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(East River and Voluntown); Illinois; Maine (Bar Harbor and 

 Machias); Manitoba (Deepdale and Riding Mt. Park); Maryland 

 (Glen Echo); Massachusetts (Holliston); Michigan (Antrim Co, 

 Belding, Ionia Co., and Tuscola Co.); Minnesota (Minneapolis, 

 Norman Co., and St. Paul) ; New Hampshire (Franconia, Mount 

 Madison, and Randolph); New Jersey (Anglesea, Bridgeboro, Green- 

 wood Lake, Milltown, Moorestown, and Seaside Park); New York 

 (Geneva, Grindstone Island at Clayton, Ithaca, Lockport, Montauk, 

 Oswego, and Ringwood in Tompkins Co.); Nova Scotia (Frederickton 

 and Ottawa House at Parrsboro) ; Ohio (Wayne Co.) ; Ontario (Angus, 

 Golden Lake, Grimsby, North Bay, Ottawa, Opasatika, Sault Ste. 

 Marie, Swastika, and Toronto) ; Pennsylvania (Fayetteville and 

 Pittsburgh) ; Quebec (Wakefield) ; Rhode Island (Westerly) ; and Texas 

 (Kerrville). 



Most of the collecting dates are rather evenly distributed from 

 June 4 through September 15. Those outside of this range are: 

 April 13 and May 30 at Kerrville, Tex.; May 28 at Geneva, N. Y.; 

 May 29 at Oswego, N. Y.; May 31 at Ithaca, N. Y.; May at Moores- 

 town, N. J.; September 23 at Toronto, Ont.; and October 6 and 7 at 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



The species has been reared from Ancylis comptana many times 

 and at the following localities: Moorestown, N. J.; southern N. J.; 

 Bridgeboro, N. J.; Fayetteville, Pa.; and a probable record "reared 

 from host on strawberry" in Wayne Co., Ohio, June 27, 1938. These 

 rearings from Ancylis comptana were mostly if not all in connection 

 with insectary rearings of Macrocentrus ancylivorus for biological con- 

 trol of Grapholiiha molesta, in which strawberry leaves infested with 

 Ancylis comptana were brought into the insectary and the emerging 

 parasites collected. The association of C. funebris carinatus with 

 Ancylis comptana would thus be highly probable but cot proven. 

 Other rearings recorded on pin labels of the specimens studied are 

 from Strepsicrates smithiana on bayberry, Anglesea, N. J., July 13, 

 W. D. Kearfott; ?Trichotaphe, Trinity Valley, Lumby, B. C, Sept. 5, 

 1937; lepidopteran on Salix, Ottawa House at Parrsboro, N. S., Sept. 

 1 1, 1944, J. McDunnough; Tetralopha asperatella, Swastika, Ont., 1943; 

 Tetralopha asperatella, Angus, Ont., 1945; Acrobasis betulella, Sault 

 Ste. Marie, Ont., 1942; Argyrotaeaia lutosana, Opasatika, Ont., 1939; 

 and Anacampsis rhoifructella, Golden Lake, Ont., 1942. 



This subspecies is widely distributed in the Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones east of the 100th meridian. It has also been found more 

 sparingly westward to the Pacific coast. Adults are on the wing 

 mostly from early June to mid-September. Various small Lepidop- 

 tera serve as hosts. 



