THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 



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M. bipustulatus Mels. Eagle Rock, 1 specimen (Bf). 



M. pluriguttatus Lee. Newark district in fungus (Bf). 



M. melsheimeri Lee. Camden, rare (Li). 



M. pluripunctatus Lee. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Westville (Li). 



M. pini Ziegl. Westville rare (Li), under pine bark. 



M. obsoietus Mels. Avalon (Li); Sea Isle City VI, 11 (Brn). 



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LITARGUS Er. 



L. 6-punctatus Say. Hudson Co. (LI); Orange Mts., Newark IX, 20 (Bf) ; 



Anglesea VII (Sz); under decomposing vegetable matter and bark. 

 L. tetraspi lotus Lee. Boonton III, 17 (GG) ; Orange Mts., Newark V, 30 



(Bf). 



L. didesmus Say. Hudson Co. (LI); DaCosta VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); 



Anglesea VII and probably throughout the State. 

 The record of "L. 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 DERMESiTID^E. 



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 larvae 

 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," etc., 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 larvae or 



adults. As a rule a combination of both methods is employed, and occa- 



sionally bisulphide of carbon can be used to advantage. 



'^' IOI Dermestes vulpinus: a, larva from above 



a " d side; " f p " pa ; ' ' adu . U ' e *! arg ' d . : other 



figures refer to structural details of larva. 



