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of short coarse silky white hau's. Palpi rather long, about half as 

 long as the antennae, clothed with outstanding black scales. Occiput, 

 thorax, and abdomen densely clothed with long, erect, hairlike black 

 scales with white apices, giving the insect a moldy appearance. 

 Wings grayish hyaline, ovate-lanceolate, less than twice as long as 

 broad, the tip at third vein bluntly rounded ; upper branch of second 

 vein forked well toward base of wing; vestiture black, very heavy 

 on the costa, the fringe at apex, from uppermost branch of second to 

 fourth vein, pale fuscous; an ill-defined broad crescentic fascia, formed 

 of white scales, extending nearly across disk just beyond middle of 

 wing, the black vestiture before and beyond it slightly heavier; some 

 erect white scales along the veins on basal half of wing; apices of 

 marginal, submarginal, posterior, and anal cells each with a broad 

 white spot formed by the shorter and sparser scaling at these points 

 and not by white scales; fringe ample, unicolorous. Hal teres with 

 white stem and dark knob. Legs black scaled, the tips of last tarsal 

 joints yellowish white. 



Length. — Body about 1.5 mm.; wing 2 mm. 



Locality. — San Antonio de los Bancs, Cuba (J. H. Pazos); three 

 specimens bred from larvee in water at leaf bases of epiphytic 

 bromeliads. 



Type,— C&t. No. 15933, U.S.N.M. 



PSYCHODA FUMATA, new species. 



Male. — Thoracic integument pale yellowish, the body and legs more 

 or less darkened; vestiture of thorax dirty whitish, that of body 

 wings, and legs dark with silky luster. Antennse long, blackish, the 

 shaft very slender, the nodes large, well separated, bearing dense but 

 short whorls of coarse whitish hairs. Palpi long, about half as long 

 as the anteimse, clothed with grayish scales. Mesonotum clothed with 

 dull whitish hair like scales, erect and very long and forming irregular 

 tufts along lateral margms, behind and along median line ; posteriorly 

 some of the long scales show infuscation toward their apices. Abdo- 

 men clothed with dusky scales. Wings gi-ayish hyaline, broadly lance- 

 olate, about twice as long as broad, coming to a point at third vein; 

 auxiliary vein well developed, reaching to apical thkd of wing; upper 

 branch of second vein forked beyond middle of wing; seventh vein 

 well developed; vestiture dull brown and black, unspotted; costa 

 densely clothed with long hairlike black scales; scales of veins dusky 

 brown, uniformly distributed; fringe ample, dusky with fuscous luster, 

 at apex becommg black like the costa. Halteres pale, with black 

 knobs. Legs blackish, unmarked, the scales with gray luster. 



Length. — Body about 2 mm.; wmg 2.5 mm. 



Locality. — C6rdoba, Mexico, March, 1908 (F. Knab). 



Type.— Cat. No. 15934, U.S.N.M. 



