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A single female specimen collected at Parkdale June 18, 

 1917, by the author, at an altitude of about 3500 feet in a pine 

 forest. 



We know of no species which could be easily confused with 

 this one ; it appears to be quite distinct. It is nearer to B. land- 

 fcr than to any other species. 



Holotype (No. 518), female, in Museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



8. Bombylius aurifer pendens Cole, new subspecies 



(Plate 14, fig. 7) 



Male: Length 5 to 8 mm. Body black, covered with long dense pile 

 which varies from golden yellow to a silvery white; face and frontal 

 triangle gray; epistoma with long white pile reaching down over the oral 

 margin; frontal triangle with short appressed white pile; beard and pile 

 of occiput white; antennae black, third joint about twice the length of the 

 first two (Fig. 7) ; proboscis about 2^ times the length of the head. 



Thorax deep black with sparse yellow tomentum ; pile of anterior part a 

 silvery white, on the sides golden yellow; scutellum with long golden 

 .vellow pile and sparse yellow tomentum ; pleura gray with white pile ; 

 halteres yellow. 



Abdomen gray-black with long yellow pile, darker near the base ; a 

 small tuft of black pile on the anterior lateral margins of the third and 

 fourth segments. 



Middle and front femora black with fine hairs below, the hind pair 

 black at base with a double row of spines below and a number above on 

 the outer third; tibiae reddish, the tarsi darker, blackish toward the tip; 

 femora and tibiae thickly covered with whitish scales; proximal part of 

 wings reddish brown, the color reaching a little beyond the tip of the first 

 vein and the anterior cross-vein ; the remainder of the wing gray hyaHne. 



Female: Very nearly like male. Pile paler and the occiput densely 

 clothed with white tomentum; third antennal joint slightly thicker. Some 

 black pile above on mystax ; frons covered with shining yellow tomentum 

 and with some erect yellow pile ; pile of occiput more yellowish ; brown of 

 proximal part of wings paler and not defined as in the $ . There is some 

 variation in the pile and coloring. 



Holotype (No. 469), male, and allotype (No. 470), female, 

 in Museum of California Academy of Sciences, collected at 

 Hood River, Oregon, June 18, 1917 (F. R. Cole). 



Described from 6 $ $ and 3 9 9 collected by the senior 

 author in June at Parkdale, Dee and Hood River, all in the 

 Hood River Vallev, Oregon. 



9. Anthrax macula Cole, new species 

 (Plate IS, fig. 8) 



Frons black semi-shining, with a dent in the center; face reddish with 

 silvery tomentum and white pile; occiput black; frons with yellow and 



