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fourth of tlie wing, the next two forks are near the middle of the wing, the 

 upper branch of radial sector being simple (not forked just before tip as in many 

 species). Expanse 15 mm. 



Fort Collins, Colorado (Baker). 



Separated by its small size, unmarked and slender wings, etc. 



Hy dropsy che califoriiica n. sp. — Head brown, with whitish hair, a 

 cluster of black hairs over each eye, and another cluster on each anterior corner 

 of the mesothorax, rest of thorax whitish haired ; palpi dark at base, rest pale ; 

 antennae pale, obliquely annulate with brown ; abdomen rather pale, with a nar- 

 row dark stripe each side ; legs pale yellowish, base of hind femora rather black- 

 ish ; wings gray hyaline, more or less marked with black on costal area and 

 along the cubitus, apical portion of wing marmorate with white and brown, anal 

 region also sometimes mottled. Fore wings moderately short and broad, tip of 

 wing rounded, venation as usual, discal cell about one-third the length of the 

 apical cell beyond it, hind wings broader than fore wings, broadest in middle, 

 upper branch of radial sector forked just before the tip. Expanse 18 mm. 



Tehama, Cala., August; Gazelle, Cala., September (Morse). 



Psyclioinyia pnleliella n. sp.— Head, thorax and palpi dark brown ; 

 antenuge pale, annulate with brown; legs pale yellowish; wings gray hyaline, 

 with short gray hair and a gray fringe. Head with a rounded wart on the vertex 

 just above each eye ; antennae about one-half length of wings; pronotum with a 

 small tubercle each side ; mesonotum with a double depression, in each a rounded 

 wart, and behind on mesoscutellum is a broader depression with a small triangu- 

 lar wart in each side; spurs 2-4-4, long; fore wings rather long and slender, sub- 

 acute at tips, hind wings shorter, slender, and with a long fringe beliind, in fore 

 wings the radial sector has the upper branch short forked, the lower branch 

 much longer forked, both ending before tip of wing; upper branch of the cubitus 

 forked just beyond the cross-vein. Expanse 8 mm. 



Fort Collins, Colorado (Baker), 



RHYACOPHrLID.^. 



AGARODES n. gen. 



Spurs 2-2-4, subapical pair on hind legs much beyond the middle, 

 scarcely twice their length basad of apical pair ; no ocelli ; vertex 

 with two prominent, oblong, oblique warts ; antennte shorter than 

 wings, stout at base, basal joint short and stout, much shorter than 

 head; pronotum with two warts; maxillary palpi rather long, 

 hairy, last joint short but slender ; fore wings not very narrow, 

 hind wings shorter, but scarcely narrower, discoidal cell of both 

 wings open, cross-veinlets few and indistinct, but the thyridial is 

 closed in both wings, and the veinlet closing it gives off near the 

 middle a vein to margin of wing; short black spines on all tibite, 

 but mostly concealed by the pubescence ; size mo<lerate. 



TRANS. AM. BNT. SOC. XXV. (28) JANUARY, 1899. 



