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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 larvae 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 Lee. Common along the coast, Sandy Hook to Cape May, 

 VII-IX, on reeds and grasses. 



The "E. canaliculatus" Say. and "E. tomentosus" Lee. of the last edi- 

 tion were based on misidentifications. 



SCHCENICUS Lee. 

 S. puberulus Lee. Lakehurst VII, 4-6 (Bf). 



PHELLOPSIS Lee. 



P. obcordata Kirby. Hudson Co. (LI) ; 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. 



N. pennsylvanica De G. Common throughout the State IV-VIII, under 

 bark. The variety "barbata" Knoch, with the type. 



MERINUS Lee. 

 M. laevis Oliv. Throughout the State IV- VII; not rare under bark. 



UPIS Fabr. 



U. ceramboides Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt) ; Newark <Soc). 



HAPLANDRUS Lee. 



H. femoratus Fabr. Throughout the State, under stones and bark, usually 

 the latter; IV-VII. 



H. ater Lee. With the preceding, but more rare. 



