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Specimens (IScf, 1469): From Alabama (Mobile and Mont- 

 gomery) ; Arizona (Mount Lemmon, Oak Creek Can3''on, Parker Creek 

 in the Sierra Ancha, and on the road to Peterson Ranch in the Hua- 

 chucha Mts.); Colorado (Poudre Canyon in Larimer County and 

 Texas Creek); Connecticut (East Hartford); District of Columbia 

 (Washington); Georgia (Cornelia); Kansas (Douglas County, Man- 

 hattan, and St. George) ; Maryland (Mayo Beach and Takoma Park) ; 

 Massachusetts (Forest Hills) ; Minnesota (Rosebush Township in 

 Cook County and Washington County); New Brunswick (Frederic- 

 ton); New Mexico (Jemez Springs); New York (Farmingville, Ithaca, 

 and Taughanic Falls) ; North Carolina (Hamrick, Perquimans, Mount 



Figure 91. — Localities for Auplopus architectus architectus. 



Pisgah, Raleigh, and Swannanoa); Ohio; Ontario (Ottawa); Pennsyl- 

 vania (Linglestown) ; Quebec (Knowlton); South Carolina (Green- 

 ville); Texas (Davis Mts., Eastland County, Hunt County, and 

 Liberty Hill) ; Virginia (Arlington, Dunn Loring, and Skyline Drive) ; 

 West Virginia (Bolivar) ; and Mexico (Huanchinango in Puebla, 

 Nombre de Dios in Durango, Sombrerete in Zacatecas, and Teoti- 

 huac^n in "Pyr."). 



Specimens have been caught mostly from midspring well into the 

 fall. The species seems particularly common during the first half of 

 October. Early and late records of interest are: Feb. 22 in Eastland 

 County, Tex.; Apr. 11 at Liberty Hill, Tex.; Apr. 2 at Greenville, 

 S. C. ; Apr. 25 at Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz. ; Apr. 27 at Cornelia, 

 Ga., and Raleigh, N. C; May 15 at Washington, D. C; June 1 at 

 Boston, Mass.; Oct. 9 at Mayo Beach, Md.; Oct. 21 at Raleigh, N. C; 

 Oct. 29 at Manhattan, Kans.; and Dec. 18 at Mobile, Ala. Biological 

 notes with these specimens include one collection from nectaries of 

 Ricinus communis; one collection at Quercus honeydew; one collection 

 in woods; one collection "on forest floor"; one collection from sand 

 along a stream; three different rearings from mud cells found under 

 stones; two rearings from mud cells of unspecified origin; one with 



