96 KING AID [356] 



lower margin nearly straight, tapering slightly. Color black; face 

 below frontal crest, flagellum beneath, inner and outer orbits, greater 

 part of pronotum, tegular, spots on pectus and pleura sometimes absent, 

 medial area of venter, apical segment of tergum, and legs, yellowish 

 white ; bases of all the coxa? and lines above on femora black ; wings 

 hyaline; stigma and costa yellowish, remaining nervures brown. 



Male: Length 5.5 mm. ; antenna? longer than in the female, stout 

 at base, tapering; colored as in the female but the antenna? are not 

 pale beneath and the stigma is brown ; tarsi more or less inf uscated. 



Nine females and four males, Popof Island, July, 1899. 



Type no. 5295, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to Pontania stigmatalis Marlatt, but that species is smaller, 

 the clypeus is deeply emarginate and the antennal fovea is shallow. 



PONTANIA KUKAKIANA sp. nov. 



Female: Length 5.5 mm.; robust; head finely granulated, nar- 

 rowed behind the compound eyes ; clypeus narrowly emarginate ; area 

 in front of ocelli without ridges ; frontal crest obsolete ; antennal 

 fovea shallow, indistinct ; antenna? as long as head and thorax, slen- 

 der third joint shorter than fourth ; stigma narrow, tapering ; sheath 

 moderately robust, tapering above and below to a rather acute apex. 

 Color black ; spot between antenna?, labrum, clypeus, orbits, prothorax, 

 sutures of mesonotum, tegulae, pleura?, pectus venter of abdomen, and 

 legs, dull reddish; base of medial and posterior femora more or less 

 infuscated. 



One female, Kukak Bay, July 2. 



Type no. 5300, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to Pontania desmodioides Walsh, but in that species the 

 head is strongly punctured and the fovea is deeply excavated. 



SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING SPECIES OF PONTANIA. 



Females. 



Body black. 



Sheath acuminate at tip tundra sp. nov. 



Sheath not acuminate. 



Venation normal unga sp. nov. 



Second recurrent interstitial, also outer veins of discal cells in 



hind wings ora sp. nov. 



Body with pale markings. 

 Pectus pale. 



Antenna? yellow .popofiana sp. nov. 



Antenna? black kuka'kiana sp. nov. 



