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which are yellow; tegulae low and smooth; enclosure with a medial 

 groove and scattered small punctation over much of the surface; 

 mesosternal tubercle minute; legs fuscous except the hindtrochanter 

 and most parts beyond the femora, all of which are yellow; \\angs 

 subhyaline, becoming cloudy apically. 



Abdomen wdth a narrow semidivided baud on tergum 1, a broad 

 band very slightly emarginate on tergum 2, narrower and deeply 

 emarginate bands on terga 3, 4, and 5; venter black except for lateral 

 yellow patches on sternites 3 and 4; pygidium with sides convex, 

 the apical end rounded and the basal end acute. 



Male. — Unknown. 



C. melanthe Banks closely resembles C. nitida Banks, which has 

 been taken in Texas. The two females can be separated by the clypeal 

 denticles and the bicolored hindfemora of the latter species. The 

 former has not been taken east of New Mexico. 



Type. — The type of female of C. melanthe Banks, from Apache Co., 

 Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz., July 25, 5500 feet (J. Bequaert), is at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, no. 23539. 



Distribution. — Arizona and New Mexico. Specimens are as 

 follows : 



Arizona: 4 ? 9 , S. Arizona, August 1902 (F. H. Snow) ; 5 9 9 , Oak Creek Can- 

 yon, 6000 ft., July, August 1902 (F. H. Snow); 9, same locality, Aug. 9, 1932 

 (R. H. Beamer) ; 9 , same locality, Aug. 27, 1947 (L. D. Beamer). New Mexico: 

 9, Willow Creek, Sept. 4, 1933 (G. E. Bohart). 



Prey record. — None. 

 Plant record. — None. 



Figures 85-87. — Localities of: 85, C. inelanthe Banks; 86, C. mimica Cresson; 87, C. morata 

 Cresson. 



