130 Psyche [August 



Abdomen with dark brown scales and basal ochraceous bands, well marked on 

 the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments, lacking on the distal segments; greyish 

 lateral spots on some of the segments; venter heavily light banded on the 2nd, 

 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments, the rest mostly dark. 



Legs — coxae and trochanters testaceous with a few dark scales; femora dark 

 except the very base, a line on the ventral aspect, and the apex which are white; 

 tibiae all dark; first tarsal basally white banded, broadly so on the hind legs, second 

 and third minutely white at their bases on the fore and mid legs, broadly so on 

 the hind legs, fourth and fifth brown on the fore legs, the fourth with a very small 

 white basal spot on the mid legs, and mostly white on the hind legs, the fifth en- 

 tirely white on the hind legs, femoral and tibial spines white; ungues unequal the 

 larger uniserrate on mid and fore legs, simple on the hind legs. 



Wings clear, brown scaled; 1st sub-marginal cell longer and slightly narrower 

 than the 2nd posterior cell, twice as long as its petiole, its base slightly in- 

 terior to that of the 2nd posterior; root of the 3rd longitudinal vein a little interior 

 to the mid cross- vein and about the same length; posterior cross- vein one- third 

 longer than the mid cross- vein and a little more than twice its own length distant; 

 halteres with dark knob and light stem. 



Length, 4 mm. and 2 for Proboscis — 6 mm. 



Habitat. Turucan, Mindanao, P. I. Taken. Nov. 



Described from one .specimen sent by L. F. Seith, Sgt. 1st CI. 

 B. C. It lies close to several of the dark Stegomyuv, but seems to 

 have enough differences to warrant describing as a new species. 



Hodgesia niveocaputis n. sp. 



Female. Head almost black, covered with white and very dark brown scales, 

 the white scales forming a large median spot extending well around to the sides, 

 where it almost joins a lateral white spot, and caudad, nearly to the margin of 

 the occiput, the extent being partly governed by the direction of the light, brown 

 scales and bristles on the occiput: antennae brown, verticels, and pubescence brown, 

 the hairs of the latter longer than in the usual forms, basal joint dark: proboscis 

 brown, a little swollen at the apex, and a well marked bulb-likc expansion at the 

 base just anterior to the clypeus (dorsal aspect); eyes dark; clypeus testaceous. 



Thorax shiny black; prothoracic lobes densely covered with white flat scales 

 (as described for the type); mesonotum sparsely covered with small extremely 

 slender dark brown curved scales; some brown bristles, near the scutellum and at 

 the wing joint; scutellum with small flat dark brown scales and brown bristles; 

 pleura with three white spots, one very near the wing joint; metanotum very 

 dark. Abdomen covered with dark brown scales, and five lateral white spots, the 

 latter occurring on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th segments, those on the 3rd and 

 6th segments being much the more pronounced; venter practically white scaled, 

 but brown in some lights. 



Legs; coxae and trochanters pale, with some white scales; femora very light 

 lemonish white at the bases and ventrally, otherwise brown except in the hind 

 legs, where they are light lemonish white both dorsally and ventrally, only the 



