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and 6,400 ft., Mount Pisgah at 5,000 to 5,749 ft., New River, and Wake 

 Co.) ; North Dakota (Stump Lake in Nelson Co.) ; Nova Scotia (Cape 

 Breton); Ohio (Hinckley in Medina Co., Hocking Co., North Olmsted, 

 and Puritas Springs in Cuyahoga Co.) ; Ontario (Coniston, Kearney, 

 Muskoka District, Ottawa, Parr Island in East Spence Lake, Ridge- 

 way, Toronto, and Waubamik) ; OregOD (Cannon Beach and Newport) ; 

 Pennsylvania (Allegheny Co., Hartstown, Hummelstown, Mansfield, 

 Milford, Mud Creek in Butler Co., North East, Philadelphia, and 

 Presque Isle in Erie Co.) ; Quebec (Isle de Perrot near Montreal, 

 St. Esprit, St. Johns, and Stoneham) ; Rhode Island (Ashaway and 

 Westerly); Saskatchewan (Prince Albert National Park and Was- 

 kesiu) ; South Carolina (Columbia and Greenville) ; Texas (Bosque 

 Co., Dallas, Port Lavaca, and San Antonio) ; Virginia (Arlington, 

 Chain Bridge near McLean, Dead Run in Fairfax Co., Falls Church, 

 Galax, Glencarlyn, and Mount Vernon); Washington (Ashford, 

 Barnes State Park, Bothell, Elbe, Mount Rainier at 2,700, 2,900, and 

 4,700 ft., and Snoqualmie Pass); West Virginia (Bolivar and Cheat 

 Mt. at 2,000 ft. in Randolph Co.); Wisconsin (Door Co., Green Lake 

 Co., and Madison); and Wyoming (Buffalo). 



Dates of capture record adults mostly from about May 20 to Septem- 

 ber 15, with some few specimens earlier and later. Captures before 

 May 1 and after September 30 are scanty. Those on record are as 

 follows: January 27 in Alachua Co., Fla.; March 26 at Dead Run, 

 Fairfax Co., Va.; April 3 at San Antonio, Tex.; April 10 and 15 at 

 Takoma Park, Md.; April 13 and 30 at Elizabethtown, N. C; April 

 22 at Hughesville, Md.; April 23 in Wake Co., N. C; October 1, 7, 

 and 10 at Madison, Wis.; October 4 at Cedar Mt., N. C; October 6 

 at Inverness, Calif.; October 8 at Greenville, S. C, October 9 at Bowie, 

 Md. ; October 27 at Mayo, Md.; and December 15 at Port Lavaca, Tex. 



This subspecies is transcontinental in the Hudsonian, Canadian, 

 Transition, and Upper Austral zones and occurs sporadically in the 

 Lower Austral zone. It is adult from mid-spring to mid-fall. Its 

 habitat is coarse grasses in damp places, also shrubbery, weeds and 

 undergrowth in woods. 



2. Zaglyptus arizonicus, new species 



Figure 322,g 



Female type: Front wing 5.2 mm. long; occiput not impressed 

 medially so that the head does not appear to be broadly notched 

 behind; mesoscutum rather densely hairy, the hair sockets separated 

 by about 0.6 the length of the hairs; carina between metasternum and 

 metapleurum present only anteriorly as a very short ridge; abdomen 

 with rather dense coarse punctures which are much sparser on the 

 paired swellings and absent from the apical 0.2 of each tergite. 



