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Kiiidoso in the White Mts. at 6,500 ft.); New York (Beaver Brook 

 on McLean Keserve, Bemus Point, Boston, Buffalo, Chafee, Dix 

 Hills on Long Island, East Aurora, Farmingdale, Grass Bog 2 in Mc- 

 Lean Eeserve, Ithaca, Keene Valley in Adirondacks, Ludlowville, 

 top of Mount Marcy, top of Mount Mclntyre, New Russia, Six Mile 

 Creek near Ithaca, and Whitesville) ; North Carolina (Elizabethtown, 

 Raleigh, Southern Pines, and Wallace) ; Nova Scotia (Smith's Cove) ; 

 Ohio (Adams Mills, Bedford, Hopewell Township in Licking Co., 

 Jefferson, Puritas Springs in Cuyahoga Co., Ridgeway, and Scioto 

 Co.); Ontario (Dow's Swamp near Ottawa, 10 miles east of Echo 

 Bay, Ottawa, Temagami, and Vineland Station) ; Oregon (CorvaUis, 

 Cottage Grove, Eugene, and Smith River in Douglas Co.); Pennsyl- 

 vania (Charter Oak, Doylestown, Germantown, Harrisburg, Ingle- 

 nook, and Westmoreland Co.); Quebec (Ayhner, Duchesnay, Lac 

 Mercier, Montreal Island, Queen's Park near Aylmer, Sainte-Agathe- 

 des-Monts, and Sainte-Foy) ; Rhode Island (Westerly) ; Saskatchewan 

 (Prince Albert National Park); South Carolina (McClellanville) ; 

 Texas (Cypress Mill and GUlespie Co.); Vermont (Laurel Lake near 

 Jacksonville, Plainfield, Rutland, WUloughby, and Woodstock); 

 Virginia (Falls Church, Glencarlyn, Great Falls, Mount Vernon, and 

 Richmond); Washington ("Lucia Falls"); West Virginia (Bolivar and 

 Cheat Mt. at 2,000 ft.); and Wisconsin (Gays Mills and Sawyer Co.). 



Most dates of collection are from June 1 to September 15. Those 

 outside of this range are: May 9 at Glencarlyn, Va.; May 11 at 

 Raleigh, N.C.; May 19 at McClellanville, S.C; May 25 at Pinckney, 

 Mich.; May 30 at EKzabethtown, N.C.; September 16 at Ithaca, 

 N.Y.; September 17 at Aylmer, Que.; September 19 at Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. ; September 22 and 23 at Bolivar, W. Va. ; "October" at Jefferson, 

 Ohio; October 1 at Middlesex Fells, Mass.; October 7 at Puritas 

 Springs, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio; October 28 and 29 and November 8 at 

 Southern Pines, N.C.; and November 7 at Takoma Park, Md. 



Rearing records are as follows: 22 lots reared from Antheraea 

 polyphemus, 3 from Hyalophora cecropia, and 1 from "cocoon." The 

 normal host is certainly Antheraea polyphemus and records from 

 Hyalophora cecropia need verification. None of the specimens 

 labeled as parasitic on H. cecropia are accompanied by the host cocoon. 

 They may have emerged from a mixed lot of cocoons containing both 

 polyphemus and cecropia, and have been wrongly assumed to be 

 parasites of cecropia. 



A parasitized Antheraea cocoon is packed full of the cocoons of the 

 parasite. About 15 specimens, usually of both sexes, emerge from 

 each host. Overwintering is in the host cocoon. 



In our collecting we have found the species moderately common in 

 or along the edges of deciduous woods. 



