The Chonaphini 137 



(9.6 km) E, 9.0 mi (14.4 km) S Pierce, 0.5 mi (0.8 km) N Austin Ridge 

 Lookout, 4M,2F, 30 June 1978, and 15M, 2F, 29 July 1978, A. K. 

 Johnson (NCSM); 10.5 mi (16.8 km) E, 6.0 mi (9.6 km) S Pierce, 

 Knoll Cr. Cyn., 2M, 3F, 25 August 1978, A. K. Johnson (NCSM); 

 13.0 mi (20.8 km) SSE Pierce, Eldorado Ridge, 2M, 18 July 1978, and 

 2M, 3F, 25 August 1978, A. K. Johnson (NCSM); 3.0 mi (4.8 km) W 

 Lowell, M, 18 July 1963, W. F. Barr (FSCA); and Lowell, M, F, 4 July 

 1949, C. O. Bowles (NMNH). 



MONTANA: Sanders Co., 1.0 mi (1.6 km) W Noxon, 2M, F, 

 date unknown, R. Schmitt (NMNH, FSCA); Thompson Falls, 5M, F, 

 16 August 1967, J. R. Heifer (UCD); and 3.0 mi (4.8 km) SSE Thompson 

 Falls, Clark's Peak, Lolo Nat. For., 5M, 4 July 1950, B. Malkin 

 (CAS, NMNH, WSU). Missoula Co., Missoula, M, 7 July 1950, B. 

 Malkin (NMNH). 



The following literature record is considered accurate and indicated 

 by the open symbol in figure 68. 



WASHINGTON: Whitman Co., Madson (misspelled as Madison), 

 ca. 3 mi (4.8 km) W, 1 mi (1.6 km) S of Viola, Latah Co., ID 

 (Chamberlin 1911). 



Remarks — Hoffman (1979) suggested that the then five nominal 

 species of Chonaphe — armata, cygneia, patriotica, remissa, and 

 serratus — might be subspecifically related, and I (Shelley 1990) suggested 

 that the genus might be monotypic with all these names synonyms of 

 armata. However, the unpublished record that I cited from King County, 

 Washington, is referrable to C. remissa, and the one from Stevens 

 County, Washington, is a misidentification of a new species, C. 

 schizoterminalis. 



The newly cited records from Umatilla County, Oregon, are in 

 the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and corroborate my conclusion 

 (Shelley 1993^) that the type locality is in this range. In May 1993 I 

 spent two days in the vicinity of Canyon City, Grant County, the 

 presumptive type locality, attempting without success to confirm the 

 occurrence of C. armata in the southern Blue Mountains. This area 

 has been drastically altered by lumbering, and the only remaining 

 hardwoods are narrow willow and alder thickets along creeks. The 

 predominant vegetation is pine, and most of the southern Blue Mountains 

 are unsuitable for xystodesmids, which occur primarily in hardwood 

 associations. When Harger collected the types in October 1871, there 

 was surely an extensive hardwood community in the broad John Day 

 River Valley near the present towns of Mt. Vernon, John Day, and 



