﻿THE 
  INSECTS 
  OF 
  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 
  "Polistes." 
  

  

  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 
  "Scolytidae." 
  

  

  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 
  RHIXOMACERID.E. 
  

  

  RHINOMACER 
  Fab. 
  

  

  R. 
  pilosus 
  Lee. 
  Gloucester, 
  rare 
  on 
  dying 
  pine 
  (W) 
  ; 
  "Westville 
  IV, 
  New- 
  

   tonville 
  III, 
  26 
  (Brn) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  V, 
  5, 
  (GG) 
  ; 
  lona 
  V, 
  16 
  (CG). 
  

  

  R. 
  elongatus 
  Lee. 
  Morristown 
  on 
  pine 
  (Jiil) 
  ; 
  Gloucester 
  (W) 
  ; 
  West- 
  

   ville 
  (Li) 
  ; 
  Merchantville 
  IV, 
  27 
  (Brn) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  V, 
  5 
  (GG) 
  ; 
  lona 
  

   V, 
  16 
  (CG). 
  

  

  Family 
  RHYNCHITID^E. 
  

  

  AULETES 
  Sch. 
  

  

  A. 
  ater 
  Lee. 
  Ramapo 
  Mts. 
  V, 
  27, 
  on 
  "Myrica" 
  (Sf) 
  ; 
  Ft. 
  Lee 
  on 
  sweet 
  

   fern 
  (Jiil) 
  ; 
  Landisville, 
  DaCosta 
  (Li) 
  ; 
  Newtonville 
  VI, 
  Sea 
  Isle 
  V 
  

   (Brn); 
  Anglesea 
  (W). 
  

  

  A. 
  subcraeuleus 
  Lee. 
  Newark, 
  one 
  specimen 
  (Bf). 
  

  

  A. 
  cassandrae 
  Lee. 
  Orange 
  Mts. 
  (Bf); 
  Atco, 
  DaCosta 
  VII 
  (Brn); 
  Buena 
  

   Vista 
  (Li); 
  Anglesea 
  V, 
  28 
  (W). 
  

  

  