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  REPORT 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  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 
  "B. 
  tomentosus" 
  Lee. 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  edi- 
  

   tion 
  were 
  based 
  on 
  misidentifications. 
  

  

  SCHCENICUS 
  Lee. 
  

  

  S. 
  puberulus 
  Lee. 
  Lakehurst 
  VII, 
  4-6 
  (Bf). 
  

  

  PHELLOPSIS 
  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. 
  si 
  mi 
  lis 
  Latr. 
  Merchantville 
  IV, 
  1 
  (Dke). 
  

   B. 
  mortisaga 
  Linn. 
  Newark 
  (Bf). 
  

  

  NYCTOBATES 
  Guer. 
  

  

  N. 
  pennsy 
  Ivan 
  lea 
  De 
  G. 
  Common 
  throughout 
  the 
  State 
  IV-VIII, 
  under 
  

   bark. 
  The 
  variety 
  "barbata" 
  Knoch, 
  with 
  the 
  type. 
  

  

  MERINUS 
  Lee. 
  

   M. 
  iagvis 
  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. 
  

  

  