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THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
A. otiosus Say. Throughout the State, sometimes common; breeds in 
hickory, oak, locust, etc. The variety “defectus” Lee. occurs with 
the type. 
A. arcuatus Say. Westville (Li); DaCosta VII, 28, Lacy VII, 14 (Dke); 
So. Jersey (W); not common; found on and probably breeds in hazel. 
A. vittaticollis Rand. Hewitt VI, Newfoundland VII, Lakehurst VII 
(Jl), Buena Vista (Li); Clementon V, 30 (GG); Sea Isle VI (Brn); 
breeds in Kalmia and chestnut. 
A. bijineatus Web. Throughout the State VI, 1-VII, 10, not rare; the 
larva is injurious to chestnuts and also attacks oaks (Ch). 
A. granulatus Say. Boonton VII, 4 (GG); Staten Island (Lg); Cramer 
Hill VI, 19, Gloucester VII, 1 (Brn); So. Jersey (W); never common. 
A. anxius Gory. The bronze birch borer; appeared as an injurious spe¬ 
cies on cut-leafed birch in Essex County cities ‘and towns in 1908-09. 
Up to that time recorded as “rare in So. Jersey” (W). 
f A. acutipennis Mann. Newfoundland VII, 6, Hewitt VI, 12, Lakehurst 
VII, 12 (Jl); Woodside (Bf); Woodbury, Malaga, Brown’s Mills VI 
(Dke), Atco, DaCosta VI (Brn). 
A. politus Say. Boonton VII, 4 (GG); Madison VI, 10 (Pr); Hudson Co. 
(LI); Newark (Soc); So. Jersey (W); breeds in willow and oak. 
A. sinuatus Oliv. Local in Essex, Union and Middlesex Counties; breeds 
in the sap wood of pear. An introduced species that is being grad¬ 
ually worked out and now occurs only in a very few trees so far as 
known. It also breeds in “Crataegus,” and a few specimens are 
found on such stock annually. 
A. fa! lax Say. Camden and Gloucester Co., several localities V, 20-VI, 
15, always rare (div). 
A. obsoletoguttatus Gory. Throughout the State V, VI, on oak. 
A. subcinctus Gory. Madison (Pr); Camden III, 22 (Brn); Westville 
(Li); So. Jersey (W); not common. 
A. le con tei Saund. Hudson Co. (LI); South Jersey (W). 
A. imbellis Cr. West Berlin VI, 25, Atco VI, 17, DaCosta VII, 5 (Brn). 
A. egenus Gory. Throughout the State late May and all June; found on 
and probably breeds in willow and locust. 
A. pusillus Say. South Jersey, not common (W). 
RH/EBOSCELIS Chev. 
R. tenuis Lee. Greenwood Lake V, 17, Lakehurst V, 29, VII, 12, IX, 3 
(Jl); Gloucester VII, 1 (Brn); Anglesea VII, on low plants in swampy 
glades (W). 
TAPHROCERUS Sol. 
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T. gracilis Say. Throughout the State IV-VIII, locally not rare; found 
beating in swampy meadows. 
