THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
Family SPHINDID^. 
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Very similar to the “Cioidae” in appearance and live in fungi. Our 
only species is 
SPHINDUS Chev. 
S. americanus Lee. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf); Newark (Bf); Anglesea 
(W); probably throughout the State; local and not common. 
Family FUCANIMJ. 
These are the “stag beetles,” so called because in some species the 
male has the mandibles very large, branched, resembling stag antlers. 
Our common species, however, are better known as “pinching bugs,” the 
mandibles being of moderate size and not branched. The antennae have 
a leaf-like club at tip, the blades of which caniiot be closely opposed or 
folded. The larvae are white-grubs and live in decaying wood. 
LUCANUS Linn. 
L. elaphus Fabr. Anglesea, one male (W). 
L. dama Thunb. Throughout the State VI, VII, sometimes locally com¬ 
mon at electric light;, but usually in small numbers only. 
DORCUS MacL. 
D. paralle lus Say. Throughout the State VI, VII, in white-rotten wood; 
locally common. 
D. brevis Say. DaCosta (Say); Weymouth (Dke). The rank of this 
species is in doubt, and the general belief is that it is only an aber¬ 
ration of the above; but that is disputed, and the species is left here 
as good. 
PLATYCERUS Geoff. 
P. quercus Web. Recorded from all sections of the State; cut out of 
rotten wood in March, and found occasionally in branches until July. 
CERUCHUS MacL. 
C. piceus Web. Throughout the State; common in rotten beech all the 
year around (Bf). 
NICAGUS Lee. 
N. obscurus Lee. Gloucester, not common (W, Li). 
• PASSALUS Fabr. 
P. cornutus Fabr. Common throughout the State in rotten wood; hun¬ 
dreds of them are sometimes found in an old stump, and on an 
abandoned branch of R. R., on 5-mile beach, they ate up all the old 
ties. The larvae are peculiar in having four legs only. 
