178 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. vii 



Professor V. L. Kellogg, of Stanford University, for kindly placing 

 their collections of Trypetidae at my disposal while preparing the 

 present paper. 



Acidia fratria Loeiv. 



Several specimens reared on Heraclciiinixom. Almota, Wash., others 

 collected at Pullman, AVash. In the single female in this lot the 

 ovipositor is black, whereas Loew describes his specimens as having 

 this segment yellow. In comparing these specimens with Thompson's 

 description of liogastcr there seems to be little doubt but that liogastcr 

 and fratria are the same species as Loew suspected. The black ovi- 

 positor also lends much weight to the supposition that this may be the 

 same as T. heraclei Linn. The coloring of the body and the depth 

 of the coloring of the wings is subject to considerable variation. 



Epoch ra canadensis Lorw. 



Quite abundant over the state and of considerable enconomic im- 

 portance as the larvae attack both currants and gooseberries. 



Straussia longipennis JVied. 



I have many specimens before me from widely different localities, 

 which seemingly might be distributed among seven or eight different 

 varieties, but there is such an inte'gradation of forms that it is almost 

 if not quite impossible to fix the limit of any group. I have seen no 

 specimens from this state. 



Spilographa electa Say. A single male from Tennessee. 



Spilographa setosa, sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. i). 



$ 9 • Head and its appendages, thorax, legs and abdomen wholly yellow. 

 Front of medium width ; bristles brownish black ; third joint of antennae slightly con- 

 cave on upper side, anterior corner rather sharp ; face with moderately deep furrows ; 

 oral margin not at all projecting ; proboscis and palpi short. Thorax with very short 

 brownish black pile ; besides the two black spots on the metanotum there is a small 

 black spot just back of the base of the wing usually concealed by the alulets. Pos- 

 terior femora with a few weak brownish bristles near the tip on upper side ; the short 

 weak cilia of the posterior tibia are also brownish. Abdomen with brownish black 

 pile and a few bristles of the same color ; ovipositor conical of same color and about 

 as long or a little longer than the preceding segment. 



Wings hyaline, yellowish toward base and with brown cross-bands. The first of 

 these, which is broken and more or less indistinct, extends from the humeral cross- 

 vein quite across the anal cell, the posterior corner of which is much produced ; the 

 second cross-band extends from the stigma across the anterior cross-vein and about 

 half way across the third posterior cell, not reaching the posterior margin ; the third 



