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T. quinquevittatus Wied. Discussion of this species is 
here appended since it has been considered as one of the 
lineola group although the writer disagrees with this as- 
signment in the restricted sense. The type female now in 
the Vienna Museum, together with the type male and “?” 
female of costalis Wied. were loaned to me through courtesy 
of Dr. Max. Beier. All were greased and the venter of the 
male completely obscured by an extraneous coating, but the 
natural condition was nicely restored by a cleaning in ace- 
tate. The “ ? costalis ” female is lineola-\ike with clear wings 
and the entire antennse and hind femora reddish, the front 
narrow as in the typical form, but not being a type cannot 
have nomenclatorial influence, in spite of 2 such labels in 
different hands on the specimen. Doubtless the “Savannah” 
$ referred to by Osten Sacken (1878, p. 228) as quinque- 
vittatus was confused with the costalis type. 
After cleaning of the two types, it is obvious they are 
conspecific with vicarius Walk. (1848, as considered by 
Stone (1938). This would place quinquevittatus as the 
prior name for this common species, if the “type” is Wiede- 
mann’s original specimen. In all points including size, the 
original Latin description agrees with this better than with 
a small lineola-like specimen to which complex Hine and 
Stone questionably referred the name. Omitted reference to 
a yellow costal cell cannot, however, be inferred by his com- 
parison of the wing with “T. dorsigero” which supposedly 
has entirely hyaline wings. It is doubtful if even so careful 
a student as Wiedemann could have been expected to as- 
sociate the sexes of his specimens seven years apart in their 
original condition. 
The chief doubt on the authenticity of this specimen, how- 
ever, is the locality which is written on 2 of the 3 labels as 
“Savannah” with no mention of the published reference 
“Mexico”. Dr. Beier assures me that the original labels 
and specimen have remained associated, and that “Savan- 
nah” is the locality entered in the Museum “genannte Buch”, 
so that one is led to question if Wiedemann may not have 
thought he was publishing the country in which Savannah 
was located at this early date. The geography of North 
America over a century ago, and especially the extent of 
Mexico, was quite different than it is today. In consequence 
