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posterior fringe, one near tip and one at middle, rest of fringe dark 

 brown and extremely long; on the margin the veins end in minute 

 black spots. 



Expanse, 2.8 mm. 



One specimen from Falls Church, Va., 15 May. A very 

 handsome species. 



Psychoda interrupta, n. sp. ^ 



Head and thorax densely clotned with whitish hair above, some gray 

 on the middle of the thorax; antennae with gray hairs, tapering; 

 abdomen black, some white hair each side at tip; legs pale, marked 

 toward the tips with blackish, the hind tibia blackish at tip, the basal 

 and apical tarsal joints mostly black. Wings gray on basal part, with 

 few hairs, more densely haired on apical part and more or less dark 

 brownish, in some specimens a faint appearance of three dark bands, 

 one apical, one at middle, and one near base; costal fringe gray, white 

 near tip ; apical fringe snow-white, at outer anal angle a broad patch 

 of black fringe, basad of it is white, and then brownish. In the apical 

 part of the costa in well-marked specimens, are three small white spots, 

 slightly indenting the wings from the costal margin. 



Expanse, 2.4 mm. 



Several specimens from Plummers Island, Maryland, 24 

 July, 28 August, attracted to the light. 



Psychoda basalis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax with brownish hair, a prominent tuft of white hair 

 on face; antennse black; thorax rather yellowish brown; abdomen 

 black, with black hair; legs black, with some scattered white hairs, 

 rather longer than usual. Basal half of wing jet black, made so by 

 dense hairs from the veins, a tuft of gray at extreme base ; beyond the 

 middle of wing the hair is grayish and sparse ; basal, costal, and poste 

 rior fringes black, apical fringes less dense and grayish, although the 

 extreme tip is jet black. Allied to P. bicolor Bks., but distinct by 

 dark gray hair on thorax (white in P. bicolor), and by darker legs, etc. 



Expanse, 3.1 mm. 



Several specimens from Falls Church, Va., May 7 to 15. 



Psychoda apicalis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax with grayish-white hair above, brownish behind 

 on the thorax; antennse and legs jet-black; abdomen densely gray- 

 haired. Wings rather broad, black, some grayish-white hair on basal 



