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This paper is concerned with zeros of the sum \[ Z_1(t;P)=2\sum _{n<P_0, p\leq P} \frac {1}{\sqrt {n}}\cos \{\vartheta (t)-t\ln n\}, \] which is a part of the main term of the Riemann-Siegel expression of the Hardy function \(Z(t)=e^{i\vartheta (t)}\zeta (1/2+it)\), where \(\vartheta (t)=-(1/2)t\ln \pi +\text{Im}\{\ln \Gamma ((1/4)+i(t/2))\}\). The author considers primes \(p\in \langle 2,P\rangle \), \(n=\prod _{p\leq P}p^{\alpha (p)}\), \(1\leq \alpha (p)\leq \beta (P)\), \(\prod _{p\leq P}p^{\beta (P)}<P_0\), \(P_0=\sqrt {T/(2\pi)}\), \(t\in \langle T,T+H\rangle \), \(H\leq \root {4}\of {T}\) and \(P=P(T)\to \infty \) as \(T\to \infty \). Let \(\gamma _\nu \) be a sequence of zeros of \(Z_1(t;P)\) and \(t_\nu \) are defined by \(\vartheta (t_\nu)=\pi \nu +(\pi /2)\). The author [Acta Arith. 42 (1983), 1-10 (1982; Zbl 0487.10034)] proved that \(t_\nu \) is an almost arithmetic progression with difference \(t_{\nu +1}-t_\nu =\pi /\ln P_0+O(T^{-3/4}\ln ^{-2}T).\) In this paper he proves that \(\gamma _\nu \) is again an almost arithmetic progression with \(\gamma _{\nu +1}-\gamma _\nu =\pi /\ln P_0+O(T^{-3/4})\), but \(\gamma _\nu \) has an irregular distribution related to \(t_\nu \), since there are three types of indices \(\nu \) with positive density such that \((\gamma _\nu -t_\nu)/(t_{\nu +1}-t_\nu)\) tends to \(0\), or \(-\infty \), or \(+\infty \) as \(T\to \infty \), respectively.