1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 143 



The Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



THE PSYCHODID/E OF WASHINGTON. 



By TREVOR KINCAID, University of Washington. 



So far as the writer is aware no Psychodidae have been recorded 

 from the Pacific coast, therefore it was with great interest that 

 he undertook the investigation of the representatives of the group 

 found in this vicinity. Careful collecting carried on during sev- 

 eral months disclosed the fact that our Psychodid fauna is by no 

 means a meagre one, since five distinct species were obtained. 

 Of these only three were collected in sufficient quantities for 

 critical comparison, and as they do not agree with any of the 

 published descriptions they are hereby characterized as follows: 



Psychoda pacifica n. sp. Length 2.0-2.3 mm. Body brown, except 

 lateral margins of abdomen, which are dull white. Thorax and abdomen 

 thickly clothed with long gray hair, an especially prominent tuft upon the 

 potserior margin of thorax. Wings ovate, apex obtusely rounded, gray, 

 with gray hair upon the veins; fringe gray, very long upon the posterior 

 margin, shorter and more closely applied upon the anterior margin; length 

 3.0-3.5 mm. Legs brown, clothed with gray hair and scales; antenna 

 brown, as long as width of wing, i5-jointed, with verticillate gray hairs 

 upon the nodes; joints 1-3 closely united; joints 3-13 separated by slender 

 pedicles; joints 14-15 small and narrowly separated ; ^ genilalia con- 

 spicuous, with long gray hair above and below, several times as long as 

 the breadth of the end of the abdomen. Inferior appendages 3-jointed, 

 elongated, curving dorsally; first joint stout; second joint twice as Imu 

 as first, very slender, swollen slightly at base, tapering to an acute point; 

 third joint very minute, clavate. Superior processes one-half the length 

 of inferior, curving ventrally, 2-jointed; first joint swollen near the bas.- 

 second joint almost as long as first, slender, tapering to an acute point. 

 Ventral plate of 9 brown, with numerous gray scales and a few scattering 

 hairs, about as long as broad, terminating posteriorly in two blunt lobes 

 with a shallow emargination between ; ovipositor black, prominent, 

 slightly curved. 



Described from several hundred specimens taken at Seattle, 

 Wash., during the months of March and April. Several speci- 

 mens were also reared from manure, but the larvae were not 

 obtained. 



