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4,000 feet, by an aegeriid bark borer with identical larval habits, but late 

 in July I was unable to secure material for breeding or to capture moths. 

 From the Jacinto Mountains, San Bernardino County, Calif., 4,000 to 

 6,000 feet, I have a small series of specimens collected, not reared, by 

 Timberlake, Beamer, Oman, and Anderson, in June and July. These 

 average smaller in size and are slightly more suffused on the forewings 

 of both sexes. Structures of the male genitalia assign them very close 

 to the sycamore borer, and they have been placed tentatively in this 

 species pending further investigations. 



A single New Mexico specimen, a male, is labeled Santa Fe (Jackson). 



RAMOSIA MELLINIPENNIS (Boisdural) 



Sesia mellinipennis Boisduval, Histoire natiirelle des insectes : Species general des 

 lepidopteres heteroceres, vol. 1 (plates), pi. 14, fig. 12, 1836; vol. 1, p. 402, 

 1874.— Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 96. 1894; vol. 8, 

 p. 129, 1896; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 279, pi. 31, figs. 2 

 (male), 26 and 27 (females), pi. 33, fig. 22 (female), 1901.— Williams, Ent. 

 News, vol. 20, p. 58, 1909.— McDunnough, Check list of Lepidoptera of Canada 

 and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8694, 1939. 



Albuna artemisiae Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 187, 1881.— Beutenmuller, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 172, 1892. 



Aegeria senecioides Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 198, 1881.— Beutenmuller, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat Hist., vol. 4, p. 174, 1892. 



We regard as typical of the species described and figured by Boisduval 

 a series consisting of specimens reared and collected by F. X. Williams 

 and deposited in the California Academy of Sciences. Examples from 

 this series have been placed in the United States National Museum. The 

 original types, two males, were destroyed in an explosion at the Luxem- 

 burg Museum. 



Male. — Antennae blue-black, pectinations and underside ferruginous. 

 Labial palpi smooth, yellow. Head black; collar yellow. Thorax blue- 

 black; patagia, a posterior transverse stripe, and the underside yellow. 

 Abdomen metallic black, violaceous; segments 2, 4, 6, and 7 broadly 

 banded, segments 3 and 5 slightly touched with yellow ; beneath same as 

 above; anal tuft long, narrow, black at sides, yellow in center and be- 

 neath. Legs yellow, posterior tibiae well marked with blue-black at the 

 lower spurs. Forewing transparent, borders and veins dull black or 

 brown, broad apical margin coppery red between the veins, discal mark 

 conspicuous, red, margined with black inwardly; basal transparent area 

 elongate triangular, outer area reduced and rounded ; beneath more 

 brightly colored, yellow or orange. Hindwing transparent, narrowly 

 bordered with bronzy black, fringes dull black, beneath as above, but with 

 the costa yellow. 



Female. — Differs from the male by the more suffused forewing, coppery 

 red or golden yellow, including discal mark, which is entirely red on red 



