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Acknowledgments 
We are indebted to J. A. Wilcox, New York State Museum 
and Science Service, and to A. S. Menke, Systematic Entomology 
Laboratory, USDA, for identifying the beetles and wasps, respec- 
tively. We also thank D. B. Peckham for translating Grandi’s 
(1927) article on Entomognathus brevis , D. J. Peckham for photo- 
graphing the egg attachment and cocoon of E. memorialise and 
S. and A. Panebianco of Pine Ridge Farms Potatoes, Chittenango, 
N. Y., for allowing us to utilize their property in our study. E. J. 
Kurczewski, of Erie, Pa., kindly furnished us with a prey record 
for E. memorialis from Presque Isle St. Pk. Funds, in part, for 
this study were provided by a Grant-in-Aid from the Research 
Foundation of the State University of New York (No. 10-71 16-A). 
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