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segments 2, 3, and 6 narrowly banded with pale yellow above and at the 

 sides, segment 6 broadly banded, the band encircling the abdomen ; anal 

 tuft short, rounded, lemon yellowy black at the sides and beneath or black 

 in the middle between yellow and, laterally, black tufts. Otherwise like the 

 male. 



Expanse : Male 15 to 17 mm., female 18 to 20 mm. 



Distribution. — Arizona. 



Type. — Male. Collected at Fort Grant, Ariz. In the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Remarks.- — Although represented sparsely only from Arizona, its range 

 most likely extends through Mexico into Central America. It is congeneric 

 with an unnamed species bred from very large, spongy oak galls in Guate- 

 mala (Engelhardt, 1934). 



Records at the United States National Museum : One female, Arizona, 

 August 3, 1882 (C. V. Riley) ; male type and one female paratype, Podo- 

 sesia conies, Bush Corral, Santa Catalina Mountains, Ariz., bred May 

 11-15, 1920 (G. Hofer) ; two males, Sabina Canyon, Pima County, Ariz., 

 bred from spongy galls on Qucrcus oblongifolia, collected February 8, 1921 

 (G. Hofer), reared Brooklyn, N. Y., March 8-10, 1921 (Engelhardt); 

 one female, Oracle, Pinal County, Ariz., reared from gall on Quercus ari- 

 sonica; one male, two females, Baboquivari Mountains, Pima County, 

 Ariz., August 15-20, 1921 (O. C. Poling) ; one female, Mohave County. 

 Ariz., July 8-14. 



CARMENTA TORRANCIA, new species 



Plate 20, Figure 117 



Male. — Not known. 



Female. — Antennae strongly dila,ted to tips, basal two-thirds lustrous 

 orange, anterior one-third black-violaceous. Labial palpi rough, pale yel- 

 low at bases and deep yellow on upper parts and above. Head black ; face 

 shiny white ; a posterior fringe of stiff hairs, black and yellow mixed, on 

 top, white at the sides and beneath. Collar broad, golden yellow. Thorax 

 black, patagia pale yellow on lower half and metathorax edged with yellow 

 transversely ; wing base of primaries above and at the sides white, beneath 

 shiny yellow. Abdomen black, broadly banded on segments 2, 4, 5, and 6, 

 the bands encircling the body ; segment 3 black, slightly mixed with yellow ; 

 anal tuft a short, rounded brush, light orange, slightly mixed with black 

 at the base. Legs with femora orange and bla,ck, posterior tibia rough, 

 orange, black at the proximal end; tarsi orange. Forewing with trans- 

 parent areas much sufifused and reduced, rusty brown with coppery reflec- 

 tions; discal mark prominent, bright red, and costa and inner margin 

 shaded with red; outer margin narrow but densely sufifused by coppery 

 rays between darker veins ; wing base tipped with blue-black ; beneath deep 

 yellow and orange, discal mark red ; fringes rusty black. Hindwing trans- 

 parent; veins, outer and inner margins rusty black, shading to orange 



