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THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
IV!. bipustulatus Mels. Eagle Rock, 1 specimen (Bf). 
M. pluriguttatus Lee. Newark district in fungus (Bf). 
M. melsheimeri L§c. Camden, rare (Li). 
M. pluripunctatus Lee. Greenwood Lake (Sf); Westville (Li). 
M. pini Ziegl. Westville rare (Li), under pine bark. 
JVI. obsoletus Mels. Avalon (Li); Sea Isle City VI, 11 (Brn). 
LITARGUS Er. 
L. 6-punctatus Say. Hudson Co. (LI); Orange Mts., Newark IX, 20 (Bf); 
Anglesea VII (Sz); under decomposing vegetable matter and bark. 
L. tetraspilotus Lee. Boonton III, 17 (GG); Orange Mts., Newark V, 30 
(Bf). 
L. di desmu s Say. Hudson Co. (LI); DaCosta VI, Sea Isle VI (Brn); 
Anglesea VII and probably throughout the State. 
The record of “L. balteatus” was based on a misidentification. 
TYPHCEA Steph. 
T. fumata Linn. Common everywhere in stables and sweepings from 
granaries and feed stores (Ch); bred in numbers from dry-rotting 
potatoes at^New Brunswick. 
Family DERMESTID2E. 
Stout, heavily built beetles, with short, weak legs that may be very 
closely folded to the body. Clothed with flattened hair or scales, usually 
black and white mottled; but 
sometimes marked with red, 
brown or yellow. The larvae 
are elongate, hairy creatures, 
with tufts of bristles at the 
end of the abdomen and 
sometimes along the sides; 
or with bunches of hair that 
may be erected or spread out. 
They feed (with one excep¬ 
tion) on stored or dry ani¬ 
mal and sometimes vegeta¬ 
ble products, and include 
such pests as the “larder 
beetles,” “museum beetles,” 
“carpet beetles,” etc., and 
are therefore decidedly in¬ 
jurious. Protection is gained by the use of repellants like camphor and 
naphthaline, and by cleanliness or making access impossible to larvae or 
adults. As a rule a combination of both methods is employed, and occa¬ 
sionally bisulphide of carbon can be used to advantage. 
Fig. 101 .—Dermestes vulpintis: a, larva from above 
and side; h, pupa; k, adult; enlarged: other 
figures refer to structural details of larva. 
