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Distribution : Canada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts 

 (Cresson) ; Ithaca and Saranac Inn, New York; Roxboro, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Host plant : "White birch." Specimens from Ithaca. New 

 \ ork, and the birch is probably Bctiila populifolia Marsh. 



Xiphydria canadensis Provancher. 



Xiphydria canadensis Provancher, N T at. Can. vol. 7, 1875, p. 373. 



Type in first Provancher collection. Public Museum, Quebec. 

 bearing yellow label 137. 



This species although close to tibialis Say should be easily 

 distinguished by the characters given in the above table. 



Distribution : Other than the Canadian specimens in the 

 Public Museum of Quebec the only other specimen seen is a 

 female collected on the sand at Virginia Beach, Virginia, by 

 A. D. Hopkins. 



Xiphydria tibialis Say. 



Xiphydria tibialis Say, Keating's Narr. Exped. vol. 2, 1823, appendix 

 p. 312; Leconte's Ed. of Say, vol. i, 1859, p. 208. 



The type of this species is lost, but a specimen from New 

 Jersey agrees well with the type and is considered a neorype. 



Distribution: Pennsylvania (type locality); Canada (Har- 

 rington) ; New Jersey (collection and Smith IQIO) ; Omega, 

 Kansas (Crevecoeur). 



Species not recognized. 



Xiphydria basalis Say. 



Xiphydria basalis Say, Boston Jn. Nat. Hist. vol. i, 1836. p. 22; Le- 

 conte's Edit. Say, vol. 2, 1859, p. 681. 



Konoiiia basalis (Say). MacGillivray, Bull. 22 Conn. Geolg. Nat. Hist. 

 Survey, 1917, p. 169. 



The type of this species is of course lost and there are no 

 specimens in any of the collections studied which can be this 

 species. Judging from the description it is correctly placed, by 

 MacGillivray, in the genus Konowia. Konow treats this as a 

 good species with -a'alshii Westwood as a synonym. 



Xiphydria walshii Westwood. 



Xiphydria ivalshii Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 113; 

 Kirby, Hym. Brit. Mus. vol. I, 1882, p. 371, pi. 14, fig. 14; Har- 



