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tude 6,400 feet, the United States National Museum has three speci- 

 mens from Harvey's Ranch, Pecos National Forest, New Mexico, 

 altitude 10,000 feet; one from Manzanares Creek, Pecos National 

 Forest, New Mexico; one from Rio Tularosa, New Mexico (all the 

 preceding collected by Townsend) ; two Alameda Count}^ California 

 (Coquillett) ; one Ormsby County, Nevada (C. F. Baker) ; one 

 Mono Lake, California (Aldrich) ; three Mendocino County, Califor- 

 nia (Essig) ; one San Francisco, California, reared by H. H. Severin 

 from Agrotis ypsilon Rottenburg; one from Moscow, Idaho (Aid- 

 rich), reared from Pie7n8 occidentalis Reakirt; two from California 

 without other data. All these localities appear to be in the Canadian 

 zone or immediately below it, those from the far south being from 

 high altitudes. 



In addition to the rearing records just given, the species has been 

 recorded as a parasite of Argynnis cyhele Fabricius (Williston. the 

 type material) ; Evproctis chrysorrhea Linnaeus (Howard and 

 Fiske) ; Autographa calif ornica Speyer (Hyslop) ; Ennomos mag- 

 narius Guenee and Euvanessa antiofa Linnaeus (Tothill) ; Ey- 

 cophotia margaritosa Ha worth (Essig and Lovett). Published 

 localities range from New Brunswick to California, through the 

 northern region. 



Genus MURDOCKIANA Townsend. 



Murdockiana Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 49, 1916, p. 622 ; type 

 and sole species, Euplwrocera gelida Coquillett.. 



MURDOCKIANA GELIDA Coquillett. 



Euphorocera gelida Coquillett, Revis. Taehin, 1897, p. 101. Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. 



The United States National Museum contains the type material, 

 one male and two females and two males from the Alaska- Yukon 

 boundary, 30 miles south of the Arctic Ocean; in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, are several specimens from the type 

 locality. Additional characters: Black, subshining, arista thickened 

 for half its length, proboscis slender but not much elongated, labella 

 large; posterior dorsocentrals four, but the third from behind smaller; 

 sternopleurals three; apical scutellars upturned; abdomen shining 

 black, the bases of the segments white pollinose, discals present and 

 the hairs long and erect; abdomen with numerous long, stiff bristles 

 on fourth abdominal segment below and behind. First posterior 

 cell narrowly open or closed in margin ; third vein with four bristles 

 at base. The genitalia are of the Parasetigena type, the inner forceps 

 united, long and tapering, flat behind. 



Length 6-7 mm. 



Type.—FenvA\e, Cat. No. 3602, U.S.N.M. 



