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moist meadows, weed thickets, and marshes of the region. It 

 appears to mature earl'er in dry than in moist situations ; adult 

 specimens were taken in grassy fields and dry pastures about 

 ten days before they appeared in the sedge and lizard's tail 

 marshes. The species appears to be more numerous in moist 

 than in dry habitats. Hancock found this species at Lakeside 

 in August. 



Conocephalus hrcznpennis (Scudder). 



Warren Woods, August 30 to September i, 1919, ii males, 7 females; 



September 5 to 7, 1920, i male, 4 females. 

 Sawyer Dunes, August 31, 1919, i male. 

 New Buffalo, September 2, 1919, 4 males, 3 females. 

 Three Oaks, September 4, 1920, 9 males, 6 females. 



This species occurs in the same situations as fasciatus, being 

 even more common than that species. It was abundant in the 

 thick, rank growth of nettles, ironweed, low bushes, and vines 

 in the lowland thicket bordering Klute's lakes, south of Three 

 Oaks, and was the only species of the genus found there. 



C. brevipennis was taken at Lakeside in August by Hancock. 



Conocephalus ncmoralis (Scudder).-'* 



New Buffalo, September 9, 1920, 10 males, i female. 



Taken in the inland side of the dune area, among the clumps 

 of bunch grass near the edge of an open oak woods, and in 

 the margins of this woods. In this locality the clumps of 

 bunch grass are fairly close together, and much of the sand 

 between them is covered with a thin layer of dry grass stems 

 and other debris. The specimens taken here were all found 

 within fifty feet of the edge of the woods; they were stridu- 

 lating in the clumps of grass, usually in a rather protected 

 situat'on part way up a stem in the middle of the clump, and 

 never on the tip of a tall stem in plain sight. Other speci- 



24 Determined by J. A. G. Rehn. 



