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erell) ; Las Vegas, N. Mex., female type of var. dyari Cockerell, July 3 

 (Cockerell) ; Sparks Ranch, Pecon Canyon, N. Mex., 7,500 feet, female, 

 July 21 ; Jemez Springs, N. Mex., males and females, reared from cotton- 

 wood, July 29 (Engelhardt) ; Carrville, Trinity County, Calif., males 

 and females, June 11, 1934 (E. C. Van Dyke) ; Madeline, Calif., female 

 on willow, July 12, 1925 (Engelhardt) ; Arroyo Seco, Los y\ngeles, Calif., 

 males and females, reared from cottonwood, July 1928 (Engelhardt) ; 

 Riverside, Calif., males and females reared from cottonwood, July 1938 

 (C. M. Dammers) ; San Bernardino, Calif., males and females reared 

 from cottonwood, June 1921 (Engelhardt) ; Sacramento, Calif., males 

 and females, reared from cottonwood, June 1921 (B. G. Thompson) ; 

 Medford, Oreg., male, July 12, 1922 (E. C. Van Dyke) ; Corvallis. Oreg., 

 male, June 11, 1925 (B. G. Thompson) ; Ashland County, Oreg., female 

 on Populus alba, August 1, 1913; Pendleton, Oreg., male, July 4, 1931 

 (Beamer) ; Hood River, Oreg., males and females on cottonwood, August 

 7, 1916 (Engelhardt) ; Mill Creek, Walla Walla, Wash., male, July 4, 

 1922 (A. L. Melander) ; Toppenish, Wash., male, June 28, 1925 (E. C. 

 Van Dyke) ; Snake River, Pullman, Wash., males and females, July 1932 

 (Clarke and Engelhardt) ; University Campus, Seattle, Wash., June 1928 

 (Engelhardt) ; Mount Rainier, Wash., 6,000 feet, male and female, reared 

 from willow, July 1927 (Engelhardt) ; Missoula, Mont., males and fe- 

 males, reared from Populus trichocarpa, June 17, 1913 (J. Brunner) ; 

 Glacier Park, Mont., male, August 15, 1927 (Engelhardt) ; Yellowstone 

 Park, Wyo., male and female, July 1922 (Engelhardt) ; Rexburg, Idaho, 

 5;000 feet, female, August 8, 1922; Earl Grey, Saskatchewan, male and 

 female, on cottonwood, July 1928 (J. D. Ritchie) ; Banff, Alberta, males 

 and females, on cottonwood, July 1928 (Engelhardt) ; Vancouver, British 

 Columbia, males and females, from cottonwood (R. Hopping) ; Merritt, 

 British Columbia, female, August 3, 1931 ; Victoria Island, British 

 Columbia, males and females, from silver poplar, July 1928 (Engelhardt). 



THE MELITTIA GROUP 



Genus MELITTIA Hubner 



Melittia Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, p. 128, 1819. (Genotype, 

 Sphinx boiiihyliformis Cramer [India].) 



Antennae broadly bipectinate, the pectinations shorter before apex; 

 simple in female. Labial palpus upturned, the hair short. Abdomen 

 cylindrical, pointed at apex ; anal tuft very slender. Posterior tibiae and 

 tarsi with very long hair on inner side. Forewing with 12 veins, 7 and 

 8 stalked to below apex, 10 and 11 narrowly separate. Hindwing with 

 vein 3 nearer to 2 than to 4. Male genitalia with apices of harpes pro- 

 duced or angular. Uncus short, furcate; socii present; vinculum long; 

 aedeagus nearly straight, swollen at base. Female genitalia with a short 



