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Table 1 
New state records of Polistes exclamans Viereck. 
State 
Locality 
Date 
Collection 
Illinois 1 
Williamson Co. 
1958 
Southern Illinois Univ. 2 
Indiana 
Posey Co. 
1958 
Purdue Univ. 
Perry Co. 
1960 
ft // 
Floyd Co. 
1965 
// ft 
Kentucky 
Nelson Co. 
1957 
Purdue Univ. 
Bardstown 
1958 
// // 
Maryland 
Prince George Co. 
1958 
Univ. of Maryland 
// // // 
1959 
Los Angele's County Mus. 
Public Landing 
1959 
Cornell Univ. 
Plummers Island 
1961 
// ft 
Salisbury 
1960 
see Porter, 1963 
Cambridge 
1960 
ft ft // 
Missouri 1 
Columbia 
1966 
Univ. of Calif. Davis 
Boone Co. 
1966-7 
Univ. of Missouri 
St. Louis Co., Jackson Co. 
1967 
Mus. of Compar. Zool. 
New Jersey 
Penn State Forest 
1955 
see Porter, 1963 
Lebanon State Forest 
1955 
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Metuchen 
1960 
ft ft ft 
New Mexico 
Eddy Co. 
1956 
Cornell Univ. 
Roswell 
1956 
Purdue Univ. 
Tennessee 
Benton Co. 
1953 
Los Angeles County Mus. 
Virginia 
Gloucester 
1959 
Univ. of Maryland 
Eagle Rock 
1961 
Los Angeles County Mus. 
York Co. 
1962 
ft ft ft ft 
at “popular” nesting sites: eighteen single-foundress exclamans colo- 
nies located in close proximity beneath the porch roof of a small 
abandoned cottage were dispersed, rather than clustered, beneath the 
shelter. Furthermore, P. exclamans was the only Polistes species 
among the six common in the area to occupy artificial nesting places 
erected at the Biological Station on i April — - the species was ex- 
ceptional in colonizing these newly available sites. Eickwort (in 
^he collection of the Illinois Natural History Survey contains IS speci- 
mens of P. exclamans from Macoupin Co. Illinois for the years 1890- 
1910, and the University of Missouri collection contains one specimen re- 
corded from Boone Co., Missouri, 1940. However, these states are listed 
as “new records” here because they were not included in Bohart, 1951, and 
because of the paucity of P. exclamans in early collections from these areas. 
Collection examined by R. M. Bohart. 
