54 BULLETIN 190, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



County, May 12, 1902 (Oslar) ; two males, Oak Creek Canyon, Coconino 

 County, 6,000 feet (F. H. Snow) ; one male, Gila County, June 1902 

 (Poling) ; one male, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, September 7, 1936 

 (Parker) ; two males, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Septem- 

 ber ; one female, Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, 4,000 feet, July 26, 

 1925 (Engelliardt) ; one female, Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, 

 5,000 feet, September 6, 1936 (Parker) ; one male, Palmerly, Cochise 

 County, August; one female, Hereford, Cochise County, April 9, 1937 

 (H. Hereford) ; one female, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, 7,600 

 feet, August 6, 1933 (Owen Bryant). 



CARMENTA APACHE, new species 



Plate 20, Figure 114 



Female (holotype). — Antennae lustrous blue-black. Labial palpi buff- 

 yellow, tips black above. Head purplish black. Collar dull yellow. Thorax 

 violaceous-black, patagia broadly striped with dull yellow and a broad, 

 brighter yellow, transverse band on metathorax posteriorly ; a dull-yellow 

 patch at the sides beneath wing base. Abdomen violaceous-black, seg- 

 ments 2, 4, 5, and 6 broadl}^ banded with yellow, the last three bands en- 

 circling the body; anal tuft rounded, black. Legs dull yellow, posterior 

 tibiae purplish black between the spurs and tarsi touched with purplish 

 black below the joints. Forewing heavily scaled, violaceous-black, inter- 

 mixed with yellow ; costa and outer and inner margins broad, transparent 

 areas reduced before and behind the discal mark, which is square, mostly 

 black, touched with yellow outwardly ; beneath predominantly yellow. 

 Hindwing transparent, narrowly margined violaceous, fringes brownish 

 black ; underside as upper side. 



Male. — Description based on two rather worn specimens. Antennae 

 black and fuscous owing to abrasion. Labial palpi pale yellow, black above 

 and at tips. Collar pale yellow. Thorax coppery black, patagia striped 

 with yellow and metathorax well edged with yellow transversely ; a yellow 

 patch at the sides beneath. Abdomen coppery black, segments 2, 4, and 6 

 with encircling yellow bands, the band on segment 4 broadest and that on 

 segment 2 widening at the sides and beneath ; anal tuft fan-shaped, black, 

 mixed with yellow at the sides. Legs black, violaceous, posterior tibiae 

 tufted with yellow at the spurs ; tarsi dusted with yellow. Forewing trans- 

 parent, costa, veins, large vertical discal mark, and outer margin purplish 

 black; outer margin inwardly between the veins filled with a mixture of 

 black and yellow scales ; beneath yellower than above from discal mark 

 to wing base, otherwise as above. Hindwing transparent, outer margin 

 narrow, purplish black, fringes sordid black ; beneath mixed with yellow, 

 most heavily so toward the base. 



Expanse : Female holotype 20 mm., male 20 mm. 



Distribution. — Arizona. 



