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Spencerville, Strathroy, Tliornbury, and Vineland Station); Oregon 

 (Parkdale and Willamette Valley); Pennsylvania (Midvale [Plains], 

 Roxborough, Westmoreland Co., and Wilawana); Quebec (Maniwald); 

 South Carolina (Clemson College, Gaffney, Greenville, and McClellan- 

 ville); Texas (The Basin in Big Bend National Park at 5,000 to 6,000 

 ft., Blanco Co., Boot Spring in Chisos Mts. in Big Bend National 

 Park at 6,000 to 7,000 ft., Brownsville, Castolon in Big Bend National 

 Park at 2,000 ft.. College Station, Comstock, Dallas, Devil's River, 

 Dunmit Co., Dogger Flats in Big Bend National Park at 3,000 ft., 

 Grapevine Springs in Big Bend National Park at 3,000 ft., Green 

 Gulch in Big Bend National Park at 5,000 ft., Headquarters of Big 

 Bend National Park, Kerrville, Limpia Canyon near Fort Davis, 

 Nine Point Draw in Big Bend National Park at 2,500 ft.. Oak Spring 

 in Big Bend National Park at 4,000 ft.. Padre Island, Point of Rocks 

 near Fort Davis, Quemado, Salado Creek in Bexar Co., Station Elena 

 in Big Bend National Park at 2,100 ft., Tornillo Flats in Big Bend 

 National Park at 2,500 ft., Uvalde, and Victoria); Virginia (ArUngton, 

 Falls Church, Galax, Vienna, and Winchester); Washington (Bhch 

 Bay in Whatcom Co., "Gulf Road" in Whatcom Co., Mill Creek near 

 Walla Walla, Pullman, and Walla Walla); West Virginia (Bohvar); 

 Wisconsin (Cranmoor, Madison, Muskego, and Oshkosh) ; Baja CaU- 

 fornia (Ensenada); Mexico (16 miles south of Hidalgo del Parral in 

 Chihuahua at 6,250 ft., Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, and above Tepic); 

 and Bermuda. 



Dates of collection outdoors are distributed from mid-spring to mid- 

 fall. The species often breeds in buildings and is collected on windows. 

 The relatively large proportion of these kinds of collections (some- 

 times without notation that they are from indoors) makes detailed 

 collection dates of relatively little value. In general, outdoor speci- 

 mens occm- near the southern border of the United States from March 

 to November. In northern United States and southern Canada they 

 are to be found from late May to mid-October. 



Rearing records are as follows: 2 reared lots from Laetilia coccidi- 

 vora, 1 from L. coccidivora?, 1 from Laetilia sp., 2 from Anagasta 

 kuhniella, 2 from Ozamia clarefacta, 3 from Ozamia sp,, 1 from Melis- 

 sopus, 2 from Euzojjhera semijuneralis, 1 from E. semijuneralis? , 

 and 1 from "grain moth." Other notes on pin labels, some of which 

 suggest hosts, are: "in tobacco warehouse," "reared from under bark 

 of grape vine," "reared from acorn," "from grain elevator infested 

 with Plodia interpunctella," "in stored wheat," "on barn windows," 

 and "in stored peanuts" (three lots). We have taken the species both 

 in the wild, far from habitations, and several times on the windows of 

 buildings containmg stored grain or grain products. Usually, it 

 occurs in open, dry, semidesert, or desert habitats. 



