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  REPORT 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  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. 
  angusticollis 
  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). 
  

  

  20NITIS 
  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. 
  batesii 
  Horn. 
  Lakehurst 
  VII, 
  VIII 
  (div). 
  

  

  E. 
  vittata 
  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. 
  aenea 
  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. 
  ISO. 
  — 
  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- 
  1 
  55- 
  — 
  Ash 
  gray 
  blister 
  beetle, 
  Macrobasis 
  unicolor 
  at 
  o; 
  black 
  blister 
  beetle, 
  Epi- 
  

   cauta 
  pennsylvanica 
  at 
  b, 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  