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gested by Evans (1964). Our study of Bothynostethus distinctus 
indicates that this matter should be left open until additional data 
can be obtained and further evidence weighed. 
Acknowledgments 
We are grateful to J. A. Wilcox, New York State Museum and 
Science Service, for identifying the prey beetles. We are indebted 
to R. C. Miller, SUNY College of Forestry, for allowing us to 
examine his unpublished description of the larva of Entomognathus 
memorialis. D. J. Peckham, Upstate Medical Center, photographed 
the cocoon of B. distinctus. Funds, in part, for the senior author 
were provided by a Grant-in-Aid from the Research Foundation of 
the State University of New York (No. 10-7116-A). The junior 
author was in residence at the E. N. Huyck Preserve, Rensselaer- 
ville, N. Y., when most of these observations were made. 
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