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Type. — Male. In the United States National Museum. This is the 

 only known specimen. 



Genus VESPAMIMA Beutenmuller 



Vespaminia Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 87, 1894. (Geno- 

 type, Bembecia sequoiae Hy. Edwards.) 



Tongue long, spiraled. Antennae of male bipectinate ; of female, simple. 

 Labial palpi nearly erect, reaching vertex ; second joint thickened, rough ; 

 third joint shorter with scaling protruding beyond apex. Forewing with 

 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked to costa; 10 and 11 narrowly separated. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3 and 4 short-stalked. Posterior tibiae roughly scaled 

 above ; first tarsal joint smooth, not thickened. Anal tuft fan-shaped. 

 Male genitalia very similar to those of Carnienta, but harpes and vinculum 

 shorter and blunter and the cornuti with fine granulations, no stout thorns 

 as in Carmenta. The sacculus ridge terminates, as in that genus, in a 

 curved pocketlike flap on the edge of the harpe, clothed with light-colored 

 flat scales and connected with the basal costal area by a broad oblique 

 streak of black, furcate scales. Female genitalia with ductus bursae 

 strongly sclerotized below ostium. 



KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF VESPAMIMA 



Wings transparent, abdomen yellow banded sequoiae (Hy. Edwards) 



Wings transparent, abdomen orange banded novaroensis (Hy. Edwards) 



Wings translucent, abdomen black and orange pini (Kellicott) 



In this genus have been assembled the three North American species 

 confined in host association to coniferous trees. In coloration they ap- 

 pear quite distinct, but in structure they conform so closely as to permit 

 this natural biological grouping. A description of the habits of one of 

 the species serves as well for the other two. 



VESPAMIMA SEQUOIAE (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 2, Figure 13 ; Plate 9, Figures 4-}-44a ; Plate 15, Figure 74 



Bemhecia sequoiae Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 181, 1881. — Packard, Insects 



injurious to forest and shade trees, U. S. Ent. Comm. Bull. No. 7, pp. 258, 261, 



1881 ; 5th Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.. pp. 733, 922, 1890. 

 Bembecia superha Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 181, 1881. 

 Aegeria pinormn Behrens, in French, Can. Ent., vol. 21, p. 163, 1889. — Packard, 5th 



Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., p. 731, 1890. 

 Vespaminia sequoiae Bexttenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 87, 1894; 



vol. 8, p. 119, 1896; vol. 9, p. 218, 1897; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 



6, p. 263, pi. 30, fig. 23 (male), 1901.— Williams, Ent. News, vol. 20, p. 58, 



1909. — McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United 



States of America, pt. 2, No. 8766, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae black, pectinations strong. Labial palpus with a 

 rough brush, yellow, black at the sides, terminal joint short, blackish. 

 Head black, posteriorly with a yellow fringe. Collar black, yellow at the 



