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ARTHROLIPS Woll. 

 A. misellus Lee. Palisades (Sf) ; Eagle Rock (Bf). 



CORYLOPHODES Matth. 

 C. truncatus Lee. Anglesea (W). 

 C. marginicollis Lee. Hopatcong (Pm) ; Ft. Lee (Sf) ; Orange Mts. (Sm). 



SERICODERUS Steph. 

 S. fiavidus Lee. Fort Lee (Sf). 



RHYPOBIUS Lee. 



R. marinus Lee. Snake Hill, Arlington, sweeping VI (Sf); along shore, 

 Brigantine to Cape May V-IX, sifting drift on beach. 



ORTHOPERUS Steph. 



O. glaber Lee. Camden and Gloucester Co. (W) ; Lahaway V, 28, on 

 cranberry bogs (Sm); Anglesea VII (Sz). 



O. scutellaris Lee. Anglesea VII (Sz). 



Family COCCINELLID^. 



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 larvse 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 F; 

 upon which they feed. CoccineiHd 



larva. 

 ANISOSTICTA Dup. 



A. strigata Thunb. Chester (Dn) ; Snake Hill V, 17 (Bf) ; Hudson Co. 

 (LI); Arlington VI (Sf) ; Westville (Li); Merchantville IV, 24 (Brn); 

 Camden Co. IV, 14 (GG). 



