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piceous, the two long articles thickly covered with long soft hairs. Coxae and 

 tibiae I pale, the former once banded, the latter dark towards tip. Legs II 

 and III straw colored with three small dark bands on femora. Wings rather 

 heavily reticulated with dark smoky lines and spots in the cells, the veins 

 unmargined, the markings along the median area distally becoming merged into 

 a broad dark stripe. 



Femur I (Fig. 97, H, I, J) with about five large spines and fourteen small 

 ones. Tarsus I just reaches the spined tip of coxae. Head longer than pro- 

 thorax, the eyes very large and prominently bulged below lower margin. Pro- 

 thorax strongly constricted posteriorly, the hind margin strongly prominent all 

 around. Frontal lobe of head strongly swollen and broadly rounded. 



This very pretty species is common at Claremont, California. Our speci- 

 mens collected partly by C. F. Baker and partly by Charles Metz. It is nearest 

 hirticoniis, but differs in coloration of wings, in the spineless head, prothorax 

 much shorter than mesothorax, etc. 



Figure 97. B-D. Barc= banKsii; E-G. Ploiaria californiensiS; A. H-J, Ploiariopsis reticulata 



Ploiaria californiensis n. .sp. 



Length of body 9 mm. Dark brown, legs and antennae pale yellowish, a 

 stripe under femur I, spot imdcr tip of tibia I, region of second articidation in 

 antennae, and tips of tarsi, dark brown. Beak not distinctly banded. Wing- 

 less. 



Head spineless. Pronotum (Fig. 97, E, F, G) almost exactly the length of 

 head as viewed from alcove. Femur I with about six or eight large spines, and 

 aboiil sixteen small ones. Tarsus I docs not quite reach the spined tip of coxa. 

 Tibia I strongly haired within. Prothorax somewhat constricted posteriorly, 



