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on first tergum and a small apical patch of similar pile on each side 

 of the second; terga 3-5 mostly with appressed golden pile that is not 

 nearly so conspicuous as in H. aurata and H. chrysopila, more nearly 

 comparable to H. eiseni; a small sublateral triangle on each side and 

 usually a small median patch of black hairs on terga 3 and 4; sterna 

 with pale yellow pile. Genitalia reddish yellow; basistyle robust, 

 dististyle similar to that of H. melanderi but rounded when viewed 

 laterally (fig. 5). Length 11-14 mm. 



Female: Differs chiefly from the male, other than sexually, in that 

 the wing is brown throughout the costal and first basal cells, the 

 yellowish area consequently forming a streak through the second basal, 

 across the discal cell and to the apex of vein R, and in having the abdomen 

 wholly black. The black of the hind tibia is more extensive, occupy- 

 ing as much as the apical half; even the darker areas of the other 

 tibiae may be in part blackish. 



Holotype: cf, San Dimas Canyon, Pomona, Los Angeles Co., 

 Calif., Nov. 23, 1960; host: Opvntia occidentalis, reared; R. E. Ryck- 

 man, L. E. Olsen; USNM type no. 69,107. Allotype: 9, with pu- 

 parium, same data, but Dec. 4. 



Paratypes: California: 5 cf cf, 12 99, 5 with puparia, same data 

 as holotype, but Nov. 23 and Dec. 4; 1 cf , 3 99, same data, but Apr. 16, 

 1958, Ryckman, and June 10, July 24, and Aug. 1, 1958, Ryckman 

 and J. P. Fonseca; 1 9, La Jolla, San Diego Co., June 18, 1963, J. 

 Powell; 1 9, Santa Ana, Orange Co., Sept. 1, 1959, J. L. Bath; 1 9, 

 1 mile east of Del Mar, San Diego Co., July 17, 1963, E. I. Schlinger; 

 1 cf , San Diego Co., bred from decaying cactus, Sept. 5, 1919, F. 

 Psota; 2 cf cf, San Diego Co., no date and Aug. 22, 1921; 2 cf cf, 

 Los Angeles, June 3, 4, 1909, F. C. Pratt, on Opuntia; 1 9, Los Angeles 

 Co., July; 1 cf , Los Angeles Co., June 18, Coquillett; 1 9, Filmore, 

 June 27, 1937, B. E. White; 2 cf cf , San Diego, July 13 and Aug. 20, 

 1921; 3 cf cf, California, no other data. Arizona: 1 cf, Congress, 

 Aug. 13, 1939, K. Stager. 



The puparia described by McFadden (1967, p. 32) were taken 

 from the type series of this species. 



