244 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



SCIRTES 111. 



S. orbiculatus Fab. Clementon, VIII, 6 (W), Hudson Co. (LI). 

 S. tibialis Guer. Madison, Budd's Lake, VII, 14 (Pr), Newark (Bf ), Plainfield 

 (Sf),g. d. (W). 



CYPHON Payk. 



O. robustus Lee. Anglesea, Merchantville, V, 23, in Magnolia swamps among 



Sphagnum (W), Atco, Buena Vista (Li). 

 C. obscurus Guer. Waverly, III, 5, Newark (Bf). 

 C. collaris Guer. Hudson County (LI), g. d. (Bf). 

 C. variabilis Thunb. Common throughout the State. 

 O. padi Linn. Anglesea (W). 



PLACONYCHA Horn. 

 P. edwardsii Lee. Lake Hopatcong (Pm). 



Family RHIPICERID-ffi. 



Elongate, very convex black or brown species, somewhat resembling Ela- 

 teridce but without the power of leaping, the thorax shorter, head more promi- 

 nent, with large calliper-like mandibles and flabellate antennse in the males. 

 They are very rare and usually found on or near dead cedars. 



SANDALUS Knoch. 



S. petrophya Knoch. Staten Island on beech (Lg), North Jersey (Li), 

 Newark (Bf), Plainfield (Sf), Anglesea in wash up (W), always rare. 



Family ELATERID-ffi. 



The insects belonging to this family are cotnmonly known as "click beetles," 

 " snapping beetles " or "spring beetles," because of their power of springing 

 into the air when placed on their back and turning right side up in the process. 

 The prothorax is long, loosely jointed to the meso-thorax, prolonged backward 

 on the under side into a curved process which fits into a groove or cavity in the 

 meso-thorax. When the insect is placed on its back it elevates the body until 



