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mouth parts comparatively small, not prominent. As a rule, they are 
feeders on fungi or on dead or dry wood or other vegetable products; 
hence scavengers rather than anything else. The larvae are long, slender, 
often a little flattened like a wire worm, and they live in dead or decaying 
wood, dry vegetable products or fungi. A few are of economic importance 
as granary pests, but none attack growing crops. 
EPITRAGUS Lat. 
E. arundinis Lee. Common along the coast, Sandy Hook to Cape May, 
VII-IX, on reeds and grasses. 
The “E. canaliculatus” Say. and “E. tomentosus” Lee. of the last edi¬ 
tion were based on misidentifications. 
SCHCENiCUS Lee. 
S. puberulus Lee. Lakehurst VII, 4-6 (Bf). 
PHELLOPS1S Lee. 
P. obcordata Kirby. Hudson Co. (LI); Ft. Lee (div); on dry fungus 
growths on trees; local and not common. 
POLYPLEURUS Esch. 
P. geminatus Sol. Lakehurst IX, 30 (Jl); on pine logs (Lg). 
P. perforatus Germ. Manumuskin IV, 24 (Dke); it may be that this 
record really refers to the preceding. 
BLAPS Newn. 
B. similis Latr. Merchantville IV, 1 (Dke). 
B. mortisaga Linn. Newark (Bf). 
NYCTOBATES Guer. 
N . pennsvlvan ica De G. Common throughout the State IV-VIII, under 
bark. The variety “barbata” Knoch, with the type. 
MERINUS Lee. 
M. laevis Oliv. Throughout the State IV-VII; not rare under bark. 
UPIS Fabr. 
U. ceramboides Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt); Newark (Soc). 
HAPLANDRUS Lee. 
H. femoratus Fabr. Throughout the State, under stones and bark, usually 
the latter; IV-VII. 
H. ater Lee. With the preceding, but more rare. 
