CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 263 



Family MALACHIDiE. 



These insects resemble the preceding by the generally soft wing-covers, but 

 they are shorter, broader, the elytra not nearly so long and often a little trun- 

 cated posteriorly, the broadest part of the body coming near the end of the 

 wing covers. In the species of Collops there are orange-colored protrusible 

 vesicles at the sides of the thorax which are supposed to be defensive in char- 

 acter. The antennse are short, a little enlarged at the tip and often curiously 

 knotted in the male. 



All of them are found on flowers or herbage, some only in low or moist loca- 

 tions, and they are said to feed on insect eggs, larvee and smaller insects gener- 

 ally. The larvce, so far as known, are predaceous. 



COLLOPS Br. 



C. tricolor Say. Sea Girt (Bf). 



C. eximius Er. Hudson Co. (LI), Orange Mts., Newark (Bf), g. d. ( W, Li)» 



Sandy Hook, VIII, 17. 

 C. nigriceps Lee. Hudson Co. (LI), g. d. (W). 

 C. 4-maculata Fabr. Throughout the State, the most common species of the 



genus. 



ANTHOOOMUS Er. 

 A. flavilabris Say. Hudson Co. (LI). 



PSEUDOB^EUS Horn. 



P. oblitus Lee. Hopatcong ( Pml, Hudson Co., (LI), Woodside (Bf), Orange 

 Mts., New Brunswick, VII, 20. 



ATTALUS Er. 



A. nigrellus Lee. Hopatcong (Pro). 



A. terminalis Lee. Hopatcong I Pm), Hudson Co. (LI), Ocean Co., James- 

 burg, VII, 15. 



A. morulus Lee. Hudson Co., (LI), Orange Mts., Lahaway, VI, 1. 



A. granularis Er. Anglesea, VII (Sz). 



A. otiosus Say. Anglesea (W). 



A. circumscriptus Say. Atco (Li). 



A. scincetus Say. Orange Mts. (Sm), VI, 4 (Bf), Hudson Co. (LI), g. d. 

 (Li), Jamesburg, Anglesea, V, 28. 



PMSTOSCELIS Lee. 



P. rufipennis Lee. Newark, VII, g. d., V, 31 (Bf). 

 P. comatus Lee. Hopatcong (Pm). 



