190 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. viii. 



in the apical portions of the wings can hardly be detected with the simple lens. 

 Length, male 3 nnii.; wing 5 mm. 



Habitat: Spokane, Wash., two males. (Doane.) Type no. 124. 

 Wash. Agric. CoH. & S. of S. 



Limnophila flavapila, sp. nov. (PI. A III, fig. i.) 



Yellowish ; head brown ; front and occiput with a short golden-yellow pile ; ros- 

 trum, palpi and basal segment of antenna darker brown, rest of antenna; yellowish 

 brown ; thorax brownish yellow ; pleura and metanotum with a silvery reflection ; 

 halteres yellowish, distal half of knob brown ; legs yellow ; tarsi and the tips of the 

 femora and tibia brown ; abdomen brownish yellow, ovipositor ferrugineous ; wings 

 with a yellowish tinge ; stigma brown ; veins in the costal region yellowish, others 

 brown, seventh somewhat bisinuate ; the subcostal cross vein at the end of the auxil- 

 iary vein which apparently ends in the first longitudinal vein ; marginal cross vein at 

 the tip of the first longitudinal vein. Length, male 14 mm.; female I4 mm.; wing 13 

 mm. 



Habitat: PuDman, Wash., one male ; three females. (Doane.) 

 Type no. 125. Wash. Agric. Coll. &: S. of S. 



Limnophila nigrilinea, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 2.) 



Light yellow, with a continuous black band from the front of the head to the 

 tip of the abdomen ; head yellow, the black band partially interrupted in the middle ; 

 palpi brown; antennse light yellow ; thorax pale yellow, the black band covering 

 nearly all of the dorsum ; legs tawny ; femora, except the tip, more yellowish ; 

 abdomen yellowish below and on the sides, blackish above ; wings hyaline with a 

 very faint yellowish tinge along the anterior margin ; a sparse short but distinct pu- 

 bescence in all the cells in the apical portion of the wing ; stigma pale ; veins brown ; 

 tip of the auxiliary vein opposite the inner end of the second submarginal cell which 

 is a little longer than the first posterior cell ; marginal cross vein a short distance 

 from the end of the first longitudinal vein and close to the inner end of the first sub- 

 marginal cell ; petiole of the latter longer than the posterior cross vein ; four posterior 

 cells; posterior cross vein before the middle of discal cell. Length, female 12 mm.; 

 wing 14 mm. 



Habitat: Olympia, Wash., one female. (Kincaid.) Type no. 

 126. AVash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Limnophila superlineata, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 3.) 



Brown ; head grayish brown, vertex darker ; palpi and first two segments of an- 

 tennae rather dark brown ; other segments of antenna; lighter brown or yellowish ; 

 thorax gray ; besides the usual three brown stripes, the median one of which is 

 divided in front of the suture, there is on each side another narrow brown line ; these 

 run forward from the base of the wing and meet just above the collare ; halteres light 

 brown ; knobs infuscated ; legs yellowish brown ; tips of the femora and the tibia 

 darker ; abdomen brown ; ovipositor more reddish brown, rather long ; wings with a 

 grayish tinge, with brown spots or clouds in all the cells on all the cross veins and at 



