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steak restaurant and had wandered into the office building. Occupants 

 reported seeing occasional scorpions for a year previously, but 

 thorough searches of the building, its grounds, and a nearby rocky 

 ditch in both daytime and at night, using a black light, produced no 

 more specimens. Shortly afterwards I learned that individuals of C. 

 vittatus had been encountered near downtown Raleigh and in a building 

 in the Research Triangle Park, in both cases near restaurants using 

 mesquite to broil steaks. The species has also been collected in Nash 

 and Dare counties, and a Florida scorpion, C. hentzi (Banks), has been 

 discovered in Carteret and Brunswick counties, on the North Carolina 

 coast, and in Durham County in the Piedmont. Thus, three scorpions 

 (dorsal views in Fig. 1) may now be encountered in North Carolina. 



The origins of most accidental animal introductions cannot be 

 traced, but if reproducing populations of either C. vittatus or C. hentzi 

 become established in North Carolina through the introduction of a 

 gravid female or a mating pair, I believe they will have resulted from 



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Fig. 1. Dorsal views of, left to right, V. carolinianus, C. vittatus, and 

 C. hentzi. 



