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with short yellow pile; abdomen black above, gray l)elow ; appendages yellow- 

 ish. Wings heavily marked with brown, a large pale spot over arculus, and rest 

 of wing guttate with greyish-white, venation brown ; hind wings with stigma 

 darker, legs pale yellowish. On middle tibise basal spurs are but little more than 

 their length from base, but not twice as far from apex. In hind wings no first 

 apical, the upper branch of radial sector not forked. Male appendages as fig- 

 ured, apical part of lower appendages very slender, upper pair bifid from side- 

 view, above with an inward directed point. Expanse 15 mm. 



Agricultural College, Michigan, June 20tli. 



Arctopsyche apicalis u. sp.— Similar to A. ladogensis; wings pale, 

 veins fuscous, and more or less margined with fuscous, mostly in spots, and at apex 

 of the veins are other spots, sometimes more or less connected, and two spots on 

 costa near the stigma. Body black, head and thorax clothed with mostly grey- 

 ish-white hair, some yellow hair on prothorax, and black on the warts; legs pale 

 yellowish, tips of hind tibiae faintly blackish ; antennte heavy, yellowish, faintly 

 marked with brown. The first pair of spurs on the middle tibiae are at about the 

 middle of the length. Discal cell of forewings much longer than in the other 

 species, nearly twice as long as in A. ladogensis. Expanse 19-24 mm. 



Franconia, New Hampshire (Mrs. A. T. Slosson) ; Fourtli Lake, 

 Fulton Chain, Adirondack Mts., N. York, June 12th (Dickerson). 



Much smaller than the other species, and also differs from A. 

 grandis in lacking the many pale spots on the wings. 



Diplecf rona modesta n. sp.— Black ; with golden hair on head and 

 thorax, especially on the warts, between the antennie and at bases of the wings, 

 rest of thorax and the abdomen brownish ; legs pale yellowish, the femora rather 

 darker; wings brown, venation brown, surface with very short golden hairs. 

 Maxillary palpi very long; an tennse with each joint prominent below; spurs 2- 

 4-4, those on front pair very short, and the first pair on middle tibiffi are at 

 about the middle of length. On the side of abdomen, between the fourth and 

 fifth segment arises a very slender, stiff filament, which in the male reaches 

 nearly to the tip of the body. Wings moderately long ; venation similar to that 

 of D.felix, but the discal cell is much longer, and in the hindwings fork 1 is ex- 

 tremely short. Expanse, % , 17 mm. ; 9 > 19 ™™- 



Riverside, Mass., June (C. W. Johnson). 



