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Specimens (8cf, 369): From Illinois (Havana); Kansas (Douglas 

 Co.); Louisiana (Opelousas); Massachusetts (Wellesley); Michigan 

 (Cass Co., Monroe, and Oaldand Co.); Minnesota ("Bass Ponds" on 

 Minnesota River, Lake Itasca, and Oakland Park near St. Paul); 

 New York (Goodyear Lake near Milford Center, Northwest on Long 

 Island, Orient, and Ringwood near Ithaca); Ohio (Columbus); On- 

 tario (Iroquois, London, and Westboro); and Texas (Beaumont). 



Adults have been collected from early spring to late fall, the earliest 

 and latest dates being: March 23 in Oaldand Park, St. Paul, Minn.; 

 April 14 at Orient, Long Island, N.Y.; April 25 at the Bass Ponds in 

 the Minnesota River, Minn.; October 11 at London, Ont.; October 13 

 in Douglas Co., Ivans.; and December 2 at Beaumont, Tex. 



Specimens with biological notes are as follows: 9, on rice, Beau- 

 mont, Tex., Dec. 2, 1944. 39, leaf bases of Typha, Oct. 11, 1952, 

 London, Ont. 9, reared from Nymphula, Havana, 111. 29, in house, 

 Westboro, Ont., Nov. 25, 1944 and Jan. 31, 1944, G. S. Walley and 

 C. G. McNey. 9, under leaves, Oaldand Park, St. Paul, Minn., 

 Mar. 23, 1935, R. H. Daggy. Scf, 29, walldng on lily pads, Good- 

 year Lake, Milford Center, N.Y., Aug. 20 and 28, 1935, H. K. Townes. 



We have found the species on lily pads of two different lakes, and 

 once collected a short series at the edge of a small pond. 



This species is widespread in the eastern half of the United States 

 and southern Canada. 



2. Apsilops bicolor (Cushman) 



Trichocrypins bicolor Cushman, 1927, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 13, p. 8; 



$. Type: ?, Sprague, Wash. (Washington). 

 Trichocryptus atlanticus Cushman, 1930, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 76, art. 25, 

 p. 3; 9. Type: ?, Bladensburg, Md. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 4.4 to 6.8 mm. long, of female 4.8 to 7.6 mm. 

 long; body of medium build, wealdy depressed, the first abdominal 

 segment moderately stout; hairs on thorax dense; posterior meso- 

 sternal carina widely interrupted in front of each middle coxa; propo- 

 deum moderately convex above; areola of male about 1.8 as long as 

 wide, of female about 1.2 as long as wide; median longitudinal carinae 

 of propodeum strong to the base; propodeal spiracle subcircular to 

 elongate oval; intercubiti moderately convergent forward; ovipositor 

 rather stout, about 3.3 as long from nodus to apex as it is deep at 

 nodus. 



Black. Palpi, basal 0.35 ± of female flagellum, and tegula brown; 

 scutellum of male sometimes with a white spot, of female often with 

 a white spot; coxae fulvous; trochanters fuscous brown; femora ful- 

 vous, the apex of hind femur of male usually narrowly infuscate, of 

 female sometimes narrowly infuscate; tibiae fulvous to brown; tarsi 



