326 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



STATIRA Latr. 



S. croceicollis Makl. Staten Island (Lg). 



S. gagatina Mels. Throughout the State not common ; a few examples each 

 year, under bark or on flowers. 



Family MELANDRYIDiE. 



The beetles of this family are also practically unimportant to the agricul- 

 turist, having the same general habits as those of the preceding families of the 

 Heteromera, i. e. , where the hind tarsi have four joints only. They are very 

 diverse in form, but usually slender, often elliptical in outline, convex or flat- 

 tened, smooth or striate, usually densely clothed with fine silky hair or pubes- 

 cence, the antennas moderate in length, the palpi often very long. The head 

 is hidden in the thorax as far as the eyes, and the prothorax is nearly or quite 

 as broad at base ps the elytra. They are feeders in dry wood, dry fungi and 

 dry vegetable matter generally. The larvae are of the usual slender, cylindrical 

 form, the head thorax and tail segments being chitinized. 



TETRATOMA Fabr. 



T. truncorum Lee. Westville (Li), in old fungus ( W). 



T. tessellata Mels. Hopatcong (Pm), Ft. Lee (Bt), Staten Island (Lg), 

 Woodside, Hudson Co., on fungus on dead branches, May to August (Bf ). 



PENTHE Newn. 



P. obliquata Fabr. Throughout the State under bark, sometimes common : 



this is the form with yellow scutellum. 

 P. pimelia Fabr. With the preceding, usually more rare. 



SYNCHRO A Newn. 



S. punctata Newn. Palisades, V, 17 (Lv), Ft. Lee, VI (Bt), Newark district, 

 common on dry limbs everywhere (Bf). Highlands, VI, under bark of 

 deciduous trees (Ch), g. d. ( W). 



PROTHALPIA Lee. 



P. undata Lee. Greenwood Lake, VI, 22 (Lv), Hemlock Falls, V, 31 (W), 

 Newark, Orange Mts., in fungus on dead branches. 



MELANDRYA Fabr. 



M. striata Say. Palisades, V, 24 (Lv), Ft. Lee, rather common, VI (Bt), 

 Orange Mts., g. d., on fungus in rotten trees or, early, under bark (Bf), 

 g.d. (W). 



