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United States, 74 of these from Georgia. Though there is no real 

 evidence, we are incHned to believe that the type specimen of Cecrops 

 fcsttts came from Georgia and that it was sent to Hiibner by John 

 Abbot. 



In his list of the Lepidoptera of Florida published in 1917 John A. 

 Grossbeck cited Alaynard's record from Tallahassee, originally pub- 

 lished by Scudder, and added a new record from Biscayne Bay, where 

 the species had been obtained by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



In their " Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America " 

 published in 191 7 Drs. William Barnes and James Halliday McDun- 

 nough listed this species as Rhabdoides cellus. 



In 1921 Prof. Arthur Ward Lindsey listed this species as Cecrop- 

 terus cellus, giving a synonymy and saying that it is found in Pennsyl- 

 vania in July, in Virginia and West Virginia in May and June, and in 

 Texas and Arizona in April and August. 



In Dr. Adelbert Seitz' " Macrolepidoptera of the World " Dr. M. 

 Draudt in 1922 gave a short diagnosis and colored figures of 

 Rhabdoides cellus, which he said is widely distributed in North and 

 Central America, and described and figured a new variety under the 

 name of Rhabdoides cellus form mexicana. 



In 1925 Jean Daniel Gunder described and figured in colors 

 Rhabdoides cellus ab. J* aereofuscus. 



Professor Lindsey in 1925 gave Eudamus cellus as the haplotype 

 of the genus Rhabdoides. 



William Barnes and Foster H. Benjamin in their " Check List 

 of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of Boreal America " pubHshed in 1926 

 included Cecropterus cellus, with festus Geyer as a synonym and 

 aereofuscus Gunder as an aberration. 



Dr. \Villiam Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1928 listed White's 

 specimen of Rhabdoides cellus from Brooklyn, N. Y., saying that it 

 was presumably a stray. 



In their revision of the Hesperiidae of North America published 

 in 193 1 A. W. Lindsey, Ernest L. Bell, and Roswell Carter Williams, 

 Jr., gave a synonymy of Cecropterus cellus and figured the male 

 genitalia. The localities and dates they gave as Pennsylvania, July ; 

 Virginia and West Virginia, May to August ; Texas and Arizona, 

 April, July-September. They mentioned Gunder's ab. J* aereofuscus. 

 In the revised edition of the " Butterfly Book " published in 193 1 

 Holland, under Rhabdoides cellus, repeated the information given in 

 the earlier edition, and added that Mexican specimens differ from 

 those from the United States in being larger with the light band 

 narrower. 



