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GIBBIUM Scop. 



G. 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. 

 M. americanum Lap. Occurs with the preceding in city store-houses. 



PTINUS Linn. 



P. brunneus Duft. Camden, rare (Li); lives in store-rooms, cellars, 

 granaries and old houses, developes in dried organic matter. 



P. fur Linn. With the preceding, but more common, and recorded from 

 all sections of the State. Mr. Bischoff finds it on old rags. 



EUCRADA Lee. 



E. humeralis Mels. Hopatcong (Pm) ; Ft. Lee (Sf) ; Orange Mts. VI, 9 

 (Bf ) ; New Brunswick (Coll); not common. 



OZOGNATHUS Lee. 



O. floridanus Lee. Anglesea VII, 1, Cape May VII, 7, on dead oak twigs 

 (W) ; a South Atlantic Coast form. 



ERNOBIUS Thorns. 



E. mollis Linn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, Newark (Bf ) ; Lahaway 

 (Sm) ; Pitman Grove VII (GG) ; probably throughout the State on old 

 wood. A comm'on European species. 



E. filicornis Lee. Atlantic Coast region, Mass, to Virginia, rare (Fall). 

 E. granulatus Lee. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn) ; New Jersey (Fall). 

 E. luteipennis Lee. Westville V (div) ; Gloucester Co. IV, V (div) ; 

 Malaga V, 15 (W) ; Clementon V, 6 (GG). 



OLIGOMERUS Redt. 



O. sericans Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf ) ; Lahaway VI (Sm) ; Anglesea VII 



(div). 

 O. obtusus Lee. Staten Island, New Jersey (Fall). 



O. alternatus Lee. Anglesea VI, 18, South Jersey (W). 



SITODREPA Thorns. 



S. 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. 



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