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Superior. Parsons was able to include in its range Massachusetts 

 and Pennsylvania in the eastern United States and Manitoba, Alberta, 

 and Yukon Provinces in Canada, though some of these latter records 

 may be based on misdetermined examples of M. canadensis. 



My own collection contains material from States in the extreme 

 west and in the east, as well as from Canada. In Oregon, M. ni- 

 grescens Stephens is widespread and especially abundant, occurring 

 on a wide range of plants. Here it attacks, particularly, crops of 

 Trifolium pratense Linnaeus grown for seed in the Corvallis district, 

 the larval stage being passed in the flowers of this plant (the common 

 Dutch clover) and of hairy vetch. Mr. E. A. Dickason of Oregon 

 State College kindly sent me more than 2,000 examples from this 

 source in July 1950. 



Other specimens whose identity I have personallj^ confu-med are 

 from New York, New Jersey, Pemisylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and 

 Washington. Mr. C. A. Frost tells me it is common in Massachu- 

 setts. In Erie County, Pemisylvania, this species constitutes a not 

 inconsiderable pest on crops of muskmelon, Cucumis melo Linnaeus 

 (see footnote, p. 91). Mr. R. J. Fitch sent me over 150 examples 

 collected off dandelion and goldenrod at Vancouver, British Colum- 

 bia, during May and August 1950. The British Museum possesses 

 a single example from Metlakatla, British Columbia (J. H. Keen, 

 1915), while three specimens in the collection of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences were taken in tm'nip flowers at Dewdney in the 

 same province. 



Specimens in tlu' collection of the U. S. National Museum are from 

 the following localities: New Jersey (Radburn), Maryland (Priest 

 Bridge, Arcadia, Aberdeen, Hempstead), and Oregon (Corvallis, 

 Rickreall, Oswego, Scio, Dover). 



Meligethes saeviis LeConte 



Figure 78,f-j 



This very distinct species appears to have no close relative among 

 either the American or the European fauna, being at once separated 

 from such species as nigrescens Stephens, canadensis, new species, 

 and brachialis Erichson — to which m other characters it bears a super- 

 ficial resemblance — by the large broad teeth along the outer edge of 

 its front tibiae. These at fii'st sight suggest an affinity with M. 

 huduensis Ganglbauer, but such possibility is at once ruled out by a 

 consideration of its other morphological details. M. maurus Sturm 

 is superficially simulated in size and general form, though the group 

 to which this species belongs has a typical aedeagal form entirely 

 different from that of the Nearctic species. 



