CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 



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PRIONTJS Geoff. 



Fig. 124. — Prionus laticollis larva, pupa and adult. 



P. laticollis Dru. Occurs throughout the State ; the larva is a root-borer in a 

 great variety of trees and shrubs, often causing severe injury to black- 

 berry and grape : have also found it in apple and cherry. Where it 

 attacks blackberry there is nothing to do but pull out the affected plant 

 and kill the borer : it lives three years in this stage, and the plant is 

 doomed at any rate. 



P. pocularis Dalm. Spring Lake (Ch), Landisville (Li), Cape May, VII 

 (Sz). DaCosta in pine woods (W), Lahaway; the larva common in de- 

 caying pine logs. 



SPHENOSTETHUS Hald. 



S. taslei Buq. "New Jersey" (Horn), rare, not recently taken (Li). 



ASEMTJM Esch. 

 A. moestum Hald. Throughout the State, May and June ; the larva on pine. 



CRIOCEPHALUS Muls 



C. agrestis Kirby. Chester (Dkn), Newark (Loeffler), Brigantine beach, IX 



(Hn), Anglesea, Lahaway, VII. 

 C Obsoletus Rand Newark, light (Bf), Woodbury, Atlantic City. 



