sitemap 404 errors

I am getting a large amount of 404 errors in the Itheme Security logs for the following files; as many as 10 or 20 a day. This started happening on 11-07-2014:

sitemap_index.xml

post-sitemap.xml

I see that this may be related to the fact that SEO by Yoast generates these files on the fly. I also see that a fix is to add an exception to the Browser Cache section of W3 Total Cache. However an exception already exist (I did not add it….I guess Yoast or Ithemes added it), but it is not preventing the 404 errors. Here is that exception:

[a-z0-9_\-]*sitemap[a-z0-9_\-]*\.(xml|xsl|html)(\.gz)?

Is there a fix to this?

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