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Acknowledgements 
This research was done largely during the tenure of a NSF Grad- 
uate Fellowship. I thank P. S. Thayer for accommodations on 
Monhegan Island, the Edwards Marine Science Institute of North- 
eastern University for access to the Nahant collecting site, and A. 
Borror (Shoals Marine Laboratory) for his hospitality and for 
permission to collect on Appledore Island. My thanks also go to 
J. M. Campbell (Biosystematics Research Institute, Ottawa) for the 
loan of CNC specimens of Micralymma; D. Larson (Memorial Uni- 
versity of Newfoundland, St. John’s) for his gift of specimens; H. 
Silfverberg (University Zoological Museum, Helsinki) for the local- 
ity information from Palmen’s specimens; M. Huybensz for arrang- 
ing the trip to Appledore and him and M. Ormes for assistance in 
the field there; W. F. Gimpel, Jr. (Maryland Department of Agricul- 
ture, Annapolis) for information on the specimens he collected on 
Star Island; and P. J. Johnson (formerly MCZ — Harvard Univer- 
sity, now University of Idaho, Moscow) for reading and offering 
helpful comments on the manuscript. Special thanks are due A. F. 
Newton (MCZ — Harvard University) for his enthusiastic help in 
collecting Micralymma as well as for reading and commenting on 
the manuscript. 
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