364 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Family LAGRIIDiE. 
Represented in our fauna by only two economically unimportant spe¬ 
cies. Head and thorax narrow, of about equal width, nearly cylindrical, 
the elytra abruptly broader so as to form distinct shoulders. The colors 
are black or bronzed and the texture of the wing covers is decidedly thin 
and somewhat flexible. The adults are found on flowers, leaves or under 
bark of trees, never common, while the larvm are credited with predatory 
tendencies. 
ARTHROMACRA Kirby. 
A. aenea Say. Del. Water Gap VII, 12 (Jn); Hopatcong (Pm); Green¬ 
wood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Ft. Lee VI (Bt); Orange Mts. (GG); Atlantic, 
Cape May Cos. (div). 
STATIRA Latr. 
S. gagatina Mels. Throughout the State, on flowers or under bark; 
usually rare. 
S, resplendens Mels. Staten Island (Lg). Replaces “croceicollis” of 
the last edition. 
Family MELANDRYIDiE. 
The beetles of this family also are economically unimportant, and have 
the same general habits as in the immediately preceding families. They 
are very diverse in form but usually slender, often elliptical in outline, 
in general densely clothed with fine silky hair or pubescence, the an¬ 
tennas moderate in length, palpi often very long. The head is hidden as 
far as the eyes, and the prothorax is nearly or quite as broad at base as 
the elytra. They are feeders in wood, fungi and dry vegetable matter 
generally. The larvae are of the usual slender cylindrical form, the head 
th'orax and tail segments chitinized. 
TETRATOMA Fab. 
T. truncorum Lee. Westville (Li); in old fungus (W). 
T. tessellata Mels. Hopatcong (Pm); Ft. Lee (Bt); Hudson Co., Wood- 
side (Bf); Staten Island (Lg); 5-mile beach (W); on fungus on dead 
branches V-VIII. 
PENTHE Newn. 
P. obliquata Fab. Throughout the State under bark, sometimes common. 
P. pimelia Fab. With the preceding, usually more rare. 
SYNCHROA Newn. 
S. punejata Newn. Throughout the State V, VI, under bark of decid¬ 
uous trees and on dry limbs; locally common. 
