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ARTHROUPS Woll. 
A. misellus Lee. Palisades (Sf); Eagle Rock (Bf). 
CORYLOPHODES Matth. 
C. truncatus Lee. Anglesea (W). 
C. marginicollis Lee. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. ( 8 m). 
SERICODERUS Steph. 
S. flavidus Lee. Fort Lee (Sf). 
RHYPOBIUS Lee. 
R. marinus Lee. Snake Hill, Arlington, sweeping VI (Sf); along shore. 
Brigantine to Cape May Y-IX, sifting drift on beach. 
ORTHOPERUS Steph. 
O. glaber Lee. Camden and Gloucester Co. (W); Lahaway Y, 28, on 
cranberry bogs (Sm); Anglesea YII (Sz). 
O. scute! laris Lee. Anglesea VII (Sz). 
Family COCCINELEIDTE. 
These are the “lady bugs” or “lady birds” or “lady bird beetles,” which 
are among nature’s most effective checks to scale and plant lice increase. 
They are more or less hemispherical in shape, sometimes a little more oval 
in outline, and then usually less convex. In color they are as a rule red or 
yellow with black spots, or black with red and yellow spots. In a very 
general way, and subject to many exceptions, those of the 
first type are feeders on plant lice, while those of the 
second type feed on scale insects; the smaller, black 
species are usually scale destroyers. The larvse are rather 
slender, more or less fusiform in outline, sometimes with 
lateral processes, often prettily marked with black, blue or 
orange. In its predatory habits the family is somewhat 
exceptional among the “Clavicorns,” and one of our species 
departs from the usual habits and is a vegetable feeder. 
Most of the species are widely distributed, their occurrence 
being chiefly determined by the presence of the insects 
upon which they feed. 
Fig. 95 .— 
Coccinellid 
larva. 
ANISOSTICTA Dup. 
A. strigata Thunb. Chester (Dn); Snake Hill V, 17 (Bf); Hudson Co. 
(LI); Arlington VI (Sf); Westville (Li); Merchantville IV, 24 (Brn); 
Camden Co. IV, 14 (GG). 
