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hopper increase. Others are semi-parasitic in the nests of bees, and are 

 at least not beneficial, even if not directly harmful. 



In New Jersey they are not as important as they are in some of the 

 Western States, and the injuries caused by them warrant active measures 

 for their destruction. 



MELOE Linn. 



M. angusticollis Say. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr) ; g. d., in late fall 

 on wild turnip (Bf) ; Riverton XI, 5 (Dke). 



M. americanus Leach. Orange Mts., Irvington XII, 30, under stones (Bf ) ; 

 Newark (Soc). 



NEMOGNATHA III. 

 N. nemorensis Hentz. Dunellen (Dietz) ; DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). 



ZONITIS Fab. 



Z. bilineata Say. Snake Hill (Sf) ; Madison VIII, 4 (Pr) ; Orange Mts. 

 (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). 



MACROBASIS Lee. 



M. unicolor Kirby. Throughout the State VI, VII, often common on "Bap- 

 tisia tinctorum"; sometimes on potatoes. 



EPICAUTA Redt. 



E. trichrus Pall. Bast Jersey (Dietz); Merchantville VII, 19, Glassboro 

 VII, 17; on sweet potato, "Convolvulus" sp., and "Maruta cotula." 



E. strigosa Gyll. Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). 

 E. bates! i Horn. Lakehurst VII, VIII (div). 



E. vittata Fab. Throughout the State, often destructive in late summer 

 to potatoes and other garden crops and to flowers; is the "old- 

 fashioned striped potato beetle." 



E. marginata Fab. With "cinerea," and usually regarded as a variety. 



E. cinerea Forst. Throughout the State VIII; habits of "vittata," but 

 not so abundant nor so often injurious. 



E. pennsylvanica De G. Throughout the State VIII, IX; common on Soli- 

 dago. 



POMPHOPCEA Lee. 



P. aenea Say. Woodside (Bf) ; Merchantville VIII (Brn) ; Westville (Li); 

 Anglesea (W) ; in early spring; isolated specimens only. 



P. sayi Lee. Greenwood Lake VI (Beyer). 



Fig. 149. The "Spanish fly," Lytta rosicat oria : not a native of this country. 



Fig. 150. The "striped blister beetle," Epicauta vittata. 



Fig. 151. Early stages of blister beetles: a, grasshopper egg-pod with triungulin at f; 

 b, grasshopper eggs, enlarged; c, triungulin; d, carabidoid stage of larva; c, scarabidoid 

 stage of larva, enlarged. 



Fig. 152. Striped blister beetle: a. scarabidoid larva; c, d, coarctate larva, enlarged. 



Fig. 153. Striped blister beetle: a, b, true pupa from side and beneath, enlarged. 



Fig. 1 54. Margined blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea. 



Fig- *55- Ash gray blister beetle, Macrobasis unicolor at a; black blister beetle, Epi- 

 cauta pennsylvanica at b, enlarged. 



