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are in the collection of the American Entomological Society of Phila- 

 delphia. The type of aUtma is in the United States National 

 Museum. 



Plesiotype. — Male, Riverton, California, August 6, 1916 (L. 

 Bruner), in collection of University of Nebraska. 



Dktribution.—Q2L{\iovm2i, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho. (Fig. 10.) 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



California: Female, La JoUa, San Diego County, August 28, 1917 (H. Klotz) ; 

 female, San Bernardino County; 2 males, Saugaus, Los Angeles County, 

 August 18, 1917 (J. Bequaert) ; female, Fillmore, November 2, 1915; female, 

 Pasadena ; male, female. Los Angeles County ; female, Los Angeles County, 

 September; 2 males, mountains near Claremont (Baker); female, moun- 

 tains near Claremont; male, Santa Barbara County; male, Lompoc, Sep- 

 tember 9, 1908 (J. C. Bradley) ; male, Delano, June, 1921 (H. M. Jeancon) ; 

 2 males, female, Kettleman plain, Fresno County, June 4, 1907 (J. C. 

 Bradley) ; female, Los Gatos Canyon, Fresno County, June 6-8, 1907 (J. C. 

 Bradley) ; male, Fresno, June 23, 1923 (M. E. Phillips) ; female, Fresno, 

 September 12, 1923 ; male, Fresno, October 20, 1922 ; female, Carmel, Mon- 

 terey County, May 21, 1916 (L. S. Slevin) ; male, Carmel, August 15, 1922 

 (L. S. Slevin) ; male, Carmel, 1922 (L. S. Slevin) ; female, Monterey County, 

 August 29, 1922 (L. R. Dice) ; female, male. Pacific Grove, June, 1902 

 (H. Heath) ; female, Spreckels, September 20, 1904; male, Stanford Uni- 

 versity, October, 1905; female, Felton, May 20-26, 1907 (J. C. Bradley); 

 female, San Francisco ; 2 females, Sacramento County : male, Chico, August 

 11, 1912 (E. D. Ball) ; female, Sherwood, July 1, 1907; female, male, Towle, 

 Placer County, August, 1912 ; 9 females, 5 males, Riverton, August 6, 1916 

 (L. Bruner) ; 2 females, 2 males, Keddie, May 7, 1918; female, Siskiyou 

 County ; female. Sierra Nevada ; 9 females, 4 males. 



Idaho: Female, Boise, August 30, 1902 (H. E. Burke). 



Nevada : Female. 



Oregon : Female. Corvallis, June 11, 1900 ; female, Corvallis, August 12, 1900 ; 

 female, Laidlaw. August 6, 1906 (Scoggin) ; female, Ontario. August 17, 

 1905 (Mallett) ; female. Ashland (H. A. Scullen). 



This species is rather distantly related to the two preceding species. 

 The genitalia of the males are somewhat similar in type to those of 

 zeJaya but differ considerably as will be seen from the figure. Both 

 the males and females vary in color from yellow to red. The males 

 vary in length from 7 mm. to 14 mm., and the females vary likewise 

 from 6.5 mm. to 11 mm. A male and female of this species were 

 taken in copula by Professor Lawrence Bruner at Riverton, California. 

 The type specimens of both venifica Blake and progne Fox have been 

 examined and found to be identical with the female taken at Riverton, 

 California. An examination of the types of ochracea Blake and 

 aletina Cockerell shows that they are the same as the male of this 

 species. The male recorded from New Mexico by Melander (1903) 

 is evidently not cocdneohirta as it is extremely doubtful if the species 



