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Brathinus varicornis Leconte 1852 
The species ranges (map 3) from Quebec and Ontario southward 
to Michigan and through the northeastern states to New Jersey. The 
habitat notes are fewer for this species but they suggest cool riparian 
or swampy-boggy situations. 
Adults have been collected from May through October. 
I have seen the following material : 
Canada. Ontario. Michipicoten River, viii, 5, MCZ, USNM. 
Thunder Bay, 1, CNC. 
Quebec. Comte Charlevoix-Est. St. Fidele, vi, 1, CNC. Comte 
Gaspe-Ouest. 6 mi S Riviere-a-Claude, 1000 feet, vii, 1, CNC. 
Parc Gaspesie, Lac Cascapedia, 1700 feet, vii, 2, CNC. Comte 
Vaudreuil. Rigaud, vi, 1, CNC. 
United States. Maine. Bethel, vi, viii, x, 11, MCZ. Kittery 
Point, 1 1, MCZ. 
Massachusetts. Brookline, ix, 1, MCZ. Framingham, treading 
and sifting wet leaves in wooded swamp, vi, 6; v, 6, CAS, CNC, 
FMNH, MCZ, USNM. Lexington, vi, 1, MCZ. Natick, dead 
grass in swamp, x, 1, MCZ. Newton, x, 1, MCZ. Wakefield, 1, 
MCZ. Wayland, grass in water, vi, 1, MCZ. 
Michigan. Marquette, vii, 4, MCZ, USNM. “L.S.”, perhaps 
meaning Lake Superior, 1, MCZ. 
New Hampshire. Exeter, swamp treading, 2, MCZ. Farming- 
ton, viii, 5, MCZ. Rumney, vi, 2, MCZ. Mt. Washington, ix, 1, 
MCZ. 
New Jersey. Bridgeton, v, 3, USMN, FMNH. Hilldale, ix, 1, 
MCZ. Monmouth Junction, x, 4, USNM. No other data, v, 4, 
CAS. 
New York. Essex County. Newcomb, Huntington Forest, from 
Sphagnum in swamp, vii, 1, W. R. Suter collection. Herkimer 
County. Thendara, from Sphagnum in swamp, vi, 5, W. R. Suter 
collection. 
Leonard (1926) cites the species from Utica, New York. 
Hatch (1957: 53) cites all material from the Pacific Northwest 
under this name but they are undoubtedly referable to the following 
species. 
Brathinus calif ornicus Hubbard 1894 
The species ranges (map 2) from the San Francisco area of Cali- 
fornia northward along the coastal and interior mountains through 
Oregon to Washington and Idaho. The species is associated with 
damp moss, and cool, mountain-streamside situations. 
