his species, but Dr. Felt’s description was first published. A. fitchii Felt. Very much like the preceding in appearance and proba- bly in habit; but rare in New Jersey. Mr. Brakeley has taken larve at Lahaway and Mr. Grossbeck in the Great Piece Meadows, both in April. A. sylvestris Theob. Occurs throughout the State and throughout the summer, sometimes in considerable numbers; but rarely attempts to bite and does not enter houses. Larve appear in woodland pools early in April, but later occur in more open places—anything from a lot or even a clean gutter-pool to an overgrown swamp area serving to develop them. > > > THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 719 signifer Coq. Larve have been taken at Chester, IX, 5, XI, 17, Riv- erton [X, 8, Delair IX, 20, Lahaway IX. This species breeds normally in tree holes, though occasionally it resorts to barrels or old tubs; it has only been taken in late fall. atropalpus Cog. This species breeds only in rock-pools. It has been taken in Maine and in Maryland, but not yet in New Jersey. It is almost certain that it occurs along the shores of the Delaware River near the Water Gap- . canadensis Theob. Throughout the State. The commonest of our woodland pool mosquitoes, larve hatching from over-wintering eggs before the ice is permanently off the surface. There is one heavy regular spring brood, but larve may be found in greater or less abundance throughout the season. Bites readily enough in the woods, but does not follow into the open and never enters houses. dyari Cog. Culver’s Lake V, 29, bred from pupa. . triseriatus Say. Taken in many localities in the northern half of the State; but undoubtedly occurs everywhere in it. Breeds normally in tree holes; but also occasionally in pails or other wooden recep- tacles. Larve have been found as early as April 18 (Paterson), as late as November 17 (Chester), and at all periods throughout the summer. . serratus Theob. Breeds in low, swampy woodland, and sometimes in mountain pools. Adults have been taken at Great Piece Meadow IX, 17, New Brunswick VI, 23, X, 5, Cape May IX, 21. Larve have been found at Great Piece Meadow IX, 9, Orange Mts. VIII, 6, New Brunswiek VII, 29, VIII, 138, EX; 3; 30. . dupreei Coq. Occurs in the same pools with the preceding and at the same time. It is a small, rare species; the adult does not bite humans and the larva is a bottom feeder that gets its supply of oxygen from the water itself. . abserratus Felt. Larve have been taken in the Orange Mts. IV, 20, and at New Brunswick IV, 16 to V, 2. It is probably the earliest of the spring species to mature, the larve rarely extending into May, and not appearing again later in the season. Breeds in low, swampy woodlands and in mountain pools. . trivittatus Coq. Quite generally distributed throughout the State; hardly common, but more abundant in the northern half. Larve from V, 8 to VIII, 12; adults from VII, 2 to IX, 3. Breed in un- sheltered pools, associated with “sylvestris.” pretans Gross. Larve in the Great Piece Meadow IV, 19-V, 10; adults, Chester VII, 30, IX, 10, Great Piece Meadow IX, 13, Lake Hopatcong Vil, 21, Trenton VII, 18. Mr. Grossbeck writes: ‘‘Taken rarely except in the Great Piece Meadows, where, in some years, it occurs in count- less millions.” inconspicuous Gross. Larve taken on Garret Mt., Paterson, IX, 29, which produced adults X, 4,5. They were found in a rock pool, and have not been found since. 720 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. aurifer Coq. Larve from III, 23-V, 10 at Lahaway, Arlington V, 9, Great Piece Meadows V. Adults from early May to late August, the specimens matured in May living throughout the summer and biting fiercely whenever they get a chance. They have been found in troublesome numbers at Lake Hopatcong, Springdale, Culver’s Lake and Swartswood Lake. Breeds in woodland pools, the larger and more permanent being preferred. A. pallidohirta Gross. Larve taken from a woodland pool on the Orange Mts.; adults emerged V, 19, 22. Not found since, nor elsewhere. A. fuscus O. S. Occurs throughout the State rarely, and only in spring. It is a small species that does not attack man, and the larva occurs in pools, both woodland and open. CULEX Linn. As now restricted, this genus contains those species of mosquitoes that lay their eggs in boat-shaped rafts on the surface of the water. When at rest, the body is held parallel to the surface on which the mosquito is placed—a character shared with the species of “Aedes” in distinction from the species of “Anopheles.” 5 C. pipiens Linn. The “house” or “rain- barrel” mosquito. Common through- out the State throughout the year. Hibernates as an adult in cellars, basements, barns and other build- ings, and begins breeding early in May. Breeds in pools and puddles of all kinds and wherever even a cup- ful of water remains for a week or ten days. Cisterns and manure pits offer equal attractions, and sewer basins in cities are favorite resorts. In general there is no water in which this species does not breed, if there are no natural enemies or adverse natural conditions. Larva and pupa of the house C. restuans Theob. Similar in habit and Bee appearance to the preceding, but less Hist ave: abundant, and the larva on the whole prefers cleaner water. Never theless, it does sometimes occur in dirty, or even foul water. C. salinarius Coq. Breeds only on the salt marshes from the last days of May to the end of November. The adult resembles the common “house mosauito” and has similar habits. C. territans Wlk. Occurs throughout the State, breeding continuously from April to October, sparingly at first, more abundantly later in the season. The larve are essentially clean water forms, and seem to THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 721 prefer the more permanent bodies of water, but they are occasionally found in puddles and rarely in rain barrels. C. saxatilis Gross. Larve occurred in a rock-bottomed pool on the Gar- ret Mt., Paterson, Aug. 31, and adults emerged the same day and the one following; it has not been met with since. C. melanurus Coq. The larve breed and winter in cold spring pools in Sphagnum swamps, among the bottom material. They have also been found in early August with the egg boat and may breed all summer. Thus far found only at Lahaway. COQUILLETTIDIA Dyar. C. perturbans Wlk. Local throughout the State and sometimes very com- mon. Adults appear in May and continue into September. Hggs are laid in rafts in overgrown Swamps, and the larve work into the bot- tom mud, attach themselves to grass roots, and there remain until the following year. Larval growth is very slow, and the adult is very long lived and a fierce biter. It comes freely to porches, and is not backward in entering houses, making it locally a first-class pest. URANOTAZENIA Atrib. U. sapphirina O. S. Local, but probably found throughout the State. Larve have been found in the Great Piece Meadows VIII, 10, Irving- ton IX, 5, Trenton VIII, 5, Metedeconk Neck IX, 23, Lahaway VI, Cape May. Breeds in open swamp areas well overgrown with floating vegetation, the eggs laid in boat-shaped masses. The adult is a small insect marked with metallic blue scales and does not bite. WYEOMYIA Theob. W. smithii Coq. Breeds in the leaves of pitcher plants, “Sarracenia,” wherever these occur in the State. The adult is a small insect that does not bite and lays its eggs in the leaves, fastened to the sides when they have no water, or on the surface when they are full. Larve may be found at all times of the year, the winter being passed in that stage, sometimes active, in mild weather, sometimes frozen solid. The first adults mature late in May. Family CORETHRIDA. The members of this family have until recently been included with the mosquitoes; but in their light colors and generally weak appearance they come nearer to the “Chironomide.”’ The’ mouth parts are not extended, and are not furnished with lancets, so that they cannot bite. Except in the genus “Corethrella” the known larve of our species are not depend- ent upon atmospheric air. They live in the water, maintaining a hori- zontal position some distance below the surface, and are so transparent as to be almost invisible. They are predatory in habit. 46 IN 722 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SAYOMYIA Coq. albipes Johann. Larve have been taken in the Great Piece Meadows, at Paterson IV, VII, IX, Arlington V, Newark VIII, Trenton, Delair VII, and the winter is apparently passed in that stage. Breeds in the more permanent woodland pools, but is also found in more open water. S. punctipennis Say. Chester VIII, 1, Delair IX, 17, Riverton V, 19. ” CORETHRA Meig. C. cinctipes Cog. Lake Hopatcong VII, 22, Great Piece Meadow IV, 10, Paterson V, 6, New Brunswick V, 8, Lahaway III, 28-IV, 26—all larve. This is a common spring species breeding in large woodland pools, the July specimen being a straggler. The larva is predaceous, and when food is scarce becomes cannibalistic. C. lintneri Felt. Larve taken at Millburn in May were not recognized as distinct from the preceding until the adults emerged a few days later. CORETHRELLA Cog. C. brakeleyi Coq. This is a very rare species which breeds in cold spring pools and sphagnum swamps. Larve have been taken by Mr. Brakeley at Lahaway in almost every month of the year, and beside that it has been taken only at Delair, by Mr. Seal, and at Trenton by Mr. Grossbeck. ; Family MYCE TOPHILIDA. These are fungus-gnats, also resembling mosquitoes or midges, but the antenne are not verticillate or furnished with whorls of hair. In the male the abdomen ends in a forceps-like process, and in the female in a pointed ovipositor. There are other structural differences to characterize the family, but these are not easily seen except by the student. The larve are feeders in fungus and in decaying vegetation generally, and might be considered at werst harmless were it not that they attack culti- vated mushrooms. The larve are white, slender, have a black head, and often live in large colonies. Some of them have the curious habit of forming great rope-like masses when ready to enter the pupal stage, sometimes travelling considerable distances to find a suitable place. Where they occur in mushroom beds, fumigating frequently with to- bacco or pyrethrum to kill the adults inside, and keeping all windows closely screened to prevent the entrance of specimens from outside, is the only practical measure known to me. PLESIASTINA Winn. (SYMMERUS WIk.) P. annulata Meig. Riverton IV, 19. a7) get e'n9} So) ef af ao THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 723 ASYNDULUM Latr. » montanum Roeder. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 15. CEROPLATUS Bosc. . clausus Coq. New Brunswick (Sm). PLATYURA Meig. . diluta Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 15. - mendosa Loew. Clementon V, 30. . tzeniata Winn. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII 12. . elegans Coq. Orange Mts., Shark River VII, 12. . inops Cog. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 12. . melasoma Loew. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. . subterminalis Say. Riverton VIII, 11 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 2 (Dke); Trenton VIII, 23 (Hk). . fascipennis Say. DaCosta VIII, 9 (Dke). SCIOPHILA Meigen. . littoralis Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 18, Dover VI, 17, Merchantville VI, 28, Westville VIJ, 21, Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm). NEOEMPHERIA O. S. . balioptera Loew. Princeton VII, 21, Westville VIII, 23. . nepticula Loew. Merchantville VI, 28. . didyma Loew. Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 12 (Dke). POLYLEPTA Winn. . tibialis Cog. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Westville VI, 6. ACNEMIA Winn. . flaveola Coq. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. SYNTEMNA Winn. . polyzona Loew. Clementon VI, 3. BOLETINA Stezeger. . tricincta Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Dover VII, 17, Clementon VI, 3. . groenlandica Steg. Forest Hill III, IV (Wdt); Merchantville III, 13 (Vk). 724 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Zz LEPTOMORPHUS Curt. . parvulus Cog. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. . walkeri Curtis. Trenton VIII, 23 (Hk). EPICYPTA Winn. » punctum Stann. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap. VII, 15. . pulicaria Coq. Riverton IV, 19. DOCOSIA Winn. . dichroa Loew. Malaga VI, 1, Iona V, 10 (Dke). NEOGLAPHYROPTERA O. S. . bivittata Say. Ft. Lee V (Lv); Princeton VII, 21, Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VII, 12 (Jn). . opima Loew. Dover VI, 17, Merchantville VI, 28. . sublunata Loew. Mgrchantville VI, 28. . ventralis Say. (Leja) Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 15. TRICHONTA Winn. . perspicua V. d. W. Riverton IV, 16. EXECHIA Winn. . analis Coq. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8. MYCETOPHILA Meigen. . punctata Meig. Riverton III, 20-IV, 8 (Jn); Merchantville FX, 16 (Dke). . sigmoides Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Riverton III, 6. . contigua Walk. Riverton III, 6, IX, 9. . obscura Walk. Trenton IV, 19 (Hk); Riverton III, 6, Clementon VI, 16. . vitrea Coq. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. . discoidea Say. New Brunswick VI, 11 (Coll). DYNATOSOMA Winn. - scalaris Loew. (Mycetophila) Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Riverton III, 6, Clementon V, 10. MACROCERA Meig. . clara Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, Clementon VIII, 9 (Jn). . formosa Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Merchantville V, 28, Clemen- ton VIII, 9. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 7a M. nebulosa Cod. Clementon VI, 3, VIII, 9. . hirsuta Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. M. inconcinna Loew. Orange Mts. VIII (Wdt). = EUGNORISTE Coquillett. E. occidentalis Cog. Trenton VIII, 3 (Hk). SCIARA Meigen. S. fulvicauda Felt. Types, Atlantic Co., from decayed blackberry roots (Sm). S. pauciseta Felt. New Brunswick, types from decaying potatoes IX (Sm). S. multiseta Felt. New Brunswick, types bred from mushrooms V, and this is the common species in mushroom cellars with us (Sm). S. polita Say. Clementon V, 30. S. inconstans Fitch. Newark, New Brunswick VIII, 7 (Coll); Riverton II, 26, Clementon VI, 38. S. abbreviata Walk. Anglesea VII, 12 (Sm). S. fuliginosa Fitch. Palisades (Lv); N. Woodbury VI, 17, Iona VI, 2 (Dke). S. femorata Say. Fort Lee IV, V (Ly). HESPERODES Coquillett. H. johnsoni Cog. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. Family CECIDOMYIIDA. Small, slender, mosquito-like flies with broad wings, long slender an- tennz with cylindrical or bead-like joints, the males often with whorls _ of long hair on the segments, whence they are known as verticillate. On the whole the insects are fragile in appearance, slow in flight, and they are popularly known as “gall-gnats” or “gall-midges,” because the larvee of many species produce abnormal growths or galls on a great variety of vegetation. These larve are small, elongate-oval legless grubs, bluntly pointed at both ends, often with a chitinous process, known as a breast- bone, on the under side, near the anterior end. Some of the species belonging here are among the most destructive of those in the order, and the injury caused by them is of the most diverse character. In some cases there is a true, gall-like swelling of the tissue; in others it is a characteristic crippling or folding of a leaf or of a grow- ing tip, or even a mere swelling of the tissue. Some species produce no visible swellings or distortions at all, and some feed in or on seeds, causing rather a shrivelling than a swelling. Much attention has re- cently been paid to these insects by Mr. William Beutenmuller, of the American Museum of Natural History, who has been good enough to pre- 720 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. pare the systematic part of this list, and by Dr. E. P. Felt, State Ento- mologist of New York, and a great many new species have been described, some of which will undoubtedly be found in New Jersey. Mr. Beuten- muller has in general included only actual records, mostly of his own col- lecting, and the notes on food plants, etc., are his, unless otherwise eredited. In some cases galls have been described, of which the makers are yet unknown, and these are separately listed. Dr. Felt has kindly supplied additional notes from his breedings and studies, but I have not been able to incorporate all his systematic suggestions. As the species differ so widely in habit, so the methods of dealing with them are diverse. Insecticides are available in the smallest number of cases, and usually it is some change in cultural method that must be relied upon to prevent injury. LASIOPTERA Meigen. L. carbonifera Felt. Makes galls on leaves of goldenrod; common and eg. d. (Bt). The gall was first described by Osten Sacken, and the name is so credited in the last edition. L. cornicola Beut. Ft. Lee district. Galls on trunks and branches of dogwood, “Cornus stolonifera” IX-VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). L. cylindrigallze Felt. Ft. Lee district IV, V (Bt); Staten Island, gall elongate on stems of goldenrod IV (Ft). L. farinosa O. S. Throughout the State, locally common, galls on leaves of blackberry, “Rubus villosus’” VIII-X (Bt). See in this connection “L. nodulosa” Beut. L. humulicaulis Felt. New Jersey district (Bt); gall on stem of hop (Ft). L. linderze Beut. Ft. Lee district and elsewhere, sometimes common; galls on branches of spice bush, “Lindera benzoin” X—-VI (Bt); Staten Island, from irregular sub-cortical gall. L. lycopi Felt. Plainfield; gall on bugleweed “Lycopus virginicus” IX-V (Bt). L. nodulosa Beut. Ft. Lee district; galls on branches of blackberry, “Rubus villosus’” X—-VI (Bt). This is the species referred to in the last edition as “farinosa.” I havé found it, locally, from New Bruns- wick southward; sometimes also on dewberry, but never causing actual injury in cultivated fields. L. sambuci Felt. Ft. Lee district; galls on stems of elder, “Sambucus canadensis” IX—VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). solidaginis O. S. New Jersey district; larva probably inquilinous in galls on Solidago (Bt). L. tumifica Beut. Ft. Lee district; gall on stalk of golden-rod, “Solidago rugosa” IX-VI (Bt); Staten Island, from eccentric sub-globular stem gall (Ft). L. vernonize Beut. Ft. Lee district and elsewhere; galls on leaves of ironweed, “Vernonia noveboracensis” IX (Bt); Staten Island IX (Ds). r THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 727 . viburnicola Beut. Ft. Lee district; galls on branches of arrowwood, “Viburnum dentatum” X-VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ft). . vitinea Felt. Staten Island VI, 15; obpyriform, slightly curved gall on leaf petiole of grape (Ft). . vitis O. S. Throughout the State, local on grape, V, VI (Sm); makes swellings on stems and leaf galls of wild grapes (Bt). ‘CHORISTONEURA Riibs. - hibisci Felt. Staten Island IV; gall on stem of marshmallow, “Hibis- cus moschatus” (Ft). . eupatorii Felt. Staten Island V; oval gall on stem of “Eupatorium” (Ft). RHABDOPHAGA Westw. . batatas Walsh. Montclair, Ft. Lee district; galls on twigs of “Salix discolor” and allied species of willow (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). » ramuscula Felt. Staten Island, from willow twigs showing little or no swelling (Ft). ; . brassicoides Walsh. Greenwood Lake, Montclair, Ft. Lee district VII-IX, galls on branches of willow (Bt). . rigidzee O. S. Montclair, Ft. Lee district, galls on low willows (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). : Salicifolia Felt. New Jersey district (Bt); bred from a pouch gall on “Spirea salicifolia” VI (Ft). . Strobiloides O. S. Del. Water Gap VI (Jn); Greenwood Lake, Mont- clair, Orange Mts., Englewood, Ft. Lee and g. d., galls on tip of branches of low wiliows VIII-V (Bt). DASYNEURA Rond. : gleditschiz O. S. Sometimes common locally on leaves of honey locust, “Gleditschia triacanthos” VI (Bt); New Brunswick (Sm). . grossulariz Fitch. New Jersey district; larva in gooseberries (Bt). . hirtipes O. S. Ft. Lee district, Carlstadt; gall on fragrant golden- rod, “Solidago graminifolia” VI, VII (Bt). . leguminicola Lint. The clover-seed midge; more or less common throughout the State; but scarcely injurious because not much clover- seed is raised, and the value of the crop for hay is not affected. If clover-seed is wanted it is necessary to cut an early crop of flowers for hay and make seed from the later flowers. ; - coryli Felt. Reared from corrugated leaves of “Corylus” at West Nyack; Ne Y. (CRt): . rhois Cog. New Jersey district; gall on roots of poison ivy (Bt). » pseudacacie Fitch. Ft. Lee district (Bt); New Brunswick, common on leaves of locust, “Robinia pseudacacia” (Sm). 728 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 297.—The Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor: on the left a healthy stalk of wheat and on the right one infested at h by the “fly,” showing galls; a, egg; b, larva; c, flax- seed; d, pupa; all very much enlarged; e, fly ovipositing on leaf, natural size; f, female; g, male fly, much enlarged; i, the parasite, Merisus destructor; also much enlarged. D: A. M. C. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 729 serrulate O. S. Montclair, Ft. Lee district, Lakehurst, common locally, gall on bud of alder, “Alnus serrulatus” IX—VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). solidaginis Loew. Common throughout the State; gall on goldenrod (Bt); Clementon VIII (Jn). ARNOLDIA Kieffer. . fraxinifolia Felt. Newfoundland VII, 25, gall on young ash leaflets (Ft). vitis Felt. New Jersey district (Bt); from galls of “Lasioptera vitis” (Ft). ASPHONDYLIA Loew. . azaleze Felt. New Jersey district (Bt); galls on buds of azalea (Ft). - conspicua O. S. New Jersey district; gall on stem of cone-flower, “Rudbeckia triloba”’ VIII, IX (Bt). - globulus O. S. New Jersey district; gall on stem of sun-flower, “Heli- anthus gigantea” VIII, IX (Bt). patens Beut. New Jersey district; gall on aster VIII, IX (Bt). . solidaginis Beut. Montclair, Ft. Lee district, gall on leaf of golden- rod (Bt). RHOPALOMYIA Ribs. . fusiformis Felt. Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves and flowers of fragrant goldenrod, “Solidago graminifolia” VIII, IX (Bt). . Capitata Felt. Common at West Nyack, N. Y., just north of the New Jersey line (Ft). . inquisitor Felt. Common at West Nyack, N. Y. (Ft). - major Felt. Staten Island V, 31 (Ft). anthophila O. S. Staten Island (Ft). MAYETIOLA Kieffer. destructor Say. The “Hessian fly.’ Sometimes very destructive north of the red shale line. The method usually adopted to avoid injury is to plant as late as is safe. In the southern counties it may be delayed until after mid-September and injury is rare; in the northern counties planting soon after September ist is usual and this is dangerous. The flies usually emerge after the early Septem- ber rains and are in the fields for two weeks thereafter. Sometimes a scant early seeding is made as a trap, and this is plowed under about September 10 and the real crop put in. CONTARINIA Rond. pyrivora Riley. The “pear midge.’ Infests pear, preferring the Law- rence, causes an irregular lumpy growth, the larve eating out the core in June. This species has been gradually worked out and now maintains itself only in a few places near New Brunswick and Newark. C. tritici Kirby. Locally and seasonally abundant north of the red shale in wheat kernels. Not really injurious since 1889. 730 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CECIDOMYIA Meigen. C. annulipes Walsh. New Jersey district, inquilinous in galls of ‘“Rhab- dophaga strobiloides” (Bt). C. anthophila O. S. New Jersey district; gall on golden-rod (Bt). C. atricornis Walsh. New Jersey district; inquilinous in gall of “Rhab- dophaga strobiloides” (Bt). C. bulla Wash. New Jersey district; gall on leaves of wild sunflowers “Helianthus decapetatus” and “divaricata’ VIII, IX (Bt). C. caryz O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves of hickory (Bt). C. cerasifolia Felt. Newfoundland IX, 4; galls on leaves of choke cherry (Ft). C. clavula Beut. Orange Mts., Montclair, Ft. Lee district, common on the terminal twigs of dogwood, “Cornus florida’ VIII, IX (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). | C. helianthi Brodie. Staten Island VIII, IX (Ds). C. lysimachiz Beut. Carlstadt, Ft. Lee district and elsewhere; galls in buds of loosestrife, “Lysimachia” VI (Bt); Jamesburg and through- out south Jersey about and on cranberry bogs; this seems to be the species which I believed identical with that infesting cranberry (Sm). C. meibomize Beut. Staten Island (Ds); galls on tick-trefoil, ““Meibomia”’ sp., VIL, EX (Bt). C. meibomiifoliz Beut. Carlstadt; galls locally common VIII, on buds of “Meibomia canadensis” (Bt). ; C. myrica Beut. Carltsadt; galls locally common on “Myrica cerifera’”’ (Bt). C. nysszecola Beut. Ft. Lee district and elsewhere, sometimes very com- mon, galls on the edges of leaves of sour-gum, “Nyssa sylvatica” VI (Bt). C. orbitalis Walsh. New Jersey district; inquilinous in galls of “Rhab- dophaga batatas,” “strobiloides” and “brassicoides” (Bt). C. pilulae Walsh. Common throughout the State; galls on leaves of red, scarlet, black, scrub, black-jack and pin oak, “Quercus rubra,” “coc- cinea,”’ “velutina,”’ “nana,” “marylandica” and “palustris” VII-X (Bt). C.-pudibunda O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on léaves of hornbeam, “Car- pinus caroliniana”’ VI, VII (Bt). C. resinicola O. S. Lakehurst and the pine barrens generally VIII, IX (Bt). C. rudbeckiz Beut. New Jersey district; galls on flower heads of cone- flower, “Rudbeckia hirta” VIII (Bt). C. seminivora Beut. Plainfield (Mill); gall is a malformation of the seed capsule of apetalous or cleistogamous flowers of stemless or acau- lescent violets, “Viola cucullata,’ ‘“palmata,”’ “‘affinis,’ ‘“septen- trionalis” VI-X (Bt). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 731 ° Fig. 300. Fig. 298.—Pear midge, Contarinia pyrivora: a, female adult; c, pupa, both enlarged; all other references to structural details. Fig. 299.—A sound pear and one infested by the larve of the pear midge. Fig. 300.—A series of pears infested by the midge, showing distortions caused by larve. 732 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. thurstoni Brodie. New Jersey district; galls on sunflower, “Helian- thus divaricata,”’ VIII, IX (Bt). C. verbenz Beut. Ft. Lee district, locally common; galls on leaves of nettle-leaved Vervain, “Verbena urticifolia” VI, VII (Bt). Cc. ulmi Beut. Carlstadt, Ft. Lee district, sometimes common; galls on leaves of elm, “Ulmus americana,” VI, VII (Bt). C. oxycoccana Johns. (vaccinii Sm., not O. 8S.) Infests the terminal erowth of the cranberry, throughout South Jersey; locally known as the “‘tip-worm”’ and sometimes injurious (Sm). Dr. Felt says it isa “Dasyneura.” CECIDOMYIAT KNOWN BY THEIR GALLS AND LARVA ONLY. C.? angeliczee Beut. Middlesex Co. (Mill); gall on stalk of “Angelica villosa” IX, X (Bt). C.? boehmerize Beut. New Jersey district; gall on stalk of false nettle, “Boehmeria cylindrica’ IX (Bt). C. brachypteroides O. S. Lakehurst and in the pine barrens generally; galls on the leaves of scrub pine, “Pinus inops” (Bt). C. caryzecola O. S. Riverton IX (Jn); common everywhere, galls on leaves of hickory VIII-X (Bt). C.? collinsonize Beut. New Jersey district; galls on leaves of horse balm, “Collinsonia canadensis” VIII, IX (Bt). C. coryloides Walsh. New Jersey; galls on stems of wild grapes, “Vitis riparia” and “cordifolia” (Bt). Cc. citrinze O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on the tips of twigs of basswood, “Tilia americana,” VIII, IX (Bt). C. cynipsea O. S. New Jersey district; galls on leaves of hickory VIII-X (Bt). C. deserta Patt. New Jersey district; galls on hackberry, “Celtis occi- dentalis” (Bt). C.? eupatoriflorze Beut. Ft. Lee district; galls in flower heads of “Eupa- torium ageratoides” IX (Bt); Staten Island IX (Ds). C. erubescens O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves of red oak, “Quercus rubras, Vo Vl (Bt). C. holotricha O. S. Throughout the State on leaves of hickory (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton IX (Jn). C. impatientis O. S. New Jersey; galls on “Impatiens pallida” VIII, IX (Bt). C. inopis O. S. Staten Island (Ds); Riverton VII, IX (Jn); throughout the pine barrens generally; galls on the leaves of scrub pine, “Pinus jnops.” C. liriodendri O. S. Common throughout the State; galls on the leaves of tulip tree “Liriodendron tulipifera.”’ Cc. majalis O. S. New Jersey; galls on leaves of pine oak, ‘Quercus palustris” (Bt). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 73% C. niveipila O. S. Ft. Lee, galls on young leaves of red oak, ‘Quercus rubra,’ V, VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); Riverton (Jn). C. nuicola O.S. New Jersey; in the husks of hickory nuts (Bt). C. pellex O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves of ash, “Fraxinus,”’ V, VI (Bt). C. ocellaris O. S. Throughout the State; galls on leaves of red maple, “Acer rubrum,” V, VI (Bt); Staten Island VI (Ds). C. persicoides O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on the under side of hickory leaves VIII, IX (Bt); Chimney Rock, Bound Brook, New Brunswick (Sm). C. poculum O.S. Common throughout the State; galls on leaves of white oak, “Quercus alba,’ VIII-X (Bt); the ‘“oak-spangle” of Fitch and a very characteristic structure. C. pomum Walsh & Riley. Throughout the State in early summer on various species of grape, wild and cultivated; a very fleshy and often reddish discolored gall on vines, leaf-stalks and even tendrils; some- times single, sometimes with a number of cells. Often attracts atten- tion, but is rarely injurious and disappears before mid-summer. C.? pustuloides Beut. Ft. Lee, Lakehurst; galls on red, scarlet, black, scrub and black-jack oak, “Quercus rubra,” ‘“‘coccinea,”’ ‘‘velutina,” “nana” and “marylandica,”’ IX (Bt). C.? racemicola O. S. Plainfield (Mill); galls among the racemes of golden rods, “Solidago canadensis,” “puberula” and “serotina’ IX (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). C. salicifolise O. S. New Jersey; gall on “Spireza salicifolia’” (Bt). C. sanguinolenta O. S. Ft. Lee district and elsewhere, common; galls on the leaves of hickory VI, VII (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). C. serotinze O. S. Greenwood Lake, Montclair, Ft. Lee district; gall on twig of wild cherry, “Prunus serotina,’ V, VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). : C.? triadeni Beut. Middlesex Co. (Mill); gall on stalk of marsh St. John’s-wort, “Triadenum virginicum,” IX (Bt). C. tubicola O. S. Common almost everywhere in the State; galls on the leaves of hickory VIII, IX (Bt); Riverton IX (Jn); Jamesburg, Laha- way (Sm). C. tulipifera O. S. Short Hills; galls on the ribs of leaves of tulip tree, “Liriodendron tulipifera,”’ VIII, IX (Bt). C. umbellicola O. S. South Orange, from galls among the umbels of elder, “Sambucus racemosa” (O. §S.); Ft. Lee district, on common elder, “‘S. canadensis,’ VI (Bt); Staten Island (Ds). C. verrucicola O. S. Little Falls, Staten Island (Ds); Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves of basswood, “Tilia americana,’ VII-IX (Bt); New Brunswick and frequently elsewhere in the State (Sm). C.? vaccinii O. S. Dover, Morris Plains, Clementon (Jn); galls on the underside of leaves of huckleberry, “Vaccineum stramineum,”’ IX, X (Bt). 734 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. viticola O. S. Ft. Lee district; galls on leaves of wild grape (Bt); Staten Island (Ds); Vincentown (U §S Ag). . Family BIBIONIDA. Loose-jointed, ungainly flies of moderate size, with long, stout legs, body often clothed with long hair, antennze many jointed but short and stout, mouth parts a little produced. There is often considerable differ- ence between the sexes, and in some cases the females have a ridicu- lously small head. From the very early appearance of some species they are called “March flies,’ and sometimes they occur in orchards in numbers so great as to attract attention. The larve are cylindrical, footless grubs, and ‘feed on excremental or vegetable substances, especially on the roots of grass.’’ They have not been, thus far, injurious in New Jersey. PLECIA Wied. P. heteroptera Say. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg (Sm); Lucaston IX, 4, Manumuskin X, 21 (Dke). BIBIO Geoff. B. albipennis Say. Caldwell (Cr); Newark (Sm); Westville V, 19, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Manu- muskin V, 21 (Dke). B. pallipes Say. Husted V, 21 (Coll); Jamesburg VII, 4, Riv- erton V, 1. B. femorata Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Newark V (Sm); Riverton V, 1 Gin) GeeNational searkesVee.G (Dke). B. xanthopus Wied. Caldwell (Cr), Riverton IV, 30. B. longipes Loew. Palisades (Lv); Delair, Riverton, Wenonah, Lu- caston, common X, XI (Dke). B. slossonz Ckll. (gracilis Walk. § not Unger.) Clementon X, 11 § (Hk). DILOPHUS Meig. Fig. 301.—Bibio albipennis: a, male; c, its F ‘ head; b, female; d, her head; all en- D. breviceps Loew. Toms River Y, larged. Other references to 30 (Dke); Westville V, 19, structural details. Clementon V, 9, VI, 16. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 736 D. dimidiatus Loew. Avalon VI, 8 (Jn); Anglesea V (div); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). D. thoracicus Say. Forest Hill IX (Wdt); Blackwood VI, 8 (Jn). . SCATOPSE Geoffroy. S. notata Linn. Clementon V, 9 (Jn); Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). pygmzea Loew. Riverton VII, 31, IX, 9. S. atrata Say. Riverton IV, 23. o EUPITENUS Macq. E. ater Macq. Riverton IV, 9 (CG). Family SIMULID. Rather undersized chunky flies, known as “black flies,” dark in color, the thorax well developed and somewhat produced forward so as to partially conceal the small head from above. Though the head is small in proportion to the insect, the mouth parts are exceedingly well developed and furnished with a formidable array of lancets for punctur- ing and blood-sucking. The wings are short and broad, the venation obscure except along the front margin. These flies are horrible pests local- ly, not so much in our State as in some others west and north, the “buf- falo gnat’” of the Mississippi Valiey region and ‘black fly” of the north woods being excellent examples. In New Jersey some species are pests in the Orange Mountains and northward, getting into the ears of horses, or even occasionally of man. The larve are aquatic and live in running water. SIMULIUM Latr. venustum Say. “Black fly’; Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Orange Mts., Caldwell VII (Cr); Lucaston IX, 3 (DkKe). S. invenustum Walk. Passaic (U S Ag); Orange Mts. (Sm), Clemen- “ ton IV, 15 (Jn); Manumuskin IV, ise gi 28, Iona IV, 20 (Dke). S. vittatum Zett. Orange Mts. (Sm). - meridionale Riley. Passaic (U S Ag); Riverton VII, 6, X, 20. S. bracteatum Coq. Clementon V, 30. ” Buffalo-gnat. o 736 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Family RHYPHIDA.. These are known as “false crane flies,’ differing in the smaller size and broader, spotted wings. They often come into houses, and the larvee live in water, rotten wood or excrementitious matter. They are of no economic importance. RHYPHUS Latr. R. alternatus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Morris Plains VI, 25, Riverton III, 20, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Merchantville VI, 26 (Dke). R. punctatus Fab. Palisades (Lv); Monmouth County (Sm); Delair X, 5 (Dke); Camden NII, 8 (Kp); Westville (Jn). R. fenestralis Scop. Camden VIII, 12 (Jn). Family STRATIOMYID/A. Known as “soldier flies” from their yellow bands and stripes. Usually they are somewhat depressed or even much flattened, especially the abdomen, over which the wings are laid flat and overlapping each other. The mouth parts are developed for lapping only, and the adults are always found among flowers. The antennz vary in shape, and may be short or of quite moderate length, but always the third joint is compound, and often has an arista. The larve vary greatly in habit, from predatory to feeders upon excre- ment, living or dead vegetable matter, on land or in water; some of them have been even found in salt or alkaline water. None are of economic importance. ALLOGNOSTA O. S. A. fuscitarsis Say. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VI, 15, Anglesea V, 27 (Jn); New Brunswick (Sm); Trenton V, 21 (Hk). A. obscuriventris Loew. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Westville VI, 15 (Jn); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Anglesea V, 30 (W). ACTINA Meigen. (BERIS Latr.) A. viridis Say. New Brunswick, Ocean Co. (Sm); Ashland V, 30, Clemen- ton V, 30 (Hk). HERMETIA Latr. H. illucens Linn. Trenton VII, 7 (Hk). PTECTICUS Loew. P. sackeni Will. (testaceus O. S., not Fab.) New Brunswick VIII, 21 (Sm); Dunnfield VII, 15, Riverton VII, 16, Westville VII, 2 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VIII, 30, bred from fungus (Dke). P. trivittatus Say. (similis Will.) Dunnfield VII, 8, Riverton VI, 20, VII, 3, Westville VIII, 8. 99 9 n THE INSECTS OF NEW. JERSEY. 737 GEOSARGUS Bezzi. (SARGUS Fab.) . decorus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Palisades (Lv); Newark VI, 14, James- burg VII, 4 (Jn); Trenton V, 26 (Hk); Riverton VI, 15, Merchant- ville V, 26 (Dke). . elegans Loew. Caldwell (Cr). . viridis Say. Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Clementon V, 30. . czruleifrons Johns. Dunnfield VII, 12 (Jn); Riverton VI, 15 (Dke). . cuprarius Linn. Over fifty specimens of this European species were taken along Second River, near Newark VI, 12-14, 1892 (Jn); one specimen, Caldwell VI, 10, 1892 (Cr). PEDICELLA Bigot. (MACROSARGUS Bigot.) . clavis Will. Newark VI (Wat). MICROCHRYSA Loew. . polita Linn. Newark V, Merchantville VII, 19 (Jn): New Brunswick (Sm). STRATIOMYIA Geoff. - meigenii Wied. Westville VII, 5, VIII, 8, Anglesea VII, 19. - norma Wied. Del. Water Gap VII, 15 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr). - discalis Loew. Elizabeth V, 17 (Kp); Ashland VI, 21 (Hk); Westville VI, 15, Cramer Hill V, 23, Clementon V, 16 (Jn). ODONTOMYIA Meig. . cincta Oliv. Palisades VI, 7 (Lv); Avalon VI, 9, Anglesea V, 30, VII, 25, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn). . hieroglyphica Oliv. Morris Plains VI, 25. . vertebrata Say. Westville VI, 14, Avalon VI, 30, Anglesea V, 30, VII, Loe Cin) Ashland evil a Ga CElk)e . virgo Wied. Westville VII, 12, Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn); Trenton VII, 7, Clementon VI, 25 (Hk). - microstoma Loew. Atlantic City VII, 15, Anglesea VII, 25, Cape May VI, 22. . flavicornis Oliv. Caldwell (Cr); Southern New Jersey (Sm). . interrupta Oliv. Sandy Hook, Westville IV, 26, Clementon V, 10 (Jn); Ashland V, 13 (Hk). . pubescens Say. Sandy Hook. EUPARYPHUS Gerst. . tetraspilus Loew. Boonton VI, 14 (GG). ADOXOMYIA Kertéz. (CLITELLARIA Auct.) . subulata Loew. Riverton VII, 8. 47 IN : 738 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. NEMOTELUS Geoff. N. carbonarius Loew. Avalon VI, 8, Anglesea VII, 4, Cape May VI, 14. N. crassus Loew. Lenola V, 30. OXYCERA Meigen. O. maculata Oliv. Merchantville VI, 28, Clementon V, 30, Lenola (Jn); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). PACHYGASTER Meigen. P. pulcher Loew. Avalon VII, 22. Family TABANIDAL. These are moderate or large species, popularly known as “horse-flies,” but locally and referring to special types, also as “gad-flies,” “‘deer-flies,” “ear-flies,” “golden-eyed flies,’ “strawberry flies,’ etc. They have short, broad heads, enormous, often gaily colored eyes, flattened abdomen, and short though many-jointed antenne. The mouth parts consist of a series of sharp, pointed lancets, four in the male, six in the female, inclosed in a soft, fleshy labella or lip. The males live on plant nectar, and do not “pite,’ but the females attack animals of all kinds and are often a serious annoyance to stock. They frequent woods or the edges of wood- land, low meadows or marshy places, and, as Mr. Daecke interestingly shows, the species are often present in very limited areas. They are often troublesome in wood roads, because, with three or four of these flies buzzing about, horses may be driven almost frantic; and so sharp and rigid are the mouth structures that blood appears almost as soon as the insects strike. The species along shore are usually light in color, the eyes green, whence the term “green-heads” that is applied to them. The larger species of “Tabanus” do not often attack man, but the species of ‘“Chrysops” are frequently troublesome in the woods. In some localities the flies are a serious pest to stock, and in such places much good can be done by collecting the flies. There are also a few animals that are especially liable to attack, and from such the flies can be collected with a small net in such quantities as to materially reduce the supply. As each female fiy may lay from 200 to 500 eggs, the effect upon the future generations will be decidedly marked. The attack may be even concentrated on a few gentle animals by treating the others with fish oil soap, to which a little crude carbolic acid has been added. The larve are elonzated, somewhat flattened creatures, living in the mud along water courses and in swamps, and they feed upon the organic material found in such places. Clearing and draining will gradually re-_ duce breeding places as the lands are brought under cultivation. The present list has been prepared by Mr. V. A. E. Daecke, who has made a special study of the species of this family, and in general, when not otherwise credited, the records are his, as are also the changes made in nomenclature from the previous edition. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 739 PANGONIA Latr. P. pigra O. S. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn). P. rasa Loew. New Hope (Hk). GONIOPS Aldrich. G. chrysocoma O. 8. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11 (Jn). ’ CHRYSOPS Meigen. C. excitans Wlk. Lakehurst VI, 15 (Ds); Toms River V, 30, Bamber V, VI, 3 (Dke). Cc. celer O. S. Common everywhere, mid-May to early July. C. carbonarius Wlk. (fugax O. S.) Newark VI, 13, Buena Vista VI, 11, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (CG); Lacy V, 27, DaCosta VI, 15, common (Dke). . mitis O. S. Jamesburg VII, 14 (Hk); Brown’s Mills VI, 25 (Dke). . cuclux Whitney. Orange Mts. V (Wdt); Trenton VII, 1 (Coll). niger Macq. Common everywhere, V, 12—VII, 4 (Dke). brimleyi Hine. Throughout the pine barrens V, 20—VII, 4 (Dke). » amazon Daecke. Brown’s Mills, end VI, early VII, rare (Dke). . higrobimbo Whitney. Throughout the pine barrens end VI-IX (DkKe). . plangens Wied. Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Newark meadows VI (Wat); Staten Island VI, 3 (Ds); Atco VI, 4, Avalon VI, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (DkKe). C. fallax O. S. Dunnfield VII, 11, Morris Plains VI, 25, Jamesburg VII, Atco VI, 15, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Chester VIII, Millburn VII (Coll); Wenonah VI, 22; locally common (Dke). C. moechus O. S. From all sections of the State VI, 28—VIII, 8. ® 0.0.0 2.0 o Fig. 303.—Chrysops univittatus; enlarged. C. univittatus Macq. Throughout the State VI, 14-VIII, 23; locally a pest along the edges of woods (Dke). ¢ 740 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Cc. Cc. C. C. C. C. bistellatus Daecke. Birmingham VII, 8 (Hk); Brown’s Mills Dist., © end VI to mid VII (Dke). indus O. S. Trenton VII, 5, Ashland Vi, 22, Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk); Clementon V, 10-30 (div); Almonesson V, 20 (W); Brown’s Mills V, 27 (Dke). . vittatus Wied. From all sections of the State VI, 28-IX, 1. . Striatus O. S. Delair VIII, 7, rare (Dke). C. sequax Will. Ashland VII, Clementon IX, 7 (Hk); Wenonah VII, Lucaston IX, 8 (Dke). lugens Wied. Trenton VII, 15 (Hk). var. morosus O. S. Trenton VII (div); Newbold VII, 14 (¢) 21 (9), Bamber VII, 9, Toms River VII, 12 (Dke); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk); Lake Hopatcong VIII, 6, Lakehurst VIII, 23 (Coll). parvulus Daecke. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Lakehurst (Ds); Bamber VII, 9, Toms River VII, 12 (Dke). hinei Daecke. Lakehurst IX, 3-16 (Ds); Atlantic Co. VIII, 7 (Coll); Weymouth VIII, 16, Iona VIII, 25 (Dke). obsoletus Wied. Ft. Lee VI, 23, National Park VIII, 13, Wenonah VI, 22 (Dke); Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VII, 26, Avalon VII, 22 (Jn); Clementon VII, 23 (C@G). . delicatulus O. S. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll), Brown’s Mills VI, 25, Toms River VII, 12, DaCosta VI, 29, Bamber VII, 9 (Dke). . callidus O. S. Common everywhere, early V to end of VII. . dimmocki Hine. Iona VI, 2, Anglesea V, 28, Cape May VI, 7 (Dke). . montanus O. S. Morris Plains VI, 24, Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5, 11 (Hk); Clementon VI, 25—VIII, 8 (div). . sackeni Hine. Paterson VI, 7, Trenton VI, 28 (Coll); Ft. Lee VII, 4, Brown’s Mills VI, 17, DaCosta VI, 3 (DKe). . frigidus O. S. Dover VI, 23 (Jn). . pudicus O. S. Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); Brown’s Mills VI, 27-VII, 1, DaCosta VI, 24 (Dke); Atco VI, 18, Anglesea (Jn). . cursim Whitney. Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon VI, 24 (Dke); Lake- hurst VI, 16 (Ds); Brown’s Mills VII, 1, DaCosta VII, 4 (Dke). . fulvostigma Hine. Lakehurst VII, 27, one specimen (Ds). . brunneus Hine. Newark meadows VII (Wdt); Cape May VIII, 9 (Dke). . flavidus Wied. Linden VII, 16 (Coll), Trenton VII, 5 (Hk): and from all sections south of the Piedmont Plain VI, 29—VIII, 28. HAEMATOPOTA Meig. - punctulata Macq. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn). TABANUS Linn. (THERIOPLECTUS Zell.) . cinctus Fab. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Lakewood (div); Lakehurst VII, 4 (Coll); Brown’s Mills VII, 1 (Dke). 4AHdd THE INSECTS OF | NEW JERSEY. 7AI . lasiophthalmus Macq. Common throughout south Jersey, less abund- ant on the Piedmont Plain and northwardly V, 28—VII, 15 (Dke). . trispilus Wied. Throughout the State VI, 28—VII, 15. - epistates O. S. Morris Plains VI, 24 (Jn); Glassboro VI, 18 (CG); Sea Isle City V (Luccareni); Cape May VI, 7 (Dke); includes the records under “affinis’” Kirby, of last edition. . hinei Johns. (politus Johns.) Type locality Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); Malaga VII, 20, Brown’s Mills VI, 17, 25 (Dke); Clementon VI, 24 (Hk). . recedens Wlk. (catenatus O. S.) Caldwell VI, 15 (Cr); New Bruns- wick IX, 24 (Coll); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Merchantville VI, 19 (Kp); Lakewood (Lansing); Brown’s Mills VI, 5-21 (Dke); Atlantic Co: VI, 24 (Sm). . exul O. S. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., Newark VII, 11, New Bruns- wick VII, 22, Lahaway VII; 17 (Coll); Merchantville VII, 19 (CG). . sulcifrons Macq. Dunnfield VII (Jn); Boonton VI, 19 (GG); Manu- muskin VIII, 26 (Dke). . astutus O. S. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk). - abdominalis Fab. Caldwell (Cr); Elizabeth VII, 30 (Kp). . molestus Say. Orange Mts. (Sm). . trimaculatus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., New Brunswick VII, Lahaway VII, 1 (Coll); Woodbury VI, 4 (Kp). . melanocerus Wied. Lakewood (Lansing); Brown’s Mills VI, 27, VII, 10 (div); Wenonah Vil, 15, Bamber VII, 13, Malaga VII, 27 (Dke). . coffeatus O. S. Common south of the Piedmont Plain V, 15—VIII, 8. . orion O. S. Caldwell (Cr); Palisades (Love); College Farm (Coll); Atco (Kp). . hivosus O.S. Type in Coll. A E S is from New Jersey; Riverton VII, 4. . vivax O. S. Dunnfield VII, 11, 15 (Jn). . longus O. S. Weymouth VIII, 8 (DkKe). . gracilis Wied. DaCosta VII, 20, Weymouth VIII, 8 (Dke). . pumilus Macq. From all the faunal regions except the maritime VI, 19-VII, 13, locally common. . sparus Whitney. Common south of the Piedmont Plain V, 25—VII, 26. . lineola Fab. Throughout the State VI, 6-IX, 6, more or less common locally; less abundant in the north. . nigrovittatus Macq. The common green-head of the seashore; abun- dant from Sandy Hook to Cape May, VI, 20-IX, 2. Extends inland sparingly, and is recorded from New Brunswick VIII, 9 (Coll); Glass- boro VIII, 2 (CG). . costalis Wied. Throughout the State VII, 4-IX,1. . conterminus Wlk. Stone Harbor VII, 5 (Dke); 5-mile beach VII, 20 (Hk). . zonalis Kirby. Greenwood Lake V, 30 (Watson); Prof. Osburn says this is the southernmost record for this species. 742 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. T. fulvulus Wied. Clementon VII, 11 (Hk); Lakewood (Lansing); Malaga VII, 20 (Dke). T. sagax O. S. Boonton VI, 20 (GG); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Lakewood (Lansing); Brown’s Mills VI, 24, VII, 10 (div); Bamber VIII, 11, Lacy VII, 23 (Dke). T. nigrescens Pal. Beauv. Dunnfield VII, 8, 15 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Lahaway VII, 22 (Coll); Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk). T. superjumentarius Whitney. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Jamesburg VII, 4 (div). T. stygius Say. Boonton VI, 20 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Riverton VII, 14 (Jn); Cam- den, Merchantville VII, 19 (CG); Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). T. atratus Forst. Throughout the State, more or less common VI & VII. Our largest “horse fly,” blue black in color, with a pruinose coating when fresh. ; Fig. 304.—Tabanus atratus, black horse fly: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult. T. americanus Forst. Glassboro VII, 1, VIII, 1 (GG); Lakewood (Lan- sing); Pt. Pleasant, Atlantic City VIII (Stone); Brown’s Mills VIII, 4, DaCosta VII, 20 (Dke). T. giganteus DeG. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee VIII, 14 (Dke); Palisades (Lv). T. mexicanus Linn. DaCosta VIII (Bland). T. reinwardtii Wied. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); New Bruns- wick (Sm). T. typhus Whitney. DaCosta VI, 4 (Dke). T. bicolor Wied. Orange Mts. VII, 4, Clementon V, 30, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Collingswood VII, 17 (CG); .2-mile beach VII, 12 (Dke). Family LEPTID/. Termed “snipe flies’ by Prof. Comstock because of the general form of body in many species. The thorax is rather globular, the abdomen THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 743 pointed, the head moderately large, antennz short, mouth parts pro- longed into a beak projecting downward and backward, legs rather long and slender. Some of the species are densely hairy, with contrasting golden yellow and black or brown markings. They are predatory in habit, but rather sluggish in motion. The larve are also predatory, and live under widely-varying conditions. XYLOPHAGUS Meigen. X. persequus Walk. Caldwell (Cr); Clementon IV, 22 (Dke). X. lugens Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Palisades IV, under chestnut bark (Lv); Riverton IV, 17 (Jn); Woodbury IV, 29 (Kp). X. abdominalis Loew. Riverton; the larve and pupz were found be- neath the bark of a dead pine III, 20; imagoes emerged IV, 5 and 8 (Jn); Grenloch V, 6 (W). XYLOMYIA Rond. X. pallipes Say. New Brunswick VI, 10, Lahaway VII, 6 (Sm); National Park VI, 3, Westville VI, 30 (Dke). X. tenthredinoides V. d. W. Ft. Lee VI, 23 (Dke); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk). DIALYSIS Walker. D. rufithorax Say. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); ‘Westville VI, 6, Merchantville VI, 28. D. elongata Say. Dunnfield VII, 12, Jamesburg VII, 4. LEPTIS Fab. L. punctipennis Say. Dover VI, 17, Newark VI, 16, Westville VI, 6, Clementon V, 30. L. plumbea Say. New Brunswick (Sm). L. mystacea Macq. Palisades V, 24 (Liv); Dover VI, 18, Woodbury IV, 30, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); New Brunswick (Sm). L. hirta Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. L. ochracea Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8-15. L. scapularis Loew. “New Jersey” (Bt). CHRYSOPILA Macq. C. ornata Say. Dover VI, 18, Newark VI, 16 (Jn); Palisades V, 30 (Lv); Trenton VII, 9 (Coll). C. thoracica Fab. Dover VI, 17, Newark VI, 13 (Jn); Orange Mts., Angle- sea VII, 25 (Sm). C. fasciata Say. Dunnfield VII, 8, 14, Newark VI, 15, Westville VII, 2 (Jn); Trenton VII, 7( Hk). C. quadrata Say. Dunnfield VII, 8, 15, Ft. Lee; Atco VII, 12, Riverton VI, 15, Anglesea VI, 11. 744 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. C. propinqua Walk. Mullica Hill, Clementon V, 30, Anglesea VII, 25. C. basilaris Say. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Riverton VII, 3, Westville VIII, 18. C. rotundipennis Say. Buena Vista VI (Li); Riverton VI, 19, VII, 3 (Jn); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). SYMPHOROMYIA Fraun. S. cinerea Johns. Long Branch VI, 9-12. Family CYRTIDA. Called ‘“‘small-headed flies’ because of the unusually small head com- pared with the large hump-backed thorax and inflated abdomen. They are the “Acroceride” of previous list, are rare, the larve are parasitic upon spiders or their egg sacs, and they are of no economic importance. ONCODES Latr. O. costatus Loew. “New Jersey,” no data. O. pallidipennis Loew. Trenton VI, 3 (Hk); Anglesea VI, 20 (Sm). O. incultus O. S. Boonton VI, 16 (GG); Collingswood VI, 11 (Jn). OPSEBIUS Costa. O. pterodontinus O. S. Lakehurst VIII, 18 (Coll); parasitic on ‘‘Agalena nevia.” ACROCERA Meigen. A. fasciata Wied. Philadelphia, bred from “Lycosa stonei,’ a spider which also occurs in New Jersey. Family BOMBYLIID. These are the “bee-flies,’ which derive their common name from the fact that they are more o1 less covered with dense, diverging whitish or yellow hair, giving them a close resemblance to certain bees. Many occur, hovering over bare places in early spring, others are found on flowers, often poised in mid-air between or over them. One series resembles the bumble-bees and has a long pointed proboscis; the other is more slender, the abdomen tending to become flattened, with a short proboscis and much less contrasting colors. The larve are parasitic or partly predatory. Some are true parasites in lepidopterous larve; others feed on the egg-pods of grasshoppers. while yet others feed in nests of bees, destroying first the bee egg or larva and then feeding upon the food stored for it. They are never harmful to growing vegetation, hence may be classed as, on the whole, beneficial. Fig. 307. Fig. 306. Fig. 305.—Anthrax hippomelas: a, larva; b, fly pupa projecting from cut-worm pupa; ¢, pupa; d, adult: all enlarged. Fig. 306.—Bee-fly, Syst@chus orcas, parasitic on grasshopper egg-pods, pupa and adult. Fig. 307.—Larva of Syst@chus oreas enlarged and details of structure. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 745 SPOGOSTYLUM Macq. S. analis Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 10, Sandy Hook, Anglesea IX, 4 (Jn); Malaga IX, 5 (Hk); Lakewood VIII (Lansing); Atco IX, 1 (Kp); Clementon VIII, 9, Sea Isle VII, 22 (Jn). S. albofasciatum Macq. Westville VIII, 21, Atco VII, 9, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Clementon VI, VIII (div); Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); Iona VI, 2 (Dke). S. pauper Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 10, Westville VIII, 14-23 (Jn); Clementon VI, VIII (div); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Atco IX, 1 (Kp); Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke). S. limatula Say. Riverton IX, 5. S. argyropyga Wied. Dunnfield VII, 11, 15, Riverton VII, 4 (Jn); Tren- ton VII, 9 (Hk). S. cdipus Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Westville V, 18, VI, 27, VIII, 23 (Jn); Chester (Dkn); Caldwell (Cr); Lahaway VII, 1 (Coll). S. simson Fab. Boonton VIII, 22, IX, 5 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Sandy Hook (Bt); Trenton IX, 2, Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); Westville VIII, 23, Clementon VIII, 7, Atco VII, 8 (Jn). S. cephus Fab. Alpine VII, 12 (Engelhardt). EXOPROSOPA Macq. E. fascipennis Say. Palisades VII, 26 (Liv); Caldwell (Cr); Westville VIII, 14-23 (Jn); Lakewood VIII (Lansing); Pemberton IX, 1, Lucas. ton IX, 9 (Hk). E. emarginata Macq. Lakewood VIII (Lansing); Manumuskin VI, 28, VII, 5 (Dke). E. fasciata Macq. Boonton VIII, 19 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton IX, 9, Malaga IX, 15 (Hk); Westville VIII, 23, IX, 10 (Jn); Lakewood (Lansing); Manumiuskin VIII, 26 (Dke). ANTHRAX Scop. A. lateralis Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VIII, 28, Clementon V, 30, VIII, 9, Anglesea VIII, 15 (Jn); Trenton Wall 9) GE) var. gracilis Macq. Westville VI, 15 (Jn). var. arenicola Johns. Riverton IV, 30, Clementon V, 16 (Jn). A. alternata Say. Caldwell (Cr); Sandy Hook (Sm); Westville VI, 15. VIII, 23 (Jn); Clementon IX, 5, Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk); Manu- muskin VI, 24—-VII, 5 (Dke). A. hypomelas Macq. Chester (Dkn); Orange Mts. VII, 4, Shiloh IX, 1, Westville IX, 10: Riverton IX, 2 (GG). A. fulvohirta Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Riverton VII, 2, IX, 22 (div); West- ville VIII, 28, Clementon VII, 26 (Jn); Malaga VIII, IX (div); DaCosta VII, 20 (Dke). 746 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. A. tegminipennis Say. Sandy Hook VIII (Bt). ceyx Loew. Clementon VIII, 6-IX, 7 (div); Lakewood (Lansing); Atco VIII, [X, 8 (GG); Manumuskin VIII, 26-IX, 3 (Dke). . sinuosa Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton VI, VII, DaCosta VII, 30, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8, Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk). . lepidota O. S. Iona VI, 16 (Dke). . faunus Fab. Clementon X, 1 (Hk). BOMBYLIUS Linn. . major Linn. Palisades IV, 8 (Lv); Newark V, Westville IV, 9, Clem- enton IV, 15 (Jn). - pygmaeus Fab, Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., Jamesburg V, 4 (Sm); South Amboy V, 5 (Kp); Glassboro V, 19 (Hk); Manumuskin IV, 28 (DKe). . pulchellus Loew. South Amboy V, 5 (Kp); Jamesburg V, Westville V, 6 (Jn); Glassboro V, 19 (Hk); Hainesport V, 7 (Dke). . subvarius Johns. (lancifer Johns., not O. S.) Morris Plains VI, 25. . fulvibasis Macq. (atriceps Loew.) Clementon V, 10, 30 (Jn); Manu- muskin V, 12 (Dke). . varius Fab. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Westville VI, 15, VII, 2, Riverton VI, 17, VII, 3 (Jn); Buena Vista VI, 8 (Li); Clementon VI, 17 (GG). . incanus Johns. (philadelphicus Macq.) Clementon V, 30, VI, 25, Atco VI, 18, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Albion VI, 1 (C); Brown’s Mills Je. VI, 22, Iona VI, 2 (DkKe). . fraudulentus Johns. Dover VI, 25, Morris Plains VI, 24, Orange Mts. VII, 4, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Iona VI, 2 (Dke). . mexicanus Wied. Clementon V, 30, Riverton VI, 9-16 (Jn); Iona VI, 8, Brown’s Mills VII, 4 (Dke). SYSTCECHUS Loew. . vulgaris Loew. Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 19, Clementon VIII, 7-9 (Jn); Lakewood, Burlington Co. (Sm); Iona VIII, 25, Wey- mouth VIII, 16, Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Dke). ONCODOCERA Maca. . leucoprocta Wied. Clementon V, 30, VI, 25, Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Toms River (Edwards); Bamber VII, 13, Manumuskin VII, 5, Iona VII, 13 (Dke). PHTHIRIA Meig. . sulphurea Loew. Lakewood, Atco VI, 13, 18, Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Lucaston VIII, 11, Hammonton IX, 6 (Dke). . coquilletti Johns. Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton VII, 4-6. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 47 LEPIDOPHORA Westwood. L. zgeriiformis Westw. Caldwell (Cr); DaCosta VII, 28, Brown’s Mills IX, 15 (Dke). SPARNOPOLIUS Loew. S. fulvus Wied. Chester (Dkn); Riverton IX, 11, Westville VIII, 28 (Jn); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Atco IX, 11 (Nell); Belleplain IX, 8, Lucaston IX, 12 (Dke). : ECLIMUS Loew. E. niger Macq. Brown’s Mills VI, 15, VI, 23 (Dke). METACOSMUS Coa. M. mancipennis Coq. Pemberton VII, 11 (CG). SYSTROPUS Wied. S. macer Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Lakewood (Lansing); Clementon VIII, 9 (Jn); Atco IX, 1 (Kp); Lucaston VII, 27 (GG); Anglesea IX, 8 (Dke). GERON Meig. G. senilis Fab. Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VII, 12, Clementon VI, 25, VIII, 7 (Jn); Hammonton IX, 6 (Dke). G. subauratus Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, Westville VI, 27 (Jn); DaCosta VII, 19, Brown’s Mills VI, 24—VII, 21 (Dke). G. calva Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11-12. G. capax Cog. Riverton IV, 30 (Jn); Manumuskin IV, 28 (Dke). TOXOPHORA Meigen. T. amphitea Walk. Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll); Buena Vista VI, 11, Atco VI, 18, DaCosta VII, 30 (Jn); Hammonton VIII, 21 Bamber VII, 13, VIII, 11, Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). Family THEREVIDA. Called “stiletto flies’ by Comstock, because of their slender, pointed abdomen. They resemble the robber flies, but have longer legs and are more slightly built. They are also predatory, but the lips are broad and fleshy, and they are not nearly so active as the “Asilide.”’ The larve are long and slender, the segments constricted so that they seem doubled in number, and they live in mold, fungi, rotten wood and vegetable decay generally, feeding sometimes upon the material among which they are found, sometimes upon such other insects as come in their way. They can scarcely be said to be beneficial, for the prey of the adult does not usually consist of insects that are harmful to the farmer. 748 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TABUDA Walker. T. fulvipes Walk. Riverton IV, 17, 30, Westville IV, 16, Clementon IV, 15, V, 5 (Jn); Lahaway IV, 20 (Sm); Manumuskin IV, 24-V, 5 (Dke). PSILOCEPHALA Zett. P. hzemorrhoidalis Macq. Newark VI, 16, Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville, VIII, 13, Shiloh IX, 1, Avalon VI, 9, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn); Pemberton WAITS 4335 IDs al (stl). P. morata Coq. Avalon VI, 8, Cape May VI, 14. P. aldrichii Coq. Jamespurg VII, 4, Riverton VI, 15, Weymouth VIII, 16 (Dke); Westville VII, 12, Stone Harbor VIII, 3. P. rufiventris Loew. Clementon V, 30, Pleasantville VI, 13 (Lt); West- ville VII, 2, Atlantic City VIII, Avalon VI, 9, Anglesea VII, 16. P. scutellaris Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, 12, Jamesburg VII, 4. P. pictipennis Wied. Jamesburg VII, 4 (div); Riverton VII, 3, Atco VI, 18, VII, 9 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). THEREVA Latr. T. senex Wlk. Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Boonton VIII, 23 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk). T. albifrons Say. Riverton V, 14, Clementon V, 6. T. sp. Toms River V, 30 (Dke). Family SCENOPINID. The “window-flies’: small, slight, blue flies, somewhat flattened, and with yellow or red legs. The larve are slender and worm-like often found under carpets, where they feed on “moths” and other ‘carpet pests. SCENOPINUS Latr. S. fenestralis Linn. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick (Sm); Riverton, Atco VII, 21 (Jn); Glassboro Vile S5a\(CG) DaCosta VII, 20 (Dke); Ashland Wise Mant ETED F Tl dow fly, S f i F ig. 308.—The window , Scenopinus fenestralis > S. glabrifrons Meig. New S38 eke “ Jersey (Jn). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 749 Family MYDAIDZE. The “Midas flies,’ resemble the “Asilide”’ in form and are, like them, predatory. They are much larger, however, with contrasting black and orange colors, the antenne being long and clubbed at tip. They are practically unimportant. MYDAS Fab. M. clavatus Drury. Ft. Lee (Bt); Caldwell (Cr); Riverton VII, 3, Da- Costa VII, 30, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk); Manumuskin VI, 22 (Dke). M. chrysostoma O. 8. (@ fulvifrons Illiger) Stone Harbor VII, 3 (Dke); Avalon VII, 29, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn). Family ASILIDA. Head prominent, very hairy, with short, several-jointed antenne and a short, stout proboscis formed for piercing. The body is robust, hairy, the abdomen long, slender, cylindrical, tapering very gradually to the tip. The-wings are long and narrow, the legs moderately long and very powerful, densely clothed with spines, while the tips of the tarsi are supplied with unusually long, stout claws. The insects are called “rob- ber-flies” from their habit of pouncing upon, piercing and sucking the juices of other insects in mid-air while holding them in-the grasp of their powerful legs. Some of the species are brightly colored, but most of them are of a sober gray with blackish mottlings. These robber-flies, though predatory, can scarcely be considered of much real value to the farmer, because they take anything that comes along, useful or other- wise, and are just as ready to destroy bees as some harmful species. The larve are also carnivorous so far as known, and live in the ground or in decaying wood. LEPTOGASTER Meigen. L. badius Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton VII, 30. L. flavipes Loew. Dunuafield VII, 15, Newark VI, 16 (Jn); Trenton VII, CH): L. testaceus Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Westville (Jn). L. incisularis Loew. Delair VIII, 7 (Dke), Riverton VII, 30, Atco. L. annulatus Say. (histrio Wied.) Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Trenton Wiley 7 = (Hk): L. pictipes Loew. Dunnfield VII, 12, Clementon V, 30, Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). L. eudicranus Loew. Pemberton VII, 11 (Hk). L. favillaceus Loew. Newark IV, 14. 750 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Le L. varipes Loew. Pemberton VII, 11 (Hk); Clementon VIII, 30 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 4, Bamiber VII, 18 (Dke). carolinensis Schimer (virgatus Coq.) Trenton VII, 7 (Hk). LAPHYSTIA Loew. . sexfasciata Say. Avalon VII, 29, VIII 2 (Jn); Stone Harbor VII, 5, Cape May VII, 15 (Dke). CERATURGUS Wied. . aurulentus Fab. Chester (Coll); Trenton VII, 7 (Hk); Westville VIII, 21 (Jn). . cruciatus Say. Dunnfield VII, 8 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Dover VII, 16 (Coll); Great Notch VII, 10 (Dke); Trenton VII, 11. DIOCTRIA Meigen. . albius Walk. Dunnfield VII, 14, Newark. CYRTOPOGON Loew. . chrysopogon Loew. Clementon V, 16. . marginalis Loew. Clementon V, 10 (CG); Manumuskin V, 10 (Dke). LASIOPOGON Loew. (DAULOPOGON Loew.) . Opaculus Loew. New Jersey (A ES); Riverton V, 3, Clementon V, 6 (CG). . terricola Johns. Riverton V, 29, Clementon V, 9, Wenonah V, 14 (Jn); Hainesport V, 7 (Dke). . tetragrammus Loew. Clementon V, 9, Albion V, 16 (Dke). HOLCCCEPHALA Jenn. . abdominalis Say. Dunnfield VII, 9, Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); Cumberland Co. IX, 1 (Sm). . calva Loew. Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk); Cumber- land Co. IX, 1 (Sm). HOLOPOGON Loew. . guttula Wied. Dunnfield VII, 9, Newark VI, 14, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Clementon V, 30, VI, 25 (div); Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (CG); Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). STICHOPOGON Loew. . argenteus Say. High Point VIII, 5 (Hk); Sandy Hook VIII, Anglesea VII, 22, Avalon VII, 29, VIII, 2 (Jny. . trifasciatus Say. Caldwell (Cr); Sandy Hook, Jamesburg VII, 4, West- ville VII, 12, Cumberland Co. IX (Jn); Lahaway IX, 26 (Sm); Pem- berton IX, 1, Clementon VIII, 15, 5-mile beach VIII, 5 (Hk). DEROMYIA Philippi. . discolor Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Merchantville VII, 19 (Kp); Glassboro VIII (CG). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 751 . umbrina Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 14. - winthemi Wied. Morristown VII, 18, Lakewood, Atco VII, 12 (Jn); Atlantic Highlands VII, 11 (Lv); Glassboro VIII, 1 (CG); Lucaston IX, 9, Malaga IX, 15 (Hk). TARACTICUS Loew. - octopunctatus Say. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Clementon VI, 25 (CG); Buena Vista VII, 10 (Li). NICOCLES Jzenn. . pictus Loew. Clementon IV, 15. . politus Say. Riverton IX, 11, Anglesea IX, 4 (Jn); Clementon IX, 5, X, 4 (Hk); Manumuskin IX, X (Dke). CEROTAINIA Schiner. - Macrocera Say. Newark VII, 14, Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Trenton VII, 8 (Hk); Newbold VII, 14 (Dke). ATOMOSIA Macq. . puella Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Merchantville VI, 29, VII, 19 (Jn). . sayii Johns. New Brunswick VIII, 21 (Sm); Laurel Springs VII, 12. . glabrata Say. Springfield VIII, 23 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). POGONOSQMA Rondani. . melanoptera Wied. Atlantic Co. XI, 24 (Sm); Malaga VIII, 4 (CG). DASYLECHIA Will. (HYPERECHIA Schiner.) . atrox Will. New Brunswick VIII, 28( Sm). LAMPRIA Macq. . bicolor Wied. Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr). DASYLLIS Loew. . flavicollis Say. Dunnfield VII, 12, Morris Plains VI, 17, 25, Newark VI, 4, Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VI, 22 (Dke). . posticata Say. Dunnfield VII, 11, Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville V, 17, Ateo VI, 4 (Jn); Laurel Springs V, 23, bred from decaying pine stump, Manumuskin VI, 24 (Dke). . thoracica Fab. Dunnfield VII, 11, Morris Plains VI, 25, Newark VI, 14, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Westville VI, 6 (CG); Pros- pertown VI, 7 (Sm). . grossa Fab. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Coll); Lakewood (Lansing); Glassboro (CG); Brown’s Mills VII, 10 (Hk). 752 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. D. . zstuans Linn. (bastardi Macq.) Dunnfield . albibarbis Macq. (cinerascens Bell.) James- . rufibarbis Macq. (zstuans Auct.) Chester melanopogon Wied. (affinis Macq.) Riverton X, 20 (Jn); Malaga 1X, 15 (CG); Hammonton IX, 6, Brown’s Mills IX, 16, Manumuskin X, 21 (Dke). . analis Macq. (lata Macq.) Atco VI, 18 (Jn). LAPHRIA Meig. . canis Will. Ft. Lee VI (Lv); Dover VI, 18, Newark VI, 12, Merchant- ville VI, 25, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); Delair VIII, 14 (Dke). . sericea Will. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 8-15. . zeratus Wlk. New Jersey (Jn). OMMATIUS Illiger. . marginellus Fab. (tibialis Say.) Dunnfield VII, 15, Morris Plains VI, 24, Westville VII, 5, Shiloh IX, 1, Avalon VII, 23 (Jn); Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). PROCTACANTHUS Macq. . philadelphicus Macq. Caldwell (Cr); Lahaway IX, 26 (Sm); Riverton VII, 31, VIII, 21, Westville VIII, 28, IX, 13 (Jn); Clementon VIII, 15, Malaga IX, 15 (Hk); Manumskin VI, 22 (Dke). . brevipennis Wied. Clementon VI, 6, VII, 4 (div); Lahaway VIII, 3 (Sm); Atco VII, 12, Anglesea VI, 25, VII, 12 (Jn); Manumuskin VI, 22 (Dke). . rufus Will. Dunnfield VII, 12, Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 26, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn); Clementon VII, 9 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke); Avalon VII, 5 (CG). ERAX Macq. VII, 14, Orange Mt. VII, 4, Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton V, 29 (Jn); Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). burg VII, 4, Westville VIII, 16, Anglesea VII, 9, VIII, 24 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Atco VI, 21 (CG); DaCosta VII, 16, Iona VI, 2 (Dke). (Dn); Malaga IX, 15; Shiloh IX, 1. (Jn); ne Glassboro, Avalon VIII, 29 (CG); DaCosta VII, Fig. 309—Erax estuans 28 (Dke). and its pupa. MALLOPHORA Macq. . clausicella Macq. Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); Atco VII, 9, DaCosta VII, 30 (Jn); Clementon VII, 26 (CG); Avon IX, 14, Lucaston IX, 2 (Dke). THE INSECES: OK) NEW \ JERSEY. 753 PROMACHUS Loew. P. bastardi Macq. New Jersey (A E 8). ASILUS Linné. Fig. 310. Fig. 311. Fig. 310.— Silky robber fly, Asilus sericeus. Fig. 311.—Asilid larva. Fig. 312.—Missouri bee-killer: Asilus missouriensis. A. sericeus Say. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts. VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 26, Atco VI, 19 (Jn); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk). A. cacopilogus Hine. Atlantic City VII, 15 (Jn); Anglesea (Hk). A. fuscatus Hine. Newark VI, 13, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Riverton VI, VII (div). A. lecythus Walk. Dover VI, 18, Morris Plains VI, 25, Newark VI, 14. A. orphne Walk. (distinctus Will.) Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Dover VI. 17 (jn); Boonton Vi, 8 (GG). A. flavofemoratus Hine. (flavipes Will.) Dover VI. 18, Newark VI, 14, Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton V, 30 (Jn); Trenton V, 25 (Hk). A. auricomus Hine. Iona (Dke); Malaga IX, 15 (CG). A. notatus Wied. Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Newark VI, 14, Clementon V, 30, Anglesea VI, 14 (Jn); Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke). A. novze-scotize Macq. Del. Water Gap VII, 14, Orange Mts., Riverton Vil, 31, Anglesea IX, 3 (Jn); Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke). A. paropus Walk. Merchantville VI, 28. A. sadyates Walk Atco VIII, 9. A. snowii Hine. (annulatus Will.) New Jersey (Hine); Trenton V, 25 (Hk). A. erythrocnemius Hine. New Jersey (Hine). A. maneei Hine. Malaga VIII, 4 (CG). The subgeneric terms for the species of this genus have been omitted, for convenience. 48 IN 754 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY ‘STATE MUSEUM. Family DOLICHOPODIDA:. Small, usually shining green, sometimes black or yellow flies, with short antennz, plump body and comparatively long legs, which are often contrasting yellow or brown. The tarsi or feet are unusually long, whence they are called ‘“‘long-footed flies,” and in the male the anterior pair are often flattened or otherwise modified. In the same sex the abdomen is frequently furnished with curiously complex claspers, which are bent down beneath the body. In the female there is usually a pointed, flat . Ovipositor. They are predatory in habit, feeding chiefly upon smaller flies. The larve are long, slender, cylindrical and feed on decaying vegetation. PSILOPODINUS Bigot. (PSILOPUS Meigen.) P. inermis Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Buena Vista VI, 11, Atlantic City VIII, 11, Avalon VI, 30. P. caudatus Wied. Great Notch IX, 8 (GG); Merchantville VI, 28, Cape May VI, 14. P. scobinator Loew. Westville V, 5, Atco VII, 9, Clementon VIII, 6. P. scaber Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Shark River VII, 12. P. patibulatus Say. Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VII, 26, Anglesea VII, 19. P. sipho Say. Caldwell (Cr); Merchantville VI, 28, Mullica Hill V, 30 (Jn); Glassboro VII, 20 (CG). AGONOSOMA Guérin. (GRAMPTOPSILOPUS Aldrich.) A. unifasciatum Say. (bicolor Loew.) Common, Dunnfield VII, 11, Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton VII, 3, Clementon VIII, 8, Atco VII, 9. . tener Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. . scintillans Loew. Princeton VII, 21, Avalon VI, 30, VII, 29. . psittacinum Loew. Avalon VI, 30 (Jn); Anglesea VII, 4 (Ly). . variegatus Loew. Avalon VI, 30, Cape May VI, 22. . pallens Wied. New Jersey (Bt). mpPrPr>rPr p> MESORHAGA Schiner. (APTORTHUS Aldrich.) M. albiciliata Aldr. Types at Westville VII, 5, 20, 1891. M. townsendii Aldr. Atlantic City VIII, 11. i DIAPHORUS Meig. D. mundus Loew. Avalon VII, 22, 29. P. sodalis Loew. Westville VI, 6. D. leucostomus Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Angle- sea V, 28. D. opacus Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Buena Vista VI, 11. Bee oz oad =lleap THE, INSECTS OF (NEW (JERSEY. 755 J ASYNDETUS Loew. - ammophilus Loew. Riverton VII, 30, Westville VIII, 19 (Jn); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). - syntormoides Wheeler. Type taken at Avalon VIII, 22, 94 (Jn); Vine- land VII, 29 (Coll). .CHRYSOTUS Meigen. . barbatus Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk). . obliquus Loew. Jamesburg, Ocean Co. V, Vineland VII, 2, Anglesea V,-28 (Coll). CAMPICNEMUS Halid. . hirtipes Loew. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). ARGYRA Macq. . calcitrans Loew. Westville VI, 6, Clemneton V, 30, VI, 3. » minuta Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. . aldrichi Johns. Long Branch VI, 11. - albicans Loew. Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Riverton VI, 15 (Dke). LEUCOSTOLA Loew. . cingulata Loew. Dunfield VII, 15, Shark River VII, 12, Woodbury Awl 70 PORPHYROPS Meig. . fumipennis Loew. Woodbury V, 14. - melampus Loew. Westville V, 19, Lenola V, 30. . higricoxa Loew. Lenola V, 30. NEMATOPROTUS Loew. . venustus Melander. Westville VI, 6. SYMPYCNUS Loew. . lineatus Loew. Princeton VII, 21, Avalon VI, 30. . sp.nov. Riverton V, 20. NOTHOSYMPYCNUS Wheeler. . fortunatus Wheeler. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11, 13. .h. sp. Riverton X, 9. NEURIGONA Rond. . carbonifer Loew. (floridula Wheeler.) Type taken at Dover VI, 23, °92, Dunnfield VII, 15, Riverton VI, 20. . lateralis Say. (Saucropus superbiens Loew.) Riverton VII, 3, IX, 11 (Jn); Lucaston V, 30 (CG). - rubella Loew. (Saucropus) “New Jersey” (Bt); Orange Mts. 756 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. rT ne pig cE ae = 000 G0 0 0 (cheleMloy ach shleilo top topo] 500000 THINOPHILUS Wahlb. : neglectus Wheeler. Cape May VI, 6. MEDETERUS Fischer. - princeps Wheeler. Types collected at Farmingdale VII, 14, ’97. . higripes Loew. “New Jersey” (A E 8S). . aberrans Wheeler. Avalon VII, 22 (Wheeler). HYDROPHORUS Fallen. . pirata Loew. New Jersey (Bt). -. glaber Walk. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . viridiflos Walk. Atlantic City V, 6. . zestuum Loew. Avalon VIII, 8 (Hk). LIANCALUS Loew. . genualis Loew. “New Jersey” (Bt). DOLICHOPUS Latr. . johnsoni Aldr. Type taken at Jamesburg VII, 4, 1891. . gratus Loew. Palisades (O S); Dunnfield VII, 8. . calcaratus Aldr. Type at Dover VI, 18, ’92, Dunnfield VII, 8. . setifer Loew. Passaic VI, 8 (Coll); Riverton IX, 9, Westville V, 19, Clementon V, 16. . acuminatus Loew. Westville V, 19, Clementon V, 30. . albicoxa Aldr. Clementon V, 30, Anglesea V, 28 (Jn); Burlington and Ocean Cos. V (Sm). . palzestricus Loew. Dover VI, 18. . scapularis Loew. Iona IX, 12 (CG). tonsus Loew. Clementon V, 30. . variabilis Loew. Dunnfield VII, 14, Westville VIII, 14. . cuprinus Wied. Dover VI, 16, Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 28. . virga Coq. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . longipennis Loew. Dunnfield VII, 11, Merchantville VI, 28. . ramifer Loew. Monmouth Co. VII, 31, Avalon VII, 22. . pugil Loew. (henshawi Wheeler.) Cape May VI, 23 (Vk). . cornutus Loew. Newark VI, 16, Riverton IX, 11, Westville V, 19, VII, 5, Avalon VII, 22, Anglesea V, 25. . lobatus Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. . scoparius Loew. Dover VI, 23. . quadrilamellatus Loew. Palisades VI (O S). . funditor Loew. Merchantville VI, 28. . incisuralis Loew. Merchantville VI, 28. DHE INSHELrS ‘OF NEWOJERSEY: Tod . albiciliatus Loew. Dover VI, 23. . bifractus Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Ocean Co. (Sm); Westville VIII, 18. . eudactylus Loew. Riverton VII, 3, Woodbury VI, 7. . vittatus Loew. Princeton VII, 21. . batillifer Loew. New Jersey (Bt). . reflectus Ald. Lenola_ V, 30, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn). . comatus Loew. Trenton VI, 1 (Coll); Jamesburg, Anglesea V, 28. . myosota O. S. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk). Ne) ie) Lehto) lejelok (| GYMNOPTERNUS Loew. . flavus Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, Dover VII, 16, Westville VII, 21. . spectabilis Loew. Westville V, 19, Clementon V, 30. . scotias Loew. Shark River VII, 12. . ventralis Loew. Shark River VII, 12. . debilis Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 28. - barbatulus Loew. Westville VI, 18. exilis Loew. Merchantville VI, 28, Avalon VI, 30. . lunifer Loew. Ocean Co. V (Sm). . albiceps Loew. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . subdilatatus Loew. Delaware Water Gap VII, 8. . humilis Loew. Boonton VI, 2 (CG); Ocean Co. (Sm). DHAADHAHAHADA HERCOSTOMUS Loew. H. vetitus Melander. Clementon JV, 30. TACHYTRECHUS Stannius. T. vorax Loew. Westville VIII, 18 (Jn); Clementon V, 10 (CG). T. protervus Melander. Clementon V, 10. T. binodatus Loew. Durham Pond, Morris Co. VIII, 18 (GG). T. junctus Cog. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). PELASTONEURUS Loew. P. vagans Loew. Princeton VII, 21, Clementon V, 30. P. lugubris Loew. Cape May VI, 22. P. lamellatus Loew. Jersey City IX, 18, Brigantine VIII, 3. P. lztus Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk). Family EMPID/A.. The “dance-flies,’ so called because of their habit of congregating in swarms under trees or near shrubs and about brooks, dancing up and down. The mouth parts are often prolonged into a beak, and they are 758 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. predatory in habit. The larve are predatory, and live under leaves and other decaying vegetable matter, where their prey occurs. AB 2B de) Ae PLATYPALPUS Macq. . zequalis Loew. Dunnfield VII, 14, Merchantville VI, 28, Clementon VI, 16 (Jn); Trenton V, 20 (Hk). - mesogramma Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, 15, Merchantville VI, 28. West- ville VII, 21. . trivialis Loew. Trenton V, 13 (Hk). » pachycnema Loew. Westville VI, 6, Clementon V, 9, 16. . lateralis Loew. Trenton VII, 25. TACHYDROMIA Meig. . fenestrata Say. Boonton IX, 5, Clementon V, 2 (GG). . pusilla Loew. Riverton V, 1, Clementon V, 9. brachialis Melander. Boonton IX, 9 (CG). HEMERODROMIA Meig. . empiformis Say. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Trenton V, 20 (Hk). . defecta Loew. Avalon VI, 9. . capta Coq. Boonton IX, 5-9 (CG). . scapularis Loew. Clementon V, 16, 30. LITANOMYIA Melander. . elongata Melander. Avalon VI, 9. CHIROMANTIS Rond. . vocatoria Fall. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. SYNECHES Walk. . thoracicus Say. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchant- _ ville VI, 28, Atco VII, 12. . simplex Walk. Westville VII, 2, Atco VI, 18, Avalon VII, 22 (Jn); Clementon VI, VIII {div); 5-mile beach (Hk). . rufus Loew. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Atco VII, 9, Avalon VI, 30 (Jn); Buena Vista VII, 19 (Li). . hyalinus Coq. Westville VII, 21, Avalon VII, 22 (Jn); Malaga VIII, 4 (GG); Bamber VII, 13 (Dke). . pusillus Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Trenton VII, 7, Riverton VI, 27 (Hk). SYNDYAS Loew. . polita Loew. Riverton VII, 18 (CG); Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk); Buena Vista VI, 11, Brown’s Mills VI, 25 (Dke). . dorsalis Loew. Lucaston IX, 3 (Dke). mmmm ST eekey cicley Biks, Naka sleek) gels cals aks, Sale THE TNSBETSOOr ANEW) JERSEY. 759 HYBOS Meig. (EUHYBUS Cog.) . triplex Walk. Chester IX, 9 (Coll); Westville V, 30, Clementon V, 22, Mullica Hill, Atlantic City V, 15, Anglesea V, 28 (Jn); Ashland VII, 15 (Hk). . subjectus Walk. Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton IX, 9, Clementon V, 30, Atco VII, 12, Avalon: VII, 22. . sSlossonze Coq. Del. Water Gap VII, 14, Riverton VIII, 11, Atco VI, 12. . reversus Walk. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Jamesburg VII, 4. OEDALEA Meig. . ohiensis Melander. (stigmatella?) Newark VI, 13. LEPTOPEZA Macq. . flavipes Meig. Dover VI, 18. . compta Coq. Riverton VI, 20 (Jn); National Park V, 6, Newbold VI, 30 (Dke). PACHYMERIA Stephens. . pudica Loew. Great Notch V, 4 (Dke). EMPIS Linn. . spectabilis Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Riverton V, 1, Wenonah V, 14, Clementon IV, 15. . longipes Loew. “New Jersey” (OS). . loripedis Coq. Palisades V, 24 (Lv); Clementon V, 9 (Jn). . tridentata Coq. Woodbury VI, 7. . humilis Cog. Great Notch V, 4 (Dke). HILARA Meigen. . testacea Loew. Clementon V, 9. . lutea Loew. Clementon V, 10,-30. . leucoptera Loew. Avalon VI, 9. . macroptera Loew. Riverton VI, 20 (Hk). . mutabilis Loew. Clementon V, 10, Avalon VI, 9. . femorata Loew. Pemberton V, 10 (Hk); Avalon VI, 8. . tristis Loew. Dover VII, 17. . umbrosa Loew. Clementon VI, 2. . gracilis Loew. Dunnfield VII, 12 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VI, 22 (Dke). . seriata Loew. Clementon V, 26. . trivittata Loew. Ashland V, 13 (Hk). GLOMA Meigen. n. sp. Clementon V, 30. 760 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. au) ee} ef us) DD vay DD WV de ue eed Ue.) vacd aD WWW DWD RHAMPHOMYIA Meigen. longicauda Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. . tersa Coq. . Prospertown VI, 1 (Sm). . priapulus Loew. Clementon V, 9. . gracilis Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. . glabra Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Newark VI, 16 (Jn); Trenton VII, 7 (Hk). - compta Cog. Clementon VI, 16. . basalis Loew. Clementon V, 9. . nana Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 10, Clementon V, 10 (Jn); Riverton IV, 26 (CG). . pulla Loew. Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Atco VI, 3 (Li); Wenonah V, 30, Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . angustipennis Loew. Trenton V, 20 (Hk); Clementon V, 9, 30 (Jn); Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). . vittata Loew. Clementon V, 30. . luteiventris Loew. Morris Plains VI, 24, Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). - minutus Walk. Dover VI, 17. . limbata Loew. Clementon V, 9, 10. . candicans Loew. Morris Plains VI, 24, Clementon V, 30, Avalon VI, 9. - manca Coq. Riverton VI, 19, VII, 8, Clementon V, 9 (Jn); Brown’s Mills V, 138 (Dke); Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). . pulchra Loew. Westville VI, 6 (Jn); tahaway VII, 12 (Sm). . pusio Loew. Riverton V, 1 (Jn); Brown’s Mills V, 12 (Dke). . polita Loew. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Riverton V, 29. . vara Loew. Newark V (Sm). . leucoptera Loew. Riverton IV, 11, 30 (Jn); Lucaston IV, 10 (Dke). . scolopacea Say. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. . clauda Coq. Clementon V, 10. diversa Coq. Clementon V, 9, 10. . macilenta Loew. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Lahaway VII, 5 (Sm). . irregularis Loew. Riverton IV, 20 (Jn); Iona IV, 21 (Dke). mutabilis Loew. New Brunswick VI, 7 (Sm); Clementon V, 10, We- nonah V, 14. . sordida Loew. Clementon V, 10. . umbrosa Loew. Boonton VI, 6 (CG). . brevis Loew. Iona IV, 20 (Dke). . amplipedis Coq. Brown’s Mills V, 12 (Dke). : aperta Loew. Iona !V, 21 (Dke). . otiosa Coq. Fort Lee VII, 4 (Dke). . exigua Loew. Iona VY, 16 (Hk). . rustica Loew. Riverton VI, 13 (Hk). THE INSECTS “OP NEWS JERSEY. 761 Family LONCHOPTERIDA. The “spear-winged” flies, characterized by the pointed wings that in- duced the common name. They occur near water courses, and little is known of them or their habits. Only two species have been collected in New Jersey. LONCHOPTERA Meig.. L. lutea Panz. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); Westville VII, 4, Anglesea Wall, Ie) (Ghanye L. riparia Meig. Ocean Co. V (Sm); Manumuskin X, 20 (Dke). Family PHORID/. Small, hunch-back flies, with large, broad wings, often observed run- ning about on fallen leaves, windows, ete. The larve are cylindrical, thinner in front than behind, and live in dead snails, insects, decaying fungi, vegetables, ete., and possibly in living insects. HYPOCERA Lioy. H. johnsoni Brues. Riverton VIII, 31. H. clavata Loew. National Park V, 6 (Dke); Clementon X, 3 (CG); Pem- berton V, 10 (Hk). . APHIOCHETA Brues (PHORA). A. rufipes Meig. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Riverton V, 23 (Jn); Stelton VI, 21 (Coll). A. fasciata Fall. Delaware Water Gap VII, 8. A. picta Schiner. (interrupta Zett). Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 12. A. nigriceps Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Shark River VII, 12 (Jn); Ocean Co. V (Sm). A. albidihalteris Felt. Types bred from mushrooms, New Brunswick (Sm). A. fungicola Coq. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Cleménton V, 9. A. agarici Lint. Fort Lee (Lv). A. scalaris Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); New Brunswick VIII, 7 (Coll); Lucaston IX, 28 (Dke). . epeirzee Brues. Dunnfield VII, 18, Avalon VI, 9. . flava Fallen. “New Jersey.” . atlantica Brues. Atco. » minuta Aldr. Boonton I, 15 (GG). . microcephala Loew. Trenton IV, 19 (Hk). >>rPrPrPrP> 762 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TRINEURA Meig. T. aterrima Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Riverton V, 14, Clementon V, 9 CONICERA Meig. Cc. atra Meig. Dunnfield VII, 8, Newark VI, 14. GYMNOPHORA Macq. G. arcuata Meig. New Jersey. Family PLATY PEZID. Termed “flat-footed” flies because in the males the posterior tarsi are broad and much flattened. They are smaller than, but resemble a house- fly, and occur in swarms near water courses, though locally. The larvee live in mushrooms, and are not of economic importance. AGATHOMYIA Verrall. A. notata Loew. (Callomyia tenera Loew.) Riverton VII, 23, Westville VII, 2, 21 (Jn); “New Jersey” IV (A E 8S). PLATYPEZA Meigen. P. velutina Loew. Dunnfield VII, 11, Riverton VII, 30. P. anthrax Loew. National Park VI, 3 (Dke). P. taeniata Snow. Clementon IX, 9, X 3 (CG). lamily PIPUNCULID/E. The “big-eyed” flies of Comstock, so called because of their relatively enormous head, which is made up almost entirely of eyes. The species are rare, and little is known of the larve, save that they are parasitic on bugs. CHALARUS WIk. C. spurius Fall. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Bamber VII, 13 (Dke). ‘ NEPHROCERUS Zett. N. deeckei Johns. Forest Hill (Wadt). PIPUNCULUS Latr. P. albofasciatus Hough. Westville VII, 2. . similis Hough. Westville VIII, 13. P. atlanticus Hough. Newark VI, 14, Riverton VI, 18, Clementon V, 17 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VII, 4 (Dke). U THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 763 P. subvirescens Loew. Riverton VI, VII (Jn); Delair VIII, 14 (Dke). P. nigripes Loew. Newark IX (Wdt); Clementon X, 4 (Hk); Buena Vista Wil, LO) (In). P. nitidiventris Loew. Trenton V, 20 (Hk); Riverton IX, 14 (Jn). P. subopacus Loew. Newark VII (Wdt); Riverton VI, 1, VII, 19 (Jn), Clementon V, 30 (Hk). : pallipes Johns. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Wildwood VIII, 27. . fuscus Loew. Trenton VII, 7, Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk). . cingulata Loew. Forest Hill (Wdt). . houghi Kertéz. Trenton V, 24 (Hk); Brown’s Mills, V, 13. 7 UU Uo Family SYRPHIDAS, These are “flower-flies,”’ usually brightly colored and banded with yel- low on a black, bronze or blue ground. They have very short, aristate or stylate three-jointed feelers, barrel-shaped bodies, and somwhat flat- tened abdomen, varying from slender to broadly oval. Sometimes they are almost bare and resemble wasps in appearance and habits; at others they are hairy and resemble bees, even in the droning or buzzing noise that they make. The mouth parts are formed for scraping and lapping only, and they feed upon honey or pollen. In larval habits they vary greatly. Some are predatory and feed upon plant lice; these are usually wrinkled, pointed anteriorly, and live among their prey upon leaves of plants. Others feed in plant tissue, being more or less maggot or grub- like; and yet others are scavengers, the larve feeding in the foulest excrementitious matter; = these are usually furnished with a long breathing Big grail raerailed? tube from the anal end, and are known as rat- larva. tailed larve. Some few species seem to feed upon pollen, and at least one form occurs between the leaf and stalk of corn, feeding upon the juices. Yet on the whole the species are beneficial. MICRODON Meig. M. globosus Fab. Riverton IX, 14, Westville VII, 2, IX, 10, Anglesea IX, 4 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); DaCosta VII, 1-16 (Dke); Cape May VII, 31 (VE). M. megalogaster Snow. Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk). M. tristis Loew. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Dover VI, 17, Newark VI, 14, Clem- enton V, 9 (Jn); Brown’s Mills VI, 22 (DKe). M. aurifex Wied. Forked River Mts. VII, 9 (Fenninger). M. rufipes Macq. Lakehurst VII, 7. MIXOGASTER Macq. M. breviventris Kahl. Lucaston VIII, 27, IX, 14 (Dke). 764 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CALLICERA Meig. C. johnsoni Hunt. Glassboro IV, 29 (CG); Manumuskin IV, 28 (Dke). CHRYSOTOXUM Meigen. C. laterale Loew. Westville IX, 10 (Jn); Clementon V, 30, X, 4 (Hk). C. pubescens Loew. Caldwell VI, 15 (Cr); Westfield (Bueno); New Brunswick (Sm); Woodbury IV, 2 (Jn); Clementon IX, 7 (Hk); Atco xe LO CCG) C. derivatum Walk. Riverton IX, 8, 14. CHRYSOGASTER Meig. C. nigripes Loew. Orange (Loew); Morris Plains VI, 25, Riverton V, 10, Westville VI, 15 (Jn); New Brunswick (Sm); Bridgeport V, 20 (Dke); Trenton V, 21, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). C. nitida Wiea. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Trenton VII, 3, Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Jamesburg VII, 15, Westville V, 19, Anglesea VII, 19, Bridge- port V, 20 (DkKe). C. pictipennis Loew. Riverton IV, 26 (CG); Clementon V, 9, Lenola V, 30. C. pulchella Will. New Brunswick V, 24 (Sm); Jamesburg VII (Jn); Ashland VII, 16 (Hk). PSILOTA Meig. P. buccata Macq. Clementon V, 3 (Hk); Manumuskin IV, 28, Iona IV, 30 (Dke). PIPIZA Fall. P. modesta Loew. Delair X, 19 (Dke); Atco VII, 9, Clementon V, 30. P. radicum Walsh & Riley. (pos- tica Will.) -Newark VI, 14, Riverton VIII, 14, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Wenonah VI, 23 (Hk). P. pulchella Will. Trenton V,. 26 (Hk); Lucaston V, 28 * (Dke); Sandy Hook VIII, 11, Avalon VI, 9, Wildwood VIII, 12, Cape May VI, 38. Fig. 314.—Pipiza radicum; a root-louse Syrphid: P. calcarata Loew. Dunnfield a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult: all enlarged. VII, 12, Riverton VII, 4. PARAGUS Latr. P. angustifrons Loew. Jamesburg VII, 15, Westville VI, 15, Atco VII, 12, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn); Ashland VII, 16 (Hk). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 765 . bicolor Fab. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Clementon x 45 (EE). / . tibialis Fall. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Orange Mt. VIII, 29 (Coll); Dover VI, 23, Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon VIII, 6, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Trenton ERS 12 (ik). CHILOSIA Meig. . similis Coq. Riverton IX, 20; Lacaston IX, 8, Clementon IX, 8 (Jn); Iona IX, 12 (CG). . pallipes Loew. Dunnfield VII, 11, 15, Caldwell VI, 15 (Jn); Paterson V, 3 (Osburn); Delair VIII, 18 (Decke). . capillata Loew. Clementon V, 9. . tristis Loew. Riverton IX, 11 (CG); Clementon IX, 5, X, 4 (HK); Hammonton IX, 6, Bamber IX, 9, Manumuskin IX, 15, X, 8 (DKe). . comosa Loew. Garrett Rock, Paterson V, 3 (Osburn); Clementon IV, 21 (Dke). MYIOLEPTA Newman. . varipes Loew. Clementon VI, 2 (Dke). , BACCHA Fab. . tarchetius Walk. Riverton IX, 9 (CG); Westville, Vill, 28 (Jn); Clementon XII (Hk); Weymouth Hien oer cays VIII, 16 (Dke). phus larva eat- . clavata Fab. Riverton IX, 11, Avalon VI, 9. ing a plant-louse. . lugens Loew. Manumuskin X, 8 (Dke). . fascipennis Wied. (aurinota Harris.) Trenton IX, 8, Riverton IX, 9 (Hk); Ocean Co., Cumberland Co. IX, 1 (Sm). . cognata Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. OCYPTAMUS Macq. . fuscipennis Say. Trenton VII, 11 (Hk); Westville VII, 4, VIII, 14, Clementon Vill, 9 (Jn); Lakewood (Lansing). PYROPHAENA Schr. . rosarum Fab. Delaware Water Gap VII, 15. PLATYCHIRUS St. Farg. & Serv. - qUadratus Say. Palisades VII, 10 (Liv); Jamesburg VII, 4, 15, West- ville V, 19, VII, 28 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). - hyperboreus Steger. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Elizabeth V, 6 (Kp); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . peltatus Meig. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . chazetopodus Will. Ht. Lee (Osburn). 766 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. MELANOSTOMA Schiner. ; M. obscurum Say. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Riverton IV, 26 (CG); Westville VI, 15, IX, 10 (Jn). M. mellinum Linn. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Osburn); New Brunswick (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville V, 19 (Jn); Trenton V, 21, Clemen- ton V, 30 (Hk). DIDEA Macq. D. fasciata Macq. (fuscipes Loew.) Jamesburg, Westville VIII, 21, Clementon V, 16, Ocean Co. V, 18 (Jn); Delair X, 19, Iona IV, 30 (Dke). SYRPHUS Fab. S. arcuatus Fall. New Brunswick V, 3 (Sm); Camden IX, 14, Westville IV, 16 (Kp); Clementon X, 1 (Hk). S. perplexus Osburn. New Jersey (Osburn). S. ribesii Linn. Newark VI, 14, Westville VIII, 14, Cumberland Co. IX, 1. Fig. 317. Fig. 316.—Syrphus torvus: much enlarged. Fig. 317.—Larva a and b, pupa c, of Syrphus torvus: much enlarged. S. torvus O. S. Caldwell (Cr); Camden V, 26 (CG); Westville IX, 13 (Jn); Prospertown, common in Monmouth and Burlington Cos., feed- ing on the wheat-louse; the species of this genus are usually feeders upon plant-lice (Sm). S. grossulariz Meig. (lesueurii Macq.) Dunnfield VII, 14, Atco VI, 13 (Jn); New Brunswick VII, 9, Prospertown VI, 6 (Sm); Anglesea V, 31 (Brn). n THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 767 . amalopis O. S. Paterson V, 3 (Osburn). . diversipes Macq. Paterson V, 3 (Osburn). - americanus Wied. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, New Brunswick VI, 1 (Sm); Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Westville VI, 26, IX, 13, Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn). . umbellatarum O. S. Riverton VII, 30 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 11 (CG). . abbreviatus Zett. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Clementon V, 11 (CG). . pyrostri Linn. Garret Rock, Paterson V, 18; the first eastern record for this Huropean species (Osburn). . xanthostomus Will. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Westfield (Bno); Lakehurst (Ds). ALLOGRAPTA oO. S. . obliqua Say. Caldwell (Cr); Highlands VII, 11, Riverton IX, 5, West- ville VI, 27, Atlantic City VII, 15 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8, Clementon Xen) GE)! XANTHOGRAMMA Schiner. . emarginata Say. Riverton IX, 20 (CG); Westville (Jn); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Lakehurst (Ds). . flavipes Loew. Morris Plains VI, 25, Newark VI, 16 (Jn); Palisades. (Ds); Trenton VII, 5 (Hk). . equalis Loew. Clementon V, 9, 10 (div); Malaga V, 1 (Hk). . habilis Snow. Clementon IX, 11 (CG); heretofore regarded as western. MESOGRAMMA Loew. . polita Say. Caldwell (Cr); Sandy Hook VIII, 17, Riverton IX, 5, Gloucester VIII, 14 (Jn); Trenton IX, 2, Clementon VII, 5 (Hk); this. species is sometimes a corn pollen feeder in the larval stage, and occurred in large numbers in the summer of 1899 between the leaves and stalk of corn in Atlantic County. . marginata Say. Common throughout the State VI to X. . geminata Say. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Riverton IX, 5, Westville VI, 27,. Clementon VIII, 9 (Jn); Ashland V, 13, Clementon IX, 5 (Hk). . boscii Macq. Avalon VII, 22. SPHAZROPHORIA St. Farg. & Serv. . cylindrica Say. Common throughout the State V to IX. PELECOCERA Meig. . pergandei Will. Riverton IX, 20 (CG); Lucaston IX, 28 (Dke). SPHEGINA Meig. . keeniana Will. Clementon V, 16, VI, 7. 768 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. S. lobata Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, 15, Riverton VI, 19 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (CG). S. rufiventris Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Lakehurst (Ds). NEOASCIA Will. N. globosa Walk. Princeton VII, 21, Westville V, 19, Buena Vista VI, 11. N. distincta Will. Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Malaga IV, 3 (CG). RHINGIA Scopoli. R. nasica Say. Dover VI, 18, Newark VI, 16, Westville VIII, 28, Cumber- land Co. IX, 1 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (Hk). VOLUCELLA Geoff. V. evecta Walk. Dunnfield VII, 12, Orange Mts. VI, 13, Clementon V, 30. var. sanguinea Will. Clementon VI, 25 (Hk). V. vesiculosa Fab. Dunnfield VII, 8, Riverton V, 29 (Jn); DaCosta VI, 4, Manumuskin VI, 238 (Dke). V. fasciata Macq. Bred from Cactus (“Opuntia”), obtained at Clementon; flies continued to emerge from V, 31 to VI, 16 (Kp); Anglesea VII, 10, Lahaway VII, 17 (Sm); Avalon VI, 8 (Jn); this insect is found wherever the prickly pear occurs, and there is no outward indica- tion of its presence, save that it is always associated with the larva of the Phycitid, ““Melitara prodenialis.” SERICOMYIA Meig. S. chrysotoxoides Macq. Ft. Lee (Edwards); Newark VI, 16, Clementon V, 9 (Jn); Blackwood X, 10 (Vk); Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke). ERISTALIS Latr. —. tenax Linn. This is the common “drone” or “chrysanthemum fly,” which occurs throughout the State until late fall, and is said to pollenize chrysanthemums. It resembles a honey bee so closely that most persons decline to handle it, therefore it is also called “drone- fly.’ Its larva lives in the foulest excrement, and is a typical rat- tailed maggot. E. zneus Fab. Boonton IX, 7 (GG); Orange, New Brunswick (Sm); Jamesburg, Clementon V, 10, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn); Ashland VII, 16, 5-mile beach VII, 20 (Hk). E. dimidiatus Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., Westville VII, 5, Clementon V, 10 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). E. saxorum Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon V, 10 (div); Westville VII, 26, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn). E. meigenii Wied. Snake Hill IV, 26 (Lv); Westville VII, 5 (Jn); Tren- ton VII, 11 (Hk). ‘ THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 769 . bastardi Macq. Snake Hill IV, 26 Lv); Newark (Sm); Trenton VII, 7, Ashland VIII, 16 (Hk); Shark River VII, 12, Westville VII, 9, Angle- sea VII, 19 (Jn). . flavipes Walk. Boonton VII, 30 (GG); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Sandy Hook VII, 6 (Bt); Westville IX, 13, Clementon V, 16, Anglesea VII, 19: var. melanostomus Loew. Trenton IX, 3 (Hk). . transversus Wied. Orange Mts. VII, 4, Westville VII, 5, IX, 10 (Jn); Clementon V, VI, IX, X (div). TROPIDIA Meig. . quadrata Say. Caldwell (Cr); Westville VII, 2, VIII, 23, Clementon V, 10 (Jn); Trenton VII, 11, 5-mile beach VI, 11 (Hk). ". calearata Will. Westville V, 19, Woodbury VI, 7. . albistylum Macq. Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Sm); Clementon (Hk). HELOPHILUS Meig. . latifrons Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Westville IX, 13 (Jn); Burlington Co. (Sm); Clementon V, 11, 16 (CG). H. similis Macq. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Newark V (Sm); Sandy Hook, Jamesburg V, 19, Westville IX, 9 (Jn); Clementon X, 1 (Hk). . lztus Loew. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Merchantville V, 19, 31 (CG); West- ville V, 19, VIII, 16 (Jn). . chrysostomus Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Riverton V, 19, Westville VII, 2 (Jn); Prospertown VI, (Sit). . distinctus Will. Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville V, 19. . conostomus Will. Kt. Lee (Osburn); Cramer Hill V, 30 (CG); West- ville VII, 2. . divisus Loew. Westville V, 14. . integer Loew. Newark VI, 16, Westville VI, 15, VII, 21 (Jn); New Brunswick VI, 5 (Sm). . hamatus Loew. Newark V (Sm); Elizabeth V, 15 (Kp). . flavifacies Bigot. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. MALLOTA Meigen. . posticata Fab. Morris Plains VI, 25, Clementon V, 16 (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VII, 1 (Sm). . cimbiciformis Fall. Hewitt, Lakehurst (Ds); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); River- ton VII, 3, Clementon V, 9. TRIODONTA Macq. . curvipes Wied. Elizabeth V, 17, 21 (Kp); Anglesea IX, 20, Cape May Fig. 318.—Mallota posticata and its Vi, 14) (dm). larva: enlarged. 49 IN 770 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. TEUCHOCNEMIS O. S. T. bacuntius Walk. Palisades (Lv); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Clementon V, 7 (CG). T. lituratus Loew. Great Notch V (Dke); Malaga V, 1 (Hk). PTERALLASTES Loew. P. thoracicus Loew. Ft. Lee VIII, 30 (Dke); Gloucester Co. (Sm). SYRITTA St. Farg. & Serv. S. pipiens Linn. Common throughout the State, V to IX. XYLOTA Meigen. X. pigra Fab. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Iona IX, 12 (CG); Shark River VII, 1, Clementon V, 10, Anglesea VI, 19. X. tuberans Will. Brown’s Mills VI, 5 (Dke). X. bicolor Loew. Hewitt (Ds); Englewood (OS); Clementon V, 30 (CG). X. ejuncida Say. Morris Plains VI, 23, Orange Mts. VII, 4, Clementon V, 16 (Jn); Palisades VI, 28 (Lv); Riverton V, 19, 5-mile beach VI, 11, WITT 35) (CHI): X. angustiventris Loew. Morris Plains VI, 25, Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Trenton VII, 5, Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk). X. metallifera Bigot. lementon IV, 25 (DKe). X. anthreas Walk. Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 28. X. analis Will. Palisades VI, 7 (Lv); Clementon VI, 3 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Dke). : X. chalybea Wied. Hewitt (Ds); Ft. Lee (Osburn); Caldwell (Cr); Clementon V, 14 (CG); DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke). X. fraudulosa Loew. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Clementon IX, 5, Anglesea VI, ial CHRYSOCHLAMYS Rond. C. dives O. S. Westville VI, 15. BRACHYPALPUS Macq. B. frontosus Loew. Newark V (Sm); Sandy Hook, Riverton V, 1 (Jn); Atco IV, 2 (Kp); Clementon V, 5 (Hk); Manumuskin V, 5 (Dke). B. rileyi Will. Riverton IV, 14 (CG); Westville IV, 9, Clementon IV, 15. B. sorosis Will. Clementon V, 14, 16; Manumuskin IV, 28 (Dke). CRIORHINA Hoffm. C. umbratilis Will. So. Amboy V, 10 (Jn); Merchantville V (Kp); Glass- boro V, 19 (CG); Clementon V, 9-30 (div); Manumuskin V, 10 (Dke). C. analis Macq. Hewitt (Ds); Newark VI, 16 (Jn); Clementon V, 16, 30 (div); Malaga VI, 1 (GG). 444 THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 771 . intersistens Walk. “New Jersey” (Walk); Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . verbosa Harris. Bergen Co. IV, 28 (Kp); Glassboro III, 28 (CG). . decora Macq. Hewitt (Ds); Caldwell (Cr); Newark VI, 14, Clemen- ton V, 16 (Jn); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Manumuskin V, 10 (Dke). MILESIA Latr. . Virginiensis Drury. - (ornata Fab.) Dunnfield VII, 11, 15, Clementon VIII, 9, Cumberland Co. IX, 1 (Jn); New Brunswick VIII, 7 (Sm); Clementon IX, 5, Malaga (Hk). SPILOMYIA Meig. . longicornis Loew. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Riverton IX, 5, Westville IX, 13 (Jn); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Anglesea IX, 3 (Sm). . fusca Loew. Dunnfield VII, 14 (Jn); Hewitt (Ds); Palisades VIII, 14 (Dke). . hamifera Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Osburn); New Brunswick VI, 5 (Sm); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Clementon V, 30 (CG). SPHECOMYIA Latr. . vittata Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Riverton V, 1, Clementon V, 9, 16 (Jn); Malaga V, 1 (CG). TEMNOSTOMA St. Farg. . bombylans Fab. Ft. Lee (Osburn); Long Branch VI, 9 (Jn); River- ton 1V, 4, Clementon VI, 2 (CG); Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Merchantville V, 26 (DKe). . alternans Loew. Hewitt (Ds); Orange Mts. (Wat). . trifasciata Robt. Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk). . pictula Will. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk). CERIA Fab. . abbreviata Loew. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Merchantville V, 26 (DkKe); Clementon V, 16, 30 (div). Family CONOPID. Medium-sized flies, with a large head, comparatively small, chunky body and a long abdomen, which is often constricted at base and en- larged bulb-like at tip, as in certain wasps. They are called “thick-head” flies, and have rather slender antenne, though long for this series. The larve are parasites upon bees and grasshoppers. Cc. CONOPS Linn. brachyrhynchus Macq. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Merchantville VI, 29, Atco VII, 12 (Jn); Clementon VIII, 15 (Hk). 77 c. c. 2 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. bulbirostris Loew. Delair VIII, 5 (Dke); Westville V, 31 (CG); Atco Vit, 22. (in): sylvosus Will. Caldwell (Cr); Clementon VI, 15 (Hk); Atco VII, 12 (Jn). . Xanthopareus Will. Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VIII, 16, Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Ocean Co. (Sm). . excisus Wied. Riverton VII, 3, DaCosta VII, 30. PHYSOCEPHALA Schiner. . tibialis Say. Dunnfield VII, 8, Riverton VI, 20, VII, 30, Westville VII, 5 (Jn); Orange Mts. (Sm); Clementon VII, 15, Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk). . Sagittaria Say. Ft. Lee (Bt); Orange Mts., Riverton IX, 11, Clementon VIII, 6, Anglesea VII, 15 (Jn). . furcillata Will. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 14.” Conops tibialis. . marginata Say. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). Fig. 3109. ZODION Latr. . fulvifrons Say. Morris Plains VI, 25, Westville IX, 10, Clementon V, 10 (Jn); Prospertown VI, 7 (Sm). . nanellum Loew. Buena Vista VI, 11, Atco VII, 12 (Jn); Hammonton VIII, 26 (Dke). . obliquefasciatum Macq. Riverton VII, 29, VIII 11. - pygmzeum Will. Avon IX, 27 (Hk); Iona IX, 12, Clementon VII, 29, Pemberton VII, 11 (CG). STYLOGASTER Macq. . neglecta Will. Dunnfield VII, 11, Riverton VII, 30 (Jn); Wenonah VII, 22 (Dke); Clementon VII, 29 (Hk). . biannulata Say. New Jersey (Bt). DALMANNIA Desv. . nigriceps Loew. Clementon V, 15-VI, 6 (div); Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn). ONCOMYIA Loew. . abbreviata Loew. Delair VIII, 5 (Dke); Woodbury VI, 7, Merchantville VI, 28, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Clementon VI, 25. MYOPA Fab. . vesiculosa Say. Newark V (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 4, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Camden V, 18, Lenola IV, 29 (Kp); Riverton IV, 23 (CG). . Vicaria Walk. Riverton IV, 17 (VK). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 773 Family CGESTRID. These are the “bot-flies,” usually of good size, sometimes very large, and peculiar by having the mouth parts almost entirely aborted. Some are hairy, yellow, with rather a pointed abdomen; others are very plump, blue black, with a white bloom, and very formidable in appearance. The larve live in the nasal passages, in the stomach or beneath the skin of the animals infested by them, and often cause serious functional disturb- ance. They also lessen the value of the skins. The ordinary bots attack- ing horses and cattle lay their eggs on the hair of the animals, where they are likely to be licked off, and so brought into the mucus-lined passages; hence it is a good plan, where bots are numerous, to keep horses cleaned and brushed and to prevent their licking themselves. Bots beneath the skin should be treated with mercurial ointment, and after a day or two squeezed out through a sufficient incision. Where they infest the stomach, or get into the nasal passages, a veterinarian must be consulted. GASTROPHILUS Leach. G. equi Fab. The horse bot-fly, which spends the larval stage in the in- testines, and is passed naturally when full grown; it pupates under ground and the eggs are laid on the hair. G. nasalis Linn. Caldwell (Cr). HYPODERMA Clark. The ox bot, Hypoderma lineata: a, eggs attached to hair; b, fly; c, larva. Fig. 320. H. lineata Villers. The “Ox Warble’’; occurs rarely throughout the State. H. bovis De Geer. Atlantic City, Belvidere (U S Ag). These species live under the skin and form tumors and ulcers. 774 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. CESTRUS Linn. O. ovis Linn. The sheep-bot. This species lives in the nasal and other head pass- ages of sheep and causes a disease known as staggers, often resulting in death. MAGE! CUTEREBRA Clark. C. buccata Fab. Ocean Co. VI (Sm); Dunnfield VII, 12. A species living under the . . 5 skin of rabbits. Fig. 321.—The sheep-bot, Gstrus ovis: 1, 2, C. horripilum Clark. Riverton flies, wings closed and open; 3, pupa; VIL 6 4, 5, full grown larve; 6, alae young larva. Family TACHINID/L. The Tachina flies are almost all parasitic and of the very highest use- fulness, since they form the chief control of many caterpillars. They resemble house-flies, flesh-flies, and blue-bottles in appearance, but are much more bristly; sometimes formidable-looking from the array of sharp points projecting in every direction. The bristle on the third antennal joint is always bare, and this is the best char- acter for the recognition of the family. These flies often lay their eggs on the outside of the caterpillar, usually just back of the head, where the larve cannot easily get at them. They are white in color and quite large enough to be easily seen. Cut-worms are a common prey of these flies; sometimes of hundreds of such larve Fig. 422.—Tachinid parasite on gathered not two per cent. will be free of cut-worms showing larva, these white eggs. In an army worm year pupa and adult, as well as the eggs on the anterior sometimes scarcely one per cent. of the last semuients, of ia cateeiieel brood is free. Anywhere from one to 100 grubs may infest a single caterpillar, depending upon the size of the host. GYMNOCLYTIA B. & B. (CISTOGASTER.) G. immaculata Macq. Westville VI, 26 (Jn); Glassboro VII, 8 (CG); Clementon V, 30, IX, 5 (Hk). G. occidua Walk. Dover VI, 17, Chester VII, 25, Westville, Atco VII, 12 (Jn); Middlesex Co. VII, 7, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Sm). GYMNOSOMA Meig. G. fuliginosa Desv. Caldwell (Cr); Woodbury VI, 7, Clementon VIII, 8, Buena Vista VI, 11, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn). > PS > PP > THE INSHCTSAOR NEW JERSEY. 775 PHORANTHA Rond. . occidentis Walk. Trenton V, 5 (Hk); Westville V, 19, Woodbury VI, 7, Atco VII, 9, Buena Vista VI, 11, Clementon V, 10. . higrens V. d. W. Riverton X, 12, 20. ALOPHORA Desv. . zneoventris Will. Clementon V, 16. . fumosa Coq. Dunnfield VII, 12, Clementon V, 16. . subopaca Cog. Type at Woodbury VI, 7, Riverton IX, 11. . pulverea Coq. Riverton X, 20. . diversa Coq. Riverton: X, 12. POLISTOMYIA Towns. . trifasciata Loew. (plumipes Fab.) Caldwell (Cr); Glassboro VII, 10, VIII, 2 (CG); DaCosta VII, 17 (Lt); Clementon IX, 7 (Hk). TRICHOPODA Latr. . pennipes Fab. Cramer Hill VIII, 24, Merchantville VI, 28, Shark River VII, 12, Anglesea VII, 19, DaCosta VII, 30; a parasite of the squash bug, ‘‘Anasa tristis” (Jn); Clementon IX, 5 (Hk). GALACTOMYIA Towns. . radiata Loew. Del. Water Cap VII, 10, Orange Mts. VII, 4, Westville WAls, tay MYIOPHASIA B. and B. . znea Wied. New Brunswick (Coll); Riverton IX, 20 (CG); Atlantic City VII, 15, Cape May VI, 22 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk); a parasite of “Balaninus nasicus,” ‘“Conotrachelus juglandis” and ‘“Sphenophor- us parvulus,” all of which are injurious weevils. . setigera Town. Avalon VII, 22, Cape May IX, 25. CRYPTOMEIGENIA Br. and Berg. . theutis Walk. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick V (Sm); Riverton III, 20 (Jn); 5-mile beach VI, 11 (Hk); a parasite of ‘“Lachnosterna in- versa.” PHASIOCLISTA Town. . metallica Town. Boonton VIII, 8 (GG); Anglesea IX, 1 (Jn). CERATOMYIELLA Town. . conica Town. Westville VII, 2. > > > > 776 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. EULASIONA Town. . comstockii Town. Clementon VI, 6 (Hk). ADBMONTIA Br. and Berg. . demylus Walk. Atlantic Co. VIII; parasite of the pine saw-fly, “Lo- phyrus abbotii.” . degeerioides Coq. New Brunswick (Sm); Trenton V, 21 (Hk). . pergandei Coq. “New Jersey” (A ES); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk). . polita Cog. Lucaston VI, 27 (Dke). . hylotomze Cog. Chester IX, 16 (Coll); Newark X (Jn); Trenton VIII, 8 (Hk). . nasoni Coq. Clementon IX, 11 (CG). CLAUSICELLA Rondani. . johnsoni Coq. Riverton IX, 14. ACTIA Desv. . pilipennis Fallen. Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Trenton V, 21 (Hk). CELATORIA Coquillett. . spinosa Coq. Dunnficld, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. HYPOSTENA Meig. . dunningii Cog. New Brunswick VI, 18 (Sm); Woodbury V, 14, VI, 7. . tortricis Coq. Avalon VII, 22. . variabilis Coq. Dunniield VII, 8, 15 (Jn); Trenton VII, 3, Clementon V, 30 (Hk); a parasite of ‘““Pyrausta penitalis.” . gilvipes Coq. Shiloh 1X, 1. . floridensis Town. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Riverton IX, 11 (Jn). . flaveola Coq. Asbury Park VIII, 16. MACQUARTIA Desv. . pristis Walk. Dunnfield VII, 8, 15 (Jn); New Brunswick VII, 18 (Sm); Trenton VII, 8 (Hk). POLIDEA Macq. . areos Walk. Chester IX, 1 (Coll). HYPOCHZETA Br. and Berg. . longicornis Schiner. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. M. RRR THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 77h METHYPOSTENA Towns. barbata Coq. Trenton VII, 17 (Hk). LESKIA Desv. . thecata Coq. Riverton VII, 3 (Jn); Clementon VI, 25 (Hk). . analis Say. Riverton IX, 22 (Hk); Collingswood (CG); Westville VIII, 14, Clementon SPELT: 6, Anglesea V, 28 (Jn). LESKIOMIMA Br. and Berg. . tenera Wied. Dunnfieid VII, 9, Riverton VII, 31, Woodbury V, 15 (Jn); Clementon IX, — (Hk). EUPHYTO Town. . subopaca Cog. Type taken at Clementon V, 30 (Jn), VIII, 30 (Hk). LEUCOSTOMA Meig. . senilis Town. Westville VIII, 18, Woodbury VI, 7. SCIASMA Coq. . nebulosa Coq. Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton V, 14. HYALOMYODES Town. . triangulifera Loew. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Riverton IX, 14, Clementon VI, 25 (Hk); Pemberton V, 10 (CG). CESTROPHASIA Br. and Berg. . ochracea Bigot. Orange Mts. (Jn); Lahaway VII, 5 (Sm). . clausa B & B. Clementon VI, 7 (Li). . Signifera V. d. Wulp. Clementon VI, 7 (Li); Atco VI, 3 (Jn). XANTHOMELANODES Town. . arcuata Say. Clementcn VIII, 30, IX, 8, Iona IX, 12 (CG). . atripennis Say. Hammonton VII, 6 (Dke); Lakehurst VII, 18 (Coll); Clementon [X, 5 (Hk}; Lucaston IX, 8, Iona IX, 12 (CG). HEMYDA Desv. . aurata Desv. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Woodbury VI, 7, Clementon VII, 29 (CG). EPIGRYMYIA Town. - polita Town. Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Clementon V, 30, VI, 25 (Hk). . floridensis Town. Westville VII, 4 (Jn); Riverton IX, 22, Clementon WA 28 (allig))e 778 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. SIPHONA Meig. ® S. geniculata DeGeer. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Shark River VII, 12, Lenola V, 30, Ocean Co. V, Avalon VI, 30. PARAPLAGIA Br. and Berg. P. spinulosa Bigot. Chester IX, 3 (Coll); Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); At- lantic Co. VIL, 24 (Sm); Atco VI, 6 (Jn). CYRTOPHLCEBA Rond. C. horrida Coq. Westville IV, 19 (Jn); Clementon V, 3 (Hk). PLAGIA Meig. P. americana V. d. W. Trenton VIII, 11, Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); River- ton VII; 31 (In): SIPHOPLAGIA Town. S. rigidirostris V. d. W. Riverton IX, 22 (Hk); Westville VIII, 13. DISTICHONA V. d. W. D. varia V. d. W. Atco VII, 12. D. auriceps Coq. Trenton IX, 1, Clementon X, 4 (Hk); Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke). PACHYOPHTHALMUS Br. and Berg. P. signatus Meig. Jamesburg VII, 4; a parasite of “Pelopoeus cemen- tarius.” P. floridensis Town. Woodbury VI, 7, Clementon V, 16, Atco VI, 18, Cape May VI, 6; also a parasite of “Pelopoeus cementarius.” SENOTAINIA Macq. S. rubriventris Macq. Riverton IX, 5, Atco VII, 12, Atlantic City VII, 15, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Clementon V, 30, Lucaston IX, 9, Ashland WANE, al: (Gallis)). S. trilineata V. d. W. Trenton VII, 3 (HK); Farmingdale VII, 14, Atco VI, 6, Avalon VII, 29 (Jn); Clementon V-—-VIII (div); a parasite of “Sphecius speciosus.” SIPHOSTURMIA Cog. S. rostrata Coq. Iona V, 26 (Dke). TRIACHORA Towns. T. unifasciata Desv. (Belvosia) Chester (Dkn); Trenton VII, 3 (Dke); West- ville VIII; 23, Clementon VI, X, a para- site of the army worm “Leucania uni- puncta.” Fig. 323.—Triachora wnifasciata. THE INSECTSIOP NEW JERSEY: 779 LATREILLIMYIA Towns. . bifasciata Fab. (Belvosia) Palisades VII, 13 (Ly); Westville VII, 26, Clementon VIII, IX, 5&4 (Jn); Lakewood (Lansing); bred from ‘“Eacles imperialis” and also infests “‘Citheronia regalis” and “Dryocampa rubicunda.” APHRIA Desv. Fig. 324.—Latreillimyia . ocypterata Town. Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon SEIT V, 30 (Hk); Westville VII, 21, Atco VII, 12, DaCosta VII, 30, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn). OCYPTERA Latr. . carolinze Desv. Caldwell (Cr); Westville VI, 26, Atco VI, 18, Atlantic City VII, 15, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8, Clementon VI, 24, X, 4 (Hk); parasite of the army worm, “Leucania unipuncta.” - argentea Town. Orange Mts. VII, 4, Westville VII, 2. . dosiades Walk. Dover VI, 25, Westville VI, 26, Atco VII, 12, Atlantic City VII, 15, Anglesea VII, 19. LINNAEMYIA Desv. . comta Fall. New Brunswick VIII, 11 (Coll); Trenton VII, 11, Pem- berton IX, 1, Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Farmingdale VII, 14, Westville VI. Pate AUIS PA Gh al) ye PANZERIA Desv. . radicum Fab. Riverton V, 3 (GG); Clementon V (div); a parasite of “Hyphantria cunea.”’ . penitalis Cog. Riverton X, 9 (Jn); Clementon VIII, 30 (CG); a para- site of ““Pyrausta penitalis.” MACROMEIGENIA Br. and Berg. . chrysoprocta Wied. Orange Mt. VIII, 29 (Coll); Trenton VII, 7 (Hk); Pemberton IX, 8 (CG); Lakewood (Lansing). GYMNOCHAETA Desv. . alcedo Loew. Newark VI, 16, Jamesburg VII, 4, Woodbury VI, 7, Riverton IV, 17; IX, 22 (CG); Clementon V, 30, VI, 25 (Hk). EXORISTOIDES Cog. . slossonze Coq. Westville V, 30, Clementon VI, 25, VII, 21. EUSISYROPA Town. . blanda O. S. Dunnfield VII, 14, Farmingdale VII, 14 (Jn); New Hope VII, 10 (HK); a parasite on “Euclea cippus,” “Nisoniades brizo” and “Pyrameis cardui”’ (Coq). 780 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E. boarmize Cog. Atlantic Co. VII; bred from the oak tortrix, ‘“Caccecia m U fervidana”’ (Sm). EXORISTA Meig. . helvina Cog. Dunnfield VII, 14, New Brunswick, Jamesburg, Anglesea wally ILL confinis Fall. Dunnfield VII, 12, Orange Mts. VII, 4, Farmingdale VII, 14, Riverton III, 3, Woodbury V, 14 (Jn); Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk); a parasite of ““Lyczna pseudargiolus” and “Thecla calanus.” . futilis O. S. Westville V, 19 (Jn); Ashland V, 13 (Hk); a parasite of “Hadena apamiformis” and “Pyrameis atalanta.” . griseomicans V. d. W. New Brunswick VIII, 14 (Sm); Anglesea V, 11 (Hk); a parasite of “Orgyia leucostigma.” . eudryz Town. Clementon VII, 26; a parasite of “Acronycta hama- melis,”’ “Agrotis ypsilon,” ‘““Eudryas unio,” ‘““Hyperchiria io” and “Pyra- meis atalanta.” . Spinipennis Coq. Anglesea IX, 1. . dorsalis Coq. Riverton VIII, 25. . pyste Walk. Trenton V, 15 (Coll). EUPHOROCERA Town. . claripennis Macq. Throughout the State III-VIII; a parasite of “Ani- sota senatoria,”’ “Clisiocampa disstria,’ “Empretia stimulea,’ “Orgyia leucostigma,’ ‘Vanessa antiopa’ and other Lepidoptera; also of “Epilachna borealis.” . cinerea V. d. W. Clementon IV, 21 (Dke). PHOROCERA Desv. . rufilabris V. d. W. Newark VI, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Trenton VIII, 11, Clementon VI, 24 (Hk). . comstocki Will. Dover VI, 18. . doryphorze Riley. Parasite on potato beetle. . leucanize Coq. Riverton IV, 24 . ancilla Walk. Dunnfield, Del. .frenchii Will. New Brunswick (Hk); Lucaston IV, 14 (Dke); a parasite of “Leucania unipuncta.”’ FRONTINA Meig. Water Gap VII, 15. (Sm); Lucaston IX, 9, Pemberton IX, 1 (Hk); bred from “Telea polyphemus” IV, 10 (Sm); bred III, 17 from “‘Attacus cecropia”’ by G. Valentine, of Hammonton; also parasite on “Anisota senatoria,” “Clisiocampa americana,” “Orgyia leucostigma,” ‘Papilio turnus,” ete. Fig. 325.—Phorocera doryphore. = THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. “81 . rubentis Coq. Clementon VIII, 6. . aletiz Riley. Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk); a parasite of “Halisidota tessel- lata,’ “Dasylophia anguina”’ and ‘“Orgyia leucostigma.” STURMIA Desv. . albifrons Walk. Burlington Co. VII (Sm); Riverton IX, 5, 22; a para- site of “Ecpantheria scribonia” and “Leucarctia acrea.” . inquinata V. d. W. Newark; bred from “Eacles imperialis’ (Sm); also a parasite of “Protoparce celeus,”’ “P. carolina,” “Deilephila lineata,” ete. . normula V. d. W. Trenton IX, 7, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . nigrita Town. New Brunswick V, 27 (Sm); Riverton V, 19 (Hk). . australis Cog. New Hope VII, 10 (Hk). MASICERA Maca. . tenthredinidarum Town. Jamesburg VII, 4, Woodbury VI, 7. . celer Coq. Dunnfield VII, 8, 14, Westville VI, 27. . eufitchize Town. New Brunswick (Sm); Clementon V, 5-30 (Hk); a , parasite of “Eufitchia ribearia,” and “Hyphantria cunea.” ACEMYIA Desv. . dentata Coq. Chester IX, 3 (Coll); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). PSEUDOCHZETA Coa. . argentifrons Coq. Merchantville VI, 28. PROSPHERYSA V. d. W. . emulans V.d. W. Anglesea. EUTHERA Loew. . tentatrix Loew. Clementon V, 30 (Hk). TACHINOMYIA Town. . robusta Town. (Tachina) Clementon V, VI (Jn); Prospertown VI, 1 (Sm); a parasite of “Agrotis ypsilon.” TACHINA Meigen. . mella Walk. Newark V (Sm); Riverton IV, 16, Westville IV, 19, VII, 21 (Jn); Clementon X, 4 (Hk); Lakewood (Lansing); a parasite of “Orgyia leucostigma,” ‘““Pyrrharctia isabella,” “Leucarctia acrea,” etc. BLEPHARIPEZA Maca. . leucophrys Wied. Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Trenton VU, 8 (Hk). 782 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. WINTHEMIA Desv. W. quadripustulata Fab. Throughout the State V—X; parasitic on ‘“Attacus ce- cropia,” “Telea polyphemus,” “Orgyia leucostigma,’ ‘“Leucania unipuncta,”’ “Halisidota tessellata,”’ “Protoparce celeus,”’ ete. PARADIDYMA B. and B. U . Singularis Town. Riverton VII, 3, IX, 25, Atco VII, 9 (Jn); Buena Vista VII, 10 (Li). Fig. 326. — Winthemia quadri- pustulata. METACHAETA Cog. M. helymus Walk. Shark River VII, 12, Riverton IV, 17, Westville VII; * 21, Clementon V, 16, Buena Vista VI, 11, Anglesea VII, 19. PHORICHAETA Rond. P. sequax Will. Atco VI, 4. CHAETOPLAGIA Coa. C. atripennis Coq. Type taken Westville VII, 2,°92; Riverton VI, 18. METOPIA Meigen. M. leucocephala Rossi. Trenton VII, 3, Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Riverton WANE 18> (Giayy, ARABA Desv. A. tergata Cog. Riverton VI, 16, Shiloh, Cumberland Co. IX, 1. OPSIDIA Cog. O. gonioides Coq. Type taken Atlantic City VII, 15, 94; Shark River VII, 12 (Jn); Anglesea VII, 20, VIII, 5 (Hk). HILARELLA Rond. H. decens Town. Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). H. fulvicornis Cog. Del. Water Gap VII, 13, Atlantic City VIII, 28, Ava- lon VI, 29 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8, Clementon V, 30, Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk). H. polita Town. Westville V, 19, Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Clementon V, 21 (Hix): Atco VI, 21 (CG). H. siphonina Zett. Clementon (Jn); Lucaston IX, 8 (CG). w THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 783 BRACHYCOMA Rond. . intermedia Town. Westville VII, 21, Anglesea VII, 16. . Sarcophagina Town. Shiloh IX, 1. . sheldoni Coq. Trenton V, 23 (Hk). GONIA Meig. . senilis Will. Split Rock Lake V, 28 (GG); Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Buena Wista) Vil) 6) (Li) Clementon’ Vi, 12; Atco Vil, 12: . capitata DeGeer. Caldwell (Cr); Westville IV, 9, Clementon IV, VI, Buena Vista VI, 11; a parasite of cut-worms, ‘“Hadena devastatrix,”’ “Peridroma saucia,”’ etc. SPALLANZANIA Desv. . hesperidarum Will. Westville VI, 27, VII, 2, Atco IX, 11, Anglesea VI, 25 (Jn); Clementon VI, 25 (Hk); a parasite of “Eudamus tityrus.” GAZDIOPSIS Br. and Berg. . ocellaris Coq. Newark VII (Sm); Trenton VII, 7 (Hk). CHAZTOGAEDIA Br. and Berg. . analis V. d. Wulp. Trenton VII, 11 (Hk). MICROPHTHALMA Maca. . disjuncta Wied. Boonton VIII, 28 (GG); Dunnfield VII, 15, Riverton IX, 11, Atco VII, 12, IX, 8; a parasite of “Lachnosterna arcuata.” TRICHOPHORA Macq. . ruficauda V. d. W. Caldwell (Cr); Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk); Westville VII, 24, VIII, 14 (Jn). CUPHOCERA Macq. . fucata V. d. W. New Brunswick, Ocean Co. (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville VI, 14, Atco IX, 11 (Jn); Clementon V, 30, VIII, 9 (Hk). PELETERIA Desv. . robusta Wied. Boonton VII, 10 (GG); Glassboro VIII, IX, 6 (CG); Clementon VI, 25, X, 4 (Hk). ARCHYTAS Jaen. . hystrix Fab. Caldwell (Cr); Shark River VII, 12, Westville VII, 10, Clementon VIII, 6 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk); Atco IX, 8 (CG); Ches- ter (Dn). 784 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. A. aterrima Desy. Throughout the State VI-X; a parasite of ““Acronycta occidentalis,” “Lagoa crispata,” etc. A. analis Fab. Clementon X, 4 (Hk). ECHINOMYIA Dumeril. E. decisa Walk. “New Jersey” (Coq). E. florum Walk. Clementon V, 10, X, 4 (div); Atco VI, 4, Buena Vista Wa ae E. dakotensis Town. lLucaston VIII, 27 (CG); Atco IX, 11, Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn); Clementon IX, 5, X, 4 (Hk); Anglesea (W). EPALPUS Rond. E. signiferus Walk. Split Rock Lake IV, 28 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick (Sm); Riverton IV, 17, Westville IV, 26 (Jn); Atco IV, 2 (Kp). BOMBYLIOMYIA B. and B. B. abrupta Wied. Dunnfield VII, 4, Morris Plains (Jn); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Bt); Camden IX, 2 (Kp); Trenton (U S Ag). Family DEXIIDA.. The “nimble flies’ of Comstock differ from the Tachinids which they otherwise resemble, in the longer legs and in having the bristle of the antennze plumose to the tip. They are much less abundant, but are also parasitic in habit. MYOCERA Desv. M. simplex Big. (eremides W1k.) Chester IX, 16 (Coll); Westville VI, 21, Woodbury VII, 7, Atco VI, 18, Buena Vista VI, 11. PARAPROSENA B. and B. P. apicalis Desv. Del. Water Gap VII, 14, Dover VI, 7. MELANOPHORA Meig. M. roralis Linn. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Clementon VIII, 6 (Jn); Avalon VI, VII (div). DEXIA Meig. (ZELIA Desv.) D. vertebrata Say. Delaware Water Gap VII, 8. PHASIOPS Cog. P. flava Coq. Caldwell (Cr). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 78 tn PTILODEXIA B. and B. P. tibialis Desv. Del. Water Gap VII, 14, Orange Mts. VII, 4, Riverton V, 29, Clementon V, 16 (Jn). EUANTHA V. d. Wulp. E. liturata Oliv. DaCosta VII, 30. CHAZTONA V. d. Wulp. C. macroptera V. d. Wulp. Trenton VII, 7 (Hk). THELAIRODES V. d. Wulp. T. basalis Giglio-Tos. Dover VI, 23, Orange Mis. T. cinereicollis V. d. Wulp. Riverton V, 30. THELAIRA Desv. T. leucozona Panz. Avalon VII, 22. THERESIA Desv. T. tandrec Desv. Chester (Sm); Malaga VIII, 4 (CG). 4 Family SARCOPHAGID&. * These are the “flesh flies,’ so called because they lay their eggs on exposed meats or other animal matter, these eggs being either ready to hatch or actually hatched when laid. The antennal bristle is here plumose at the base and bare at tip, and as scavengers the insects are useful, some larve occurring in excrement and decay of all sorts. i SARCOPHAGA Meig. S. carnaria Linn. Anglesea VII, 19, Cape May VI, 14. This is the common flesh-fiy. S. egra Walk. Westville V, 19, Anglesea VII, 19. S. georgiana Wied. Common throughout the State. S. sarracenie Riley. New Bruns- wick VIII, 7 (Coll). S. incerta Walk. Lakehurst IX, 26 (Coll). Fig. 327.—A flesh-fly, very much enlarged. 50 IN 786 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. HELICOBIA Cog. H. helicis Town. Chester IX, 3, New Brunswick VI, 4 (Coll); Avalon Wil, 22. Family MUSCIDA:. This family contains the common house-fly, the stable fly, the horn-fly, the blow-fly and similar well-known insects. All of these have the an- tennal bristle hairy or plumose to the tip, but have no spines on the abdomen except at the end, about the anal segments. The larve of these flies are true maggots, and with few exceptions they live in decaying material of all kinds, excrement, putrid meat, garbage, etc. Eggs are laid in masses and hatch in a few hours, the larval life being often scarcely a week. As scavengers these insects are useful, but they become a nuisance in the house and in the stable. While the majority of the flies gain their living by scraping and lapping liquid or pasty foods, a few of them are blood-suckers, the mouth being developed for piercing and sucking. POLLENIA Desv. P. rudis Fab. Common throughout the State V—VIII; this is a larger fly than the common house-fly, but is also found on windows, especially in late summer. CHRYSOMYIA Desv. C. macellaria Fab. .Common throughout the State VI-VIII; the larva of this fly, known as the screw-worm, has done great harm in the south- west, but is not injurious in New Jersey. CYNOMYIA Desv. C. cadaverina Desv. Boonton X, 9 (GG); Westville IX, 9, Clementon V, 9 (Jn); Lakehurst TX, 26 (Coll). CALLIPHORA Desv. C. erythrocephala Meig. Comnron throughout the State IV—X. C. vomitoria Linn. This is the common “blow-fly” which occurs every- where in the State, all season. C. viridescens Desy. Westville IV, 9. LUCILIA Desv. L. cesar Linn. Common throughout the State IV to XI. L. sylvarum Meig. Jamesburg, Westville V, 19, Atlantic City, Anglesea Walia) THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 787 L. sericata Meig. Atlantic Highlands VII, 11 (Lv); Riverton IX, 9, Clementon V, 9 (Jn). PROTOPHORMIA Town. P. terrze-novze Desv. Dover VI, 17, Westville VI, 15 (Jn); Paterson V, 28 (Coll). PHORMIA Desv. P. regina Meig. Boonton IV, 12 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 4, Westville V, 15, Avalon VIII, 22 (Jn). PSEUDOPYRELLIA Girschner. P. cornicina Fab. Riverton IX, 9, Westville. PROTOCALLIPHORA Hough. P. splendida Macq. Ashland VII, 16 (Hk). MORELLIA Desv. M. micans Macq. Newark VI, 16, Westville VII, 21, Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn); New Brunswick (Sm). MUSCA Linn. Fig. 328.—The “house fly,” Musca domestica: larva with details at right; puparium at left; adult in center: all enlarged. M. domestica Linn. House or “typhoid fly’; common throughout the State, all year around in sheltered places. It breeds preferably in horse manure, but is not averse to other excrementitious matter. 788 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. GRAPHOMYIA Desv. G. maculata Scop. Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon V, 12, VIII, 8, X,1 (Jn); Riverton VII, 12 (CG). STOMOXYS Geoff. S. calcitrans Linn. The “stable-fly,’ common throughout the State; a great pest to cattle (Sm). LYPEROSIA Rond. (HAZMATOBIA Desv.) Fig. 329.—The horn fly, Lyperosia irritans: a, egg; b, fly; c, d, head and mouth parts: much enlarged. L. irritans Linn. (serrata Desv.) “The horn-fly’; common throughout the State, but not so abundant as in previous years. Cattle may be protected from its attacks by sponging lightly with fish oil, to which a little crude carbolic acid has been added. MUSCINA Desv. M. stabulans Fall. New Brunswick VI, VII (Sm); Riverton IX, 20 (CG); Shark River VII, 9, Westville VII, 5. M. assimilis Fall. New Brunswick, Monmouth County VII (Sm); West- ville IV, 9 (Jn). MYOSPILA Rond. M. meditabunda Fab. Westville VII, 21, Clementon V, 10. Family ANTHOMYID/. The flies of this family so closely resemble those of the preceding that, to the ordinary observer, they seem to be alike. Some of the species THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 789 come into houses at times and are not usually noticed as being different from the common species. In the larval stages the habits differ. Many, perhaps the most, are scavengers, as are the muscids; a few are parasitic, as are the Tachi- nids; quite a number feed in living vegetation, either in roots, as the onion and cab- bage maggot, or mine in leaves, as in beets. ° The root maggots are diffi- cult to deal with, and not all methods are equally useful in all localities. Tobacco, helle- bore, kainit, lime with car- bolic acid or turpentine have all been used as repellants or destroyers with more or less Fig. 330.—Head and scraping hooks of a root mag- success. got, very much enlarged. Bisulphide of carbon injected into the soil has proved useful in some cases, and so has a tarred card surrounding a plant and resting on the surface. The farmer must usually learn by experience the particular method most useful in his locality. HYDROTAZA Desv. H. dentipes Fab. Pemberton V, 10 (Hk). H. armipes Fall. New Brunswick (Sm); Riverton V, 14, Avalon VII, 22 (Jn); Pemberton V, 10 (CG). H. impexa Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII. H. metatarsata Stein. Clementon V, 3 (Hk). OPHYRA Desv. O. leucostoma Wied. Boonton VII, 19 (GG); New Brunswick VI, 1 (Sm); Westville VII, 21 DaCosta VII, 19, Shiloh IX, 1. HOMALOMYIA Bouché. H. canicularis Linn. New Brunswick VII, Burlington Co. (Sm); Delair III, 1, bred from nest of “Vespa germanica”’ (Dke). H. scalaris Fab. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); New Brunswick (Sm). H. incisurata Zell. Shark River VII, 12. H. fasciculata Loew. Delaware Water Gap VII. 790 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. H. H ae 25s AC se lao DNNHDHAHA DH manicata Meig. (acra Walk.) Caldwell (Cr); Lucaston IX, 2 (Dke). . fuscula Fall. Forest Hill VIII (Wadt). HYETODESIA Rond. . houghii Stein. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Woodbury VI, 7. . leucorum Fall. (pylone Walk.) Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Clementon V, 16 (Jn); Merchantville V, 26, VI, 4 (Dke). . errans Meig. Delaware Water Gap VII, 14. . serva Meig. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12, 14. . rufitibia Stein. Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). . pallidula Cog. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. . pruinosa Macq. Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Manumuskin X, 8 (Dke). . umbratica Meig. Forest Hill VI (Wdt). . proxima V. d. Wulp. Newark V (Wat). . varipes Coq. Iona IX, 12 (CG). LASIOPS Meig. . cunctans Meig. Newark V (Wdt). MYDAEA Desv. . obscuripennis Stein. Clementon IV, 25 (Hk). SPILOGASTER Macq. pagana Fab. Del. Water Gap VII, 14, Newark VI, 16, Merchantville VI, 21, Westville VII, 21. . fusca Stein. Atco VI, 6. . abiens Stein. Delaware Water Gap VII, 11. . lysinoé Walk. (amoeba Stein.) Riverton V, 29. humeralis Zett. Westville VI, 6 (Jn); Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . urbana Meig. Del. Water Gap VII, 4 (Jn); Orange Mts. VII, 1 (Wdt). demigrans Zett. Atco VI, 6. obscurinervis Stein. New Brunswick VI, 1 (Sm); Brown’s Mills V, 21 (Dke). . socialis Stein. Orange Mts. V (Wdt); Trenton VII, 4 (Hk). . crepuscularis Stein. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Westville VIII, 14. . diruta Stein. Princeton VII, 21, Shiloh IX, 1. . uniseta Stein. Malaga IX, 15 (Hk). LIMNOPHORA Desv. . zquifrons Stein. New Brunswick (Sm). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 701 . narona Walk. (cyrtoneurina Stein.) Toms River IX, 22 (Dke); Sea Isle City VII, 22 (Jn); Anglesea VII, 12 (Coll). . arcuata Stein. Riverton IX, 29, Manumuskin X, 8 (Dke). . discreta Stein. Lucaston IX, 28 (Dke). ANTHOMYIA Meigen. . pluvialis Linn. Great Notch V, 5 (Dke); New Brunswick VIII, 5 (Coll); Trenton VIII, 11 (Hk). . albicincta Fall. Jamesburg, Farmingdale VII, 14, Atco IX, 9. . radicum Linn. This is the radish maggot, and often decidedly trouble- some. . pratincola Panz. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Hk); Atco VII, 9 (Li); Iona V, 24 (Dke); Lahaway VIII, 1 (Sm). . latitarsis Zett. Del. Water Gap VIII, 15 (Jn); Manumuskin X, 20 (DKe). HYDROPHORIA Desv. . ambigua Fall. Fort Lee VII, 4 (Dke). . divisa Meig. DaCosta VII, 30 (DkKe). HYLEMYIA Desv. . lipsia Walk. . Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Dover VI, 18 (Jn); Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke); Woodbury V, 14, Clementon V, 30, Iona VI, 8, Avalon VII, 29 (Jn). HAMMOMYIA Rond. . Unilineata Zett. Trenton IV, 16 (Coll). EUSTALOMYIA Kow. . vittipes Zett. Del. Water Gap VII, 8 (Jn); National Park V, 20 (Dke): Iona IX, 12 (CG). EREMOMYIA Stein. . cylindrica Stein. Riverton X, 12 (Jn). PHORBIA Desv. (CHORTOPHILA Rond.) . fusciceps Zett. (cilicrura Rond.) Palisades IV, 4, Highlands VII, 11 (Lv); Jamesburg VII, 4, Riverton IX, 25, Westville VII, 2 (Jn); Bur- lington Co. V, Cumberland Co. (Sm). A general feeder in roots of cabbage, raddish, onions, seed corn, etc., etc. . cinerella Fall. Newark V, New Brunswick (Sm). . levis Stein. Riverton VII, 24. 792 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. P. brassicze Bouché. The common cabbage mag- got; occurs throughout the State, some seasons very abundantly. P. cepetorum Mead. The imported onion maggot, often injurious through- out the State. P. ceparum Meig. (antiqua Schiner.) The common onion maggot; often a pest in South Jersey. P. anane Walk. Newark VI, 16. PEGOMYIA Macq. Fig. 331.—The cabbage maggot, Phorbia brassice: a, larva; b, pupa; c, adult: all enlarged. P. vicina Lintner. Richfield VI, 7 (Coll); Farmingdale VII, 14, Westville VII, 21; this is one of species mining the leaves of beets in the larval stage. P. latitarsis Stein. Delaware Water Gap VII, 15. P. unicolor Stein. Delaware Water Gap VII, 15. CHIROSIA Rond. C. capito Coq. Lucaston IX, 28, Hammonton IX, 6, Toms River IX, 22, Manumuskin X, 21 (Dke). HOPLOGASTER Rond. H. nigritarsis Stein. Woodbury V, 14, Clementon V, 30, VIII, 11, Avalon VII, 29. TETRACHAETA Stein. T. unica Stein. Avalon VIII, 8 (CG). TETRAMERINX Berg. T unica Stein. Atlantic City VII, 21 (Dke); Ocean City V, 7 (Jn). PHYLLOGASTER Stein. P. cordyluroides Stein. Avalon VII, 19 (Hk). CARICEA Desv. C. antica Walk. Ocean County V (Sm); Westville VII, 5, Anglesea VII, 19, Sea Isle City VII, 22. OF OOOO OsONO LAE VINSECTS *ORINEW JERSEY. 793 CCENOSIA Meigen. . tibialis Stein. Anglesea IV, 26 (Sm). . nivea Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 15, Atco VII, 12, Avalon VII, 29, Anglesea VII, 19 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 23 (Dke). . calopyga Loew. Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn); Delair X, 19 (Dke). . ausoba Walk. (aurifrons Stein.) Passaic VI, 8, Westville V, 24, Shiloh IX, 1 (Jn); Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). . lata Walk. (canescens Stein.) Riverton VI, VII (CG); Lucaston V, 28, IX, 12 (Dke); Clementon V, 10, Atlantic City VII, 15, Anglesea Wally we) (nays . nudiseta Stein. Ft. Lee VII, 4, Iona Vi, 8 (Dke); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). . triseta Stein. Orange Mts. V (Wdt); Jamesburg VII, 4. . sexnotata Meig. Pemberton V, 10 (Hk). . fuscopunctata Macq. New Brunswick VII (Sm). . flavicoxa Stein. Clementon V, 10 (CG). . antennalis Stein. Lucaston VIII, 27 (Dke). hypopygialis Stein. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Delair VIII, 18 (Dke). . verna Fab. Lucaston V, 28 (Dke). DEXIAPSIS Pok. (LISPOCEPHALA Stein.) . lacteipennis Zett. Delaware Water Gap VII, 15. SCHCENOMYZA Haliday. . dorsalis Loew. Ocean Co. V, Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke). . chrysostoma Loew. Shark River VII, 12; Riverton IV, 30. LISPA Laitr. . uliginosa Fall. Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Da- Costa VII, 20 (Dke). . albitarsis Stein. Trenton VIII, 11, Clementon X, 18 (Hk). . hispida Walk. Iona VI, 8, Lucaston.IX, 28 (Dke). .» consanguinea Loew. Brown’s Mills X, 6 (Dke); Trenton, Clementon XG LS 5 CEs)! . tentaculata DeGeer. Riverton XI, 28 (Jn); Trenton, Clementon X, 18 (Hk). . polita Coq. Clementon X, 18, Trenton (Hk). . sociabilis Loew. Trenton VIII, 5 (Hk). . palposa Walk. Trenton VIII, 21, Avalon VIII, 8 (Hk). FUCELLIA Desv. . fucorum Fall. New Brunswick III, 27, Anglesea IV, 11 (Coll); River- ton V, 1, Hainesport III, 26 (Dke); Clementon IV, 15 (Jn). 794 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM Family SCATOPHAGIDA. Resembles the Borboride and differentiated from it by characters obvious to the specialist only. The larval habits are various, a number occurring in stems of “Rumex,” but they are not at any time economically important. CORDYLURA Fall. . confusa Loew. Newark VI (Wdt); Seaside Park V, 16 (Vk). . adusta Loew. Ft. Lee VII, 4 (Dke). . carbonaria Walk. Ashland V,13 (Hk). . latifrons Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Westville V, Riverton VI, 19. . setosa Loew. “New Jersey” (A E 8). . pleuritica Loew. Newark VI, 6, Clementon V, 12. . preeusta Loew. Westville VI, 12, Clementon V, 30. . gracilipes Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Woodbury V, 14, Clementon V, 9 (Jn); Boonton VI, 2 (GG); Ashland V, 13 (Hk). . gilvipes Loew. Manumuskin IV, 2, National Park V, 6 (Dke). (2) (eg) (ey te) (er @) Ce) fe) c@) PARALLELOMMA Becker. P. varipes Walk. (bimaculata Loew.) Westville VII, 2, Clementon V, 30, Buena Vista VI, 7. PSELAPHEPHILA Becker. P. similis Cog. Glassboro V, 19 (Hk). HYDROMYZA Fallen. H. confluens Loew. Boonton VIII (GG). SCATOPHAGA Meig. S. stercoraria Linn. Newark VI, 17, Avalon VI, 30, Anglesea V, 28 (Jn); Camden IV, 18 (Kp). S. furcata Say. New Brunswick IV, 20, Jamesburg IV, 8, V, 14 (Sm); Camden IV, 18 (Kp). S. pallida Wlk. Delaware Water Gap VII, 14. S. cerea Cog. Orange Mts. V (Wat). Family HETERONEURIDAS. Small flies, with a large hemispherical head, the front broad and bristly to the base of the antennae, which are short. Abdomen elongate, narrow, somewhat compressed, wings broad and long, legs long. The larve are slender, cylindrical, and live in decaying wood, under bark of trees, etc. a a ae THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. =0 on HETERONEURA Fallen. . latifrons Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8 (Jn); Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). . albimana Meig. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. . pictipes Zett. Riverton V, 14, Westville VI, 6. . melanostoma Loew. New Brunswick V, 28 (Sm); bred from decaying wood, Atco (Dke). CLUSIA Haliday. . lateralis Walk. (spectabilis Loew). Palisades, Jamesburg VII, 4 Anglesea V, 28 (Dke). . flava Meig. Ft. Lee IV (Lv); Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm). Family HELOMYZID/A‘. The species of this family have the abdomen long, broad and more or less flattened, the male genitalia being somewhat prominent. The wings are’ comparatively large and the costa is bristly. The larve live in dung of bats, rabbits, truffles, decaying wood, etc., and are not in any way harmful. ls Abe alle HELOMYZA Fallen. . longipennis Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. . plumata Loew. Dunnfield VII, 11 (Jn); Boonton VI, 16 (GG). . quinquepunctata Say. Boonton VI, 16 (GG); Lucaston IX, 7 (Dke). ALLOPHYLA Loew. . levis Loew. Delaware Water Gap VII, 12. ANOROSTOMA Loew. . marginata Loew. Clementon V, 30 (Hk); DaCosta VI, 3, Lucaston V 30, Brown’s Mills VII, 4 (Dke). TEPHROCHLAMYS Loew. . rufiventris Meig. Orange Mts. VII (Wdt). LERIA Desv. . pectinata Loew. Merchantville VII, 15 (Dke); Sea Isle City VII, 22. . pubescens Loew. Forest Hill IV (Wdt); Clementon V. . tristis Loew. Newark VI. . defessa O. S. Forest Hill IV (Wdt). . helvola Loew. (Scoliocentra) Dunnfield VII, 14, Newark VI, 13 (Jn); Boonton VI, 16 (GG). woo REPORT’ OR NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM Family BORBORIDA. Medium to small black, brown or yellowish flies, having a short. quick flight. They are almost invariably found about decomposing organic matter, and often hover in clouds about dung or sewage, where their larve live. LIMOSINA Macq. L. limosa Meig. Culver’s Lake V, 29, New Brunswick VII, Ocean Co. V (Coll). BORBORUS Meigen. B. equinus Fall. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Coll); Newark VI, 16, Westville V, 19 (Jn); Riverton {V, 8 (Dke). B. geniculatus Meig. Boonton III, 3 (CG); Merchantville XI, 16 (Dke). SPHAZROCERA Latr. S. subsultans Fab. Culver’s Lake V, 30, Newark (Coll); Woodbury V, 14 (Jn). Family SCIOMYZIDAS. Head rounded, short, as broad or broader than the thorax. face retreat- ing, abdomen long and narrow. Legs and wings long, the latter exceed- ing the abdomen. The flies occur along the banks of streams in which the larve live, and the wings are often ornamented. None are harmful in any way. SCIOMYZA Fallen. S. nana Fallen. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Riverton IX, 1, Camden VIII, 24 (Jn); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). S. obtusa Fallen. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Westville V, 19. S. pubera Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (HK); Riverton IX, 29. S. apicata Loew. Trenton V, 24 (Hk). S. humilis Loew. Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk). DRYOMYZA Fallen. D. simplex Loew. Dunnfield VII, 14, Dover VI, 18. NEUROCTENA Rond. N. anilis Fall. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. TETANOCERA Latr. T. arcuata Loew. Chester VIII, 7 (Coll); Dover VI, 18, Merchantville VI, 28. ZHE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 797 T. flavescens Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, 15, Morris Plains VI, 25. Westville VII, 12 (Jn); Merchantville VI, 26 (Dke). T. combinata Loew. Elizabeth VII, 24 (Kp); Westville V, 19, Lenola V, 30, Woodbury VI, 7 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 18 (Hk); Anglesea V, 28 (Dke). T. lineata Say. Newark, salt meadow IX (Wat), X, 30 (Sm). T. sparsa Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. T. pallida Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, Atco VII, 9 (Jn); Chester VIII, 7 (Coll); Camden VI, 6 (Kp). T. umbrarum Loew. (pictipes Loew.) Dunnfield VII, 15, Westville V, 19, Lenola V, 30 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). T. saratogensis Fitch. Chester IX, 1, Paterson VI, 7 (Coll); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Atco VII, 9, Mullica Hill V, 30, Anglesea VII, 25. T. clara Loew. New Hope VII, 10 (Hk); Dunnfield VII, 8, Merchant- ville VI, 28, Atco VI, 17, Clementon VIII, 9. T. plebeja Loew. Boonton VI, 19 (GG); Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Sm); Dunnfield VII, 8, Westville VIII, 28, Woodbury VI, 7. T. plumesa Loew. Jamesburg VIII, 10 (Sm); Trenton IX, 7, Ashland VI, 22 (Hk); Lenola V, 30, Atlantic City VIII (Jn). T. canadensis Macq. Ashland VI, 22 (Hk). SEPEDON Latr. S. armipes Loew. Westville V, 19, Lenola V, 30 (Jn); Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk). S. pusillus Loew. Westville V, 19, VII, 21 (Jn); Ashland VII, 16, Pem- berton IX, 7 (Hk). S. fuscipennis Loew. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Westville IV, 19, V, 19, VIII, 23 (Jn); DaCosta VII, 17 (Dke); Clementon V, 1 (CG). Family SAPROMYZID/E. Small species, the head as broad or broader than the thorax, antenne short and porrect, legs never elongate. The ovipositor is not horny but ends tube-like. The larve are slender and live in decaying vegetation. LONCHAEA Fallen. L. rufitarsis Macq. Palisades VI (Lv); larve and pupe at Riverton in decayed wood IV, 3, imagoes IV, 16, Atco VII, 7 (Jn); Lahaway VII, 5 (Sm). L. polita Say. Clementon X, 10 (C@G). PALLOPTERA Fallen. P. superba Loew. Forest Hill VII, Orange Mts. VIII (Wdt}. 798 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. DN NDNA YD CAMPTOPROSOPELLA Hendel. . vulgaris Fitch. (Pachycerina verticalis) Chester IX, 2 (Coll); Tren- ton IX, 7, Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Jamesburg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 28, Anglesea VII, 19. LAUXANIA Latr. . obscura Loew. Culver’s Lake V, 29 (Sm); Dover VI, 17, Jamesburg VII, 4, Mullica Hill, Clementon V, 30. . gracilipes Loew. Palisades VII, 26 (liv); Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Lenola VIII, 7, Clementon VIII, 11 (Jn). . cylindricornis Fab. Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Clem- enton V, 30. . latipennis Cog. Buena Vista VI, 7 (Li); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Sm). . opaca Loew. Buena Vista VI, 8 (Li); Avalon VI, 9. . muscaria Loew. Merchantville VI, 28, Avalon VI, 8. SAPROMYZA Fallen. . decora Loew. Pemberton VIII, 8 (Hk); South Camden VI, 6 (Li). . compedita Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). . philadelphica Macq. New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VII, 15 (Sm); Cramer Hill VI, 10 (CG); Anglesea V, 28 (W). . fraterna Loew. Chester VII, 5 (Coll); Merchantville VI, 28. . umbrosa Loew. Lahaway VI, 21 (Sm); Atco VI, 17, Merchantville VI, 28, Anglesea VII, 10. . macula Loew. New Brunswick VII, 1 (Sm); Atco VII, 7, Westville V, 19, Cape May VIII, 20. . bispina Loew. Trenton VI, 3, Jamesburg VII, Anglesea VII (Coll). . Quadrilineata Loew. Trenton V, 20, Glassboro V, 19 (Hk); James- burg VII, 4, Merchantville VI, 28, Clementon V, 30. . lupulina Fab. Boonton VI, 6, (GG); Middlesex County VII, 7 (Sm); Trenton V, 21, Lucaston IX, 9, Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Jamesburg VII, 4, Clementon V, 30 (Jn). . longipennis Meig. Clementon V, 10. . innuba Giglio-Tos. Riverton VI, 20. houghii Cog. Atco VII, 12, Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). . connexa Say. Merchantville V, 26, National Park VI, 10 (Dke). . magna Cog. Anglesea V, 28 (Dke). . rotundicornis Loew. Malaga VI, 1 (Dke). Family ORTALIDA: Small or medium-sized flies, often with metallic colors, the wings banded with brown or black. Head of good size, front broad, legs stout and only moderately long. The larval stages are not well known. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 799 PYRGOTA Wied. P. undata Wied. Caldwell (Cr); Orange Mts., Woodbury V, 22 (CG); Atco VI, 19 (Nell); Clementon ‘VI, 5 (Dke). P. valida Harris. Caldwell V, 16 (Cr); Westville V, 18, VII, 12 (div). AMPHICNEPHES Loew. A. pulla Wied. (pertusus Lw.) Newark VI, 16, Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco ; VI, 4, Buena Vista VI, 11, DaCosta VII, 30 (Jn); Wenonah VI, 14 (Dke); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). RIVELLIA Desv. R. conjuncta Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VII, 12 (Jn); Buena Vista VI, 14 (Li); Malaga VII, 20, Anglesea V, 28 (W). R. viridulans Desy. Throughout the State V—VIII, common. R. quadrifasciata Macq. New Brunswick VII, 30 (Sm); Jamesburg VII, 15, Westville VI, 26, Clementon V, 30, VIII, 8 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (W). R. flavimana Loew. Westville V, 19 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (Hk). R. variabilis Loew. Avalon VII, 29 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28, VII, 19 (div). R. pallida Loew. Boonton VII, 10 (GG); Newark VI, 13 (Jn); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Anglesea VI, 11 (Hk). R. brevifasciata Johns. Atco VI, 18 (Jn); Lacy VII, 14 (Dke). R. boscii Desv. Trenton V, 21 (Hk). TRITOXA Loew. T. flexa Wied. Westville VIII, 23, Woodbury VI, i, Atco’ Vi, 18 (Jn); Malaga IX, 15 (CG); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). T. incurva Loew. Cald- well (Cr). CAMPTONEURA Macq. C. picta Fab. Throughout the State VI-X, com- mon. Fig. 332.—The onion fly. Tritoxa flexa and its larva: enlarged. IDANA Loew. I. marginata Say. “New Jersey” (A E 8). TEPHRONOTA Loew. T. narytia Walk. (humilis Loew.) Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VII, 9. Buena Vista VI, 11 (Jn): Belleplain IX, 8, Brown’s Mills VII, 5 (Dke). 800 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. T. ie) TETANOPS Loew. luridipennis Loew. Camden VII, 24 24 (DaCosta VII, 30, Clementon VII, 8, VIII, 9 (Jn); Glassboro VII, 5 (CG). CALLOPISTROMYIA Hendel: (CALLOPISTRIA Loew.) . annulipes Macq. Boonton VII, 18 (GG); Merchantville VIII, 1 (Dke). PSEUDOTEPHRITIS Johns. (STICTOCEPHALA Loew.) . vau Say. Boonton VIII, 12 (GG); Westville VII, 21 (Jn); National Park V, 20 (Dke); Prospertown IX, 25 (Sm). . corticalis Loew. New Brunswick V, 18 (Sm); Riverton IV, 22. CHRYSOMYZA Fallen. . demandata Fab. Bloomfield IX (Wdt); New Brunswick X, 18 (Sm); Riverton IX, 9, X, 20 (Jn). EUXESTA Loew. . notata Wied. Riverton V, 29, VIII, 21, Westville VI, 27 (Jn); Glass- boro V, 19 (CG); Cumberland Co., bred from onions (Sm). . scoriacea Loew. Lacy V, 27 (Dke); Sea Isle City VII, 22, Two-Mile Beach VII, 22 (Jn). CHAETOPSIS Loew. . znea Wied. New Brunswick (Sm); Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Pemberton V, 10 (CG); Lenola V, 30, Anglesea VII, 16, Cape May VI, 14. . apicalis Johns. Avalon VI, 9, Sea Isle VII, 22, Anglesea VII, 16. SEOPTERA Loew. . vibrans Linn. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VI, 4, Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll); Newbold VI, 30 (Dke). . colon Loew. New Jersey. STENOMYIA Loew. . tenuis Loew. Atco VI, 4, 18, Buena Vista VI, 11, DaCosta VII, 30, Clementon VIII, 6. EUMETOPIA Macq. . rufipes Macq. Trenton VII, 7, Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); Camden VIII, 24, Westville VII, 4, 21. SEPSISOMA Johns. . flavescens Johns. Trenton VII, 3 (Hk); Westville VIII, 19 (Jn); Wenonah VI, 14 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF) NEW JERSEY: Sor Family TRY PETIDA. The “peacock flies,’ so called because of their habit of elevating the wings and strutting about, peacock like. These wings are often prettily marked and spotted with black or brown. In the female the abdomen is often prolonged into a horny ovipositor. The flies are gracefully built, fly slowly and are noticeable by keeping their wings in constant motion. Most of the members of the series feed in plant tissue of some kind, either in leaves, in stems or in fruits, and a number of them are gall- makers. The only species of economic importance in this State is the “Apple maggot,’ which injures some of the early summer varieties. The only remedial measure is the prompt removal and disposal! of all fruit from trees known to be infested. STRAUSSIA Desv. S. longipennis Wied. Boonton VII, 24 (GG); Caldwell (Cr); Ft. Lee (Bt), Orange Mts., Elizabeth V, 21, Camden V; 26 (Kp). ACIDIA Desv. A. fratria Loew. Trenton V, 31 (Hk); Riverton V, 20 (CG). SPILOGRAPHA Loew. Z. flavonotata Macq. Glassboro VII 6 (CG). TRYPETA Loew. T. palposa Loew. Avalon VI, 8, on thistle (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (W). PLAGIOTOMA Loew. P. obliqua Say. New Jersey (Bt); Clementon VIII, 6 (Jn). CEDASPIS Loew. O. atra Loew. Lucaston IX, 9, Ashland VI, 23 (Hk); Riverton VI, 18, Avalon VI, 8, Cape May VI, 14 (Jn); Belleplain IX, 16 ‘Dke); Angle- sea V, VI (div). O. polita Loew. Generally distributed; forms a gall on Solidago (Bt). RHAGOLETIS Loew. R. cingulata Loew. Atl. Highlands VII, 11 (Lv); Long Branch VII (OS). R. tabellaria Fitch. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Buena Vista VII, 10 (Li). 51 IN 802 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Fig. 333.—Apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella: a, adult; b, larva; c, spiracle of larva; d, puparium; e, apple, showing injury by larva: all enlarged. R. pomonella Walsh. Montclair; the apple maggot, locally injurious but seems confined to a very few varieties (Sm); Weymouth VIII, 8, DaCosta VIII, 16, bred from huckleberries (Dke). EUTRETA Loew. E. sparsa Loew. Caldwell (Cr); Jamesburg VII (Dke); Trenton VI, 27, VIII, 26 (Hk). EUROSTA Loew. E. comma Wied. Chester (Dn); Trenton IX, 7, Clementon IX, 5 (Hk); Glassboro IX, 19 (CG). E. solidaginis Fitch. Ft. Lee (Bt); Trenton V, 21 (Hk); Clementon V, 10. E. conspurcata Doane. “New Jersey” (Doane). NEASPILOTA O. S. N. alba Loew. Lenola VIII, 7, Clementon VIII, 6; on ironweed. N. albidipennis Loew. Ashland VII, 16 (Hk); Lenola VIII, 7, Westville VIII, 14, Clementon VIII, 6; on ironweed. N. vernonize Loew. Westville VIII, 16, Clementon VIII, 6, Lenola VIII, 7; on ironweed. N. achilleze Johns. Avalon VI, 30; on yarrow “Achillea millefolium.” ICTERICA Loew. circinata Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Westville VIII, 23, IX, 18. seriata Loew. Forest Hill VIII (Wdt); Trenton VII, Clementon VIII, 23 (Hk). TEPHRITIS Latr. T. geminata Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4, Atco VII; 12 (Jn); Riverton VII, 8, Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll); Pemberton VII, 11 (CG). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 803 . picturata Snow. Avalon VII, 8 (Hk). . albiceps Loew. Caldwell (Cr); “New Jersey” (Bt). . clathrata Loew. Riverton VII, 19. . platyptera Loew. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke); Clementon V, 30 (Hk). T. fucata Fab. Wildwood VIII, 12, Cape May VIII, 1 (Vk). 4444 -EUARESTA Loew. E. bella Fitch. Caldwell (Cr); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm); James- burg VII, 4, Atco VII, 9, Clementon VI, 8 (Jn). E. festiva Loew. Trenton IX, 7 (Hk); Westville VIII, 13, 28. E. zequalis Loew. Trenton IX, 7 (Hk); Lucaston X, 15 (Dke); West- ville VIII, 28 on “Ambrosia artemisiefolia,’ Anglesea IX, 1. E. subpura Johns. Wildwood VIII (Jn); Anglesea VIII (Sm:. URELLIA Desv. U. abstersa Loew. Riverton VII, 18 (div); Avalon VII, 22 (Jn); Angle- sea IX, 5 (Dke). U. mevarna Walk. (solaris Loew.) Penbryn VIII, 2 (Dke); Egg Har- bor VII, 10 (Coll); Cape May VI, 22. Family MICROPEZIDAL. Flies slender or very slender, with large wings and long legs, antennse variable, face retreating in profile. The larval habits are not definitely known. CALOBATA Meigen. C. antennipes Say. Dunnfield VII, 8, Princeton VII, 21, Jamesburg VII, 4 (Jn); Collingswood VII, 17 (CG). C. lasciva Fab. Orange Mts. VII (Wdt); Atlantic City VII (Jn); Angle- sea (W). C. univitta Walk. Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Cramer Hill V, 30 (CG). Cc. alesia Walk. New Jersey V (A ES). Family SEPSIDA. “The flies belonging to this family are usually small. black and elongated, with the abdomen narrowed at the base, thickened and curved downward toward the extremity; with transparent, iridescent wing, usually hyaline, but often with a spot or spots toward the end, and are usually observed about decaying vegetables, excrement, cheese, ham, etc., often in swarms. The flies, for the greater part, run about actively, and are quick in flight. The best known are the species of ‘Piophila,’ the larve of which are known as ‘cheese-mites.’ These larve live in 804 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. cheese, in ham or bacon, or, in general, in any fatty material, and often do much damage, being especially troublesome in pork-packing establish- ments. From the peculiar power of leaping possessed by the maggots they are often called ‘skippers’; the act is performed by the larva seiz- ing with its extended mouth hooklets the edge of the posterior truneature of the body and then suddenly releasing it while pulling hard.’’—Willis- ton. PROCHYLIZA Walk. P. xanthostoma Walk. Riverton IV, 9, X, 9 (Jn); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). SEPSIS Fallen. S. violacea Meig. New Brunswick VII, 20, Jamesburg VII, 15. Ocean Co. V (Sm); Trenton VII, 6 (Hk). NEMOPODA Desv. N. cylindrica Fab. Dover VI, 17. Morris’ Plains Vila 25, Riverton IX, 17, Trenton V, 20 (Hk). N. minuta Wied. Chester IX, 2 (Coll); Newark VI, 14, Riverton VII, 3. PIOPHILA Fallen. P. casei Linn. This is the cheese mite or skipper, and occurs everywhere. Piophila caset, parent of ‘‘skippers’”’ in cheese, ELE: Fig. 334. P. nigriceps Meig. Pemberton Ws 10) (OEE Family) PSILIDAS: Slender flies of moderate size, with large wings, long legs and at least moderately long antenns. The larve, so far as known, live in roots or galls. LOXOCERA Meigen. L. cylindrica Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Camden VI, 10, Woodbury VI, 7, Clementon V, 30, Mullica Hill (Jn); Trenton VII, 13 (Hk). L. pectoralis Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 11. L. pleuritica Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 12. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 805 CHYLIZA Fallen. C. notata Loew. Caldwell (Cr). C. apicalis Loew. Riverton VII, 2 (Jn); Merchantville VI, 4 (Dke). PSILA Meigen. P. bivittata Loew. Clementon, Lenola V, 30. P. collaris Loew. Newark VI, 13, Ateo VI, 4 (Jn); Clementon VI, 7 (Li); Brown’s Mills VI, 9 (DkKe). P. lateralis Loew. Trenton V, 20 (Hk); Riverton VI, 20. Family DIOPSIDA‘. Our only species belonging to this family is easily recognized by the two lateral horns or processes from the side of the head upon which the eyes are situated. lt occurs on skunk cabbage. SPHYRACEPHALA Say. S. brevicornis Say. Newark V (Wdt); Riverton IV, 14 (Jn); Clementon V, 5 (Hk); Wenonah V, 30 (Dke). Family KEPHYDRIDAE. “The flies of this family are never large, often small or even minute. The greater number of the species are inhabitants of wet places, about marshy ground, meadows, etc. They are always thinly nilose or bare species, and never with bright colors. The exceedingly large head and mouth of some species are very characteristic, but in others this char- acter is not so apparent, and there is sometimes difficulty in separating the genera from those of the ‘Drosophilide.’ The larve of many forms are very peculiar, resembling the rat-tailed larve of the ‘Syrphide’ in many cases.’’—Williston. In New Jersey the species are not notably abundant; but they occur in countless millions in the great salt lake in Utah, and in other alkaline lakes and ponds of the northwestern desert region. DICHAETA Meigen. . brevicauda Loew. Clementon V, 5 (CG); Ocean County V (Sm). D. caudata Fall. Riverton IV, 8 (Dke); Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). 0 NOTIPHILA Fallen. N. carinata Loew. Cape May VI, 22. N. scalaris Loew. Shark River VII, 12 (Jn); Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Bridgeport V, 20 (Dke). N. vittata Loew. Woodbury VI, 7. N. bella Loew. Westville VI, 15. 806 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. E Ph Go UU DO PARALIMNA Loew. appendiculata Loew. Riverton IX, 11, Westville V, 19, Cumberland Co. IX, 1 (Jn); Ashland V, 13 (Hk). decipiens Loew. Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk). PSILOPA Fallen. . atrimana Loew. Riverton X, 9. . scoriacea Loew. Delaware Water Gap VII, 13 (Jn); Trenton VIII, 23 (Hk). . aciculata Loew. Avalon VIII, 8 (Hk). . fulvipennis Hine. Cape May VII, 1 (Vk). . flavida Coq. Avon IX, 27 (Hk). GASTROPS Will. . hebulosus Coq. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Clementon V, 5 (CG). ILYTHEA Haliday. - spilota Curtis. Riverton IX, 17. DISCOCERINA Macq. . lacteipennis Loew. Cape May VI, 14. » magna Coq. Riverton VIII, 17. . parva Loew. Ashland V, 18 (Hk). . simplex Loew. Trenton VIII, 23, Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). HYDRELLIA Desv. . scapularis Loew. Trenton VII, 21 (Hk); Riverton IX, 19 (Jn); Man- ahawkin IX, 5. . valida Loew. Cape May VI, 4 (Vk). . hypoleuca Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Avon IX, 27. . cruralis Cog. Riverton IX, 19 (Hk). PELINA Haliday. . brevis Walk. Ashland VI, 22 (Hk). HYADINA Halid. . rufipes Meig. Trenton VIII, 23 (Hk). OCHTHERA Latr. » mantis DeGeer. Camden VII, 1 (Kp); Clementon V, 30 (Jn); Angle- sea VIII, 5 (Hk); Cape May IX, 21 (Dke). THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 807 BRACHYDEUTERA Loew. B. argentata Walk. Riverton VIII, 3 (Jn); Cape May VIII, 20 (Vk). PARYDRA Stenhammer. P. bituberculata Loew. Dunnfield VII, 15 (Jn); Riverton IV, 26 (CG). P. pinguis Walk. Shark River VII, 12. P. quadrituberculata Loew. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk); Cape May VI, 4 (Vk). P. imitans Loew. Near Anglesea Junction VI, 25 (Vk). P. breviceps Loew. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). EPHYDRA Fallen. E. subopaca Loew. Long Branch VI, 12, Ocean City V, 7, Wildwood VII, 12 (Jn); Cape May (Dke). E. nana Walk. Cramer Hill VIII, 24, Riverton X, 9. SCATELLA Desv. S. stagnalis Meig. Newark XII, 7 (wat); Trenton VIII, 23 (Hk); Iona IX, 12 (CG); Avalon VII, 22. flavillacea Loew. Cape May VI, 14. . oscitans Walk. Clementon V, 14 (CG). . callosicosta Cress. Seaside Park V, 16 (Vk). S. lugens Loew. Riverton X, 9. NnXD CENIA Desv. S. spinosa Loew. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk); Ocean Co. V (Sm); Anglesea VII, 19, Cape May VI, 22. C. fumosa Sten. Cape May IX, 17, at light (Vk). CANACE Haliday. C. snodgrassii Coq. Atlantic City V, 6. LIPOCHAETA Cog. L. slossonze Coq. Anglesea VII, 19, Cape May VI, 6. Family OSCINIDA‘. The “frit flies.’ They are small, bare species, with hemispherical head, flat front, short antenne, short wings and ovate or elliptical abdo- men. The legs are short and moderately stout. They are often colored or banded, and are common in grass and meadow lands. The larve live in the stems of grasses of all kinds, and may bécome locally injurious. 808 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. MEROMYZA Meigen. M. americana Fitch. In- (ay (el (2) (@) . versicolor Loew. New fests wheat and other grasses; common throughout the State V-VIII, but thus far not injurious. CHLOROPS Meigen. Brunswick, Anglesea V, 28 (Sm); James- burg VII, 4, Atco VII, 9 (Jn); Clementon V— Fig. 335.—Meromyza americana, the stem maggot fly. VIII (div). . nigripes Coq. Trenton VIII, 21, Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . crocota Loew. Newark V (Wdt); Clementon VIII, 6. . rufescens Coq. Trenton VIII, 21, Riverton VII, 18 (Hk). . sulphurea Loew. Trenton V, 20, Ashland VII, 15, Clementon V, 30 (Hk); Ateo,,VI,:4, VIL 9. . confluens Loew. Trenton VIII, 19 (Hk). . grata Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Princeton VII, 21. . assimilis Macq. Newark, Ocean Co. V (Sm); Trenton V, 20, Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Riverton X, 9, Princeton VII, 21, Clementon V, 9, Angle- sea VII. . subnigra Cog. Manahawkin IX, 5 (Hk). . procera Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 11, Asbury Park VIII, 16, Clemen- ton VIII, 8. . eucera Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4. . unicolor Loew. Trenton V, 20 (Hk); Princeton VII, 21, Riverton V, 14, Westville VII, 12, DaCosta VII, 30. . variceps Loew. Ocean Co. V (Sm). . obscuricornis Loew. Atco VI, 4, 18. . melanccera Loew. Riverton V, 14 (Jn); Ashland V, 18, Clementon V, 30 (Hk). . proxima Say. Trenton V, 20, Iona V, 16 (Hk); Lucaston V, 28, Brown’s Mills V, 21 (DKe). . pulverea Cog. Merchantville V, 26 (Dke). HIPPELATES Loew. . plebejus Loew. DaCosta VI, 4 (Dke); Clementon V, 12, VIII, 8, Ava- lon VI, 9 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). . nobilis Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Avalon VI, 9, 30. . flavipes Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Laurel Springs VI, 13, Brown’s Mills VII, 1 (Dke). \ THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 809 . pusio Loew. Riverton V, 14, X, 9 (Jn); Trenton VIII, 23, Ashland V, 13 (Hk). . plumbellus Wied. Riverton V, 14. . bicolor Coq. New Brunswick VII (Sm). . stramineus Loew. Riverton IX, 11 (Jn); Lakehurst VII, 7 (Coll). . microcentrus Coq. Mt. Holly III, 17, Brown’s Mills VI, 9 (Dke); Ash- land VI, 22 (Hk); Anglesea V, 28 (div). ae ale Gels) fake ELACHIPTERA Macq. E. eunota Loew. Trenton VII, 5 (Hk); Avalon VI, 30. E. nigriceps Loew. Shark River VII, 12, Riverton VII, 3, Clementon V, 30; bred from Lotus infested by “Pyrausta nelumbialis” VII, 13. E. costata Loew. New Brunswick VII, 20, Ocean Co. V (Sm); Princeton VII, 21 (Jn); Merchantville XI, 16 (DKe). E. formosa Loew. Riverton IX, 8. E. longula Loew. Clementon VI, 3. MOSILLUS Latr. M. zeneus Fall. Avon IX, 27 (Hk). SIPHONELLA Maeg. S. cinerea Loew. Riverton X, 9, Cramer Hill VIII, 24 (Jn); Ashland VII, 15 (HK); Brown’s Mills IX, 16 (Dke). S. pumilionis Bjerk. Riverton VII, 3. S. inquilina Coq. Manamuskin X, 8 (Dke); Clementon X, 2, Iona IX, 12 (CG); Manahawkin IX, 15 (Hk). OSCINIS Latr. O. carbonaria Loew. Ocean Co. V (Sm); Avon IX, 27 (Hk). * ©. trigramma Loew. Shark River VII, 12 (Jn); Lucaston IX, 15 (Dke); Anglesea V, 28 (Sm). O. coxendix Fitch. Riverton X, 9 (Jn); Lucaston IV, 4 (Dke); Avon IX, 27 (Hk). O. soror Macq. Riverton IV, 8 (Dke); Ocean Co. V (Sm). Family DROSOPHILID. The species in this family are small, plump, without pile, the bristles of the head and legs conspicuous. Abdomen usually short and broad, geni- talia not prominent, colors tending to yellow. They are often abundant about decomposing or fermenting fruit, about cider-mills, wine-presses, etc., whence they are called “pomace flies.” The larve live in this pomace and on the surface of the scum of the fermenting fruit juice. 810 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. UU UU DO PHORTICA Schiner. . vittata Coq. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Avalon VI, 8 (Jn); Anglesea V, 28 (Dke). . leucostoma Loew. Dunnfield VII, 8, 12, Dover VII, 16 (Jn); Delair VIII, 18 (Dke). : humeralis Loew. Riverton VII, 30, Westville VII, 26. STEGANA Meig. . coleoptrata Scop. Delaware Water Gap VII, 13. CURTONOTUM Macq. . helvum Loew. New Brunswick VII, 7 (Sm); Princeton VII, 21, West- ville VII, 26, VIII, 23, Atco VII, 9 (Jn); Riverton IX, 26 (CG); Stone Harbor VIII, 3 (Dke). DROSOPHILA Fallen. » amoena Loew. Westville VII, 21, Glassboro VIII, 28 (GG); Merchant- ville XI, 16 (Dke). \ 2) a fh a fe te By ares Se cass aa ary, a ey, eal cee ear eed re B Pommace fly; Drosophila ampelophila: a, adult; b, larva; d, e, pupa. Fig. 336. . ampelophila Loew. Common “fruit” or “vinegar fly’; everywhere in the State after midsummer. . funebris Fab. Riverton VI, 1. . quadrimaculata Waik. Del. Water Gap VII, 12, Merchantville VI, 28 (Jn); New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm). . graminum Fall. Trenton V, 24, Clementon VII, 4 (Hk); Anglesea V, 28 (W). . adusta Loew. New Brunswick VII, 20 (Sm). . confusa Steger. Delaware Water Gap VII, 13. . colorata Walk. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII, 15. . punctulata Loew. Glassboro X, 17 (CG). . maculosa Coq. Riverton IX, 28. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 811 . inversa Walk. Avalon VI, 8. . ordinaria Coq. Riverton VIII, 4. - multipuncta Loew. Cape May IX, 23 (Vk). . varia Walk. Riverton VI, 15, Newbold VII, 4 (Dke); Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk). . tripunctata Loew. Newbold VII, 4, Merchantville XI, 16 (Dke). . quinaria Loew. Merchantville XI, 16 (Dke). . phalerata Meig. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk). . valida Wlk. Manahawkin VII, 5 (Hk). 000 0 OO oso Family GEOMYZIDAR. Small or even minute flies with comparatively large wings. The an- tenne are short, arista variable, front broad and bristly below the apex. The larve, so far as known, live in the stems of plants. DIASTATA Meig. D. pulchra Loew. “New Jersey” (A E 8). D. nebulosa Fall. Cleznenton V, 16. ISCHNOMYIA Loew. 1. albicosta Walk. (vittula Loew.) Dunnfield VII, 12, Princeton VII, 21, Westville VII, 2. . ANTHOMYZA Fallen. A. variegata Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); New Brunswick VI, 1, Ocean Co. V (Sm). A. terminalis Loew. Trenton V, 24 (Hk). SCYPHELLA Desv. S. flava Linn. New Brunswick (Sm). Family AGROMYZID/. Consists of small or minute flies difficult to separate from the allied groups. The front is broad, the antenna short, arista absent, or, when present, bare or only tubescent. The wings are broad, venation re- sembling that of the ailied families. The larve vary greatly in habits; some are leaf miners, some feed upon plant lice, others occur in galls in which their function is not yet well understood. NAPOMYZA Haliday. N. chrysanthemi Kowarz. Newbold VII, 4 (Dke). Larva is a leaf-miner in Chrysanthemum. 812 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Cc. CERATOMYZA Schiner. dorsalis Loew. Riverton V, 14, VII, 3, X, 10. AGROMYZA Fallen. A. coronata Loew. Ashland V, 13 (Hk); Avalon VII, 22 (Jn). A. melampyga Loew. Jamesburg VII, 4. A. 99 m0] Fig. 337.—Agromyza simplex, from above at left and from side at right. simplex Loew. Chester IX, 5 (Coll); Newark VI, 13, Riverton VII, 24, Atco VI, 4 (Jn); Ashland V, 13 (Hk); larva mines in asparagus. » angulata Loew. Del. Water Gap VII, 8, Newark VI, 13: zneiventris Fall. Trenton VIII, 11, Pemberton VII, 8 (Hk); West- ville VII, 21; larva burrows in roots of clover. dimidiata Walk. Ocean Co. V (Sm); a leaf-miner of cabbage. magnicornis Loew. Riverton VII, 17; a leaf-miner of Iris. parvicornis Loew. Trenton V, 20 (Hk); Riverton VI, 20. jucunda V. d. W. Riverton IX, 17; larva mines in verbena, aster, etc. . viridula Coq. National Park V, 6 (Dke). PHYLLOMYZA Fall. . securicornis Fall. Trenton VIII, 21 (Hk). DESMOMETOPA Loew. . m-nigrum Zett. New Brunswick VIII, 26 (Sm). halteralis Cog. Clementon V, 12, Anglesea VII, 19. latipes Meig. Chester IX, 3 (Sm); Clementon X, 18 (Hk). RHICNOESSA Loew. . albula Loew. Wildwood VIII, 27, Avalon VII, 19 (Hk); Stone Harbor VIII, 8-12 (DkKe). EUSIPHONA Coquillett. mira Coq. Del. Water Gap VII, 10, Bamber IX, 1 (Dke). RHE MINSEC TS OF NEW JERSEY. 813 RHYNCHOMILICHIA Hendel. (LOBIOPTERA Wahlb.) . indecora Loew. teo VI, 6, Woodbury VI, 7, Buena Vista VI, 11, Ava- lon VI, 9. MILICHIELLA G-Tos. . lacteipennis Loew. Brown’s Mills VI, 22 (Dke); Avalon VI, 9. . bisignata Cog. Riverton VII, 4. . arcuata Loew. Riverton VIII, 25, Anglesea IX, 2 (Jn); Lucaston VIII, 10 (Dke). TRAGINOPS Cog. 3 . irrorata Cog. “New Jersey. LEUCOPIS Meig. . simplex Loew. Riverton VI, 19, Clementon VIII, 6, Avalon VI, 9, VII, 22. . higricornis Egger. Del. Water Gap, bred VII, 20, from willow galls collected VII, 11 (Jn). CCHTHIPHILA Fallen. . polystigma Meig. Newark V (Sm); Trenton V, 20, Ashland VII, 15 (Hk); Westville VII, 21 (Jn); Egg Harbor VII, 10 (Coll). . elegans Panzer. Clementon V, 30. Sub-order PUPIPARA. The term really explains its own meaning, though perhaps the name “louse-flies” may appeal more strongly to the imagination. The insects are flattened, adapted to live among wool or feathers, and infest chiefly birds of prey. Among animals the sheep only is infested by a “tick,” which is really a degraded, wingless member of this family. They are termed pupipara because the larva remains in the body of the mother until it is mature and ready to enter the pupal stage. Family HIPPOBOSCIDAE. ORNITHOMYIA Latr. UN) LR Fig. 338. Fig. 339. Fig. 338.—A bird fly, Olfersia species: enlarged. Fig. 339.—Bee louse: Braula species: much enlarged. 814 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. O. anchineuria Speiser. (pallida Say.) On the reedbird IX, 2, and red- winged blackbird VIII, 19, shot by Mr. Chas. Liebeck along the Dela- ware River. OLFERSIA Wied. ©. americana Leach. On the red-tailed hawk XI, 9, Haddonfield; it also frequents the great horned owl and screech owl. O. ardeze Macq. On American bittern IX, 15, 21, X, 10, and night heron X, 15, shot by Mr. Chas. Liebeck along the Delaware River; little blue heron, Bristol Island, Delaware River (Fowler). PSEUDOLFERSIA Cog. P. maculata Coq. Cape May VIII, from a fish hawk (Sk); Lahaway IV, 1, several specimens from fish hawk, by J. Turner Brakeley. MELOPHAGUS Latr. Fie. 3 ee M. ovinus Linn. The “sheep louse-fly’; infests sheep. tick: Melophagus everywhere ovinus: enlarged. Alphabetical Index to Localities. Albion, Camden County; Pine Barrens: three and one-half miles west of Atco. Serub and pine land, with pine and cedar swamps to the south. Allaire, Monmouth County; Pine Barrens: just west of the marshy shore meadows, north of Lakewood, southeast of Freehold. Alloway, Salem County; Delaware Valley: good, well-cultivated country, with scrub pine and other woodland surroundings. Almonesson, Camden County; southeast of Woodbury, on Almonesson Creek. Low, somewhat marshy and scrubby land, with a consider- able pond. Alpine, Bergen County: Highlands: on the Hudson, about four miles south of the State line. Rocky, wooded country. Ancora, Camden County; Pine Barrens: about three miles north of Winslow. Scrub end swamp, with cranberry bogs on the Pump branch. Andover, Sussex County, about five miles south of Newton; Appalachian, - just beyond the Highlands: hilly, wooded country, with extremes of a little over 700 feet. Small ponds filled by little brooks near by. Anglesea: see Five-Mile Beach. Arlington, Piedmont Plains: or Arlington Meadows, Delaware Valley, Hissex County. A short distance east of Newark, at the edge of the Hackensack meadows, where most of the collecting was actually done. Asbury Park, Monmouth County; Delaware Valley and Maritime: means generally the ocean front and washed up material; but there is good collecting ground in the coniferous woodland west of the town. Ashland, Camden County; Delaware Valley. Three miles east of Had- donfield on the Camden and Atlantic R. R. Atco, Camden County; Pine Barrens. Scrub land; mostly conifers, light sandy soil, cedar and cranberry swamps. Atlantic City, Atlantic County; Coastal and Maritime. On an island made up of sand dunes, with reedy grasses rising from the ocean front to a central lack-bone and dropping off at the west to a broad marsh which becomes flooded at unusually high water. Much of the collecting was done along the shore in times past, of material washed up by the sea, and little has been done of late years. Atlantic County. Means usually the pine barrens. Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. A high ridge at the land end of Sandy Hook, overlooking the ocean and Raritan Bay. Rolling scrub land with little high wood and much bush, merg- ing into swampy meadows back of the ridge and along shore. Atsion, Burlington County; Pine Barrens. Surrounded by cranberry and cedar swamps, on Atsion Creek. _(815) 816 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Avalon, Cape May County. On the ocean front, south of Sea Isle City, and much like it in character. , Avon, Monmouth County, Delaware Valley. Between Belmar and Brad- ley Beach. Very like Asbury Park. Bamber, Ocean County; Pine Barrens. Mr. Daecke has taken many in- teresting species here. Bargaintown, Atlantic County; Pine Barrens. On the pond at the head of Patecong Creek, which empties into Great Egg Harbor near Somers Point. Scrub and swamp land. Barnegat, Ocean County. Situated on a strip of the Delaware Valley region between the Maritime and the pine barrens. Barnegat Bay Dist. Includes all that region on both sides of Barnegat Bay from Bay Head to Barnegat Bay Junction. It is largely in the Coastal Strip but small areas of Delaware Valley formation are on the sand bars to the east of the Bay, and the mainland to the west of the marsh is also of this formation. Where cited it usually means Barnegat, Manahawkin or the sand bar between Barnegat City and the Junction. Barnegat City, Ocean County. On the sand bar just south of Barnegat Inlet; a small ridge of Delaware Valley formation with salt marsh and sand on either side. Basking Ridge, Somerset County: Piedmont Plain. Good farming coun- try, little deciduous forest. _Bayside, Cape May County: Coastal Strip. On the Delaware Bay side of the Cape May peninsula, southwest of Cape May Court House. Pine and oak scrub land; beaches sand, gravel or mud. Beach Haven, Ocean County. On Long Beach, fronting the ocean. A narrow, sandy island backed by tide marsh to Little Egg Harbor. Beesley’s Point, Cape May County: Coastal region. On the south shore of Great Egg Harbor opposite Somers Point. A low sand spit with tide marsh on either side. Belleplain, Cape May County; Pine Barrens. Mostly typical scrub land with an admixture of cedar and cranberry swamps. Belleville, Essex County; Piedmont Plain. At the junction of the Passaic and Second River, just north of Newark, on rising land. Bellport, Long Island. A few species, chiefly saw-fiies, are cited from this and other localities on Long Island by Dr. Dyar, where the food plant occurs in similar situations in New Jersey. Belmar, Monmouth County: Coastal and Delaware Valley regions. On the coast, with the usual scrub back of the ocean at this region. Belvidere, Warren County; Appalachian. Hilly land with deciduous forests. Bergen, Hudson County; Delaware Valley. A section of Jersey City lying to the northwest, and at present almost entirely in city lots. Bergen Hill, Middlesex County, about one mile from South Amboy in the brick and clay beds. The chances are that Bergen Point, in Hudson County, was intended by Hagen in his citations of this locality. THE INSECTS. OF NEW.JERSEY. 817 Bergen Point, Hudson County; Delaware Valley. On the southern point of the Bayonne Peninsula, just opposite Staten Island. Berkeley Heights, Union County; on the edge of the Piedmont Plain bor- dering the Watchung range. Rolling and somewhat hiily with decid- uous woodland and small streams. Berlin and West Berlin, Camden County; Pine Barrens. About two and one-half miles northwest of Atco, at the edge of the pine and scrub land. Beverly, Burlington County; Delaware Valley. Well cultivated diversi- fied, somewhat rolling, light soils, with patches of deciduous wood- land. Big Timber Creek, Camden County. Originates in the Pine Barrens near Sicklerville, flows through Delaware Valley formation, emptying in the Delaware River south of Gloucester. Blackwood, Camden County; Delaware Valley close to Pine Barrens. On big Timber Creek, in swamp and pine land. Bloomfield, Essex County; Highlands. In the rolling country at base of first ridge of Orange Mountains; well cultivated and most of the collecting done along the roads on the wooded slopes or in a few neglected fields. : Boonton, Morris County: Highlands at edge of Piedmont Plain. On the Rockaway River, in a hilly country varying from 400 to 900 feet elevation. : Bordentown, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. On the Delaware where there are swampy meadows along shore, rising rather abrupt- ly; the country well settled and cultivated, with little, mostly decid- uous, woodland. Bound Brook, Somerset County: Piedmont Plain. On the Raritan River, at the base of rising ground, over rolling fields, through which the brook and one or two other little streams find their way into the river. Not much woodland. Branchville, Sussex County: Appalachian. Rough, hilly country, with deciduous woodland near rapid streams, locally forming ponds. Brigantine Beach, Atlantic County: Coastal and Maritime. A few miles north of Atlantic City and similar in character. Has a stretch of marshy meadow to the west and the usual sand dunes with reedy grasses toward the sea. Practically all the citations from this point are by the late Dr. John Hamilton. Brigantine Mainland, Atlantic County; Delaware Valley. Means the nar- row strip of highland at the edge of the salt marsh just west of Brigantine Beach. Bridgeport, Gloucester County; Delaware Valley. Situated on Raccoon Creek about two miles from the Delaware River. Bridgeton, Cumberland County; Delaware Valley on the edge of the Pine Barrens. On Cohansey Creek, where there is marsh and swamp, bordered by a level, well cultivated country about which is consid- erable scrub and woodland. A good collecting ground. Bristol’ Island, Delaware Valley. A small island in the Delaware River, between Bristol and Burlington. 521N 818 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM: Bronx Park, New York City. A few species are cited from this locality, mainly by Dr. Dyar, where the food plants occur in similar situations in New Jersey. Brookhaven, Long Island. See Bellport. Brookville, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. Near Hast Plains, and much the same sort of territory. i Brown's Mills or Brown’s Mills Junction, Burlington County; Pine Bar- rens. Typical scrub land, rising from the junction to the Mill, where there is a stream between gravelly hills of the Delaware Valley type. Budd’s Lake, Morris County; Highlands. About one by one and one-half miles at extremes, four miles northeast of Hackettstown. Buena Vista, Cumberland County: Delaware Valley. Pine harrens, with scrub oak ridges and sphagnum swamps. Mr. Liebeck has been the chief collector here so far as records go. About five and one-half miles north of Vineland. Burlington, Burlington Ccunty: Delaware Valley. Varies from swampy meadows along the river and creek, to alluvial levels, well cultivated and with only scattered patches of deciduous woodland. Burlington County. Rather indefinite, but usually means the pine bar- rens. ; Caldwell, Essex County: Piedmont Plain.» West of Montclair beyond the second ridge of the Orange Mountains, in a broken, hilly country, with considerable woodland of deciduous trees. _ Camden, Camden Couaty: Delaware Valley. Most of the species so cited came from the marshes or lowlands along the Delaware River and Cooper’s Creek. Camden County. Covers a great range of territory from the river valley to the pine barrens. Most of the species so cited are probably nearer to Atco than to Camden. ‘ Cape May, Cape May County: Coastal region’ with Maritime on the south and Delaware Valley on the west. Seashore, marsh, mud flats and sand dunes, with a backing of scrub, sweet bay, beach plum and the like. i : Cape May County. Low lying territory with pine region in the north, an arm of which extends southward into the peninsula. A strip of Delaware Valley formation extends on both sides of the pines and runs down to the end of the cape bordered on each side by a broad strip of coastal region and finally the Maritime. Cape May Court House, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. Pine and scrub land with dense thorny underbrush and some swamp land. Carlstadt, Bergen County: Piedmont Plain at edge of Delaware Valley. At the edge of the Hackensack meadows, about two miles southeast. of Passaic. Cedar Grove, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. On east branch of Wading River, close to both the east and west plains; cedar swamp and pine land. Cedar Lake, Warren County; Appalachian. About one mile from Blairs- town at an elevation of about 350 feet. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 819 Central Park, New York City: see Bronx Park. Chester, Morris County: Highlands. A hilly country with deciduous woodland and rapid brooks: Schooley’s Mountain a few miles west.: Chews Landing, Camden County; Delaware Valley. About four and one- half miles east of Woodbury. Chimney Rock, Somerset County: Highlands. An abrupt cliff, about 400 feet, overlooking Middle Brook, three miles east of Somerville. Clayton, Gloucester County: Pine Barrens. About three miles south of Glassboro; in the pine and scrub oak country. Clementon, Camden County; Pine Barrens, twelve miles southwest of Camden. Clifton, Passaic County; Piedmont Plain; between Paterson and Passaic. Meadow with little clumps of woodland, most of the collecting done along Weasel Brook. Now almost all built over. Cold Spring, Cape May County; Pine Barrens. A few miles north of Cape May City. Collingswood, Camden County: Delaware Valley. About four miles southeast from Camden. Well cultivated, with scattered, deciduous woodland. Cologne, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. A few miles southeast of Egg Harbor. Scrub land, with cedar swamps. Communipaw, Hudson County; Delaware Valley. Southern end of Jersey City. Corson’s Inlet, Cape May County; Coastal strip. At the north point of the narrow island on which Sea Isle City is located and much the same country. . Cramer Hill, Camden County, near Camden City; Delaware Valley: De- ciduous woodland to the river bank meadows. Cranberry Bogs. Species so cited were, with rare exceptions, taken by: me, late in May, when the bogs were reflowed, forcing the insects out of their retreats, the wind driving them into one corner, where they were collected in great numbers. Canford, Union County; Piedmont Plain. Well settled region with cul- tivated fields and deciduous woodland. Culver’s Pond, Sussex County; Appalachian. Northwest of Branchville, at base of Kittatinny Mountains, elevation 850 feet. : Cumberland County; means generally the pine barren region. DaCosta, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Light sandy soil, with scrub oak land and coniferous woods, much ravaged by fire. Delair, Camden County; Delaware Valley. Much swamp land backed by open deciduous woodland. Delaware Water Gap, Warren County; Appalachian. This means the shore of the Delaware, opposite the Pennsylvania town of that name, extending along the base of the mountains on the New Jersey side and along the carriage and railroad in both directions. The country is rocky and broken, with plenty of water in ordinary seasons and numerous flowers, Ceanothus, Spires, etc. Several collectors have cited the place, but more species have been taken by Mr. C. W. Johnson than anyone else. 820 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Dennisville, Cape May County: Delaware Valley. An old town on the narrow ridge between the pines and the salt marshes on the banks of the Dennis River. Denville, Morris County; Highlands. Hilly, rocky country, covered almost entirely by deciduous woodland. Dover, Morris County: Highlands. Hilly with wooded slopes, and val- leys with more or less rapid brooks. Good collecting country. Dunellen, Union County: Piedmont Plain. At base of the Orange Moun- tains, west of Plainfield; good rolling country, rising to the north, with swamp, brooks and woodland in the vicinity. Dunker Pond, Passaic County; Highlands. About six miles southeast of Franklin; elevation a little over 1,000 feet. “Dunnfield, Warren County; Appalachian. Generally cited with the Dela- ware Water Gap. The collecting here was all done along the line of Dunnfield Creek and on the sides of Mt. Tammany, in the open glades and along the rocky banks and bed of the creek. Mr. Johnson has given most of the citations here. Dunnfield Creek, — Dunnfield. Eagle Rock: Highlands. A prominent point on the first ridge of the Orange Mountains, west of Montclair, Essex County; well wooded. East Plains, Ocean County; Pine Barrens. A few miles west of Barne- gat: scrub land. Echo Lake, Passaic County — Macopin Lake: q. v. Edgewater Park, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Well cultivated land in truck and orchards. Egg Harbor, — Hgg Harbor City. Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Gravelly and a little rolling to the north, sandy and more level to the south; much fruit and vineyards; but also much pine and scrub Jand, with the usual admixture of swamp vegetation. Eldora, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. Ten miles northwest from Cape May C. H.; at the edge of the pines, tending toward the Bay Shore marshes. Elizabeth, Union County: Piedmont Plain at edge of Delaware Valley. Marshy meadowland toward the shore and along it; cultivated ridges to the north and west; with some low, mostly deciduous woodland. Englewood, Bergen County: Highlands. On the west slope of the Pali- sades. Small creeks in the vicinity, forming ponds. English Creek, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. A small creek entering the Great Egg Harbor River north of Mays Landing. Englishtown, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Four miles north- west of Freehold; rather hilly or rolling, with deciducus and some coniferous woodland. Fairmount Cemetery, in the City of Newark. ; Farmingdale, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. About seven miles southeast of Freehold: flat, scrubby country, with two small streams along which are cranberry bogs. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. Sor Five-Mile Beach, Cape May County. Includes Anglesea at the north, Wildwood and Holly Beach at the south. On the shore strip, an island varying from one-quarter to three-quarters of a mile in width, with a backbone of Delaware Valley formation and a fringe of holly, beach plum and marine flora. There is every range from oak to pine and from salt marsh to cedar, and Sphagnum swamp. The flora is varied and the insect fauna correspondingly rich. Improve- ments, filling and draining, are rapidly destroying the characteristic fauna. Has been one of the most prolific collecting grounds in the State. Flatbush, Long Island; several times cited for species whose occurrence in New Jersey is practically certain. Florence, Burlington County; Delaware Valley. Fertile rolling country along the Delaware River. Formosa Bog, Cape May County; Pine Barrens. Three miles south of Tuckahoe, on a branch of the Cedar Swamp Creek. Forest Hill, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. On the Second River, just north of Newark. Hemlocks with a sprinkling of oak, chestnut and beech. 4 Fort Lee, Bergen County: Highlands. Means usually the base or wooded slopes of the Palisades at that point. The country is rough and stony, the forests are deciduous. : Fort Lee District; Highlands. Means usually the Palisades from Gut- tenberg northward to Coytesville. Franklin Furnace, Sussex County. On the border between the Highlands and the Appalachian region. Rough, stony country with deciduous woodland and clear streams. . Freehold, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. A rich, well cultivated country; some deciduous and coniferous woodland to the west. Frenchtown, Hunterdon County: Piedmont Plain. On the Delaware River, the land rising to elevations of 400 feet within a mile or two east. Garrett Mt., Passaic County; Highlands. The-northeastern end of the First Watchung Mountain, covered with deciduous and some hem- lock forest. G. D. Generally distributed: means that the species has been found in so many places and so often that the conclusion is fair that it occurs wherever the food conditions are favorable. Cited by a Philadelphia man it means the lines between Camden and Atlantic City or those between Camden and Cape May. Cited by a Newark man it is equivalent to “Newark district.” To a New York collector it means the range between Greenville and Fort Lee. Cited by me it means the State at large. Gibbs Hill Pond, Salem County: Pine Barrens. Four and one-half miles southwest of Alloway, in scrub land. Elevation twenty-two feet. Glassboro, Gloucester County: Pine Barrens. In the pine district, with scrub oak fields and small swamps, interspersed. Glen Ridge, Essex County; Highlands. Between Montclair and Bloom- field, and like them in character. 822 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Gloucester, Camden County: see introductory remarks. Good Intent, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. Just west of Black- wood, on the south branch of Timber Creek, which widens into ponds to the south. Grantwood, Bergen County: Highlands. On the Palisades and similar to Fort Lee. Great Cedar Swamp, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. Low scrub land around the swamp. Great Egg Harbor, Atlantic County: Coastal Strip! Most of the collec- tions at the edge of the marsh land. Great Piece Meadow, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. Low grassy terri- tory along the Passaic River, interspersed with wooded sections. Greenville, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. On the narrow neck of highland just south of Jersey City, between Newark and New York Bays. AJmost all laid out in building lots at present. Greenwich, Cumberland County: Delaware Valley. On Cohansey Creek: mostly low land, which becomes marshy along the creeks and brooks. Greenwood Lake, Passaic County: Highlands. A long narrow sheet of water between two parallel ridges, extending into New York State. The ground is rough and broken, the sides of the hills well wooded in most places. Grenloch, Camden County, at edge of Pine Barrens. Two miles south of Blackwood. Guttenberg, Hudson County: Highlands. On the Palisades, about three miles north of Hoboken. Most of the collecting was done along the banks of the Hudson or on the wooded slopes. Hackensack, Bergen Cunty: Piedmont Plain. On the Hackensack River about fifteen miles from its mouth. Low, level country with some marshy woodland and with open fields largely under cultivation. Hackensack Meadows, Hudson and Bergen Counties. A great stretch of marsh land between the Palisades and the rising ground separating the Hackensack from the Passaic River. Gay in fall with acres of mallow. Hackettstown, Warren County: Highlands. On the Musconetcong River at an elevation of about 500 feet, rising within a mile or two to 1,000 feet-or more; slopes with deciduous woodland. Haddonfield, Camden County: Delaware Valley. A rich, well cultivated district, with little, mostly deciduous, woodland, usually well ele- vated. Hainesport, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. About three miles west of Mount Holly and in similar territory. Haledon, Passaic County: Highlands. At the base of the Second Wat- chung Mountains. Hilly, rocky country covered with a deciduous woodland. In the valleys is a low shrubby growth with scattered trees and a little swampy territory. Hamilton, Somerset County: Piedmont Plain. On the P. & R. R. R., about two miles west of Millstone. Level or rolling, well cultivated country. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY, 823 Hammonton, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Large area in fruits, large and small, scrub land surrounding the cultivated area Woodland both deciduous and coniferous of considerable extent, and swamps giving rise to small streams. Some territory in cranberries. Harris, Burlington County: Pine Barrens. A flag station on C. R. R. of N. J., a few miles south of Chatsworth: pine scrub only. Harris Hill Pond, Cumberland County: Pine Barrens. Six miles north- west of Bridgeton in pine and scrub land. Elevation fifty feet. Hasbrouck Heights, Bergen County: Piedmont Plain. At the edge of the Hackensack Meadow. Low gravelly country with a few deciduous trees and much shrubbery. Helmetta, Middlesex County: Pine Barrens. About two miles north of Jamesburg. The forests are not strictly pine woods, for there is con- siderable deciduous woodland with swampy territory covered by a low growth. Hemlock Falls, Essex County: Highlands. Lies west of South Orange, beyond the crest of the first ridge. The country is rough; well wooded, a small stream forming rapids in a rather deep gully: some swampy ground in the hollows. A favorite collecting ground for the Newark entomologists. Hewitt, Passaic County: Highlands. About two miles east of the southern end of Greenwood Lake, and of the same rocky country which char- acterizes the borders of that lake. High Bridge, Hunterdon County: Highlands. On the south branch of Passaic River, rising to elevations above 400 feet; slopes wooded. Highlands, see Atlantic Highlands. High Point, Ocean County: Coastal Strip and Maritime, with an island of Delaware Valley formation. Situated on the sand bar between Bar- negat City and Harvey Cedars. Hightstown, Mercer County: Delaware Valley. Light soil, well cultivated, with scattered deciduous and some coniferous woodland: looks toward the pines. Hoboken, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. Collecting grounds are west of the city in marsh or swamp, and at the base of the high ground on which part of the city is built: this locality and Jersey City Heights merge into each other. Holly Beach: see 5-mile beach. Homestead, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. At the edge of the low meadow west of West Hoboken. Hopatcong, Morris County: Highlands: also cited as Lake Hopatcong. Between Sparta and Green Pond Mountains, elevation over 900 feet. A rough, stony, more or less wooded country, in which several ento- mologists have collected. Hudson County. Rather indefinite, but means mostly the base of the high ground back of Jersey City and Hoboken and about Snake Hill. This term is used mostly by Mr. Linell, and may extend north to Weehawken. 824 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Hunterdon County: Piedmont Plain and Highlands. A rolling or hilly, sometimes rocky country, fairly well watered, with deciduous wood- land and occasional groves of coniferous trees: rarely cited. Husted, Cumberland County: Delaware Valley. Five miles north of Bridgeton at the edge of the Pine Barrens. Good farming country and quite generally under cultivation to the east. Indian Creek, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. About four miles north of Egg Harbor City, in pine and scrub land. r lona, Cumberland County: Pine Barrens. Seven miles south of Glassboro and in the same general region. Irvington, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. On the rising ground south- west of Newark, country mostly under cultivation. : Jamesburg, Monmouth County: Pine Barrens at the edge of the Delaware Valley formation. The collecting ground is on the line of the rail- road to Old Bridge, around a series of cranberry bogs covering about 100 acres. There are groves of conifers as well as deciduous trees and much swamp land above and below the bogs. Ditches of con- siderable size regulate the water supply for the bogs. This is a meet- ing ground for the entomologists of New York, Newark and Phila- delphia, so most of the contributors to the list include species from Jamesburg. Jersey City Heights, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. Refers to the west slope of the ridge back of Jersey City and Hoboken, extending down to the meadows. Kirkwood, Camden County: Delaware Valley. Four miles southeast of Haddonfield, on Cooper’s Creek, with a considerable pond close by. At the edge of the scrub land. Lacy, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. On the line of the Tuckerton Rail- road about two miles southwest of Bamber. Lahaway, Ocean County: Delaware Valley Island in the Pine Barrens. At the head of Lahaway Creek. The collecting ground is a basin, some thirty acres of which is in cranberries, ground rising on three sides. Surface soil sandy, mixed with clay. Pines on all sides, many deciduous trees. Huckleberry swamp partly edging bogs, in which are many magnolias. Flora very rich. Have taken a very large num- ber of species of all orders, and many more have been taken by my good friend J. Turner Brakeley. Lakehurst, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. Hight miles southwest of Lake- wood, somewhat rolling, without great elevations. Much swamp land, some of it in cranberry bogs. Scrub oaks and pines predominate and the soil is mostly sandy. Has become a favorite collecting ground of late years, the remarkably rich flora being associated with an equally rich entomological fauna. Formerly known as Manchester. Lakewood, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. In the pine district, but with more old open forest and less scrub land than usual. The ordinary THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 825 South Jersey sand is here, and a small lake gives variety to the land- scape. Landisville, Cumberland County: Pine Barens. Five miles northeast of Vineland. Laurel Springs, Camden County: Delaware Valley. About five miles south of Haddonfield: low wood and shrub land. Lawnside, Camden County: Delaware Valley. A suburban settlement similar to Collingswood, six miles out of Camden. Lenola, Burlington County, about one and one-half miles west of Moores- town, in similar country. Linden, Union County: Piedmont Plain. Between Elizabeth and Rah- way, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rolling country with low, de- ciduous woodland, stretching to salt marshes along the Arthur Kill. Lindenwold, Camden County: Delaware Valley at edge of Pine Barrens. About five miles southeast of Haddonfield: similar to Berlin. © Linwood, Atlantic County. About four miles south of Pleasantville and situated on a narrow strip of the Delaware Valley region between the Pine Barrens and the Coastal Strip. Little Falls, Passaic County: Piedmont Plain. About one and one-half, miles southeast of Paterson, on the Passaic River. Little Silver, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Near the shore, a level sandy country with little, low, mostly deciduous woodland. Long Branch, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. A narrow gravelly and sandy beach, backed by an abrupt highland, behind which is a good, well cultivated country: a little deciduous woodland. Long Island. Some species are so cited, where the territory in which they were collected resembles that on the Jersey coast. ; Longport, Atlantic County: Coastal Strip. On Absecon Island, south of and similar to Atlantic City. Lucaston, Camden County: Pine Barrens. Seven miles southeast from Haddonfield, on the W. J. and Seashore R. R.: similar to Berlin. Lyons Farms, Union County: Piedmont Plain. Between Newark and Elizabeth: a well-farmed country with swamp and some deciduous woodland. Macopin Lake, Passaic County: Highlands. Ten miles north of Boonton, at western base of Kanouse Mt., 893 feet above sea level. Madison, Morris County: Piedmont Plain. Hilly, well wooded locally, much under cultivation. Trees mainly deciduous. Malaga, Gloucester County: Pine Barrens. On Scotland Run: has an admixture of deciduous trees among the oak and pine scrub. Manahawkin, Ocean County: Delaware Valley at edge of Coastal Strip. Belongs to the maritime district, with swamp and screb land back from the highland bordering the salt marsh. Manasquan, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. On the coast at the junction of pine barren and maritime district. - Manchester—now known as Lakehurst, q. v. : Manumuskin, Cumberland County: Pine Barrens. Typical scrub-land; but varied in character with very rich flora and insect fauna. 826 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Maplewood, Essex County; Highlands. About four miles west of New- ark, on the south branch of the Rockaway River, elevation about 200 feet and rising in wooded slopes to the north. Marlton, Burlington County: Delaware Valley; six miles east of Haddon- field. Among gravel and marl beds, with scrubby deciduous and coniferous woodland. ; Masonville, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Four and one-half miles west of Mt. Holly. Level to the lowlands of Mason’s Creek, on which is a pond of considerable size: low deciduous and conifer- ous wocdland. Mauricetown, Cumberland County: Delaware Valley. On the Maurice River at edge of Coastal Strip; low, scrubby and swampy area. Mays Landing, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Scrub, sand and swamps; an excellent collecting ground. Medford, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Well cultivated, level, fertile land. Merchantville, Camden County: Delaware Valley. Four miles west of Camden. Deciduous woodland, somewhat rolling, with well culti- vated farms and much fruit close by. Middlesex County. Indefinite and rarely cited: it means usually the country a little to the south of New Brunswick. Milford, Hunterdon County: Delaware Valley: four miles northwest of Frenchtown, on the Delaware River. Hills with slopes of deciduous woods to the north and east. Millburn, Essex County: Highlands. At the terminal moraine: rocky,. hilly country, well wooded and with some swampy territory. Millstone, Somerset County: Piedmont Plain. On the Millstone River, rising to a gently rolling plain, well cultivated and with scattered deciduous wocdland. Milltown, Middlesex County: Piedmont Plain. About two miles south of New Brunswick, at the edge of the Pine Barrens, but with consid- erable deciduous and scrubby. woodland. Millville, Cumberland County: Pine Barrens. Scrub oak and pine with low meadows along the Maurice River. Monmouth County. Rarely cited, and may mean anything from seashore to pine barrens. Monmouth Junction, Middlesex County: Delaware Valley close to Pied- mont Plain. Swampy woods and low meadow: trees mostly decidu- ous but also many conifers. Montclair, Highlands. Rocky, hilly country covered by deciduous wood- land. - Moorestown, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. On a fertile ridge, with low plains north and south, well cultivated country, with scat- tered patches of mostiy deciduous woodland. Morgan, Middlesex County: Delaware Valley. On the Raritan Bay one mile south of South Amboy. Rolling country, wooded or with a low scrubby growth, -backed by salt marsh. Morris County: Highlands and Piedmont Plain. Rarely cited: hilly or mountains, often rough, well watered country, with deciduous and some -coniferous forest. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 827 Morris Plains, Morris County: Piedmont Plain bordering the Highlands. About two miles north of Morristown. A plateau of about 425 feet rising to the north, east and west to hills of 600 feet or over. Slopes with deciduous woods. Morristown, Morris County: Piedmont Plain. Low hills with wooded slopes and running streams; well cultivated, with considerable de- ciduous woodland. Mountain View, Passaic County: Piedmont Plain. Five miles west of Paterson: rolling country, wooded and with swamps covered with brush and trees. Mount Holly, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. On Rancocas Creek: ranging from low meadows to a considerable hill—the highest land in this part of the State. Generally cultivated, with some deciduous and coniferous woodland. Mt. Pleasant, Cape May County: Pine Barrens: five miles south of Tucka- hoe; elevation thirty feet; serub land. Mullica Hill, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. Well cultivated, though light, rolling land with low, mostly deciduous woodland; some swamp along the course of Raccoon Creek. National Park; — Red Bank, Gloucester County. Navesink Highlands, — Atlantic Highlands. Netherwood, Union County: Piedmont Plain. About one mile northeast of Plainfield and similar in character. Newark, Essex County: Piedmont Plain bordering Delaware Valley. An unsatisfactory locality, including as it does the range from marsh forms at the south and east, to hill types at the north and west. This term means nothing uniform or definite except the geographical dis- trict. Newark District. When this term is used it means that the species occurs in all the various kinds of localities about Newark. Newbold, — Westville. New Brunswick, Middlesex County: Piedmont Plain. At the edge of the red shale, which dips below the sand and clay a little to the south. Most of the species cited were collected by me in the immediate vicinity of the city. A very little collecting has been done on the banks of the Raritan. - Newfoundland, Morris County: Highlands. In the hills between Green Pond and Macopin Lake, elevation about 750 feet; nine miles south- east of Franklin Furnace. “New Jersey.”’ Some species are so cited because the specimens are so marked in the collections. They are relics of the period when State labels were considered all-sufficient, and usually they are rare forms. Occasionally, also, the actual locality becomes a little uncertain, though it is positive that the insect has been taken in the State. New Lisbon, Burlington County: Pine Barrens. Just at the edge of the Delaware Valley; level, fairly cultivated country, with little water and low scrubby growth. Newton, Sussex County: Appalachian. Mountainous country with decidu- ous woodland on the slopes. - 828 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Newtonville, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Wild scrub land, about eight miles south of Winslow, with two cedar swamp streams that empty into Egg Harbor River. Normanock, Sussex County: Appalachian. At Culver’s Gap, in the Kitta- tinny Mts., three miles northwest of Branchville. North Jersey. A general term applying to all that area north of the Dela- ware Valley region. Nutley, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. On the Erie R. R., between New- ark and Paterson, west side of Passaic River. Nyack, New York. Just north of the New Jersey line, on the Hudson. The fauna is the same for several miles north and south of this point, and specimens taken here are almost sure to occur in New Jersey Highlands. Oak Ridge, Passaic County: Highlands. Two and one-half miles west of Newfoundland and similar in character. Ocean Beach, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. On the shore, one mile north of Spring Lake:-the usual maritime conditions on the beach, pine land to the west. Ocean City, Atlantic County. On the seacoast, with the usual salt marshes toward Egg Harbor Bay. Ocean County. Rather an indefinite locality, but means 5 auswatly either Lakewood or Lahaway; both of them in the pines, so that the general character of the territory is the same. Ocean Grove, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Adjoining and similar - to Asbury Park, save that it has more woodland. Ocean View, Cape May County: Delaware Valley. On the mainland, three miles northwest of Sea Isle City, just above the marsh land and at the beginning of the pine barrens. Orange, Essex County: Highlands. A somewhat indefinite locality, as generally used, but means usually the rising ground at the base of the first ridge of the Orange Mts., where there is vegetation in great variety and much cultivated land, but also a few wooded patches and slopes. The forest trees are deciduous. Orange Mits.,— Watchung Mts.: Highlands. A somewhat indefinite term, but means generally the first range of hills back of South Orange and extending toward Montclair. The country is hilly, broken, quite well wooded and with many small brooks and streams. All the Newark collectors range in this territory. Overbrook, Essex County: Highlands. Near Caldwell and much the same sort of territory. Palisades: Highlands. Refers usually to the vicinity of Fort Lee, north and south. Palmyra, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Less than one mile south of Riverton and like it in character. Pamrapo, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. On the New York Bay slope of the narrow peninsula, three miles south of Jersey City. THE INSECTS. OF NEW JERSEY: 829 Passaic, Passaic County: Piedmont Plain. At the edge of the meadows, with marsh and swamp land; rising ground to the north. Passaic Valley. An indefinite and unsatisfactory term: in the northern portion of the Piedmont Plain, extending on both sides of the Watchung Mountains, and greatly constricted at the Passaic Falls, Paterson, where it divides the first from the second Watchung Moun- tain range. Patcong Creek, Atlantic County. About five miles long, runs south and west from a little pond into Great Egg Harbor just west of Somers Point, through pine and swamp land. Paterson, Passaic County: Piedmont Plain. At the falls of the Passaic River. a broken, rocky country, with some deciduous woodland and rocky river shores with occasional sand banks. Peermont, Cape May County; a Delaware Valley strip with coastal region each side. South of Sea Isle City and much like it. Pelham Manor—see Bronx Park. Pemberton, Burlington County: Delaware Valley near the edge of the Pine Barrens. Level, largely cultivated, with little woodland. Penbryn, Camden County; Delaware Valley. On the Reading Railroad about nine miles south of Camden. Penns Grove, Salem County: Delaware Valley. On the Delaware River, opposite Wilmington. Marshy along the river, cultivated, level land to the east. Perth Amboy, Middlesex County: Delaware Valley. At the head of Raritan Bay. Sand and clay, rising somewhat to the north; swampy flats along the river, scrub land with little larger timber, conifers and deciduous, to the south and west. Petersburg, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. Three miles southeast of Tuckahoe near Cedar Swamp Creek: scrub land. Philadelphia. Some species collected near this city are cited where their general distribution is such that their occurrence in the Delaware River Valley is almost certain. Philadelphia Neck. The low marshy meadows near the Delaware, south of the city. -The species collected here will almost certainly occur in similar situations on the New Jersey side. Pitman Grove, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley near edge of Pine Barrens. Level, well wooded with little water. Plainfield, Union County; Piedmont Plain. On the rolling plain at base of Orange Mts., rising to the north and becoming stony and wooded at the hills, between which are small streams. hs Pleasant Mills, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Wight miles north of Egg Harbor City, on the Mullica River, among a network of creeks and ponds. Pleasantville, Atlantic County: Delaware Valley with Pine Barrens to the west. On the mainland, five miles northwest of Atlantic City, at the edge of the broad marsh separating it from the shore. Point Breeze, given by Say as the type locality for “Bellamira scalaris.” The nearest approach to this locality is “Sea Breeze,” Salem County, on Delaware Bay, four and a half miles south of Greenwich. 830 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Point Pleasant, Ocean County: Coastal Strip. At the mouth of the Man- asquan River, with the usual salt marsh, sand dunes and other mari- time characters. Port Norris, Cumberland County; Delaware Valley on the edge of Coastal Strip, near the mouth of the Maurice River; between the pine bar- rens and the coast marshes. Port Republic, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. Six miles east of Hgg Harbor City, on Naccte Creek, which widens here into considerable ponds. Scrub and swamp land. Pottersville, Somerset County: -Piedmont Plain close to the Highlands. Hilly country with deciduous woodland. , Preakness Mountain, Passaic County: Highlands. That part of tle Second Watchung range extending from just west of Paterson to beyond Totowa. Rocky territory with deciduous and some evergreen trees. Princeton, Mercer County: Piedmont Plain. Land well cultivated, with considerable low, deciduous woodland in the vicinity. Prospertown, Monmouth County: Pine Barrens. Five and a half miles northeast of New Egypt, just across the Ocean County line. Quick Pond, Sussex County: Appalachian: among the mountains, five and a half miles west of Branchville, at an elevation of 950 feet. Quinton, Salem County: Delaware Valley: three miles west of Alloway on the Alloway River. Good, cultivated, level land with little, de- ciduous wood. Raccoon Creek, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. Empties into the Delaware about eighteen miles below Camden. Swedesboro and Mullica Hill are on it. Rahway, Union County: Piedmont Plain. Level or rolling country with much low brush and trees. Ramapo, N. Y. Just over the border line and less than two miles from Suffern. The fauna of these places is identical with that just across the line in New Jersey. Ramapo Mts., Passaic County: Highlands. About three miles east of Ringwood, extending into New York, elevation about 1,100 feet. Slopes well wooded. Ramsey, Bergen County: Highlands. About nine miles north of Pater- son, on the line of the Hrie Railroad. Hilly, somewhat rolling country, with considerable marsh land. Rancocas, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. About five miles south of Beverly; marshy meadows along Rancocas Creek, rising abruptly to wooded upland: a well cultivated country. Red Bank, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. On the banks of the Delaware River about six miles south of Camden. Mr. Daecke cites this same locality as National Park. Red Bank, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. On the bank of the Shrewsbury River in a level fertile country, well farmed. Ridgewood, Bergen County: Piedmont Plain close to Highlands: three miles northeast of Paterson. A hilly and rolling country with much woodland and rapid brooks in the rocky valleys and gullies. TEE BNSECTS OF NEW JERSEY: 831 River Edge, Bergen County: Piedmont Plain, at the edge of the Hacken- sack River, about three miles north of Hackensack. Hilly on each side, rising to 300 feet on the west; deciduous woodland. Riverside, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. On Rancocas Creek, at its junction with the Delaware. Low ground along the creek, with the usual low meadows, scrub and woodland to the west and south. Riverside Drive, New York City. Along the edge of the Hudson: sloping country similar to the Palisades in New Jersey. .- : Riverton, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Nine miles southeast from Camden, on the Delaware. Diversified by swamp, low and high ground, with patches of hard wood interspersed with-groves of pine. Rocky Hill, Somerset County: Piedmont Plain. Rough, hilly land with deciduous woods. Roselle or Roselle Park, Union County: Piedmont Plain. A few miles northwest of Elizabeth, in a rolling, partly wooded country, with deciduous trees and running brooks. Rutherford, Passaic County; Piedmont Plain. On the Passaic River, just south of Passaic, at the foot of the ridge between the river and the Hackensack meadows. Salem, Salem County: Delaware Valley. On Salem Creek, near the Dela- ware River. There is much mud and marsh along the creek, rising only slightly into an alluvial plain, on which is a little deciduous wood- land. Sandy Hook, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley island surrounded by coastal strip. A narrow tongue of sand separating the ocean from direct sweep into Raritan Bay. Was an excellent collecting ground some years ago, but now shut off by the U. S. Government, which has fortified it. Schooley’s Mountain: Highlands. At the western border of Morris County; a chain about twelve miles in length of peaks of from 1,000 to 1,200 feet: with much deciduous woodland and plenty of water. Schwartswood Lake — Swartswood Lake: q. v. Sea Cliff, Long Island: see Bellport. Sea Girt, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley; about a mile south of Spring Lake. The usual level meadow back of the strictly shore formation. Sea Isle City, Cape May County: Delaware Valley and coastal regions. On the coast, a sandy beach with the usual dunes supported by a central ridge referable to the Delaware Valley region, and backed by ° the usual salt marsh and mud flats of considerable extent. Seashore: a general term that may mean any point between Sandy Hook and Cape May and may mean them all: in most instances, perhaps, Atlantic City and southward is intended. Seaville, Cape May County: Delaware Valley. On the main land three and one-half miles north of Sea Isle City, at the junction of the pine barrens with the lowland merging into the salt marsh. 832 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Seven Mile Beach, Cape May County: Delaware Valley, Coastal Strip and Maritime. A long, narrow island fronting the ocean, between those on which Sea Isle City and Holly Beach are situated. Shark River, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Forms a large lake, which opens into the ocean by a narrow inlet at Belmar, rising on each side to meadow and woodland. Shiloh, Cumberland County: Delaware Valley. Four miles northwest of » Bridgeton; level, light soil, with partly deciduous, though scrubby woodland. Short Hills, Essex County: Highlands. Seven miles west of Newark, among low hills, with deciduous woodland and small stony brooks. Shrewsbury, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Two miles south of Red Bank; low meadows and flat, deciduous and coniferous wood- land. Somers Point, Atlantic County, on Egg Harbor Bay: Delaware Valley on the edge of the Coastal strip. The usual maritime character, backed by scrub and pine land. Singac, Passaic County: Piedmont Plain. About five miles southwest of Paterson: rather level, rolling country with much low growth and small wooded sections. Smithville, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. Two miles east of Mt. Holly, on Rancocas Creek. Good cultivated land above the marshy meadows. Snake Hill, Hudson County: Delaware Valley. A rather large wooded hill rising abruptly from the midst of the Hackensack meadows west of Hoboken. The base of this hill is a refuge for great numbers of swamp inhabitants that hibernate there, and many collectors from New York, Jersey City and Newark have filled their boxes and bottles in early spring from the material gathered beneath the stones and among the rubbish. South Amboy, Middlesex County: Pine Barrens at edge of Delaware Val- ley. Marsh and scrub-land sandy, but with gravelly hills wooded with evergreen and deciduous, low, scrub-like trees and bushes. Offers quite diverse collecting grounds. So. Camden: like Camden. Southern New Jersey: same as South Jersey. South Jersey. Means usually the pine barrens and maritime region, em- bracing roughly the territory south of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. .South River, Middlesex County: Pine Barrens. Means the territory be- tween Milltown and South River along the line of the trolley, and usually the swampy woodland. Sparta, Sussex County: Highlands. On the Wallkill River, elevation about 650 feet, rising on all sides; four miles northeast from the head of Lake Hopatcong. Speedwell, Burlington County: Pine Barrens. About fifteen miles south- east of Whitings and similar in character. Split Rock Lake, Morris County: Highlands. Five miles northwest of Boonton. < THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 833 Spotswood, Middlesex County: Pine Barrens. A little northeast of James- burg and much like it in general character, except that there is not so much woodland. Springdale, Sussex County: Appalachian. About two and one-half miles n. w. of Andover. Hilly, with considerable marsh land in the s. w. portion. Springfield, Union County: Highlands. One mile south of Millburn: slightly hilly, well cultivated, well watered country. Spring Lake, Monmouth County: Delaware Valley. Belongs to the mari- time district; diversified with swamp, lake, marsh and scrub land; some pine and deciduous trees. Stafford’s Forge, Ocean County: Pine Barrens. Three miles north of West Creek; large cranberry bogs at edge of pine barrens, close to coastal strip. Staten Island, Richmond County, New York. Belongs geographically to New Jersey, forming the northern and western shores of Raritan Bay. The country is varied, mostly Delaware Valley formation, and the locality as cited’ gives no clue as to the character of the surround- ings where the species was taken. A patch of pine barrens is at the southern end of the island. Stelton, Middlesex County: Piedmont Plain. Level country, largely under cultivation, with low woodland and shrubby growth. Stone Harbor, Cape May County: Coastal Strip. Seashore to marsh, with a low ridge of scrub. Suffern, New York. Just across the State line on the Erie R. R. A hilly, stony country, with wooded slopes and rapid streams in the valleys. Some of the New York entomologists have collected here, their ex- cursions not infrequently extending across the State boundary, where the fauna is exactly similar. - Summit, Union County: Highlands at edge of Piedmont Plain. Well up in the Orange Mountains, with deciduous woodland and plenty of small streams in the valleys and gullies. Swartswood Lake, Sussex County: Appalachian. Four miles westerly from Newton. Elevation 480, rising from all sides in slopes covered with wood land and cut with rocky streams. Swedesboro, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. Well cultivated truck and fruit land, level or slightly rolling, with a little swamp to the northwest and a little deciduous woodland. Swinefield Bridge, Morris County: Piedmont Plain. On the Passaic River at the edge of the Hatfield Swamp, about ten miles northwest from Newark. Taunton, Burlington County: Pine Barrens, near the Delaware Valley region. Four miles southwest of Marlton. Tenafly, Bergen County: Highlands. On the west slope of the Palisades about two miles north of Englewood. Three States Point: Appalachian. At the end of a narrow spit of land extending into the Delaware just south of Port Jervis: practically the junction of N. Y., N. J. and Penna. 53 IN 834 REPORT OF; NEW JERSEY STATE MUSE UMay Timber Creek, empties into the Delaware about five miles south of Cam- den and forms part of the division between Camden and Gloucester Counties; mostly with low, marshy banks. Toms River, Ocean County: Delaware River at edge of Pine Barrens. A short distance west from Barnegat Bay. Sand and scrub land with occasional taller wood land, marshy along the river course, locally swampy, some land in cranberries, increasing toward Island Heights. Ideal country for dragon flies and the mosquitoes that they feed upon. Trenton, Mercer County:: Delaware Valiey. On the Delaware. Ranges from the muddy river bank to river marshes, which are of con- siderable extent, and to higher, level, cultivated upland. Tuckahoe, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. On the Tuckahoe River at the point where the pine and scrub land begins to merge into salt marsh. Tuckerton, Ocean County: Delaware Valley, between the Pine Barrens and the Coastal Strip. At the head of Tuckerton Creek, across which is Burlington County. A mixture of bog, swamp, pine barrens and salt marshes within a short distance. : Vailsburg, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. Between Newark and Irving- ton and like them in character. Van Cortland Park, New York City. Verona, Essex County: Piedmont Plain, close to Highlands. About one and one-half miles northwest of Montclair, on the first ridge of the Orange Mts., about 500 feet; quite some deciduous woodland. Vincentown, Burlington County: Delaware Valley. About five miles south- east of Mt. Holly, at the head of the south branch of Rancocas Creek, with quite a large pond: good, level cultivated land. Vineland, Cumberland County: Pine Barrens. A level, fairly well cul- tivated district, with surrounding rather tall scrub-land and pine groves. Hardly in but near to the pine barren type. Waretown, Ocean County: Delaware Valley at the edge of Coastal Strip. About ten miles south of Toms River. Watchung Mts.: see Orange Mts. Waverly, Essex County, Piedmont Plain. A small place just south of Newark and bordering on a coastal strip of the Delaware Valley region. : Weehawken, Hudson County: Highlands. On the Hudson, at the base of the Palisades above Hoboken. Once an, excellent and much fre- quented locality. a Wenonah, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley. Three miles south of Woodbury, and much like it in character. ss West Bergen, Hudson County: Delaware Valley: Means the Newark Bay side of Bergen Point, q. v. West Berlin, see Berlin. West Creek, Ocean County: Delaware Valley between the Pine Barrens and the Coastal Strip. Three miles n. e. of Tuckerton and like it in character. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 835 West Creek Pond: Delaware Valley. About three miles northeast of Tuckerton and very similar in character of surroundings. Westfield, Union County: Piedmont Plain. On the line of the Central R. R., about two miles west of Cranford. West Hoboken, Hudson County: Highlands on the border of Delaware Valley. Westville, Gloucester County: Delaware Valley: between Gloucester and Woodbury. Diversified by swamp, low and high land, with patches of s hard wood interspersed with groves of pine. Now known as Newbold. Westwood, Bergen County: Piedmont Plain. About se*¥en miles north of Hackensack, and more hilly. Weymouth, Atlantic County: Pine Barrens. In a swampy district about seven miles south of DaCosta. g White Horse, Burlington County: Pine Barrens. About 3 miles west of Chatsworth: large natural meadow with pineland on all sides. Whitings, Ocean County. Pine Barrens. Scrub-oak, sphagnum and cedar swamps. Wildwood: see Five-Mile Beach. Williamstown, Gloucester County: Pine Barrens. Pine and scrub land, with swamp and bogs along the creeks to the east and south. Woodbine, Cape May County: Pine Barrens. Five miles southeast of Tuckahoe: scrub land, sandy barrens and swamps: withal a rich col- lecting ground. Woodbridge, Middlesex County: Delaware Valley at the edge of the Pied- mont Plain. About three miles north of Perth Amboy, almost at the edge of the clay and sand formations. Woodbury, Camden County: Delaware Valley. Good, well cultivated land, with a little swamp and scattered patches of deciduous woodland. Woodland Cemetery, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. A field of under- brush of willow, cherry, oak, beech and hickory: no trees. Within Newark city limits. Woodside, Essex County: Piedmont Plain. On the south side of Second River at its junction with the Passaic: is practically the northeast section of Newark City. Woodstown, Salem County: Delaware Valley. 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Lepidopterist and student in the butterflies: cited from published records. A. E. S. American Entomological Society: Philadelphia. This means that New Jersey specimens are in the society collection, usually with a State label only. The society now possesses, among others, the collections of the late Dr. George H. Horn and of the late Messrs. Wilt and Martindale. The collection of Mr. E. T. Cresson is also stored in its rooms, and there is much material from older sources, in- cluding quite a number of types. I have looked carefully over the collections in “Hymenoptera,” and Dr. Calvert cites those in “Odo- nata.” Ang. Angleman, John B., Newark. Collects ‘“Macro-lepidoptera,’ and has furnished some of the records credited to the Newark Society. Mr. Angleman’s collections have been largely made within a few miles of Newark. Angell, George W. J., New York City. Collector of “Coleoptera” chiefly, but occasionally cited in other orders. Ashm. or Ash. Ashmead, Dr. William H., late of Washington, D. C. Dr. Ashmead was Assistant Curator of insects in the United States Na- tional Museum, and, until the time of his death, the leading authority in the “Hymenoptera.” In the old catalogue that order was compiled by him from data furnished by collectors and contributors generally, from material in his own collection and from the collections in the U. S. Nat. Mus. He also made many determinations in “Hemiptera” for me. Banks, Nathan, Falls Church, Virginia; Assistant in the Division of Ento- mology, U. S. Dept. of Agric. Is a specialist in the “Neuropterous”’ orders, and has determined not only my material, but that of other collectors who sent him their New Jersey specimens. I have used Mr. Banks’ Catalog of Neuroptera as a guide in this list, but have given the divisions ordinal rather than family rank. Beyer, G., New York City. Coleopterist; has sent me records chiefly Bf. from the northern section of the State. Bischoff, E. A., Newark. An enthusiastic collector of “Coleoptera,” and his records are numerous. His collecting grounds are chiefly the environs of Newark, but this embraces the marshy districts lying east and south, and the hilly country lying west and north along the first ridge of the Orange Mountains. The locality “Orange Mts.,”’ in Mr. Bischoff’s records, usually means the ridge west of South Orange, the vicinity of Hemlock Falls and in the direction of Eagle Rock. (837) 838 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Bird, Henry, Rye, New York. A lepidopterist who makes a special study of boring larve and has added much to our knowledge of “Hydreecia” and allies, in which his records are cited. Bland, James H., Philadelphia. One of our oldest coleopterists, and, in olden days, a great collector in southern New Jersey. Bno. Bueno, J. R. de la Torre, New York City. Hemipterist, and specializes in the “Heteroptera.” An earnest student of the younger generation, who has supplied the arrangement in his specialty and many of the records as well. Brn. Boerner, Chas. R., Philadelphia. A coleopterist who has taken many good species in New Jersey. South Jersey is his stamping ground, and his material has been named by Mr. Wenzel, Mr. Liebeck, Prof. Fall and other authorities.* Brakeley, J. Turner, Bordentown. An enthusiastic amateur and owner of the Lahaway Cranberry plantations, whence I have received a very large number of specimens from him. He is the originator of the plaster east method of studying underground insects, and has added much to our knowledge of mosquito habits. Brb. Barber, H. G., Roselle, N. J. Secretary of the New York Ent. Soc., and an Hemipterist who has furnished many records in that order. He has also looked over the manuscript of the “Heteroptera” and has made many useful suggestions. Br. Brehme, H. H., Newark. Assistant in the mosquito work in the State, and has taken many of the species cited as from “Coll.” Also collects and breeds ‘Lepidoptera,’ mainly butterflies, sphinges and larger bombyces. To Mr. Brehme I owe a very useful list of food plants and dates of the occurrence of the early stages as well as the number of broods noted. Bruner, Lawrence, Lincoln, Nebraska; Professor at the State University: specialist in the “Orthroptera.”’ Prof. Bruner has determined much of the material collected by me, and revised the manuscript of the previous list in the “Orthoptera.” Bsk. Busck, August, Washington, D. C. An assistant in the Hntomo- logical division of the U. S. Dept. of Agric., a student of the “Micro- lepidoptera”’ and a specialist in the “Tineid” families. His records are largely cited by Mr. Kearfott. Bt. Beutenmuller, William, New York City. . Associate Curator for “Lepi- doptera”’ in the American Museum of Natural History. Mr. Beuten- muller has supplied records in several orders, and in “Coleoptera” and “Lepidoptera” has supplied many data concerning early stages, food habits, ete. In the “Cynipide’”’ and “Cecidomyiids#” he is au- thority for the present list. He has published several lists of species found near New York, and these have been freely used. His chief collecting ground in New Jersey has been the district near Fort Lee, along the foot of the Palisades, on their wooded slopes and often on their summit. Greenwood Lake and Lake Hopatcong have also been visited by him on entomological excursions. * His collection is now at New Brunswick. THE INSECTS (OF NEW JERSE Y: 839 Buckman, Fred, Newark. Coleopterist and member of the Newark So- ciety. Bwl. Broadwell, Wm. H., Newark; Lepidopterist. Of late years has paid especial attention to the “Geometride,” in which family most of his records appear. Bz. Buchholz, Otto, Elizabeth. A lepidopterist and good collector whose material has been taken chiefly in Elizabeth and its environs. C. Calvert, Dr. Philip P., Philadelphia. Professor in the University of Pennsylvania and specialist in the order “Odonata.” Dr. Calvert has not only prepared the list in that order, but has furnished a large per- centage of the records. ‘Furthermore, he has determined most of the material taken in New Jersey by others, so that in this order the list is unusually complete and accurate. : Carney, John P. R., Camden. A collector in diurnal “Lepidoptera” who has sent me a list of his captures in Camden and Burlington Counties between 1867 and 1899. Castle, Dr. D. M., Philadelphia. Coleopterist; has furnished a number of good records, many of them of species not found in recent years. C G., Greene, Charles T., Philadelphia. A general collector, especially interested in “Diptera,” who has taken many good things in North as well as South Jersey. Ch. Chittenden, F. H., Assistant in the Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agric. A coleopterist, specially interested in life habits and development. Mr. Chittenden has collected at Orange and has a few records from other localities, but his most important contributions to ‘the list are the notes on food habits chiefly in the “Phytophaga” and in those series containing species that attack stored products. CklIl. Cockerell, F. D. A., Boulder, Colorado. Professor Cockerell has contributed notes on some of the bees sent him from New Jersey, and also on certain groups of scale insects. Clem. Clemens, Brackenridge. A writer on “Micro-lepidoptera,” cited from published records only. Coll. This indicates that the record was taken from the Department col- lections at New Brunswick and the specimens may have been sent in by correspondents, bred or taken by Messrs. Dickerson, Grossbeck, Brehme or myself. Cr. Crane, Marcus S., late of Caldwell. Mr. Crane was a general collector who had accumulated a large lot of material of all orders. He him- self worked up some of his material in the better-known orders, but much of it was also submitted to specialists. Mr. Crane’s records are of unusual value from the fact that in some orders no one else has collected in that general district. Cress. Cresson, Ezra T., Philadelphia. Well known as an authority in “Hymenoptera.” His collection, including many types, in the rooms of the American Entomological Society, contains many New Jersey specimens, usually with a State label only. These are credited to “Cress Coll.” Mr. Cresson has published a catalogue of the “Hymen- optera,” giving, among other things, the geographical distribution, and to this list reference is had when only “Cress” follows a record. 840 REPORT: OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Crn. Cresson, George B., Philadelphia. Son On Hal: ee Cresson, and also interested in “Hymenoptera.” All the records credited to him were made for the first edition, and his collecting was largely done in Cam- den and Gloucester Counties. Cc. V. R., see Riley. Davis, G. C., Pasadena, California. Mr. Davis is cited as authority for the New Jersey habitat of certain parasitic “Hymenoptera,’ and these records come from his published papers. Dietz, Ottomar, late of New York City, a coleopterist whose collection contained some interesting species from North Jersey. Dietz, Dr. William G., Hazelton, Penna. “Lepidoptera” and especially the “Tineoidea.’’ Dr. Dietz prepared the list in this super-family in the previous edition, and is authority for many of the species listed. He has been good enough to determine much material sent him by New Jersey collectors, and also not a few “Tortricids” and “Pyralids.” In the “Coleoptera” Dr. Dietz’s papers in the “Rhynchophora” have been followed in the groups treated by him. Div., Divers. This means that the record cited: has been handed in by more than one, and usually more than two collectors. Dke. Daecke, V. A. E., Harrisburg, Pa. An excellent general collector whose expeditions into South Jersey have produced a large number of most useful records in almost all orders. The determinations are almost invariably by specialists and reliable. In the “Tabanide”’ Mr. Daecke himself is authority and has furnished the data for this list. Dkn. or Dn. Dickerson, Edgar L., Newark. Assistant in the N. J. Exper. Sta. Specializes in “Coleoptera,’ but collects generally. Many of the Chester records from the “Coll” are due to him. Doll, Jacob, Brooklyn, N. Y. A collector and breeder of “Lepidoptera” who has few equals in the skill with which he prepares his specimens. Dow, Robert P., Brooklyn. Collects generally, but chiefly in “Coleoptera.” Has also specialized somewhat in “Thysanura”’ and is authority for the list in that order. Ds. Davis, Wm. T., Staten Island. One of the few really good general collectors. He has made it an object to thoroughly explore the fauna of Staten Island, and his material, so far as he has not felt competent to work it up himself, has been identified by specialists; so the records may be considered entirely reliable. He has also collected at Lakewood, in Ocean County, Newfoundland, in Morris County, and, to a less extent, at Spring Lake, Passaic County, and other localities. Dyar, Dr. Harrison G., Washington, D. C., in charge of the “Lepidoptera” in the U. S. National Museum. Dr. Dyar has made a specialty of classification based upon larval structures. He has supplied many notes of food plants of ‘Lepidoptera,’ and has also added much to the list of saw flies among the “Hymenoptera.” In a few instances the facts with which his name are associated were obtained from his published papers, but as a rule they are original notes made for the previous edition of this work. DHE INSECTS Or NEW (JERSEY. S41 Edw. Edwards, Henry, late of New York City. Was a Lepidopterist of recognized authority, and published a list of the descriptions of early stages, from which some of the references to food plants are taken. Engelhardt, George P., of the Children’s Museum, Brooklyn. He is inter- ested chiefly in “Lepidoptera,” but gives some attention to other orders. His records are principally in the “Sesiide,”’ to which family he has devoted much study. Fenninger, Carl W., Philadelphia. A general collector who has taken some good things in South Jersey with Mr. Daecke, who gives his records. Fernald, Dr. C. H., Amherst, Mass., Professor of Entomology at the Agri- cultural College. Is a special student in the “Tortricoidea” and “Pyralidoidea.” He has kindly looked over and determined much of my material in the super-families mentioned, and has also deter- mined many species for other collectors. Fitch, Asa. For some years State Entomologist of New York; all records eredited to him are from his published writings. Fox, Dr. Harry, Ursinus College. Collected ‘“Orthoptera’” one year for Mr. Rehn, and cited as “H. Fox” in that order only. Fox, William J., Philadelphia. Assistant Librarian in the Academy of Natural Sciences and special student in the aculeate “Hymenoptera.” Mr. Fox has collected largely in Camden and Gloucester Counties, and his records add largely to the list. He has also determined much of the material collected by others, including myself, and this has made possible the incorporation of many records that would otherwise have been unavailable. Franck, George, Brooklyn. Manager of the American Entomological Co., Lepidopterist; chiefly interested in the butterflies and larger moths. Fulda, Dr. Carl, Brooklyn. Has collected in Staten Island, and his records are given by Mr. Davis. GG. Greene, George M., Philadelphia. Collects generally and has added many useful records, especially in “Coleoptera,” “Diptera” and “‘Hy- menoptera.” Gr. Grossbeck, John A., New Brunswick. Assistant in the mosquito work in New Jersey.* Specialist in the lepidopterous super-family “Geome- troidea,” and authority for the arrangement of the list in that group. Has also written the list in the “Culicide” and “Cicadide,’ and has collected some of the material cited from the “Coll.” H. Hornig, H., Philadelphia. An amateur whose records in the ‘“Odo- nata” are cited by Dr. Calvert. Hagen, H. A. Late of Cambridge, Mass., and during his lifetime the leading authority in the “neuropterous” orders. Cited here from his published writings only. Haim. Haimbach, Frank, Philadelphia. Collects in all orders, but especially in the “Lepidoptera” and particularly in the “Micros.” Recently he has given much attention to the “Pyralide.’ His col- lections on shore points are especially valuable. * Now of the Am. Mus. N. H., in N. Y. City. 842 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Hardenberg, C. B., Philadelphia. An amateur whose records in “Orthop- tera” are cited by Mr. Rehn. Hayw. Hayward, Roland. Entomologist to the Alabama Experiment Sta- tion. Cited from published records. Hebard, Morgan, Philadelphia. An amateur whose records in “Orthoptera” are cited by Mr. Rehn. Heidemann, Otto, Washington, D. C., collector and student in the ““Hemip- tera-Heteroptera” and especially “Capside.”’ Mr. Heidemann has named much of my material and has revised the list in the family “Capside,’ adding considerably to the number of species and bring- ing the arrangement into accord with the present knowledge of the family. Henshaw or Hw., Samuel. Curator of the Agassiz Museum at Cambridge, Mass. Is a Coleopterist and especially interested in the literature of the order. His check-list forms the basis for the arrangement used in this work, and names of quite a number of species recorded from New Jersey were sent me by Mr. Henshaw. Herring, Mrs. F. M., Plainfield. Collector of “Lepidoptera” and chiefly of butterflies. Hess, J., late of Newark. A Coleopterist who furnished many records for the first edition. Hk. Harbeck, H. S., Philadelphia. A general collector, but especially in- terested in the “Hymenoptera” and “Diptera,” in which he has sup- plied many records. His collections at Trenton are especially im- portant because so little work has been done there. Hn. Hamilton, Dr. John, late of Pittsburg, Pa. Dr. Hamilton spent a short period in September for several years at Brigantine Beach, and his New Jersey collections were all made at that place and time. Dr. Hamiiton was a thorough collector and a good student, his publica- tions on “Coleoptera” and his faunal lists marking him as both re- liable and accurate. Hnt. See Huntington. Hopkins (sometimes Hpks.), A. D. Assistant in the Division of Ento- mology, U. S. Dept. Agric. Makes a specialty of the “Scolytids,’ and has sent me many notes on food habits, ete. Much of my collection has been looked over by Dr. Hopkins, who has also made some sug- gestions as to the synonymy or general relation of species to each other. Horn, Dr. George H., late of Philadelphia. Dr. Horn was the leading American Coleopterist at the time of his death, and determined a great many species for me in the more obscure families. His col- lections were always open to me, and practically all of my larger material has been directly compared with his specimens. Dr. Horn also named much of the material taken in New Jersey by the Phila- delphia collectors, and in his material were a number of rare forms from our State. The collection is now in the possession of the Ameri- can Entomological Society. Horv. Horvath, Dr. G. Cited from published records. THE INSECTS OF NEW \JERSEY. 843 Hulst, Dr. George D., late of Brooklyn, N. Y. Was a “Lepidopterist” and specialized in the “Geometride”’ and certain families of “Pyrali- doidea.” Dr. Hulst was my predecessor as Entomologist to the Ex- periment Station, and his collection is now in New Brunswick as the property of Rutgers College. Dr. Hulst determined a large portion of the “Geometrids” and some of the “Pyralids” for the last editjon, and his papers in the groups revised by him are here followed. Huntington, William S., Philadelphia. A collector of “Coleoptera” and “Lepidoptera,” whose records were sent me by Mr. Johnson. Hw. — Henshaw, which see. Jl. or Jtl. Joutel, Louis H., New York City. Collects generally, but more particularly in “Coleoptera.” Has sent me many useful records and notes on food habits, largely from the Fort Lee district and from Lake- hurst. Jn. Johnson, Charles W., Curator of the Boston Society of Natural His- tory, Boston, Mass. Is a specialist in “Diptera,” but collects also in other orders. He has furnished useful records in nearly all, and the list of “Diptera” has been almost entirely prepared by him. This list and its editor is much indebted to him, therefore, for material aid. Mr. Johnson has collected at several points in New Jersey, but mainly of late years at Delaware Water Gap, on the east side of the river, at Riverton, Burlington Co., and at other points readily accessible to Philadelphia. , Jones, F. M:, Wilmington, Delaware. A. Lepidopterist who has done some special work in New Jersey. Jul. Jtilich, William, late of New York City. Was a Coleopterist of many years’ standing, especially interested in “Rhynchophora.”’ In that series his notes were furnished for the first edition, and they have lost none of their value since. His collection is now with Mr. C. H. Roberts. Kf. Kearfott, W. D., Montelair. Specialist in the “Microlepidoptera,” who has written the list in several of these families. To his energetic and tireless labors the large additions to the list of species in these families is almost entirely due. Keller, Géorge J., Newark. Is interested in the “Macrolepidoptera,” and his records are mastly of local collections. Klages, E. A., Pittsburg, Pa. A Coleopterist who sent me a list of some interesting captures made in New Jersey. Kp. Kemp, Stanley T., late of Elizabeth, formerly of Camden. Collects “Lepidoptera,” but has also collected “Coleoptera” and supplied some good records. The determinations in the moths have been largely made by myself, and in the Micros many species have been submitted to Dr. C. H. Fernald and Dr. Wm. G. Dietz. Kr. Kircher, George, Jersey City Heights. Lepidopterist. Most of his material has been collected near his home, and nearly all of it has been looked over or determined by me. 844 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Lansing, Harmon, New Brunswick. An amateur, general collector who has taken some very good species at Lakewood. Lg. Leng, Chas. W., Staten Island. Mr. Leng is a Coleopterist and a recognized authority in several families. He has added many species to the list from Staten Island and a few from Newfoundland, Lake- hurst and other parts of the State. His collecting trips have been largely in company with Mr. Wm. T. Davis. Li. Liebeck, Charles,. Philadelphia. An excellent Coleopterist whose records in the list of beetles may be relied upon; he has also named material for several other collectors. As he has free access to the Horn collection for comparison and study, and is himself an in- defatigable collector, his records are especially valuable. His col- lecting has been chiefly in Camden, Gloucester and Atlantic Counties. LI. lLinell, Martin L., late of the Department of Insects, U. S. National Museum. An excellent Coleopterist, who collected carefully through- out Hudson County, largely in the marshes, but also along the Pali- sades and a little in the Orange Mountains. His determinations were carefully made and may generally be relied upon. Loeffler, Jacob, late of Newark. Coleopterist, from whom many records were obtained for the first edition. Long, Bayard. Botanist, student in the University of Pennsylvania; col- lected ‘‘Orthoptera” for Mr. Rehn. Lt. Laurent, Philip, Philadelphia. Collects generally, yet chiefly “Coleop- tera” and “Lepidoptera,” specializing in the latter. Mr. Laurent’s records have been largely in the micros, where his material has been named by good authority. His collections have been mostly in Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic and Cape May Counties. Lv. Love, Dr. E. G., New York City. Collects generally, but chiefly “Coleoptera,” and in that order his records ‘are especially useful, because of the dates. He has collected at a number of points in the State, but mostly along the Palisades, north and south from Fort Lee. His material has been generally determined by specialists, hence the records are to be relied upon. N. Nell, Philip, Philadelphia. Collects generally, and his records are cited by several contributors. Neum. Neumoegen, Berthold, late of New York City. Was a Lepidop- terist who had accumulated during his lifetime one of the largest collections in the United States. This collection is now in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. O. S. Osten-Sacken, Baron R. von. One of the eminent early writers on American Diptera. Published records of his captures are cited by Mr. Johnson. Osborn, Prof. Herbert, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio. “Hemiptera” and especially “Homoptera.” Has furnished the information for the list in ‘“Mallophaga’” and has done much to bring the list in “Homop- tera” to its present state of completeness. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 845 Osburn, Raymond C., New York City. Professor in Columbia University. Dipterist, especially interested in “Syrphide,”’ in which his records add important information. Pears. Pearsall, R. F., Brooklyn. Lepidopterist, specializing in “Geome- tride,” in which family most of his records will be found. Peck, George W., late of Roselle. General collector, but his records largely confined to “Lepidoptera” and “Hemiptera.” Pergande, Theo. W., Washington, D. C. Assistant in the division of Ento- . mology, U. S. Dept. Agric. Specializes in “Thysanoptera” and ‘“Aphi- dide,”’ and has furnished much of the information in the lists of these series. Pm. Palm, Charles, New York City. A collector of “Coleoptera” and “Lepidoptera” who has spent much time in the region about Lake Hopatcong, with which locality his name is most generally associated in this list. Pr. Pauimier, Dr. Fred C., late of Madison, New Jersey. Collected “Coleoptera” and “Hemiptera,” his records in this latter order being of especial value. Rehn, James A. G., Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Special student in “Orthoptera.” Has collected largely in South Jersey, has named much of the material recently collected in the State and has prepared the mss. for the present list in his specialty. Reinick, William R., Philadelphia, at one time much interested in ‘‘Coleop- tera.” Many of Mr. Reineck’s records came to me from Mr. Johnson, but he has also sent me a very good list of “Staphylinide” from specimens determined for him by Mr. E. A. Schwarz. R. Rhoads, Samuel N., Philadelphia. A Zoologist with a special interest for insects, particularly dragon flies. In 1899 he made a bicycle journey through South Jersey during the latter part of the season and captured a considerable lot of “Odonata,” which Dr. Calvert determined. Riederer, L. A collector of Dragon flies, whose records are cited by Dr. Calvert. Riley, Dr. C. V., also C. V. R., late of Washington, D. C. All records are from published data and mostly relate to early stages or food-plants. Rk. Reinick, Wm. R.-q. v. : Rob. Roberts, Chris. H., New York City. A Coleopterist who specializes in aquatic forms, and who has collected at various points in New Jersey. He has been good enough to work over, critically, the list of water beetles and has added greatly to the accuracy of the records in these families. Say, Thomas. One of the fathers of American Entomology. All records credited to him are from his published writings. Sb. Seib, Simon, late of Jersey City. Lepidopterist who has bred many species, making notes of dates and food plants. I have looked over his collection of moths and determined most of the smaller species. Mr. Seib’s chief collecting grounds have been the environs of Jersey City Heights, Newark and the Oranges. 846 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. Schlecksor, A., Irvington. A Coleopterist, member of the Newark So- ciety, who has furnished a few records. Sf. Schaeffer, C., Brooklyn. Assistant Curator of Insects in the Mus. of the BklIn. Inst. of Arts and Sciences and a good Coleopterist. Mr. Schaeffer has collected in New Jersey, chiefly about Snake Hill and along the Palisades, using the sweep net perhaps more than any other collecting apparatus. He has added many species to the list that are not elsewhere reported, and has given me much assistance in deter- mining species and in arranging the synonymy in some families. Shoemaker, Ernest, Brooklyn. Member of the Brooklyn Ent. Soc., who has sent in a few useful records. Sk. Skinner, Dr. Henry, Philadelphia, Editor of Entomological News and Curator of the American Entomological Society. Is a Lepidopterist and confines his studies mainly to the ‘‘Papilionides” or butterflies. His recent catalogue of this super-family. has been followed, and Dr. Skinner has added many dates and localities. South Jersey generally, but especially Cape May, is his collecting ground. Sleight, Chas. E., Ramsey, Bergen Co. An amateur, collects in all orders; will yet furnish some excellent records from his section. Slosson, Annie Trumbull, New York City. An enthusiastic student of humanity and insects, presenting the results of her studies as inter- estingly in the one case as in the other. Has collected only a little in New Jersey. Sm. Smith, John B. My own collections have been made throughout the State and in all orders. Jamesburg, Anglesea and Lahaway have been more systematically explored than any other points, but many of the species recorded from Lahaway are really the results of the unselfish labors of Mr. J. Turner Brakeley. It may be added that in every order except the “Coleoptera” and ‘Lepidoptera’ all the material collected by me has been submitted to specialists for deter- mination. Most of the more recent captures are recorded as from the “Coll,” and some of those specifically credited to me in the previous editions now appear under the more general head. Sp. Schaupp, Frank G., late of Brooklyn, New York. A Coleopterist and specialist in the families “‘Cicindelide”’ and “Carabide,’ in which he published faunal lists. His main collecting grounds were along the base of the heights back of Hoboken and extending northwardly. Fort Lee, Clifton, Greenville and the banks of the Passaic were also explored, and his records in the families named are reliable. Ss. Few-Seiss, C. Philadelphia. Specializes chiefly in “Hemiptera,” in which he has added many records of importance. South Jersey and points easily accessible from Philadelphia have been chiefly collected over by Mr. Seiss. Stone, Witmer, Philadelphia. Has collected a few species of ‘Odonata’ and ‘“Orthoptera” recorded by Dr. Calvert and Mr. Rehn. Stortz, George, Newark. A Coleopterist whose collections have been made chiefly in the Newark district. Sz. Schwarz, E. A., Washington, D. C. Assistant to the Entomologist in the U. S. Dept. Agric. and in charge of the “Coleoptera” in the U. S. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 847 Nat. Mus. Mr. Schwarz is the best Coleopterist at present living in the United States. He has been good enough to look over the previous list and to note errors and probable errors. In this way it has been cleared of most of such species aS were erroneously identified. Mr. Schwarz has determined many New Jersey specimens for others as well as myself, and, notably, all the “Staphylinids” credited to Mr. Reinick. He has done little collecting in New Jersey, yet is sole authority for the occurrence of several good species in our State. Thompson, J., Staten Jsland, N. Y. Collects ‘“‘Coleoptera”’; his records cited by Mr. Davis or Mr. Leng. U. Ulke, Henry, late of Washington, D. C. With Mr. BE. A. Schwarz he compiled a list of ‘‘Coleoptera”’ in the District of Columbia, with notes on the food and other habits of the species, and these notes when used are credited to “U.” Uhler, Dr. Philip R., Baitimore, Md. Our leading authority in ‘“Hemiptera- Heteroptera.” The records cited are chiefly from his check list. Dr. Uhler has also determined much of the material cited by other con- tributors to this list. His credit is therefore greater than appears from the actual number of citations made. he Wes Whe Sis INS YES U. S. Ag. United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Ento- mology. In this division an index is made of all the species com- plained of or sent in for information, and the locality from which the species was sent or complaint was made is connected with the species. Dr. L. O. Howard, Entomologist to the Department, was good enough to have this index looked over for records of species sent in from New Jersey, and quite a number of useful notes were obtained in this way. U SNM. United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. This col- lection is now altogether the largest in the country, though exceeded by individual collections in almost every order. It contains much material from New Jersey from my old collection, which was sold to the Museum in 1887, from the Linell collection of “Coleoptera,” and from the Fox collection of “Hymenoptera.” There is also some material from other sources, and I have looked over all the orders other than “Coleoptera,” “Lepidoptera” and ‘Diptera’ for notes as to localities or other data. Van D. Van Duzee, E. P., Buffalo, N. Y. Specialist in the “Hemiptera,” and chiefly in the “Homoptera.” Has determined much material for me and for other collectors, and has himself collected at several points in the State. Without his assistance the lists in the ‘“Homopterous” families would be far less complete. Vk. Viereck, Henry L., Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agric., and previously of Philadelphia. Specializes in the “Aculeate Hymenop- tera,’ and has collected extensively in New Jersey. Mr. Viereck has done for the present edition in “Hymenoptera” what Dr. Ashmead did in the last. 848 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. W. Wenzel, Henry W., Philadelphia. One of the best collectors of “Coleoptera” in the country, and possesses the best individual col- lection in Philadelphia. His collections in New Jersey have been chiefly made along the line of the Atlantic City R. R., in Camden and Gloucester Counties, within easy reach of Philadelphia, and at Angle- sea, Cape May County. This latter point has been a favorite, as the number of species taken there will testify. He has also collected at Lake Hopatcong and in the Orange Mts. To Mr. Wenzel the list of “Coleoptera”? owes much of its completeness, and in the families “Scydmenide” and “Pselaphide” he has practically prepared the entire list. Incidentally he also collects in other orders, the material gathered being generally turned over to his friends, according to their specialties. Watson, Frank E., New York City. A Lepidopterist who gives much atten- tion to the life histories of diurnals. W EB. Britton, Dr. W. E., New Haven, Conn., Entomologist to the Ex- periment Station. Dr. Britton has been good enough to help me out in the “Aleyrodide” and “Coccide,” the list in the firstmamed being as prepared by him. Weigand, Fred, Philadelphia. An amateur whose captures are recorded by other collectors of that city. Wdt. Weidt, A. J.. Newark. A Lepidopterist and more recently interested in “Diptera.” Most of his collecting has been done in the environs of Newark and in the Orange Mountains, and much of his material in the ‘‘Lepidoptera” has been seen by me. Wheeler, Dr. William Morton, Harvard Univ., Professor of Entomology. Specializes in ants and has written the list in that series. Dr. Wheeler has made many of his studies in New Jersey, and this makes the records in the ‘Formicoidea” exceptionally complete and satis- factory. Wrms. Wormsbacher, Henry, Jersey City. A Lepidopterist who has col- lected at various points in the Hackensack Valley. His records are seattered throughout the order. Zabriskie, Rev. J. L. Has collected generally, largely at Flatbush, Long Island, and at Nyack and other points just north of the New Jersey line. Some of his specimens are in the U. S. Nat. Mus., and these are credited to him in this list. A very few names have been omitted, where only cited once or twice, but I think no contributor of any important record has been over- looked: none has been intentionally left out, and sincere thanks are given to all for their contributions. It is only by the contributions of many, 135 in this case, that even an approximately complete survey of the insect fauna of any State can be obtained. ILLUSTRATIONS. The illustrations in this edition are nearly all identical with those used in the edition of 1900, and there acknowledged in detail. A very few have been omitted and substituted by better figures obtained from the United States Department of Agricul- ture, Division of Entomology. A very few have been drawn for this, work by Mr. John A. Grossbeck, and these in general bear his initials. 54 IN (849) SUMMARY. Three editions of the list have been published. That of 1890 was a crude affair, hurriedly prepared from scanty data, yet decidedly useful. That of 1900 was carefully prepared, with the co-operation of all the col- lectors who had New Jersey material. It could fairly claim rank as a contribution to science, and the practical features made it of use to Agriculturists as well. It was the most ambitious undertaking of its kind, and its usefulness was far greater than anticipated. The edition has been long since exhausted and the continuing demand for copies is warrant for a new edition. The following table shows what progress has been made in our knowledge of the insects of the State: Edition 1890. Edition 1900. Edition 1910. Order. \Fam. Gen. Species.|Fam. Gen. Species. |Fam. Gen. Species. Thysanura, ve eeee| 00, 00, 00.; 00, 00, 00.| 2, 18, 41. Ephemerida, ....) 00, 00, CON ae 12, Oe 133 29. Plecoptera, ......| 00, 00, OOF ee bile rosy ha ltl. 14, 25. Mallophaga, .....| 00, 00, 00. 2, 16 Zao 14, 100 TSORPEPAS. seins in,05 00; 00, 00.; 1, ily a Ballee il i il Corrodentia, ....) 00, 00, O0n 25 ili 26 il alee 39 Platyptera, ......! 00, 00, OOP TPOL) 3, a ile a 9 Neuroptera, ..... 9, Gl, PL74s ob; 16, 45. 6, Opp 41 Mecoptera, ......' 00, 00, 00. il 4, 10. ats 4, lal, Trichoptera, .....' 00,. 00, OO) 6, 25 SW I Re 56 OMEN, aon donde! TWX 00, 00.; 3, 38, SKU Bis 43, 109 Thysanoptera, .... 00, 00, (XOS | ale 6, 12, ie 6, 12. Parasite tae | 00, 00, 00. il on the al oF ile Homoptera, ..... } 20,0 LOD) 242.) 245.027, -899san) | Soe Hemiptera, ..... | 26, abv(a% 3138.| 24, 200, 340.| 23, 205, 504. Dermoptera, .....| 00, 00, OXOoe ate 4, iy il, 5, He Orthoptera, ..... fT tier BB) APTA 6. By, AA Gs Se ee Coleoptera, ....:..| 71, 815, 2,227.) 71,975, 2,845.) 77, 1O7Se a oemeee Lepidoptera, ....| 28, 484, 1,140.) 53, 615, 1,570.| 48, Wil5, 92,1208 Hymenoptera; ...| 30; 302, 1,074.|| 84; ) G21." e785) Sik) SA IEo ROE Siphonoptera, ... 00, 00, OO: nut als Be llama 4, 4, Diptera. sacs | ti Gul). 811.) 53, 443, 1193.) boa. S425 lepers Mota se eco 238, 2,307, 6,098./329, 3,181, 8,537. | 331, 3,486, 10,385. * Includes all from the Ephemerida to the Odonata. (850) Index to Families and Genera. Family names are printed in CAPITALS; synonyms are in italics. duplicated in different orders. A. Abbottana, Abia, Ablerus, Abrostola, Acalles, Acallodes, Acalyptus, Acanthaclisis, JONFSea rate Nie eae ne oe ACANTHIID&, Acanthocephala, .... Acanthocerus, Acanthocinus, Acanthoderes, ...... Acanthosceelis, ... Acanthosoma, Acantomyops, Acemyia, Acidia, Acilius, Achatodes, Acholerops, Acholla, Achoreutes, Achroia, Acinopterus, Acleris, Acmeeodera, Acmzops, Acnemia, Acnoplix, Acocephalus, Acoloithus, Acontia, . 508 586 | 640° 470 | 391 393 . 389 62 166 . 166 146 sr AO ... do4| 333 | Fag oor Sears gel oer| =,-,9 001 781 801 299 saa ... 462 . 232 156 30 532 105 547 293 330 723 631 . 108 514 Acoptus, Be | INANE Coado code Acordulecera, SOG) |G OMet ass ee eee Acrapteryx, . 259| Adoxomyia, ........ NCRIDIED Ts nia.5 ds Gus.s eid Arloxtisn Gade tee oes INGiSlccy LARS Beas 271 | HANGER, 5 heedacneae Actobasis, {2 4..4..- GRP HIE Weva (ols aaa anni Cea INCTOCELAS. 4h. en ee (AAMAS OCTIO,. 6 on eee iAcrolepia, . su55e.h ee VL ABIES Loo Solguednce INSROODINIHSY Qokon oe Mee ARIE Oo one scone. Perolkineal, ows bone Gaul | Alon, sedbeecad. PNCMONMOWETEN, “Seco bor 3 AQ AaNOplexty h'. seesae : Acronycta, AAS EADS CHa seek cence INCTORICIUS Marware 630 | /eshnasoma, *....-.. Actenodes, 293 | AWSCHNIDA, ........ JRCUIE oS cwtak, Hee ele eat 776 | Athaloptera, ....... ING Lastest eee eee 432 | Agabetes, .......... INTIMA cus Sacanel det eis (oO eAeADTISN oo Seer tes a. PRETIMOUIA,. few oars este AOU Neallitaer asses ene AGIA $8 Boe veba Sule 233| Agalliastes, ........ ANG mnolibion, Eoencoaue 178 Agapostemon, Actopins, (cadens: 241} AGARISTIDA, ........ Acupalpus, ......... 216] Agathidium, ....... NCUA. atic edolacts atc Dl Agrit hist ..c8 oe ens Acylophorus, ....... 239| Agathobranchus, ... TANCGIET FF eae aa yaaa 253| Agathomyia, ....... Oat) ket ata eae pei ev SGOWArenias hss gan Adelocephala, ...... AO LA TOSSaa nT. oe ere ee INGELOCEL ayy eye setes 284} Aglyptus, .......... Adelognathus, ..... 617| Agnomonia, ........ Adelphacoris, <2... 163) Agnopteryx, ....... Adelphaerotiss cane 452) Agonoderus, ....... NAO NENTS ehh od” 244) Agonosoma, ....... AGAGUYUNS Saari olejace 605) Agraphus, 22.002... ANGUIIELTS ao ee cy eee Sin |WNoiaralhte, o& Jaas bea ENGIt a ety hoa eee ADL ACPINGS, oo os tae Where two pages are referred to, the generic name is 776 512 737 342 236 (ay 518 271 668 425 631 78 708 76 504 221 221 102 160 . 688 442 230 609 618 762 672 526 231 478 561 214 704 379 408 294 852 INGRIONIDZ, | Sania os {3 emotes; “Accs sect 287 Agromyza, . 812 AGROMYZIDA, ...... 811 AGTOtS, 2.f10) eh teks 453 INGEY PMS, 2-5 5-ceo 284 INGE GapoGocodene 284 Ui aete ye ee n 519 Adleathee,! §) beck 517 Alcidamea, ......... 697 ENICTS RRO CTE eee 502 mlleocerass 2h. seem 621 IM ebras tia. oe. see 107 Aleochara, 238 lepidiaritins eee 162 PAT EGIE? FA Sos Fite aloes 471 PMEMELEE: Sty seer seisk 624 IMNSGHOUISS, isa eookdee 119 ALEYRODIDA, ....... 119 JN UEOeK ESS) Seaba can 405 JEU pe No Bcos ese Oe 586 Adtindria, 55225 hes 276 Alliognathus, ....... 682 Aslochrysay 2/54 .c8e 61 losnostay ce. ere 736 MNilograpta, a0. ae 767 ANlGpenla, “ee naa 40 Allophyla, oa2. sere 795 LO pniylaxs = seu 68 PAN OPLOSTOM Me ea ee ae 629 PUG BOGA Tic) ie ne ae dee 366 PM Losshiiticie eer ae 321 PM Oui ates kak s 6 cine 597 INOS Gassoteo: 368 NOP MOTTA acer crocs 775 Alphitobius, ........ 360 Alphitophagus, 362 Adsophila, 0.5 <2uh 495 UNI ITS les mints oo oe ee 147 NIA DIC SS Se mene Oe 442, JENIN TERE eRe ES A 616 NE GUD AL, he ca 28 ae cto 615 PNIVSON Laie tcte ke mons 2.08 680 ALYSONIDA, ........ 680 ENDEMONNEIS 9 6 do\beces 3: 574 Amalopis, . . 708 PATNA cee ane ne 205 JNM tacackoae’ 465 Amaurochrous, ..... 132 Amaurorhinus, .... Amblycorypha, Amblyctis, Amblyderus, Amblyscirtes, Amblyteles, ........ Amelectonus, Amucoplus, ... Amilapis, Amitus, Ammalo, Ammodonus, ....... Ammophila, . Amnestus, Amolita, Amorbia, Ampeloglypter, ..... Ampelophagus, ... Amphagrion, -ca.u-2: Amphibolips, ....... Amphicerus, Amphicnephes, ..... Amphicoma, ....... Amphicrossus, Amphientomum, Amphion, Amphionycha, Amphisa, Amphiscepa, AMP UEC AS) 5). eee Anacampsis, Anacrabro, ene see Anedus, Anagoga, Anametis, . Anaphes, Anaphora, Ane pPlOdeS, “Aic.t..n5 3 JANNATSIAey 2 ee ee Anasa, Anaspis, Anastatus, Anatis, Anax, Anaxipha, Anchodemus, /NTICISEEONIA Sa eee Ancylis, Ancylopera, . Ce er CRC in Satd Oe ee ey ae oe is pls ele COB CIRC S Cait bai ee rece Pe ee) ee ee ee eis miele ers is = 62 Ce ONE eC apc 50) 8) Bike iste he . 399 . 186: 365 372 423 635 619 . 607 502 652 441 360 . 676 133 471 550 395 . 426 75 600 | 308 fig 316 273 . 52) 495 | , 887 | 548 96 676 | 507 | 682 361, 505 . 378 637 577 500 | 560 146 369 645 | 254 78 193 385 683 544 . 545 INDEX TO FAMILIES AND! GENERA. Ancyloxypha, . 421 Ancyronyx, 279 Andrenas seer 689 ANDRENIDA, . . 689 Andticus, aaa 602 Androchitus .2eeeeos Andronicus) jee eeoo Anecphysis, 623 Ameurus; \-ieaoeeee 140 Ania, ....28ce + pee 506 Anisodactylus, ..... 216 Anisolabia, secs! ANS OP Sian oer 170 AmiSostictal eater 252 Anisota, &:. epee 433 Anisotomay! 32220 230 ANISOXyal ee eee 366 Anobium, {seen 306 Aniomala eee 320. Anomalagrion, ..... 76 Anomalon, 620 ATOMS, cee 471 Anomecd, {See eseeeer 340 Anomoglossus, ..... 213 Anopedias, ......... 652 Anopheles, ...... 716 JATIOD IIT See 673 Anorostoma, rei © 3) Anorthodes, ........ 448 Anorthosia, 559 Anoura; <5. 0eeeeeee 36 Anoxus) : ose 667 Anozus; ) eee 639 Anthaxias {eee 292 Antherophagus, .... 264 ANTHICIDA, ........ 310 Amthicus, seme oo 371 Anthidium, ........ 697 Anthochartssseeeheee 418 Anthocomus, ....... 301 © ANTHOCORIDA, ..... 158 AmthOCOLisa eerie 158 Anthomyia, ...-.... 791 ANTHOMYIDE, ..... 788 Anthomyza, ........ S11 Anthonomopsis, 388 Anthonomus, ....... 386 Anthophilus, ....... 678 oareeeee 694 Anthophora, INDEX TO FAMILIES ‘AND! ANTHOPHORIDA, . 694 PRTUE IGEN acres fe lad As 745 Anthrenus, ......... 266 ANTHRIBIDE, ...... 405 Amthribulitts; Sa055.% 406 Amehribts,), Jnr: 406 Antiblemma, ....... 479 Anticarsia, . 479 Amitispila,. ie... Patek 565 ANLOCM AN? 5 Ka.'s.8 thats 706 C-ASTUREIG Et sage Gina G 36 NMI AATS$ Aus «:s, aistefeh Fes! 455 Apecasia, . £7502 pane as Cate vaycve sis = <8 462 Amanteles, .f25/.28% 610 PganteEsis,, 5. 6 2icsies'. 440 patelodess "s\.c se 485 Apateticus, ......... 137 AES ai Os? 698 Apatira; cacti ese 2 442 IND STCS aS eee 212 Aphenogaster, ..... 658 EDITED AUG) Ramee daa F 616 ANIME EbEEI poner a aoc 108 Aphanisus, .i ona 747| Enallagma, ........ 75 Bepantheria, «ilid vis 439 Enarmonia, 0.20.6. 543 Bepiylus; 5... .c22*% 614| Emarmonia, ........ 545 Ectemnius, ......... 681| Enchenopa, ........ 93 Betopiocerus, . 23% 161 | Encoptolophus, 181 Betopnidtnhieek ete’ 280| Encyclops, ........: 330 Bepropiss youeeskwatet 504 | ENcyrrip&, 644 Beyrus,, «sifehanwalec ped HBC YTttisy . .. ctgisaine 644 EZEteSIS ncn unnnle te 623) Bmdalisiroc ca. eeiek 385 Bidar Sha gas o see 552) Endecatomus, ...... 308 Eeipl@somiasy =. taetice 620. Bindelomiviase aesseer 584 Mlachiptera,., .... = for 809| ENpoMYCHIDH, ..... 258 Elaehistiajy ea. st vhs 565| Endomychus, ...... 259 ELACHISTIDA, ...... 563) Badrosisy: ..0) iaeerals 562 Eachisttiss. eer Oe) EianGaribisy Ascooeeuce 275 Bilaphidion), sc. .eeee 326| Enicospilus, ........ 620 IBIEN nine somboea ne: 200| Ennearthron, ...... 310 ELASMIDH, ......... 641| Ennomos, ........... 506 Elasmocerus, ....:.. 302| Entechnia, ......... 694 Elasmopalpus, ..... 534) Entomobrya, ....... 35 Elasmosoma, ....... 609 Entomophthalmus, . 282 Elasmostethus, TSS) Bytity latte tc .3 pose a Elastmucha.. asset BSP HOIS Atlante coe 499 Easmitrsy 5 ae sazercteren 641 Eosphoropteryx, 469 Bigterad go) o05.5 5. ae 205 BPACOCE, °24..5 out 548 BiATERIDA. | lseacda Zee) pal pus;, -o< 2s sbee 784 Elephantomyia, WO Bpelis us. oc eee 500 CPNGUSIS: mez Mn igs tap 249| Epeolus, .... se 02s 693 Bilidiptera,’ ing get QoIE Peolusy 3... andes 692 Ti PSOClisws Gris: ke des 53 | Epermenia, ,..aancer 566 Bile tila to adnate bb Dm baluss: 5... cedeeene 360 Pllemay, ic 45 . 5scaigl 430| Ephemera, .......-. 37 Plfeschus, 225 2%:san% 388| Ephemerella, ...... 38 Bilidass ok pss.aetet 490 |EPpHEMERIDA, .....: 37 Bilipess sh antits bogthe 191 | Fipestiajet 6. Fe oar 535 Elly chntajoos picgectg 29 Gi Bp hestodesy. .ccc,daok 535 GENERA. Ephialtes;... <. 0eiee 627 Ephistemus, ........ 264 Ephuta;. .... eee 665 Bphydra,..... . ....%- Slelate \eneinve © Gee's el ele me: tis. o wale see eee 862 Heoristas. « «diet eaues (80 |(Gargaphia, .ijosnesst Eyxoristoides, ....... ioN\Gastroidea, 2. niee HEV TAs > oc. 0 ERAS 472 Gastrolobium, ...... A RVSEON,. 1s. - Sees 623 |Gastrophilus, ....... Gastrops cer aeriee . iGaurotes)) ..AJeanieene j Gelastocoris, ....... Habatand, %.. .ssadanel KG@elechia, . ic) aae Blalitolae 2 wise sete ners 562 | GELEcHima {asene: feeitana,...... candies 462 | Geocoris, .........- Palagria, .... +: 237 | Geodromicus, ....... Balcaria, -s..-1- tories: 493 GEOMETRID&, Beltias, cs. aeteetes 454 GEOMYZID&, ke ae Feniseca, -alO ll Geopinus, J. >. ...e6es IDGaCOMNIEL, a anodooc on 489 Geotomus!. sec see TRONUSO, @.« Gace yet 591 Geosareussine eee Feralia, aausveisaeee paeeteeene 450 Geotrupes, a. aaa ps Gas a secrerecetteteases 342 Geranomyia, nee ORES, onan what stele 596 (Geron, hf... aged PIGUEID AY. a,isks elton 596 Gerripa, ahs BIOTIMNIay |. costes 128 GErGiSiy cee Futehias J .)- 5. her tee 15 l(@eshina. c..cese eee IGEMUS,, ease eke eee 636 Gibbiunn e. eee OLGMONIS: 4-1 ase rile laean o3%,. 2 \deetwees GIO RCHIE axqaadonoc 171 Glaphyniay eee ee ForFiculipa, ....... 171 Glace saci loninicasa. sce 662 | Glenae ve. ester FORMICIDA, . ..: .... eee Galactomyia, -eeeee 775 Glyptomorpha, ..... Galasa, Rcapepaneieisyebaeayatte 528 Glyptoscelis, Par pe fe Tae 9s Galerita, i.) siete ZOO We nathias, sae te eee Galerucella, ...s..:. 347 | Gnathocerus, ....... Galesus) cys: 6 hanes 651|Gnathodon, ........ Calotlas vas. cagenine 472, Gnathodus, ......... Galgulide, ». 65.45% 167) Gnathotrichus, . Galgulus. ..certeeier 167 | Gnophomyia, ....... Galleria. 4. seers 532 | Gnorimoschema, Ganonema, sascnssee CONEnorimus) Veeeeeeee Garcantsy |) snseerice IGUKGOES, Cie anes INDEX TO FAMILIES ANDi GENERA. 149 ;}Gompheeschna, ..... 78 346|Gomphus, ......... (74 243 |\Gondspis,....:. cee 602 003)|\ GOnIay. <.cces ee 783 806 | Goniognathus, ..... 104 330 |Goniocotes, ........ 46 167 | Goniomyia, ......... 706 558 | Gonodontis, ........ 507 004|Gonoides, .......... 46 142 | Goniataulius, ....... 68 249 |'Goniops; ...xskeaneuer 739 494|Goniozus, .......... 667 - Sill ||\Gorytes: .... ae 679 214/ GoryTIpa, ......... 679 133'|(Gossyparia, .... amen 122 737 | Gracilaria, 571 315|Grammodes, ....... 479 704|Grammospila, ...... 616 747 |Gramptopsilopus, ... T54 150 | Graphisurus, ....... 334 151|Graphoderes, ...... 223 526 | Graphomyia, ....... 788 305!Graphops, ......... 343 466 )Grapta,. ..<<\csoeme 410 SaliGrotea,. «+. -uaeeaeee 629 950] GRYLEIDA, 62. eee 190 50+ | Gryllotalpa, 191 62 | Gryllus, . 192 759+] Grypeta,. ...c... can eeee 238 9) |\Gueneria,. . Seeks 500 490 | Gymnandrosana, 546 559 |Gymnetron, ........ 389 553 |Gymnocheta, ...... 779 287 | Gymnoclytia, ....... 774 . 625|Gymnonychus, ..... 588 354}Gymnophora, ...... 762 391!Gymnopternus, ..... 757 249 | Gymnoscelus, ...... 607 615|Gymnosoma, ....... 774 342 | Gynandropus, 214 692 |'Gypona,. ss... eee 101 360 | Gypsochroa, ....... 497 696 |Gypsonoma, ....... 543 106 | GyRINIDA, ......... 223 AQT |(Gyrinusy -a.o0 see 223 707 | Gyrohypnus, ....... 241 55% | Gyrophena, ...//.0% 237 322 | GYROPIDH, ........- 48 332 | Gyropus, ........... 48 INDEX TO. FAMILIES AND H. ERG UATUES.. «: 5 ciate Renee 646 Habrobracon, ...... 615 in| GIES. Ge eRereene rs. ot 449 | Hadrobregmus, 306 | Hadrodactylus, 624 | Hadrodrema, ....... 164} ladGOMOtIS.. m awe a>. 653 Hadrophlebia, ...... 38 Meematobia, 22... <.% 788 | Hematopinus, ...... 86] Eiematopota, . ... .!.:. 740 Hiematopsis, ..:..:. 498 IBlexaorntel, Shen eaode 338 | PLAS EMIUS, «= 32.528 is 76 FEI AGSUS ku cte.cc: eon audiore 68 UAT CTD AS A Sige \5 ol 686 Halictoides, 691 RMI CEUSS «ch aco ochshete 687 FVATMPIAID AS, ~ aidulses 217 ReDHIpITS 1. e).,S.srs «oe 217 Elalisidota, >... .02. .441 iailomenus, s4asec- 366 leit Catan scucysaror teres 302 Halticoptera, ....... 646 ARUIGICUISS: 12,. soley 161 | Hammomyia, ...... 791 PARES) ss eied ads 193 faplandrus, /co+ er 358 Haploa, . 438 EOLONGLUS:, . .meteehoe 272 RlaGIMOMIa, <2... oa s 254 ReEMOStES,. o....eel 147 Harpactopus, ...... 677 Harpalus,...d.0h.00 214 Harpiphorus, ...... 583. Harrisimemna, ..... 446 | ster tal Simaiy ehtaise ent 514 MeMAG PSUs os ssc « start 489 Hebrus, 150, 152 Ellecabolus;,, 2.2... 613 Heltecelutss) (... ./3 selenite 103 Hedychridium, 668 Hedychrum, Beet As oa 668 Heidemannia, ...... 160 Flleleon® oz. .< «asia: 607 Etelicobid, .... inssisieerd 786 Helicopsyche, ...... 69 Helicoptera, .. scan 95 | Heliozela, | Helomyza, | HELOMYZzID&, Helophilus, , Hemerobius, Tnleliomata,, Axsoeewe Heliothis, Heliothrips, Heliria, Helluomorpha, Helobia, | elochata,, \n4sscnen Helocharles, Helocombus, Helocordulia, Helodes, Helophorus, Helops, HELORIDA, Helorus, Helotropha, Hemadas, JnISeMenAES, oo coco noc Hemaris, HEMEROBIIDA, ...... PROmUn CerCrCh omc Elemenocampa, misrre ! . Hemerodromia, .... Hemichroa, Hemicrepidius, ..... Hemileuca, HEMILEUCIDA, ...... Hemimene, Hemirhipus, Hemistenus, Hemitaxonus, Hemiteles, elle may capa eeteiarers ETEPTALIDA 3. yescljer nleptageniayy ea eaee Ee reseS), J. esse Hercostomus, Herculia, Heriades, Elenmetianaoni.cee ee Herpestomus, TRESPERTD AS, cfu). eelejee Hesperobium, Hesperodes, Hesperotettix, Par Bo Osc Oe eee eee 500 467 84 566 91 . 212 707 101 226 . 227 79 280 795 795 769 224 362 652 652 . 451 646 371 425 60 61 490 758 588 289 434 434 546 284 243 | Hololepta, GEINERA. Heterina, TRICTRIISH . y/.uhune mere Heterachthes, Heterocampa, HETEROCERID, Heterocerus, Heterogamus, Heterogenea, Heterogramma, .... 4 Pleteromiyia,e-siasec: Eleteroneura, ... 4%: HETERONEURIDA, Heteropelma, ....... Heterophaga, ...... Heteroplectron, Heterophleps, Heterothops, lieteroxys; v. «s.r InIaKeda, Sooo manace Hexagenia, Iblexarthictiml, serene Heza, Hilara, Hilarella, Hillia, Himatium, Himella, Hippelates, Hippiscus, HIPPOBOSCIDA,. ...... Hippodamia, Hippopsis, Hister, MS TERTD 4). se oseeicis loleaspiss) 35 4-eHaer Holcocephala, Holcocera, Holcopelte, ........ Holcostethus, eee eecee shat ejeimpa Holonomada, Hiolopogon, Prazcaen Holostrophus, ...... Flora littmann Homalomyia, Homalotylus, lomaspis:meiy.eitae Homochlodes, ...... Homcemus, see 1 864 INDEX TO FAMILIES AND Homeeosoma, ...... 530| Hydrophoria, ...... 791 iElomogizea,. ... 20420 466, Hydrophorus, 756 Homohadena, ...... 451| Hydroporus, ....... 219 Homolota, 2.0.00... 237 | Hydropsyche, ...... 71 Homophoberia, 478| HypRopsYCHIDA, . 70 Homophysa, ....... Oz) Melydrotscas wees meee 789 Homoporus, ....... 642)| Hydrous,. <..2.. eth 225 Homoptera, 479)| Ely drovatus,. .aatios 218 Homopyralis, ...... 474 | Hyetodesia, ........ 790) Elomosteia,, sehen 576| Hygroplitis, . 610 VEMOWOTG, nc se 039 | Hygrotrechus, ...... 151 Hoplandrias eee. 238) Ebylastesy, «oes aoe 404 EPG p lia, 663.45 ee We 316) Htylemiyia, .... acc 791 Hoplismenus, ...... 636| Hylesinus, ......... 404 ELODUSUS) Ele 679) Ely lobidis,. ..: .28fOUe 383 Hoplocampa, ....... 588] Hylotoma, ......... 592 Hoplogaster, 192)) Thy lotrupes, oo. acace 325 IRWOKEOEISK! Ce bot coccec 165: Ebylurgops, -<...840e: 404 Hlonismenus, .... 5% 641| Hymenarcys, ....... 135 FOnMSEONotis: meee 280 Ebymenia, |... mumseek 522 Flonmaphis; sans eee 114| Hymenorus, ........ 363 ORmMISase Maso oe 482 | Hypargyricus, ..... 590 ElormiSciuss jeer dee 405| Fyparpax, .....0l:+ 489 ermMOnis, - ..<. Aso. Sore) Sly pena), «ees 484 ISH, fee wieee ences 530| HYPENIDA, ........ 480 eleva dasa) «1 eee 140| Leptomeris, ........ 499 | Laricobius, Sioa eee 04 | Peptamonp hiss nates 724 Wear rays to's. cpaemeeee 683 | Leptopeza, Sore TOD oh Pines t “Iss < genet 683 |Leptophlebia, .:..... 37 Jalysus, . 148) LastocaMpipa, 492 | Leptopygas, ........ 617 Weamncissde a... «gibi s 2 488 | Pasiodertia; Sears: 306 Leptorhaptus, ...... 651 eile oe 22. ds... ev 004 | asioglossium, 24 ie 687 | Leptostyla, .... 22h. 149 PASSID. 6. oak 103 | Lasiopogon, ........ 750/| Leptostylus, 333 SSS aris seeker 0G RiEasiops: a eee 190 | Leptoterna, 2. .0s.<% 163 Johannseniella, ..... (a easioptera, sneer 126) Reptothorax, ...2.0.: 659 Paiientias oe... fo... AN aalsiis.” os, . Seats 661 Leptotrachelus, 209 | Waspeymesta,), waeetee 045 | Leptoypha, ........ 149 2 | Latreillimyia, ...... TO Beptirag \o. 0 ay teas 331 ' @athrobiella,, 2225%.8 244 | Lepturges, .......4. 304 Kealiofenusa, ....0.5% Hol leachtoblonnid meet ee 244 | Wepyronia, ......... 98 Kaliosyphinga, ..... aot “Wathrobiniy existe BAS NIBeti as” oe 8 eee 795 Eeerimes: oa. So ce 122 Lathrobium, ....... QA Wieslcial mee... ees HOT E@olllaken sya seeres sae eS 100 Gathropus;, 1.0. ¢eak 263 | Leskiomima, ....... 777 MONG WiC! Meco eate dee Wathrotaxis,. 45. a at Westessn.. .. at eee 74 TADRIDIIDA:, «EA Eas BA Westeyal xvas Saas 249 L ILAuBMIGhIDISS Shen oouru ce Zito MMenhocentish » a aeee 168 : Danxania, — Sheena! #98 | Wencamiay . .<.0 psa 458 Mabeniae) 258 bs 355" 629 Laverna, ........2.. 566 ewe: 9. o.oo 555 |S) 2 oy ee 171 'Lebia, ARNG ot 210 | Leucodesmia, 639 Wabidomera, 3.2. .: 344 | Bechniops eee 392 | Leucophthalmia, 498 Waccobius,) «22.62. 226 | Leiphron, ........%. 607 | Leucophthalmia, . 498 accophilus, Sih50%. MlSivemas Anew eree atei|| ILO, SA ano ab oe. 813 Lachnocrepis, 213 | Lepidocyrtus, ...... a0) Wetconhinian veer 81 Lachnosterna, 318 | Repidophora, °.0...i%40 |Beticospis. etna aaas 649 Wachithiisns .).. dea: 115 | Lepidosaphis, ...... 129 | Weucostola, ..:2:20. 195 Iacosoma, . . 28222): 509 Lepidostoma, ...... 69) Leticostomia, sistent: 777 WACosomMIDA, ......0° 909! Wepimotus, =... .- Ree. pa. | eUctral nae ch eae: 41 Lzemophlceus, 12631) Pepipolys.) .). assem Aeon callittsis ee ee 756 Weemosaccus, ... =. - BOO [GEDISMIA,. isis uae ae) eibell ilar =. -eeee 80 Weetiliane 2. . Aes 535 | Leptacinodes, ...... 242 | LIBELLULIDA, ...... 78 Wastes oo. is 1de03 56o. | BPvI A! ..,... sateen (AZ) aburntas |... seers 97 IPAGREID AGE, 5212 364) Mepting, B..4..2 05.8 447 | Libythea, .......... 413 Lamenia, 1/97 | Reprininat, sii 228' LipyTHEIDA, ....... 413 Wann piia’ nN awn Kol Wentintis, . -. sear 228 Lagyrocoris; s.t2h 143 Wampronota, ..)..:. 629 |Leptinotarsa, ....... pad Wisyrs: 2.25 gees 320 PAMPYRIDA, .... bueso96 Meptis, - 20... 6. kee) Bimacodés) 7 as,aeety 512 S66 INDEX TO FAMILIES AND IFINPACODIDA) | yheace Oe eitholonicase eee 461 Giimvennitiche eves 412 | Lirnosipa, ........ 4384 Wimmebiises dane oe Zeb Wiviare a... + hear ees 108 INN EPHIL ID Ame yey me OSiinttS, epee cneee 383 Lamnephilus, -.).)...0: G8i oberus, 25/505. sat¥ 264 Limmnerium, ..:....- 619 | Lobioptera, ........ 813 ILainntaKClaybIC, Geo nocesd 208, |Wobophora, “2.8200: A495 Limnobaris, S05 | Lobopoda, (yi. -\..0 see 363 Simmobiavee seats Wo Locusta, |) eet 185 EAmmophilay so }220e (07. |\eodertis: (2.2 aa 584 Pininophoray ..cers. (OO) oma miyda. iar 60 Lammnoportis, Gi4s./h7. 151 |Lomanaltes, ...<.'... 484 Limnotrechus, ..... 151|Lomatopleura, ..... 162 ILaMOawhbS, ooo wuces 288 | Lomechusa, ........ 238 JUNO, pe aobaoocs (9G Weonchzeawss eee 797 Esmothinips, . eee 84|Lonchoptera, ...... 76] Pannloedes,»:. eure Ve 250 | LoncHopTERIDE, .... 761 LEUNG ot ok Oe 346 | Longistigma, ....... 116 Win dens, WINS ae: 682 | Ioneitansus:s aoe 354 | Wimmeemiyiady seen UT9)| Pongurio, 2205 fe8 709 leirroleatinicse alee 24% BOpheros, .2).\y2beot. 297 Tioderma, .......:. 134 | Lophoderus, ........ 550 Mtodiess tas, forcast 230) _ophodontal seuss. 487 Wioginase koe eee 708 Lophopteryx, ...... 487 ILVOUN GIN Shoe orb ok o6l | Lophytus, ..s2i0't:: 581 [GLO PUSH a. cs Soe ce Daa Opideay i. ..55ceetes 161 PIOMEREID AS «eee ee. ATaWopusiy sep aanteeee 160 HOMO DISS » Vol orci Re USGI Woxand cts erement 206 ADIPARID At, 4)..1 ac ete 400)! Lometulus, P< stu. 2000 Ae tENASy aaa qe seers 45 | Loxocephalus, ...... 609 Ibipochzeta: Sade ee- SOT oxocekan erent 804 lipOcosiiay were 522 | Loxostege, 523 IR OUCLRISS Ae closets 605 | Woxotropa, ».. cide. a Onl eipliras aches eee BO) LUCANTD AS mie eae enelln RIS Dain ra Ache entrees (AB MAGE RIES (3 gone Geo: ail LEAS INNIS) 1 see eee CEM ULibveveloeh, Geo aisa on 297 hispocephala,: .aseee toe | Larethian Wis. eee 786 EUSSOMOLGS a. eee G29 Wadiuisss. sae eee 286 Bissorhoptrus, 4.5.90) | Luperaltica, fa. ii aeaot Astotrophtis: sass: 239) |e iperinas eek eee 449 Listronotus,?. 4.2382 |'Laperodes} a. . 2.0) 3/3849 Witanomiyial is pee OS le ticewcey soetreueniae 153 ILMB Ket, | A nee skg abc DES) |hleaviccenay at eee 416 lithacodeswe eee 5illS)| LevcznipAtes Jensen 414 Hithacddiak (is seek! A2:) Wayeia! eh ase 7 aa 504 Lithocelletis, 568 | Lycoperdina, 258 Withochanis js eee. 245 )\ y.cOStomils, «eee 296 Withochrusw aaeoden. Qh eyctoconiss ees 158 Pitholathrayesseeeee DAA IG yCEIse mar esterase 309 ’| Lyroda, GENERA. | Lycogaster, (ley Glas weet eee | LyGarpas, | Lygus, Lygus, | LYMEXYLIDA, . ' Lymexylon, | Lymnecia, Lyonetia, | Lyperosia, Lysiphlebus, Lysitermus, Lytrosis, oe | Macaria, Machiliss eae Macquartia, Macratria, se eee | Macrobasis, | Macrocentrus, Macrodyctium, Malcrorita, sae Macronema, Macronoctua, . Macronychus, Macrophya, ... Macropis, Macrops, Macrorileya, .. Macrosargus, . Macrotelia, Macrotelus, | Macroxyela, | Macrurocampa, Madarellus, Magdalis, © ei fele © Lycomorpha, -2j.28 Lygocertis; [27a | Lygrantheecia, ...... © abel «wis ee se eee @) Webs eee ee ©, © je ypitel |Macremphytus, ..... | NMacroceta sae eee | Macrocoleus, ....... Macrodactylus, ..... ape) ere Macromeigenia, .... Pers a eee ee MIACROPIDA, 2 seme a) sede: is) eee ee INDEX TO FAMILIES AND: GEINERA. Masa Peis fous slate 451 WEAR AGETID AN.) tos.a siya: 301 Malacocoris, ....... 160 Malacomyza, 62 Malacosoma, -.../.. 492 Mallophotra, .oc..2 152 TPO fam fsa 35 orto bis 769 IME POTS) 2 a5 cieeate 371 | Mialthimrss oases 300 Malthodes, ......... 300 IWaMEStK a A< scart wists 456 IVEAINTID A) foc sacle e 175 Manisha, .25..%. 0 60 MANTISPIDZ, ....... 60 IMembntay . ics. oe 393 Maracanda, ........ 63 Morasmalus, ..... .:.< 471 Waraatonias | ...Gele% 522 Margaronia, ....... 522 MVikapeiriatae (is, aks fo! 573 Mantyninga, . .2ksoe. 560 Mata, <7. ot 430 MiSICe Ayes, vce? 781 Mastogenius, ....... 294 INMEMTT SHES ae 0 Seu? cee: 221 Miawettolar . < ../tcet 729 INEGI” eo * Bale Mbt eri 576 Mecopeltus, . 393 Miecoptera, ......:.. 65 _ Mecostethus, . . 181 IMME Cytiavg.: «...-..0acees 523 NU CNW 8 o3, soctlee es 523 Mecynotarsus, ..... 372 Medeterus, ......... 756 Megachile, sense O95 MEGACHILIDE, ...... 695 Megacelum, ....... 163 Megalocoleus, . 160 Megalodacne, ...... 259 Megalopyge, ....... 514, MEGALOPYGID2, ..... 513 Megamelanus, ...... 97) Megamelus, Se Megapenthes, ...... 286 | Miegarhyssa, ..::..- 627 | Mieearthrss, |... s)sst. 249 | Megastigmus, ...... 650 | Megastilicus, sx) DARI MMPI 5. oss. cyc aa 253 | 604 | Merisus, 486 Merium, 290 | Mermira, 133) Merocorine, _Merope, | Mesoleius, Meromyza, . Meronera, 'Meroptera, .. Mesamia, Mesites, Mesitus, | Mesochorus, MieSoctinay sweeten Mesogramma, |Mesoleptus, . Miesoleucas Ss a5ce 'Mesolomia, . | Mesopsocus, Mesorhaga, . Mesovelia, .. Metabletus, . Metacheta, . Metagea, Metallus, Metanema, . 'Metapelma, . | Metathorasa, _Meteorus, | Methoca, Methypostena, Mie ous CHU, nike oe Melalophiasinscsmeeeen Melanactes, ........ Melanethus, ....... Melandrya;) ic... 365 | MELANDRYIDA, ..... 364 Melanobracon, ..... 615 | Melanocoryphus, ... 140 Melanolophia, 504 Melanolestes, ...... 154 Melanomma, ATA Melanophila, 292 Melanophora, ...: 2. 784 Melanophthalma, 275 Melanoplus, ..... 183 Melanorhopala, 149 Melanosielis, ....... 695 Melanostoma, 766 Melanotus, ......... 287 Melanoxanthus, .... 116 Miclasiss svat. 281 IWrelasoniay (yy ete 346 Die bai, 8 teanites an apa 233 Meligethes, ........ 213 Miglin Gris... 5 scheint 161 INMDELIPOtHS, «sasqeetnotns 475 MielisSa@deS sax. croeeren 693 Me icc aeen act rais sere 409 Mieliteinalytys ye.2--o eee 5384 NMieIiita eo Nate 690 Melitiiaa i crcatee 516 Melitoma, . 694 Melittobia, 640 MELLINIDA, 680 Meh aes oaoucs o 680 Miellisopus, 25 snance 546 Meloborus, ......... 619 Mielosse atvchin cae 374 IMS OID ARS anere/ctn eve 373 Melophagus, ....... 814 | MEMBRACIDA, ...... 90 Memythrus, ........ 517 Mienecles:s , 3, Saiee 136 IMléniestas\. 4.0.2 sate 559 INfeniScus.. 4.4 ona 627 MietOpONy, ica. saan AT Meracantha.? 12.8608 362 Meraporus, ........ 643 Mets 14S4) pss. are ecco ee ee eee MigsOStentisss enna | Mesothenus, Metachroma, ....... | Metaceelus, . | Metacosmus, Metriocnemus, Metopia, Metopon, Metoponia, . Metrobates, . Metrocampa, Metzneria, Mezira, Mezium, Miarus, Micracis, Micrarge, eeee 358 | Microbembex, INDEX TO FAMILIES AND! GENERA. 868 Microcentrum, ..... 187 | Monocrepidius, . 285 | Myopa; s...<2ko. ae 772 Microcentrus, ...... 94| Monoctenus, ....... 588 | Myopsocnemia, ..... 52 Microchrysa, | .s.stee on |Monohammus, ..... 332 | Myopsocus, ........ 53 NrGroccelia., Aare ss 447| Monoleuca, ........ o12) Myospila, .. .< Saae 788 Muiucroclytis, i.e nek 329; Monomorium, ...... 656! Myrmecina, ........ 656 Miesodon,. .2.< seh 763 | Monophadnoides, ... 591|MyrRMELEONID@, .... 62 Microdus, .......... 609) Monophadnus, ....- 590)| Miyrmiica,....7. sce 658 Macrosaster, sem eene Gil) Mion oO piste nee eee 514| Myrmosa,..... sens 665 Viierolathra, :.a:ne 244) Monosoma, ........ 583 MyrMosip&, 665 Micromelus, ........ 642|Monotoma, ........ 277 | Mystacides, 70 Micromus, ......... 61} Monotomipé, bli | Niyzing.. tue 666 Micropeplus, ZAG) Niches, «.. .seeluees 348 Myzinipé, 666 MICROPEZIDH, ...... 803 | Mononychus,::./....°3892)| Myzus, ....... eee 118 Microphthalma, .... 783, MorpeLLip#, ....... 368 | NMiicroplitis, . ..<< dees GO} Miogdelllass. = hese 369 | Microprerycip#, ... 578; Mordellistena, ...... 369) it Microrhopala, ..... Bo4oMVioreliiia. vn ete 787) NABIDA:, |... 2.0 149 *Microrrhagus, ...... 282} Mormidea, ate alsoi|\Nacerdes; |. 367 Microscapha, ....... 366) Morrisonia, ........ 457 | Nacophota, ...ajeee 504 Microtonus, ..::.367, 608) Mosillus, oc: 00... 809 | Nadata, . i. ..eseeeen 487 Microvelia,, . «xis 150)|(Meangantia, 22.582 136) NaoczIpza, ... 152 MGIC in ote os! cack UNG WTC eves sae Ree 787 | INeOSetS eer eee 152 Malichiellaye en aenee SUS NRSC A. nutniese oe 786 | INaminiae) ace 495 Milivasto ea. sare ne Opes Cinas ghee teen 788 Nannothemis, ...... 81 Maneola,. 4 ..atawts SSW Mietilla, Je. waee. at 664)| Nanops,. .... ue seue 388 MENS) |... snetieds 137 | MuTmiwa, ........ 664| Napomyza, ......... 811 Miogryllus, ... s2thos HOPI Meyers, yicsharae An cabchoneee 204) Natvesiisy%.<, sie" 388) Oxypoda, .......... 238 | Pandeletejus, ...... 379 Orectoderus,...... ¢2:4165)| Oxyporiis;, «fesse 247, Pandemis, |. sae 550 (0) 5C1e a RRL A93:| Oxy pilus). 4n2 . oak 5a6 | Pangeeus,. ...-. eee 133 Orgilomorpha, ..... 607 | Oxystoglossa, ...... 688)| Pangonia, 2: anaes 739 OPENNESS. cc ae 610) Oxytelus;, ..... 60.608 248| Pangrapta, ... 474 @rmenis;, : 4: Asoc OG Omytonus,) hea oe ne 624| Paniscus, .....0. oeeem 618 Omnay Pus, |... seheee 650| Ozognathus, ....... 305) Panorpa,: 1.ic ee 65 @muthobius, ..2.12% #0)(@zophota,. "des a2%e 144) Panscopus;, .\.a.-0eee 379 Ornithomyia, ....... 813 Pantalas: =e oe 79 Orava )sic': REE 572 p iRanteles. (5), eee 625 Orocharis, +..i...e 193 ; Panthea, -..< «ae 442 @ropezayyiys wer toe HOSiMeHchnetisan. eeienee 379| PANTHEIDA, ....... 442 @rphiluss eens 267| Pachnobia, ......... 453} PANURGIDA, ...,.... 691 Orptialellay 40504: 180| Pachybrachys, ..... 341| Panurginus, ........ 691 OveSTUNNE SH Depa so. 141) PachydiplaX,’....... S23 (Banzenias ices 779 Onrsodachna eee Bo8) | Hachy aster arene (38)\Baonias 1. ae eeeeee 430 ORTAD IDA AN aks H9SiMPachylobiuws) eee 883 |.Papaipema) ../.piatee 462 INDEX TO FAMILIES AND: Papilio, PAPILIONIDA, ....... Papirius, Parabolocratus, Paracalocoris, ...... Paraclemensia, Raradidyma,. 2.2 /2.- Paragus, ermalechtal,. cet [Pewacilhbantutels @ ano ocone Paralipsa, Parallelia, Parallelomma, RaatieStls,, vst sein Paramesus, Parandra, Paranomus, : Paranothyreus, ..... Paraphia, Paraplagia, iParaprosena, 2.5... Paraselandria, Parasierola, Paya SOI, 0k i Parastichtis, AGAtaAxONUS, syste Paratenetus, Paratenodera, Paratettix, pene? 9 Daratipliia, .6522.<2% IRaraxenetts, ocecias: iPanectopa,. ©. Parharmonia, Parlatoria, » PARNIDA, Paromalus, Paroxya, Parydra, Pasimachus, Passaleecus, Passalus, Patrobus, Paururus, Pediacus, Pedicella, Pedicia, PEDICULIDA, Pediculus, Pediopsis, 782 | 764 556 806 532 478 794 651 | 103 323 _ 289 | 682 | 502 778 784 583 . 667 583 9 Pegomyia, 3 Pelecocera, | Pelastoneurus, IPEGECINID A ehy telecon “Pelecinus, | Pelocoris, Relecotomay secre Pelenomus, Peleteria, Pelina, Pelidnota, -Peliopelta, Pelogonus, ....-...- Pemphigus, Pemphredon, PEMPHREDONID#, Pentagonica, Pentagramma, Pentaria, Pentatoma, PENTATOMIDZ, Penthe, Penthelispa, Penthima, Penthoptera, Peoria, Pepsis, Percnoptilota, Perdita, | Peribalus, Periclista, Periclistus, Pericompsus, Peridroma, Renicasten wesc Perigea, Perigenes, Perigona, PERILAMPIDA, Perilampus, | Perilitus, | Perilloides, | Perillus, Periplanetas ee Peripsocus, Petisemus, eticu 4. IRerispaStas). sae BEGISSOpLenlis.Meereee Perithemis, eis) e's! abe! «ees PCUnOeUnO nO . 647) GEINERA. 871 OANME etithOtsamseeteetenet 627 757| Peritrechus, ...0....) 144 Bee Ber lay. «2! inher saws 40 GoaRerclesta,, \aaeceeeiee 40 TOC EBRIIDIAS. eperletateee aia 39 NGMieerOneanuery... eke 626| Platyura, .......:. Phyciodes, 299/409) Pinacodeta, . since: 210 Plea, 1.50.2 ee Rhyeadenon, sass Goceimipestis; 2... re 530 Plecia, ..,.0:, .- «eee Phylethus, 2: tents: 21 abe | Pinnaspis, .. mani. 127 | Plectiscts, 2... 2am Pliyllaphisy..c.)¢4) Moy Pinophilus, ¢.. 2. 245 Plectronemia, Pyllobsenus, ..cea/.i3803'| Piophila,:.....cpiaceos 804 Plegaderus, Phyllobrotica, »(949)| Pipiza, oo s.5. .2iPcks AOS Alemnyriag ss. aaa Phyllocnistis, ...... 573| PIPUNCULIDA, ..... 762 Plenoculus, Binvdlodectas --merre 346| Pipunculus, ........ 762 Pleonectyptera, Phyllogaster, ....... 792] Pissodes, .......... 3883) Plesiastina, Phyllomyza,, -- tees. SUA sBissonous ss. see 97 Plesiobaris, INDEX TO FAMILIES AND Pleurophorus, . 314 PWT RODES, 3%. .oclete. « Plocamus, Plocetes, Plochionus, Plodia, Ploeophora, Ploiariola, Plusia, Plusiodonta, . lateliag, i. 4: Pnirontis, Poaphila, Pocadius, IRedabsus, .<: Rodapiom 2.09025: UZOOISUS,. 2% 322 Podops, Podosesia, Podura, Peecilocapsus, Peecilonta, Peeciloscytus, Pecilostoma, ....... Pectlostomidea, .... Pogonocherus, Pogonosoma, _ Pogonus, Polemis;... << _Polidea, Polistes, Polistomyia, . Pollenia, . 786 | Poly blastus;. as... Polycentropus, (PolychtTOsis, . . a5... Polychrysia, . Polycinetis, olvelasis, ... Polydrosus, Polyergus, Polygnotus, . 380 . 652 IPolyaramimatass -..- Polyhymno, Polylepta, Polymitarcys, Polynema, . 908 Polypliylla, .-sseuh Polypleurus, . Polypsocus, . 380 | Polysphincta, 395 389 211 535 563 Pomphopeea, | Pompilus, Pompilus, 153 | Pontania, 469 | Ponera, 468, Porizon, 553 | Porosagrotis, 154 Porpe, 479 Porphyrops, 273 | 299| Praon, 381 137| Prenolepis, . 132) Priocera, ... 517) Priocycla, 36 165 292 164 582 582 334 751} Prionus, 204 Priophorus, 300! Pristaulacus, 776 Pristiphora, 671] Pristocera, . 775, Pristomerus, Probolus, 623 Proceratium, au 538 469 | 624 297 Prionidus, Prionocheta, Priononyx, . Procladius, . Proctotrypes, | Prodenia, Prodoxus, Progomphus, 663 | 446 723 37 637 | Prometopia, 319 | Pronuba, 398 | Prosacantha, Porphyrosela, | 6 | Prasocuris, . | Prionapteryx, Prionocyphon, IPeionamenus,) . shar Prionoxystus, Prochyliza, . Proctacanthus, . [ Proleucoptera, | Prolimacodes, | Promachus, . | Promethus, . | Polystcechotes, ..... |Pompilide, .......:% 53 625 60 374 672 673 674 589 656 617 455 553 755 4 tom eee eee | PROCTOTRYPIDA, 606 344 660 302 508 528 156 229 280 389 677 516 324 588 637 589 668 617 635 656 804. 713 . 152 652 4 GENERA. 873 IRTOSOpISS Mean tee 694 EGOspaltamee ieee 640 Prosphierysa,. \).i.4- 781 BROSOPIDA, Jes aor 594 IPigonehmabeterel Adc 4 - 691 Protapanteles, ..... 610 Protenor e.. ose). 147 Brotenthies:. mans: 713 Proveoteras, so. .kun 543, rOulall pial enero 365 IPyrtotlnleCzls) Gn owabhonae 307 PLothyinias 6 495) A72 Protocalliphora, ... 787 Protophormia, ..... 787 ERotostalis, on. eee 695 Protothyreopus, . 68) Rsallus: oie k ee 160 Psammodius: -..2.: 314 Psammoleon, °...... 62 saphaidia,.. seein 452 (IBSECitands actinic acer 61 Pselaphephila, ..... 794 PsELAPHIDA, 5 eS. WESelap lids) eran essere 236 IPS eis. adins. see 675 t IRSenocerusie eee eee iPsephents;,..3.. .ane 278 PSeudagentay) sane 672 Pseudanaphora, .... 577 | Pseudanthonomus, . 388 Pseudanthophilus, .. 678 Pseudanthracia, . 480 Pseudebeeus, ....... 301 EsSecudobaris) -aeaeee 395 Pseudochzeta; aHinsa 781 Pseudococcus, issfaenl24 Pseudocrabro, ...... 681 Pseudogalleria, .... 540 Pseudolfersia, ..... 814 Pseudomedon, ..... 245 Pseudometagea, ... 646 Pseudomethoca, ... 665 PSeudoperia, Pisa 40) Pseudopietitia, 2. vas.p02 Pseudopomala, ..... 182 BSeudopsis, 5. 4-2: 247 Pseudopyrellia, . 787 Beeudosioblal ao SS Pseudotephritis, . 800 874 Pseudothyatira, . 485, Slat on tee 805 | Penn, 9. sass 804 | Psilocephala, ....... 748 | Psilocera, e2ashe- 643 | IZSHOCORSIS) Maen 561 Pslowera,-. :.6.. 83s 596 | IPSUlOmastiI%, .<.c2.- 636 Siloam “see 806 | IRSiloplisys, .. sets 644 | Esilopodimusy ascerer 754 | EASMOPUS: cs eto aoe 754 IRSilota, “asccnenacne 764 Bsillotanypuss esse: as IP SihamGbel, ~sogoanoae- 182 PSithihitS: Meee 698 SOCID AN Soest r cee 51 IAS OCIIS: Cer ee oe 53 Psomuns, ..)..aeewanese2 IRSOLOpliGtay ees 716 EASUGHICS) Mckee hee See 510 PSsyYCHID&, 510 Reychodane serene 710 PsyCHODIDA, 710 IPSyichOnil ase ea ana 71 Psychomorpha, 442 Sylar a S.J 109 IPSVLLID AS, Seine: 108 | Psyiltadess uigeeds 354 | Psyllobora, ......... 254| Bsyillopsissass sea oe 108 IBEECHICUS se eeeee oer 736 Btenidinmy eer 250 iBterallastes: ease soe 770 IEPELOC OLS eee 378 interodella, As. Sener. 52 PTEROMALIDA, ...... 641 Eteromaltisy senacse 643 IPteronancysueee eee 39 Bterontus: «tees sean 590 PTEROPHORIDH, ..... 536 Pterophortisi esse Bi Pterophylla, “252.2 187 Pterostichus, | 2.2. 204 Prtilimtis, y. sitar istas 307 | Bislinnay 5,0 UR eee 249 | BAlodachylaanss sere 280 | Bilodestans ener 785 | ASTIN eae Ne ea 304 ' INDEX TO FAMILIES AND GENERA. Btinobius.] 3. canner 646° tRanatta, vee 157 Réinwss? £S. Seite Ue ea Dp hia eee 443 Ptochiomerass 4.5. 144 | Raphiptera, .: 220 528 Ptomophagus, ..... 230 | Raphitelus, ........ 643 BEOSIiia ase eee 294) Rasahus” | 5.. seeeeee 155 Ptychoptera, sen +e 708 | Rectvaria, ..).aeeeD Bttbiiliasy ee eee 93'| REpUVIDA, .. se eeee 152 1201 (oo eae eee tay 702 | Reduviolus, ....... 149 | OICID A Re eneee 702 | Reduvius, .....0eRe 154 Btilvaneiiane eerie 124, Reichenbachia, 235 Purpuricenus, aiis-. 328] Remigia, .2. 2. 5aae0 478 iPyenoderesy easee cre 165:| Renia,:.4...). eee 483 Pycnotmerus,. /:5 2... 261 |"Resthenia, 77 .eeeeee 162 IRVCnOphitS-ssesee ea 2d! |"Reiinia; ....01aeeeee 537 Pychopsyche, 52: ate 68 | Reuteria,. .....saeee 160 PY CUStE Hey. Soma One 144) Reuterscopus, ...... 160 Pycacchias jacee ree 441 | Rhabdiopteryx, 40 Pyeolampisy eso seeee 154) Rhabdophaga, ..... 727 PGOSTOUUS, © ..cehescla: 607 | Rhabdopterus, ..... 344 Pyractomena, .....-. 298 | Rhaeboscelis, ...... 295. PYRAGID AS, foie 520 | Rhacium! | eee 330 vicclise = vee 527 | Rhagoletis, ......... 801 syeaTmel she ieee bert 411 | Rhagovelia, 2:2¢enee 150 Pyrausta,- eRe 524 | Rhamphidia, ....... 705. Pyreota,. a. eeetee 799 Rhamphomyia, ..... 760 Pyrgus, ........... 4931 Rhanis, ........0--. 258 Pyrochroa,) .< 1...5H5 3i3 | Rhantus, . ..soeeeee 201 | PYROCHROIDA, . 373) Rhaphidodemas, .... 505 . Pyromorpha, et). 514' Rheumaptera, ...... 496 PYROMORPHID&, .... 514: Rheumatobates, .... 151 iPyrophana, |. odie 765 | Rhexidius, 233 Pyrophila, 2:e21el 450 | Rhexius, ........... 233 Pyropyga, «....+ 2) 297 | Rhicnoessa; .......- 812 Pyrrharcia,; Wise ane 440 | Rhimphoctona, ..... 619 [PA igielabiely Myotatar citsoetec 464 | Rhinacloa, J2yoeeees 160 PyrrHocorip#, ..... 140; Rhingia, ........... 768 Pyrrhomelecta, . 693 Rhinomacer, ....... 377 Psyche: see eeneee 510 | RHINOMACERID, 377 PY TET Ay Bye terns 367} Rhinoncus, ..... 2.23895) Pythoy > 5545's cipnores 367 | Rhinopsis,’ -...a0eee 676 | Rhinosimus, "anes 367 Q. | RHIPICERIDA, ....... 281 Quadrigana, -..-... ea Tr Quedits, ..- gti. 239 | RHIPIPHORIDA, ..... 376 |Rhipiphorus, ....... 376 se | Rhizagrotis, ........ 454 Rachrela, line sheneaees 494 | Rhizobius, ...5..% 113 Racheospilaweenreee 499 | Rhizophagus, ...... 274 INDEX TO FAMILIES AND RIMOMILES iis ceis eee 603 Rhodobenus, ....... 397 Rhodophora, .. 2/00. 467 PAS Fe eo SIM 613 Rinopobota,; cisai oe. 547 Rhopalomyia, ...... 729 Rhopalophora, ..... 327 Rhopalosiphum, .... 118 Rhopalum, . 682 FUGOPUS; seein 644 RGTO GIS. ee eat eke: 623 Rhyacionia, si.%.-. 537 Rhyacophila, 69 RHYACOPHILIDH, ... 69 Rhynchagrotis, . 452 Rhynchites, ........ 378 | RHYNCHITIDA, ..... 377 Rétyneholmns: 222.2 <: 399 Rhynchomilichia, ... 813 Rhy WODIMSs, os. Sclcte ss OZ REY PID A. eee 736 Rhypholophus, ..... 706 Ray PHS; sas eeaGees 736 PRAT. SSas bet. 5 cesetieres 627 Rulnyssalus;) <7. .a8ele 614 Rhyssematus, ...... 390 RUNYSSeEMUUS, jars Aesjaer 314 RHyssuviD#, ....... 261 Rythmonotus, . 619 Ral eyicis! <2 << see chore te 647 [Pi ielll Fic ae ae one rere 799 Rati ast: «x. ames alates 472 Bdcconota, .. 21: /0:..9 166 ees elias ....<.0spatmien 436 Romalewin, ./.2uts... 6026 Bais... : Seesaseen 234 Ss. Sabulodes, 508 RVEUGIUAITN IT, «an eo eraahhe 251 RACUODIUIS. © ds Neen 614 Saissetia; .aasneeate 126 Saldivise cits Want 166 Buide... eae: 166 SPA EWLAAH «32.4.5 534 Salas ale canon tet NUS oO ole 673 Salpingus, .. ..:6ebss 367 Samia, Sandalus, | Sanninoidea, .Saperda, Sapintus, | Sapromyza, . | Sapyga, | SAPYGIDA, Sargus, Sarpedon, SATYRIDA, Satyrus, SATURNIIDA, Sayapis, Sayomyia, Scaphinotus, Scaphisoma, Scaphoideus, Saxdnis ee ee SCAPHIDIIDAS, ....... Scaphidiumyy meter | SAPROMYZIDH, ...... Sagcophaca, seen SARCOPHAGIDA, Satrothinipa,, s.asese SQUGCE OPUS. eta SCARABAHIDA, .2..... Scarites, Scatella, see a eee nee SCatopliaca: meeeeeiee ScATOPHAGIDA, ..... Scatopse, Scelio, ScELION Day) Mythos Sceliphron, . SCENOPINIDA, Scenopinus, Scepsis, Schinia, Schistocerca, areas Schizocerus, Schizogenius, Schizoneura, Schizophilis, -1)sse Schizura, Schcenicusn ea eenaet Schcenobius, Schcenomyza, Schreckensteinia, ... GENERA. ays ASA ociagraplita..\oeeees 501 281 Sciaphilus, 380 518) Sctapteron, .......5: 517 SHO POCIALAN oe snc seen 725: SUPUMOIASITIA, - ..55 45.52. Wore 777 (ils) Steterehy AS cpcauoooe (le 797| ScloMyzIDa, ....... 796 G67 |Sciophila; \ tes 723 667 | Scirtettica, 182 TS5SCIEteSo mya oe ee 281 . 785] Scolecocampa, ...... 471 MAMAS COliay a cnet we ae 666 282 (SEOLIDA,. «ooo bs 666 436 | Scoliopteryx, ....... 465 412 Scolobates, \/s.cee% 623 413 | Scolopendrella, ..... 34 431 | Scolopostethus, 145. GOBWESCOLONS... 5: 2\cissereee 94 (55 SCOLYTIDA, ......00. 400 PAA WOSCOLVTAIS: . xrcsacarernt aoe 403 340 | Scopzopsis, 245 BAO IMSCOPZUS, . .-payesaz.nfo <2 245 AO MRSCOPALIAS, was4js;cvens ices 526 199 | Scopelosoma, ...... 466 250i SCOnpiOniss .eaceeee 622 105| Scotobates, ........ 359 312 Scotochroa, ........ 365 PUSeraptia.. coe .vcanee 366 807 | Scudderia, ..::..... 186 794| ScypMANIDA, ...... 231 ROA Sceydmeents: yas yee 232 S15)| Siemans 6 4a6coo0; 257 Ghowocyphella.. jan. anee 811 Gre MOeKthtiss) <..s 08 ote 565 GiGi\pSecodes;, ....ciactons- 641 RAG MSEbITits; oxo. cuse sok 133 VMAGHIS Gltal :c/.0 2c RINE 35 ABA Selandria,........26n% 583 AGITARSIGLENAM in ea eee 507 183| Selenophorus, ...... 215 BOO MSelencis:, seers eee 632 202| Selidosema, ....... 503 1115) SERVO Sopa 542 282'| Semiophora; 5... .4.- 452 489} Semioscopsis, ...... 562 358 | Semiotellus, ....... 646 528 | Senotainia: «esas 77 POO WOSEREAS Hac) . 00: synmmerista, ./ a)... 488 | Tachinomyia, TGA OP Ss ee ite Nees SYMMELUS, 0.66.25. 12a) Pachinius, -./eeeese- DAG Metias’, ... + 4040" Bihicens* ..<.scteee: 881 "Triachus,. /-eh eons meucholabis; +0.ess 706 | Tallimorphass os shee 329') I‘rieenodes,, |. ix eeu Mexatita. >. ae enicos 291 | Timulla, 665 | Tribolium, .. 4.225; Rhalassonpyiay «seerte it la) Meimea es seit ni. alae eee 575 | ‘Erichacts, ...ssee MOLE SS Os) sce Seem uee GPA als (i 0100, oo ee 067 | TrichiosoOma, 2 oeeee Thaninotettiss (....s5-105|\"Timeolas ©. 4).Gsese 576) ‘Trichistus, ‘Mhattasimus,! <=. 25 SOS tees: ciate ee 149 "Trichius; |. ogee Thaneroclerus, «.!.4.4. 308) Tunertipa, .2..'s.4,., 148) "Piichinsa, eee MRATOpS! eke sees DS le Wapta. Ace Soe ans 666| Trichobaris, ...... TRauIMatOpsis, Aecsee ool | PRP IM A ot. cn oi 665)| Drichocera,, soecnee Mice late the Roce 414 Tipula, a ee ey eS 709! T'richodectes, ....... AN MENRORIS. [crow cela bic HOO ACieETUMIMDVEDS Sg anaee os 703 | TRICHODECTIDA, .... Mhrelaitas x: aseeise feo) iseheria,| . . s-kuurax 573 | Trichodessas. sears Thelairodes, ...-.. Wea "Tlascala, ..........0) 504)" Brichodesma eee MeL oS Seis etacitae 91|T‘mesiphorus, ...... 236 | Trichodezia, ...... Winelhnaliatas, oaocoec 300| Tmetocera, ........ 547 | Trichogramma, ..... "WREPeSia; .)5 sfertoSs 085 “Roly pen e.<.careoar 492 | TRICHOGRAM MID&, .. Mere Varin: caechacers WAS) MMomartiss vs... acnworte 264| Tricholita, ........ ‘THEREVIDA, 747 | Tomaspis, 98'| Trichonta,“s.2 seer ARETetra; » occassion 426) |" @mnietisy Soy.) eraser 403|'Trichopepla, ...... mbMetina.) A: cy iaedoeber 505|’Tomocerus, ........ 30) Erichophaga, sees Therioplectus, ...... 740|’Tomoderus, 311 richophora, eee Dhermobia,) fo... 2 34|’Tomostethus, ...... 99] | Trichopoda; ..casaae Thermonectes, =. ccncle2eo | DOmOxiay .cecidans 369 | Trichoporus, ...... "Eherontia,”.):.. sack 626 | TortRIcIDA, 53t|Teichopriay .aeeeee Thersilochus, ..... Gli Montnicidiaw 1 513 | TRICHOPTERYGID#, WGN. Soo cane 0: SCM aL oka > ameeeene een. me 550 | Trichopteryx, ..... MMHNTISaky es ees ere ABM || Woisauminds Faun: eae 650_ Trichoptilus, {see ROH Y kn -a-sir hes SON GeyinudsS 22. Seok 650 Trichotaphe, ...... Thinophilus, 2.2.6 eon iasaleseie. J. Sarat 527 | Pricyphona, \...<.0 4. Mi Oleniaty We. ectaas sya) (iosarahqeraok, gan oucs 2501 Dridactylus, . .. seersese ARERR TOAD, vee seco eyes 8a:| Raxophoray sichjae TAT:| Terid yrtts: |...) aeeaee PUBIC PNG rotste, e-Certeew piers 84) Toxorrhina,. ...:...5, 405) Pnteneolius; |. seme ‘MECROSGIDZ,. \,)..ctrion 290) Toxotropis; ... sce. AQ 54 7 oasis coe sae mere MNOS CUS ayaees mets 2904 Teoxotus. 2.050 cane 330 | TRIGONALIDA, ese ee INDEX TO FAMILIES AND GENERA. Mrigonalys, ..-...6.6 667 Trigonophora, ...... 464 Trigonotylus, ...... 163 Trimerotropis, ..... 182 | AMeMIMCHAy 2.1 aes lene 707 Trimiomelba, ...... 233 Trimioplectus, ..... 233 Mearineara, «2434.5. 762 MrINOtON, sian case 47 ebriodontay .ssees. 769 PRNGRYS Bec. ete os 605, ‘eriOzameh sae. 110 MleripMelyss rere «sss 158 Triptogon, 425 WRPIOZON, oo cess. 430 Trirrhabda, 346 AMEOMay «aoeee eee 260 iMritoxay Gs sfc. 799 Trissolcus, eee O08 Trochalopoda, ...... 182 Trochilium, eo Olle ‘Trochopola, ........ 105 gIpRCHES pes cl 8 Seale 51 Trogoderma, ...... 266 Trogomorpha, ...... 636 Trogophleeus, ...... 248 ME ROSOSItA, — 2 errs Xe 276 TROGOSITIDZ, ....... 276 EM ROOUIS Hind. Senietacoee 636 PNGOPIGELES, 2. ).wios 405 MOU, . ....'o <6 evel w 769 EO MIGOPT Ia, si cn 651 Tropidosteptes, ..... 164 MING Ones sehen 316 “SRupGIliGe® Beers bocanic 179 | Pay panisnia, «iyi... 556 | Srey perder 2s xisets -\- 801 DUP CLES) Visits c= om 697 RY PETIDA, vib... os 801 @repheris;~. i... 800 a '40) sera ieee 622 MVGYyPOpItys, Jace voc 306 | TRYPOXYLIDA, . 684) Teypoxylon, .... 0... 684 RV EHEAR Ms io 3k<)o'egaies.c.: 113, VEHNTIS Hind. aided ote 389 | MES ELIIS et ch. /e.o Noite arts 235 iy lOdeLMA; oieia.+- - 391 Tylonotus, 5 BRE 879 | MayenMness shes crn tem 344 | Xantholinus, ....... 241 'Tympanophorus, ... 240, Xantholobus, ....... 93 | Typhlocyba, ........ 107|Xanthomelanodes, .. 777 PABA IIGEAL So tarerreinoe si 265| Xanthonia, ......... 342 | ‘I'ypocerus, ......a 631 | Xanthopastis, ...... 468 Typophorus, ....... 343] Xanthoptera, ....... 478 PESTUSY | andke eae 236 | Xanthorhoe, ....... 497 slytthonyary seers 299 | Manthosacusy 1. .e O90 | | Xanthoteras, ....... 598 U. 'Xanthotype, ........ 506 Uteus, RE one: 456 Xanthus, ........... oBo Miclonehe cee ee re | Xenetis, .... wyree. 165 Ciewiaie aes eee 360 | Xenedusam ti eee 238 ileimorpiet 07 | ee ama é ... 694 OSes Dee. AB 63 Xenorhipis, ........ =e nie eee eee 358 EMOSH hace. o seen 377 Wranotenidye j.rcmace 72,1 | Xenotoma, Oo Tieliias Gee eee g93 Xerophloea, ........ 7 GOeustae Bacoosaor 611 Xestocephalus, ..... 103 Urgsisalpline: OS 612 | = ce eee a : IPMEStOCISE 3). wise cd cecar Witetheisa cee 438 Midian) (ame 189 Vv. MMiplatina,, | iscewecro en OOo Xiphydria, .. 593 Valentinia, ......... 563) Xipuyprma, _ 593 Nilay Yanubo apace 322 Moridesipi. tc elstere 625 Van Duzeareajas-e-e, eee Darel sarees ene 580 WaTTESSa) eran seyseree AN Sesrepam ah oh ove - 580 VietitiSiammn a. oiaiens = 496 | Xyleborus, - 402 Vespa,. .. ++ secs ee ees 671| Xylesthia, .......... 574 ViESPID AGH woeranateie 671 Bulan sss ae ae die 460 Wiipios, et islam ene 615! Xylocopa, ........-- 698 Vitula, A GiceowoOr. (7 nO Oicro 535 XYLOCOPIDA, pvt 698 Volucellag aoe 768 | Xylocrabro, ........ 681 Mey lomivias wen oe ee 743 Ww. Xylonomus, ........ 625 | Walshia, ........... 567 | Xylophagus, ....... 743 Wanidas tcc, oer 532 | Xylophasia, ........ 449 Winthemia, ........ 782 | Xylopinus, . 309 Woolastoniella, .... 399} Xyloryctes, ........ 321 Wyeomyia, ......... 721|Xylota, ............ 770 My lOLETeS), 3 i Ar tn es OC 43 Armored scaless. caus seein 121 LOCUS Hr paeieioge, ssveiematka sr tere 183 56 IN (881) 882 PAGE. Birch, #bronze, borer, <4 0000. ooo: 295 Weaititiopilice.s Mee Fhhoce te cx. fests 43 Black sbectle. tener cnr terre ere 174 Blackberry crown borer, ....... 518 callemalcen ann eri ner 294 MONG | coacoeec 726 knot-call= = eee 603 TOOt-a)l tae 603 Stempboreiaa ere nne 595 (Blackathies 8502. i ote ee Sa 735 head on cranberry, ....... 547 Peach e | OUSCEr ane en er 117 blister beetles.weey era eee 373 IB Oiws Sliys eta. See ee ge 786 Blues—butterflies, ...4.4..csa-. - 414 Body louse seek sian ae oe 85 IBOOKEIICe i er. Cran inte 51 BOCES Ae sito peta cinedidc ct ee ates Bristlentall Sains. aces: ores 33 Bronze birch=borekwer. poe eee 295 ISCO Sapo gnoodsoueccs << 730 TO Ula y Gere seaes,. gan: oan eee 171 Eight-spotted forester, ......... 449 Bléciric. light. bugis: icedieed: 167 883 PAGE. Elm four-horned sphinx, ....... 429 leafabeetle;-...5..6 625 05.0. 347 wood leopard moth, ...... 515 Bpomugats: scale, ........00. 0005. 126 F. all sarttiyRWOLil,) coche es ses cn 451 GankerywOrtly )) fic ccs. 495 WIEDEW ODM oo caves weicies eas 439 Melsescranestlies, ..2 0.1 6482 .. 736 HR eMEIGS Tacks ssa nad aR ean 296 worm on cranberry, ... O47 SIE TIMES: UO Se 56 101 Lares + 5 nial An eaateets 34 in LEIBOIERT EES Oe ek 139 POOLECM RITES. vey. tle the ale sacs 796 Read) borers, ......0042: 291-295 olin Uyeda ert 349-354 > LEGS | 3 ea ee ee ae 701 TEV SSTRES SIERO RP 785 Slee <2 5 a eer Pare 703 IG Gb we iaaawls LS hs oa de coos 585 Hilower beetles, ...ti006..008 301, 302 TILES Marrs Lal. Re loet eas roe 763 Horest. tent caterpillar, ..:..:... 492 Kerk-tatl caterpillars, ¢....). 5: 489 Four-horned sphinx, ........... 429 EMM PRNNCSOL Ae NG wauly eres neh tn oe 807 Frittilaries=Argynnis, ......... 409 EERO MOD DELS) 2 «oxo «= 050 eee: 98 Prat bark beetle, ......°. 06.00% 403 IDS, co cece a eee eee ee 810 WOOL OLIGranberLys) cee 533 Pullers: nose beetle, ........55 5 379 mets DECELES, 0... een vce on 250 OMMEUTES Rd schichasieca.2/'asa tela tereaeacbe 722 G. CzMeSsNomuwaSps, .....scsscee 595 enaiswOn midges, Pyiah wees 725 Garden web-worm, ... 2.0.2.5. 523 CHOsteImoOtlts i=... sph a uwiratacead. Se EYiT) Giant coot-borer, ...... a0) sees 323 Wiatetabites,.. .. .a4entrenbae 167 Gisdieron apple, ........... «sesh 335. Girdle-worm on cranberry, ..... 43% 884 KSIOW-WOETHS)) orb ib ols caielde ened « 296 GATS he tes sb Fie Ase ads Rae 711 CGAt=HOENS,. nhc: hacks aeeert 407 PGI DUSS is a eis fee's ot apse SEAS 355 Golden eyed flies, ............ 60, 738 Gooseberry fruit-worm=Zo- POI) occ el oe. 534 SAWEES, civic ce Aeeak 588 span-worm, ........ 501 Geamtmoth, . 2.51055 sae tee 554 WED=W OTM, secede err oe 527 weevil, ooclikin eos Agee 398 Granary. béetles, 4705. ane teed 262, 360 WEEVIL Geo. ace ae 398 Grape Alypias .2ua. 1.25. + -teseets 429 betty. moth, 222<.¢.eseeae 538 eight-spotted forester, ... 422 Spit) ) eer ee, ae ee 342 flea bectle, .o.vs.+ caktant: B02 Fiarrisinason,.324.. naee ee 514 hawk-tHoths, . .:4:.2-sideine 426 leat beetles, . ... ¢scevae ce 342 HOPDELS,. (,ctmereinees 107 PHY llORerA,! hi). vite ode 113 Pllime Moth, 3%. aah. 536 LOOE-DOLEE | mg ihe Aotealo bes 517 LOSE Chlateruon, ier A-ooe 317 Vine. ChaATeLs, ie a1. erneres 320 VATle) ‘WiOLIHS, ... ./ashel 1) fedaete 426 Grasshoppers) s-prevec dete sates 177 Grays DACKS, inaaneics a. sp oeueeere 3 85 Green-head flies, .«.o.s@s.s sates 741 Ground beetles, jap ws c's «easiest « 198 Gmouse Jocustsemiaerrt.t0> cet ete 178 Gttest Dees; snc cies elated eee 691 al ERA SM Obl ehcce. 5 Cetaces tere et 512 Hair streak butterflies, ......... 414 ambectlesi. ) svete faerne 304 Hammer head, borers, ......... 291 Harlequin cabbage bug, ........ 136 Harris louse=scurfy scale, ..... 127 Harvest fiesiiy cece See ee eros 88 Hliawle-mothsiesanasesnitene wee 424 Phéad-louseé,sjsdicirte cree 85 Plelloraritniteyoesy fas. dea caer 56 INDEX TO POPULAR NAMES. Hessian fly; ....22i 0 eeoee “728 Hickory bark beetle, ...f. 168, p. 403 bDOrer, os +2232 5.0 328 horned devil, ......... 433 nut weevil, 22: /jas.emee 396 woolly worm, 223 591 Flog louse,. ..2ic/s:<2 +000 cee 86 Honey: bee, | '24(3 32. vase 699 Hook-tip moths; - 322568 722s 493 Hop loses «2:00. Xo. Soe 118 Hornets and nests; 2:2 Jeepeeeee 671 FL Of. fy) vie 0.d.0121draeacle ee 788 Horn worms, .....%::.2.23)aeeeee 425 Horse: bots, .... stiews eee 773 fliés;. .. 64a eee 738 House fiy, ..:. 1.2.08 eee 787 MOSQUILON . 2 2 kite eee 720 Humming bird hawk-moths,..... 424 Elimnch-back flies, ....\.2 seer 761 F- Tehneumion flies;. 3... 2273s 604 Iniperialis moth, :..t.2. teeseae 432 Inch worms, .:..+44:0 csc 494 J. Joint-worms, ..........ssyemewe 648 Jumping plant: lice, .1...5.% 0% 108 June ‘bugs; 223 ...0. Fae 318 K. Katydids-* icvi00.00edecee eee 187 WWissing Digs, «2... 12-0 see 154 | Late. Dues, ngs ots toca ee 148 Witla “ALES, (sta ition o care 60, 61 Lady birds, bugs or beetles, .... 252 Lamellicorn beetles, ............ 312 Lantern Ales) wicca. « oerdeeee 94 Lappet caterpillars, ..........:. 492 harder. -beetles,)... wie). t-semaeee 266 INDEX TO POPULAR NAMES. PAGE. MGeaeWEETIES oe toes chi Seretaicle < ols 3Byy [UEC patbon sonc / Ose 159 CUITER (EES) feces Seok « 6: 695 MOD NOCH "tes ose oko seen 99 IMUMET MOMGH cles cs ss 5 ss 568 ROIS. Sale eaeceiee ae 537 Gollers) Om) Ose) -s.ee. 549 Weather heetless) Giscirol ser. 265, 266 Meonard nol n. eet... 515 Lice, biting and sucking, ...... 43, 85 ieohtmine DUsS,;. -...see eee tk. 296 Lilac borer—syringe, .......... 517 HAUSE MENG ECT! 2.055cc cw 0 Sice «lle 2s = 328 TLDETSIS WS Saar an ee tonnes 88, 185 ieong footed flies; .2..24. 2... 754 horned beetles, .:........ 323 tailed ichneumons, ....... 629 tongued solitary bees, .... 693 @oper caterpillars,” | ..0s00.5... 494 TSS dines Wee oes 813 ILE) TOG 4 Lobos Saar eee 432 M. Poe TS lew o> ae ee 786 Malaria and Anopheles, ........ 715 Maple borer—acerni, .......... 519 ROtLOnlys Seale; 5. eo 8 124 AUG ets CPEs siete cot. ocle' ste 123 IMISWRCLED TUNER, Sie aeons ae 734 Mar shintread chore wkwan sas + otc es Ae 151 INIERy eGHES. 2344 8e Sa tesormeioecas 318 TAS) MEO Ta ee ols Yo" ak 37 Meadow grasshoppers, .......-- 185 AV escall emma peeee tae ays stu cie w ste'e lene obs 585 WORMS, | Soe 359, 300 IMMEBIRG TORTS) We co coeeie CeOaenoe ooee 124 INEEASTIEING WORMS) -2...0.e+ oe 494 Mediterranean flour moth, ..... 535 Melons plant louse, .........0%.- 117 Midas MICS Ti cress se eee ee et 749 1 LL NS 9 ee a (ul Milkweed butterfly, ...........- 408 Wieteweticket, Gc... See. 3 191 Monarch butterfly=Danais, .... 408 Mosattitoes, ..........-.0..-+-- 714 Mosquito-hawks, ..........+--+> 73 Moths and butterflies, ......... 407 885 PAGE. Mourning cloak butterfly, ...... 411 Mud-daubers, 3 3 coats. S00 676 WAS PSaadesrckctutns crscerctocaetare ae 672 Muse@in beetles, ............... 266 Mushroom maggots, ........ 722, 725 N. Nesta: buget iting egene eons = 138 Nettling caterpillars, ........... 511 Namble: fites= Heenan cee ee 784 Nintweevilss oo ee eee eee 396 O. Oake galls" eee n eee ects 598 leat Sminerses oer ates 570 PUNE Ts cee sees ete Mee 326 WORSE Fs eer eee ar oere 433 ©il=pectlesr eee aot. eae eciee 373 Onionshys ee ee eae ee 799 TMACCOLEakiseiesste tec cet 792 thgips, essa eens 83 Oriental roachtuee te. te eee 174 Owletmothseceee eee 443 Omewarblestly sate qcmtcciente st a2 773 Oyster shell) scrletien wi.0526. 2h: 129 P. Paper making wasps, ~.+......- 671 Parasitic fies, 9s...) atelstee 774 WASPS). ria cw ureters ih 604 Parsley worth: bhatt: wcrc s 420 IRGa OUSe re rol tae ak oasis soos em eE 118 WCC Vil ares actos. staat « 356 iReachsborery seticicuneie oesee- 518 TOUSE ST. tec osea na eGehes Eee 117 scale—West Indian, ...:. 127 SOUEISCALE! cc-ljt oc tee 125 EAL UDGLEE. fay ae 6 os oie cron +e 295 AMI FEM vara ones ans eee 729 peyllas See... woke 109 SGales eae eet rae Sa 128 Slings ee ees aoa 585 Reddlerst ae. scp aan ass ate Anode 356 Reriodicale cicada, sieeecs. ee 88 euhiciouss SCAle) 2 2 .vo4crte «eet 129 Piseon tremex, .....:..- scr ean 452. ‘Sap beetles, . ...vidsiis 27a 271 Pomimace ‘fies; “vae'. aves anh 809 Saw. flies, . 0.5.06 +vey sulle Potato beetle, old-fashioned, 339, 873 Scale insects, ...........0sss00 120 beetle, ten lined—colorado, 345 Scorpion flies, ............00005 05 fled beetle. ..sanccseheni, Oba SCreW Worm, ie) Vis hoe ee 786 incite eiunlopel kgs busier as een tase 498 ‘Sturfy scale. silicates eee 127 stalk borer, ............ 0909 #Seventeen-year locust, ......... 88 striped blister beetle, ... 878 Sesiid moths, ...........sseeeeus 516 three lined beetle, ...... 889 Sheep boty, «0.3. ccc signer 774 GE VAS DR) fork hic 35s unien oven 669 tick or louse-fly, .Gauuauk 814 Prometived moth; 1:3). vvtecdiens 92 Shield bigs, .......steenee 182 Prominents=Notodontids, ..... 485 Short-tongue bees, ............ 687 ea hall a nes rf al ' rite ie Line juke iad Ae Vie ee 1 4.2 ', ¢ he oF ‘4 ’ ‘ oo 7 re i ee Sk? set) ATS } in x » A ie, A . 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