3 io 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 



Small, oblong beetles, brown or black in color, convex above, with short, 

 clubbed antennae, the head retracted, though not concealed. They live in 

 fungi or decaying wood, and are not of economic importance. The larvae 

 occur with the adults, and are grub-like in form. 



CIS Latr. 



C. fuscipes Mell. Hopatcong (Pm) ; Hudson Co. (LI); 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. laevis Casey. Snake Hill (Sf). 



RHIPIDANDRUS Lee. 

 R. paradoxus Beauv. Ft. Lee (Sf); on hard fungus in old trees (Brn). 



