no. 3603 HERMETIA — JAMES AND WIRTH 7 



talia orange yellow; basistyle and dististyle as in figure 4. Length 

 8-11 mm. 



Female: Similar to the male, but the dorsal pile is slightly to 

 distinctly more yellow; the presutural vitta may be poorly defined 

 or, as in the male, absent; most of the pile of the anterior half of the 

 postscutum is short and black. In one paratype the mesonotal pile 

 is golden and the presutural vitta, though feeble, is somewhat set 

 apart by a few black hairs arranged so as to suggest lateral vittae. 



Holotype: cf , Florence Junction, Ariz., Apr. 21, 1935, F. H. Parker, 

 Melander Collection; USNM type no. 69,103. Allotype: 9, with 

 puparium, Saguaro National Monument, Ariz., ex Echinocereus , 

 Nov. 8, 1957, S. Alcorn; University of Arizona collection. 



Paratypes: 2 cf cf, same data as holotype. Arizona: 1 9, Pinal 

 Mts., Aug. 4, 1939, F. H. Parker; 1 cf , base of Pinal Mts., May 22, 

 1938, D. K. Duncan; 1 cf , Ray, Apr. 18, 1957, F. H. Parker; 1 d\ 

 15 miles south of Ray, May 4, 1961, R. H. and E. M. Painter; 2 cf d\ 

 Globe, Apr. 7, 1938, F. H. Parker, and August, D. K. Duncan; 

 1 cf, Organpipe Monument, Alamo Canyon, Apr. 22, 1948, J. L. 

 Sperry; 2 cf cf Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina Mts., Apr. 6, 1955, 

 F. G. Werner; 1 cf, Oracle, Apr. 15, 1937, G. P. Engelhardt; 1 cf , 

 "Catal Spgs.," Apr. 14, 1898, E. A. Schwarz; 3 cf cf, San Carlos 

 Lake, April, D. K. Duncan; 1 cf, Black Dyke Prospect, Sierritas, 

 July 26-29, 1916, New Mexico: 1 cf , Jemez Springs, July 1, 1941, 

 R. H. Beamer; 4 cf cf, 1 9, Tajique, June 25, 1941, E. L. Todd; 

 1 cf, Sandia Mts., May 22, 1948, L. S. Gordon; 1 cf , "Monzano" 

 [Manzano?], June 26, 1941, R. H. Beamer. Texas: 1 cf, Boy 

 Scout camp, south of Toyahvale, May 2, 1961, Killiam Roever. 

 Utah: 1 cf, Beaver Creek Hills, Beaver Co.; 1 cf, Beaver Valley. 

 Colorado: 1 cf, Granite Peaks Camp, Bayfield; 1 cf, Great Sand 

 Dunes, Alamosa, Aug. 1, 1950, B. Rotger. 



Hermetia chrysopila Loew 



Figures 9, 11 



Hermetia chrysopila Loew, 1872, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 16, p. 56 (Centuria 



10, no. 11). 

 Hermetia aurata Bellardi. — James, 1965, in Stone et al., Catalog of the Diptera of 



America north of Mexico, p. 304, partim [not Bellardi, 1859]. 



This species remains a variable one even though our concept of it 

 is more restricted than that indicated in most of the literature. The 

 vertex, except the ocellar triangle, is typically wholly 3 T ellow (some- 

 times a sordid or brownish yellow) ; the areas laterad of the ocellar 

 triangle are elevated, somewhat tubercle-like, with fine lengthwise 

 striations; the areas above the frontal callus are rugulose with two 

 or three low but sharp irregular carinulae. The supra-antennal callus 



