1925] Insects and Plants of a Strip of New Jersey Coast 243 
As indicated above, with respect to the number of species, 
the Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera each supplied an 
almost equal amount and these orders are followed in turn by the 
Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera and Orthoptera. Concern- 
ing the types of food habits, these being based for the most part 
on the predominating larval habits of the families regardless of 
numerical abundance (and with the disadvantages of this 
method fully in mind) 45 per cent of the species present can be 
classed as phytophagous, 26 per cent saprophagous, 14 percent 
harpactophagous and 11 per cent parasitic and it is assumed that 
similar ratios will be found in other coast sections where similar 
conditions prevail. 
