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South Carolina (Greenville and McClellanville) ; Tennessee (Clarks- 

 ville and Headquarters of Great Smoky Mountains National Park); 

 Texas (College Station, Dallas, Victoria, and Wharton Co.); Vermont 

 (Laurel Lake near Jacksonville, Stowe, and Woodstock); Virginia 

 (Chain Bridge near McLean, Charlottesville, Dayton, Dixie Landing 

 in Mathews Co., Falls Church, Glencarlyn, Great Falls, Middle Mt., 

 Mountain Lake in Giles Co., Norfolk, Petersburg, Kosslyn, Vienna, 

 Virginia Beach, and Warm Springs Mt. in Bath Co. at 3,300 ft.); 

 West Virginia (Bolivar, Cheat Mt. in Randolph Co. at 2,000 ft., 

 Cheat River, Kanawha Station, Morgan town, Philippi, and Terra 

 Alta); and Wisconsin (Columbus, Gays Mills, Madison, Polk Co., 

 Rib Mountain State Park, Richland Co., St. Croix Co., Trempealeau 

 Co., and Waupaca Co.). 



In addition to the females reported above, we have seen about 

 1,800 males, which are certainly or probably this species. Since it 

 is often not possible to be sure that an individual male belongs here 

 rather than under annulipes or nudus, we have not listed the localities 

 from which there are only male specimens. A list of them would add 

 little geographic information of value and might be partially in error. 



We have found the species abundant in mesophytic or damp decid- 

 uous woods where there is some ground cover. In eastern United 

 States it is probably the commonest member of the family. It is 

 nearly always close to the ground and females spend much time 

 crawling over and sometimes under the dead leaves of the forest 

 floor, often flipping their wings in a manner reminiscent of psammo- 

 charids. Considering its abundance it has been reared rather seldom, 

 probably because there are relatively few rearings from pupae collected 

 from under the litter of forest floors. 



Dates of capture are throughout the season of green foliage. In 

 Florida and Texas the species appears first in February, near Wash- 

 ington, D. C, about April 20, and near Ithaca, N. Y., about May 1. 

 In the fall it finally disappears with the advent of hard frosts late in 

 the season, about October 20 at Ithaca, N. Y., and Madison, Wis., 

 and about November 20 near Washington, D. C. 



Rearing records are as follows: 9, from "Aletia" [= Alabama 

 argillacea?], Sept. 1, 1879. 9, from Carpocapsa pomonella, District 

 of Columbia, July 6, 1908. 9, from Carpocapsa pomonella, Nebraska, 

 Sept. 8, 1906, Moulton. 9, from Carpocapsa pomonella, Vineland 

 Station, Ont., July 6, 1928, W. Putman. 69, from Coleophora salmani, 

 Mount Desert Island, Maine, June 29 to July 13, 1931. 29, from 

 Coryphista meadi, Wooster, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1940, C. R. Neiswander. 

 9, from Grapholitha molesta, Ringgold, Md., Oct. 4, 1929, H. S. 

 McConnell. 29, from Mineola sp., Bentonville, Ark., June 6 and 

 27, 1918, R. D. Isely. 29, from Polychrosis viteana, Chatauqua Co., 



