1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ;{.-, 



Habitat: Pullman, Wash. Collected by Mr. R. \V. Doane. 

 of the Washington Agricultural College, 



Pericoma trunca'a, n. sp. 



9 Body brown, densely clothed with mixed white and dark- 

 brown hair. Wings ovate, broadly rounded at the tip, not quite 

 twice as long as broad ; hair upon the veins principally dark brown, 

 with a rather large patch of white ueir the middle of the wiug and 

 its ape:: fringe dirk brown, on posterior margin as long as the 

 width of three cells and with small patches of white hair alternating 

 with the brown in It- at the apices of the veins; bifurcations of the 

 veins equidistant from the base of the wing ; length of wiug 4 mm. 

 Legs brown, clothed with brown hair and scales, interspersed with 

 a few longer white hairs. Antennae black, not quite as long as the 

 wid f h of the wing, 17-joiuted ; joint 1 rather large, cylindrical ; 

 joint -2 large, globose ; joints 3-1G fusiform, covered with scattered 

 hairs; joint 17 minute; ventral plate longer than broad, broadly 

 truncate at the apex : ovipositor yellow, long and slender, strongly 

 cur veil. 



Habitat : Palo Alto, Cal. From the collection of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. Collected by Mr. E. E. Snod- 

 grass. 

 Sycorax lanceolata, n. sp. 



Body brown, clothed with brown hair, which appears black in 



some lights. Wings extremely narrow, four times as long as broad, 



apex sharply acuminate and pointed exactly at the tip of the single 



simple nervure; anterior and posterior bifuiv it ion- di-taut from 



the l'i-e of the wing, respectively, two-thirds and one-third the 



wing's length ; veins unevenly clothed with brown Ir.iir, similar to 



that upon the body ; fringe very he ivy. colored similarly to the hair 



upon 1 he veins, on the posterior margin somewhat shorter : length 



of \\ing - nun. Leg- brown, clothed with bro\\ n hair, except on 



the basil joints ol' all the tarsi, which are covered with white hair 



Antenii -hoi I. -tout, about three- fourths as loiiir a- the width of 



the winn'. 15-jointed; joint 1 cylindrical ; joint 2 globose, larger 



than succeed inn- joint-- joint- :'-15 linear and sparsely clothed with 



brown hair. Yentr.il plate elongate, broad at the base, and nar- 



vowe I towards the apex, which is bilobed and linearly emar^inate. 



Habitai: Palo Alto, Cal. August 3, 1898. ( >ne specimen : 



S;;ii1a Crux Mnuulains. August !>, IS'.)."). Three spccininis : 

 colh-ctimi :i|' l he 1, eland Stanford .Junior l"ni\ ci^it \ . A I mot a. 

 \Y;;-h. Ten specimens, collected by Mr. H. W . Doane. of tlie 

 \\'ashing1<)ii Agricultural College. 



This inlen-sl ing species belongs lo Ilallida\ '> -x-cond di\ ision 

 of the Psychodida?, containing genera with a single simple 



