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County, West Virginia; Tompkins and Greene Counties, New York. Merges 

 with A. m. magnum in northeastern Alabama. 



Abacion tesselatiim tesselatum Rafinesque 



Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820, Annals of nature, p. 9. — Hoffman 



and Crabill, 1953, Florida Ent., vol. 36, p. 81. 

 Platops rugulosa Newport, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 13, p. 267 

 (type locality unknown, probably Ohio River Valley; type: British 

 Museum) . 

 Reasia spinosa Sager, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Philadelphia, p. 109 

 (type locality here designated: vicinity of Detroit, Michigan; type: 

 not known to exist) . 

 Lysiopetalum eudasym McNeill, 1887, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 10, p. 330 



(type locality: Bloomington, Indiana; types: U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Type: Not known to exist. 

 Type Locality: Estill County, Kentucky. 



Range: Centered in the Interior Lowlands; peripheral localities include 

 St. Louis, Missouri; Winnebago County, Illinois (the species surely occurs 

 in Wisconsin) ; Estill County, Kentucky; Washington County, Pennsylvania; 

 Alleghany and Montgomery Counties, Virginia. Intergradation with the 

 following race takes place in southern Missouri and probably also through 

 much of Tennessee. 



Abacion tesselatum creolum (Cbamberlin) 



Spirostrephon creolum Chamberlin, 1942, Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., 

 vol. 6, No. 8, p. 9, figs. 24, 25. 



Type : Collection of R. V. Chamberlin. 



Type Locality: Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. 



Range: From Lee County, Alabama (doubtless also the western Pan- 

 handle of Florida), west through Mississippi and Louisiana to the north- 

 western corner of Arkansas. 



Abacion texense (Loomis) 



Spirostrephon texensis Loomis, 1937, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 84, p. 109, 



fig. 16n. 

 Spirostrephon jonesi Chamberlin, 1942, Canadian Ent., vol. 74, p. 17, fig 1 

 (type locality: Ames, Story County, Iowa; type: collection of R. V. 

 Chamberlin ) . 

 Type : U. S. Nat Mus. (No. 1237) . 

 Type Locality: Pierce, Wharton County, Texas. 



Range: Great Plains from Ames, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska, through 

 Kansas, Oklahoma, and western Missouri, south as far as Kerr, Bandera, and 

 Wharton Counties, Texas, east through Arkansas and Louisiana to Rankin 

 County, Mississippi. The exact limits of distribution remain to be deter- 

 mined. 



