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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 41. 



EMPHYTINA PLESIA, new name. 



Emphytus leucostomus Rohwer, Joum. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 16, 1908, p. 110; 

 not Costa, Rend. Ace. Sci. Gis. Napoli, 1890, p. 172. 



"Once a homonym always a homonym." This is close to aperta 

 (Norton). 



Fig. 7.— Apex of the sheath and the 



LOWER GONAPOPHYSES OF AMETASTE- 

 GIA (EMPHYTINA) CA14ADENSIS (KiRBY). 



Drawing from a specimen bred by 

 Dr. H. G. Dyar and recorded in the 

 canadla.n entomologist, vol. 26, 1894, 

 P. 185. Larva on Viola tricolor Lin- 



N^US 



Fig. 8.— Apex of the sheath and 

 SAW OF Ametastegla. (Emphy- 

 tina) canadensis (Kirby). From 

 a specimen bred en washington, 

 d. c, from larv^ feedeno on 

 violets, the larv.5; were col- 

 lected at poughkeepsie, new 

 York. 



EMPHYTINA CANADENSIS (Kirby). 



The accompanying figures show variation in the saw and sheath of 

 this species. In other respects the specimens are practically the 

 same. 



Fig. 9.— Apex of the 

 sheath and saw of 

 ametastegl4. (emphy- 

 TINA) APERTA (Norton). 

 This specimen was not 

 compared with the 

 type, but agrees with 

 A series weoch is sup- 

 posed TO BE THIS SPECIES 

 IN THE COLLECTION OP 



THE Museum. 



Fig. 10.— Apex of the saw 



AND SHEATH OF AMETAS- 



tegia (emphytina) inor- 

 nata(Say). Drawing of 

 a specimen which agrees 

 exactly with a proxy- 

 type made by rohwer 

 IN THE Museum collec- 

 tion. 



