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of Inyo, 10,150 feet, 2 o", June 21-23, 1961, coll. J. A. Powell (UCB). 

 Placer Co. Colfax, 1 cf , May, coll. A. H. Vachell (AMNH). Tuolumne 

 Co. : Ackerson Meadows, 3 miles S. of Mather, 4,700 feet, 1 cf , June 11, 

 1960, coll. J. M. Burns (UCB). Oregon: Josephine Co.: Rogue 

 River, 3 d", May 7, 1872, Walsingham 91854, d' genitaUa slide DRD 

 1373, 91857, 91859 (BM) : same data, 1 cT, Walsingham 91855, cd 

 genitaha slide DRD 1800 (USNM). Described from a total of 31 

 males and 17 females. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distribution (map 8). — This species seems to be restricted pri- 

 marily to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Sections of the Pacific 

 Mountains System from east-central California north to southern 

 Oregon. 



Discussion. — This species and the following one, B. spicata, are 

 undoubtedly closely related and can be said to form a species group as 

 evidenced particularly by the very similar male genitalia. The two 

 species can be easily distinguished by the distinctly different forms of 

 the valvae. The aedeagi of the two species are rather unique in 

 possessing a single row of erect, spicate cornuti. It is possible that the 

 higher number or relative position of the cornuti in B. shastana as 

 compared to the few present in B. spicata is significant; however, it 

 will be necessary to examine additional material in order to evaluate 

 the relative variation and importance of this particular character. 



The great amount of variation exhibited by B. Jidelis may seem to 

 question or minimize the genitalic differences mentioned above between 

 B. shastana and B. spicata. In addition to those characters, however, 

 there appears to be a basic difference in maculation between these 

 two insects. Although the unique holotype of B. spicata is somewhat 

 rubbed, its maculation appears nearest to B. Jidelis and distinct from 

 B. shastana. Furthermore, the female of the latter is known, and it is 

 very possible that the unnamed Bondia discussed on page 65 as 

 species no. 2 may represent the female of B. spicata. 



Bondia spicata, new species 



Figures 20, 70; Map 8 



Adult (fig. 20). — ^Wing expanse: cT, 16 mm. 



Head: Fuscous, heavily irrorated with white; majority of scales 

 with white apices. Antennae fuscous, faintly ringed with grayish 

 white. Labial palpi pale fuscous; inner surfaces paler, grayish; most 

 scales with whitish tips. 



Thorax: Fuscous, irrorated with white; majority of scales white 

 tipped ; undersides of thorax almost uniformly grayish white. Pro- and 

 meso thoracic legs pale fuscous, faintly irrorated with white; apices 

 of tibial and tarsal segments faintly ringed with white; metathoracic 



