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*contractus Townes. B. C, Wash., Oreg., Calif. Hosts: PHstiphora erichso- 

 nii (Htg.), ILamhdina fiscellaria lugiihrosa (Hist.). 

 Pleolophus contractus Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. 

 Inst. Mem. 2: 225, 237. $,9. 

 *coriaceu8 Townes. Sask., Alta. 



Pleolophus coriaceus Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer, Ent. 

 Inst. Mem. 2: 225, 229. $. 



*furvus Townes. Colo. (Rocky Mt. N. P.). 



Pleolophus furvus Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent, Inst. 

 Mem. 2: 225, 228. $. 



*grossus Townes, N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., D. C, N. C, Mich., Kans., N. Dak., 

 B. C, Wash. Oreg. 

 Pleolophus grossus Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. 

 Inst. Mem. 2: 225, 226, 229. $, 9. 



indistinctus (Provancher) . Sask., Man., Ont., Iowa, N. C. Hosts: Neodiprion 

 ahhotii (Leach), A^. pratti banksianae Rohw., N. nanulus Schedl, 

 N. sertifer (Geof.), N. stvainei Midd., N. virginianus Rohw., N. 

 sp., Pristiphora geniculata (Htg.). Transf. from Aptesis Foerster, 

 p. 255 (teste Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, p. 238). 

 Biology: Finlayson, 1960. Canad. Ent. 92 (1) : 32. 



*nigribasis Townes. Colo., N. Mex. 



Pleolophus nigribasis Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. 

 Inst. Mem. 2: 225, 237. $. 



'^pilatus Townes. Labrador, Mich., Minn. 



Pleolophus pilatus Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. 

 Inst. Mem. 2: 224, 225, 227, $,9. 



rubrocinctus rubrocinctus (Provancher), Ont., N. H., Mass., Ohio. Transf. 

 from Aptesis Foerster (teste Townes 1962. In Townes and Gupta, 

 p. 231, 232). 



^rubrocinctus rufifemur Townes. Alaska, B. C, Alta., Wash., Oreg., Calif., 



Idaho, Mont., Wyo. 

 Pleolophus rubrocinctus rufifemur Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, 



Amer. Ent. Inst. Mem. 2: 231, 233. $,9. 

 Aptesis rubrocincta n. subsp. Transf. from Aptesis Foerster, p. 255. 



♦Genus RHYTURA Townes 



Rhrtura Townes, 1962, In Townes and Gupta, Amer, Ent. Inst, Mem. 2: 

 9, 10, 244, 



Type: Rhytura pendens Townes, Orig, desig, and by mono- 



typy. 



Place before Aptesis Foerster, p. 255. 



*pendens Townes. Que. and Ont. south to Ga., west to Minn. 



Rhytura pendens Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. Inst. 

 Mem. 2: 244. $, 9. 



Genus APTESIS Foerster, p. 255 



*Oxytaenia Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande Verb. 25: 182. Syn. 

 by Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, p. 246. 



Type: (Oxytaenia rufolineata Cameron) = barda (Cresson). 

 Included by Cameron, 1904. 



*aIbifrons Townes. N. Y. (Rome). 



Aptesis albifrons Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer. Ent. Inst. 

 Mem. 2: 248,267. $. 



*alpestris Townes. B. C. to Calif., Idaho, Colo., Ariz. 



Aptesis alpestris Townes, 1962. In Townes and Gupta, Amer, Ent. Inst. 

 Mem. 2: 250, 255. $,9. 



