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4,650 ft. and at 4,600 ft., Ariz., Aug. 1, 1946, H. A. Scullen (Berkeley 

 and Townes). cf, Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 20, 1932, W. W. Jones 

 (Washington), cf , 25 miles northeast of Globe, Ariz., Aug. 9, 1948, 

 H. E. Evans (Evans). &, on flowers of Baccharis glutinosa, Apache, 

 Ariz., July 27, 1948, H. E. Evans (Evans). 14 cf, 39, on flowers of 

 Asclepias and Melilotus alba, same locality, date, and collector as the 

 type (Evans and Townes). 9, 4 miles north of Drake, Ariz., July 17, 

 F. M. Carpenter (Cambridge). 9, Oracle Junction, Pinal County, 

 Ariz., July 26, 1948, F. Werner (Cambridge). 29, Rio Aravaipa, 

 2,500 ft., Ariz. (Washington), cf , Santa Catalina Mts., 5,500 ft., 

 Ariz., July 25, 1917, J. Bequaert (Cambridge). 9, Tucson, Ariz., 

 Aug. 27, 1938, D. J. and J. N. I^uU (Cambridge). 29, southern 

 Ariz. (Cambridge). 9, Arroyo Mocho, 12 miles south of Livermore, 

 Calif., July 18, 1948, Ray F. Smith (Berkelej^). 9, Arroyo Seco, 

 Monterey County, Calif., Aug. 23, 1949, C. D. MacNeill (Berkeley). 

 9, Morongo, Calif., Sept. 18, Cockerell (Cambridge). 29, Mount 

 Diablo, Calif., July to August, 1941 (Berkeley). 9, Palm Springs, 

 Riverside County, Calif., J. D. Gunder (Townes). 9, Temecula, 

 Riverside County, Calif., July 4, 1950, J. W. MacSwain (Berkele}^). 

 This subspecies occm-s in the Lower Sonoran fauna of Arizona and 

 California. Most adults have been collected in July and August. 



Ic. Notocyphus dor sails dorsalis Cresson 



Notocyphus dorsalis Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 207, 9 



Lectotype: 9, Texas (Philadelphia). 

 Notocyphus texanus Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 207, cf. 



Lectotype: cf, Texas (Philadelphia). 



Male: Forewing 9 to 17 mm. long. Black, marked with v/hite as 

 follows: sometimes a lateral pair of oval blotches on the clypeus, 

 front orbits, posterior orbits more narrowly, hind margin of pronotum 

 (not reaching the lateral lobes), often a small spot on scutellum, a 

 pair of transverse OA^al areas at base of third tergite (often more or less 

 confluent), and seventh tergite. Palpi light brown; both pairs of 

 wings uniformly blackish. 



Female: Forewing 12 to 18 mm. long. Black. Mouth parts and 

 antenna more or less tinged with red-brown ; head and thorax marked 

 with orange-red as follows: frons, top of head, posterior orbit, pro- 

 notum except on its lower 0.5 i, mesonotum, metanotum, and pro- 

 podeum. except laterally. Wings uniformly blacldsh. 



Specimens: 9, Alpine, Tex., June 4, 1927 (Washington). 49, 

 Bexar County, Tex., Sept. 10 and 19, 1931, and Oct. 27, 1935, H. B. 

 Parks (College Station, Tex. and To^\^les). cf , Fedor, Tex., May 16 

 (Cambridge). 9, Pleasanton, Tex., Oct. 12, 1936 (Krombein). 9, 

 Valentine, Tex., July 18, 1917 (Cambridge). 9, Valentine, Tex., 

 July 13, 1927, L. A. Anderson (La's\Tence) . 9, WilHamson County, 



