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  REPORT 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  SPILOMENA 
  Shuck. 
  

   S, 
  pusilla 
  Say. 
  New 
  Jersey 
  probably. 
  

  

  PASSALCECUS 
  Shuck. 
  

   P. 
  annulatus 
  Say. 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  VII, 
  28 
  (Fox). 
  

   P. 
  mandibularis 
  Cress. 
  Northern 
  New 
  Jersey 
  (Ashm). 
  

   P. 
  rivertonensis 
  Vier. 
  Riverton 
  VI, 
  17 
  ( 
  Jn) 
  ; 
  the 
  type 
  locality. 
  

  

  Family 
  AMPULICID/E. 
  

  

  Curious 
  slender 
  wasps, 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  prothorax, 
  a 
  conic 
  head 
  with 
  the 
  

   base 
  in 
  front, 
  and 
  a 
  clypeus 
  like 
  a 
  beak. 
  They 
  are 
  very 
  rare 
  and 
  are 
  

   said 
  to 
  prey 
  on 
  cockroaches. 
  

  

  RHINOPSIS 
  Westw. 
  

   R. 
  canal 
  iculata 
  Say. 
  Sure 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

  

  Family 
  SPHECID/E. 
  

  

  This 
  family 
  is 
  easily 
  recognized 
  by 
  the 
  long 
  slender 
  pedicel 
  or 
  stalk 
  

   connecting 
  the 
  thorax 
  with 
  the 
  main 
  bulb 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  Among 
  them 
  

   are 
  the 
  common 
  mud-daubers 
  that 
  plaster 
  their 
  clay 
  or 
  earthen 
  cellf 
  

   against 
  out-houses 
  and 
  under 
  porches, 
  sometimes 
  inside 
  of 
  shutters 
  or 
  in 
  

   similar 
  sheltered 
  places. 
  These 
  cells 
  are 
  filled 
  with 
  caterpillars, 
  spiders, 
  

   grasshoppers 
  or 
  the 
  like, 
  stored 
  by 
  the 
  mother 
  wasp 
  as 
  food 
  for 
  the 
  

   larva. 
  Some 
  species 
  are 
  true 
  diggers 
  and 
  make 
  underground 
  cells 
  only. 
  

   All 
  of 
  them 
  may 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  beneficial. 
  

  

  SCELIPHRON 
  Klug. 
  

  

  S. 
  cementarium 
  Dru. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  and 
  the 
  most 
  abundant 
  of 
  

   our 
  mud-daubers. 
  Tlie 
  variety 
  "architectus" 
  Say. 
  occurs 
  with 
  the 
  

   type 
  and 
  as 
  commonly, 
  while 
  "lunatum 
  Fab. 
  (canadensis 
  Sm)" 
  has 
  

   been 
  taken 
  on 
  Staten 
  Island 
  (Ds). 
  

  

  CHALYBION 
  Dahlb. 
  

  

  C. 
  cseruleum 
  Linn. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  VI-IX, 
  not 
  rare. 
  

  

  SPHEX 
  Linn. 
  (AMMOPHILA 
  Kirby.) 
  

   S. 
  arvensis 
  Dahlb. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  (Ds) 
  ; 
  g. 
  d. 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey 
  (Bt). 
  

   S. 
  conditor 
  Smith. 
  Long 
  Island, 
  and 
  sure 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

   S. 
  gracilis 
  Lep. 
  Caldwell 
  (Cr); 
  Chester, 
  Orange 
  Mts., 
  Jamesburg 
  VII, 
  

  

  11, 
  Ocean 
  Co., 
  Swedesboro 
  VII, 
  TQ 
  (Coll); 
  Lucaston 
  VL 
  27, 
  IX, 
  12, 
  

  

  Manumuskin 
  VIII, 
  17 
  (Dke). 
  

   S. 
  procera 
  Dahlb. 
  (gryphus 
  Sm.) 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  VI-X. 
  

  

  