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(Grote) 17, CaUosamia promethea (Drury) 5, Ceratomia catalpae 

 (Boisduval) 3, Anacamptodcs ephyraria (Walker) 1, GJuphisia sep- 

 tentrionis Walker 5, Polia legitima (Grote) 1, Ichthyura albosigma 

 (Fitch) 1, Ichthyura strigosa Grote 1, PhigaZia titea (Cramer) 2, 

 Cingilia catenaria (Drury) 15, Proteides clarus (Cramer) 1, Phos- 

 phila turbtilenta Hiibner 2, Hyphantria cimea (Drury) 2, Vanessa 

 atalanta (Linnaeus) 1. Published and unpublished records not dupli- 

 cated above: Euclea delphinii Boisduval as tip pus Cramer (Coquil- 

 lett) ; Porthetria dispar (Howard and Fiske) ; Polygonia interroga- 

 lionis (Fabricius), Platysamia cecropia (Linnaeus), Acronicta oblina- 

 ta Abbott and Smith (Schaffner and Griswold). 



Remarks. — The material examined consisted of the male type 

 reared from Papaipema harrisii (Bird) ; 4 male paratypes bearing 

 Gypsy Moth Laboratory numbers — ex E. subsignarius No. 10029, 

 ex C. catenaria No. 12418 F5, ex P. dispar No. 4365C, and Danaus 

 plexippus Xo. 5904; 1 male paratype, Lawrence, Kans. (Aldrich) ; 

 1 male paratype, Dist. Federal Mexico (Conrad) ; 57 reared speci- 

 mens bearing Gypsy Moth Laboratory numbers; 3 males and 7 fe- 

 males reared from Cingilia catenaria (Dimmock, No. 934) ; 1 female 

 ex unknown host, Arendtsville, Pa. (Frost) ; collected specimens, 4 

 males and 18 females (Aldrich, Shannon, Smyth, Barber, Coquillett, 

 Townsend, Tucker). 



The male type had one very weak inner ventral bristle on the mid- 

 tibia. 



Adults, June to September; number per host, one to five; genera- 

 tions, one or two ; hibernation, as larva in host pupa. 



8. ZENILLIA BLANDITA (Coquillett) 



Exorista blandita Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Eut., Tech. Bull. 7, p. 96, 



1897. 

 ZeniUia blandita (Coquillett) Aldrich and Webber, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



63, art. 17, pp. 40-41, 1924.— Johnson, List of New England Diptera, p. 197, 



1925.— West, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Mem. 101, p. 814, 1928.— Sellers, 



Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 23, pp. 569-576, 1930. 



The status of this species was discussed by the writer in the Annals 

 of the Entomological Society of America in 1930. 



Type locality. — Franconia, N. H. 



Distribution. — New Hampshire 1, Massachusetts 2, District of Co- 

 lumbia. Published records not duplicated above: Rhode Island 

 (Johnson), New York (West), District of Columbia (Aldrich and 

 Webber). 



Type.— Female, U.S.N.M. No. 3592. 



Hosts. — Published record: Aldrich and Webber list Sarrothripus 

 >■■ vayanu8 (Scopoli) (WaltonMS.). 



