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from above, 9th tergite, caudal margin almost straight with a 

 little rounded knob or hook on either side of the median line; 

 pleurites very short and stout, with three apical appendages, the 

 more dorsal being the longest, slender at base, swollen subapically, 

 the extreme tip slightly hooked and strongly chitinized, this 

 appendage directed caudad and entad; two ventral appendages, 

 the more dorsal being short, blunt, very strongly chitinized at its 

 tip and with numerous, triangular denticulae, closely and regularly 

 set; ventral appendage slender, curved at a right angle, its tip 

 directed cephalad. Anal tube very conspicuous, pale whitish, 

 slightly notched at its tip. Second gonapophyses rather slender, 

 tips expanded, the organs directed caudad. Viewed from beneath, 

 the 9th sternite has a rectangular median protuberence. 



Female.- — Sim.ilar, larger; the dark apices of the abdominal 

 sternites not well marked. 



Vial No. A.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912; 1 9 • 



Vial No. 7.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912; 2 cf , 1 9 . 



Vial No. 18.— Tokyo, Japan; June 26, 1912; 49. 



Vial No. 23.— Tokyo, Japan; June 25, 1912; 3a^. 



Vial No. 48.— Tokyo, Japan; August, 1912; IcT. 



Holotype.— 9 • Vial 48. 



Allotype.— 9 • Vial A. 



Paratypes.— 5 cf , 5 9 . Vials 7, 18, 23. 



Types in author's collection; paratypes in U, S. National 

 Museum and Cornell University Collections, 



This species differs from L. varicornis Cog. (Japan)* in its 

 shorter antennae; legs not all yellow, but the segments conspic- 

 uously tipped with darker; abdomen not yellow; wings with 

 petiole of cell Mi much longer than cell 1st M2, etc. L. varicornis 

 also, is probably a Pcecilostola. 



Tribe Pedicini. 



Genus Tricyphona Zetterstedt. 



Key to the Japanese Tricyphona. 



1 . Wings hyaline or nearly so, not spotted or striped ; cross-veins 

 r-m connected with vein R4+5 beyond the fork of 



Rs insulana, sp. n. 



*Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 21, p. 301 (1893). 



