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they were fairly common in places where the rank vegetation 

 had been somewhat trampled down by the cattle. These speci- 

 mens when disturbed did not fly to the dry ground around the 

 margins of the marsh, their normal habitat, but would alight 

 on a sedge or grass stem, or fly down among the vegetation 

 and hide. The only bare soil exposed in this situation was a 

 small amount of black muck among the bases of the plants. 

 Specimens were also taken in the beach drift on several 

 occasions. 



The first adult specimens were taken July 10; the majority 

 of those collected during the next week were teneral. Han- 

 cock records this species as occurring at Lakeside in August 

 and September. 

 SpharagcDion bolli Scudder. 



Warren Woods, June 26 to July 5, 1919, 3 immature specimens ; 



August 30 to September i, 1919, 4 males, 12 females; July 16 



to September 7, 1920, 5 males, 6 females. 

 Sawyer Dunes, June 24, 1919, i immature specimen; July 10, 1920, 



1 immature specimen ; July 18 to September 6, 1920, 2 males, 



2 females, i immature specimen. 



New Buffalo, September 2, 1919, 3 males, 2 females ; July 5, 1920, 

 I immature specimen ; September 9, 1920, i female. 



A typical forest border species, found in the open, grassy 

 margins of woods, in shrubby pastures, in the marginal 

 thickets of dune and upland woods, in openings in the oak 

 dune woods, etc. One specimen, taken on a grass-grown, vine- 

 covered railroad embankment at New Buffalo, is the only 

 individual which was found away from the vicinity of trees 

 or brush. This species was quite common in an untended, 

 grassy raspberry and blackberry patch near the Warren Woods 

 Preserve. It was taken September 18 at Lakes;ide by Hancock. 



Many of the females of this series are a light reddish brown 

 in color, with only faint traces of darker markings ; but all 



