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usually a more obscure shade of yellow and with distal section more 

 generally, but nowhere as strongly, suffused; caudal tibiae with proxi- 

 mal whitish portion suffused with brown, adjacent black band not 

 as sharply defined, remaining distal portion uniform, but in different 

 specimens varying from cinnamon-buff to vinaceous-ruf ous ; general 

 coloration much more uniform (figs. 9 and 10). The present series 

 shows clearly that the caudal tibiae are never as highly colored as in 

 S. bolli, and are in the majority of specimens cinnamon-buff. 



The authors unfortunately once confused the species with S. bolli, 

 the last two records given above having been referred to that species. 55 



This beautiful insect was found abundant at Cumberland Island, 

 Georgia, on the sandy soil of a live oak "hammock" near the shore, 

 but a .thunder storm and limited time preventing the capture of a 

 large series; it was found very scarce in a similar environment at St. 

 Simon's Island and occasional at Brunswick, Georgia, and Atlantic 

 Beach, Florida. The specimens taken at Pablo Beach and Cedar 

 Keys, Florida, were found in open palmetto scrub and in palmetto 

 scrub in pine woods, respectively. 



The species has never been found far inland from the ocean (Davis 

 has recorded a specimen from Gainesville, Florida, in the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station Collection; in this case we feel sure that an 

 error has been made in labelling) ; it was described originally from 

 Georgia, and the only definite locality other than those given above at 

 which the species has been taken is Key West, Florida, though ex- 

 amination of the specimen, recorded as S. bolli from Carrabelle, 

 Florida, by Morse, shows it to be this species. 



Spharagemon bolli (Scudder). 

 Virginia. 



Arlington, VII, 9, 1914, (H.), 1 juv. 9 . 

 Fredericksburg, VII, 20, 1913, (R. & 



H.), 3cf,59. 

 Orange, VII, 21, 1913, (R. & H.), 



5 tf, 2 9. 

 Lynchburg, VII, 22, 1913, (R. & H.), 



one colony. 

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



3 cf, 19. 



North Carolina. 

 Weldon, VII, 24, 1913, (R. & H.), 



3 d\ 59. 

 Goldsboro, VII, 25, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 c?,29. 

 Fayetteville, IX, 9, 1911, (R. & H.), 



1 cf, 39. 



Greensboro, VII, 26, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 <?. 

 Charlotte, VII, 27, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 <?, 29. 

 Black Mountain, VII and VIII. 1912. 



(\Y. Beutenrnuller), 3 d", 6 9 , [Davis 



Cln.]. 



South Carolina. 



Florence, IX, 6, 1911, (R. & H.), 1 d 1 . 

 Spartanburg, VIII, 6, 1913, (H.), 



7 d\ 1 9, 1 juv. 9. 

 Columbia, VII, 28, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 a*. 

 Manning, V, 28, 1914, (W. Stone), 



3 juv. cf, 1 juv. 9. 



Georgia. 

 Dalton, VIII, 7, 1913, (R.), occasional. 



55 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phtla., 1907, p. 290, (1907). 



