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Specimens (76 cf, 1189): From Alabama (Decatur); Arizona (Buck- 

 eye, Eloy, Palo Verde, Perryville, Phoenix, Roll, Theba, and Yuma) ; 

 California (Calexico, Cedarville, Daggett, Escondido, Gazelle, Mount 

 Hamilton, and Ripley) ; Colorado (Crowley, Fort Collins, and Rocky 

 Ford) ; District of Columbia (Washington) ; Iowa (Ames and Shen- 

 andoah); Kansas (Clark Co. at 1,950 ft., Manhattan, Phillips Co. 

 at 1,940 ft., Pratt Co. at 1,950 ft., Riley Co., and Scott Co.) ; Kentucky 

 (Louisville); Louisiana (Shreveport in Upper Red River Valley); 

 Maryland (Cabin John, Dorchester Co., and Marshall Hall) ; Michigan 

 (East Lansing, Kalamazoo Co., Milford, and Nottawa); Minnesota 

 (Halstad) ; Nebraska (Lincoln) ; New Jersey (Bridgeton) ; New Mexico 

 (Cimarron, Las Cruces, and Moriarty) ; New York (Babylon) ; North 

 Carolina (Raleigh); Ohio (Cleveland, Columbus, and Montgomery 

 Co.); Oldahoma (Pawnee, Stillwater, and Tulsa); South Carolina 

 (Columbia, Greenville, and Moore); South Dakota (Elk Point); 

 Texas (Austin, Blanco Co., Brownsville, Castolon in Big Bend National 

 Park at 2,000 ft., Chillocothe, Corpus Christi, Cotulla, Davis Mts., 

 Del Rio, Eastland Co., 15 miles west of Fort Davis, Fort Sam Houston, 

 Harlingen, Headquarters of Big Bend National Park at 3,500 ft., 

 Kerrville, Paris, Pecos, Point of Rocks near Fort Davis, Salado Creek 

 in Bexar Co., San Angelo, San Antonio, Sanderson, Stamford, Tornillo 

 Flats m Big Bend National Park at 2,500 ft., Victoria, Waco to 

 College Station, and Winter Haven) ; Utah (Milford) ; Virginia (Falls 

 Church and Leesburg) ; and Mexico (10 miles south of Nuevo Laredo, 

 Tehuacan in Puebla, and Teotrhuacan Pyramids). 



Dates of collections are from mid-spring to mid-fall. In the 

 southern part of the range the collection records are throughout the 

 growing season, but in the northern part they begin in early July and 

 extend to mid-fall. It might be that the species survives the winter 

 only in Lower Austral areas and moves northward in the latter part 

 of each season. Some unusually early seasonal records are: March 9 

 at Harlingen, Tex.; March 12 and 21 at Salado Creek, Bexar Co., 

 Tex.; March 24 at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; April 4 at Stillwater, 

 Okla. ; April 16 at Rocky Ford, Colo. ; May 6 at Tulsa, Okla. ; May 22 

 in Riley Co., Kans.; July 3 at Falls Church, Va.; July 6 at East 

 Lansing, Mich. ; and July 14 at Raleigh, N.C. Unusually late records 

 are : September 25 at Milford, Mich.; October 11 at Greenville S.C.; 

 October 15 at Ames, Iowa; October 25 at Lincoln, Nebr. ; November 2 

 at Buckeye, Ai'iz., and at Palo Verde, Ai'iz.; and December 22 ten 

 miles south of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The earliest and latest dates 

 for California are: Jime 19 at Escondido and October 17 at Daggett. 



There is one reared lot: 2cf, 19, from Loxostege sticticalis, Rocky 

 Ford, Colo., Apr. 16, 18, and 24, 1921, C. E. Mickel. 



