THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
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ACRITUS Lee. 
A. exiguus Er. Newark Dist., g. d., in rotten wood (Bf); Anglesea IV, 11 
(Coll). 
DELETES Horn. 
/E. politus Lee. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Lahaway V, 28, on 
cranberry bogs (Sm); under decaying vegetable matter generally. 
Family NITIDULIME. 
Sap beetles as a rule, although some live in fungi and others in or on 
dry animal or vegetable matter. In a general way they may be classed 
as scavengers, and have the short, chunky antennal club usual to such 
species. The majority are more or less flattened, usually broad in pro¬ 
portion to their length and some of them with somewhat abbreviated 
elytra, exposing the end of the abdomen. Sap beetles are most abundant 
in late fall on tree stumps cut in spring or on over-ripe and decaying 
fruits. 
BRACHYPTERUS Er. 
B. urtic.se Fab. Hopatcong (Pm); Hoboken (Coll); g. d. (W); com¬ 
monly occurs on nettle (Ch). 
CERCUS Latr. 
/ C. abdominal is Er. Throughout the State IV-VIII, on flowers of pussy 
willows, elder, etc. 
/ v f’U 
CARPOPHILUS Steph. 
.jC^heraipterus Linn. Jersey City, Newark, New 
Brunswick, Westville; an introduced species, 
common in grocers’ and bakers’ stocks. 
/ C. niger Say. Throughout the State under bark, in 
blossoms or on sap, spring and fall. 
C. corticinus Er. Orange Mts. (Bf); Palisades 
(Sm); Camden (Li); Grenloch V, 3 DaCosta VI, 
10 (W). 
C. marginatus Er. Hemlock Falls (Bf). 
C. brachypterus Say. Hudson Co. (div); Orange 
Mts." (Bf); Newtonville VII, Seaville IV (Sf); 
Grenloch V, 3, on pine sap (W). 
€. antiquus Mels. Hudson Co. (div); Clementon VIII, 
fungus on outside of ears of corn (W). 
“C. dimidiatus” and “C. pallipennis” of the previous edition are mis- 
identifications. 
COLASTUS Er. 
C. morio Er. Bloomfield (Bf); Iona IV, 30 (W); under pine bark. 
€. maculatus Er. Ft. Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. (LI); also under bark. 
Fig. 104.— Carpo- 
philus hemipterus; 
enlarged. 
10, on the black 
