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Family SPHINDIDiE. 



Very small smoky-brown species, much like the Cioidce in general appear- 

 ance, but differing structurally. Our only species lives in fungi and is not of 

 economic importance. 



SPHINDTJS Chev. 



S. americanus Lee. Ft. Lee, Snake Hill (Sf), Newark (Bf), Anglesea (W); 

 probably throughout the State, though perhaps local and nowhere corn- 



Family LUCANIDiE. 



The "stag beetles," so-called because the male has in some cases very large, 

 branched mandibles, somewhat resembling a stag's horns. Our common 

 species, however, are better known as "pinching bugs," the mandibles being of 

 moderate size and not branched. The beetles are all large and recognizable by 

 having a leaf-like club at the end of antennae, the parts of which cannot be 

 closely opposed to each other or folded. 



The larvae are white grubs and live in decaying wood. Those of Passalus 

 cornutus are very common in old stumps and logs and are peculiar in having 

 four feet only developed. They are not in any case injurious. 



LTJCANTJS Linn. 



L. elaphus Fabr. Anglesea, one male specimen ( W). 



L. dama Thunb. Occurs throughout the State, June and July ; sometimes 

 locally common. 



DORCTJS MacL. 



D. parallelus Say. Throughout the State, VI, VII, in white rotten wood : 



locally common. 

 D. brevis Say. Da Costa : the only recorded locality for the species. 



PLATYCERTJS Geoff. 



P. quercus Web. Recorded from all parts of the State : cut out of rotten 

 wood in March and found occasionally in branches until July. 



CERUCHUS MacL. 



C. piceus. Web. Common in rotten beech all the year around (Bf), and 

 recorded from all sections of the State. 



NICAGUS Lee. 

 N. obscurus Lee. Gloucester, not common (W, Li), in sand banks (Ulke). 



