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THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
G1BBIUM Scop. 
G. psylloides Czemp. Breeds in dried animal matter and excrement in 
houses; occurs in the New York Produce Exchange and in store¬ 
houses in New Jersey. 
MEZIUM Curt. 
M. americanum Lap. Occurs with the preceding in city store-houses. 
PTINUS Linn. 
P. brunneus Duft. Camden, rare (Li); lives in store-rooms, cellars, 
granaries and old houses, developes in dried organic matter. 
P. fur Linn. With the preceding, but more common, and recorded from 
ail sections of the State. Mr. Bischoff finds it on old rags. 
EUCRADA Lee. 
E. humeralis Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, 9 
(Bf); New Brunswick (Coll); not common. 
OZOGNATHUS Lee. 
O. fioridanus Lee. Anglesea VII, 1, Cape May VII, 7, on dead oak twigs 
(W); a South Atlantic Coast form. 
ERNOBIUS Thoms. 
E. mollis Linn. Ft. Lee (Sf); Orange Mts. VI, Newark (Bf); Lahaway 
(Sm); Pitman Grove VII (GG); probably throughout the State on old 
wood. A common European species. 
E. filicornis Lee. Atlantic Coast region, Mass, to Virginia, rare (Fall). 
E. granulatus Lee. Brigantine Beach IX (Hn); New Jersey (Fall). 
E. luteipermis Lec. Westville V (div); Gloucester Co. IV, V (div); 
Malaga V, 15 (W); Clementon V, 6 (GG). 
OLIGOMERUS Redt. 
O. sericans Mels. Orange Mts. (Bf); Lahaway VI (Sm); Anglesea VII 
(div). 
O. obtusus Lec. Staten Island, New Jersey (Fall). 
O. alternatus Lec. Anglesea VI, 18, South Jersey (W). 
SITODREPA Thoms. 
S. panicea Linn. Throughout the State; breeds in dry roots and stored 
vegetable products of all kinds; also in rattan, willow and wood¬ 
work, in paper, paste-board and similar stores. Liberal applications 
of gasoline, where practical, or exposure to the fumes of the bisulphide 
of carbon may be resorted to to destroy the pests. 
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