1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 



Psychoda oacifica Kinciid. Ent. Xew>, VIII. 6. 



This species, originally described from Sei tile, seems to ran^e 

 along- tbe whole Pacific coast. -in<-e rcpn-e;it -itives have been ex- 

 amined from Alaska, Oregon, eastern Washington and California, 

 which, although varying in -ome respects from the type speci- 

 mens, seem to lie specifically tin- same. Tin- Alaska specimens were 

 secured by the writer during the summer of isjts at Sitka. Unala-ka 

 and the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea. The variety found upon 

 the Pribi lot's di tiers considerably trom the type form. They are ou 

 the average much smaller than the la Her: the antenna?, are 14- 

 jointed, owing to the absence of one of the small terminal articles, 

 and the inferior appendages of the male ^enit'.ilia are much more 

 trongly curved towards the tip. The Vnalaskan and Sitkau ex- 

 amples resemble the types quite closely, about the only difference 

 being that the wings are more acutely pointed than is usual in the 

 latter. The Oregon specimens were taken at Corval Its, Oregon, 

 during tlic month of June, 1898, while the California!) example- 

 were included in a collect KM: of Psychodid; - >c:it to the writer 

 through the courtesy of Mr. R. lv Sr,odirr:is> from the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. From Pn>t'e--<,r Charles V. Piper, of 

 the Washington Agricultural College, four specimens of P.pa- 

 cfftca were recently obtained, which were colic -led at Pullman. 

 Washington, the specimens being dated from July 12 to July 27, 

 1898. 

 Psychoda oiympia Kincaid. Ent. Xews, VIII. ( : . 



This isa Pencomn. The posterior bifurcation is much nearerthe 

 base of the wing than is the anterior one: thcwinir i- ])oinicd ex- 

 actly at the tip of the tirst simple vein. 

 Psychoda sigma, n. sp. 



? Body yellowish white, clothed with creaip- colored hair; wings 

 ovate, apex obtusely rounded, more than t \vioe as long as broad, 

 clothed with rrram-rolored hair upon the veins, except an indis- 

 tinct S-ximped band of black across the middle; fringe quite dense 

 and Jong, cream -colored, except t wo pa \c\\c- of black at the anterior 

 and posterior tarminations of the s-shapcd dU;-al band: length .f 

 wing '2.5 mil). Legs yellowish white, clothe. 1 wit h cn-im-colorc 1 

 hair and scales. Aiileniin- longer than the width of the wing. 1 I 

 jointed, with verticillatc whorls of cream colored hair upon the 

 nodes; joints 1-2 small, closely united ; joint- ;;-]:; globular, -epa- 

 rated by slender pedicles ; joint 14 minute. Ventral plate yellow- 

 ish, very narrow at ba^e, broadening toward^ the apex, which i.- 

 prodaced in two divergent lobe-: o-.ipo-itor yellow. >hort. almo-t 

 straight. 



Sun Her than , with t he bl irk band upon the wing- lerlearl\ 

 evident. (Jenitalia conspicuous, brown, clothed with long crcam- 

 colored hair. Inferior apiiendagc^ ::-jointcd : joint 1 stout, cyliu 

 dvical ; joint 2 twice as long as 1. -lender. -lighi iy swollen ::t la>c. 

 curving upw inl- : joint :: very slender, cylindri il t-ipering at ape\. 





