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Near die Tabaninse 
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rower and browner distally, the thoracic lines a little more 
distinct, the dark abdominal lines blacker posteriorly than 
in the holotype. 
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 20 ( s ) and 25 ( $ ) , 1934. In 
light trap. In the collection of the author through kindness 
of W. W. Stanley. 
Paratypes. — 16 $ , 16 9 , Fayetteville and Washington 
Co., Ark., (reared), H. H. Schwardt; 9, Drew Co., Ark., 
Aug. 20, 1928, “W. R. H.”; $ , Ark. Co., Ark., July 18, 1928, 
D. Isley ; 2 9 , Wash. Co., Ark., May 31 and June 10, 1929, 
D. Isely; 9, Hunt, Ariz., Aug. 28, 1919; 9, New Boston, 
Tex., May 15, 1906, C. R. Jones; 9 , College Station, Texas, 
Oct. 19, 1919, H. J. Reinhard; 2 9 , Brownsville, Texas, June 
and July, F. H. Snow; $ , 3 9 , State College, Miss., Apr. 12, 
May 7, 11, and 17, 1939, Smith, Jackson, Macon, and Shivers ; 
9, Everglades Exp. Sta., Fla., July 10, 1938, W. C. Stehr; 
9, Atlanta, Ga., June 17, 1935, P. W. Fattig; 2&, Falls 
Church and Great Falls, Va., June 8 and 30, 1917, C. T. 
Greene; 9, Wash., D. C., June 25, 1913, R. C. Shannon; 
9 , Beltsville, Md., Sept. 3, 1916, W. L. McAtee; $ , Plummers 
Is., Md., Mar. 9, 1905, at light, H. S. Barber; $ , 9 , Newark 
and Dana Landing, Del., July 5, 1938 and June 13, 1935, 
Donald MacCreary; 9, Melrose Highlands, Mass., July 8, 
1908, D. H. Clemons ; 2 $ , Wooster, and Marietta, Ohio, 
July 23 and Aug. 4, 1938, C. H. Martin ; 2 s , 5 9 , Montgomery 
Co., Kan. 798', 1916, R. H. Beamer; A$, 3 9, Kiowa Co., 
Kans., July 1-5, 1923, R. H. Beamer and C. L. Woodruff. In 
the collections of the U. S. Nat’l. Mus., Calif. Acad, of 
Sciences, Mus. Comp. Zool., Ohio State Museum, Univer- 
sities of Arkansas, Mich., and Kan., L. L. Peckuman, G. B. 
Fairchild, H. H. Schwardt, T. H. G. Aitken and the author. 
In reared or fresh specimens, the vestiture of the scutel- 
lum sometimes obscures the reddish margin, but seldom 
completely. 
Since Schwardt (1931, 1936 and fig. of egg mass) ob- 
served 2 generations in Arkansas, it may well be that there 
are biological differences in different species of the lineola 
group. Scutellaris and lineola s. str. are the only other 
Nearctic forms which have been reared ; the data are too few 
for comparison, although the adults have a similar long 
seasonal occurrence in Calif, in contradistinction to the 
