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Dr. Daniel Heyler, and Dr. Agnes Lauriat-Rage for their wonderful 
assistance. 
The following individuals very kindly supplied the specimens on 
which this study depended: Mr. F. J. Collier of the United States 
National Museum; Mr. David Douglass of Yachats, Oregon; Mr. 
Daniel Damrow of Mosineee, Wisconsin; Mme. Y. Gayrard of the 
Institut de Paleontologie; Mrs. J. S. Lawless of the Yale Peabody 
Museum; and the late Dr. E. S. Richardson of the Field Museum of 
Natural History. 
Partial financial support of this research is gratefully acknowl- 
edged to National Science Foundation Grant no. DEB 82-05398 (F. 
M. Carpenter, Principal Investigator), the Society of the Sigma Xi, 
Cornell Chapter, and to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, 
for a Grant-in-Aid of Research. 
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