CLEAK-VVING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 61 



Creek, Teller County, Colo., 8,200 feet, August 19, 1937 (Engelhardt) ; 

 one male, two females. Middle Piney Lake Range, Wyo., 8,000 feet, 

 August 9-12, 1935 (A. B. Klotz) ; female type, Fort Calgary, Alberta 

 (Barnes collection, now in the United States National Museum). 



CARMENTA GILIAE WOODGATEI, new race 



Male. — Antennae black or brown when abraded, pectinations strong. 

 Labial palpi rough, pale yellow or buff, mixed with black at the sides and 

 on third joint above. Head black, face bufif. Collar pale yellow mixed 

 with black above, buff at the sides and beneath. Thorax black, heavily 

 clothed with yellow and black hair ; metathorax with long tufts overlapping 

 from the sides to the center; a pale-yellow spot at anterior base of the 

 primaries connecting with patches of the same color at the sides and be- 

 neath. Abdomen black, with pale-yellow, broad, encircling bands on seg- 

 ments 2 and 4, the bands uniting on segments 5, 6, and 7 ; segment 3 barely 

 edged with yellow and otherwise deep black ; anal tuft narrow and more 

 pointed than flat; the central tuft yellow, the lateral tufts black. Legs 

 hairy, black and yellow; posterior tibiae rough, broadly banded with 

 violaceous-black between the spurs ; tarsi yellow, dusted with black above. 

 Forewing transparent, costa violaceous-black with a thin orange inner line ; 

 outer margin narrow, with black and orange scales between the veins, all 

 veins dusted more or less with orange, most heavily on the inner margin ; 

 discal mark black and orange, in some specimens largely black, in others 

 largely orange ; underside heavily dusted with yellow, orange on the discal 

 mark ; fringes brownish black. Hindwing transparent, narrowly margined 

 with violaceous-black ; underside dusted with yellow and orange on discal 

 mark ; fringes pale yellow at wing base. 



Female. — Similar to male ; costa of forewing golden brown, outer mar- 

 gin broader, lustrous deep yellow, discal mark orange or red, margined 

 with black inwardly. Thorax with a yellow stripe at the sides. Abdominal 

 bands pale yellow or buff, separated above, united on posterior half be- 

 neath ; anal tuft yellow, slightly mixed with black. 



Expanse : Male 18 to 24 mm., female 20 to 24 mm. 



Distribution. — Rocky Mountains, New Mexico and Arizona. 



Type.—U.S.^.M. No. 56833, male. Collected at Fort Wingate, N. 

 Mcx. Female allotype, nine male and throe female paratypes also in the 

 United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — The relationship of this form to typical giliae is recognized 

 on evidence of the male genitalia. Without this evidence the status or re- 

 lationship would be in doubt. The material on hand, while extensive, 

 consists largely of old, worn examples, some obtained from John Wood- 

 gate, a pioneer collector and former postmaster at Fort Wingate and Jemez 

 Springs, N. Mex., for whom this form has been named. Other examples 

 were collected by F. H. Snow in Oak Creek Canyon, Yavapai County, 



