THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
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PANSCOPUS Sch. 
P. erinaceus Say. Salt meadows III, 19 (Bf); Woodbury III, 25, sifting 
old leaves (W); on wild grape VI, YII (Sm). 
PHYXELIS Sch. 
P. rigidus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Madison (Pr); Weehawken (Bt); New- 
ark bist. (Bf); Camden (Li); Collingswood VII (Brn); g. d. (W). 
AGRAPHUS Sch. 
A. bell icus Say. Hopatcong (Pm); Newark (Soc); Sandy Hook (Bf); 
Shrewsbury (Jiil); Anglesea (W); always rare. 
OTIORHYNCHUS Germ. 
O. sulcatus Fab. North of Piedmont Plain, not rare; South Jersey, under 
hemlock bark (W). 
O. ovatus Linn. Throughout the State, locally common; larva is the 
“strawberry crown girdler”; beetle is a general feeder. 
/ O. rugifrons Gyll. East Jersey (Dietz); Ft. Lee V, under stones (Bf). 
CERCOPEUS Sch. 
/ C. chrysorrhoeus Say. Delaware Valley and northward in early spring, 
under bark of chestnut and other trees and stumps. 
PACHN/EUS Sch. 
P. distans Horn. Manumuskin VI, 21 (Dke). 
TANYMECUS Sch. 
T. confertus Gyll. Throughout the State, under 
until VII, feeding on a great variety of plants. 
PANDELETEJUS Sch. 
P. hi laris Hbst. Throughout the State, common, in white oak and beech. 
BRACHYSTYLUS Sch. 
/ B. acutus Say. Newark (Soc); South Jersey (W); only on persimmon. 
ARAMIGUS Horn. 
/ A. fulleri Horn. “Fuller’s rose beetle.” An imported species, which was 
for a time a serious pest in rose-houses in Union County and else¬ 
where. It was never abundant outdoors and is rarely found now 
even in green-houses, where they have learned how to deal with it. 
APHRASTUS Sch. 
A. taeniatus Gyll. Common throughout the State on hazel, alder and 
other bushes in July. 
stones in spring and 
