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Female. — Differs from the male by }'ellow palpi, a large yellow patch 

 at the sides and beneath thorax, abdominal segments 2, 4, and 6 banded 

 with bright yellow, posterior tibiae with a mixture of black and yellow on 

 upper half and blue-black on lower half, wings more prominently dusted 

 with deep orange or red on and between the veins, on inner margins, and 

 at apex and costa. 



Expanse: Male 16 to 18 mm., female 18 mm. 



Distribution. — Eastern Oregon, Wallowa and Blue Mountains at 

 timberline. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. No. 56826. Holotype male, allotype female, six male 

 and four female paratypes. Collected in the "Elk Mountains, Oregon. "- 



RAMOSIA MARIONA (Beutenmuller) 



Plate 18, Figures 101, 102 



Sesia mariona Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 308, 



pi. i2, fig. 21, 1901. 

 Synanthedon maricma McDunnouch, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8748, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae black. Palpi sordid white, blackish at tips. Head 

 with vertex roughly scaled, rusty yellow, face lead color. Collar flat 

 scaled, blue-black. Thorax violaceous-black, shoulders and upper part of 

 patagia orange, beneath black and coppery. Abdomen blue-black, with 

 prismatic reflections ; anal tuft fan-shaped, lustrous black and coppery. 

 Legs with coxae sordid white, femora and upper part of posterior tibiae 

 blue-black, lower part of tibiae and tarsi pale yellow. Forewing opaque, 

 lustrous blue and violet-black, heavily scaled on costa, margins, and veins, 

 less so between the veins, but lacking transparent areas. Hindwing trans- 

 parent, margins and fringes brownish black. Beneath, wings flushed with 

 white and pale yellow. 



Female. — Forewing opaque, dull black, broadly edged on lower margin 

 with dull orange from wing base to below apex. Hindwing opaque, dull 

 black, except for a narrow clear area between veins 1 and 2. Beneath, 

 wings slightly dusted with pale whitish or yellowish scales. Legs wholly 

 metallic black. Otherwise like the male. 



Expanse : Male and female, 16 to 18 mm. 



Distribution. — New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado. 



Cotypes. — Two females, United States National Museum; one female, 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — The female types and additional examples of the same sex 

 in the United States National Museum collection do not show two trans- 

 parent areas on the hindwing as illustrated in Beutenmiiller's "Monograph 

 of the Sesiidae of America, North of Mexico," pi. 33, fig. 21. Only one 

 clear space between veins 1 and 2 is present. 



» Specimens so labeled. Presumably a local name for Wallowa Mountains — C. H. 



