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Mexico, Arizona, Mexico (Meadow Valley) and elsewhere, and Costa 

 Rica. In Kansas it has been taken on Melilotus alha; in North Da- 

 kota on Erigeron philadelphicus and Cleome serridata, and in Montana 

 on alfalfa flowers. A specimen from Colorado has on the pin with 

 it a naked larva (probably of a Noctuid) about 27 mm. long, and 

 specimens have been reared by C. N. Ainslee, in Utah, from cutworms. 

 Types. — Lepeletier's type of violaceipennis was in the Serville col- 

 lection and its locality is given as "Philadelphie." I have been 



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Fig 4.— Map illustrating the known distribution of Podalonia violaceipennis (Lepeletier) 



unable to find this insect though I made a long search for it at the 

 Museum d' Histoire naturelle at Paris, nor any material of the Ser- 

 ville collection. What has become of this collection I have been 

 unable to learn. I am entu-ely in agreement with Melander, however, 

 that the insect described above is that species. 



There are three specimens in the British Museum which should be 

 considered in connection with Smith's atriceps. Smith described this 

 species, female and male, from Mexico. One of the three specimens 

 bears a circular label marked "43" above "14" on one side, and 



