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Co., Oswego, Poughkeepsie, and Sea Cliff); North Carolina (Hamrick 

 and Wake Co.); Ohio (Cleveland); Ontario (Trenton); Quebec (Hull, 

 Kazabazua, and Knowlton); Rhode Island (Westerly); and Wash- 

 ington (Ashford, Glacier, and "Pelvis"). 



Most dates of capture are between June 26 and August 25. The 

 only dates outside of this range are: May 17 at Lillooet, B. C; May 

 25 at Sea Cliff, N. Y.; June 6 at Hull, Que.; and June 18 at Trenton, 

 Ont. The type specimen was reared from Epeira strix by Nathan 

 Banks at Sea Cliff, N. Y. The larva was found May 11, 1891, its 

 cocoon was spun May 14, and the adult emerged May 25. 



This American subspecies is transcontinental in the Transition, 

 Canadian, and Hudsonian zones. Adults occur mostly from June 26 

 to August 25. 



2. Sinarachna anomala (Holmgren), new combination 



Figure 324,h 



Polysphinda anomala Holmgren, 1860, Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., ser. 4, 

 vol. 3, part 10, p. 34; ? . Lectotype (hereby selected): 9 , from Stockholm, 

 Sweden, labeled "Him.," "Bhn.," and "type" (Stockholm). 



Polysphinda dictynae Howard, 1888, Insect Life (U. S. Dep. Agr.), vol 1, p. 107; 

 o". New synonymy. Type: d", [Waltham, Mass.] (Washington). 



Polysphinda minuta Davis, 1898, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 369; ?. 

 Type: ?, Michigan (Philadelphia). 



Front wing of male 2.3 to 2.7 mm. long, of female 2.8 to 3.3 mm. 

 long; body and legs very short and stout; flagellum of male with 

 about 14 segments, of female with about 16 segments; third segment 

 of hind tarsus about 2.0 as long as deep; third tergite about 0.55 

 as long as wide. 



Blackish brown, with pale markings typically as follows: face and 

 clypeus of male except near clypeal foveae, more or less of upper 

 0.35 ± of face of female, apical half of clypeus of female, scape and 

 pedicel except above, mouth parts, tegula, hind corner of pronotum, 



Figure 113.— Localities for 

 Sinarachna anomala. 



