58 BULLETIN 190, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Remarks. — Represented only by the t3'pes ; the male holotype captured 

 inside a window, Biological Department, University of Texas, Austin, 

 Tex., November 4, 1922 (H. B. Park), and the female allotype collected 

 at Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah, September 29, 1929 (H. B. Park). 

 The larger size and brighter coloration set the examples apart as a 

 distinct species. 



CARMENTA GILIAE (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 20, Figures 119, 120 



Aegeria giliae Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 200, 1881. — Beutenmuller, Bull. 



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

 Sesia giliae Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 128, 1896; 



Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 279, pi. 31, fig. 8 (male), pi. 33, 



fig. 1 (female), 1901. 

 Synanthedon giliae McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8695, 1939. 



With this species have been united as forms a large number of speci- 

 mens that differ greatly in coloration and in size but that cannot be 

 separated specifically on structures, external or genitalic. All inhabit 

 regions of the Rocky Mountains at considerable altitudes, bright-colored 

 examples in general occurring at elevations from 6,000 to 8,000 feet and 

 those of darker colors at elevations from 8,(X)0 to 10,000 feet. Arizona 

 and New Mexico specimens average smaller in size than those from 

 Colorado and northward to Alberta. 



Male. — Antennae strong, slightly dilated at tips, black above, brown 

 beneath. Labial palpus with a heavy brush, yellow, edged with black at 

 the sides. Head rusty black, face buff. Collar long-haired, yellow\ 

 Thorax coppery black ; patagia with a narrow yellow stripe ; metathorax 

 with long, yellowish tufts at the sides and some flat yellow scales on 

 posterior edge; a yellow spot anterior to wing base and a yellow patch 

 beneath at the sides. Abdomen coppery black, segments 2, 4, 6, and 8 

 broadly banded, segments 1, 3, and 5 narrowly banded with yellow, the 

 narrow bands sometimes very faint; beneath the bands uniting more or 

 less ; anal tuft flat, rounded, black, yellow in the middle. Legs hairy, 

 yellow and black ; posterior tibiae rough, black and yellow mixed and 

 tufted with yellow at the spurs, tarsi yellow, slightly touched with black. 

 Forewing transparent, costa and veins black; outer margin narrow, lus- 

 trous coppery black and a narrow suffusion of black and yellow scales 

 between the veins ; inner margin black, dusted with orange or red scales 

 to wing base ; discal mark orange or red, black on inner side. Hindwing 

 transparent, narrowly margined with coppery black, fringes dull black. 

 Undersides of wings more yellow than black. 



Female. — Brighter in coloration. Antennae black, brown when 

 abraded. Labial palpi golden yellow throughout, or barely touched with 

 black at the sides. Thorax well marked with a yellow stripe on patagia 



