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(Moorestown) ; New York (Bemus Point, Farmingdale, Lancaster, 

 McLean, Niagara Falls, Oneonta, Orient, Oswego, and Youngstown) ; 

 North Carolina (Wake Co.); Nova Scotia (Alderskot and Waterville) ; 

 Ohio (Cleveland and Montgomery Co.); Ontario (Bells Corners, 

 Constance Bay, Dunrobin, The Narrows on Go Home Bay, Ottawa, 

 and Thunder Bay Beach); Pennsylvania (DuPont, North East, and 

 Presque Isle in Erie Co.); Prince Edward Island (Brackley Beach in 

 Canadian National Park); Quebec (Deschenes, Gauvreau Lake, 

 Gracefield, Lac Mercier, and La Trappe); Rhode Island (Ashaway, 

 Charlestown, and Westerly); South Carolina (Greenville); South 

 Dakota (Custer and Spearfish); Texas (Davis Mts.); and Wisconsin 

 (Griffith State Nursery in Wood Co., Port Edwards, Sturgeon Bay 

 in Door Co., and Trout Lake Nursery in Vilas Co.). 



Most collecting dates are between June 23 and September 4. 

 Those outside of this range are: February 1 in Hillsborough Co., 

 Fla.; April 21 and 30 and May 4 at Greenville, S. C; May 23 at 

 Washington, D. C; June 18 at Go Home Bay, Ont.; June 21 at La 

 Trappe, Que.; September 17 and 19 in Midland Co., Mich.; September 

 28 at Youngstown, N. Y.; October 9, 10, and 11 at Greenville, S. C; 

 October 20 at Lawrence, Kans. ; and November 7 at Takoma Park, Md. 



One of the specimens was taken at light and four were reared from 

 cocoons found on Alnus and Malus trees. 



This species is transcontinental, mostly in the Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones. Most adults are on the wing from late in June to 

 early in September. It has been reared a number of times from 

 cocoons found on deciduous trees and bushes. 



10. Zatypota percontatoria (Mueller) 



Figure 325, e 



Ichneumon percontatorius Mueller, 1776, Zoologiae danicae prodromus . . . , 



p. 154. Type destroyed. 

 Polysphincta gracilis Holmgren, 1860, Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., ser. 4, 



vol. 3, part 10, p. 32; cf , ?. New synonymy. Lectotype (hereby selected): 



?, from Smolandia, Sweden, labeled "Sm.," "Bhn.," and "type" (Stockholm). 

 Polysphincta scutellaris Holmgren, 1860, Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., ser. 4, 



vol. 3, part 10, p. 33; cf. New synonymy. Type: cT, Stockholm, Sweden 



(Stockholm). 

 Polysphincta theridii Howard, 1892, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 2, p. 292; d". 



Type: o 71 , Eastport, Maine. (Washington). 

 Polysphincta granulosa Davis, 1898, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 369; 



?. Type: ?, Michigan (Philadelphia). 



Front wing of male 2.7 to 4.8 mm. long, of female 3.4 to 5.0 mm. 

 long; eye a little smaller and less bulging than in Z. parva; temple 

 moderately convex; epomia intermediate between that of Z. parva 

 and Z. luteipes; mesocutum polished; metapleurum subpolished; 

 propodeum mat, near base subpolished, its median longitudinal 



