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except u pon a broad transverse band near the base and au outwardly 

 curved row of small patches just beyond the middle, which are 

 white; fringe both on anterior and posterior margin, with alter- 

 nate patches of white and black hair; length of wing 2.S mm. An- 

 tennae black, as- long as the width of the wing, 17-joiuts; joints 1-3 

 .stout, cylindrical, densely hairy; joints 4-17 small, fusiform, thinly 

 clothed with long white hair. Ventral plate brown, s'.iallowly 

 emarginate at apex: ovipositor brown, rather long, almost straight. 



Habitat: Seattle, Wash. Swept from bushes May 8, 1898. 

 Pericoma bipunctata, n sp 



9 Body brown, clothed with white bair. Legs brown, clothed 

 with white hair, some of the latter being long Wings broadly 

 rounded at the tip, about twice as long as broad, clotheJ upon the 

 veins with white and black Iriir. the black most pronounced at the 

 apices of the veins and upon the bifurcations, the white most evi- 

 dent near the base and towards the apex, where there are small, ir- 

 regular patches of this color; fringe black, except a spot extending 

 from the apex of the third longitudinal vein to the end of the 

 seventh and a small patch between the eighth and ninth vein, which 

 are white; bifurcations equidistant from the bass of the wing; 17- 

 joiuted ; joint 1 rather large, cylindrical ; joint 2 broader taanl. 

 globular ; joints 3-17 fusiform, clothed with scattered w r hite hairs; 

 joints 3-4 bear dorsally a row of strong erect black setas. Ventral 

 plate squarely produced, slightly emarginate at apex. 



$ Gentalia conspicuous, black, clothed with white hair. 



Habitat: Seattle, Wash. (U); Santa Cruz Mountains, Gal- 

 (1J; 1?); from the collection of Lelaucl Stanford Junior 

 University. 

 Pericoma furcata, n. sp. 



9 Body brown, clothed with white hair, among which a few 

 black hairs are scattered. Wing twice as long a? broad, narrowly 

 rounded at the apex, which is pointed between the simple veins; 

 vieus clothed with black and white hairs as follows: Two curved 

 rows of prominent black tufts across the middle of the wing, be- 

 tween which the hair is principally white: the area betv/een tho 

 outer row of black tufts and the apex of the wing principally with 

 black hair 1 area between the inner row of black tufts and base of 

 wing, with mixed black and white hair : friuge black, with white 

 tufts at apices of all the veins; bifurcations equidistant from the 

 base of the wing: length of wing 2.8 mm. Auieun;r a~ long as the 

 width of the wing, 16-jointed; joints 1-2 >liirhtly larger than the 

 succeeding ones; joints 3-1G swollen at base and be'iring loo>e tul't- 

 of black hair. Legs with alternate annulations of black and white 

 hair. Ventral plate dilated basal ly, a ml strongly produced in the 

 middle, the production bilolie:! and angularly emarginate at apex: 

 ovipositor moderately long, almost straight . 



