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Psychoda elegans n. sp. Length 1.6-2 mm. Thorax and dorsal surface 

 of abdomen brown; lateral margins of abdomen dull white; ventral sur- 

 face of abdomen brownish, varying to dull white. Thorax and abdomen 

 sparsely clothed with gray hair. Legs brown, clothed with gray hair and 

 scales. Wings lanceolate, acutely pointed, with gray hair upon the veins; 

 fringe gray, sparse, short upon anterior margin, somewhat longer on pos- 

 terior margin; antennae brown, one and one-half times as long as breadth 

 of wing, i6-jointed, with verticillate hairs upon the nodes; joints 1-3 closely 

 jointed, joints 3-13 separated by slender pedicels; joints 14-16 small, 

 narrowly separated: (^ genitalia brown, with gray hair above and below, 

 somewhat prominent. Inferior appendages moderately long, curving 

 dorsally, 3 -jointed; first joint broad at base, conical; second joint as long 

 or a little longer than first, swollen at base, tapering; third joint extremely 

 slender, cylindrical, about one-sixth as long as second joint. Superior 

 appendages about one half the length of inferior, 2-jointed ; first joint 

 stout, ovate; second joint slender, longer than first, 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 

 prominent lobes with a semicircular emargination between ; ovipositor 

 black, prominent, strongly curved. 



Described from about fifty specimens taken at Seattle, Wash., 

 during the March and April. 



Psychoda olympia n. sp. Length 2. mm. Body brown, densely clothed 

 with dark gray hair. Legs brown, clothed with dark gray hair; a number 

 of long white hairs scattered over the tibice; tarsi with gray scales. Wings 

 lanceolate, acutely pointed; length 3.5 mm.; fringe on anterior margin 

 black, as long as the width of a cell, with a long tuft near base, on poste- 

 rior margin gray, sometimes with a few black hairs, as long as the width 

 of three cells; small patch of black hair at tip of each vein, an irregular 

 band of black hair across wing towards apex, immediately internal to this 

 two patches of white hair which occasionally run together into a band; 

 small patch of white hair at base of wing; region near base with mixed 

 black and white hair; antennae i6-jointed, dark, clothed with verticillate 

 gray hairs upon the nodes, except first and second joints, which are cov- 

 ered with scales; first joint cylindrical; second joint round; joints 3-14 

 fusiform, produced into tapering pedicels; joints 15-16 small, without 

 pedicels; length in ? as long as width of wing with fringe, in ^ twice the 

 breadth of wing; <$ genitalia not conspicuous, brown, with scattering 

 gray hairs. Inferior appendages 2-jointed; first joint oblong, stout, united 

 into a broad plate ventrally, which is produced posteriorly into a small, 

 median, conical process; second joint slightly longer than first, obclavate, 

 slightly curved, apex truncated and bearing a group of long stiff bristles. 

 Superior appendages as long as inferior, 2-jointed; first joint oblong; 

 second joint a little longer than first, slender, tapering to an acute point. 

 Ventral plate of 9 as broad as long, terminating posteriorly in two finely 



