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ably caught bv the waves while feeding on dead fish or insects 

 along the shore, as others were seen thus engaged on several 

 occasions. 



This species is reported from Lakeside by Hancock under 

 the names of ahbreznatus Serville and pennsylvaniais Bur- 

 meister. 



OECANTHINAE 



Oecanthns qiiadnpunctatus Beutemuller. 



Warren Woods, August 30 to September 3, 1919, 6 males, 4 females; 



September 7, 1920, i male, i female. 

 Sawyer Dunes. August 31, 1919, i male, i female. 

 Three Oaks, September 4, 1920, 4 males, 5 females. 

 New Buffalo, September 2, 1919, i male; September 9, 1920, i male, 



2 females. 



Common in the late summer and fall among tall herbaceous 

 growths, roadside and forest margin thickets, in fields of sec- 

 ond growth scrub, in sedge and lizard's tail marshes, and in 

 dry, grassy fields. It was especially abundant in fields and 

 pastures in small clumps and patches of ragweed ; in Septem- 

 ber a dozen specimens might be taken with a few sweeps of 

 the net across such a patch. In the dune region it was taken 

 by sweeping among the grass and grapevines along the rim of 

 a blowout, in company with the next species. Hancock found 

 it at Lakeside in August. 



Oecanthns nigriconiis F. Walker. 



Warren Woods, August 31 and September i, 1919, 7 females; Sep- 

 tember 5, 1920, I male, 2 females. 

 Sawyer Dunes, September 6, 1920, i female. 

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

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



Found in the same habitats as Oecanthns quadripnnctatus 

 and in some where that species was not taken. In the low- 

 land thicket at Klute's lakes nigricornis was very common 



