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Coastal District. — Near West Creek (Rehn) ; Ocean View, common 

 in tall grasses and sedges along the borders of the salt meadows 

 (Fox) ; Dennisville, abundant in dense growths of tall grass, Spartina 

 cynosuroides, bordering the salt marsh (Fox); Cape May Court 

 House, abundant in a low marshy area leading toward the salt 

 marsh (Fox) ; Goshen, in Spartina cynosuroides on tidal fiat (Fox) ; 

 Ocean City (A. N. S.) ; Avalon, in humid tracts in the dune depres- 

 sions or along the edges of the salt marsh (Fox) ; Piermont (Fox) ; 

 Anglesea (A. N. S., Fox); Cape May (Fox). 



Cape May Interior. — Swain, in peat bogs (Fox). 



P. scudderi Blatchley. 



General Range. — Reported so far from northern Indiana and 

 Illinois and the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and North Carolina. 



Local Distribution. — Moderately frequent in the bogs of the 

 Pine Barrens, apparently occasionally intruding into the Coastal 

 District along their edges. 



Ecological Distribution. — ^A characteristic species of the 

 sphagnum bogs, frequenting especially the areas of chain-fern, 

 Woodwardia virginica. 



Locality Records. — 



Pine Barrens. — Jamesburg (Davis) ; Lakehurst (Davis) ; Speed- 

 well (Rehn); Bear Swamp (Rehn); Atco (Rehn); Atsion (Rehn); 

 Staffords Forge (Rehn); Folsom (Rehn and Hebard, Fox) ; Rosedale 

 (Rehn and Hebard); Parkdale (Rehn and Hebard); Belleplain 

 (Fox); Great Cedar Swamp near Sea Isle Junction (Fox). 



Coastal District. — Seaville, 1 individual taken in a Scirpus ameri- 

 canus bog adjoining a rivulet draining a near-by cedar-bog (Fox). 



SCUDDERIA Stal. 

 S. texensis Sauss.-Pict. 



General Distribution. — New England and Ontario to Florida 

 and Texas, west to the Great Plains. 



Local Distribution. — Relatively infrequent and local in the 

 Piedmont Plateau; common in the Middle and Coastal Districts; 

 apparently less frequent in the Pine Barrens and the interior of the 

 upper Cape May Peninsula. Frequent on the beaches. 



Ecological Distribution. — Typical of low humid areas, fre- 

 quenting the rank vegetation in the vicinity of marshes; less frequent, 

 but not uncommon, on the adjoining uplands and along the borders 

 of dry or moist woodlands. 



Locality Records. — 



Appalachian Region. — Rockville (Pa. St. Dept. Zool.). 



