﻿THE 
  INSECTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY. 
  627 
  

  

  PERITHOUS 
  Holmg. 
  

  

  P. 
  pleuralis 
  Cress. 
  Nyack, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  (Zabriskie), 
  and 
  sure 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  North 
  

   Jersey. 
  

  

  CALLIEPHIALTES 
  Ashm. 
  

   C. 
  xanthothorax 
  Ashm. 
  Parasitic 
  on 
  "Euura 
  nodus." 
  

  

  EPHIALTES 
  Grav. 
  

  

  E. 
  albipes 
  Cress. 
  Recorded 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey 
  (Ashm). 
  

  

  E. 
  comstocki 
  Cress. 
  Reared 
  from 
  "Retinia 
  comstockiana." 
  

  

  E. 
  irritator 
  Fab. 
  Trenton 
  IV, 
  24, 
  Wenonah 
  V, 
  16 
  (Hk); 
  Clementon 
  V, 
  10 
  

   (Jn); 
  Manumuskin 
  X, 
  8-21 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  reared 
  from 
  "Liopus 
  variegatus." 
  

  

  E. 
  mesocentrus 
  Grav. 
  (rex 
  Kriech). 
  A 
  European 
  parasite 
  of 
  "Coccyx 
  

   resinana" 
  introduced 
  into 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  (Ashm), 
  and 
  which 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  occurs 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey 
  as 
  well. 
  

  

  E. 
  tuberculatus 
  Fourc. 
  Probably 
  introduced 
  from 
  Europe, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  

   parasitic 
  on 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  wood-boring 
  coleopterous 
  larvae, 
  one 
  of 
  

   which, 
  "Cryptorhynchus 
  lapathi," 
  also 
  occurs 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  Also 
  

   infests 
  lepidopterous 
  larvse. 
  

  

  MEGARHYSSA 
  Ashm. 
  (THALESSA 
  Holm.) 
  

  

  M. 
  at 
  rata 
  Fab. 
  Common 
  throughout 
  the 
  State 
  (Sm). 
  

  

  M. 
  nitida 
  Cress. 
  Has 
  been 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  Palisades, 
  near 
  Fort 
  Lee. 
  

  

  M. 
  nortoni 
  Cress. 
  Rare 
  at 
  Caldwell 
  (Cr). 
  

  

  M. 
  greenei 
  Vier. 
  Type 
  locality, 
  Boonton 
  (Vk). 
  

  

  M. 
  magnifica 
  Vier. 
  Merchantville 
  V, 
  26 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  M. 
  lunator 
  Fab. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State, 
  hardly 
  less 
  common 
  than 
  "atrata." 
  

   Parasitic 
  on 
  "Tremex 
  columba" 
  These 
  species 
  are 
  the 
  common, 
  long- 
  

   tailed 
  "Ichneumons," 
  often 
  found 
  with 
  their 
  bristle-like 
  ovipositors 
  

   inserted 
  into 
  trees; 
  hence 
  generally 
  suspected 
  of 
  being 
  wood-borers. 
  

  

  RHYSSA 
  Grav. 
  

  

  R. 
  persuasoria 
  Linn. 
  This, 
  with 
  its 
  variety 
  "albomaculata" 
  Cress., 
  no 
  

   doubt 
  occurs 
  throughout 
  the 
  State. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  reared 
  from 
  "Mono- 
  

   hammus 
  scutellator" 
  and 
  "confusor," 
  and 
  in 
  Europe 
  is 
  parasitic 
  on 
  

   species 
  of 
  "Sirex." 
  

  

  MENISCUS 
  Schiodte. 
  

  

  M. 
  johnsoni 
  Davis. 
  Jamesburg 
  (Jn) 
  ; 
  type 
  locality 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

  

  M. 
  scutellaris 
  Cress. 
  (Bathycetes) 
  Del. 
  Water 
  Gap 
  VII, 
  S 
  (Jn) 
  ; 
  bred 
  

  

  from 
  "Gelechia 
  pseudacaciella." 
  

   M. 
  mirabilis 
  Cress. 
  (Asphragis) 
  New 
  Jersey 
  district. 
  

  

  