﻿THE 
  INSECTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY. 
  671 
  

  

  O. 
  vagus 
  Sauss. 
  Gloucester 
  Co. 
  VII, 
  VIII 
  (Fox); 
  Westville 
  VI, 
  16 
  (Vk). 
  

   O. 
  collega 
  Sauss. 
  Lucaston 
  IX 
  (Dke); 
  Lakehurst 
  VIII, 
  Barnegat 
  Bay 
  

  

  Dist. 
  VI 
  (Coll). 
  

  

  LEPTOCHILUS 
  Sauss. 
  

   O. 
  republicanus 
  D. 
  T. 
  (ornatus 
  Sauss.) 
  Dunnfield 
  VII, 
  12, 
  stores 
  larvae 
  

  

  of 
  "Odontota 
  dorsalis" 
  in 
  pith 
  cells 
  (Sm); 
  Camden 
  VIII, 
  3 
  (Fox). 
  

  

  Family 
  VESPID^. 
  

  

  These 
  are 
  the 
  true 
  social 
  wasps 
  — 
  yellow 
  jackets 
  and 
  hornets, 
  which 
  

   live 
  in 
  colonies 
  containing 
  males, 
  females 
  and 
  workers, 
  the 
  latter, 
  as 
  

   with 
  the 
  bees, 
  undevelopd 
  females. 
  All 
  of 
  them 
  build 
  paper 
  cells 
  or 
  nests, 
  

   some 
  of 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  open 
  like 
  the 
  large 
  gray 
  globular 
  "hornets 
  nest," 
  

   some 
  of 
  them 
  in 
  trunks 
  of 
  trees, 
  beneath 
  overhanging 
  eaves 
  and 
  others 
  

   in 
  holes 
  in 
  the 
  ground. 
  The 
  insects 
  are 
  pugnacious 
  and 
  resent 
  interfer- 
  

   ence, 
  as 
  any 
  one 
  who 
  lias 
  ever 
  disturbed 
  a 
  yellow 
  jacket 
  nest 
  has 
  dis- 
  

   covered 
  to 
  his 
  cost. 
  The 
  food 
  consists 
  of 
  honey, 
  pollen 
  and 
  other 
  in- 
  

   sects, 
  the 
  larvae 
  being 
  fed 
  with 
  masticated 
  fragments 
  of 
  insects 
  by 
  the 
  

   mother 
  or 
  workers. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  storing 
  of 
  food, 
  and 
  the 
  young 
  are 
  abso- 
  

   lutely 
  dependent 
  upon 
  the 
  periodical 
  feeding 
  by 
  the 
  adults. 
  Only 
  the 
  

   impregnated 
  females 
  hibernate, 
  and 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  starts 
  a 
  colony 
  of 
  its 
  

   own 
  in 
  spring. 
  The 
  fore 
  wings 
  are 
  folded 
  longitudinally 
  when 
  at 
  rest. 
  

  

  POLISTES 
  Latr. 
  

  

  Species 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  make 
  paper 
  combs 
  that 
  are 
  not 
  covered, 
  in 
  

   sheltered 
  places. 
  

   P. 
  annularis 
  Linn. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  X 
  (Ds) 
  ; 
  Jamesburg 
  VII, 
  21 
  (Sm); 
  

  

  Blackwood 
  IX, 
  19 
  (Vk). 
  

   P. 
  fuscatus 
  Fab. 
  Seems 
  to 
  be 
  rare 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  the 
  variety 
  "instabilis" 
  

  

  Sauss. 
  being 
  the 
  only 
  form 
  recorded 
  (Bt). 
  

   P. 
  pallipes 
  Lep. 
  (metricus 
  Say.) 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State; 
  is 
  the 
  com- 
  

  

  mgnest 
  of 
  our 
  species 
  and 
  varies 
  greatly. 
  

   P. 
  perplexus 
  Cress. 
  With 
  the 
  preceding 
  and 
  locally 
  as 
  abundant. 
  

   P. 
  rubiginosus 
  Lep. 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  rare 
  (Bt). 
  

   P. 
  variatus 
  Cress. 
  Newark, 
  Camden 
  Co., 
  Lakehurst 
  VIII, 
  Lahaway 
  IX, 
  

  

  Anglesea 
  IX, 
  Cape 
  May 
  IX, 
  not 
  so 
  common 
  (Coll). 
  

   P. 
  canadensis 
  Linn. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  III, 
  15 
  (Ds). 
  

  

  VESPA 
  Linn. 
  

  

  V. 
  boreaiis 
  Kirby. 
  Caldwell 
  (Cr) 
  ; 
  this 
  record 
  is 
  open 
  to 
  doubt. 
  

  

  V. 
  crabro 
  Linn. 
  A 
  European 
  species 
  introduced 
  into 
  and 
  now 
  spread 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  State. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  largest 
  form 
  that 
  occurs 
  with 
  us. 
  

  

  V. 
  Carolina 
  Dru. 
  (cuneata 
  Fab.) 
  Staten 
  Island 
  VI 
  (Ds) 
  ; 
  New 
  Bruns- 
  

   wick 
  VIII, 
  Merchantville 
  V, 
  Ocean 
  Co. 
  VI 
  (Coll); 
  Riverton 
  VI, 
  X 
  ( 
  Jn) 
  ; 
  

   Clementon 
  IV 
  (GG) 
  ; 
  Woodbury 
  VI, 
  National 
  Park 
  VI, 
  VII, 
  Lucaston 
  

   IV, 
  lona 
  VI, 
  Manumuskin 
  V, 
  VI, 
  X 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  Daecke 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  

   underground 
  nest 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  always 
  has 
  a 
  papered 
  entrance. 
  

  

  