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Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 5.) Presently known only from the Basin 

 and Range Province of southern Arizona. 



Discussion. — The adults of this moth, like those of T. meadi, seem 

 to emerge either in early summer or in late summer and early fall. 

 Jones (1928) reports finding full grown larvae and pupae in May and 

 the moths emerging in June. One specimen (the type) was collected 

 in August. 



Material examined. — 6 cfcf, 21 cases: 



Arizona: Specific locality unknown, case, USNM. Baboquivari Mts., c?" with 

 case, July 1-15, case, USNM. Dewey to Salome, en route, case, USNM. Pepper- 

 sauce Canyon, 3 cases, USNM. Roosevelt, case, USNM. Santa Catalina Mts., 

 4 cf cf , June 20-24; d", type, Aug. 24-30; 3 cases, USNM. Santa Rita Mts., 10 

 cases, USNM. 



55. Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haworth) 



Figures 59, 116, 117, 118, 144, 145, 168, 187, 241, 242, 294, 316, 317, 360, 383; 



Map 5 



Sphinx ephemeraeformis Haworth, Lep. Brit., p. 72, 1803. 



Aegeria ephemeraefor?)iis (Haworth) Stephens, lUustr. Brit. Ent. Haust., vol. 1, p. 

 145, 1828. 



Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haworth) Stephens, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 

 vol. 1, p. 76, pi. 10, fig. 1, 1836.— Wood, Index Ent., p. 239, pi. 52, fig. 1658, 

 1839. — Doubleday, Entomologist, p. 97, 1841.— Gosse, Zoologist, vol. 2, 

 pp. 537-540, 1844.— Walker, List Lep. Insects Brit. Mus., pt. 4, p. 959, 1855. 

 —Morris, Smiths. Misc. Coll., pt. 1, p. 142, 1862.— Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phila., vol. 6, p. 221, 1866. — Lintner, First Ann. Rep. Insects N.Y., vol. 1, 

 p. 81, fig. 13, 1882.— Kelhcott, Can. Ent., vol. 16, p. 180, 1884.— Kilman, 

 Can. Ent., vol. 16, p. 200, 1884.— Riley, Bull. U.S. Dep. Agric, Ent., no. 10, 

 p. 22, 1887.— Kirby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, p. 501, 1892.— Dyar, Ent. 

 News, vol. 4, p. 321, 1893.— Packard, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 8, p. 54, 

 1893.— Neumoegcn and Dyar, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, p. 118, 1894. 

 — Tutt, Ent. Rec. Journ. Var., vol. 7, pp. 121-123, 1 pi., 1895; Nat. Hist. 

 Brit. Lep., vol. 2, p. 374, pi. 5, 1900.— Girault, Ent. News, vol. 12, pp. 304- 

 305, 1901.— Dyar, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, no. 4065, 1902 [1903].— Holland, 

 Moth Book, p. 361, pi. 41, fig. 12, 1905.— Howard and Cliittenden, U.S. Dep. 

 Agric, Bur. Ent., circ. 97, 10 pp., 11 figs., 1908.— Harris, Psyche, vol. 16, 

 pp. 65-67, 1909.— Haseman, Missouri Agric Coll. Exp. Sta. Bull. 104, pp. 

 309-330, figs. 1-16, 1912.— Grossbeck, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, 

 p. 104, 1917.— Sharp, Cambridge Nat. Hist., Insects, vol. 2, p. 394, 1918. 

 —Jones, Ent. News, vol. 34, pp. 97-100, 1923.— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agric. 

 E.xp. Sta. Mem. 68, p. 144, figs. 101, 105, 1923.— Jones and Parks, Tex. Agric. 

 Exp. Sta. Bull. 382, p. 19, figs. 15, 16, 1928.— Forbes in Leonard, Cornell 

 Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 101, p. 539, 1928.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. 

 Cat., pars 34, p. 184, 1929. — Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1181, 

 pi. 169c, 1936. — McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada and USA, pt. 2, 



