186 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



Jasper, VIII, 5, 1913, (R.), 2 d", 2 9. Vicinity of Stone Mountain, VIII, 3, 



Sharp Mountain, VIII, 6, 1913, (R.), 1913, (R. & H.), 1 <?. 



1 oV2 9. Buckhead, VIII, 2, 1913, (R. & H., 



Rabun County, VII, 1910, (W. T. Bradley), 8 cf, 5 9 . 



Davis), 2 cf, 2 9. Warm Springs, VIII, 9-10, 1913, 



Toccoa, VIII, 4-5, 1913, (H.), 2 cf. (R.), 4 tf, 7 9. 



Currahee Mountain, VIII, 5, 1913, Maeon, VII, 30-31, 1913, (R. & H.), 



(H.), ld>, 19. 3 9. 

 Thompson's Mills, X, 1909, (H. A. 



Allard), 1 9 , [U. S. N. M.]. 



No geographic variation is shown in the present material, but 

 individuals of many series vary greatly in size, tegminal length, 

 general coloration and intensity and recession of color pattern. The 

 extremes of tegminal length are as follows: males 22.6 to 28 mm., 

 females, 27.8 to 33 mm. 



The majority of specimens are of different shades of brown, mod- 

 erately maculate and with caudal femora weakly thrice banded with 

 a darker shade. A very few females are considerably paler, nearly 

 immaculate, with the bands on the caudal femora greatly obscured, 

 while a number of the males and two females are nearly black in 

 general dark coloration, but have the color pattern nearly always 

 decidedly intensified. None of these variations indicate any geo- 

 graphic significance, as all of the larger series include specimens of 

 the palest as well as darkest coloration. 



The present insect is widely distributed and abundant in upland 

 situations, particularly in and about oak or mixed oak and pine 

 woods of the Piedmont region. In the lower country it is found 

 common in pine and oak woods as far south as Weldon, North 

 Carolina; south of this in the lower country it is rarely met with 

 and always in very few numbers (Golclsboro and Fayetteville, N. C, 

 Florence, S. C, Thomasville, Ga.). The species has not been found 

 southeast of Florence and Denmark, South Carolina; Macon and 

 Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida. 



Spharagemon collare wyomingianum (Thomas). 



Virginia. Bainbridge, IX, 3-7, 1910, (J. C. 



Petersburg, VII, 23, 1913, (R. & H.), Bradley), 19. 



1 <? 1 9 Spring Creek, VI-VII, 1911-12, (J. C. 



Georgia. Bradley), 1 cf, 1 9 . 



Augusta, VII, 29, 1913, (R. & H.), 1 <?. Florida. 



Billy's Island, VI, 1912, (J. C. Brad- Live Oak, VIII, 26, 1911, (H.), 1 <?, 

 ley), '3 tf 1 . 19. 



Previously recorded specimens from Thomasville, Georgia, and Fer- 

 nandina and Gainesville, Florida, are inseparable from the present 

 series; this is also true of one male recorded by the authors as S. 



