THE INSECTS OE NEW JERSEY. 
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of convenience, however, and because the change has not been generally 
adopted in our lists, I have preferred to leave the species here. The 
male only is winged, the female lives in the abdomen of some of our 
paper-making wasps. 
XENOS Rossi. 
X. peckii Kirby. Occurs very rarely throughout the State in the abdo¬ 
men of the species of “P'olistes.” 
Series RHYNCHOPHORA. 
The remaining families of the order belong to the so-called “snout- 
beetles” or weevils, sometimes classed as a sub-order. The chief obvious 
character of a great majority of the species is the elongated head or 
snouti, at the end of which the minute mouth parts are situated. In 
some cases this snout is very much reduced; but in such types the tend¬ 
ency is to a cylindrical form, and the pro-thorax has no lateral margin 
or suture. Practically all the species are feeders upon vegetable tissue, 
and many of them are injurious or even destructive to cultivated crops. 
The families of this series are not easily distinguished except by the use 
of rather obscure structural characters, and no definitions will be at¬ 
tempted except in special instances—e. g., the “Scolytidse.” 
The larvae are white, very much wrinkled, stout, fleshy grubs, usually 
without legs, with a yellowish head and a tendency to curl or assume the 
position of a “white-grub.” They also are vegetable feeders, attacking 
plants in all parts, and many of them rank as first-class pests. 
Family RHINOMACERIDyE. 
RHINOMACER Fab. 
R. pilosus Lee. Gloucester, rare on dying pine (W); Westville IV, New- 
' tonville III, 26 (Brn); Clementon V, 5, (GG); Iona V, 16 (CG). 
R. elongatus Lee. Morristown on pine (Jill); Gloucester (W); West¬ 
ville (Li); Merchantville IV, 27 (Brn); Clementon V, 5 (GG); Iona 
V, 16 (CG). 
Family RHYNCHITIDyE. 
AULETES Sch. 
A. ater Lee. Ramapo Mts. V, 27, on “Myrica” (Sf); Ft. Lee on sweet 
fern (Jul); Landisville, DaCosta (Li); Newtonville VI, Sea Isle V 
(Brn); Anglesea (W). 
A. cassandrae Lee. Orange Mts. (Bf); Atco, DaCosta VII (Brn); Buena 
VistaT"(Li); Anglesea V, 28 (W). 
