LEIA. 917 



some species the upper branch of the 5th vein is sHghtly dis- 

 connected at the base, and the prongs of both the 4th and 5tb 

 veins may be nearly parallel or distinctly divergent according to 

 the species. 



Rmuje. Europe, North Africa, North and South America, West 

 Indies, India, and Sumatra. 



Life-history. The larvae live in fungi, but beyond this nothing 

 appears to be known. 



"The name Leia replaces Neoglapliyroptera because Curtis 

 designated L. fasciati^ennis, Meigen, as the type and because 

 Eondani, the first reviser of the genus, defines it as above. It 

 appears that the name Leja was used by Dejean for a genus of 

 Coleoptera. Scudder dates it 1821 and credits it to Megerle. 

 Lacordaire states that it was used by Dejean in his first catalogue 

 which, according to Hagen, appeared in 1802. As this catalogue 

 is not accessible to me I am unable to decide the question of 

 synonymy ; the spelling being different it may be justifiable to 

 use the name Leia even should it be antedated "by Leja ; if not, it 

 must be replaced by Lejomya, Eondani." * 



Table of Species. 



1. Yellow species, with or without markings. 2. 

 Shining black species ; wing-tip infus- 



cated (3_ 



2. Thorax with three black stripes 3' 



Thorax never striped 4. 



3. Wing with three black spots winthemi, Lehm., p 97 



Wmg with only one black spot favobrunnea, sp. n., p 99 



4. Thorax with a very large black spot 



towards each side ; wing with an 



arcuate blackish mark towards the tip . arcuata, sp. n., p. 99 

 Thorax without such spots 5, 



5. Thorax wholly yellow; wing with a 



bhickish transverse streak near tip bicolor, sp. n , p 100 



Thorax shining black except on anterior 



margin ; wing with a very narrow arc- 



shaped blackish streak near tip insignis, sp. n., p 101 



b. J^ront coxfe dark, hind femora brownish ; r ; r • 



proboscis not spatulate nigra, sp. n., p. 101 



Front coxas and hind femora pale yellow ; 



proboscis spatulate spathulata, sp. n., p. lOL 



49. Leia winthemi, Lehm. (PI. II, fig. 2.) 



^fl'df^'^''"' Lehmann, Ins. spec, in agro Hamb. capt», p. 39 



Glaphyroptera xvinthemi, Winnertz, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien xiii 

 p. 789 (18G3). ' " ' 



* The aboTe quotation is from Johannsen (Gen. Ins., Fasc. 93, p. 76 1909) 

 and eiplams tiie question of synonymy concisely ; it is therefore 'quoted 

 verbatim. ^ '"''" 



