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to tip of wings 75 to 90 mm; alar expanse 90 to 125 mm. This 

 species inclndes the largest members of the genus found in th<^ 

 new world. 



Vancouver island; in California at San Jos^, and near Alder 

 Creek, Sacramento co. 



9 C. californicus Walker 



1853 Chauliodes californicus Wallvcr, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neiu\ 



P.399 

 1861 Chauliodes californicus Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. 



p.190 

 1869 Chauliodes californicus McLachlan, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (4), 4:40 

 1892 Chauliodes californicus Banks, Am. Ent. Soc. Trans. 



19:3157 



Body brownish black; mouth parts rufous, mandibles often 

 with only one tooth below the apex; hind part of head rufous 

 with fiat, somewhat shining streaks and spots; prothorax behind 

 with a flexuous, obsolete, rufous stripe, the middle elevated and 

 more obsolete; legs brown; antennae brown, stout, long as body 

 in male, much longer than head and thorax in female; those of 

 the male densely covered with bristles, giving a feathered 

 appearance; two basal joints naked; wings cinereous, veins of 

 front pair transversely lined with the fuscous markings of the 

 cells which cross them; from costal margin of all the wings a 

 basal brownish black streak, and sometimes apical ones; other 

 brown spots often present, specially on the front wings; in front 

 pair, cross veins between all the branches of radius, about seven 

 to nine; and radial sector with five branches. Length to tip of 

 wings 45 to 60 mm; alar expanse 75 to 100 mm. 



Mariposa and in Siskiyou county, Cal. and Reno Nev. 



10 C. cinerasceous Blanchard 

 1851 Chauliodes cinerasceous Blanchard, Gay, Hist. Chile, v. 6, 



Neur. pl.2, fig.lO 

 1861 Chauliodes c h i 1 e u s i s Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. p. .321 



(nomen nudum) 

 1869 Chauliodes cinerasceous Blanchard, McLachlan, Ann. and 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), 4:41 



General color ashy; head pale variegated; prothorax rugose, 

 a pale line behind; legs and feet same color as abdomen, wings 



