464 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
to tip of wings 75 to 90 mm; alar expanse 90 to 125 mm. This 
Species includes the largest members of the genus found in the 
new world. 
Vancouver island; in California at San José, and near Alder 
Creek, Sacramento co. 
9 C. californicus Walker 
18538 Chauliodes californicus Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neur. 
p.199 
1861 Chauliodes californicus Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. 
p.190 
1869 Chauliodes californicus McLachlan, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (4), 4:40 
1892 Chauliodes ecalifornicus Banks, Am. Ent. Soe. Trans. 
19:357 
Body brownish black; mouth parts rufous, mandibles often 
with only one tooth below the apex; hind part of head rufous 
with flat, 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 Ney. 
10 C. cinerasceous Blanchard 
1851 Chauliodes cinerasceous Blanchard, Gay, Hist. Chile, y.6, 
Neur. pl.2, fig.10 
1861 Chauliodes chilensis Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. p.321 
(nomen nudum) 
1869 Chauliodescinerasceous 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 
