1925 ] Insects and Plants of a Strip of New Jersey Coast 231 
THE INSECTS AND PLANTS OF A STRIP OF NEW 
JERSEY COAST 1 
By Harry B. Weiss and Erdman West 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
1 ntroduction. 
This paper deals with the insects and plants of a section of 
the maritime region of New Jersey and is the fourth of a series of 
reports on surveys which have been made in different faunal 
areas of New Jerse}^. 
Acknowledgments . 
Identification of the various species of insects collected 
during the survey were made by the following entomologists to 
whom we are greatly indebted. Hymenoptera, Mr. H. L. 
Viereck; Diptera, Mr. C. W. Johnson; Coleoptera, Mr. C. A. 
Frost; Hemiptera, Mr. H. G. Barber; Lepidoptera, Mr. Carl 
Heinrich and Mr. Wm. Schaus; Cicadellidse, Mr. C. E. Olsen; 
Formicidse, Mr. M. R. Smith; Odonata, Mr. Wm. T. Davis; 
Orthoptera, Dr. Henry Fox. 
The New Jersey Sea Coast 
The maritime region of New Jersey extends along the coast 
from Sandy Hook to Cape May and includes the beach and its 
adjoining sand hills. The beaches are narrow, sandy strips often 
separated from each other by inlets and from the upland by bays, 
and channels fringed by tide-marsh or salt meadow. According 
to the “ Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey” for 
1885, the beaches “are sand bars of considerable magnitude, 
which have been formed at a greater or less depth by currents 
depositing sediment under favorable conditions and subsequently 
brought above water by the waves, as at the present day, or 
perhaps in some cases by the changes of sea level which have 
journal New York Entomological Society, vol. xxx, pp. 169-190; Journal 
New York Entomological Society, vol. xxxii, pp. 93-103; Ecology, vol. v, 
pp. 241-253. 
