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Put-in -Bay, Ohio (Cambridge) and a male from Point. Pelee, Ontario 

 (Cambridge). Tlie intermediate specimen from Zumbra Heights, 

 Mum., was collected with two typical females of the present subspecies. 

 Specimens (16 c^, 759): From Connecticut (East Hartford and 

 Killingly Pond); Illinois; Iowa (Sioux City); Mame (Lincoln County, 

 Northeast Harbor, and Strong); Michigan (Allenville, Ann Arbor, 

 Detroit, and Montmorency County); Minnesota (Hennepin County, 

 Itasca Park, Lake Pepin, Olmstead County, and Zumbra Heights in 

 Carver County); New Brunswick (Douglas Harbor on Grand Lake, 

 and Fredericton) ; New Hampshire (Silver Lake at Chesham); New 

 York (Allegany State Park, Cayuta Lake, East Aurora, Frontenac 



Figure 8 i.— Localities for Auplopus mellipes variitarsatus. 



Point on Caj'uga L-ike, Ithaca, McLean Bogs in Tompkins County, 

 North Hamlin, Nevr Russia in Essex County, Onteroa Mt. in Greene 

 County, Slaterville, and Wilson); Nova Scotia (Halifax, Kentville, 

 and Round Hill); Ontario (Grimsby, Gull Lake in the Muskoka 

 District, Jordan, Orillia, and Ottawa); Pennsylvania (Paupack and 

 White Haven); Quebec (Aylmer); Vermont (Laurel Lake near 

 Jacksonville); and Virginia (Falls Church). 



Collection records are from June 13 to Sept. 8, with three records 

 earlier than June 13. Especially early and late records are Apr. 18 

 at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Apr. 27 at Grimsby, Ont. ; June 3 in McLean 

 Bogs, Tompkins County, N. Y.; June 13 at Itasca Park, Minn.; 

 Sept. 3 at East Hartford, Conn.; Sept. 7 in Hennepin County, Minn.; 

 and Sept. 8 at Ithaca, N. Y., and at Aylmer, Quebec. Biological 

 notes associated with these specimens include four collections in 

 woods, one on a log in woods, one on sand, one from honeydew under 

 Pinus strobus, one on flowers of Eupalorium perjoliatum, three females 

 "bred from mud cells under log" (no other data), and a female bred 

 July 17, 1947, from a log of Betula papyrifera at Strong, Maine. 



