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"Mexico" on the other; and an oblong label on blue paper, marked 

 "atriceps Sm." in Smith's writing. Each of the other two bears a 

 circular label with numbers on one side and " California" on the other. 

 These must be thrown out of consideration as types, not being from 

 the proper locality. As all three are males. Smith's female type is 

 apparently lost, and the male first mentioned above may not be the 

 original type specimen. It is authoritatively marked as atriceps by 

 Smith himself, however, and is from the proper locality, and may 

 therefore be considered an authentic specimen for comparison. It 

 is the same as violaceipennis as here recognized and described. 



Smith described cementaria from a female, or females, the only 

 clue to the number he examined being the locaUties he lists, which 

 are: "St. John's Bluff, East Florida; Georgia." There are six speci- 

 mens in the British Museum which Smith evidently studied at one 

 time or another, but as two of these are marked "N. America," and 

 the third has no locality label, these can not be the types. These 

 three are also marked "Smith coll. pres. by Mrs. Farren White 99- 

 303." It is on record that Smith's first set of exotic Hymenoptera 

 went to the British Museum and the remainder went to Mr. Farren 

 White and after his death went to the Museum. This leaves three 

 specimens for consideration as type of this species. All are females 

 and the female only, was described. Of the three, one is labelled (1) 

 "Type;" (2) "E. Doubleday. St. John's Bluff E. Florida" printed; 

 (3) "Ammophila cementaria Smith (Type)" in Smith's writing; (4) 

 "F. Sm. Coll. Type 79.22." Another is labelled (1) "Type;" (2) "35 

 Harris's lab. 496 E. Doubleday St. John's Bluff E. Florida;" (3) 

 "cementaria Smith Georgia," apparently in Smith's writing; (4) "F. 

 Smith Coll. Type 79.22." The third is marked (1) "Georgia," a 

 printed label; (2) "Ammophila cementaria Smith Cotype," appar- 

 ently in Smith's writing; (3) "cementaria Smith Georgia" also appar- 

 ently written by Smith; (4) "F. Smith Coll. Type 79.22." This last 

 label, borne by all three, I am informed was put on each pin when 

 the Smith collection was acquired by the Museum and that the word 

 "Type" was written on by Kirby. This would remove these labels 

 from primary consideration in selecting the type specimens, and the 

 "Type" label on the first two is the regular Museum label, not put 

 on by Smith. The second specimen is credited both to East Florida 

 and to Georgia, raising a doubt as to the reliability of one of the 

 labels. Label No. 3 on the first specimen above is marked Type, in 

 parenthesis, which was not Smith's usual practice, at least as is 

 shown by numerous other labels of his in the Museum. Was it 

 added by someone else later? Label 2 on the third specimen bears 

 the word "cotype." This is the only case of the use of this word by 

 Smith, which I have met with. Did he write it or was it added 

 later? 



