THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 683 



Family LARRID/E. 



Head broad, closely applied to the thorax, abdomen not stalked, oval; 

 middle tibia with one spur. Make burrows in sandy places and provision 

 them chiefly with grasshoppers, crickets and the like. 



ASTATA Latr. 



A. bicolor Say. Gloucester Co. VIII, 16 (Fox); New Jersey (Cress Coll). 

 A. unicolor Say. Throughout the State in August, not rare. 

 A. pygidialis Fox. Camden Co. (Fox). 

 A. occidentalis Cress. Philadelphia VIII (Fox) and probably New Jersey. 



LARRA Latr. 



L. analis Fab. (cressoni Fox, americana Cress.) Camden, Gloucester 

 Cos. VII, VIII (Fox) ; Swedesboro VII, 15 (Coll) ; Clementon VIII, 13, 

 27 (Vk). 







L. pennsylvanica Beauv. Camden, Gloucester Co. VIII, IX (Fox); West- 

 ville (Crn). 



NOTOGONIA Costa. 

 N. argentata Beauv. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain. V-VIII, not rare. 



ANCISTROMA Fox. 

 A. distincta Smith. Throughout the State VIII, IX, not rare. 



TACHYSPHEX Kohl. 



T. tarsatus Say. Camden, Gloucester Cos. VII, VIII (Fox) ; Clementon 



V, 19 (Vk); Anglesea VI, 25 (Sm). 

 T. dubiosus D. T. (dubius Fox.) Camden Co. VIII, 24 (Fox), the type 



locality; N. Woodbury VI (div); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). 

 T. punctifrons Fox. Camden Co. IX, 12 (Fox). 

 T. minimus Fox. Camden Co. VII (Fox). 

 T. terminatus Smith. DaCosta VII, 28, lona VI, 2, Belleplain IX, 8 (Dke); 



Anglesea IX, 4 (Sm). 



T. quebecensis Prov. New Jersey VIII, 24, 31 (U S N M). 



T. acutus Patt. N. Woodbury VI, 13, 22, VIII, 1 (Vk). 



T. tenuipunctus Fox. Clementon V, 14 (Vk) ; VI, 6 (W. S. Huntington). 



T. obscurus Cress. Gloucester Co. VII, 15 (Coll). 



T. similis Rohw. Anglesea VIII, 4 (Coll); type locality. 



TACHYTES Panz. 



T. aurulentus Fab. G. d. south of Piedmont Plain VII, VIII, not rare. 

 T. distinctus Smith, (crassus Patt.) Westville VIII, 1 (Vk). 



