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expedition was defrayed in part by the Explorers Club, Sigma Xi, 
the Grace Griswold Memorial Fund, the Cornell Insect Collection, 
and members of the Cornell Department of Entomology (Dr. 
William L. Brown, Penelope Kukuk and Maurice Tauber). We also 
wish to thank the staff of ST1NASU, the Suriname Nature Conser- 
vancy, for their help and cooperation. The senior author thanks the 
National Science Foundation for grant no. 81-20492 for research 
and publication support, and Paul Hillyard for the loan of a speci- 
men from the British Museum (Natural History). 
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