316 AMERICAN PSYCHODID^. 



approximate, short and blunt; they are not much more than one-half as long as 

 the diameter of the tip of the body, and but little upcurved ; the superior pair 

 are nearly as long, stout, aud tapering to a point; they are wide apart at base, 

 but curve toward each other. The ventral plate of the female is broad, yellow 

 at tip, aud broadly notched, but the notch is but one-half as deep as wide; the 

 ovipositor is twice as long as plate and a little curved. Length of wing 2.5- 

 "2.9 mm." 



//aft.— Sea Cliff', N. Y., aud Battle Creek, Mich. 



I'syclioda scliizura Kincaid. 

 Psychoda schiznrn Kincaid, Entomological News, X, p. 32 (1899). 



"Female. — Body whitish, clothed with gray hair on the thorax and silvery 

 white on the abdomen. Legs whitish, becoming darker basally, clothed with 

 white hairs aud scales. Wings a little more than twice as long as broad, rather 

 acutely pointed at the apex ; hair upon the veins white and black, distributed in 

 alternate patches, so as to give the surface of the wings a mottled appearance; 

 well-marked patches of black at the apex of veins; fringe on posterior margin 

 gray ; length of wings 2.7 mm. Antennae not as long as the width of wing, 15- 

 jointed ; basal joints not much larger than succeeding ones; joints 3-15 globular, 

 separated by slender pedicles, which are about as long as the nodes, each joint 

 bearing a verticillate tuft of white hair. Ventral plate V-shaped ; ovipositor short. 



''Male. — Smaller than female. Inferior appendages extremely long, 3-joiuted ; 

 joint 1 stout, cylindrical ; joint 2 almost twice as long as 1, enlarged at the base 

 and tapering to the apex ; joint 3 minute, clavate. Superior appendages as long 

 as first joint of inferior, 2-jo)nted, tapering to an acute point." 



Hub.— Seatt]e, Wash., August 13th to September 1st. 



FNychoda floridica n. sp. 



Head aud thorax yellow, clothed with light gray and black hair, the latter 

 predominating on the thorax; abdomen black, variegated with brown between 

 the segments; clothed with gray and smoky hair; tuft of long, smoky gray hair 

 on posterior edge of thorax extending over half way to tip of abdomen. Females 

 larger than males; length of wing 2.75-2.9 mm.; breadth 1-1. 1 mm. Males: 

 length 2.15-2.22 ram.; breadth .75-.80 mm. Wings rather acutely angulated at 

 tip of median vein ; evenly and well clothed with light gray hair; with distinct 

 blotches of black; tips of all the veins except 5-7-9 with rather distinct patches 

 of black hair; that at tip of 6 extending basally almost half-way to the furca- 

 tion ; that on 4 extending hardly so far; blotch at tip of first vein extending out 

 onto the fringe and across onto vein 2; anterior fringe darker than posterior; 

 posterior quite broad; cubital furcation slightly nearer base than tip of wing; 

 about one-eleventh length of wing nearer base than radial furcation. Antennse 

 equal the breadth of wing, 13-jointed ; basal joints stronger than succeeding 

 ones; first longer than broad, second globular, 3-12 with basal enlargements aud 

 slender pedicles; 13 with basal enlargement and terminal spike bearing three 

 slight enlargements ; pedicles of median segments much longer than nodes ; each 

 node with dense, long grayish whorl, which includes the base of the succeeding 

 segment; nodes yellow, i)edicles lighter. Legs pale yellow, with light hairs and 

 scales. Ventral plate bright yellow, as long as broad, cleft so as to have a bilobed 

 appearance. Ovipositor .25 mm. long, not twice as long as plate, darker than 



