356 T. D. A. COCKKKELL. 



have been said "Comtnon throughout the State at snUahle elevations?" 

 Mr. Bruce is by no means specially to blame in regard to looseness of 

 statement; many of our best writers, now and in the past, have been 

 content to jump at conclusions, and assert that insects inhabited "the 

 whole Rocky Mountain region," or "the whole United States," with- 

 out anything like the amount of information to justify such state- 

 ments. Owing to this prevalent looseness of statement, accuracy 

 about localities has not been valued, and the science of geographical 

 distribution has suffered greatly. 



SESIID^. 



707. Sesia n. sp., CklL; see "Entom." 1891, p. 229 (foot-note). 



70S. Sesia aff., sp., with orange wings and strongly pectinated antennse; near 

 Ula. 



708a. Sesia sp., near hylotomiformis Walk., but bauds on abdomen silvery. 



7086. Sesia n. sp. aff. pyramidalis Walk. 



708c. Euhyparpax rosea Beut. Described from a West Cliff specimen in Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., February, 1893, p. 19. 



lOSd. Pyrrhotsenia coloradensis Beut. Described from a Wet Mountain Val- 

 ley specimen in Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist., February, 1893, p. 25. 



PERICOPID-S]. 



709. Gnoplisela vermiculata Grt. and Rob., abundant; moth bred July 4, and 



June 28. Also high-alpine. 



LITHOSIID^. 



710. Lithosia cephalica Grt. and Rob., Cusack Ranch, Willow Creek, August. 



ARCTIID^. 



711. Euprepia (Platarctia) hyperborea Curt., Short Creek, Cusack Ranch. 



712. Arctia blakei Or. 



713. " flgurata Drury. One specimen, referred by the late Mr. Hy. Ed- 



wards to A. f. -pallida Streck. 



714. Arctia dieckii Neum.? Cusack Ranch, August (M. E. Cusack); perhaps 



not distinct from the last. 



715. Leptarctia californise Walk., near Swift Creek, named for me by Mr. 



Hy. Edwards as L. lena Bdv, 



716. Nemeophila petrosa Walk. 



717. Halisiodota maculata Harr., the imago taken, and also bred from cocoon 



found on Round Mountain, Silver Cliff. 



SATURNIID^. 



718. Attaeus gloveri Streck.; see 6th Rep. Colo. Biol. Asso'n, Rosita (Nash) ; 



near Ula. Also down to Canon City and Pueblo (Nash). 



719. Pseudohazis eglanteria Bdv., Rosita (Nash). Also at Manitou (Packard). 



LASIOCAMPID^. 



720. Clisiocampa californica* Pack. ; common about West Cliff, etc. ; abun- 



dant near San Francisco (Stretch). 



» Clisiocampa incurva Hy. Edw. I sent Mr. H. G. Dyar some specimens from 

 Wet Mountain Valley which I fiad supposed to belong to californica, and he in- 

 forms me that they are typical incurva. 



