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■worm in general appearance and they live in dead or decaying wood, dry 

 vegetable products or fungi, as do the adults. A few of the species are of 

 economic importance as granary pests, e. g., the meal-worm ; bat none attack 

 growing crops. 



EPITRAGUS Lee. 



E. arundinis Lee. Common along the coast, Sandy Hook to Cape May, 



VII-IX, on reeds, grasses and other vegetation. 

 E. canaliculars Say. Staten Island seashore (Lg). 



EPITRAGODES Casey. 

 E. tomentosus Lee. Sandy Hook, rare (Bt). 



PHELLOPSIS Lee. 



P. obcordata Kirby. Hudson Co. (LI), Ft. Lee ; on dry fungoid growths on 

 trees : local and not common. 



NYCTOBATES Guer. 



N. pennsylvanica DeG. Common throughout the State, IV-VIII, under 

 oak and pine bark. 

 var. barbata Knoch. With the type form (W). 



MERINTJS Lee. 



M. leevis Oliv. Ft. Lee (Bt), Hudson Co. (Ll), Avalon, VII, 30 (Jn), g. d., 

 rare (W). 



UPIS Fabr. 



U. ceramboides Linn. Ft. Lee (Bt). Newark (Soc) ; Mr. Schwarz says this 

 is a boreal species, and the records may perhaps be inaccurate. 



HAPLANDRTJS Lee. 



H. femoratus Fabr. Occurs throughout the State under stones and bark, 



usually the latter. 

 H. ater Lee. Also g. d ; more rare than the preceding. 



SCOTOBATES Horn. 



S. calcaratus Fabr. Chester (Dkn), Madison (Pr), Ft. Lee, VII (Bt), Cald- 

 well (Cr), Newark district (Bf), g. d. (W); not rare anywhere. 



XYLOPINUS Lee. 



X. saperdoides Oliv. Chester (Dkn), Palisades, VI, 28 (Lv), Caldwell (Cr), 



Newark (Soc), So. Amboy (Bt), g d. (W, Li); not common. 

 X. rufipes Say. Caldwell (Cr), So. Amboy (Bt), g. d. (W, Li). 

 X. senescens Lee. Caldwell (Cr), So. Amboy (Bt), "New Jersey" (Horn). 



