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M. punctulatus Scudd. 



General Range. — ^Northern; Canadian Provinces to New 

 Jersey, North Carolina, Indiana and Nebraska. 



Local Distribution. — Reported from the New Jersey Highlands 

 and the northern section of the Pine Barrens. 



Ecological Distribution. — A sylvan species of more or less 

 arboreal habits, frequenting the trunks and branches of trees espe- 

 cially pine trees (Walker). 



Locality Records. — 



Highlands. — Newfoundland (Davis) . 



Pine Barrens. — Lakehurst (Davis) ; Browns Mills (Daecke) ; 

 Staff ords Forge (Hebard); Ocean Co. about cranberry bogs (Smith). 



PAROXYA Scudder. 

 P. floridiana Scudder. 



General Distribution. — Eastern Massachusetts and southern 

 Ontario to Florida and Texas, mostly near the coast. 



Local Distribution. — Very exceptional in the Piedmont Region; 

 abundant in suitable locations in the Middle and Coastal Districts; 

 much less frequent and apparently quite local in the Pine Barrens 

 and upper part of the interior of the Cape May Peninsula. Abundant 

 on the beaches. 



Ecological Distribution. — ^A strongly hygrophilous species, 

 frequenting the dense rank grasses and sedges of open marshes, 

 fresh water and submaritime, but not occurring in true salt marsh. 

 Locality Records. — 



Piedmont Plateau. — Harrisburg, in Wetzel's Swamp (Pa. St. Dept. 

 Zool.). 



Middle District. — Cornwalls (Rehn); Elmwood, in Tinicum 

 marshes (Fox) ; Paschalville, in Tinicum marshes (Fox) ; Essington, 

 in Tinicum marshes, especially in the rank growth of Sagittaria 

 and associated plants along ditches (Fox); Newcastle (Fox). 



Riverton (Viereck) ; Washington Park (Fox) ; Westville (Viereck) ; 

 Blackwood (Fox) ; Clementon, in sedgy bog (Fox) ; Jericho, in open 

 meadow along stream (Fox) ; Canton, in wet places along the edge 

 of the salt marsh (Fox). 



Pine Barrens. — Bear Swamp (Rehn); Clementon (Rehn); Fol- 

 som, frequent in open bog associated with P. scudder i (Fox) ; Rosedale 

 (Rehn and Hebard); Manumuskin, in rank growth of rice grass, 

 Zizania palustris, on tidal mudflats (Fox); Belleplain, in open bog 

 containing mixture of Pine Barren and Coastal floras (Fox); Great 

 Cedar Swamp near Sea Isle Junction, not common (Fox). 



