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lachian District, absent elsewhere. Known by positive record only 

 from northeastern Pennsylvania. 



EcoLotiiCAL Distribution. — Not known from personal investiga- 

 tion, but apparently, according to descriptions of authors, a denizen 

 of dry grasslands. 



Locality Records. — 



Appalachian District. — Wayne Co., Pa. (Long). 



HIPPISCUS Sauss. 

 H. tuberculatUS Beauv. (= apiculatus Harris). 



General Range. ^ — Canadian Provinces south to southern Penn- 

 sylvania, northern Indiana and Illinois, extending in the mountains 

 to North Carolina; west to Alberta, Northwest Territories and 

 Colorado. 



Local Distribution. — Apparently frequent in the Appalachian 

 District; not uncommon, but more or less local in the Piedmont 

 Plateau. Absent from the Coastal Plain or at most barely entering 

 it along its northern border. 



Ecological Distribution. — Typically restricted to dry grass 

 and scrub lands, usually in the vicinity of woodlands; rarely occurring 

 in damp, upland stream meadows. 



Locality Records. — 



Appalachian District. — Wayne Co. (Long); Tyrone (Pa. St. Dept. 

 Zool.) ; Honesdale {ibid.) ; Bendersville (ibid.) ; Huntingdon (ibid.) ; 

 Langsdorf (ibid.). 



Highlands. — Hewitt (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.); Newfoundland (N. J. 

 St. Mus. Rep.) ; Great Notch (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.) ; High Bridge 

 (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.). 



Piedmont Plateau.- — Cliffs of the Delaware below Kintnersville 

 (Fox) ; Schwenksville, several in dry roadside vegetation along edge 

 of woods (Fox); Trappe, 1 individual in low thickets near edge of 

 woods (Fox) ; Eagleville, exceptionally frequent in an upland meadow 

 in long grass adjoining a small stream, not near woodland (Fox); 

 A'alley Forge, frequent in clearings and along the edge of woods on 

 high ridge (Fox) ; Mt. Airy, several taken in a dry, grassj^ upland 

 field adjoining a small stream (Fox). 



Middle District. — Farmingdale (Johnson, in N. J. St. Mus. Rep.). 



H. phnenicopterus Germ. 



General Range. — Southern New Jersey and southern Illinois to 



Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, west to southeastern Nebraska. 



Local Distribution.— Largely restricted to the Coastal Plain, 

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