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Psyche 
[September 
C.T.P.); i May 1-12, 1955, Welaka (C.U.) ; 2 Florida (111. 
N.H.S.) ; March 6, 1927, Micanopy (C.U.) ; March 6, 1945, Lake 
Placid (C.U.) ; 4 at light March 11, 1956, Titusville (H.F.H.); 
13 Georgetown, March, April (M.C.Z.); 1$ Sebastian (M.C.Z.); 
1 cf 1? Waccassa River, Gulf Hammock, Levy Co. March 20, 1954 
(c.u.) 
Relationships: This species is most nearly related to basalis (Fig. 2), 
but averages larger, paler, and has shorter apical antennal segments, 
and distinctive hypopygidium and male terminalia (Fig. 1). Also 
the pronotum is usually more finely and sparsely punctate and the 
elytral intervals usually more convex. 
Statira basalis Horn 
Statira basalis Horn, 1888, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 15: 31-32. 
Type: lectotype no. 8016 from Florida in Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 
delphia. 
Range: This species occurs from February 15 to June, chiefly during 
April from North Carolina: Lake Mattamuskeet, Wilmington; 
South Carolina: Camden, Sampit; Georgia: Atlanta, Clarke Co.; 
to northern Florida: St. Johns Co., Rock Bluff, Osceola Nat. Forest; 
west through Alabama: Washington Co., Hazen, Florala, Mobile; 
Mississippi: Lafayette Co., Oxford, Richton, Lucedale; Louisiana: 
Vowell’s Mill; Missouri: Poplar Bluff; Arkansas: South West, 
Cove Lake near Paris, Mt. Magazine; to Texas: Dallas. 
Habitat: At Hazen, Alabama L. B. Woodruff beat basalis from oak 
and Crataegus blossoms in April. 
Statira gagatina gagatina Melsheimer 
Fig. 3 
Statyra gagatina Melsh., 1846, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 311. 
Statyra resplendens var. fusca Melsh. ibid, new synonymy. 
Types: of gagatina lectotype from Pennsylvania in Melsheimer col- 
lection (M.C.Z.) The lower of two specimens on one pin is desig- 
nated the lectotype. What Leconte chose as type and labelled “S. 
gagatina ! Mels.” is basalis Horn. Of var. fusca holotype labelled 
“var. fusca Melsh.” in Melsheimer’s handwriting in the Melsheimer 
collection (M.C.Z.) 
The variability of gagatina has led to confusion which cannot yet 
be cleared up. The color varies from pale brown to black, the paler 
specimens being teneral. As Leng points out (Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 
31: 186-7) gagatina means “like asphalt or jet”. Melsheimer 
described gagatina as “black, tinged with bluish, glossy”. But 
specimens in his collection are brown to piceous. My notes on the 
