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hopper increase. Others are semi-parasitic in the nests of bees, and are 
at least not beneficial, even if not directly harmful. 
In New Jersey they are not as important as they are in some of the 
Western States, and the injuries caused by them warrant active measures 
for their destruction. 
MELOE Linn. 
M. anqu sticoilis Say. Madison (Pr); Caldwell (Cr); g. d., in late fall 
on wild turnip (Bf); Riverton XI, 5 (Dke). 
/ M. americanus Leach. Orange Mts., Irvington XII, 30, under stones (Bf); 
Newark (Soc). 
NEMOGNATHA III. 
N. nemorensis Hentz. Dunellen (Dietz); DaCosta VII, 28 (Dke). 
ZONITIS Fab. 
Z. bilineata Say. Snake Hill (Sf); Madison VIII, 4 (Pr); Orange Mts. 
~~ (Bf); Staten Island (Lg). 
MACROBASIS Lee. 
M. unicolor Kirby. Throughout the State VI, VII, often common on “Bap- 
tisia tinctorum”; sometimes on potatoes. 
EPICAUTA Redt. 
• E. trichrus Pall- East Jersey (Dietz); Merchantville VII, 19, Glassboro 
VII, 17; on sweet potato, “Convolvulus” sp., and “Maruta cotula.” 
E. strigosa Gyll. Bamber VIII, 11 (Dke). 
E. bates! i Horn. Lakehurst VII, VIII (div). 
E. vjttata Fab. Throughout the State, often destructive in late summer 
to potatoes and other garden crops and to flowers; is the “old- 
fashioned striped potato beetle.” 
E. marginata Fab. With “cinerea,” and usually regarded as a variety. 
E. cinerea Forst. Throughout the State VIII; habits of “vittata,” but 
not so abundant nor so often injurious. 
E. pennsylvanica De G. Throughout the State VIII, IX; common on Soli- 
dago. 
POMPHOPCEA Lee. 
_ p/aanea-SaY . Woodside (Bf); Merchantville VIII (Brn); Westville (Li); 
Anglesea (W); in early spring; isolated specimens only. 
P. sayi Lee. Greenwood Lake VI (Beyer). 
Fig. 149.—-The “Spanish fly,” Lytta vesicatoria: not a native of this country. 
Fig. 150.—The “striped blister beetle,” Epicauta vittata. 
* Fig. 151.—Early stages of blister beetles: a, grasshopper egg-pod with triungulin at f; 
b, grasshopper eggs, enlarged; c, triungulin; d, carabidoid stage of larva; e, scarabidoid 
stage of larva, enlarged. 
Fig. 152.—Striped blister beetle: a, scarabidoid larva; c, d, coarctate larva, enlarged. 
Fig. 153.—Striped blister beetle: a, b, true' pupa from side and beneath, enlarged. 
Fig. 154.—Margined blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea. 
Fig. I SS-—Ash gray blister beetle', Macrobasis “unicolor at o; black blister beetle, Epi¬ 
cauta pennsylvanica at b, enlarged. 
