3?6 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Family RHIPIPHORID'^E. 



Contains wedge-shaped or clumsy, almost shapeless, forms, with short, 

 sometimes pointed wing-covers, beyond which the hind wings often pro- 

 ject so as to cover the abdomen. The head is bent down, the anteinnas 

 are serrated in the female, flabellate in the male. The adults occur on 

 flowers, rarely, the larvae are semi-parasitic in nests of wasps or on 

 cockroaches. 



PELECOTOMA Fisch. 



P. flavipes Mels. New Jersey (Sf). 



RHIPIPHORUS Fab. 



R. flavipennis Lee. Glassboro VII (GG) ; Anglesea VII (Brn) ; g. d., rare 

 (W), lona VII, 13 (Dke). 



R. dimidiatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII, rare. 



R. octomaculatus Gerst. Malaga VIII, 4 (GG). 



R. pectinatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; rare. 



R. limbatus Fab. Throughout the State VI, VII; rare. 



R. limbatus Fab. Palisades VII, 26 (Lv) ; Orange Mts., Newark (Bf ) ; 



Merchantville VII, 17, Farmingdale VII, 18 (GG) ; g. d., rare (W). 

 R. linearis Lee. Madison VII, 17 (Pr). 



MYODITES Latr. 

 M. fasciatus Say. Orange Mts. (Bf ) ; East Jersey, rare (Dietz). 



Family STYLOPID^. 



This family is represented in our State .by a single minute species 

 only, so far as our collections go. It is a representative of a very curious 



Stylops and its development: a, female in body of bee; b, same in 

 outline; c, d, male from above and side. 



Fig. 156. 



little group, which is given ordinal rank by some who have studied it 

 most closely, and I believe that conclusion to be warranted. As matter 



